court of feffion for, the county of Chefter, Montgomery, Flint and Denbigh, in the principality of. Wales, in the room of Taylor White, Efq; deceased-Alfo a like patent, appointing James Fofter, Efq; Chief-Juftice of Ely, to be one of the king's ferjeants at law, in the room of Serjeant Leigh, deceased. Sir Robert Murray Keith, his majesty's Ambaffador at the court of Denmark, to the command of the 47th regiment of foot, in the room of Lieutenant-General Lafcelles, deceased.

May 6. Thomas Bradshaw, Efq; to be one of his majefty's Commiffioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of GreatBritain and Ireland, &c. Rev. Thomas Thurloe, B. D. Mafter of the Temple.--Rev. James Stillingfleet, M. A. Prebend of Worcester.

26. Colonels Lord Adam Gordon, Frederick Haldimand, William Alexander Sorrell, Rich. Lambert, Alex. Maitland, John Pomeroy, Archibald Earl of Eglintoun, Simon Frafer, Hunt Walth, Tho. Defaguliers, George Preston, Guy Carleton, Sir Charles Hotham, Baronet, William Napier, Tho. Townfhend, Robert Clerk, Sir William Draper, Robert Cunninghame, William Howe, John Bradffreet, Lord George Henry Lennox, Henry Campbell, John Hale, Robert Boyd, Henry Clinton, Charles Fitzroy, Bernard Hale, John Burgoyne, to be Major-Generals in the army.As likewife Major-Generals John Gore, James Murray, Geo. Williamfon, Cyrus Trapaud, Sir William Boothby, Baronet, William Keppell, Rich. Pierfon, Benjamin Carpenter, John Owen, Bigoe Armstrong, Edward Harvey, William Earl of ShelVOL, XV.

burne, William Haviland, William Rufane, Hamilton Lambart, John Irwin, Cadwallader Lord Blayney, Charles Vernon, William Ganfell, David Græme, Ed. ward Urmfton, to be LieutenantGenerals in the army. --As likewife Lieutenant-Generals Cuthbert Ellifon, Peregrine Duke of Ancafter, Evelyn Duke of Kingfton, Hugh Vifcount Falmouth, Simon Earl Harcourt, Arthur Earl of Powis, Michael O'brien Dilkes, John Earl of Sandwich, Henry Seymour Conway, James Abercromby, George Earl of Albemarle, Francis Leighton, Lord Robert Manners, John Moftyn, John Earl of Waldegrave, His Royal Highnefs William Duke of Gloucester, to be Generals in the army.

29. Right Hon. Sir George Macartney, a Knight of the Bath.

June 15. Sir George Ofborne, Bart. Stanien Porten and Thomas Mills, Efqrs, Captain Bafil Keith, Captain Peter Parker, and Horatio Mann, Efq; to the honour of knighthood.-Lord Mountftuart, to be Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Glamorgan.

July. Charles Logie, Efq; to be Conful General to the Emperor of Morocco.-Richard Johnston, Efq; of Gilford, in the county of Down, to the dignity of a Baronet of the kingdom of Ireland.-Montague Burgoyne, Efq; to the office of one of the Chamberlains of his Majefty's Exchequer.-John Williams, Efq; Infpector of the Cuftoms in North-America, made a Commiffioner of Cuftoms in the port of Boston, in New England.

Henry Fane, Efq; made Keeper of his majefty's private roads, and Guide to his royal perfon in all progreffes, &c. in the room of [M]

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the late Thomas Whateley, Efq:Thomas Wonder, Efq; appointed Collector of the port of Cork in Ireland, 1000l. a year.

Lately, James Cuffec, Henry Mitchell, Wm Gamball, and Tho. Tifdall, Efqrs, Commiflioners and Overfects of the Barracks of Dublin, in the room of the Earl of Ely, Thomas Adderley, John Magill, and John Monk Mafon, Efqrs.Thomas Adderley, Treafurer to the Barrack-Board, in the room of Henry Mitchell, Efq.

Auguft 12. Right Hon. Allen Lord Bathurst, and his iffue male, the dignity of an Earl of the king dom of Great-Britain, by the title of Earl Bathurst, of Bathurst, in Kent-The Right Hon. Wills Hill, Earl of illborough, in Ireland, and Lord Harwich, Baron of Harwich, in Effy, and to his iffite male, the dignities of Vilcount and Earl of Great-Britain, by the titles of Vilcount Fairford, and Earl of Hillsborough, in the county of Gloucester.

