blue; John Carter Allen, efq. fr Charles Middleton, bart. fir John Laforey, bart. and John Dalrymple, efq. rear admirals of the red, to be vice admirals of the white.

Herbert Sawyer, efq. fir Richard King, bart. and Jonathan Faulkner, efq. rear admirals of the red; Philip Affleck, eiq. fir J. Jervis, K. B. Adam Duncan, Richard Braithwaite, and Philips Cofby, efqrs. rear admirals of the white, to be vice admirals of the blue.

Feb. 15 Lord chief baron Macdonald to be a privy counsellor.

Lord Charles Fitzgerald, Arthur viscount Gosford, and William Forward, efgrs. to be privy counsellors of Ireland.

Rev. Folliot Herbert Walker Cornwall to be dean of Canterbury. Rev. John Luxuriore, M. A. to be prebendary of Canterbury.

Rev. John Prettyinan to the archdeaconry and precentorship of Lincoln cathedral.

Rev. doctor Ifham to be warden of All Souls college, Oxford.

March 1. William duke of Manchefter to be lord lieutenant of the county of Huntingdon.

Sir John Temple, bart. to be his majefty's conful general in the Eaftern ftates of America.

Thomas Fitzherbert, Samuel Cornish, John Brisbane, Charles Wolfeley, and Samuel Cranston Goodall, efqrs. Hon. Keith Stewart, and William Henry duke of Clarence, tear admirals of the blue, to be rear admirals of the red.

Captains, Richard Onflow, Robert Kingfimill, fir George Collier, .knt. George Bowyer, fir Hyde Parker, knt. Rowland Cotton, Benjamin Caldwell, and the hon. William Cornwallis, to be rear admi rals of the white.

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Captains, William Allen, John Macbride, G. Vandeput, Charles Buckner, John Gell, William Dixon, and Alan Gardner, to be rear admirals of the blue.

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George Murray and Robert Linzee, efqrs. and fir James Wallace, knt. to be colonels of marines.

Thomas Coxhead, efq. of Epping, to be a knight.

Robert Graham, Sylvefter Douglas, Thomas Plumer, and William Garrow, efqrs. to be king's counfel.

William Grant, efq. to take precedence next to Mr. Graham, and John Anftruther, efq. next to Mr. Plumer.

His royal highnefs prince William to be captain of a company in the first regiment of foot-guards.

Lord Mulgrave to be colonel of 31ft reg. of font.

Lord chief baron Eyre to be chief juftice of the common pleas. Sir Archibald Macdonald, knt. to be a ferjeant at law.

Sir J. Scott, kut. to be attorneygeneral.

John Mitford, efq. to be folicit-or general.

Giles Rooke, ferjeant at law, to be king's ferjeant at law.

Sir Archibald Macdonald, knt. to be chief baron of the exchequer.

Francis Ford, of Ember-court, efq. to be a baronet.

John duke of Athol to be governor in chief and captain-general of the Ifle of Man, and lieutenant of the fame.

Phineas Bond, efq. to be his ma. jefty conful general in the middle and fouthern states of America.

John lord viscount Mount Stuart to be lord lieutenant of the county of Glamorgan.

The honour of knighthood on John Dryden, of Canon's Ashby, F

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in the county of Northampton, efq. and on John Henflow, efq. furveyor of his majefty's navy.

R. Oiborne, efq. to be recorder of Hull.

Colonel Woodford to be lieutenant colonel of the duke of Gor don's regiment of light dragoons.

Bruce Bofwell, efq. late com mander of the earl of Chesterfield Eaft Indiaman, to be marine paymafler and naval ftore keeper at Bengal.

The rev. Dr. Gregory to a prebend in the cathedral of St. Paul.

Dr. Thomas Gitborne, and Dr. William Heberden, jun. to be her majefty's phyficians in extra.

April 12. The duke of York to be a general in the army.

The hon. and rev. Mr. Stuart to be canon of Chrift-church.

The dignity of a baron of the kingdom of Great Britain, to the right hon. William lord Auckland of the kingdom of Ireland.

Francis Baring, efq. of London, merchant, to the dignity of a baronet of Great-Britain.

John Smith Burges, efq. of Eaftham, in Effex, to the dignity of a baronet of Great-Britain.

The dignity of an earl and marquis of Great Britain, to the right hon. Francis Seymour Conway, earl of Hertford, K. G. and his heirs male, by the names, ftiles, and titles of earl of Yarmouth, and marquis of Hertford.

The dignity of an earl of GreatBritain to the right hon. Henry lord Portchefter, and his heirs male, by the name, file, and title of earl of Carnarvon.

The most noble James marquis of Salisbury, the right hon. Frederick earl of Carlifle, and his excellency John earl of Weftmorland, to be

knights of the order of the garter.

His grace James duke of Montrofe to be a knight of the order of the thriftle.

