FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of MARCH 1, At the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 1st day of March 1839, PRESENT, The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. THIS day the Right Honourable Hugh Fortescue (commonly called Viscount Ebrington), and the Right Honourable Sir George Grey, Bart., were, by command of Her Majesty, sworn of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took their respective places at the Board accordingly. Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to declare, the Right Honourable Hugh Fortescue (commonly called Viscount Ebrington), LieutenantGeneral and General Governor of that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland. Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to appoint Deeble Peter Hoblyn to be Sheriff of the county of Cornwall, in the room of Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan, of Trelowarren, Bart. Whitehall, February 28, 1839. The Queen has been pleased to order a writ to be issued under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for summoning Hugh Fortescue, Chevalier (commonly called Viscount Ebrington), to the House of Peers, by the stile and title of Baron Fortescue, of Castle-hill, in the county of Devon. Crown-Office, February 28, 1839. Borough of Southwark. Daniel Whittle Harvey, Esq. Whitehall, March 1, 1839. The Queen has been pleased to grant unte Lieutenant Robert Cannan, of the 40th Regiment of Native Infantry in the service of the East India Company, on the Madras Establishment, Knight of the first class of the National and Military Order of St. Ferdinand, and late a Colonel in the British Auxiliary Legion, Her royal licence and permission, that he may accept and wear the cross, of the second class, of the aforesaid National and Military Order of St. Ferdinand, which the Queen Regent of Spain hath been pleased to confer upon that Officer, in testimony of Her Catholic Majesty's royal approbation of his service at the assault and capture of Irun, on the 16th and 17th of May 1837; and that he may enjoy all the rights and privileges thereunto annexed; L 2 pro provided, nevertheless, that Her Majesty's said royal licence and permission doth not authorise, and shall not be deemed or construed to authorise, the assumption of any style, appellation, rank, precedence, or privilege appertaining unto a Knight Bachelor of these realms : And also to command, that the said concession and especial mark of Her royal favour be registered, together with the relative documents, in Her Majesty's College of Arms. By the Commissioners for executing the Rules, orders, and regulations, for the preservation of Her Majesty's moorings, and for the mooring, anchoring, and placing of all private ships of war, transports, and all other private and merchant ships and vessels, lighters, barges, boats, and other craft whatsoever in Plymouth Sound, and in the harbour of Catwater, at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, and near the docks, dock yard, arsenals, wharfs, and moorings belonging to Her Majesty therein, for the purpose of keeping the same free and open, and for ensuring a safe passage unto, into, through, and from the same respectively, made and established pursuant to an Act of Parliament, passed in the 54th year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, chapter 159, intituled "An Act for the better regulation of the several ports, harbours, roadsteads, sounds, channels, bays, and navigable rivers in the United Kingdom, and of His Majesty's docks, dock yards, arsenals, wharfs, moorings, and stores therein, and for repealing several Acts passed for that purpose." As As to the anchoring in Plymouth Sound: Article 1st. All Her Majesty's ships and vessels of war are exclusively to occupy the outer anchorage in Plymouth Sound. 2d. All merchant and other private ships and vessels of every description, are hereby ordered to occupy the inner anchorage in the Sound, within a space bounded by the following marks and lines, viz. : To the northward of a line supposed to be drawn from Ram Cliff Point, towards the west. To the southward of another line supposed to be drawn from Mount Edgcumbe House, through the Canteen on Drakes Island, to the eastern shore of Plymouth Sound. To the eastward of another line supposed to be drawn from the east end of Windsor-terrace, in the town of Plymouth, to the Obelisk on the Hoe, and continued through the white-washed seamark on the rocks, to the before-mentioned line supposed to be drawn from the Ram Cliff Point towards the west. The object of this arrangement is, that a sufficient navigable channel may be kept open over the hard and foul ground on the west side of this anchorage. As to the anchoring in the harbour of Catwater: 3d. All fore and aft rigged vessels taking shelter in Catwater, and drawing less than eleven feet of water, are either to anchor on the flat in Clovelly Bay, or above Turnchapel Rock; and they are also required to place buoys on their anchors, and to moor with a kedge. 4th, Ships and vessels drawing eleven feet of water and upwards, and less than sixteen feet, are to to moor upon the flat between Turnchapel Rock and Mount Batten. Large ships drawing sixteen feet of water and upwards, are to moor in tiers below and above Turnchapel Rock, with their stern cables made fast to the shore. 5th. An open passage, of not less than fifty fathoms in width on the north side of the harbour, is to be kept clear for the navigation of ships and vessels from the entrance of Catwater, up towards the Bear's Head and Turnchapel Rock, and as far as Her Majesty's breakwater establishment at Oreston. 6th. Steam vessels frequenting the port of Plymouth, and anchoring in Deadman's Bay, are to leave a clear passage, of fifty fathoms at the least, open between them and the sailing vessels Occupying the south side of the harbour. Given under our hands the 26th February 1839. To all whom it may concern. W. PARKER. T. TROUBRIDGE. By command of their Lordships, |