The Sun.
London, England, 1808-11-30 00:00:00

Flom the LOA DON G4ZETI'E„...IV9v. 29, 1.608.

Horse Cuards, Nov. 21, 1808.

His Maje-tv has been pleased to.grant-to the Ist
West India Regiment hifiquost • gracious permission
to assume and bear (in addition.to any other-badges
or devices 'to which it: may be entitled) the word
DOntinica" on its colourS and appointments, as a
distinguished mark of the good_ conduct and exern-
phtry valour displayed by that regiment in the de-
*net; of the Island of D9Micica; against a very
superior French Force, on the 22e1 of February,
-1805.

By order of his-Royal Hig,hness the Commander
in Chief. . . ,

k HARRY CALVERT, Adj. Gen.

Nov,ethber 29, 1808.

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The King, taking into his lioyal consideration,
the_, zeal, courage, and perseverance of the late
George Nicholas Harding 4- Esq. Captain of his
Majesty's frigate San Fiorenzo, inanife,ted by -hint
upon divers occasions, but wore especially •in the
capture of the , Dutch War BOg Atalanta,, off the
Texei, after a desperate conflici, in the night of the
31st of March, 1804; by the successful entetpriZe'
of boarding and of cutting. (tut that Vessel, himself
at the head
.of the party in the Boats, and , the first
ri man Who boarded her ; and also in the:signal and
gallant service of Fommencing_ three successive en-
gageinenis between his Majesty's Frigate San Mo-
. renzo and La Piedmontaise, a French- -Frigate, off

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Ceylon, in. March last, not withstanding the great

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l' disparity of the .force'between the .said Frig-ates,-
( - that of the Enemy carryint., a fifty guns', and Mu• ter-
,; in,zfitr,.-- hundred and sixty men, -when his Mkvs-
i
ty's Frigate carried only thirty-eight guns, and
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;' i-r-r musti one hundred and eighty-six men, , - ,--
in-
chiding Ofileers : a confliet terminated in the c.ip-
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I ; tore oi,t he Enemy's Frigate, but, .un fortunately, .in
,:. the d'-ath of the said Captain Hardinge, who fell
.with glory in the last of the said three anions i his
i4lajcsty has been
.graciously pleased, in Comme-
moration 'thereof, to grant his Royal Licence and
ti)ermission, that the Mi.-4,e Descendants of the late
Nicholas Hardinge, Esq. vternal Grandfather of
the said Captain George Nicholas Hardinge, who
died without issue, may bear for -ever hereafter, to
i., the Armorial P.-nsigns of their Family, the following
honourable augmentations, viz. to the Arnis ofHar-
dinge (being," On a Cheveron finfbriated three Es-
.
callops") " A Chief wavy, thereon a dismasted
trench Frigate, with her colours struck, towed-
- by an English fr,igate ( and, . for an additional
Crest, .(that of Hardinge being " A Mitre charged
ii with a Cheveron as in the Arms,") the following,
ii viz. " A liand, cooped above the wrist, grasping
u,e-Sworn 'of. a British Naval Officer, erect, stir.;
. , mourning a Dutch and a French Flag in saltire-,
on .i.e tors er inscribed ATALANTA, on the lat..'
; A _
ter PIEDMONTA ISE, the blade of the sword pas-
sing through a wreath of laurel near the 'point,
i . and, a little bz.-1,,w, through another of Cypress,"
widt ibis motto POSTERA LAUDE RECENS j
..pro-
vided such honourable augmentations be first duly
• 6:eniplifie.l according to the laws of arms, and
recorded in .the Herald's Office :
And also to order, that his Majesty's concession
and especial mark of his royal' favour, be registered
in his College of Arms. %