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ral curiosities in the university of Edinburgh, vice Walker, deceased. Feb. 4th. Right hon. Henry Welbore, viscount and baron Clifden, of Gowran, co. Kilkenny, Ireland, and baron Mendip, of Mendip, co. Somerset (son and heir of James, late viscount and baron Clifden aforesaid, and grandson of Henry Agar, of Gowran, esq. by Anne his wife, sister of the late right hon. Welbore baron Mendip, deceased) to assume the surname, and bear the arms, of Ellis only.

7th. To be inspecting field-officers of yeomanry and volunteer corps: Lieutenant-col. Thomas Bradford, on half pay of the late Nottingham fencibles; lieutenant-colonel Hugh Baillie, of the late Surrey rangers. To be ditto, with the rank of lieutenant-colonels in the army so long only as they shall continue to be employed: P. J. Taylor, esq. late lieutenant-colonel of the 26th light dragoons; John Sladden, esq. late lieutenant-colonel of the 86th foot; John Gordon, esq. late major of the 38th foot.

8th. Right hon. Nathaniel Bond,in the absence of the right hon. Charles earl of Liverpool, to be president of the committee of privy council appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to trade and foreign plantations.

11th. Thomas Dodd, esq. captain in the royal artillery, to be secretary to the governor of the garrison of Gibraltar, vice Raleigh, resigned.

March 3d. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, esq. appointed (by the prince of Wales) receiver-general of the duchy of Cornwall, vice lord Eliot, deceased.

Rev. James Hunter, minister of Denino, elected professor of logic

and rhetoric in the university of St. Andrew, in Scotland, vice Barron, deceased.

Rev. James Knollis, M.A. appointed historical and classical professor in the royal military college at Great Marlow, Bucks.

William Bolland, esq. admitted and sworn one of the four common" pleaders of the city of London, vice Knowlys, elected common-serjeant, vice Silvester, recorder.

Robert Smirke, esq.elected keeper of the royal academy, vice Wilton, deceased.

Rev. H. Wintour, to a prebendal stall in St. Paul's cathedral.

Rev. William Coxe, M. A. rector of Bemerton, elected a canon residentiary of Salisbury cathedral, vice Cotton, deceased; and the Rev. John Guard, installed prebendary of Slape in that cathedral.

Rev. Robert Gray, M. A. rector of Craike, co. York. collated to a prebendal stall in Durham cathedral.

The Rev. W. L. Bowles, to a prebendal stall in Salisbury cathedral, and the Rev. Charles Elkins, M. A. son of the dean of Salisbury, elected a canon residentiary of that cathedral, all vice Ogle, deceased.

Rev. Mr. Pitchford, to be a minor canon of Durham cathedral:

April 23d. Sir Richard Onslow, bart. Sir Robert Kingsmill, bart. Sir Hyde Parker, knt. Benjamin Caldwell, esq. Hon. William Cornwallis, admirals of the blue, to be admirals of the white.

Thomas Mackenzie, esq. sir Roger Curtis, bart. sir Henry Harvey, K. B. Robert Man, esq. Christopher Holmes Everitt Calmady, esq.

John Bourmaster, esq. sir George Young, knt. John Henry, esq. Richard Rodney Bligh, esq. Alexander Græme, esq. G. Keppel,

esq.

esq. vice-admirals of the red, to be

admirals of the blue.

Isaac Prescott, esq. John Bazely, esq. Thomas Spry, esq. Sir John Orde, bart. William Young, esq. James Gambier, esq. Sir Andrew Mitchell, K. B. Charles ChamberJayne, esq. Peter Rainier, esq. vice-admirals of the white; and Christopher Parker, esq. Philip Patton, esq. Sir Charles Morice Pole, bart. vice-admirals of the blue, to be vice-admirals of the red.

John Brown, esq. John Leigh Douglas, esq. William Swiney, esq. Charles Edmund Nugent, esq. Cha. Powell Hamilton, esq. Edmund Dod, esq. right hon. Horatio VisCount Nelson, K. B. Sir Charles Cotton, bart. vice-admirals of the blue; and John Thomas, esq. James Brine, esq. John Pakenham, esq. Sir Erasmus Gower, knt. John Holloway, esq. rear-admirals of the red, to be vice-admirals of the white.

