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the county of Rofcommon; and, in default of iffue, to his brother, William Sandford, efq.; and, in default of his iflce, to his brother, George Sandford, efq.; Henry Prittie, efq. baron Donally, of Killboy, in the county of Tipperary; John Prefton, efq. baron Tara, of Bellinter, in the county of Meath; Maurice Mahon, efq. baron Hartland, of Strokeftown, in the county of Rofcommon; and John Bingham, efq. baron Clanmorris, of Newbrook, in the county of Mayo.

August 2d. Baron Salvefin, efq, approved by his majefty to be conful for the king of Denmark in Scotland, and in the northern parts of England to Flamborough-Head, conjointly with Thomas Mulderup, esq.

12th. Brevet. Hon. colonel Thomas Maitland, of the 10th WeftIndia regin ent, to be brigadier-general to the forces ferving under the command of lieutenant-general, fir James Pulteney.

13th. Right hon. Richard earl of Shannon, K. P. the right hon. Ifaac Corry, chancellor of his majefty's exchequer, in this kingdom, the right hon. Robert Stewart, commonly called lord vifcount Caftlereagh, keeper of his majefty's fignet, or privy feal, and chief fecretary to the lord lieutenant general, and general-governor of Ireland, the right hon. lord Frankfort, and the right hon. John Loftus Loftus, commonly called lord viscount Loftus, to be commiffioners for executing the office of treasurer of his majefty's exchequer in Ireland. 26th. Right hon. Alexander lord Bridport, K. B. admiral of the white, to be general of his majefty's marine forces; and the right hon. John ear! St. Vincent, to be lieutenantgeneral of the faid forces,

to be clerk of the pipe, and engroffer of the great roll, in the court of exchequer of this kingdom.

30th. Brevet colonel Gerrit Fisher, to be brigadier-general to the forces ferving under the command of lieutenant-general fir James Pulteney. Captain Robert-Alexander Dalzell, to be major in the army.

October 21. John Hookham Frere, efq. to be his majefty's envoy-extraordinary and minifter-pienipotentiary at the court of the prince regent of Portugal.

22d. Dublin Cafile. Lieutenantcolonel Marcus Beresford, to be lieutenant-general of his majefty's ordnance in this kingdom.

Nov. 4th. Sir Richard Carr Glyn, of Gaunts, in the county of Dorfet, knt. late lord mayor of the city of London; Robert King(mill, efq. admiral of the blue fquadron of his majefty's fleet; Robert John Buxton, of Shadwell-lodge, in the county of Norfolk, efq.; William Elford, of Bickham, m the county of Devon, efq. lieutenant-colonel of the South Devon regiment of militia; Nathanael Holland, of Wittenham, in the county of Berks, efq.; Francis Milman, of Levaton, in the county of Devon, M. D. and phyfician to his majefty's houfehold; Robert Peel, of Drayton Manor, in the county of Stafford, and of Bury, in the county of Lancaster, efq.; and Walter Stirling, of Fafkine, in the county of Lancaster, efq. banker of London, created baronets.

25th. Hon. and rev. William Stuart. bifhop of St. David's, tranflated to the archbishoprick of Armagh, in Ireland.

29th. Lord Seaforth took the oaths on being appointed governor

Sept. 10th. Henry Luttreli, efq. of Barbadoes,

Dec.

Dec. 2d. War-office. Brevet Lientenant-colonel John Frafer, com mandant of a corps of infantry, to be colonel in the army.

Charles Fitzgerald, as lord Lecale; admiral Waldegrave, lord Radstock; Sylvefter Douglas, lord Glenlervie: John Toler, lord Norbury ;

Barracks. Lachlan Maclean, to and fir Alan Gardner, lord Gard

be barrack-mafter at Hamilton.

6th. Brevet Colonel Frederick Maitland, to be brigadier-general to the forces ferving in the Leeward Islands only.

9th John Hiley Addington, efq. to be one of the lords commiffioners of the treasury, vice Sylvefter Douglas, created baron Glenbervie, of Kincardine, Ireland, and appointed governor of the Cape of Good Hope; right hon. Charles Sloane lord Cadogan, to be vilcount Chelfea, in the county of Middlefex, and earl Cadogan; right hon. James lord Malmebury, K. B. to be vifcount Fitz-Harris, of Horn-Court, in the county of Southampton, and earl of Malmesbury.

