THIS Westminster, December 30, 1819. HIS day, the Lords being met, a message was sent to the Honourable House of Commons by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, acquainting them, that The Lords, authorised by virtue of a Commission under the Great Scal, signed by the Prince Regent, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, for declaring His Majesty's Royal Assent to several Acts agreed upon by both Houses, do desire the immediate attendance of the Honourable House in the House of Peers to hear the Commission read; and the Commons being come thither, the said Commission, empowering the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, and several other Lords therein named, to declare and notify the Royal Assent to the said Acts, was read accordingly, and the Royal Assent given to An Act to subject certain publications to the duties of stamps upon newspapers, and to make other regulations for restraining the abuses arising 1820. B froni from the publication of blasphemous and seditious libels. An Act for the more effectual prevention and punishment of blasphemous and seditious libels. An Act to continue, until the twenty-fourth day of June one thousand eight hundred and twenty, an Act, passed in the fifty-ninth year of His present Majesty, intituled "An Act to alter and amend an Act, made in the fifty-fifth year of the reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to repeal the Acts now in force relating to bread to be sold in the city of London and the liberties thereof, and within the weekly bills of mortality and ten miles of the Royal Exchange, and to prevent the adulteration of meal, flour, and bread, and to regulate the weights of bread within the same limits." And two private Acts. DROGHEDA BOROUGH ELECTION WHEREAS the Chairman of the Select Committee appointed by the House of Commons to try and determine the merits of the petition of James Gernon, Esq. and others, complaining of an undue election and return for the borough of Drogheda, did on the 20th day of May 1819, inform the House, that the said Select Committee had made an order for the nomination and appointment of Commissioners to examine evidence in Ireland respecting all matters and things referred to the said Commissioners: of And whereas I have this day received a copy the minutes of the proceedings of the said Commissioners, under their hands and seals: Now I do hereby and by virtue of an Act, passed in the forty-sccond year of the reign of His present Majesty King George the Third, intituled "An "Act for regulating the trial of controverted elec"tions or returns of Members to serve in the "United Parliament for Ireland;" and also of an Act, passed in the present session of Parliament, intituled "An Act to amend an Act, of the forty second year of the reign of His present Majesty, "for regulating the trial of controverted elections or returns.of Members to serve in the United "Parliament for Ireland," direct the aforesaid Select Committee to re-assemble and meet again upon Thursday the 24th day of February next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, to take the proceedings of the said Commissioners into consideration: For which this shall be to the aforesaid Select Committee a sufficient warrant. Given under my hand, this 31st day of December 1819, CHARLES MANNERS SUTTON, Speaker. Downing-Street, January 1, 1820. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been graciously pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to appoint Major-General Lewis Grant to be Governor of the Bahama Islands, in the room of Charles Cameron, Esq. resigned. |