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Cotgrave R. connty of Nottingham, with St. Mary V. in the town of Nottingham.

Aug. 2d. Right hon. William earl of Northesk, K. B. and rearadmiral of the red, in consideration of his distinguished services on various and important occasions, and particularly in the glorious and decisive victory off Cape Trafalgar, permitted by his majesty to bear certain honourable augmentations to his armorial ensigns.

20th. Right hon. Henry Richard Lord Holland, and right hon. William lord Auckland, appointed joint commissioners and plenipotentiaries for arranging and finally settling the several matters in discussion between his majesty's government and the government of the United States, with James Monroe, and William Pinkney, esqrs. the commissioners appointed for similar purposes on the part of the said United States; and the hon. William Frederick Elliot Eden, and John Allen, esq. to be secretary and assistant sccre. tary to the said commission.

27th. Right hon. Henry Richard lord Holland, sworn of his majesty's most honourable privy council.

30th. Nathan Egerton Garrick, esq. appointed lieutenant of the yeomen of the guard, vice Philip John Ducarel, esq. resigned.-Phi. lip Lake Godsal, esq. to be licutenant of the honourable band of gentlemen pensioners, vice Roger Elliot Roberts, resigned.

Sept. 13th. Major-general sir John Stuart, knight, created a knight of the Bath.-Robert Anstruther, esq. appointed conjunct clerk to the bills in the office of his majesty's registers and rolls in Scotland, vice sir Robert Anstruther, bart, deceased.

17th. Stephen Sharp, esq. his majesty's consul general in Russia, knighted.

23d. Major-general sir John Stewart, K. B. permitted to accept the title of Count of Maida, in Calabria, conferred upon him by Ferdinand the Fourth, king of the Two Sicilies.

24th. Right hon. Charles Grey, commonly called lord viscount Howick, appointed one of his majesty's principal secretaries of state, vice Mr. Fox, deceased; and sworn of his majesty's most honourable privy council.

27th. Right honourable Thomas Grenville, appointed first lord commissioner of the admiralty, vice right honourable lord viscount Howick.

30th. Right honourable George Tierney, appointed first commissioner for the management of the affairs of India, vice right hon. Thomas Grenville.

Oct. 6th. The right hon. Charlotte Baroness De Ross, wife of the right honourable Henry Fitzgerald, commonly called lord Henry Fitz gerald, and her issue, authorized, out of respect to the ancient family in which the said barony originated, to assume the surname of De Ross, in addition to that of Fitzgerald, and bear the arms of De Ross, in addition to their paternal arms respectively.

8th. Henry viscount Sidmouth, declared lord president of his ma jesty's most honourable privy council, vice earl Camden, resigned.

10th. William Mackworth Pracd, serjeant at law, sir Charles William Rouse Broughton, bart. Francis Percival Elliot, Richard Dawkins, Charles Moore, John Sargent, John Anstey, John Whishow, Philip Deare, and Lewis Jenkins, esqrs. Kk 2 appointed

appointed commissioners for auditing the public accounts.

11th. Horatio Nelson Thompson, an infant, authorized to assume and use the surname of Nelson only, in compliance with an injunction contained in a codicil annexed to the last will and testament of the late lord viscount Nelson.

Gilbert Blane, of Cleveland-row, M. D. F. R. S. appointed (by the prince of Wales) one of his physicians in ordinary, vice Dr. Turton, deceased; and William Fraser, of Lower Grosvenor-street, M. D. and William Saunders, of Russel-square, M. D. to be his royal highness's physicians extraordinary.

14th. Edward Dawson, esq. appointed standard bearer to his majesty's honourable band of gentlemen pensioners, vice Frederick, resigned.

15th. Right hon. Henry Richard lord Holland, sworn keeper of the privy seal.

Right rev. William Cleaver, D.D. bishop of Bangor, recommended by conge d'elire, to be elected bishop of St. Asaph, vice Dr. Horsley, dcceased. Augusta Murray, (commonly called the right hon. lady Augusta Murray) second daughter of John earl of Dunmore, autho.

