by special licence, the right honourable the earl of Moira, to the countess of Loudon. The ceremony was performed by the bishop of London; the prince of Wales gave the bride's hand; and the nuptials were attended by a brilliant circle of the nobility, their friends. After the ceremony the noble earl and countess set off for the seat of lord Keith, at Hampton-Court, where, and at Donington in Leicestershire, the happy couple passed the time. passed the time which the noble lord could be spared from his duty as commander in chief in Scotland. The countess accompanied him on his return to Edinburgh.

17th. James Lake, esq. eldest son of sir James Winter L. bart. to Miss Maria Turner, daughter of Samucl T. esq. of Upper Wimpolestreet.

19th. By special licence, at the earl of Tankerville's, in Portmansquare, by the archbishop of Tuam, the rev. William Beresford, to lady Anna Bennett.

August 2nd. At Titchfield, rearadmiral Purvis, to Mrs. William Dickson, only daughter and heiress of the late sir Archibald D. bart.

3d. At Bath, Anthony Chearnley, esq. of Salter-bridge, co. Waterford, to Miss Isabella Newcombe, daughter of the late primate of all Ireland.

4th. At Stapleton, Captain baron Schmeimen, of the king's German heavy dragoons, to Miss Sophia Elton, of Stapleton-house.

8th. By special licence at St. George's, Hanover-square, the hon. col. Charles Stewart, son of the earl of Londonderry, to Lady Catherine Bligh, sister to the earl of Darnley.

11th. At Dawlish, Devon, sir

John Hawkins, bart. of Kelston, co. Somerset, to the eldest daughter of William Surtees, esq. of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

13th. At Fawsley-park, co. Northampton, the seat of sir John Knightley, bart. his nephew, John Kington, esq. eldest son of the M. P. for Lymington, to Miss Barrett, late of Bath.

18th. Mr. Weichsell, of the Operahouse, brother to Mrs. Billington, to Miss Rovedino, belonging to the same theatre.

20th. At St. George's, Hanoversquare, William Levison Gower, esq. son of the late admiral Levison G. to the only daughter of the late sir John Gresham, bart. of Titseyplace, Surry.

21. At St. James's, Piccadilly, sir William Pole, bart. of Shute, Devon, to Sophia-Anne, only daughter of G. Templer, esq. of Mapwicke, co. Somerset.

At Fulham, Middlesex, by special licence, lord viscount Ranelagh, to Miss Stephens, daughter of sir Philip S. bart. The ceremony was performed by the bishop of London.

Hon. Mr. Scott, eldest son of the lord chancellor, to the only daughter of sir Matthew White Ridley, bart. of Portland-place.

23d. By special licence, at Grove, co. Nottingham, the hon. Charles Herbert Pierrepoint, eldest son of viscount Newark, and M. P. for the county, to the eldest daughter of A. H. Eyre, also M. P. for that county.

31st. John Richardson, esq. of the Middle Temple, to Miss Harriet Hudson, second daughter of sir Charles Grave H. bart. of Wanlip, co. Leicester.

Sept. 5th. By special licence, at
Bran-

Brandenburgh-house, the right hon. Edward Broome, to the eldest daughter of the hon. col. Francis Down

man.

6th. By special licence, at the earl's house, in Park-lane, Hylton Joliffe, esq. M. P. ¡or the borough of Petersfield, to lady Elizabeth Rose Shirley, daughter of earl Ferrers.

14th. Rev. Philip Egerton, M. A. rector of the upper mediety of Malpas, co. Chester, to the youngest daughter of the late Josias Dupré, esq. of Wilton park, Bucks.

15th. At Canterbury cathedral, John Need, esq. of Sherwood-hall, co. Nottingham, and lieutenant-colonel of the Nottinghamshire militia, to the youngest daughter of the rev. Dr. Welfitt, prebendary of Canterbury.

19th. Mr. Ashford, of Castle Cary, co. Somerset, to Miss Arabella Bechinal, youngest daughter of the late captain B. of the royal navy, and sister to the duchess of Roxburgh.

