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feat it is asserted, Sir Sidney, on the refu-
sal of Lord Keith to sign the treaty of El-
Arish, (according to which the French were
to evacuate Egypt in 1799,) sent off a cou-
rier to Cairo, to apprize General Kleber of
that event. The messenger arrived only a
few hours before the evacuation was to be
completed.
The fatal consequences to the
perial Ottoman chelengk, or plume of triumph, upon a tur*
ban ; in allusion to the highly honourable and distinguished
decoration transmitted by his said Imperial Majesty to
Sir William Sidney Smith, in testimony of his esteem, and
in acknowledgement of his meritorious exertions in the
aforesaid defence: and the family crest, viz. a leopard's
head collared and lined, issuant out of an oriental crown:
the said arms and crests to be borne by him, die said Sir
William Sidney Smith, and by his issue, together with the
motto, “ cceur de lion.”—And, although the privilege of
bearing supporters be limited to the peers of the realm,
the knights of his majesty's orders, and the proxies of
princes of the blood-royal at installations, (except in such
cases wherein, under particular circumstances, His Majesty
has been pleased to grant his especial licence for the us<
thereof,) yet, in order to give a farther testimony of His
Majesty's particular approbation of the services of the said Sir
W.Sidney Smith, he has been graciously pleased to allow him
to bear, for supporters to his arms, a tiger guardant, na-
Tally crowned; in the mouth a palm-branch, being the sym-
bol of victory, supporting the Union fag of Great Britain,
with the inscription “Jerusalem, 1799/? upon the cross
of St. George: and a lamb murally crowned, in the mouth
an olive branch, being the symbol of peace-, supporting the
banner of Jerusalem : the said armorial ensigns being first
duly exemplified according to the laws of arms, and re-
corded in the herald s office: — and also to. order that his
majesty's said concession and especial mark of his royal
favour be registered in his college of arms/'
feat it is asserted, Sir Sidney, on the refu-
sal of Lord Keith to sign the treaty of El-
Arish, (according to which the French were
to evacuate Egypt in 1799,) sent off a cou-
rier to Cairo, to apprize General Kleber of
that event. The messenger arrived only a
few hours before the evacuation was to be
completed.
The fatal consequences to the
perial Ottoman chelengk, or plume of triumph, upon a tur*
ban ; in allusion to the highly honourable and distinguished
decoration transmitted by his said Imperial Majesty to
Sir William Sidney Smith, in testimony of his esteem, and
in acknowledgement of his meritorious exertions in the
aforesaid defence: and the family crest, viz. a leopard's
head collared and lined, issuant out of an oriental crown:
the said arms and crests to be borne by him, die said Sir
William Sidney Smith, and by his issue, together with the
motto, “ cceur de lion.”—And, although the privilege of
bearing supporters be limited to the peers of the realm,
the knights of his majesty's orders, and the proxies of
princes of the blood-royal at installations, (except in such
cases wherein, under particular circumstances, His Majesty
has been pleased to grant his especial licence for the us<
thereof,) yet, in order to give a farther testimony of His
Majesty's particular approbation of the services of the said Sir
W.Sidney Smith, he has been graciously pleased to allow him
to bear, for supporters to his arms, a tiger guardant, na-
Tally crowned; in the mouth a palm-branch, being the sym-
bol of victory, supporting the Union fag of Great Britain,
with the inscription “Jerusalem, 1799/? upon the cross
of St. George: and a lamb murally crowned, in the mouth
an olive branch, being the symbol of peace-, supporting the
banner of Jerusalem : the said armorial ensigns being first
duly exemplified according to the laws of arms, and re-
corded in the herald s office: — and also to. order that his
majesty's said concession and especial mark of his royal
favour be registered in his college of arms/'