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rized, out of respect to her descent, from the family of De Ameland, to take and use the surname of De Ameland, instead of her present surname of Murray.

24th. Right honourable Charles Bathurst, appointed master and worker of the mint.

25th. Rev. John Martin, presented to the church and parish of Kirkaldy, in the presbytery of Kirkaldy, and county of Fife, vice rev. Dr. Thomas Freeling, promoted to the church and parish of lady Yesters, in Edinburgh.

Thomas Francis Fremantle, and William Frankland, esqrs. appointed lords commissioners of the admiralty, vice sir Philip Stephens, and sir Charles Pole, resigned; the former on a pension*, the latter to have a command in the Channel fleet.

29th. Sir George Hilaro Barlow, bart. appointed one of the knights companions of the Order of the Bath.

Sir Philip Francis, invested with the Order of the Bath,

Nov. 4th. Right hon. Alexander Hamilton (commonly called marquis of Douglas and Clydesdale) summoned to the house of peers, by the style and title of baron of Dutton, county

Mr. T. Grenville, first lord of the admiralty, laid before his majesty, at the levee, on Friday, October 24, the resignation of sir Philip Stephens, as a lord of the admiralty, who retires on account of old age. He likewise laid before his majesty a memorial from sir Philip, praying for a pension. It stated that he was a clerk in the Navy Office several years in the reign of George II. from which he was removed, in 1751, to be the senior clerk of the Admiralty; in which situation he tinued till 1759, when he was appointed second secretary, under Mr. Cleveland; and upon his death, in 1763, he was appointed sole secretary, which situation he held twenty years. In 1795 he was made one of the lords commissioners of the Admiralty; and, in the whole, had been employed 61 years in the public service; and, being now 88 years of age, he found himself too infirm to execute the duties of his office with satisfaction to himself. His majesty, under these peculiar circumstances, was pleased to order him a pension of 1500l. per annum net. This is the first instance of a lord of the adiniralty being allowed a pension upon retiring from office.

county of Chester.-Right hon. Archibald earl of Cassilis, created baron Ailsa, of Ailsa, county of Ayr. Right hon. John earl of Breadalbane, created baron Breadalbane, of Taymouth-castle, county of Perth.

7th. Right hon. and rev. William Nelson, D. D. baron Nelson of the Nile, and of Hilborough, county of Norfolk, viscount Merton, and earl Nelson of Trafalgar, and of Merton, county of Surrey, permitted to succeed to the title of duke of Bronte, in the kingdom of Farther Sicily, granted by his Sicilian majesty to his late brother Horatio viscount and baron Nelson, duke of Bronte, &c. &c. deceased.

11th. William Frazer, esq. of Leadclune, county of Inverness, created a baronet; also George Nugent, esq. of Waddesdon, county of Bucks, lieutenant general of his majesty's forces; sir Thomas Boulden Thompson, knight, of Hartsbourne, manor-place, county of Herts, captain in the royal navy, and comptroller of the navy; sir Edward Berry, knight, of Catton, county of Norfolk, captain in the royal navy; James Sibbald, esq. of Sittwood-park, county of Berks, with remainder to his nephew, David Scott, esq. of Dunninald, county of Forfar; and Hugh Bateman, esq. of Hartington hall, county of Derby, with remainders severally to the first of every other son and sons successively, of Catherine Juliana Bateman, eldest daughter of the said Hugh Bateman, esq. and of Anne Amelia Bateman, another of his daughters.

15th. Right hon. Alan lord Gardner, created baron Gardner, of Uttoxeter, county of Stafford.

19th. Right hon. sir Johu An

struther, bart. sworn of his majes-
ty's most honourable privy council.
25th. Dugald, Stewart, esq. ap-
pointed his majesty's writer, printer,
and publisher, of the Edinburgh
Gazette.

