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severance, and vigour displayed by the said MajorGeneral, as Commander of the British forces, upon the renewal of the contest with the aforesaid State, the happy and triumphant results of which have been consolidated by a treaty of peace between the East India Company and the Rajah of Nepaul, highly beneficial to the interests of the British Empire in India, His Royal Highness, desirous, in addition to other marks of His royal approbation, of commemorating the faithful and important services of the said Major-General, by granting unto him certain honourable armorial augmentations, has been pleased to give and grant His Majesty's royal licence and permission, that he the said Sir David Ochterlony, and his descendants, may bear to the armorial ensigns of Ochterlony the honourable augmentations following, viz. "On an em"battled chief two banners in saltire, the one of the "Marhatta States, inscribed DELHI, the other of "the State of Nepaul, inscribed NEPAUL, the "staves broken and encircled by a wreath of laurel,” with this motto to the arms, viz. "PRUDENTIA ET ANIMO;" and the crest of honourable augmentation following, viz. "Out of an eastern

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crown, inscribed NEPAUL, an arm issuant, the "hand grasping a baton of command entwined by "an olive branch;" provided the said armorial ensigns be first duly exemplified according to the laws of arms, otherwise the said royal licence to be void and of none effect:

And His Royal Highness has been pleased to order, that this especial mark of the royal favour be registered in His Majesty's College of Arms,

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of JANUARY 18,
1817.

At the Court at Brighton, the 2d of January: 1817,

PRESENT,

His Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT in Council.

WHEREAS the time limited by the Order of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent in Council of the third day of Angust last, for prohibiting the exportation out of this kingdom, or carrying coastwise, gunpowder or salt-petre, or any sort of arms or ammunition, will expire on the thirteenth day of February next; and whereas it is judged expedient, that the said prohibition, so far as applies to the countries hereinafter named, should be continued for some time longer; His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, and by and with the advice of His Majesty's Privy Council, doth, therefore, hereby order, require, prohibit, and command, that no person or persons whatsoever (except the Master-General of the Ordnance for His Majesty's service) do, at any time during the space of six months (to commence from the said thirteenth day of February next), presume to transport any gunpowder or salt-petre, or any sort of arms or ammunition, to any port or place on the Coast of Africa, or in the West Indies, or on any part of the Continent of America (except to a port or place, or ports or places, in His Majesty's territories or possessions

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on the Continent of North America, or in the territories of the United States of America), or ship or lade any gunpowder or salt-petre, or any sort of arms or ammunition, on board any ship or vessel, in order to transporting the same into any such ports or places on the Coast of Africa, or in the West Indies, or on the Continent of America (except as above excepted), without leave or permission in that behalf first obtained from His Majesty, or His Privy Council, upon pain of incurring and suffering the respective forfeitures and penalties inflicted by an Act, passed in the twenty-ninth year of His late Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to empower His Majesty to

prohibit the exportation of salt-petre, and to "enforce the law for empowering His Majesty "to prohibit the exportation of gunpowder, or any sort of arms or ammunition, and also to empower His Majesty to restrain the carrying "coastwise of salt-petre, gunpowder, or any sort of arms or ammunition;" and also by an Act, passed in the thirty-third year of His Majesty's reign, cap. 2, intituled "An Act to enable His

Majesty to restrain the exportation of naval "stores, and more effectually to prevent the ex"portation of salt-petre, arms, and ammunition, "when prohibited by Proclamation or Order in "Council:" But it is His Royal Highness's pleasure, that nothing in this Order contained shall be construed to alter or repeal the Order in Council of the twentieth of May one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, for regulating the export of gunpowder and arms to the coast of Africa, under the conditions therein specified. And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain, the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, the Master-General and the rest of the

Principal Officers of the Ordnance, and His Majesty's Secretary at War, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain. Jas. Buller.

NOTICE.

NEW SILVER COINAGE.

Royal Mint, January 17, 1817.

The new silver coinage being now very nearly finished, arrangements are making for enabling all His Majesty's subjects in every part of Great Britain to exchange, at the same period, the old for the new silver coin of the realm. This exchange will commence on or before Monday the 3d February next; and all standard silver coin of the realm, however defaced or reduced in weight,, by use, will be received in exchange for the new coin, by tale, at its nominal value.

The public are requested to observe, that the new silver coin to be issued from His Majesty's Mint upon this occasion, will be delivered in exchange, to the holders of the old coin: it is therefore strongly recommended, that all silver coin of the realm, however defaced or reduced in weight, by use, should continue to be given and received in payments, for the very short period that will elapse before the issue of the new silver coin. By this meaus, no interruption of the circulation will arise.

Note.-The old silver coin of the realm, however defaced or reduced in weight, by use, is received in payments, at its nominal value, by all branches of the revenue, and at the Bank of England, and will continue to be so, until it is exchanged for the new silver coinage.

W. W. POLE,
Master and Worker of His Majesty's Mint.

Whitehall, January 14, 1817.

His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, taking into His Royal consideration the meritorious services of Edward Miles, Esq. Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, Major in the 38th (or 1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot, and Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, performed by him on divers important occasions, during the recent splendid achievements of His Majesty's arms in Portugal, Spain, and France, and more especially the highly distinguished intrepidity and valour displayed by him at the ever memorable battle of Salamanca, on the 22d day of July 1812; and his exemplary and conspicuous conduct at the storm and capture of San Sebastian, on the 31st day of August 1813, upon which latter occasion he gallantly led the brave regiment under his command to the assault of the breach of the curtain, at the moment of an explosion on the rampart, gained the narrow pass after a most severe and arduous conflict, and successfully maintained it against every effort of the enemy, being himself one of the first who entered the town, and by his animated exertions eminently contributing to the ultimate capture of that important fortress; and His Royal Highness being desirous of bestowing on the said Lieutenant-Colonel Miles, such a mark of His Majesty's favour, as may in an especial manner evince the sense His Royal Highness entertains of his meritorious conduct, and at the same time serve as a lasting memorial of his zealous services, hath been graciously pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to grant unto him His Majesty's royal licence and authority, that to the armorial ensigns of his family, he and his descendants, may bear the following honourable augmentation; that is to say "A <chief embattled, thereon a representation of the 1817. C "medal