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Dec. 1. George Halimand, esq. to PROMOTIONS in the Year 1807.

miss Princess.

2. Major Burrows, to miss Seward.

5. Colonel Coghlan, to miss Broughton.

12. F. Adams, esq. of Clifton, to miss M. S. Manly.

The earl of Craven, to miss Louisa Brunton,

13. E. Jessy, esq. to miss Matilda Morris.

14. Charles March Phillips, esq. to miss H. Ducarel.

17. Rev. George Shepherd, to miss Wetheral, daughter of the dean of Hereford.

Major Stuart to miss Maria Smith. Captain I. Grant, to miss H. P. Nixon, daughter of the late majorgeneral Nixon.

I. II. Harriot, esq. major of the Pembrokeshire militia, to miss F. Jordan of Haverfordwest.

John Eld, esq. to the hon. miss Smythe.

T. Bonar, jun. esq. to lady Gascoigne."

Lieutenant-colonel Lachlan Macguire, to miss E. II. Campbell.

J. Webber Smith, esq. to miss Simeon.

19. I. Spalding, esq. to miss Mary Ann Eden.

22. Major Currey, to miss Anna Maria Tappenden.

28. Sir John Pringle Dalrymple, bart, to miss Mary Rushworth. Captain Atty, to miss Harriet Whichcote.

Charles Frederick Raitt, esq. to miss Louisa Cricketts.

31. Rev: T. G. Clare, to Harriet, youngest daughter of the rev. A. Daniell, of Lifford, Ireland.

Jan. 2. The rev. H. Bishop, M. A. late of St. John's College, Cambridge, to the vicarage of Ardleigh in Essex, vacated by the resignation of the rev. Dr. Kelly.

The rev. John Edgar, M. A. formerly of Jesus College, and one of the domestic chaplains to the prince of Wales, to the rectory of Spexalt in Suffolk.

The rev. N. Simons, M. A. chaplain to the archbishop of Canterbury, to the rectory of St. Margaret's church, in that city, vacated by the resignation of the rev. II. W. Champneys.

9. The rev. John Wooll, master of the school at Midhurst in Sussex, and fellow of New-College, Oxford, to the mastership of Rugby school.

The rev. J. Davis, chaplain to the government chapel at Portsmouth, to the living of King's Langley, in Hertfordshire.

The rev. J. Parker, M. A. to the prebend of Riccall in the cathedral of York, vacant by the death of the rev. John Preston.

The rev. W. Alleyne Barker, of ` Swanington, Norfolk, examiningchaplain to the late bishop of St. David's, to the mastership of Woodbridge grammar school.

10. Gen. Hugh duke of Northumberland, K. G. to be colonel of the royal regiment of horse guards, vice field-marshal the duke of Richmond, deceased.

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13. The rev. Charles Moss, D. D. be bishop of Oxford, vice John late bp. translated to the see of Bangor.

14. Alexander Straton, esq. to

Lieut. col. Mc. Lereth, to miss be envoy extraordinary and minis

Steele, of Bury, Suffolk.

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Wm. Wellesley Pole, esq. to be secretary of embassy at the sublime Ottoman Porte.

17. Charles duke of Norfolk, E. M. to be lord lieut. of the county of Sussex.

23. Rev. R. Dods, M. A. to the rectory of Fleet, in Lincolnshire, on the presentation of his father, vaca. ted by the death of the rev. James Ashley.

Rev. T. E. Rogers, of Trinity, to the rectory of Lackford, in Suffolk, on the presentation of sir C. Kent, bart.

30. Rev. F. Creswell, B. D. senior fellow and tutor of Clare Hall, to the rectory of Wal. dingfield Magna, Suffolk, vacated by the death of the rev. T. Boyce. Rev. John Brooke, M. A. fellow and tutor of Jesus College, to the vicarage of Whittlesford,

Rev. G. Gordon, B. D. precentor of Exeter, and formerly of St. John's, to the vicarage of Horbling, in Lincolnshire.

The rev. Thomas Milnes, late a fellow.commoner of Christ's College, has been instituted to the valuable living of Agnes Burton, with Harpham annexed, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, on the presentation of his father, the rev. Dr. Milnes, of Newark, and vacated by the death of the rev. Dr. Dade.

Feb. 4. Rev. H. K. Bonney, M. A. of Christ's, has been collated by the lord bishop of Lincoln to the prebendal stall of Nassington in that cathedral, vacated by the death of the rev. J. Lodington.

14. Rev. Charles Henry Hall, D. D. to be regius professor of divinity in the university of Oxford, and canon of Christ Church in the said university, properly belonging

to the regius professor of the said university, both vice Dr. John Ran. dolph, bishop of Bangor, resign. ed.

Rev. William Douglas, M. A. appointed prebendary of St. Peter, Westminster, vice rev. Thomas Hughes, resigned,

18. Rev. F. J. H. Wollaston, B. D. Jacksonian professor, and formerly mathematical lecturer of Sidney College, Cambridge, to be master of that college, in the room of the late Dr. Elliston.

