Transcribed from the 1805 T. Egerton edition ,. Many thanks to the Royal Borough ofKensington and Chelsea Library for allowing their copy to be usedfor this transcription.
London:
PRINTED FOR T. EGERTON
MILITARY LIBRARY,
WHITEHALL.
1805.
p. 2C. Mercier and Co. Printers,
No. 6, Northumberland-court.
GEORGE R.
WHEREAS OUR Commissioners for the Affairs of Our RoyalMilitary Asylum did, in pursuance of Our Commands, signified tothem in Our Warrant bearing date the 24th June, 1801,prepare and present to Us, in their Report, dated the30th day of April, 1803, certain Orders andRegulations for the good Government of Our said Asylum, and forthe attainment of the humane p. 4objects for which it has been erected;and did, in the same Report, propose such an Establishment ofOfficers, as they deemed necessary, in the first instance, to beappointed in Our said Asylum, together with the Salaries andAllowances fitting to be annexed to their respective employments;of which Report, in all its parts, WE were pleased to approve:And Whereas divers additional Regulations and Appointments ofOfficers have at different times since been represented to Us byOur Commander in Chief, at the request of Our said Commissioners,to be essential to the welfare of the Institution; and have inlike manner met with Our Royal Approbation: WE do, therefore,confirm hereby the several Acts which have been done or directedby p. 5Our saidCommissioners, in conformity to Our said Warrant, and to theReport and Representations afore mentioned: and, in regard to theCommissioners for managing the Affairs of Our Royal MilitaryAsylum, as well as to the Regulations for the Establishment andGovernment of the same, in future, WE do declare Our Will andPleasure, to be as follows:
OUR most dearly beloved Son, Field Marshal, Frederic, Duke ofYork and Albany, Commander in Chief of all Our Forces in OurUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; Our most dearlybeloved Son, General, Edward, Duke of Kent; Our most dearlybeloved Son, Lieutenant General, Ernest Augustus, p. 6Duke ofCumberland; Our most dearly beloved Son, Lieutenant General,Adolphus Frederic, Duke of Cambridge;
General, Charles, Earl of Harrington, Colonel of Our FirstRegiment of Life Guards; Brownlow, Bishop of Winchester;Lieutenant General, William, Lord Cathcart, Colonel of Our SecondRegiment of Life Guards; Our right trusty and well beloved,William Windham, and Our right trusty and well beloved, CharlesYorke, late, respectively, Secretaries at War; General, Sir DavidDundas, Knight of the Bath, Governor of Our Royal Hospital atChelsea; Lieutenant General, George Hewett, Barrack MasterGeneral to Our Forces; Major General, Robert Brownrigg, QuarterMaster General p.7of Our Forces; Major General, Harry Calvert, AdjutantGeneral of Our Forces; Sir Brook Watson, Baronet, Our CommissaryGeneral of Stores and Provisi