2 APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE. 
mentioned officers of his Majesty’s 
naval and military forces, to be’ 
knights commanders of the most 
honourable Military Order of the 
Bath. 
(One hundred andeighty names 
follow. ] ease 
16th. The third class of the 
most honourable Military Order 
of the Bath shall be composed of 
officers holding commissions in his 
Majesty’s service by sea or Jand, 
who shall be styled Companions of 
the saidOrder. They shall not be 
entitled to the appellation, style, 
precedence, or privilege of Knights 
Bachelors, but they shall take place 
and precedence of all Esquires of 
the United kingdom of Great 
Britain and Ireland. 
17th. No officer shall be nomi- 
nated a companion of the said 
Most Honourable Order, unless 
he shall have received, or shall 
hereafter receive, amedal, orother 
badge of honour, or shall have 
been especially mentioned by name 
in dispatches published inthe Lon- 
don Gazette, as having distin- 
guished himself by his valour and 
conduct in action against his Ma- 
jesty’s enemies, since the com- 
mencement of the war in 1803, 
or shall hereafter be named in dis- 
patches published in the London 
Gazette, as having distinguished 
himself. 
18th. The Companions of the 
said Order shall wear the badge 
assigned to the Third Class, pen- 
dant by a narrow red riband to 
the button-hole. 
19th, And his Royal Highness 
the Prince Regent, hath. been 
pleased to ordain and enjoin, that 
the said Knights Commanders, and 
| the said Companions, shall respec- 
| tively be governed by the rules 
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and regulations which his Royal 
Highness, in the name and on the 
behalf of his Majesty, hath been 
graciously pleased to make, ordain, 
and enjoin for them; and by such 
other rules and ordinances as may 
be from time to time made and 
ordained by his Majesty,*his heirs, 
and successors, kings of this 
realm. 
And His Royal Highness the 
Prince Regent hath been pleased 
to appoint that Sir George Nayler, 
Knt. Genealogist and Blanc Cour- 
sier Herald of the Order of the 
Bath, and York Herald, shall be 
the Officer of Armsattendantupon 
the said Knights Commanders and 
Companions; and also to com- 
mand that the officers hereby 
appointed Knights Commanders, 
and those who shall hereafter be 
respectively nominated and con- 
stituted Knights Commanders or 
Companions, shall immediately af- 
ter such nomination ‘transmit to 
the said Sir George Nayler astate- 
ment of their respective military 
services, verified by their signa- 
tures, in order that the same may 
be by him recorded in books ap- 
propriated to the said Knights 
Commanders and Companions. 
And his Royal Highness hasalso 
been pleased to approve, that Mr. 
William Woods be the Secretary 
appertaining to the said Knights 
Commanders and Companions. 
‘Admiralty office, Feb. 18. 
Copy of a letter from Rear Admi- 
ral the Honourable Sir Henry 
Hotham, K. C. B. to John Wil- 
son Croker, Esq. dated onboard 
his Majesty’s ship Superb, at 
anchor before New London, 
January 20th. 