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14. The Right Hon. William Earl of Dartmouth, to be one of his majefty's Principal Secretaries of State. Sir Robert Murray Keith, Knight of the Bath, his majefty's Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the court of Vienna Ralph Woodford, Efq; late his majefty's Refident with the Hanfe towns, to be his majefty's Envoy Extraordinary at the court of Copenliagen. Emanuel Mathias, Efq; to be his majesty's Refident with the Hantetowns, in the room of Ralph Woodford, Efq;--Horace St. Paul, Efq; Secretary to the Embaty at the court of Verfailles.

15. Hon. John Stewart, Fiq; commonly called Lord Garlines, a Commishener of Trade and Plantations.

Aug. 31. "The Right Hon. Will Earl of Dartmouth, firft Lord of Trade and Plantations.

Sept. 19. Charles Cocks, of Dumbleton, in Gloucestershire, Efq; Patrick Blake, of Langham, in Suffolk, Efq; Paulet St. John, of Farley, in Hants, Efq; Sir Robert Wilmot, of Ofmanfton next Derby, in Derbyshire, Knt. Sir James Wright, Knt. his majefty's Refident to the Republic of Ve nice, Lyonel Lyde, of Ayot St. Lawrence, in Herts, Efq; and Egerton Leigh, Efq; his majefty's Attorney-General of South-Carolina,, to the dignity of Baronets of Great Britain.-James Williams, and Francis North, Efqrs, to the office of Receiver-General of all his majesty's revenues within his colony and dominions of Virginia,

Rev. Jofeph Dean Bourke, now Dean of Dromore, to the united Bishopricks of Leighlin and Fernes, Ireland.-Reverend Ralph Walsh, M. A. to the Deanry of Dromore, Ireland."

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-25. To Richard Sutton, Efq; of Norwood-Park, Nottinghamfhire, the dignity of a Baronet of Great-Britain.

30. Francis Willes, Efq; fon to the Bishop of Bath and Wells, one of the Under Secretaries of State in Lord Rochford's department, in the room of Sir Richard Sutton, who has refigned.

October 3. Right Hon. Lord North, Chancellor of the Univerfity of Oxford.

-6 Gilbert Laurie, Efq; LordProvost of Edinburgh.

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9. The Earl of Harcourt, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, in the room of Lord Townthend, and a Privy-Counfellor. Lord Clive, Lord Lieutenant and Cuftos Rotulorum

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lorum of the counties of Salop and Montgomery, in the room of the late Earl Powis.- Lord Viscount Stormont, his majesty's Ambaffador Extraordinary to the court of Versailles.

Oct. 14. His Grace the Duke of Marlborough was chofen Prefident of the Radcliffe Infirmary at Oxford, in the room of the late Earl of Litchfield-Alexander Wood, Efq; to be Commiffary of Stores, and Provifions in the islands of Grenada, in the room of Alexander Cope, Efq; deceafed.-Col.. Blaquier of Hale's dragoons, Secre: tary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, in the room of Sir George Macartney.

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-22 The Right Hon. Henry, Seymour Conway, General of his, majefty's Forces, the office of Go-, vernor and captain of the isle of Jerfy, &c. in the room of the late Earl of Albemarle.-LieutenantGeneralSir Jeffery Amherst, Knight of the Bath, the office of Lieute. nant-General of his majefiy's Ordnance. Major General Charles Fitzroy, of the 14th regiment of dragoons, to be Colonel of the 3d. or king's own regiment of dragoons, in the room of the Earl of Albemarle, deceafed.-LieutenantGeneral Daniel Webb, Colonel of the 14th regiment of dragoons, in the room of Colonel Fitzroy.Lieutenant-General Bigoe Armftrong, of the royal American regiment, to be Colonel of the 8th or the king's regiment of foot, in the room of Lieutenant-General Daniel Webb. - Major-General Frederick Haldiman, to be Colo

nel Commandant of a battalion in the royal American regiment, in the room of Lieutenant General Armstrong.

Oct. 23. John Hawkins, Efq; the honour of Knighthood.

