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Francis Laforey, Bart. Philip Charles Durham, Esq. and Israel Pellew, Esq.-to be Rear-Admirals of the Blue.

The king has been pleased to appoint Benjamin Hallowell, Esq. George Johnstone Hope, Esq. the Right Hon. Lord Amelius Beauclerk; and James Nicholl Morris, Esq. to be colonels in his majesty's royal marine forces, in the room of William Hargood, Esq. Robert Moorsom, Esq. Sir Charles Hamilton, Bart. and the Hon. Henry Curzon, appointed flagofficers of his majesty's fleet.

Queen's Palace, Aug. 8. Right Hon. Richard Lord Chetwynd, one of the clerks of the privy council, vice Sir Stephen Cotterell, who retires.

Whitehall, Aug. 18. LieutenantGeneral W. Loftus, Lieutenant of the Tower of London, vice Vernon, deceased.

War Office, Aug. 18. Rev. E. Raynes, B. A. chaplain to the forces.

Queen's Palace, Aug. 29. Right Hon. Sir John Sinclair, Bart. sworn of his majesty's privy council.

War Office, Sept. 7. Rev. J. Hughes, a chaplain to the forces.

Horse Guards, Sept. 9. His majesty having been graciously pleased to command, that, in commemoration of the brilliant victories obtained by divisions of his army over the enemy in the battles of Roleia, Vimiera, also in the several instances where the cavalry had an opportunity of distinguishing themselves against the enemy in Spain, and in the battles of Corunna and Talavera de la Reyna, the undermentioned officers of the army, present on those occasions, should enjoy the privilege of wearing a

medal; and his majesty having approved of the medal which has been struck, is pleased to command that it should be worn by the general officers, suspended by a ribbon of the colour of the sash, with a blue edge, round the neck; and by the commanding officers of corps (not being of rank inferior to lieutenant-colonel) and the chiefs of military departments, attached by a ribbon of the same colour to the button-hole of their uniform.

His majesty has also been pleased to command, that the medals which would have been conferred upon the officers who have fallen at, or died since, the above-nained ac tions, shall, as a token of respect for their memories, be deposited with their respective families.

Lieutenant-Generals.-Sir John Moore, K. B. Sir David Baird, Sir John Hope, K. B. Mackenzie Frazer, Lord Paget, and Viscount Wel lington, K. B.

Major-Generals.-Sir John Sher brook, K. B. William Payne, Lord William Bentinck, Hon. Edward Paget, Sir Brent Spencer, K. B. Sir Stapleton Cotton, Bart. Rowland Hill, Coote Manningham, William Carr Beresford, Ronald Craufurd Fergusson, Henry Warde, James Leith, John Randoll M'Kenzie, Chrisopher Tilson.

Brigadier-Generals.-Jolin Slade, Moore Disney, William Palmer Acland, Miles Nightingall, Alexander Campbell, Henry Frederick Campbell, Richard Stewart, Hon. Charles Stewart, Ernest Baron Langworth, Alan Cameron, Bernard Foord Bowes, Henry Fane, Robert Anstruther, George Anson, James Catlin Craufurd, and Edward Ho warth (artillery.)

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JURISPRUDENCE.

1. Abstract of the Public Laws enacted by the British Legislature.Passed in the Fiftieth Year of the Reign of George the Third.

Chap. 1.-FOR continuing certain duties on malt, sugar, tobacco, and snuff, in Great Britain; and on pensions, offices, and personal estates, in England; for the service of 1810.

2. For raising 10,500,000l. by exchequer bills, for the service of Great Britain for 1810.

3. Ditto 1,500,000l, ditto. 4. To indemnify such persons in the United Kingdom as have onuitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments, and for extending the times limited for those purposes respectively, until the 25th of March, 1811; and to permit such persons in Great Britain, as have omitted to make and file affidavits of the execution of indentures of clerks to attornies and solicitors, to make and file the same on or before the first day of Hilary Term, 1811.

5. To prohibit the distillation of spirits from corn or grain in Great Britain, for a limited time; and to continue, until four months after such prohibition, an act of last session of parliament, to suspend the importation of British or Irishmade spirits into Great Britain and Ireland.

