Lieutenants Morley and Gidley, and Sub-AssistantSurgeon Fallon, were not in the action of the morning. I beg leave to notice the services of Dr. Fallon, as having been extensively useful during the defence made in Beni Bon Hussan, and during the march to Muscat; and as being the pnly Officer able to be of any assistance who staid by me and the detachment, and arrived with them at Muscat, Lieutenant Boswell having been incapable of duty from fatigue and injuries received. The number of men who returned with me to Muscat, or who arrived at Soor after the action, amounts to four hundred and forty-six, of whom one half are followers.

I feel strongly convinced of the necessity for the permanent residence of at least two European companies at Deristan, to make the detachment efficient for the purposes for which it is designed.

I have the honour to be, &c.

(Signed)

T. P. THOMPSON, Captain 17th Light Dragoons, Commissioner and Agent.

Brighton, March 30, 1821.

THE King was this day pleased to confer the honour of Kuighthood upon Lieutenant-General John Hope, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order.

Crown-Office, May 19, 1821.

MEMBER returned to serve in this present
PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Andover.

Thomas Assheton Smith the younger, Esq. in the room of Thomas Assheton Smith, Esq. who bas accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of MAY 26,

1821.

By the KING.

A PROCLAMATION.

GEORGE, R.

WHEREAS We have thought fit to order hat certain pieces of gold money should be coined, which should be called " sovercigns or twenty shilling pieces," each of which should be of the value of twenty shillings, and that each piece should be of the weight of five penny weights three $2,740 grains and troy weight of standard gold; and that certain other pieces of gold money should be coined, which should be called "half sovereigns or ten shilling pieces," each of which should be of the value of ten shillings, and that each piece last mentioned should be of the weight of two

10,000

penny weights thirteen grains

6,370

10,000

troy weight of standard gold, according to the weights approved of and confirmed by Us in Council, in pursuance of an Act, made in the fourteenth year of His late Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act for "regulating and ascertaining the weights to be

made use of in weighing the gold and silver "coin of this kingdom:" and We have further thought fit to order that every such gold sovereign or twenty shilling piece so ordered to be coined ..1821.

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as

as aforesaid, shall have for the obverse impression Our effigy, with the inscription "Georgius IIII, "D. G. Britanniar:. Rex: F. D." and for the reverse the image of Saint George armed, sitting on horseback, attacking the Dragon with a sword, having broken his spear in the encounter, and the date of the year, the edge of the piece to be marked with the new invented graining used on the coins of His late Majesty; and that every such gold half sovereign or ten shilling piece so ordered to be coined as aforesaid, shall have for the obverse impression Our effigy, with the inscription" Georgius HII, D. G. Britanniar: "Rex: F. D." and for the reverse the ensigns armorial of the United Kingdom, contained in a shield surrounded by the Rose, Thistle, and Shamrock, and having the word " Anno" with the date of the year, and on the edge of the piece the new invented graining used on the coins of His late Majesty And whereas pieces of gold money of the above descriptions respectively have been coined at Our Mint, and will be coined there, in pursuance of orders which We have given for that purpose: We have, therefore, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, thought fit to issue this Our Royal Proclamation, and We do hereby ordain, declare, and command, that the said pieces of gold money respectively so coined, and to be coined as aforesaid, shall be current and lawful money of the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and shall be called "sovereigns or twenty shilling pieces" and half sovereigns or ten shilling pieces," and shall pass and be received as current and lawful money of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and every of such sovereigns not weighing less than five penny weights two grains and an half, and every of such half sovereigns not weighing less than two penny weights thirteen grains

grains and one-eiglith, shall pass and be received as current and lawful money of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, every such sovereign as of the value of twenty shillings of lawful money of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and every such half sovereign as of the value of ten shillings of like lawful money, in all payments whatsoever.

Given at Our Court at Carlton-House, the fifth day of May one thousand eight hundred and twenty one, in the second year of Our reign.

GOD save the KING.

Foreign-Office, May 26, 1821.

The King has been pleased to appoint John Parkinson, Esq. to be His Majesty's Consul in the Province of Pernambuco.