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nerous honesty which would never meanly
betray an enemy. And, what is still more
singular, their defeat at Heliopolis was by
them attributed
from his effectual
to that gentleman ; who,
resistance to Bonaparte at
Acre, has been em
Saviour of Eo-ynt/’* *
phatically styled “ the
Previous to this de-
iih.ih ,i mw ■ ■mfcii » ■ n ■ j i ■■■ i ■ nr i ■ ■ ■■mw— m ■ uuhmim t i urn
* How far this compliment is to be justified, future events
vjnay be admitted as corroboratives; and, among the rest,
the opinion of his majesty and his council, as expressed in
the late honour conferred upon that enterprising comman-
der, must have considerable weight. It was conveyed to
the public eye in the London Gazette for Saturday, Ja-
nuary 15, 1S03, as follows:
“ Whitehall, January^, 1803;
“ The King has been graciously pleasech in considera-
tion of the signal and very distinguished services performed
to His Majesty, and to his ally the Ottoman Emperor, by
Sir William Sidnev Smith, Knight, Commander and Grand
Cross of the Royal Swedish Military Order of the Sword,
a Captain in the Royal Navy, and Representative for the
City of Rochester in the Parliament of tire United King-
dom; and to evince the sense that his majesty entertains
of the great ability and heroic perseverance manifested by
him, the said Sir William Sidney Smith, upon divers oc-
casions ; and more especially of his able and highly-dis-
tinguished conduct in the defence of the town of St. John
d’Acre, in Syria, in the year 1/99: His Royal Licence
and Authority, that he may bear the following honourable-
augmentations to the armorial ensigns borne by his family;
viz. on the cheveron a wreath of laurel, accompanied by
two crosses calvary; and, on a chief of augmentation, th;
interior of an ancient fortification, in perspective; in the
angle a breach ; and, on the sides of the said breach, the.
standard of the Ottoman Empire and the Union, flag of
Great Britain, as then displayed: and, for crest, the Iia-
I
nerous honesty which would never meanly
betray an enemy. And, what is still more
singular, their defeat at Heliopolis was by
them attributed
from his effectual
to that gentleman ; who,
resistance to Bonaparte at
Acre, has been em
Saviour of Eo-ynt/’* *
phatically styled “ the
Previous to this de-
iih.ih ,i mw ■ ■mfcii » ■ n ■ j i ■■■ i ■ nr i ■ ■ ■■mw— m ■ uuhmim t i urn
* How far this compliment is to be justified, future events
vjnay be admitted as corroboratives; and, among the rest,
the opinion of his majesty and his council, as expressed in
the late honour conferred upon that enterprising comman-
der, must have considerable weight. It was conveyed to
the public eye in the London Gazette for Saturday, Ja-
nuary 15, 1S03, as follows:
“ Whitehall, January^, 1803;
“ The King has been graciously pleasech in considera-
tion of the signal and very distinguished services performed
to His Majesty, and to his ally the Ottoman Emperor, by
Sir William Sidnev Smith, Knight, Commander and Grand
Cross of the Royal Swedish Military Order of the Sword,
a Captain in the Royal Navy, and Representative for the
City of Rochester in the Parliament of tire United King-
dom; and to evince the sense that his majesty entertains
of the great ability and heroic perseverance manifested by
him, the said Sir William Sidney Smith, upon divers oc-
casions ; and more especially of his able and highly-dis-
tinguished conduct in the defence of the town of St. John
d’Acre, in Syria, in the year 1/99: His Royal Licence
and Authority, that he may bear the following honourable-
augmentations to the armorial ensigns borne by his family;
viz. on the cheveron a wreath of laurel, accompanied by
two crosses calvary; and, on a chief of augmentation, th;
interior of an ancient fortification, in perspective; in the
angle a breach ; and, on the sides of the said breach, the.
standard of the Ottoman Empire and the Union, flag of
Great Britain, as then displayed: and, for crest, the Iia-