6. To enable the Prince of Wales to grant leases of certain lauds and premises called Prince's Meadows, in the parish of Lambeth, in Surry, for the purpose of building thereon.

7 For punishing mutiny and desertion, and for better payment of the army and their quarters.

8. For settling and securing a certain annuity on Viscount Wellington, and the two next persons to whom the title shall descend, in consideration of his eminent services.

9. To continue, until the 25th of March, 1811, so much of an Act of the 47th of his present majesty, as allows a bounty on British plantation raw sugar exported.

10. For making perpetual certain of the provisions of an act, 5 George I. for preventing clandes time running of uncustomed goods, and for frauds relating to the customs.

11. To continue, until the 25th of March, 1815, several laws relating to the encouragement of the Greenland whale-fisheries.

12. To continue, until the 25th of March, 1812, an act, 46 of his present majesty, for permitting the importation of masts, yards, bowsprits, and timber for naval purposes, from the British colonies in North America, duty free.

13. To continue an act, 44th of his present majesty, for permitting the exportation of salt from the port of Nassau, in the island of New Providence, the port of Exuma, and the port of Crooked Island, in the Bahama Islands, in Ameri can ships coming in ballast; and

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amend and continue an act, 48th of his present majesty, for permitting sugar and coffee to be exported from his majesty's colonies or plantations to any port in Europe to the southward of Cape Finisterre, and corn to be imported from such port, and from the coast of Africa, into the said colonies and plantations, until the 25th of March, 1813.

14. For the regulation of his majesty's royal marine forces while on shore.

15. To grant his majesty duties upon spirits made or distilled in Ireland from corn; to allow drawbacks on exportation thereof; to make further regulations for encouragement of licensed distillers; and for amending laws relating to distillery in Ireland.

16. For further continuing, until the 25th of March, 1811, an act, 41st of his present majesty, for prohibiting exportation from, and permitting the importation into, Ireland, duty free, of corn and other provisions.

17. To continue, until the 25th of March, 1811, an act for regulating drawbacks and bounties on exportation of sugar from Ireland.

18. For further continuing, until the 25th of March, 1811, bounties and drawbacks on exportation of sugar from Great Britain; and for suspending countervailing duties and bounties on sugar when the duties imposed by an act, 46th of his present majesty, shall be suspended.

19. For further continuing, until the 25th of March, 1811, an act,39th of his present majesty, for prohibiting exportation from, and permitting importation to, Great Britain, of corn, and for allowing importation

of other articles of provision, without payment of duty.

20. For removing doubts as to the power of appointing superintendants of quarantine, and their assistants.

21. For amending, and continuing so amended, until the 25th of March, 1812, an act, 45th of his present majesty, for consolidating and extending several laws in force, allowing the importation and exportation of certain goods and merchandize into and from certain ports in the West Indies.

22. For authorizing the lords commissioners of the treasury to purchase certain quays within the port of London.

23. For granting annuities to discharge certain exchequer bills.

24. To amend an act, passed last session, for completing the militia of Great Britain, and to make further provision for completing the said militia.

25. To amend several acts, relating to the local militia of Great Britain.

26. For granting a duty on foreign plain linen taken out of warehouses, and exported to foreign parts.

27. To continue, until the 25th of March, 1832, certain acts made in the parliament of Ireland, for better regulation of the silk manufacture.

28. For increasing rates of subsistence to be paid inn-keepers and others, on quartering soldiers.

29. To amend an act of last session, for amending the Irish road acts.

30. To regulate the fees payable to coroners in Ireland, upon holding inquisitions.

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31. For augmenting the salaries, of the lords of session, lords commissioners of justiciary, and barons of exchequer in Scotland, and judges in Ireland.

32. To repeal certain parts of several acts of the parliament of Ireland, so far as relates to limiting the number of persons to be carried by stage-coaches or other carriages; for enacting other limitations in lieu thereof; and for other purposes relating thereto.

33. For enabling tenants en tail and for life, and also ecclesiastical persons, to grant land for the purpose of endowing schools in Ireland.