George Wilson, esq. Sir Charles Henry Knowles, bart. hon. Thomas Pakenham, Robert Deans, esq. Cuthbert Collingwood, esq. James Hawkins Whitshead, esq. Arthur Kempe, esq. Smith Child, esq. right hon. Charles Lord Lecale, Thomas Taylor, esq. Sir John Thomas Duckworth, K.B. Sir Robert Calder, bart. rear-admirals of the red, to be vice-admirals of the blue.

James Richard Dacres, esq. hon. George Cranfield Berkeley, Thomas West, esq. James Douglas, esq. Peter Aplin, esq. Henry Savage, esq. Bartholomew Samuel Rowley, esq. Sir Richard Bikerton, bart. George Bowen, esq. Robert Montague, esq. John Fergusson, esq. Edward Edwards, esq. Sir John Borlase Warren, bart. and K. B. Edward Tyrrel Smith, esq. Sir Thomas Graves, K. B. Thomas Macnamara Russell, esq. Sylverius

Moriarty, esq. Sir Henry Trollope, knt. rear-admirals of the white; and hon. Henry Edwin Stanhope, and Robert Macdouall, esq. rearadmirals of the blue, to be rear-admirals of the red.

Billy Douglas, esq. John Wickey, esq. John Inglis, esq. John Fish, esq. John Knight, esq. Edward Thornbrough, esq. James Kempthorne, esq. Sampson Edwards, esq. Geo. Campbell, esq. Henry Cromwell, esq. Arthur Phillip, esq. sir William George Fairfax, knt. sir James Saumarez, bart. and K. B. rear-admirals of the blue, to be rear-admirals of the white.

Captains Thomas Drury, esq. Albemarle Bertie, esq. right hon. Wm. earl of Northesk, James Vashon, esq. sir William Henry Douglas, bart. Thomas Wells, esq. sir Edw. Pellew, bart. Isaac Coffin, esq. to be rearadmirals of the white.

Captains John Aylmer, esq. Sam. Osborn, esq. Richard Boger, esq. Jonathan Faulknor, esq. John Child Purvis, esq. Theophilus Jones, esq. William Domett, esq. Wm. Wolseley, esq. John Manley, esq. George Murray, esq. John Sutton, esq. Robert Murray, esq, hon. Alex. Forrester Cochrane, sir Thomas Troubridge, bart. K.F. John Markham, esq. Henry D'Esterre Darby, esq. Edward Bowater, esq. George Palmer, esq. Wm. O'Brien Drury, esq. William Essington, esq. sir Thomas Lewis, K. F. and K. M.T. to be rear-admirals of the blue.

George Martin, esq. sir Richard John Strachan, bart. and sir William Sidney Smith, knt. appointed colonels of his majesty's marine forces, vice sir Edward Pellew, bart. Wm. Domett, esq. and sir Thomas Troubridge, bart. appointed flag officers of his majesty's fleet.

May 3. Charles Cameron, esq. appointed

appointed captain-general and governor in chief of the Bahama islands, took the oaths appointed to be taken by the governors of his majesty's plantations.

8th. Rt. hon. sir James Mansfield, kat. appointed lord chief justice of his majesty's court of common pleas, vice lord Alvanley, deceased, sworn of his majesty's most honourable privy council.

12th. Right hon. William Pitt, appointed chancellor and under. treasurer of his majesty's exchequer. Right hon. Edward baron Clive, created baron Powis, of Powis Castle,

co. Montgomery, baron Herbert, of Cherbury, co. Salop, viscount Clive, of Ludlow, co. Salop, and earl of Powis, co. Montgomery.