March 14. Sir Edmund Stanley, to be recorder of his majesty's court of judicature in Prince of Wales's Island, in the East-Indies.

Right hon. Thomas, earl of Elgin and Kincardine, to be his majesty's lieutenant and sheriff-principal of Fifeshire.

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Francis Kienitz, esq. to be his majesty's consul in the de. chy of Courland.

21. John Paterson, esq. to be treasurer to the governors of the bounty of queen Anne.

25. John earl of Westmorland, K. G. to be keeper of the privy seal.

Right hon. Robert Banks lord Hawkesbury, the right hon. Robert Stewart (commonly called viscount Castlereagh), and the right hon. George Canning, to be his majesty's principal secretaries of state.

26. John Jefferies earl Camden, K. G. to be lord president of the privy council.

Right hon. Spencer Perceval, chancellor and under-treasurer of his majesty's exchequer, and the right hou. Robert Dundas, sworn of the privy council.

Henry carl Bathurst, to be presi. dent of the committee of privy coun

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el appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to trade and to foreign plantations.

28. Archibald Colquhoun, esq. advocate, appointed his majesty's advocate in Scotland.

George earl of Galloway, to be lieutenant and sheriff-principal of the, shire of Wigtown; and Thomas earl of Selkirk, of the stewartry of Kirkcudbright, in Scotland.

30. Right hon. George Rose, in the absence of earl Bathurst, to be president of the committee of privy council appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to trade and foreign plantations.

31. His grace William Henry duke of Portland, K. G. the right hon. Spencer Perceval, William Henry Cavendish Scot Bentinck, esq. (commonly called marquis of Tichfield), the hon. William Eliot, and William Sturges Bourne, esq. to be commissioners for executing the office of treasurer of his majesty's exchequer.

Right hon. Spencer Perceval, to be chancellor and under treasurer of his majesty's exchequer.

Lieut-gen. John earl of Chatham, K. G. appointed master-general of his majesty's ordnance of the united kingdom.

The hon. William Wellesley Pole to be clerk, Mark Singleton, esq. storekeeper, and the hon. Cropley Ashley to be clerk of the deliveries of the ordance of the united kingdom.

Right hon. lieut.-gen. sir James Pulteney, bart. appointed his majesty's secretary at war.

31. William Smyth, esq. of Peter-house College, Cambridge, appointed professor of modern

history in that university, vice Symonds, deceased.

April 1. Right hon. John lord Eldon. sworn lord high chancellor of Great Britain.

His grace Charles duke of Richmond, sworn of the privy council, and declared lieutenant-general and general-governor of that part of the united kingdom called Ireland.

3 Joseph Hunt, esq. to be treasurer of the ordnance.

Rt. hon. William viscount Lowther, created earl of Lonsdale, co. Westmoreland.

His grace James duke of Montrose, K. T. to be master of the horse to his majesty.

Right hon. Henry baron Mula grave; James Gambier, esq. admiral of the blue; sir Richard Bickerton, bart. vice-admiral of the white: William-Johnstone Hope, and Robert Ward, esqrs.; the right hon. Henry-John viscount Palmerston; and James Buller, esq.; appointed his majesty's commissioners for executing the office of high admiral of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the do. minions, islands, and territories thereunto belonging.

Right hon. Robert Dundas; right hon. John Jefferies earl Camden, K. G. president of his majesty's council; right hon. Robert Banks lord Hawkesbury; right hon. Henry Robert Stewart (commonly called viscount Castlereagh); and the right hon. George Canning; his majesty's three principal secretaries of state; his grace William Henry-Cavendish duke of Portland, K. G. first commissioner of his majesty's treasury; right hon. Spencer Perceval, chancellor and under-treasurer of his najesty's exchequer; George Percy, esq. (commocly called lord Lo. Mm 2

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vaine); right hon. John baron Teignmouth; right hon. Thomas Wallace; and George Johnstone, esq.; to be his majesty's commissioners for the management of the affairs of India.

7. Charles Brisbane, esq. captain in the royal navy, knighted by letterspatent under the great seal.

10. Hugh Elliot, esq. to be captain-general and governor-in-chief of the island of Barbadoes, in Ame rica; William Lukin, esq. captaingeneral and governor-in-chief of the island of Dominica; sir James Cockburn, bart. governor and comman der in chief of the island of Cura, çoa; and John Holloway, esq. viceadmiral of the red, governor and commander-in-chief of the island of Newfoundland.

11. Right hon. Charles William Montagu Scott (commonly called earl of Dalkeith), summoned to the house of peers, by the style and ti tle of baron Tynedale, of Tynedale, co. Northumberland; and the right hon. George Gordon (commonly cal led marquis of Huntley) by the style and title of baron Gordon of Huntley, co. Gloucester.

His grace Alexander duke of Gordon. K. T. to be keeper of the great seal of Scotland.

Right hon: George Rose, to be treasurer of his majesty's navy.

11. Right hon. Granville Leveson Gower (commonly called lord Gran ville Leveson Gower), to be his ma. jesty's ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary at the court of St. Petersburg.