29th. At Downton, Sir Edward Smith, bart. of Newland-park, co. York, to Miss Susan Dewkins, youngest daughter of Henry Dewkins, esq. of Standlynch, Wilts.

October 1st. Rev. Dr. Pett, archdeacon of Oxford, to Miss Andrews, of Butler's Marston, co. Warwick.

The earl of Clonmell, to lady C. Greville, daughter of the earl of Warwick.

At Gretna-green, Mr. Curwen, son of John Christian C. esq. M. P. for Carlisle, to Miss Jane Stanley, his cousin.

Captain A. W. Schomberg, R. N. second son of the late sir Alexander S. to Anne, youngest daughter of rear-admiral Smith, of Poolton, in Cheshire.

4th. Lieutenant-colonel Mackinnon, of the Coldstream regiment of guards, to the youngest daughter of the late sir John Call, bart.

8th. William Lloyd, esq. of Aston, co. Salop, to the eldest daughter of captain Eliab Harvey, R. N. and M. P. for the county of Es

sex.

13th. Francis Wheeler Hood, esq. nephew to lord H. to Miss Caroline Hammond, daughter of sir Andrew Snape H. bart.

15th. Edward Jerningham, esq. son of Sir William J. bart. to Miss Middleton, daughter of Nathaniel M. esq. of Town-hill, Hants.

27th. At the Abbey-church, Bath, Lieut.-col. Smith, of the 83d foot, to Miss Cantelo, of that city.

Nov. 1st. By special licence, captain sir Edward Hamilton, of the royal navy, to Miss Macnamara, daughter of John M. esq. of Baker-street, Portman-square.

2nd. By special licence, the hon. Charles Bagnal Agar, brother to lord viscount Clifden, to Miss Hunt, of Llannydrock, co. Cornwall.

At East Dean, Sussex, Harris Biggs Wither, esq. captain of the north Hants militia, to the only daughter of lieutenant-colonel Frith, of the same regiment.

4th. William Everett, esq. son of Thomas Everett, M. P. for Luggershall, to Miss Ellis, of Palatine house, Stoke Newington.

At Edinburgh, lieutenant-colonel Charles Pye, of the third (or king's own) regiment of dragoons, to Miss Catherine Douglass, sister to the late colonel Archibald D. of Rouhall.

5th. At Clifton, colonel Alexander Kid, of the engineers, Bengal Gg 3

estaba

6th. Honourable Herbert Gardner, son of admiral Lord G. to the youngest daughter of the late John Cornwall, esq. of Henden-house, Middlesex.

10th. At Bath, Dr. George Hazelton, physician to the duke of Kent's household, to Miss Frances Du Puy, of Taunton.

19th. Captain F. Cockburn, son of the late sir James Cockburn, bart. to Miss Sandys, daughter of the late Rev. Richard Sandy's, and grand daughter of the late, and niece of the present, earl of Tankerville.

At Dublin, brigadier-general Payne, to the hon. Miss Quin, daughter of lord Adair.

At Bath, Wm. Hoare Hume esq. M. P. for the county of Wicklow, to the only daughter of the late Samuel Dick, esq. of Dublin.

20th. At St. James's, Piccadilly, the Russian general Sablonkoff, to Miss Angerstein.

His excellency count St. Martin de Front, many years embassador from Sardinia to this court, to lady Fleetwood, widow of the late sir Thomas Fleetwood, bart.

At Dalkeith-house, in Scotland, lord Montagu, to the eldest daughter of lord Douglas, of Douglas.

24th. At St. James's, Piccadilly, the hon. Berkeley Paget, youngest son of the earl of Uxbridge, to Miss Grimstone, daughter of the hon. Willian Bucknall, and niece to lord viscount Grimstone.

At Jersey, captain John le Gros, R. N. to the widow of the late George Lempriere, esq. and sister to the duke de Bouillon.