The right hon. Henry Dundas, one of his majefty's principal fecretaries of ftate, the right hon. William Wyndham baron Grenville, one other of his majesty's principal fecretaries of ftate, the right hon. William Pitt, chancellor of his majesty's exchequer, his grace James duke of Montrose, Knight of the most ancient order of the thistle, the right hon. Richard earl of Mornington of the kingdom of Ireland, the right hon. Robert Grofvenor (commonly called vifcount Belgrave), the hon. Henry Bathurst (commonly called lord Apfley), the hon. Edward James Eliot, and the hon. Robert Banks Jenkinfon, to be his majesty's commiflioners for the affairs of India.

The right hon. Richard earl of Mornington, the right hon. Henry lord Aptley, the right hon. Robert vifcount Belgrave, the right hon. John Jefferies viscount Bayham, and the right hon. James George vifcount Stopford, treasurer of his majefty's household, to be of his majefty's moft honourable privy council.

May 1. Robert Hobart to be one of his majefty's privy council.

The hon. John Thomas Townfhend to be one of the commiffion. ers for executing the office of treafurer of his majefty's exchequer.

His grace the duke of Beaufort to be one of the Radcliffe trustees at Oxford, in the room of the late earl of Guildford.

Dr. Battine, of the commons, to be chancellor of Lincoln. The rev. John Prettyman, prebendary

bendary of Norwich, to be precentor and archdeacon of Lincoln. Right hon. lieut.-general Robert Cunninghame to be commander in chief of the army in Ireland.

Capt. Murray, of the guards, to be aid-du-camp to the Hanoverian general.

Philip Affleck, efq. to be a commillioner of the Admiralty.

William Harry earl of Darlington to be lord lieutenant of Durham.

The right hon. Henry Dundas to be cuftos rotulorum for Middle.fex.

June 29. George Poyntz Ricketts, efq. to be captain-general and governor in chief of the island of Tobago.

Jens Wolff, efq. to be joint conful with his father George Wolff, efq. for the king of Denmark, at the court of Great Britain.

Lawrence Hanfen, efq. to be his Danish majesty's conful at Liverpool.

July 5. John Anftruther, of Lincoln's-inn, efq. to be his majefty's juftice of the counties of Carnarvon, Merioneth, and Anglefea.

William Grant, of Lincoln's-inn, efq. to be one of his majefly's juftices of Carmarthen, Pembroke, and Cardiganfhires.

Aug. 1. Lord Henry John Spencer to be his majefty's envoy extraordinary to the court of Stockholm. Francis Drake, efq. to be his majesty's minifter plenipotentiary to the republic of Genoa.

The hon. William Eliot to be his majesty's fecretary of embatty to the ftates-general of the United Provinces, and minifter plenipotentiary in the abfence of his majef ty's ambaffador.

George Henry Rofe, efq. to be

his majesty's fecretary of legation to the court of Berlin.

James Crauford, efq. to be his majefty's fecretary of legation to the court of Copenhagen.

Arthur Young, efq. to be fecretary to the new board of agriculture established by government, with a liberal salary.

John Bruce, efq. to be hiftoriographer to the Eaft India company.

The dignity of a baron of Ireland unto the right hon. John O'Neill, and his heirs male, by the ftile and title of baron O'Neill, of Shane's cattle...

September 26. The most honourable order of the Bath on Charles Whitworth, efq. his majesty's envoy extraordinary and minifter plenipotentiary at the court of Peterfburgh..

George Harward, efq to be his majetty's conful in the feveral ports of Oftend, Nieuport, and Bruges.

Dr. Samuel Horfley, bishop of St. David's, to be bishop of Rochester. Dr. Samuel Horfley, bishop of St. David's, to the deanery of St. Peter, Westminster.

To the rank of Field-Marshal. Oct. 18. Gen Conway, the duke of Gloucester, and fir G. Howard.

nard Hale, Francis Craig, duke of Northumberland, William Taylor, and marquis of Cornwallis.

To be Licutenant-Generals. Major-generals fir Thomas Shirley, Jofeph Broome, Patrick Tonyn, Gabriel Chriftie, John Reid, Chas. Rofs, fir William Green, George Scott, Charles O'Hara, hon. William Harcourt, earl of Carhampton, William Dalrymple, William Picton, fir Hector Munro, K. B. Robert Sandford, L. A. Tottenham, William Rowley, Henry Trelawny, Peter Bathurst, hon. Wm. Gordon, John Manfell, Stuart Douglafs, Robert Prefcot, hon. Edward Stopford, hon. William Hervey, Weft Hyde, J. Fletcher Campbell, Francis Lafcelles, James Murray, Sam. Townfend, fir William Medows, K. B. Thomas Ofbert Mordaunt.

To be Major-Generals.

