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Viscounts.

ANSON, Thomas Anson, Viscount. Returns for Litchfield 1 member. *+Arbuthnot, John Arbuthnot, Viscount, lord-lieutenant of Kincardine. Bolingbrooke, George Richard St. John, Viscount. Wootton Bassett, 1 member.

Bulkeley, Thomas Joseph Warren Bulkeley, Viscount. Influences the return of members for Beaumaris and Carnarvonshire.

*+Carleton, Hugh Carleton, Viscount, privy counsellor in Ireland, pension, £2700.

Clifden, Henry Welbore Ellis Agar, Viscount, clerk of the privy council in Ireland, £2161.

Courtenay, William Courtenay, Viscount.

*+Curzon, Asheton Curzon, Viscount. Returns I member for Clitherow. Downe, John Christopher Burton Downay, Viscount.

*Dudley and Ward, William Ward, recorder of Kidderminster, father of John Ward, M.P.

Duncan, Robert Duncan, Viscount. Pension, £2000, and from the Irtsh compensation list, £1083."

+Exmouth, Edward Pellew, Viscount, pension £2000.

*+Falmouth, Edward Boscawen, Viscount, recorder of Christchurch. William Aug. Boscawen, commissioner of salt duties; William Boscawen, commissioner of bankrupts, £300.

Gage, Henry Hall Gage, Viscount,

Gardener, Allen Hyde Gardner, Viscount, pension, £2000.

*Granville, Granville Granville Leveson Gower, Viscount, half-brother of the marquis of Stafford.

*Hampden, Thomas Trevor Hampden, Viscount. Thomas Trevor Trevor, prebend of Chester, a relation to the peer.

Hereford, Henry Devereux, Viscount. Pension to himself and lady, £1200.

+Hood, Henry Hood, Viscount, pension £1700.

*Keith, George Keith Elphinstone, Viscount, secretary and keeper of the signet in Cornwall to the Prince Regent, and comptroller of the household to the duke of Clarence.

*+Lake, Francis Gerard Lake, Viscount, keeper of the bed-chamber, £1000; pension for his father's services, £2000; another, £10,649. Total, £13,649.

*+Maynard, Charles Maynard, Viscount.

*Melbourne, Peniston Lamb, Viscount, lord of the king's bed-chamber, £1000; pension, £1500; father of the hon. George Lamb, M. P. for Westminster, and the hon. J. Lamb, M.P. for Peterborough,

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*Melville, Robert Saunders Dundas, Viscount, first lord of the Admiralty, £5000; lord privy, £3000; register of seisins, £2269. Total, £10,269. See Dundas, List of Places.

*Midleton, George Broderick, Viscount. The archbishop of Cashel, in Ireland, and the hon. John Broderick, a general, are brothers to the earl.

Northland, Thomas Knox, Viscount. Relations, see Knox, in the List of Places.

*Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, secretary of state for the home department, £6000; commissioner for the affairs of India, £1500. The hon. Henry Addington, clerk of the pells, £3000, son of the peer. +Sydney, John Thomas Townsend, Viscount, ranger of St. James's and Hyde parks, £1732.

Torrington, George Byng, Viscount. Pension as late foreign minister, £1084.

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Barons.

ALVANLEY, William Arden, Lord, oaptain in the army.

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Amherst, William Pitt Amherst, Lord, late ambassador to the emperor of China, pension, £3000.

Arden, Charles George Perceval, Lord, half-brother to the earl of Egremont, brother to the late Mr. Perceval. Net salary from different offices, £13,562.

Arundel, Joseph Everard Arundel, Lord: a Roman Catholic.
Ashburton, Richard Barre Dunning, Lord.

Auckland, George Eden, Lord, auditor and director of Greenwich hospital, £100. His father, who died in 1814, had pensions and appointments to the amount of £4200, exclusive of pensions to lady Auckland, of £1296, which she now enjoys.

Audley, George Thicknesse Tuchet, Lord, a pension, £500. *+Bagot, William Bagot, Lord. Returns for Staffordshire, 1 member. The hon. C. Bagot, ambassador to the United States, £6500. +Bayning, Charles Frederick Poulett Townshend, Lord.

†Berwick, Thomas Noel Hill, Lord. The hon. William Hill, the peer's brother, envoy at Sardinia, £5300.

