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the election of Alexander Emperor Autocrator of allthe Russias by declaration, 304 ; arrival and receptionin London of King Louis the Eighteenth in April 1814,305; Statute for his election by declaration, 306;Louis the Eighteenth the only King of France whohad been elected into the Order since Queen Eliza-beth conferred it upon Henry the Fourth, 306 ; arri-val and reception in London of the Allied Sovereigns,307; Chapter held at Carlton House on 9th June,attended by the Emperor Alexander, said to be the firsttime since the meeting of King Henry the Eighth, andFrancis the First at Boulogne 1532, that a F'oreignSovereign had personally taken part in the proceedingsof the Order, 307, lxxxii; Statute for the election ofFrancis Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary andBohemia, by declaration, 307 ; Statute for the electionof Frederick-William the Third King of Prussia, bydeclaration, 308 ; ceremonial of his Investiture, ib .;Statute for the election of the Earl of Liverpool, andViscount Castlereagh, by declaration, 310; Statutereciting that by the election of the Earl of Liverpool,and Viscount Castlereagh the number of Knights sub-jects, not being of the blood Royal, had been in-creased to twenty-seven, including the Prince ofWales, and providing that no further election of asubject not being of the blood Royal should takeplace until there should be a vacancy of a Stall of aKnight subject not of the blood Royal, subsequentlyto the reduction of Knights subjects not of the royalBlood, to the original number of twenty-five, 310 ;Statute for the election of Ferdinand the' SeventhKing of Spain, by declaration, 311; election ofWilliam Frederick Prince of Orange and Nassau,Sovereign of the Netherlands, as a descendant of KingGeorge the Second, 312 ; Investitures of the Princeof Orange, Emperor of Austria, and King of Spain,312; remarks on the glory imparted to the Order,and on the changes produced in its constitution bythose elections, 312, 313 ; scheme of the Stalls afterthe 29th of August 1815, 313 n; Statute for theelection of Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, by decla-ration, 314; deaths and elections between August1815, and 23rd of January 1820, 315; death ofKing George the Third, 316.

George the Fourth, 23rd Sovereign of the Order;list of the Companions immediately after his acces-sion, 316 n; Statutes for the election of Frede-rick the Sixth, King of Denmark, and John theSixth, King of Portugal, by declaration, 317 ; theirInvestiture, ib. ; the address delivered by Sir EdwardThornton on the Investiture of the King of Portugal,ib. n; deaths and elections between the 17th of June1822, and the 16th of July 1823, 318; Statute forthe election of Charles the Tenth, King of Franceand Navarre, by declaration, 319 ; his Investiture,320; deaths and elections between the 4th of Sep-tember 1825, and the 10th of May 1827, 320 ;warrant for the election of His Imperial MajestyNicolas the First, Emperor and Autocrator of all theRussias, by declaration, 321 ; ceremonial of his In-vestiture, 321; deaths and elections between the 26thof October 1827, and the 10th of June 1829, 322;Institution of the Order of Saint Michael and SaintGeorge, and of the Guelphs of Hanover, 322; deathof King George the Fourth on the 26th June 1830,323.

William the Fourth, 24th Sovereign of the Order;Statute dated 26th July 1831 for the election of HisSerene Highness Bernard reigning Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, brother of Queen Adelaide, by declaration,323 ; William, King of Wurtemberg elected as a linealdescendant of King George the Second, 324; cere-monial of his Investiture, 324; list of the Knights ofthe Order, after the election of the King of Wurtem-berg, and the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, 324 n ;election of the Duke of Bedford, 324; Statutes dated27th of May 1831, for the election of Charles EarlGrey, by declaration, 325; and providing that nofurther election of any subject, not being of the bloodRoyal, shall take place until the vacancy of a Stall ofa Knight subject shall have happened subsequently tothe reduction of Knights subjects, to the original num-ber of twenty-five, 325 ; election of Augustus WilliamMaximilian Frederick Lewis Reigning Duke of Bruns-wick, 20th June 1831, 326 ; Statute, dated 28 June1831, declaring that the Order shall consist of theSovereign and twenty-five Companions, together withsuch descendants of King George the First as hadbeen or should be elected, 326 ; Investiture ofthe Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, 326; Statute dated17th September 1833, changing the designation of“ Poor Knights” to that of “ Military Knights ofWindsor;” Statute dated on the 10th of September1834, enforcing the ancient usage of sending theMantle of deceased Companions to the College of SaintGeorge, 327 ; deaths and elections between November1834, and the 5th of February 1836, 328, 329; theoffice of Chancellor transferred by Statute, dated 25thFebruary 1837, from the Bishop of Salisbury to theBishop of Oxford for the time being, 329; electionon the 17th of March, and 19th of April 1837, 330;his Majesty’s desire of imitating the ancient mannerof celebrating the Feast of Saint George as closely asas modern usages permitted, and importance attachedby him to the Order; death of King William theFourth on the 20th of June 1837, 331.

Queen Victoria, the 25th and present Sovereignof the Most Noble Order, always wears its Ensigns,332; Statute dated 14th July 1837, for the electionof Charles William Frederick Emicon Prince ofLeiningen, by declaration, 332 ; Statute passed 24thMarch 1838, rescinding that made in 1825, for thepayment to the Chancellor of £100 on the death ofevery Knight of the Order, in lieu of his Insignia,333; Statute 16th July 1838, for the election ofErnest Anthony Charles Lewis Reigning Duke ofSaxe-Coburg and Gotha, 334 ; his Investiture, 335 ;Edward Earl of Derby Knighted by Patent, anddeclared by Royal Warrant on 17 th January 1839, tobe a Knight of the Order, 335* ; William Duke ofCleveland, elected and invested on the 17th of April1839, ib. ; Statute for the election of H. S. H. Fran-cis Albert Augustus Charles Emanuel, Duke ofSaxe, Prince of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, by de-claration, 16th December 1839, 336*; his receptionof the Order, ib. ; Statute dated 21st August 1840,for altering the Statute of February 1805, respectingthe Stalls, 337* ; George 2nd Duke of Sutherland,and Robert Marquess of Westminster, elected andinvested 11th March 1841, 337*; State of the Order,and Scheme showing the order of the Stalls on the18th March 1841, 338*.