Dec. 13th. Right rev. John Ran dolph, D. D. bishop of Oxford, recommended by conge d'elire, to be elected bishop of Bangor, vice Dr. Cleaver, translated to the see of St. Asaph.

James Kempthorn, esq. Samson Edwards, esq. George Campbell, esq. Henry Frankland, esq. Arthur Phillip, esq. sir William George Fairfax, knight, and sir James Saumarez, bart, and K. B. rear admirals of the red, to be vice-admirals of the blue.

20th. Rev. Henry Fitzroy, commonly called lord Henry Fitzroy, M. A. to be a prebendary of the collegiate church of St. Peter Westminster, tice the rev. sir Richard Cope, bart. D. D. deceased.-Rev. Henry William Champneys, M. A. presented to the vicarage of Wel ton, county of York, vice rev. Nicholas Simon, resigned.

Rev. Mr. Ramsden, fellow of Trinity college, Cambridge, appointed, by the bishop of Landaff, his deputy professor of divinity in that university, vice Dr. Barlow Seale, resigned.

Rev. James Landon, B. D. of Oriel college, Oxford, appointed keeper of the statutes, &c. belonging to that university.

Rev. H. Harvey Baber, vice principal of St. Mary-hall, Oxford, appointed extra assistant librarian of the British Museum.

Mr. G. C. Grojan, elected clerk of the court of requests for the city of Westminster, vice his father de. ceased.

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George Cox, B. A. appointed master of New College school, Oxford, vice the rev. John Slatter resigned.

William Elias Taunton, esq. deputy recorder of Oxford, elected recorder thereof, vice the right hon. Charles Abbot, speaker of the house of commons, resigned.

Rev. Mr. Hume, canon-residentiary of Salisbury cathedral, appointed treasurer thereof, vice Dodsworth, deceased.

Rev. John Wooll, master of Midhurst school, elected head master of Rugby school.

Rev. B. Lumley, Dalby R. county of York, vice Thomas Lumley, deceased.

Rev. W. Gilpin, Church-Pulverbach R. county of Salop.

Rev. Robert Porten Beachcroft, M. A. Blunham R. county of Bedford, vice Lawry, deceased.

Rev. George Swayne, vicar of Pucklechurch, county of Gloucester, Dirham R. in the same county. Rev. W. Mavor, LL.D. vicar of Hurley, Berks, Stonesfield R. county of Oxford.

Rev. James Thomas Hand, rector of Cheveley, Ousden R. county of Suffolk, vice Adams, deceased.

Rev. Benjamin Richardson, Eg. ton and Glaisdale perpetual curacies, county of York, vice Robinson deceased.

Rev. J. M. George Lefroy, Compton R. Surrey, with Ashe R. Hants.

Rev. Whitfield Curties, M. A. Burwash R. county of Sussex.

Rev. Thomas Marshall, M. A. Osmotherley V. in the diocese of York.

Rev. Edward Hulton, vicar of Nether Wallop, Hants, Mundesley and Gaywood RR. Norfolk.

Rev. Mr. Boycatt, rector of Wheatacre-Burgh, Beeston St. Andrew R. in the diocese of Norwich. Rev. C. H. Wollaston, M. A. East Dereham V. Norfolk.

Rev. John Luxmoore, D. D. dean of Gloucester, rector of St. George the Martyr, Queen-square, &c. St. Andrew R. on Holborn-hill, vice Barton, deceased.

Rev. John Leigh Bennet, M. A. Lechlade V. county of Gloucester.

Rev. W. Hocken, jun. M. A. rector of St. Mewan, county of Cornwall, Lantagloss by Fowey V. in the same county.

Rev. George Birch, curate of Wybunbury, near Nantwich, in Cheshire, Great Woolstone R. Backs.

Rev. John Dymoke, rector of Scrivelsby, county of Lincoln, Sancte Crucis prebend, in Lincoln cathedral, vice Craster, deceased.

Rev. B. Pope, B. A. appointed chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford.