Bolton, William Orde Poulett, Lord, examiner, register, and clerk of the county palatine of Lancaster.

*Boston, Frederick Irby, Lord, lord of the bed-chamber, £1000.ss Braybrooke, Richard Aldworth Neville Griffin, Lord, brother-in-law of the

marquis of Buckingham and lord Grenville; provost marshal in Jamaica, £2100. The duties of this office are discharged by deputy;

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lord Braybrooke's appointment is dated October, 1762, consequently he must have drawn from his sinecure £119,700, principal money. Another account makes the value of this sinecure £5960 per annum. Byron, George Gordon, Lord: abroad. Catherine Gordon Byron, a pension dated October, 1799, £300.

*Calthorpe, George Gough Calthorpe, Lord, joint proprietor of Hindon, and joint proprietor of Bramber.

Carrington, Robert Smith Carrington, Lord, brother to John and R. Smith, M.P.

Carteret, Henry Frederick Carteret, Lord.

Cawdor, John Campbell Cawdor, Lord, son-in-law of the earl of Carlisle. *Churchill, Francis Almoric Spencer, Lord, next brother to the duke of Marlborough, and brother to the duke of Grafton. Ranger of Whichwood forest.

Clifford, Charles Clifford, Lord. A Roman Catholic.

*Clinton, Robert Cotton St. John Trefusis, Lord, colonel in the army. Callington 2 members, and Ashburton 1 member.

*+Colchester, Charles Abbot, Lord, late speaker of the house of Com mons. Pension, £4000; keeper of the signet in Ireland, (sinecure) £1500.

Combermere, Stapleton Cotton, Lord, brother-in-law to the duke of Newcastle.

Crewe, John Crewe, Lord. R. H. Crewe, secretary to the board of Ordnance, £2500, a near relation.

+De Clifford, Edward Southwell, Lord.

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*+De Dunstanville, Francis Basset, Lord, recorder of Penryn. Returns 2 members for Penryn.

Dorchester, Arthur Henry Carleton, Lord: a minor. Lady Dorchester, Guy Carleton, and Thomas Carleton, and the survivors, a pension of £10,000.

Dormer, Charles Dormer, Lord. A Roman Catholic.

*Douglas, Archibald Douglas, Lord, hereditary sheriff of Forfarshire, and brother-in-law to the Duke of Montrose.

Ducie, Thomas Reynolds Moreton, Lord.

Dundas, Thomas Dundas, hard.

*Dynevor, George Talbot de Cardonnel, Lord, lord-lieutenant of Carmarthenshire; brother-in-law to viscount Sydney.

*+Eldon, John Scott, Lord, speaker of the house of Peers. For an account of this bigoted and avaricious Tory, see the List of Places.

Ellenborough, Edward Law, Lord, brother-in-law of lord Castlereagh; 3son of the late chief justice of the king's bench, clerk of the plea side

of the king's bench, with an enormous salary. This upstart lord is reported to have said, this session, the country does not want Philo

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sophers from the loom," nor "Statesmen from the spinning jenny, The country is glad of philosophers and statesmen from any quarter, but it is disgusted with observing men like his lordship condescend to perform the duties of clerks, packers, guagers, storekeepers, winetasters, and searchers, solely for a share of the public spoil.

Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Lord, brother of the earl of Buchan; pension, £4000.

Foley, Thomas Foley, Lord, brother-in-law of the duke of Leinster. **
Forbes, Thomas Foley, Lord, a general in the army.
*Gambier, James Gambier, Lord, admiral of the red.
Glastonbury, James Grenville, Lord.

Grantham, Thomas Phillip Weddell Robinson, Lord, son-in-law of the earl of Enniskillen, and brother to the hon. F. Robinson, treasurer of the navy, £2000. Catherine Gertrude Robinson, a relation, and sister to lord Malmesbury, pension, £600.

Grantley, William Norton, Lord. F. Norton, brother to the peer, baron of the exchequer in Scotland, £2895. J. C. Norton, another brother, a general, and colonel 56th regiment.

*Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Lord, uncle to the marquis of Buckingham, lord Nugent, and Mr. Wynne, M.P. auditor of the exchequer, £4000. Lady Grenville, a pension of £1500 for life, to *** commence on the death of lord Grenville.

