terbury. The Rev. Dr. Wetherel, to be a Canon of St. Peter, Westminster.

May 2. Adjutant James Webb, of the 8th regiment of foot, to be Deputy-Commissary of the Musters in North-America.

12. His Grace the Duke of Chandos, sworn of his Majesty's Privy Counsel.-The Right Hon. Stephen Earl of Ilchester, to be Comptroller of the Army Accounts. Owen Salusbury Brereton, Esq; to be Constable of the Castle of Flint, and the office of Keeper of the Gaol of the Castle of Flint, and the office of Comptroller of the Records within the counties of Chester and Flint, and the office of Comptroller of the Pleas, Fines, and Amerciaments of North Wales, in the county of Caernarvon; in the room of Other Lewis Windsor, Earl of Plymouth, deceased.

-16. Lieut. Col. William Egerton, to be Lieutenant-Governor of the Islands of Sicily, Vice George Boscawen, deceased.

-31. The Rev. Dr. Fothergill, to be a Canon of Durham.-The Rev. Mr. Henry Bathurst, to be a Canon of Christ-Church, Oxford. --The Rev. Mr. Smallwell, to be a Canon of Christ-Church, Oxford. -Lieutenant-General John Irwine, to be Commander in Chief of al! his Majesty's Land-Forces in IreJand; and also to be Governor of Londonderry and Culmore Fort, in the said kingdom, and a PrivyCounsellor.Beaumont Hotham, Esq; to the honour of Knighthood, and to be one of the Barons of the Exchequer.-John Borlace Warren, Esq; and John Boyd, Esq; to the dignity of Baronets of Great-Britain. William Lee, Esq; late one

of the Sheriffs of this city, to be Alderman of Aldergate Ward.

June 10. Hugh Owen, Esq; Knight of the Shire for the county of Pembroke, to be Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the said county, in the room of Sir William Owen, Bart. who resigned.

-16. Cavin Delane, Esq; to be Serjeant at Arms in Ordinary, to attend his Majesty's Royal Person, with all fees, &c. belonging to the said office.

-30. Lately, the Rev. Mr. Francis Le Breton, to the Deanry of the island of Jersey.--The Rev. Mr. Richard Lucas, to be a Canon of the Metropolitan Church of Canterbury.-Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Bart. to be Lieutenant of the county of Merioneth, and to be Custos Rotulorum of the said county.-James Montgomery, Esq; to be Chief Baron of his Majesty's court of Exchequer, in Scotland.Henry Dundas, Esq; to be his Majesty's Advocate, in Scotland. --Alexander Murray, Esq; to be his Majesty's sole Solicitor, in Scot-> land.-Stamp Brooksbank, Esq; to be one of the Commissioners for the Receipt of his Majesty's Revenue of Excise.

July 11. Col. Hugh Earl Percy, to be Major-General in America only.

13. William Beard, Esq; of the Middle-Temple, to be a Welch Judge.

31. Lately, The Rev. Dr. Montagu North, to be a Prebendary of Windsor. The Rev. Dr. Matthew Lamb, to be a Prebendary of Worcester. Robert Byres, Esq; to be Consul at Memel.-John Wallace, Esq; to be Consul at Bergen.

August

August 5. The Right Hon. Ch. Jenkinson, Esq; to be Clerk of the Pells in Ireland.

All Captains, Lieutenants, and Ensigns, reduced with their corps, at the last peace, and still remaining on half-pay on the English establishment, who desired to be again employed in their present rank, were directed, from the War-oflice, to signify the same to the Secretary at War.

-15. Walter Fletcher Gason, of the second troop of Horse-guards, to be Sub-Brigadier and Cornet.

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31. Lately, the Right Hon. Sir John Elaquiere, to be Aulnager, and Collector of the Subsidies of Aulnager, Ireland. Mariot Arbuthnot, Esq; to be one of the Commissioners for the Naval Affairs in North-America.

September 2. Lieutenant-Colonel. Richard Burton Phillipson, of the first regiment of Dragoons, to be Aid-de-Camp to the King.-Lieutenant-Colonel James Murray, of the third regiment of Foot-Guards, to be Governor of Upnor Castle.

-20. Robert Ainslie, Esq; to be his Majesty's Ambassador to the Ottoman Porte, in the room of John Murray, Esq; deceased.

30. Lately, the Rev. Mr. Carrington, to be a Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral-Daniel Bomeester, to be his Majesty's Consul in Sicily, Malta, and the adjacent islands. John Sharrat, Esq; to be Consul at Carthagena, in Spain. Joseph Curtoys, Esq; to be Consul at Barcelona.