Rev. J. Vye, B. D. fellow of Exeter college, Oxford, Wotton V. Notts, pro tempore, until the con test between him and the rev. John Lea Heyes, another fellow of that college, in regard to their respective right to the living, is determined by the lord chancellor.

Rev. John Lea Heyes, B. D. Merton V. county of Oxford, vice Hart, resigned.

Rev. Thomas Henry Cave Orme, S. C. L. of Trinity-hall, Cambridge, South Scarle V. near Newark, Notts.

Rev. Thomas Jee, lecturer of Wethersfield, Essex, Thaxted V. in the same county, vice Maynard, deceased.

Rev. Archdeacon Young, of Swaffham, Norfolk, brother to the countess Nelson, presented by earl

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Nelson, to Hilborough R. Norfolk, in the gift of the Nelson family. Rev. John Manby, M. A. Lan. easter V. vice White, dec.

Rev. James Stuart, Mackenzie, M. A. Quiddenham R. Norfolk.

Rev. Evelyn Levett Sutton, Halden R. in Kent. and St. Alphage and St. Mary Northgate R. in Canterbury.

Rev. J. Constantine, Cooke, Swilland V. co. Suffolk.

Rev. David Jones, Kilgerran R. co. Pembroke.

Rev. Charles-Robert Marshall, B. D. Exning V. near Newmarket. Rev. Henry Bate Dudley, chancellor of the cathedral of Ferns, &c. Killglass R. vice Warburton, resigned.

Hon. and Rev. Thomas De Grey, second son of lord Walsingham, Fawley R. Hants, vice Drummond, deceased.

Rev. John Martin Butt, M. A. Oddingley R. co. Worcester, vice Parker, deceased.

Rev. Montague Pennington, M. A. Northborne cum Shoulden V. co. Kent, vice Barker deceased.

Rev. Frederick Valentine Le Grice, Penzance, perpetual curacy, Cornwall, vice Corryngton, re. signed.

Rev. John Norcross, M. A. Sax. thorpe V. co. Norfolk.

Rev. G. Boldero, B. A. Ixworth curacy, co. Norfolk.

Rev. J. Watson, M. A. rector of Mistley, Radwinter V. Essex.

Rev. William Preston, jun. Bulmer R. and Whenby V. co. York. Rev. Wm. Ralfe, Maulden R.

co. Bedford.

Rev. H. Franklin, B. A. Barford R. Norfolk.

Rev. Cooper Willyams, M. A. of Exning, to hold Kingston R. with

Stourmouth R. both co. Kent; the former in the patronage of Samuel Egerton Bridges, esq. of Denton court; and the latter in that of the bishop of Rochester; in exchange for the living of Hardress, to which he had been previously presented by lord chancellor Eldon.

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Rev. Wm. Hett, M. A. prebendary of Lincoln, to hold MavisEnderby R. with Thorpe-on-theHill R. both co. Lincoln.

Rev. W. Scott, to hold Broughton R. co. Oxford, with Willersley R. co. Gloucester.

Rev. T. Welles, D. D. to hold Badgworth living (and the chapel of Shurdington annexed,) with Prest bury V. co. Gloucester.

Rev. John Hughes, M. A. to hold North Tidworth R. co. Wilts, with Fifield R. co. Southampton.

Rev. H. Quartley, M. A. to hold Wicken R. co. Northampton, with Woolverton V. co. Bucks.

DEATHS in the Year 1806.

Jan. 1st. This morning a meet. ing took place, in a piece of ground in the parish of Basford, between ensign Browne, of the 36th foot, and lieut. Butler, of the 83d, on the recruiting service at Nottingham. The parties fired together, by signal, when, unfortunately, ensign Browne was shot through the heart, and instantly expired, without uttering a word. Lieut. Butler and the seconds immediately withdrew. The body of the deceased was taken to Basford church, by some persons who were attracted to the spot by the report of the pistols; and a verdict of wilful murder was returned by the coroner's jury who sat upon it. Ensign Browne was a promising Kk4

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