The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-21 00:00:00

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SUIV OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

WAR-OFFICE, MAR= 21, 1851.
7th Regiment of Dragoon Guards Lieutenant James
Imam Barfonr, from the 89th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice
Gray, who exchanges, March 21.
13th Regiment of Foot—Charles William Woodroffe, Gent.
to be Assistant-Surgeon, March 2 •
19th Foot—Lieutenant Maurice Lynch Blake, from half-
pay 57th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice John Phillipps, who
exchanges, March 21.
44th Foot—Ensign William Fletcher to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Howard, promoted ; George Ingham, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Fletcher, March 21.
4th Foot—Lieutenant William Roberts Williamson, to
be Adjutant, vice Maclurcan, promoted, March 21.
50th Foot—Captain the Hon. James Pierce Maxwell, from
the 59th Foot, to be Captain, vice Mackenzie, who ex-
changes, March 21.
59th Foot—Captain Benjamin Grey Mackenzie, from the
50th Foot, to be Captain, vice Maxwell, who exchanges,
March 21.
73d Foot—Lieutenant Christopher Harison to be Captain,
ey purchase, vice L'ttlehales, who retires; Ensign Audley
Henry Booth to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice llarison,
March 21.
74th Foot—Staif Surgeon of the Second Class James
Alexander Fraser, M.D., to be Surgeon, vice Affieck, ap-
pointed to the Staff, March 21.
89th Foot—Lieutenant John Gray, from the 7th Dragoon
Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice Balfour, who exchanges,
March 21.
Ceylon Rifle 'Regiment—Assistant-Surgeon John McGri-
goir Augustus Thomas Croft, from the Staff, to be Assistant-
Surgeon, vice Rambaut, appointed to the Staff, March 21.
HOSPITAL STAFF.— Surgeon Duncan Affleck, from the
74th Foot, to be Staff Surgeon of the Second Class, vice
Fraser, appointed to the : 4th Foot ; Assistant-Surgeon John
Rambant, from the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be Assistant-
Surgeon to the Forces, vice Croft, appointed to the Ceylon
Rifle Regiment, March 21.
MitatOftiztnum. The christian names of Ensign Adams,
of the 20th Foot, are " George Hewish," not " Huish," as
previously stated.
The date of the commission of Lieutenant Geddes Sansoni
Twynam, of the 61st Regiment of Foot, is the 14th March,
1851. and not 12th March, 1851, as stated in the Gazette of
14th instant.

GE S ERAL ORDER.

Horse Guards, 21st March, 1851.

The Queen having been pleased to signify her assent to a
measure, which has been proposed by the Court of Direc-
t J's of the East India Company, of granting a medal to the
surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Crown, who were en-
gaged in the services in India, enumerated in the accom-
panying list :
Officers and soldiers, who consider that they may have
a claim to receive such medal, are each to apply—the Ge-
,.neral Officers, through the Secretary of the Commander-in-
Chief of the Army ;
~ The Staff Officers, through the General Officers under
:whom they served—if alive—if not alive through the Ad-
jutant-General of the Army ;
Officers. non-commissioned officers, and soldiers of her
Majesty's regiments, battalions, and detachments, through
the commanding officer of the regiment, battalion, or detach-
ment, at the time, if still alive. This will be known by in-
quiry at the agents of the regiment resident in London. It
such commanding officer should not be alive, the application
in writing must be made through the Adjutant-General of
the army.
k The Board of General Officers is hereby, by her Majesty's
command, directed to take into consideration—to investigate
—the facts stated in each of these several applications, and
to report to the Commander-in-Chief upon the same, for the
information of her Majesty, in order that the medals may be
delivered to the claiments accordingly.
The Adjutant General, and the Military Secretary to the
.Commander-in. Chief, will transmit to the Secretary to the
,Board of General Offic?rs such information as they may have
been able to acquire, to assist in the inveestigations which
--the Board will have to make; and her Majesty has been
..graciously pleased to command that the departments of the
Secretary-at-War, and of the Paymaster-General, may fur-
:-riish to the Board such information as the records of those
ci,partments, respectively, can furnish, of the names of these
serving with the troops of the Crown in India at the periods
.of the several achievements specified.
The Commander-in-Chief has been required to desire, that
the Board of General officers will have alphabetical lists
made out of the names of the claimants to one of these
medals, together with their rank, and the names of the par-
ticular patties or sieges at which they may have been
present.
It having moreover been represented to her Majesty
that the officers and soldiers of the Crown who were engaged
in the Mysore war, and at the siege of Seringapatam, have
already received medals from the East India Company for
those services, her Majesty has further been graciously
pleased to permit the same to be worn by them with their
uniforms.

By command of Field Marshal
The DUKE OF WELLINGTON,
Commander-in-Chief.
G. BROWN, Adjutant-General.
LIST OF BATTLES, &C., IN INDIA.
Storm of Allighur, 4th September, 1803.
Battle of Delhi, 11th September, 1803.
Battle of Assaye, 23d September, 1803.
• Siege of Asseer Ghur, 21st October, 18C 3.
Battle of Laswarree, Ist November, 1803.
Battle of Argaum, 29th November, 1803.
Siege and Storm of Gawilghur, 15th December, liO3.
Defence of Delhi, October, 1804.
Battle of Deig, 13th November, 180 t .
Capture of Deig, 25d December, 1804.
War in Nepaul, in 1816, Battle of Kirkee, and Battle and
Capture of Poona, November, 1817.
Battle of Setabuldee, and Battle and Capture of Nagpoor,
November and December, 1817.
Battle of Maheidpore, 21st December, 1817.
Defence of Corygaual, Ist January, 1818.
War in Ava, 1824 to 1826.
Siege and Storm of Bhurtpore, January, 1826.
ADMIRALTY, Mancir 21.
Her Majesty having been graciously pleased to direct that
a medal should be conferred on the surviving officers, sea-
men, and marines, who were engaged in the Burmese war, all
• officers, petty officers, seamen, and marines, who consider
that they are entitled to receive this mark of their Sovereign's
gracious recollection of their services, and of her desire to re-
cord the same, are to send, in writing, the statement of their
claims, addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, White-
hall, London.
By command of the Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty, W. A. B. HAMILTON.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Middlesex.
Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia—Edward John
Ottley, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Herbert, resigned,
March 18.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire and
Bristol.
Royal South Gloucester Light Infantry Regiment of Militia
—Edward Augustus Stewart Hobhouse, Gent., to be Ensign,
March 18.

WHITEHALL, MARCza 11, 1851.
The Right Hon. Sir John Jervis, Lint., Lord Chief Justice
of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, at Westminster,
has appointed Thomas Wilkinson, of the City of Canterbury,
Gentleman, to be one of the Perpetual Commissioners for
taking the acknowledgments of deeds to be executed by mar-
,,ried women, under the Act passed for the abolition of fines
and recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple modes
of assurance, in and for the city of Canterbury, also in and
for the county of Kent.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.

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