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thony Merry, esq. to execute the office of his majesty's secretary at the said congress.

Nov 14. Staff. Lieutenant-colonel John Hamilton, of the 81st foot, to be deputy quarter-master general to the forces serving at the Cape of Good Hope, vice major-general Fraser, placed on the staff in India. 18. Charles Bragge, esq. treasurer of his majesty's navy, sworn of his majesty's most honourable privy council. Sylvester lord Glenbervie, to be president of the committee appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to trade and foreign plantations, in the absence of the earl of Liverpool.

21. Brevet Colonel John Blake, of the 24th foot, to be brigadiergeneral in Egypt only..

23. Sir Andrew Snape Hammond, bart. Henry Duncan, esq. sir John Henslow, and sir William Rule, knights, William Palmer, esq. sir William. Bellingham, bart. Harry Harmood, Samuel Gambier, Francis John Hartwell, Benjamin Tucker, Charles Hope, Isaac Coffin, and Robert Fanshaw, esqrs. sir Charles Saxton, bart. Nicholson Inglefield, esq. and sir Alexander John Ball, appointed principal officers and commisioners of his majesty's navy.

24. Prince Augustus Frederick, created baron of Arklow, earl of Inverness, and duke of Sussex. Prince Adolphus Frederick, baron of Culloden, earl of Tipperary, and duke of Cambridge.

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Staff. English Sandiford, gent. to be assistant commissary of stores, provisions, and forage, to the forces serving in the West Indies.To be barrack-masters in Great Britain: Lewis Tobias Jones, esq. late captain in the 14th foot, vice Gibbons, dec. Charles Cornet Bacon, gent. from half-pay as captain

of the 92d foot, vice Alger, resigned.

To be barrack-masters of the Bahamas: Robert B. Carre, esq. barrack-master and commissary on the late expedition at Helvoetsluys.

Dec. 5. George Keith (baron Keith of that part of the united kingdom called Ireland), K. B. and admiral of the blue, created a baron of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, by the title of baron Keith of Stonehaven-Marischal, county of Kincardine-Lieutenant general sir John Hely Hutchinson, K. B. to be lord Hutchinson, baron of Alexandria, and of Knocklofty, county of Tipperary.-John Halkett, esq. appointed captaingeneral and governor in chief of the Bahama islands.

7. William D'Arley, esq. cap. tain in his majesty's marine forces, permitted to accept the rank of knight of the royal and military order of Constantine, conferred ou him by Ferdinand IV. king of the Two Sicilies; and to bear, in his own country, the ensigns of the said order.

16. Richard Ford, esq. chief magistrate of the police, knighted.

17. Sir Francis Milman, bart. physician extraordinary to the king, appointed (by the queen) one of her majesty's physicians in ordinary.

29. Staff. Major James Fitzgerald, of the 3d foot-guards, to be deputy adjutaut-general to the forces serving in the Mediterranean, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the

army. Brigade major Wm. Hely, to be fort-major in the garrison of St. John's in the island of Newfoundland.-Hospital staff. Francis Knight, esq. surgeon to the Coldstream regiment of foot-guards, to be inspector general of army-hospitals, vice Rush, deceased.

SHERIFFS.

SHERIFFS appointed by His Majesty in Council for the Year 1801.

Bedfordshire, Stephen Raymond,

of Polton, esq.

Berks, Onesiphorus Elliot Elliott, of Binfield, esq.

Bucks, Edward Bury, of Iver, esq. Cambridge and Huntingdonshire, Richard Eaton, of Stretchworth, esq.

Cheshire, William Rigby, of Oldfield, esq.

Cumberland, postponed. Derbyshire, Richard Arkwright, of Cromford, esq.

Devonshire, Peter Bluet, of Halcombe Rogus, esq.

Dorsetshire, Thomas Rose Drewe, of Wootton Fitzpaine, esq. Essex, J. Archer Houblon, of Hallingford place, esq. Gloucestershire, John Browne, of Salperton, esq.

Herefordshire, John Skip, of Ledbury, esq.

Hertfordshire, Thomas Fitzherbert, of Shenley, esq. Kent, Edward Austen, of Godmersham, esq.

Leicestershire, Thomas March Philips, of Garendon, esq. Lincolnshire, Charles Mainwaring, of Goltho, esq.

Monmouthshire, Thomas Williams, of Chepstow, esq.