25th. At St. George's, Hanoversquare, Mr. Courtenay, eldest son

hon. lady Henrietta Leslie, daughter of the countess of Rothes.

28th. At Totnes, co. Devon, major G. P. Adams, of the queen's dragoon-guards, second son of Wm. Adams, esq. M. P. to Miss Elazabeth Lovelace.

29th. At Carlton-hall, co. Nottingham, John Sargent, esq. eldest son of John Sargent, esq. M. P. for Bodmin, Cornwall, to the only daughter of Abel Smith, esq. and niece to lord Carrington.

Dec. 3d. At Tunbridge, Kent, James Eldridge West, esq. of Postern-park, to the only daughter of sir William Ashburnham, bart. of Broomham, Sussex.

4th. At Winchester, Lynch Cotton, esq. captain in the 15th lightdragoons, and second son of sir Robert Salisbury Cotton, bart. to the eldest daughter of John Robins, esq.

5th. At the viscountess Duncan's, major Fergusson, of the Ayrshire militia, to the hon. Henrietta Duncan, daughter of the late adm. lord viscount Duncan.

6th. At the Abbey-church, in Shrewsbury, Roger Kynaston, esq. of the Grove, Essex, to Georgiana, third daughter of sir Charles Ŏakeley, bart.

18th. James Cornwallis, esq. only son of the bishop of Lichfield, and M. P. for Eye, Suffolk, to the eldest daughter of Francis Dickins, esq. M. P. for Northamptonshire.

At Charles-church, Plymouth, the Rev. Thomas Hawker, curate thereof, to Miss Vincent, niece of admiral Nicholas Vincent.

At Canterbury, colonel Mackenzie, of the 52d foot, to Miss Andrews, of Hythe, Kent.

20th. At Oxford, Richard Spoo

ner,

ner, esq. of Glindon-house, co. Warwick, banker at Birmingham, and fifth son of Isaac Spooner, esq. of Elmdon, to Miss Charlotte Wetherel, one of the six daughters of the dean of Hereford, and master of university college, Oxford, with a fortune of 10,000!.

By special licence, John Broadley, esq. of the borough of Southwark, to Miss Letitia Bloxam, daughter of sir Matthew Bloxam, knt.

22d. At St. George's Hanoversquare, captain Winthorp, of the Ardent man of war, to Miss Farbrace, of Dover. Also, captain Warner, aid-du-camp to the earl of Harrington, to the eldest daughter of colonel Shipley.

Captain Foy, of the royal artillery, to the hon. Sophia Courtenay, sister of lord viscount Courtenay, of Powderham-castle.

At Roberton, co. Pembroke, Owen Phillips, esq. lieutenant-col. commandant of the royal Pembroke fuzileers, to the eldest daughter of Henry Scourfield, esq. of Robertonhall.

At Dungannon-park, Tyrone, Ireland, the hon. Charles Knox, son of lord viscount Northland, brother to the bishop of Derry, and M. P. for the university of Dublin, to Mrs. Fletcher, daughter of Robert Bent, esq. late M. P. for Aylesbury.

James Talbot, esq. late secretary of the embassy to Paris, to Anne Sarah, youngest daughter of Samuel Rodbard, esq. of Evercritch, co. Somerset.

PROMOTIONS in the Year 1804.

Jan. 3d. Hon. Cropley Ashley, appointed clerk of the deliveries of the ordnance of the united kingdoms

of Great Britain and Ireland, vice Hunt.

7th. To be brigadier-generals in the army serving in the Windward and Leeward Caribbee Island station: Col. Crofton Vandeleur of the 46th foot, col. W. C. Hughes of the 87th ditto.

Capt. Henry Samuel Eyre, of the 12th battalion of reserve, to be ma jor in the army.

Brevet-maj. James Murray Grant, on half pay of the 3d foot guards, and major James Brace, on half pay of Goreham's late provincial corps, to be assistant barrack masters general, with the rank of major, so long as they shall continue in that depart

ment.

