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be called the Order of the Iron 

 Cross, as significatory of the con- 

 stancy which has been displayed 

 in the great contest for liberty and 

 independence. 



The order of the Iron Cross is 

 to consist of two classes, with one 

 Grand Cross. Both classes are to 

 bear the same Black Cross of cast- 

 iron set in silver ; the foreside 

 without inscription, on the reverse 

 the initial letters F. W., with three 

 oak leaves, and below, the date of 

 the year, 1813. Both classes are 

 to be worn in the button-hole, 

 suspended by a black ribbon, with 

 a white edge, if the distinction is 

 obtained in an action with the 

 enemy ; but if on another account, 

 with a black edge. 



Commanding officers can only 

 obtain the grand cross for gaining 

 a decisive battle, by which the 

 enemy has been driven from his 

 position ; the taking of a fortress, 

 or the successful deiience of some 

 important place. 



The soldier who obtains the 

 iron cross of the first class, receives 

 immediately the gratifications an- 

 nexed to it, but which, afterwards, 

 cannot be increased. 



18. Sir Everard Home has pub- 

 lished the following declaration : — 



•' Much pains having been taken 

 to involve in mystery the murder 

 of Sellis, the late servant of his 

 Royal Highness the Duke of Cum- 

 berland, I feel it a public duty, to 

 record the circumstances respecting 

 it that came within my own ob- 

 servation, which I could not do 

 while the propagators of such re* 

 ports were before a public tribunal. 



" I visited the Duke of Cum- 

 berland upon his being wounded, 

 •nd found my way from the great 

 hall to his apartment by the traces 



of blood which were left on the 

 passages and staircase. I found 

 him on the bed, still bleeding, his 

 shirt deluged with blood, and the 

 coloured drapery above the pillow 

 sprinkled with blood from a 

 wounded artery, which puts on an 

 appearance that cannot be mis- 

 taken by those who have seen it. 

 This could not have happened had 

 not the head been lying on the 

 pillow when it was wounded. The 

 night ribbon which was wadded, 

 the cap, scalp, and skull, were 

 obliquely divided, so that the pul- 

 sations of the arteries of the brain 

 were distinguished. While dress- 

 ing this, and the other wounds, 

 report was brought that Sellis was 

 wounded, if not murdered. His 

 Royal Highness desired me to go 

 to him, as I had declared his Royal 

 Highness out of immediate danger. 

 A second report came, that Sellis 

 was dead. I went to his apart- 

 ment, found the body lying on his 

 side on the bed, without his coat 

 and neckcloth, the throat cut so 

 effectually, that he could not have 

 survived above a minute or two ; 

 the length and direction of the 

 wound were such, as left no doubt 

 of its being given by his own 

 band. Any struggle would have 

 made it irregular. He had not 

 even changed his position ; his 

 hands lay as they do in a person 

 who has fainted ; they had no 

 marks of violence upon them ; 

 his coat hung upon a chair out 

 of the reach of blood from the 

 bed ; the sleeve from the shoulder 

 to the wt'iBt was sprinkled with 

 blood, quite dry, evidently from a 

 wounded artery ; and from such 

 kind of sprinkling, the arm of the 

 assassin ofthe Duke of Cumberland 

 could not escape. 



