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London, England, 1847-07-10 00:00:00

FOREIGN ORDERS OF KNIGHT

HOOD.
(From the Lon 'cn Gazette.)
The following regulations r spectine• foreign orders
conferred upon British subjects, which have been esta-
blished by the Queen and by her royal predecessors, are
published for general information :-
1. That no British subjects shall accept a foreign order
or wear its insignia, without having previously obtained
a warrant under the royal sign manual (directed to the
Earl Marshal of England), granting them his Majesty's
Permission to accept and wear the same.
2. That the intention of a foreign sovereign to decorate
British subject with the insignia of such order shall Le
notified to his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, either through the King's Minister
abroad, or through the accredited Minister of the foreign
sovereign resident at this Court.
3. That when his Majesty's Principal Secretary of
Sate for'Foreign Affairs shall have taken his Majesty's
Pleasure, and obtained his consent upon the occasion, he
t State for
then signify to his Majesty's Principal Secretary
the Home Department, in order that he may
In cause the usual warrant to be prepared for the royal sign
carrying
manual, and take such other steps as may be necessary
ILigly his Majesty's pleasure into. effect accord
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. 4: That when the warrant is signed by the King, it
Mall be announced in the Gazette in the usual manner,
and registered in his Majesty's College of Arms.

In addition to the above regulations of the King, his
l'°Yal Highness the Prince Regent deemed it expedient
to announce, in the year 1812:
5. " That no subject of his Majesty could be allowed
to accept the insignia of a foreign order from any sove-
reign of a foreign state, except they shall be so con-
ferred in consequence of active and distinguished ser-
vices before the enemy, either at sea or in the field; or
unless he shall have been actually employed in the ser-
Vice of the foreign sovereign."
And in March, 1813, his Royal Highness was pleased
to command that the following proviso should be there-
fore inserted in all royal warrants for the acceptance of
foreign orders:-
6. " That his Majesty's license and permission doth
not authorise, and shall not be deemed or construed to
authorise, the assumption of any style, appellation, rank,
krecedence' or privilege appertaining unto a Knight
aehelor of these realm.,"
1,17.13.—Before the Principal Secretary of State for
c'rEign Affairs takes the Prince Regent's pleas ire on
any application for an officer in the army to be per-
Plitted to accept a foreign order, he cauies the same to
be referred to the Commander-in-Chief, through his
Royal
Highness's secretary, to know whether or not his
Royal Highness sees any objection to the Prince Regents
pleasure being taken thereupon.
And if the application be in favour of a naval officer,
the Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs com-
municates with the First Lord of the Admiralty to the
Doing
effect, previous to the Prince Regent's pleasure
Doing taken thereon.
(Signed) CASTLEREAGH.

Her Majesty has been pleased to direct-
7. " That if the service for which it is proposed to
Confer the order has been performed during war, the
notification required by the second regulation must be
Made not later than two years after the exchange of the
atifleations of a treaty of peace.
„ If the service has been performed in time of peace,
ne notification must be made within two years of the
gate of such service.
8. " When a British subject has received the royal
Permission to accept a foreign order, he will at any
future time be allowed to accept the decora-
tion
ofn a higher class of the same order, to which he
oreigmay have become eligible by increase of rank in the
service, or in the service of his own country ;
°r any other distinctive mark of honour strictly con-
-Bequent upon the acceptance of the original order,
and common to every person upon whom such order is
conferred."

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(Signed)
Foreign Office, August 22, 1843.