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appointed by any v/rit or sum- 

 mons then issued for calling and 

 assembling a new Parliament, 

 and before such new Parliament 

 should have met and sat as a 

 Parliament, then and in such 

 case the Regent should forthwith 

 cause such a Proclamation as 

 aforesaid to be issued and pub- 

 lished, declaring that such case 

 had happened, and requiring the 

 new Parliament either to convene 

 and sit at Westminster imme- 

 diately after such Proclamation 

 should have been published, or 

 upon some day to be mentioned 

 in such Proclamation, and being 

 within sixty days, to be computed 

 from the date of the said Procla- 

 mation ; and in such case the 

 Parliament so convening and 

 sitting should be and be deemed 

 a Parliament to all intents and 

 purposes, under the provisions 

 of the said last-mentioned Acts : 

 And whereas, the Parliament 

 which was summoned to meet at 

 "Westminster on the fourth day 

 of August last, hath not yet met 

 and sat as a Parliament, but stands 

 prorogued to the 29th day of 

 December now next ensuing: 

 and whereas her Majesty the 

 Queen departed this life on the 

 17th day of November instant, 

 during the time that the care of 

 his Majesty's Royal person was 

 committed to her Majesty : Now 

 we do hereby by this Proclama- 

 tion (ordered and directed to be 

 issued and published, and issued 

 and published under the Great 

 Seal of the united kingdom of 

 Great Britain and Ireland) de- 

 clare, that her Majesty the 

 Queen departed this life on the 

 17th day of November instant; 

 aad we do, in the name and on 



the behalf of his Majesty, by and 

 with the advice of his Majesty's 

 Privy Council, publish, declare, 

 and require, that the new Parlia- 

 ment shall be held, convene, and 

 sit at Westminster on the 14th 

 day of January now next ensu- 

 ing, for the despatch of divers 

 urgent and important affairs; 

 and the Lords spiritual and 

 temporal, and the Knights, 

 Citizens, and Burgesses of the 

 House of Commons, are hereby 

 required and commanded to give 

 their attendance accordingly on 

 the said 14th day of January now 

 next ensuing : and we do hereby 

 farther publish and declare, in the 

 name and on the behalf of his 

 Majesty, and by and with the 

 advice of his Majesty's Privy 

 Council, that the said Parliament 

 shall, on the 29th day of De- 

 cember now next ensuing, be 

 further prorogued to the said 

 14th day of January now next 

 ensuing: and we have, in the 

 name and on the behalf of his 

 Majesty, given order to the 

 Chancellor of that part of the 

 united kingdom called Great 

 Britain, to prepare a writ patent, 

 under the Great Seal of the 

 United Kingdom, for proroguing 

 the same accordingly. 

 Given at the Court at Carlton- 

 house, this 19th day of No- 

 vember, 1818, in the 59th year 

 of his Majesty's reign. 



God save the King. 

 On Saturday afternoon, the 

 21st, at half past three o'clock, 

 an accident of a very serious 

 nature occurred in Lombard- 

 street, arising out of the fire which 

 took place the preceding night, 

 at the house of Mr. Carrol, the 

 lottery-office keeper, which had 



been 



