sions, offices, and personal estates in England, for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one. An Act for applying certain monies therein mentioned for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one. An Act to amend an Act, of the fifty-eighth year of His late Majesty, for more effectually discovering the longitude at Sea, and encouraging attempts to find a northern passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and to approach the Northern Pole. An Act to continue the term and alter and enlarge the powers of several Acts passed for repairing the road from the town of Tadcaster to the town of Otley, in the county of York. Carlton-House, February 23, 1821. This day His Excellency the Count de Lieven, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from the Emperor of All the Russias; His Excellency the Duke de Frias and Uceda, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from the King of the Spains; and Baron Just, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of Saxony, had audiences respectively of His Majesty, to deliver letters from their Sovereigns; to which they were severally introduced by Lord Viscount Castlereagh, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sit Robert Chester, Knt. Master of the Ceremonies. Carlton Carlton-House, February 23, 1821. CEREMONIAL of the Knighthood and Investie ture of General Sir Robert Brownrigg, and of the Investiture of Vice-Admiral Sir George Martin, with the Ensigns of Knights Grand Crosses of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath. THE Knights Grand Crosses, attending in their mantles and collars, and the Officers of the Order, in their mantles, chains, and badges, proceeded this day, after the Levee, into the presence of the Sovereign, with the usual reverences, in the following order: The Gentleman Usher of the Order, bearing the scarlet rod. 1 314 Deputy Bath King of Arms, bearing the ribbands, badges, and stars of the Order, upon a crimson velvet cushion. 74 The Genealogist. KNIGHTS GRAND CROSSES. Sir George Beckwith. Sir Richard J. Strachan. Duke of Wellington. Sir Alured Clarke. Sir John Borlase Warren. Lord Henley: The Dean of Westminster, Dean of the Order. His Royal Highness the Duke of York, First and Principal Knight Grand Cross of the Order. Then, by the command of the Sovereign, General Sir Robert Brownrigg (late Commander in Chief of the British Settlements in the Island of Ceylon, 1821. K and and who had, on 2d January 1815, been nominated a Knight Grand Cross of the Order), was introduced into the Presence between Sir Richard Strachan and Sir George Beckwith, the two Junior Knights Grand Crosses present, preceded by the Gentleman Usher of the Order. The sword of state being delivered to His Majesty by Lord Henley, the Second Knight Grand Cross present, Sir Robert Brownrigg, kneeling, was knighted therewith. Deputy Bath then presenting the ribband and badge to the Duke of York, the Senior Knight Grand Cross, His Royal Highness delivered the same to the Sovereign; and, Sir Robert Brownrigg still kneeling, His Majesty was graciously pleased to put the same over the new Knight's right shoulder; who, being thus invested, and, having kissed His Majesty's hand, and received from him the star of the Order withdrew. Then, by the Sovereign's command, ViceAdmiral Sir George Martin was introduced in like manner, and invested by His Majesty with the ensigns of a Knight Grand Cross of the Order. The Knights Grand Crosses were thereupon called over, and the procession returned in the order above mentioned. Carlton-House, February 23, 1821. The King was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon Alexander Wood, Esq. Knight Commander of the Most distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George of the Ionian Islands. Bo Borough of Boroughbridge.-Right of Election Petition, Notice. Mercurij, 21° die Februarij 1821. Thomas Mortimer the elder, and others, having this day presented their petition to the House of Commons, setting forth, That at the election of Burgesses to serve in Parliament for the Borough of Boroughbridge, in the County of York, held on or about the 10th day of March 1820, Richard Spooner, Esq. and Marmaduke Lawson, Esq. and also George Mundy, Esq. and Henry Dawkins, Esq. were candidates to represent the said Borough in Parliament; and that the Bailiff of the said Borough, who acted as the returning officer, conceiving the said Richard Spooner and Marmaduke Lawson to have a considerable majority of legal votes at such election, returned the said Richard Spooner and Marmaduke Lawson as duly elected to serve in Parliament as Burgesses for the said Borough of Boroughbridge, against which return a petition was presented to the House by and on the behalf of the said George Mundy and the said Henry Dawkins stating, amongst other things, that the said George Mundy and Henry Dawkins were duly elected, and ought to have been returned as Burgesses to serve in Parliament for the Borough of Borougbridge, and praying such relief as to the House should seem meet. That on the 1st day of June 1820, a Select Committee of the House was appointed to try the merits of the said petition, and that the said Committee being of opinion that the merits of the said petition depended on a question before them respecting the right of election for the said Borough, on the hearing of the said petition, required the counsel for the several parties to deliver to the clerk of the said Committee, statements in writ K 2 writing of the several rights of election for which they each contended, and that in consequence thereof, the counsel for the said George Mundy and Henry Dawkins, and also for the several other petitioners, delivered in a statement as follows: That the right of election is in tenants occupying Burgage Houses, or the sites of Burgage Houses, in Boroughbridge, upon the roll or court-call "of the manor of Aldborough, such tenants being resident within the Borough." That the counsel for the then sitting Members, the said Richard Spooner and Marmaduke Lawson delivered in a statement as follows: "That the right of election "at Boroughbridge is in Boroughmen only. The Boroughmen whose names have been duly and rightfully entered on the occurrence of a vacancy in the roll or book of the manor of Aldborough, "and who have thereupon taken the oath of fealty "for or in respect of certain ancient Burgage "Houses or sites holden of that manor, a vacancy 66 66 happens only on the death or voluntary resig "nation of a Boroughman, or on his ceasing to "reside in Boroughbridge." That upon the statement delivered in by the counsel for the said George Mundy, Esq and Henry Dawkins, Esq. the said Committee resolved and determined, "That the 66 right of election as set forth in the said state"ment is not the right of election for the said "Borough of Boroughbridge, in the County of "York;" and that upon the statement delivered in by the counsel for the said Richard Spooner and Marmaduke Lawson, the then sitting Members, the said Committee resolved and determined, "That the right of election as set forth in the said statement is not the right of election for the said Borough." That the said Committee resolved and determined, "That the right of voting for the "said Borough of Boroughbridge is in those "" per |