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"entire tenements consisting of houses or lands, within the Borough, for years determinable on a "life or lives, being resident householders for forty days before the day of election, and rated to the poor at forty shillings at the least." That upon the statement delivered in by the counsel for the petitioners, Matthias Attwood and William Thomp→ son, Esquires, the said Committee have determined, "That the right of election as set forth in the said "statement is not the right of election for the said Borough." That upon the statement delivered · in by the petitioners, William Hender, and others the said Committee have determined, "That the right of election as set forth in the said statement is not the right of election for the said Borough." That, upon the statement delivered in by the coun... sel for the sitting members, the said Committe have determined, "That the right of election as set "forth in the said statement, is the right of elec❝tion." That your petitioners are advised that the right of election which has been so determined by the said select Committee, is not the ancient and true and legal right of election, and they are therefore not satisfied with the said determination of the said select Committee, and are desirous of. being admitted as parties to oppose such right of election, and to have the benefit of the Statute in such case made and provided. Therefore, to prevent the judgment of the said select Committee from being final and conclusive, I do hereby give notice, that the House has appointed Tuesday ther 13th day of March next, at half an hour after Three of the Clock in the Afternoon, to take the said petition into consideration

Given under my hand, the 9th day of February 1821,

CHARLES MANNERS SUTTON, Speaker.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of FEBRUARY 17, 1821.

Lord Chamberlain's-Office, February 16, 1821. NOTICE is hereby given, that His Majesty will hold a Levee at Carlton-House, on Friday next the 23d instant, at two o'clock.

Lunæ, 120 die "Februarij 1821.

Borough of Portsmouth-Right of Election, Petition Notice.

"Sir George Garrett, Kt.; the Reverend George Cuthbert, Clerk, and others, having on Friday the 26th day of January last, presented their petition to the House of Commons, setting forth: That on the 5th day of June 1820, the Select Committee appointed to try and determine the merits of the petition of Sir George Cockburn, G. C. B, complaining of an undue election and return for the Borough of Portsmouth, reported to the House, That it appeared to the said Select Committee that the merits of the said petition did in part depend upon the right of election, and therefore the said Committee required the counsel on both sides to deliver to the clerk of the said Committee statements in writing of the right of election for which they respectively contended; and that in consequence thereof, the counsel for the said petitioner, Sir George Cockburn, delivered in a statement as follows: That the right of voting in the

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Borough of Portsmouth, as contended for by the petitioner, is in the Mayor, Aldermen and Bur"gesses of the said Borough only, such Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses being resident within "the said Borough, and the limits and liberties "thereof;" And that the counsel for sitting member delivered in a satement as follows: "That "the right of election of Burgesses to serve in "Parliament for the Borough of Portsmouth is "in the Mayor, Aldermen ›and Burgesses of the " said Borough only." That upon the statement delivered in by the counsel for the said petitioner, Sir George Cockburn, the said Committee have determined, "That the right of election as set forth in the said statement is not the right of election for the Borough of Portsmouth, in the County of Southampton;" and that upon the statement delivered in by the counsel for the sitting member, the said Committee have determined, "That the 66 right of election as set forth in the said statement "is the right of election for the said Borough of "Portsmouth." That your petitioners are advised that the right of election which has been sø determined by the said Select Committee is not the ancient and true and legal right of election for the said Borough, and they are therefore not satisfied with the said determination of the said Committee, and are desirous of being admitted parties to oppose such right of election, and to have the benefit of the Statute in that case made and provided: Therefore, to prevent the judgment of the said Select Committee from being final and conclusive: I do hereby give notice, That the House, has appointed Thursday the 10th day of May next, at Three of the Clock in the Afternoon, to take the said petition into consideration.

Given under my hand, the 13th day of February 1821.

CHARLES MANNERS SUTTON, Speaker.

Crown

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Crown-Office, February 17, 1821.

MEMBERS returned to serve in this present PARLIAMENT.

Borough of Newtown.

Charles Compton Cavendish, Esq. of BurlingtonHouse, Piccadilly, London, in the room of Dudley North, Bsq. who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.

County of Wicklow.

James Grattan, of Tennehinck, in the said county of Wicklow, Esq. in the room of William Parnell, Esq. deceased.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of FEBRUARY 20, 1821.

Whitehall, February 20, 1821.

THE King has been pleased to nominate and appoint Vice-Admiral Sir George Martin, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, to be a Knight Grand Cross of the said Most Honourable Military Order, vice Admiral Sir George Campbell, deceased.

1821.

Foreign

Foreign-Office, February 20, 1821.

The King has been pleased to appoint Mr. Robert Dunkin, jun. to be Hanoverian Consul at St. Michael's Mount, Mount's Bay, in the county of Cornwall.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of FEBRUARY 24,
1821.

Whitehall, February 24, 1821.

THE King has been pleased to command that, in the present and in all future years, His Majesty's Birth-day shall be, in all respects, observed and kept on the 23d day of April; excepting when that day shall fall on Sunday, in which case the same is to be observed and kept on the following day.

By the KING.

A PROCLAMATION.

GEORGE, R.

WHEREAS His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the name and on the behalf of His late Majesty King George the Third, was pleased by His Royal Proclamations, bearing date the first day of July and the tenth day of October in the year one thousand