Lieut.-col. Willoughby Gordon, assistant quarter-master-general in the Southern district, to be deputy barrack-master-general to the forces, vice M. G. Hewgill, resigned.

Col. John Delves Broughton, on half pay of the 106th foot; lieut.col. sir R. T. Wilson, knt. on half pay of Hompesch's mounted riflemen; major Aubrey, on half pay; Charles Miller, esq. late lieutenantcolonel of the 1st West India regiment; Thomas Probyn, late lieut.col. of the 18th foot; John Storey, late lieutenant-col, of the 21st foot; the whole with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the army so long as they are so employed, to be inspecting field officers of yeomanry and volunteer corps.

10th. Right hon. John earl of St. Vincent, &c. sir Philip Stephens, and sir Thomas Trowbridge, barts. James Adams, John Markham, and Wm. Lemon, esqrs. and sir Harry Burrard Neale, bart. appointed commissioners for executing the office of lord high admiral of the united kingdom of Great-Britain. Gg 4

13th

13th. Charles Price, esq. of Spring Grove, Richmond, Surry, created a baronet.

Samuel Lysons, esq. of the Inner Temple, appointed keeper of the rolls and records of the courts of Chancery in the Tower of London, vice Astle, deceased.

20th. Sir Evan Nepean, baronet, sworn of his majesty's most honourable privy council.

21st. Lieut.-colonel John James Barlow, of the 61st foot, to be deputy-inspector-general of the recruiting-service, and second in command at the army depôt in the Isle of Wight, vice Farquhar, deceased.

Major Henry E. Bunbury, assist ant quarter-master-general, to have the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the army, vice Gordon, appointed barrack-master-general.

Captain Henry Darling, from the 68th foot, to be a permanent aisistant in the quarter-master-general's department, with the rank of major in the army. vice Bunbury.

Colonel Walter Cliffe, on half pay of the 9th foot; Colonel S. P. De l'Hoste, on half pay of the late 104th foot; lieut.-colonel James Hare, on the half pay of the 28th light dragoons: major John Cooke, on ditto; Nat. Webb, esq. late major of the 3d battalion of reserve; lieutenantcolonel George Armstrong, on half pay of the late independent companies; Benjamin Williamson, esq. late lieutenant-colonel of the Caithness Highlanders; lieutenant-col. James Robertson, on half pay of the 15th foot; lieutenant-colonel Erskine Fraser, on half pay of the 109th foot; George Callender, esq. late lieutenant-col. of the rifle corps; C. Machelle, esq. late major of the 15th foot; Andrew Corbet, esq. late lieutenant-colonel of the royal

horse guards; W. W. Maxwell, esq. late lieutenant-colonel of the 32d foot; and Major Hugh Maxwell, to be inspecting field officers of yeomanry and volunteer corps, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the army, so long as they shall hold those appointments.

Major Edward B. Frederick, assistant barrack-master-general, to be principal assistant barrack-master general, with the rank of lieutenantcolonel in the army, so long as he shall hold such appointment.

George Dennis, esq. late lieutenant-colonel of the 43d foot, to be an assistant-barrack-master-general, with the rank of major in the army, so long as he shall hold such appointment.

24th. Lieutenant-general William Myers, appointed commander of his majesty's forces serving in the Windward and Leeward Caribbee Station, vice Grinfield, deceased.

25th. Major-general John Stuart, appointed lieutenant-governor of his majesty's island of Grenada.

28th. Hugh Horton, esq. late major of the 85th foot, to be an inspecting field officer of yeomanry and volunteer corps, with temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel.

31st. Rev. Robert Holmes, D. D. appointed dean of the cathedral church of Winchester, vice Ogle, deceased.

Rev. Wm. Howley, M. A. to be a canon of the cathedral church of Christ, in the university of Oxford, vice Holmes, resigned.

Rev. Henry Lewis Hobart, M. A. to be prebendary of the metropolitan church of Canterbuy, vice Storer, deceased.

Mr. Robert Jameson, appointed regius professor of natural history, and keeper of the museum of natu

ral