FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of MARCH 16, Lord Chamberlain's Office, March 15, 1819. IT is expected, that all persons attending His Royal Highness the Prince Regent's Levee, on Thursday next, will appear in deep mourning (with weepers). Foreign-Office, March 16, 1819. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to appoint Joseph Davis, Esq. to be His Majesty's Consul for the Cape Verde Islands, to. reside at St. Jago. Foreign-Office, March 16, 1819. The Baron de Stierneld, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from His Majesty the King of Sweden and, Norway, having nominated Mr. Langenberg to act as Vice-Consul in the port of London, during the absence, on account of ill health, of Mr. Charles Tottie, the Swedish ConsulGeneral in this country, His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been graciously pleased to approve of the same. Crown Crown-Office, March 16, 1819. MEMBER returned to serve in this present Borough of Newry. The Honourable Francis Jack Needham, in the room of the Honourable Francis Needham, now Viscount Kilmorey, called up to the House of Peers. NDON FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of MARCH 20, 1819. At the Court at Carlton-House, the 19th of March 1819, PRESENT, His Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT in Council. WHEREAS there was this day read at the Board a Memorial from the Commissioners. appointed by Act of Parliament for more effectually discovering the Longitude at Sea, dated the 4th of last month, in the words following, viz: "Whereas by an Act of the fifty-eighth year of His present Majesty, intituled An "Act for more effectually discovering the Longitude at Sea, and encouraging attempts to find a Northern Passage between the "At "Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and to approach "the Northern Pole," it is provided, that, "for the encourgement of persons who may attempt the said Passage, or approach to the Northern Pole, but not wholly accomplish the same; the said Commissioners may, by their Memorial, propose to His Majesty in Council, to direct and establish proportionate rewards to be paid to such person as aforesaid, who shall first have accomplished certain proportions of the said Passage or Approach:" And whereas it appears that the progress of discovery has already advanced on the Eastern Coast of America, and within the Arctic Circle, as far as 90 degrees West Longitude, or thereabouts, from Greenwich; and Northwards has not yet arrived, according to any well authenticated accounts, so far as 81° of North Latitude: We, your Memorialists, beg leave most humbly to represent these particulars for your Royal Highness's consideration, aud to submit, with all humility, whether your Royal Highness may not be graciously pleased to establish the following scale of rewards, to be allotted according to the intentions of the Act: E-To the first ship belonging to any of His Majesty's subjects, or to His Majesty, that shall reach the Longitude of 110° West from Greenwich, or the Mouth of Hearne's or Coppermine River, by sailing within the Arctic Circle To the first ship, as aforesaid, that shall reach the Longitude of 1.30° West from Greenwich, or the £5,000 Whale Whale Island of Mackenzie, by To the first ship, as aforesaid, The Act having already allotted to the first ship that shall reach the Pacific Ocean by a North West Passage the full reward of 2. To the first ship, as aforesaid, that shall reach to 83° of North Latitude £10,000 £15,000 £20,000 To $5. To 87°. To 88°. £1,000 £2,000 £3,000 £4,000 The Act having already allotted to the first ship that shall reach to or beyond 89° the full reward of £5,000" His Royal Highness the Prince Regent having taken the said Memorial into consideration was pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, and by and with the advice of His Majesty's Privy Council, to sanction and approve of, and doth hereby sanction and approve of, the scale of rewards proposed in the said Memorial. Chetwynd. Lord Lord Chamberlain's-Office, March 19, 1819. ORDERS for the Court's going into mourning, on Sunday next the 21st instant, for His late Majesty Charles the Fourth of Spain, Father of His Catholic Majesty Ferdinand the Seventh, viz. The Ladies to wear black silk, fringed or plain linen, white gloves, necklaces and ear-rings, black or white shoes, fans and tippets. Undress-White or grey lustrings, tabbies or damasks. The Gentlemen to wear black, full trimmed, fringed or plain linen, black swords and buckles. Undress-Grey frocks. The Court to change the mourning on Sunday the 28th instant, viz. The Ladies to wear black silk or velvet, coloured ribbons, fans and tippets, or plain white, or white and gold, or white aud silver stuffs, with black ribbons. The Gentlemen to wear black coats, and black or plain white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuff waistcoats, full trimmed, coloured swords and buckles.. And on Thursday the 1st of April next, the Court to go out of mourning. Carlton |