Octob. The Right Hon. Robert Lord Viscount Clare, the Right Hon. Wellbore Ellis, and the Right Hon. Henry Flood, the office or offices of his Majesty's Vice Trea

surer and Receiver-General and Pay-Master General of all his Majesty's Revenues, Profits, and Casualties whatsoever, in the Kingdom of Ireland.-The Right Hon. Edward Lord Clive, to be Recorder of Shrewsbury.--The Rev. Mr. Clarke, to the Deanry of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Tuam, Ireland.— The Rev. Mr. Thurlowe, to the Deanry of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Rochester.

Nov. 7. Lieutenant-Colonel John Douglas, of the second Regiment of Dragoons, to be Aid-de-Camp to the King.-Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Leslie, of the 64th regiment of Foot, to be Aid-dc-Camp to the King.

10. The Right Hon. William Earl of Dartmouth, to be Keeper of the Privy Seal.-The Right Hon. Thomas Viscount Weymouth, to be one of his Ma jety's Principal Secretaries of State. The Right Hon. Lord George Sackville Germaine, to be one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.

-11. Alexander Leith, of Burgh St. Peter, in Norfolk, Esq; a Baronet of Great-Britain. · Henry Etherington, of Kingston upon Hull, Esq; a Baronet of GreatBritain.

17. Right Hon. Thomas Lord Lyttelton, to be of his Majesty's Privy Counsel; and Warden and Chief Justice in Eyre of all his Majesty's Forests, &c. beyond Trent.

18. The Right Hon. the Earl of Ashburnham, to be Groom of the Stole, and First Gentleman of the Bed-chamber to his Majesty.The Right Hon. Thomas Lord Pelham, to be Keeper of the Great Wardrobe.-George Colman, Esq;

to be Serjeant at Arms in Ordinary to his Majesty, and to attend the Speaker of the House of Commons in time of Parliament.

-28. Charles Blagden; Esq; to be Physician; John Mervin Nooth, Esq; Purveyor and Physician Extraordinary;-Field, and Thompson Forster, Surgeons; James JamePaine, Apothecason, and

ries; to the Hospital in North-America.-Col. Charles Rainsford, to be Governor of Chester, vice James Cholmondeley, deceased.

-30. Lately, the Right Hon. the Earl of Galloway, created a Knight of the Thistle.-Sir John Stepney, Bart. to be Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Dresden.-The Rev. Dr. Farmer, Master of Emanuel College, to be Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge.-The Rev. Dr. Buckworth, to be a Canon or Prebendary of Canterbury.George Payne, Esq; to be Keeper of the Lions, in the Tower of London.

Dec. 1. George Hall, Esq; to be Comptroller of his Majesty's Salt Duties, in the room of Francis Burton, Esq;-Francis Bartlama, Esq; to be Clerk of the Wardrobe. -Matthew Lewis, Esq; to be the Deputy of Lord Barrington, Secretary at War, in room of Anthony Chamier Esq;- -The Hon. Mr. Sackville, to be private Secretary to Lord George Sackville Germaine, Secretary of State for the American Department.

-15. The Right Hon. Lieutenant-General Sir John Irvin, created Knight of the Bath.

31. Lately, John St. John, Esq; to be Surveyor-General of all his Majesty's Honours, Castles, Lordships, Manors, &c. in England and Wales.The Right Hen,

DEATH S. 1775.

Jan. 1. The Marquis de Botta d'Adorno, Field Marshal of their Royal and Apostolic Majesties Armies, Imperial Vicar of Italy, &c. at Pavia.

2. Lord St. George, Baron of Hatley St. George, in the kingdom of Ireland, at Nice, in Italy. His Lordship was created Baron of Hatly St. George, on the 19th of April 1763, and married ChrisElizabeth daughter of topher Dominick, Esq; by whom he had issue one son and a daugh ter, the former of whom died in December 1765.

10. Major-General Laurence, in Bruton-street. He was the first officer who introduced military discipline into India, where for 20 years he commanded the Company's troops.

Edward Codrington, Esq; brother to Sir William Codrington, Bart. in the South of France.

11 Mons. le Duc d'Ursell, Knight of the Golden Fleece, Lord' of the Bed-chamber, Lieutenantgeneral, and Governor of Brussels, at Brussels.

The Rev. Richard Webb, A. M. Vicar of Downton, Wilts, and Pre-bendary of Salisbury and Lincoln cathedrals.