34. For allowing exportation of British and Irish-made malt, from one part of the United Kingdom to the other.

35. For altering the mode of collecting the duty on insurances against loss by fire, upon property in his majesty's islands and possessions in the West Indies, and elsewhere beyond the seas; and for exempting certain bonds and receipts from stamp duty, for giving relief in certain cases of stamps spoiled or misused, and for explaining part of an act, 48th of his majesty, for granting stamp duties in Great Britain.

36. For granting annuities to discharge an additional number of exchequer bills.

37. For enabling his majesty to settle an annuity on the Duke of Brunswick Wolfenbuttel,

58. To extend the provisions of au act, 48th of his present majesty, intituled," an act to permit certain goods imported into Ireland to be warehoused or secured, without the duties due on the importation

thereof being first paid," and te amend the same.

39. For repaying in certain cases the duty paid on the export of foreign plain linen.

40. For discontinuing the bounty on exportation of oil of vitriol, and allowing a drawback of a proportion of the duties paid on the im portation of foreigu brimstone, used in making oil of vitriol.

41. For placing the duties of hawkers and pedlars under the management of the commissioners of hackney-coaches.

42. For consolidating the duties of customs for the Isle of Man, and placing the same under the management of the commissioners of customs in England.

43. For maintaining and keeping in repair, roads made, and bridges built, in Scotland, under authority of the parliamentary commissioners for highland roads and bridges.

44. To provide for a durable allowance of superannuation to officers of excise in Scotland, under certain restrictions.

45. For raising 12,000,000l. by way of annuities.

46. For encouraging the consumption of malt liquor in Ireland. 47. To extend and amend the provisions of an act, 37th of his present majesty, for relief and maintenance of insolvent debtors detained in prison in Ireland.

48. To repeal three acts, 28th, 30th, and 46th, of his present majesty, for limiting the number of persons to be carried on the outside of stage-coaches or other. carriages, and to enact other regulations for carrying the objects of the said act into effect.

49. To amend the laws for the relief of the poor, so far as relate to the examining and allowing the accounts of church-wardens and overseers by justices of the peace.

50. To explain and amend an act made last session, relating to relief and employment of the poor, so far as relates to the more effectual carrying the same into execution; and to extend the provisions thereof to parishes which shall not have adopted the provisions of an act, 22d of his present majesty.

51. To repeal so much of an act, 7 James I. as relates to the punishment of women delivered of bastard children; and to make other provisions in lieu thereof.

52. To amend so much of an act, 8th and 9th William III. as requires poor persons receiving alms to wear badges.

55. For preventing frauds relating to exportation of British and Irish made malt, from one part of the united kingdom to the other.

54. To revive and continue, until the 25th of March, 1811, an act, 39th of his present majesty, for more effectual encouragement of the British fisheries.

55. To prohibit importation of Italian silk crapes and tiffanies, and to increase shares of seizures payable to officers in respect of foreign wrought silks and manufactured leather gloves.

56. To explain and amend an act passed last session, for continuing and making perpetual several duties of 1s. 6d. in the pound, repealed by an act of last session, on offices and employments of profit, and on annuities, pensions, and stipends.

57. To revive and continue, until the 25th of March, 1815, an act,

23d of his present majesty, for more effectual encouragement of the manufacture of flax and cotton in Great Britain.

58. To amend several acts for redemption and sale of land-tax.

59. For more, effectually preventing embezzlement of money or securities for money belonging to the public, by any collector, receiver, or oth person entrusted with the receipt, care, or management thereof.

60. For permitting exportation | to Newfoundland of foreign salt, duty free, from the import warehouses at Bristol; and for repealing so much of an act of last ses sion, as allows salt, the produce of any part of Europe south of Cape Finisterre, to be shipped in any port of Europe direct to certain ports in North America.

61. For making sugar and coffee, of Guadaloupe, St. Eustatia, St, Martin, and Saba, liable to the same duty on importation as sugar and coffee not of the British plantations.

62. For more effectual preven tion of smuggling in the Isle of

Man.

63. To enable his majesty to authorize the exportation of the machinery necessary for erecting a mint in the Brazils.

64. To permit the removal of goods, wares, and merchandize, from the port in Great Britain where first warehoused, to any other warehousing port for expor tation.

65. For uniting the offices of surveyor-general of the land revenues of the crown, and surveyor-general of his majesty's woods, forests, parks, and chases.

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