Gwydir, Peter Burrell, Lord, brother-in-law to the duchess of Northumberland; great chamberlain of England, £3000. Boston 1 member. *+Harris, George Harris, Lord, a general, and colonel of the 73d regiment. Hawke, Edward Harvey Hawke, Lord.

*+Hill, Rowland Hill, Lord, a general; colonel of the 73d regiment; governor of Hull; and a pension of £2000.

Holland, Henry Richard Vassal Fox, Lord, nephew of the late Mr. Fox. Howard de Waldon, Charles Augustus Ellis, Lord: a minor.

Hutchinson, John Hely Hutchinson, Lord, brother of Lord Donoughinore; a general; a pension of £2000.

*Kenyon, George Kenyon, Lord, 'joint custos brevium in the king's bench, £930. Hon. R. S. Kenyon clerk of the outlawries in the king's bench, £4986.

*+Le Despencer, Thomas Stapleton, Lord, father-in-law of lord Jocelyn. *+Lilford, Thomas Powis, Lord,

Lynedoch, Thomas Graham, Lord, brother-in-law to lord Cathcart; pension, £2000.

Lyttelton, George Folke Lyttelton, Lord.

Manners, Thomas Manners Sutton, Lord, brother to the Archbishop of Canterbury; lord chancellor of Ireland, £12,000.

*Middleton, Henry Willoughby, Lord, high steward of Sutton Coldfield; brother-in-law of the earl of Scarborough. Joint proprietor of the borough of Whitchurch.

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Monson, John George Monson, Lord, nearly related to the earl of Mexon hysborough: a minor. Pension, £2000.

+Montague, Henry James Montague Scott, Lord, brother of the duke of Buccleugh; keeper of Geddington Chase.

Monford, Henry Bromley, Lord. Pension, October, 1800, £600; another, March, 1803, £200.

*+Napier, Francis Napier, Lord, brother-in-law to sir J. B. Warren; commissioner of the general assembly, Scotland, £1000. For a host of pensions, see the Napiers, List of Places.

*+Northwick, John Rushout, Lord, one of Mr. Pitt's new batch of peers, in 1797.

Petre, William Francis Henry Petre, Lord: a Roman Catholic. Thetford, 1 member.

Ponsonby, John Ponsonby, Lord, brother-in-law to earl Grey.

*Prudhoe, Algernon Percy, Lord, second son of the duke of Northumberland; a captain in the navy.

*+Redesdale, John Freeman Mitford, Lord, brother-in-law of the earl of Egremont; a pension of £4000.

*+Ribblesdale, Thomas Lister, Lord, another of Mr. Pitt's peers of 1797. Returns one member for Clithero.

*Rivers, George Pitt, Lord, a lord of the bed-chamber, £1000. Dame Mary Pitt, a pension, dated March, 1805, £600; another, granted August, 1806, £150. Lord Rivers' parliamentary influence: 2 members for Dorsetshire.

+Rodney, George Rodney, Lord. Two pensions, £2923. *+Rolle, John Rolle, Lord, recorder of Torrington.

*+Rous, John Rous, Lord.

*+St. Helens, Alleyne Fitzherbert, Lord, a lord of the bed-chamber, £1000; a pension, as late foreign minister, £2300.

St. John, St. Andrew St. John, Lord.

*Saltoun, Alexander George Fraser, Lord, colonel and captain in the 1st foot guards. C. H. Fraser, a pension of £800; and C. H. Fraser's children, a pension of £500, to commence on the death of their father. Say and Sele, Gregory William Twisselton, Lord, son-in-law to lord Eardley. *Scarsdale, Nathaniel Curzon, Lord, father-in-law to lord Tamworth, son of lord Ferrers.

*+Selsey, Henry John Peachy, Lord, captain in the navy.

Sherborne, James Dutton, Lord.

*Sinclair, Charles St. Clair, Lord: a Scotch peer. Scotsman is synonymous with servility, 15 out of the 16 peers of that slavish country, voted for the new bills. See pensions to the Sinclairs, List of Places.

*Somers, John Somers Cocks, Lord, recorder of Gloucester; high steward of Thetford; and joint proprietor of Ryegate.