19. The Rev. Dr. Powell, Master of St. John's College, in Cambridge, Archdeacon of Colchester,

and

and Rector of Freshwater, in the Isle of Wight.

20. The Hon. Thomas Hervey, second son to the late, and uncle to the present Earl of Bristol, in Old Bond-street, aged 77.

21. Sir John Brown, Bart. at Sunning, near Reading.

26. Dame Mary Jane Buckworth, relict of Sir John Buckworth, Bart. 30. The Hon. Mrs. Bellenden, at Southampton.

Feb. 1. The Hon. Nicholas Herbert, brother to the late, and uncle to the present Earl of Pembroke, member for Wilton in this and several other parliaments, and secretary of the island of Jamaica, at Great Glenham, Suffolk.

2. Cardinal Ferdinand Maria de Rossi, at Rome.

Don Angelo Gabrielle, Prince of Presiedi, at Rome. He has left a sum towards portioning the daughters of the poorest of his vassals.

3. The Right Hon. Lady Viscountess Primrose, at her house in Clarges-street.

4. The Rev. Dr. John Ryder, Archbishop of Tuam, in Ireland, in the 78th year of his age, at Nice, in Italy. He was created Bishop of Killaloe, in 1741; was translated from thence to the see of Down and Connor, in 1743; and from thence to the Archbishopric of Tuam, in 1752.

Sir George Francis Hampson, Bart. of the island of Jamaica.

Lately, the Hon. Archibald Campbell, Esq; eldest son of Lord Stonefield, in France, where he went for the recovery of his health. .

5. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles

square.

Alexander Colden Esq; eldest son to the Honourable LieutenantGovernor Colden, Post-master and Surveyor-General of New-York, at New-York.

18. The Right Hon. William Lord Napier, at Bath.

20. Sir George Oxenden, Bart. at Dean near Wingham, in Kent. Sir George succeeded his brother, Sir Henry, in the title, in 1720; and the title and family estate now descend to his son Sir Henry Oxenden, of Broom, Bart.

21. Edward Denny, Esq; member for Tralee, in the county of Kerry, in Ireland.

22. Capt. John Murray, Lieutenant-Governor of the Garrison at Portsmouth.

Alexander Fraser, Esq; of Strichen, in Scotland, one of the Senators of the College of Justice, and General of the Mint in Scotland, at Strichen House.

23. Lady Christian Bruce, daugh

ter

ter of the late Earl of Kincardine' at Balgonie, in Scotland.

Jean Francois Ogier, Honorary President of the Parliament of Paris, at Paris.

24. The Hon. Charles Nugent, brother to the Earl of Westmeath, in France.

26. The Right Hon. the Countess of Leicester, at her seat at Holkham, in Norfolk.

28. Lately, John Sydenham, Esq; only surviving grandchild of the celebrated Dr. Sydenham.

March 1. Arthur Connell, Esq; late Provost of Glasgow.

4. Dame Elizabeth Twisden, relict to the late and mother to the present Sir Roger Twisden.

5. Richard Barwell, Esq; late High Sheriff of the county of Surry.

6. Wm. Lowndes, Esq; one of the Auditors of his Majesty's Exchequer, in Duke-street, Westmin

ster.

Dunbar Maxwell, Esq; youngest son of the late Sir William Maxwell, of Monreith, Bart. and brother of the Duchess of Gordon, at Edinburgh.

Mrs. Blair, Lady of William Blair, Esq; First Clerk of the PrivyCouncil, at St. James's.

7. The Right Hon. John Earl of Glasgow, at his seat of Kelbourn, in Scotland. His Lordship succeeded his father in 1740. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Lord Ross, by whom he has left issue one son and three daughters.

12. The Rev. Dr. Richardson, late Master of Emanuel College, Cambridge.

The Most Hon. William Henry Kerr, Marquis of Lothian, Knight

of the Thistle, Colonel of the 17th Regiment of Dragoons, and General of his Majesty's Forces, at Bath." His Lordship is succeeded, in titles and estate, by his eldest son, the Earl of Ancram, Lieutenant Colonel of the second troop of Grenadier-Guards.

13. The Right Hon. Sir John Rushout, Bart. a Member of his Majesty's Most Honourable PrivyCouncil, and many years Representative in Parliament for the borough of Evesham, in Bloomsburysquare, aged upwards of 90. He is succeeded in title and estate, by his only son, now Sir John Rushou?, Member in the last and present Parliaments for the same borough. Mrs.Erskine, relict of