Norfolk, Robert Marsham, of Stratton Strawless, esq. Northamptonshire, Joseph Sibley, of Northampton, esq. Northumberland, sir Charles Miles Lambert Monck, of Belsay castle, bart.

Nottinghamshire, William Elliott Elliott, of Nottingham, esq. Oxfordshire, George Clarke, of Chesterton, esq.

Rutlandshire, William Kemp, of Belton, esq.

Shropshire, Thomas Clark, of

Peplow, esq.

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Somersetshire, John Band, of Wookey, esq.

Staffordshire, Thomas Bainbridge, of Woodseat, esq.

Southampton, William Garrett, of Leigh-house, esq. Havant.

Suffolk, Charles Streynsham Collinson, of Sproughton, esq.

Surry, Bryan Barrett, of Stockwell, esq.

Sussex, William Borrer, of HurstPerpoint, esq.

Warwickshire, John Stanton, of Kenelworth, esq.

Wilts, Thomas Bush, of Bradford, esq.

Worcestershire, Thomas Philips, of Broadway, esq.

Yorkshire, Richard Thompson, of Wetherly Grange, esq.

SOUTH WALES.

Brecon, Matthew Gwyn, of Abercrave, esq.

Caermarthen, sir John Stepney, of Llanelly, bart.

Cardigan, Robert Lloyd, of Abermaide, esq.

Glamorgan, Llewellin Traherne, of St. Hilary's, esq.

Pembroke, Morgan Jones, of Kilwendog, esq.

Radnor, Thomas Hodges Fowler, of Abbey Camhire, esq.

NORTH WALES.

Anglesea, John Price,of Wern, esq. Caernarvon, William Harvey, of Bodvel, esq.

Denbigh, Edward Lloyd Lloyd, of Penylan, esq.

Flint, David Pennant, of Downing, esq.

Merioneth, Jonathan Passingham, of Hendwr, esq.

Montgomery, Jos. Lyon, of Vayor Park, esq.

County of Cornwall, Edward Clins, of Truthan, esq. (H)

PUBLIC PAPERS.

By the KING. A PROCLAMATION, Declaring His Majesty's Pleasure for holding the first Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and appointing the Time and Place of Meeting thereof.

GEORGE R.

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HEREAS, in pursuance of the fourth article of the articles of union between Great Britain and Ireland, as the same have been ratified and confirmed by two acts of parliament, the one passed in the parliament of Great Britain, and the other in the parliament of Ireland, and both intituled, "An act for the union of Great Britain and Ireland," We have thought fit to declare by our royal proclamation issued under our great seal of Great Britain, on the fifth day of November last, that it was expedient that the lords and commons of the then parliament of Great Britain should be members of the respective houses of the first parliament of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on the part of Great Britain: and We did, by the same proclamation, notify our intention to appoint Thursday the twenty-second day of January instant for the assembling of such first parliament of the said united kingdom, by proclamation under the great seal of our said united

kingdom: and whereas, by force and in pursuance of an act passed in the parliament of Ireland, and recited in and made part of the said tain and Ireland, and intituled, "An two acts for the union of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled, “ An act to regulate the mode by which the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons, to serve in the parliament of the united kingdom on the part of Ireland shall be summoned and returned to the said parliament;" and in consequence of our having, by our said proclamation, under our great seal of Great Britain, of the fifth day of November last, declared that it was expedient that the lords and commons of the then parlia ment of Great Britain should be the members of the respective houses of the first parliament of the united kingdom on the part of Great Britain, four lords spiritual, and twentyeight lords temporal, and one hundred commoners, have been appointed, chosen, and declared (according to the circumstances of the several cases) to be the members of the respective houses of the said first parliament of the said united kingdom on the part of Ireland: We do by this our royal proclamation, under the great seal of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with the advice of our privy council, declare and publish our will and pleasure to be, and do hereby appoint, that our first par

liament

one;