14. Sir Thomas Manners Sutton, knt, one of the barons of his majesty's court of exchequer, created ba. ron Manners of Foston, co. Lincoln.

15. The earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, K. G. appointed his

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majesty's plenipotentiary at the court of Vienna.

Thomas Plomer, esq. his majes. ty's solicitor-general, knighted

16. Admiral lord Collingwood, and his descendants, permitted to bear, in commemoration of the glo. rious victory off Cape Trafalgar, in which his lordship was second in command, the following honourable augmentation to the arms of the family of Collingwood, viz. A chief wavy; thereon a lion passant guardant and navally crowned, with the word Trafalgar and also, in addition to the family crest, the crest following, viz. The stern of a man of war, representing that of the Royal Sovereign (being the ship which bore his lordship's flag in the said brilliant action), between a branch of laurel and a branch of oak.

22. Jonathan Miles, esq. and James Branscomb, esq. knighted.

23. Right hon. sir Arthur Paget, K. B. to be his majesty's plenipotentiary at the Sublime Porte.

25. Right hon Francis lord Napier, to be his majesty's high commission. er to the general assembly of the church of Scotland.

May 9. David Boyle, esq. adro. cate, to be his majesty's solicitor-ge neral in Scotland.

13. Jonah Barrington, esq. LL.D. judge of the high court of admiralty in Ireland, knighted.

23. Right hon. George earl of Crawford, to be lieutenant and sheriff principal of Fifeshire.

30. Right rev. Dr. John Fisher, bishop of Exeter, translated to the see of Salisbury, vice Douglas, dec.

June 1. Right hon. J. Hook ham Frere, to be his majesty's envoy extraordinary and minister plenipo tentiary to the court of Prussia; and George Jackson, esq. to be his majesty

majesty's secretary of legation at to be lord lieutenant of the East Ri

that court.

27. Hon. William Wellesley Pole, appointed by the lords commissioners of the admiralty, their first secretary, vice William Marsden, esq. retired.

July 11. Right rev. Dr. George Pelham, bishop of Bristol, transla. ted to the see of Exeter, vice Dr. Fisher, promoted to that of Salisbary.

21. Hon. Cropley Ashley Cooper, to be clerk of the ordnance of the united kingdom; and Thomas Thoroton, esq. clerk of deliveries of the

ordnance.

Aug. 4. Rev. Edward Christo. pher Dowdeswell, D.D. and rector of Standford-Rivers, co. Essex, to the rectory of Langham, in the said County, void by the translation of Dr. Fisher, bishup of Exeter, to the see of Salisbury.

11. Right hon. James earl of Malmesbury, K. B. to be lord-lieutenant of the county of Southampton, and of the town of Southampton and county of the same; and James Edward Harris, esq. (commonly called viscount Fitz-Harris), to be go. vernor and captain of the Isle of Wight, and governor of Carisbrook rastle, in the said isle, all vice lord Bo'ton, dec.

15. Rev. John Luxmore, D. D. can of Gloucester, recommended, by congé d'énre, to be elected bishop Bristol, vice bp. Pelham, translaed to the see of Exeter.

19. Lieut.-gen. sir James Henry raig, K. B. to be captain. general nd governor-in-chief of the pronces of Upper and Lower Canada, Sova Scotia, New Brunswick, and he islands of Prince Edward and ape Breton.

Right hon. Henry lord Mulgrave,

ding of the county of York.

22. Harford Jones, esq. of Boul. tibrooke, co. Hereford, created a baronet.

Sept. 5. Sir John Stuart, bart. to be one of the barous of his majesty's court of Exchequer in Scotland, vice sir John Dalrymple, bart. resigned..

15. His grace William Henry Cavendish, duke of Portland, K. G. the right hon. Spencer Perce val; the right hon. John Foster, chancellor of his majesty's exchequer of Ireland; the hon. William Eliot; William Sturges Bourne, esq.; and the hon. Richard Ryder, appointed commissioners for execu ting the office of treasurer of his majesty's exchequer.

15. A. M. Holdsworth, esq. to be governor of Dartmouth castle, vice Arthur Holdsworth, esq. dec.

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16. George Collier, captain in the royal navy, knighted.

22. Gen. Gerard lord Lake, to be governor of Plymouth, vice the earl of Chatham, promoted to the government of Jersey, vice mar. quis Townshend, dec.

Lieut. gen. William Loftus, of the 24th light dragoons, to be go. vernor of Dumbarton, vice lord Lake.

Oct. 2. Captains John Hunter, esq.; Francis Pender, esq.; William Albany Otway, esq.; George Lumsdaine, esq.; sir Samuel Hood, K. B.; Henry Nichols, esq. Herbert Sawyer, esq.; Davidge Gould, esq.; and Richard Goodwin Keats, esq.; to be rear-admirals of the blue squadron of his majesty's fleet.

3. Joseph-Charles Mellish, esq. to be his majesty's secretary of legation at the court of his Sicilian majesty.

6. William Lechmere and Thomas M m 3 Foley,

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