William Honyman, of Armadale and Greenway, co. Orkney and Linlithgow, esq.; Alexander Penrose Cumming Gordon, of Altyr and Gordonston, co. Elgin, esq.; Richard Joseph Sullivan, of Thames Ditton, co. Surrey, esq.; Henry Mainwaring Mainwaring, of Over Peover, co. Chester, esq.; William Middleton, of Crowfield-hall, co. Suffolk, esq.; David Maxwell, of Cantoness, co. Dumfries, esq.; Drummond Smith, of Tring park, co. Herts, esq. with remainder to Charles Smith, of Sutton, 'co. Essex, esq.; William Fettes, of Whamprey, co. Dumfries, esq.; John Benn Walsh, of Ormathwaite, co. Cumberland, and of Warfield, co. Berks, esq.; and John Lethbridge, of Westawayhouse, and Winkley-court, co. Devon, and of Sandhill park, co. Somerset, esq.; created baronets.

14th. Right hon. George earl of Winchelsea and Nottingham, groom of the stole to his majesty, and the right hon. George Thynne, com

monly called Lord George Thynne, comptroller of his majesty's household, sworn of his majesty's most honourable privy council.-Right hon. Dudley lord Harrowby; and the right hon. John Jefferies earl Camden; sworn two of his majesty's principal secretaries of state.

Rev. Francis Swan, rector of St. Peter's, Lincoln, to a prebendal stall in that cathedral, vice Bromfield, deceased.

Rev. Cæsar Morgan, to a prebendal stall in Ely cathedral, vice Gooch, deceased.

Rev. J. Ellis, to the Barnby-onthe-moor prebend,, in York cathedral, vice Carey, resigned.

15th. Right hon. William Pitt, George Percy, esq. commonly called lord Louvaine, James Edward Harris, esq. commonly called viscount Fitz-Harris, the right hon. Charles Long, and the hon. Henry Wellesley, appointed commissioners for executing the office of treasurer of his majesty's exchequer.

Right hon. Henry viscount Melville, sir Philip Stephens, bart. James Gambier, esq. vice-admiral. of the red, sir Harry Neale, bart. sir John Colpoys, K. B. and admiral of the blue, Philip Patten, esq. vice-admiral of the red, and William Dickinson, jun. esq. appointed commissioners for executing the office of high-admiral of the united kingdom of Great-Britain and Ireland.

15th. Dr. Samuel Foart Simmons, sworn and admitted physician extraordinary to the king.

19th. Isaac Coffin, of the Magdelaine Islands, in the Gulph of St. Lawrence, British North America, esq. rear-admiral of the white, created a baronet.

Right hon. Wm.Dundas, appointed his majesty's secretary at war. Joseph

Joseph Frederick Wallett Des Banes, esq. appointed lieut.-gov. of the island of Prince Edward, in America.

26th. Right hon. Robert Stewart, commonly called viscount Castlereagh; his grace William Henry Cavendish, duke of Portland, K. G. president of his majesty's council; the right hon. Robert Banks, baron Hawkesbury; the right hon. John Jeffries, earl Camden, K. G.; the right hon. Dudley, baron Harrowby, his majesty's three principal secretaries of state; the right hon. Wm. Pitt, chancellor of his majesty's exchequer; the right hon. Sylvester, baron Glenbervie (of that part of the united kingdom called Ireland): the right hon. Thomas Wallace; and Richard French, esq. commonly called viscount Dunlo; appointed his majesty's commissioners for the management of the affairs of India.

Right hon. George Canning, appointed treasurer of his majesty's

navy.

Right hon. Arthur Paget, his majesty's envoy-extraordinary and minister-plenipotentiary at the court of Vienna, appointed one of the knight companions of the most honourable order of the Bath.

29th. Right Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Alexander, bishop of Clonfert, and Kilmacduagh, translated to the bishopric of Killaloe and Kilfenora, vice right Rev. Dr. Charles Lindsay, translated to the bishopric of Kildare.

June 5th. Charles Arbuthnot, esq. appointed his majesty's ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the Sublime Ottoman Porte; Benjamin Garlike, esq. enToy-extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the court of Copenhagen; Charles Stuart, esq. secre.

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tary of embassy to the court of St. Petersburgh; Edward Thornton, esq. secretary of legation to the court of Berlin; Augustus Foster, esq. secretary of legation to the United States of America; and Frederick Lindeman, esq. consul`at Embden.

6th. Right hon. Henry lord Mulgrave, sworn of his majesty's most honourable privy council.