llament of the said united kingdom shall meet and be holden at our city of Westminster, on the said twentysecond day of January, one thousand eight hundred and whereof the lords spiritual and temporal, and the knights, citizens, and burgesses, and the commissioners for shires and burghs of our said first parliament of the said united kingdom, and all others whom it may concern, are hereby to take notice. And We do hereby direct and command, in pursuance of the said fourth article of the said articles of union, that the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, who are to serve in the said parliament on the part of Ireland, be returned in such manner as by the said act passed in the parliament of Ireland to regulate the mode by which the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons, to serve in the parliament of the united kingdom on the part of Ireland, shall be summoned and returned to the said parliament --such lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, are directed to be returned according to the circumstances of each particular case of the several lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, so appointed, chosen, and declared to be the members of the respective houses of the said united kingdom on the part of Ireland. And We do hereby further (with the advice aforesaid) declare our royal will and pleasure, that our said parliament of our said united kingdom shall, on the said twenty-second day of January, one thousand eight hundred and one, be holden and sit for the dispatch of divers weighty and important affairs; and the said lords spiritual and temporal, and the said knights, citizens, and burgesses, and the said commissioners for shires and burghs, are hereby required and commanded

to give their attendance accordingly. at Westminster, on the said twentysecond day of January instant.

Given at our court at Saint James's, the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and one, in the forty-first year of our reign.

GOD SAVE THE KING.

At the Court at St. James's, the first
Day of Jan. 1801; present, the
King's Most Excellent Majesty in
Council.

Whereas by the act of unifor mity which established the Liturgy, and enacts, That no form or order of common prayer be openly used, other than what is prescribed and appointed to be used in and by the said book; it is, notwithstanding, provided, that in all those prayers, litanies, and collects, which do anywise relate to the king, queen, or royal progeny, the names be altered and changed from time to time, and fitted to the present occasion, according to the direction of lawful authority: it is thereupon, this day, ordered by his majesty, with the advice of his privy council, that the following alterations be made, viz.

In the book of Common Prayer, title-page-instead of "the church of England," put " of the united church of England and Ireland."

Prayer for the high court of parliament, instead of " our sovereign and his kingdoms," read, "and his dominions."

The first prayer to be used at sea, instead of "his kingdoms," read

"his dominions."

In the form and manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests and deacons, instead of the order" of the church (H2)

of

of England," read "of the united church of England and Ireland.".

In the preface of the said form, in two places, instead of "church of England," read "in the united church of England and Ireland."

In the first question in the ordination of priests, instead of "church of England," read "of this united church of England and Ireland.” In the occasional offices, 25th October, the king's accession, instead of " these realms," read "this

realm."

In the collect, before the epistle, instead of "these kingdoms," read "this united kingdom."

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For the preachers, instead of king of Great Britain, France and Ireland," say king of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland."

And it is further ordered, That no edition of the book of Common Prayer be from henceforth printed but with the aforesaid amendments; and that in the mean time, until copies of such edition may be had, all parsons, vicars, and curates, do (for the preventing of mistakes), with the pen, correct and amend all such prayers in their church books, according to the foregoing directions; and, for the better notice hereof, that this order be forthwith printed and published, and sent to the several parishes; and that the right reverend the bishops take care that obedience be paid to the same accordingly, within their respective dioceses,

STEPH. COTTRELL.

By the KING. A PROCLAMATION,

Declaring His Majesty's Pleasure concerning the Royal Style and Titles appertaining to the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom of Great

Britain and Ireland, and its Dependencies, and also the Ensigns Armorial, Flags, and Banners thereof.

GEORGE R.

Whereas by the first article of the articles of union of Great Britain and Ireland, ratified and conthe one passed in the parliament of firmed by two acts of parliament, Great Britain, and the other in the parliament of Ireland, and respectively intituled, "An act for the union of Great Britain and Ireland," it was declared, That the said kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland should upon this day, being the 1st day of January, in the year of our Lord 1801, for ever after be united into one kingdom, by the name of "The united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland;" and that the royal style and titles appertaining to the imperial crown of the said united kingdom and its dependen cies, and also the ensigns armorial, flags, and banners thereof, should be such as We, by our royal procla mation, under the great seal of the said united kingdom, should ap point: We have thought fit by and with the advice of our privy council, to appoint and declare that our royal style and titles shall henceforth be accepted, taken, and used, as the same are set forth in manner and form following; that is to say, the same shall be expressed in the Latin tongue by these words :—

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GEORGIUS TERTIUS, Dei Gratia, Britanniarum Rex, Fidei Defensor: and in the English tongue by these words:-" GEORGE the THIRD, by the grace of God, of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith." And that the arms or ensigns armorial of the said united kingdom shall be quarterly,

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