The Gazette also contains another important announcement-
" The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be forthwith made and passed under the Seal appointed by the Treaty of Union to be kept and made use of in place of the Great Seal of Scotland, appointing Robert Viscount Melville, KT., Robert Montgomerie Lord Belhaven, Henry Home Drum- mond, Esq., James Campbell, of Craigie, Esq., Edward Twisleton, Esq., the Reverend Dr. Patrick Macfarlan, Minister of Greenock, and the Rev. James Robertson, Minister of Ellon, in the county of Aberdeen, her Majesty's Commissioners for inquiring into the practical operation of the Poor-laws in Scotland. The Queen has also been pleased to appoint William Smith, Esq., advocate, to be Secretary to the said Commission."
The Gazette notifies a Court mourning for the recently-deceased Dutchess Dowager of Schleswick-Holstein-Sonderbourg-Augusten- bourg, mother of her Majesty the Queen of Denmark, and great grand- daughter of King George the Second ; to commence tomorrow, to change on Sunday the 5th February, and to terminate on the 12th.
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