24. George Marth, Efq; to be Comptroller of his majesty's Navy, in the room of Thomas: Hanway, Efq; deceafed.-James Wallace, and Robert Pett, Efqrs, Sir Roger Burgoyne, Bart. Jonas Hanway, Alexander Chorley, Thomas Colby, and William Gordon, Efqrs. to be Coinmiffioners for: victualling his majefty's Navy.Wenfley, Bond, M. A. the Deanry of St. Faghnan, in the diocese of Rofs, in Ireland, void by the death of Dr. Arthur St. George.

28. Sir Sidney Stafford Smythe, Chief Baron of the Ex.. chequer, in the room of Sir ThomasParker, refigned.-James Eyre, Efq; Recorder of London, Puifne Judge in the faid court, and the honour of Knighthood.

31. Richard Stonhewer, Efq;, the office of Auditor of the Revenue of Excife and other duties within England, Wales, and town of Berwick upon Tweed-William Lowndes, Efq; to be a Commiffigner for the management and receipt of his majesty s Revenue of Excife and other duties within England, Wales, and town of Berwick upon Tweed.

Nov. 3. William Courtenay, of Hartley-Row, in the county of Hants, Efq; and John Benton of Christ-Church, in the county of Oxford, Efq; the office of making, writing and engroffing, all writs of fubpoena iffing out of the High Court of Chancery, commonly called the Subpoena-office in Chan cery.

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ceeded in honours and eftate by his fon Lord Henley, knight of the fhire for Hants. In 1757, the great feal being put in commiffion, was given to Mr Henley, as LordKeeper. In 1760, he was created Lord Henley, Baron of Grange. In 1761, having delivered up the great feal, it was again restored to him, with the title of Lord HighChancellor. In 1766, he was created Viscount and Earl of Northington, Lord Lieutenant and Cuftos Rotulorum of the county of Hants. In the fame year he refigned the feals, and was appointed Prefident of the Council, which, in 1767, he refigned.

Her Royal and moft Serene Highnefs the Landgravine of HeffeCaffel, aunt to his prefent majefty. 17. Lady Delves, at TadworthCourt, Surry.

20. Sir William Maynard, Bart. knight of the fhire for Effex."

At York, Lord Viscount Fairfax, of Emely, in the kingdom of Ireland. His lordship dying with out iffue male, the title is extinct. 22. Sir Philip Boteler, Bart. of Tefton, in Kent, aged upwards of

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Marchionefs de Montandre, Lower Brook-ftreet.

Feb. 2. Mrs. Kinchant, at ParkHall, in Shropshire. She was the only daughter of the late Sir Job Charlton, Bart. and aunt to Sir Francis Charlton, Bart.

6. Sir John Aftley, Bart. knight of the fhire for the county of Salop, aged 84 years.

Hon. James Howe, brother to Lord Chedworth, at his feat at Glantoway, in Wales.

8. At Carleton-Houfe, her Royal Highness the Princefs Dow. ager of Wales. Her Royal High

nefs was youngest daughter of Fre derick II. Duke of Saxe-Gotha, born on the 30th of Nov. 1719 N. S. She was married at St. James, on the 27th of April, 1736, to Frederick, late Prince of Wales.

His Excellency Mr. Marhard, late minifter from the court of Heffe, at North-End.

11. Lady of Sir Brownlowe Cuft, Bart.

Alicia Viscountefs Beauchamp, daughter of the late Lord Viscount Windfor.

13. Sir Robert Auften, Bart, at Hazlemore, Surry.

The Lady of Sir Alexander Purvis, at Purvis Hall, near Berwick. 22. Lord Cantelupe, fon to the Earl of Delawar.

Sir Alexander Holborne, Bart. 23. Right Hon. Lord Mande- ! ville, eldest fon of his Grace the Duke of Manchester.

27. Prince Jofeph Wenceslaus de Lichftenftein, grand held-marshal in the fervice of their royal and imperial majefties, at Vienna.

29. Lady of Sir John Trevelyan, Bart. at Nettlecombe, Somersetshire.

March 3. Sir Edward Roughton, Bart. fuddenly, at his feat in Warwick fhire.

6. Hon. Thomas Liddell, Efq; brother to Lord Ravensworth. 7. Sir Roger Twisden, Bart. at Bradborne, in Kent.

The Hon. Thomas Leflie, third fon of John ninth Earl of Rothes and uncle of the prefent Earl.

10. At his palace at Friedenftein, in the 73d year of his age, after a long and painful illness, his Serene Highness Frederic, Duke of Saxe-Gotha, brother to her late Royal Highnefs the Princefs Dowager of Wales.

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