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Right hon. George earl of Dartmouth, appointed (on the 14th of May) lord chamberlain of his majesty's household, took the usual oaths thereupon this day; as did the right hon. George earl of Winchelsea and Nottingham, on being appointed (May 10) groom of the stole to his majesty.

Right hon. Henry lord Mulgrave, sworn chancellor of the duchy and county palatine of Lancaster.

His grace James duke of Montrose, and, in his absence, the right hon. George Rose, appointed this day, president of the committee of council, appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to trade and foreign plantations.

Right hon. Edward earl of Powis, appointed lord-lieutenant of the counties of Salop and Montgomery, took the usual oaths thereupon; as did the right hon. George Talbot, lord Dynevor, on being appointed lord-lieutenant of the county of Carmarthen.

23d. David Rae, of Eskgrove, co. Mid-Lothian, esq.; colonel sir William Clarke, of Crosses Greenhouse, in the city of Cork; Henry Harvey Aston Bruce, of Down-hill, co. Londonderry, clerk; John Lees, of Blackrock, co. Dublin, esq.; Samuel O'Malley, of Rosehill, co. Mayo, esq.; and William Myers, esq. commander of his ma

jesty's

jesty's forces in the Leeward Is lands; created baronets of the united kingdom, with remainder to their lawful heirs-male.

John Silvester, esq. recorder of London, elected steward of the borough of Southwark, vice Fanshaw, deceased.

Rev. J. Palmer, B. D. classical tutor of St. John's college, elected professor of Arabic in the university of Cambridge, and the Rev. Browne Grisdale, appointed chancellor of Carlisle, both vice Carlyle, deceased.

Rev. John White, to be a prebendary of Winchester, and to hold the prebend of Yatminster-Prima, in Dorsetshire, vice Hume, deceased.

Rev. Canon Coxe, to the archdeaconry of Wilts, vice Rev. W. Douglas, M. A. who is to be precentor of Winchester cathedral.

27th. Right hon. William Drummond, and right hon. Charles Arbuthnot, sworn of his majesty's most honourable privy council.

July 3d. Rev. Dr. Christopher Butson, dean of Waterford, promoted to the united bishoprics of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh, vice right Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Alexander, translated to the bishopric of Killaloe and Kilfenora.

11th. Right hon. John Thynne, commonly called lord John Thynne, vice-chamberlain of his majesty's household, sworn of his majesty's most honourable privy council.

Right hon. George Rose, and right hon. lord Charles Henry Somerset, appointed paymaster-gen. of his majesty's forces.

13th. James duke of Montrose, and lord Charles Spencer, appointed postmaster-general.

Hon. Cecil Jenkinson, appointed

his majesty's secretary of legation to the court of Vienna.

19th. Right hon. Granville Leveson Gower, commonly called lord Granville Leveson Gower, sworn of his majesty's most hon. privy council.

Right hon. Granville Leveson Gower, commonly called lord Granville Leveson Gower, appointed embassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the court of St. Petersburgh.

21st. Francis Seymour, marquis of Hertford, appointed master of the horse to his majesty.

28th. Charles Bishop, esq. appointed his majesty's procurator in all causes and matters maritime, foreign, civil, and ecclesiastical, vice Heseltine, deceased.

Rev. Mr. Dawbeny, to the archdeaconry of Sarum, vice Whitworth,

deceased.

Rev. Phineas Pett, principal of St. Mary's-hall, Oxford, appointed archdeacon of Carlisle, vice Paley, resigned.

Rev. Edward Rogers, to a prebendal stall in Salisbury cathedral.

Aug. 1st. Right hon. John Foster, right hon. sir Evan Nepean, bart. chief secretary to the lord lieutenant of Ireland, or the chief secretary to the lord lieutenant for the time being, or, in the absence of the chief secretary, the under secretary for the time being for the civil department of the said chief secretary's office, the right hon. Lodge lord Frankfort, the right hon. John Loftus Loftus, commonly called lord viscount Loftus, and the right hon. Maurice Fitzgerald, appointed commissioners for executing the office of treasurer of his majesty's exchequer in Ireland.

The right hon. John Foster, appointed

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