Colonels John Lind, William Shirreff, William Grinfield, Samuel Halfe, Albemarle Bertie, Charles Vallaucy, Thomas Pigot, J. T. De Burgh, fir James Steuart, Thomas Carleton, James Marth, Cavendish Lifter, Charles Leigh, James Ogil vie, William Roberts, Robert Kingston, fir Robert Laurie, John Tupper, William Martin, John Archer, William Edmefton, David Home, Hugh Debbeig, Montgomery Agnew, Thomas Jones, Stephen Kemble, James Stewart earl of Balcarras, hon. Charles Stuart, Cornelius Cuyler, Thomas Dundas, earl of Harrington, Rich. Fitzpatrick, Netbit Balfour, Edmund Stevens, Thomas Trigge, earl of Moira, Peter Craig, Benjamin Stehelin, and Edmund Fanning.

commiffions are dated before 1783, to be colonels.

All the majors in the army, down to the fame date, to be lieutenantcolonels.

Captains Lyons and Grey to be majors; and lieut.-colonel Francis Dundas, aid-du-camp to the king, which gives him the rank of colonel.

Lieut.-colonels Wm. Morfhead, Francis Dundas, and Hamilton Maxwell, to be aid-du-camps to his majefty.

Major Peter Painter, Wm. Varlo, George Elliott, Benj. Adair, and Duncan Campbell, of the marines, to be lieut.-colonels.

Sir John Peters, late conful at Oftend, to be one of the pay-mafters of exchequer bills.

Nov. 13. Serjeant Rooke to be a knight, and one of his majesty's juftices in the court of common pleas.

The rev. Robert Fowler, A. M. fon of his grace the lord archbishop of Dublin, to the deanery of St. Patrick, Dublin.

The rev. John Warren to the deanery of Bangor.

The rev. John Willes, D. D. warden of Wadham college, to be (a fecond time) vice-chancellor of Oxford, and the rev. doctors Samuel Dennis, prefident of St. John's, Jofeph Chapman, prefident of Trinity, and Scrope Berdmore, warden of Merton college, to be pro-vice-chancellors.

The rev. Wm. Colman, D. D. maiter of Bene't, to be vice-chancellor of Cambridge.

The rev. Wm. Probyn, M. A. to the chancellor's ftall in the cathedral of St. David's.

The rev. Wm. Crawford, M. A. to the archdeaconry of Carmar

Jan. 15. At Munich, in Bavaria, Hugh lord Clifford, of Chudleigh; born in 1756; and married, in 1780, to Apollonia, daughter of the late lord Langdale. The barony and eftates defcend to his lordship's brother, Charles. He had been, for the latter years of his life, a fufferer by many disorders, chiefly the gout. His long refidence abroad, and the adherence of the family to the Catholic perfuafion, by which they are kept from parliament, have prevented their being much known, but their estates are very ample.

19th. At Florence, Thomas Pitt, lord Camelford, baron Boconnock, in the county of Cornwall, born March 3, 1737; married July 19, 1774, Anne, daughter and coheiress of Pinkney Wilkinson, efq. of Burnham, in the county of Norfolk.

At Lincoln, in his fixty-eighth year, the rev. John Gordon, D. D. F. S. A. precentor and archdeacon of Lincoln, and rector of Henttead, in Suffolk. He was of Emanuel college, Cambridge, where he took the degrees of A. B. 1748, and A, M. 1752, and afterwards D. D.

1765, at Peterhoufe. He was born at Whitworth, in Durham, and was elected fellow of Emanuel col-lege April 26, 1751. He was the author of a "New Eftimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times," three parts; "Occafional Thoughts on the Study of Claffical Authors," 1762, and two fermons preached at Cambridge.

At Millecent, in the county of Kildare, Ireland, Mrs. Griffith, relict of the late Richard Griffith, efq. Mrs. Griffith was the author of feveral dramatic pieces, and fome fuccefsful novels; and joint author with her husband of the "Letters of Henry and Frances." She alfo wrote "The Morality of Shakefpeare," and tranflated fome works from the French. In the early part of her life, we are informed, the attempted the ftage in Ireland, and in the year 1753-54, at Corent Garden, where, on the 10th of December, 1753, fhe performed Clarinda in the Sufpicious Hufband, and in a new tragedy called Philoclea.

March 3d. At Luxemburgh, in his fifty-eighth year, the reigning prince of Anhalt Zerbft, brother to the empress of Ruffia, and a general in the Auftrian fervice. Having left no children, the branch of Zerbst finishes with him, and his eftates and feudal poffeflions pafs to the other branches of the house of Anhalt.

18th. At his house in Winchester, Thomas Woods Knollis earl of Banbury, vifcount Wallingford, Baron Knollis of Greys. His lordfhip's titles thus originated:-In the firft year of king James the first, his ancettor William (fon to fir Francis Knollis, K. G. and treasurer to queen Elizabeth) was created F 3 baron