16th. Right rev. William lord bishop of Armagh, and St. George Daly, efq. his majefty's prime ferjeant-at-law, fworn of the privycouncil of Ireland.

20th. Rev. George Murray, commonly called lord George Murray, recommended, by royal fign manual, to be elected bishop of St. David's.

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20th, Right hon. John Toler, to be chief juftice of the court of common pleas of Ireland,

23d. Right hon. John Stewart, to be his majefty's attorney-general in Ireland; and William Smith, efq. to be his majefty's folicitor-general.

Lord vilcount Loftus, John Stewart, elq. attorney-general, and Charles-Henry Coote, efq. worn of the privy-council of Ireland.

Dec. 27th. Dublin-cafle. The Dublin gazette notifies the elevation to the Irish peerage of lord

ner; the marchioness of Buckingham, to be baronefs Nugent, and her fecond fon, lord George Nugent Grenville, to be lord Nugent; Frederick Trench, lord Afhtown; general Eyre Maffey, lord Clarina ; and the hon. Robert King, lord Erris.

29th. The Dublin Gazette announces the following creations: the earl of Inchiquin, to be marquis of Thomond; earl of Bective, marquis of Headfort; earl of Altamont, marquis of Sligo; and earl of Ely, marquis of Ely; vifcount Caftle Stewart, earl of ditto; viscount Donoughmore, earl ditto; vifcount Kenmare, earl of ditto; earl Clanricarde, the title in reverfion to his daughters; lord Glentworth, vifcount Limerick; lord Somerton, archbishop of Cafhel, vifcount Somerton; lord Yelverton, vifcount Avonmore; lord Longueville, vifcount, ditto; lord Bantry, vifccunt ditto; lord Monck, vifcount ditto; lord Kolconnet, viscount Dunbar ; lord Tullamore, vifcount Charleville; and lord Kilwarden, vifcount ditto.

30th. Whitehall. Henry earl of Exeter, advanced to a marquis.

31ft. Dublin. Lord Conyngham, elected a knight of the order of St. Patrick.

Edward Chriftian, efq. barristerat-law, and Downing, profeffor of the laws of England in Cambridge univerfity, appointed, by the bifhop of Ely, chief juftice of his franchife in the Ife of Ely.

Hon. Spencer Perceval, M. A. of Trinity-college, appointed counfellor to the University of Cambridge. DEATHS.

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DEATHS in the Year 1800.

Jan. 3d. Sir William Mulgrave, bart. V. P. R. S. and F. A. S. a truftee of the British Museum, formerly a commiffioner of his majesty's cuftoms, and afterwards an auditor of the public accompts.

6th. Aged 72, the right honourable Wilmott Vaughan, earl of Lifburne, in the kingdom of Ireland. He reprefented his native county of Cardigan near 40 years. 7th. Sir Edward Baynton, bart. aged 90 years.

Henry, 12th lord Roper, of Teynham, born May 3, 1764; fucceeded his father, Henry, 1786; and, dying unmarried, is fucceeded by his only brother.

11th. At Mr. Coke's, at Holkham, in Norfolk, Charles Nevinfon, viscount Andover, eldest son of the earl of Suffolk. He was born May 13, 1775. Returning from fhooting on the 8th, he handed to his fervant his fowling-piece, which went off at the inftant, and the flot penetrated his right fide and lungs. He furvived only three days. His lady was Mr. Coke's daughter.

At Dublin, Dr. William Newcome, archbishop of Armagh. He was of Hertford-college, Oxford, where he took the degrees of M. A. Oa. 19, 1753; B. D. Oa. 30, 1765; and D. D. Nov. 6, 1765. He was in the 71ft year of his age, and had fucceffively filled the fees of Dromore 1766, Offory 1775, and Waterford 1779, till he was advanced to the primacy by earl Fitzwilliam, in January, 1795. He was buried in New College Chapel, Dublin. Dr. Newcome was private tutor to Mr. Fox, when that gentleman was at college. A wound which he at that time accidentally

received in one of his arms foon caufed an amputation to take place. He received the bifhoprick of Waterford during his pupil's adminitration.

22d. In Lombard-street, Mrs. Efther Ellis, daughter of William Fuller, efq. banker*, and wife of Mr. Thomas Ellis, tanner. She has left an only daughter.

Aged 64, after a few days illne!s, the Rev. John Warner, D. D. fon of the rev. Dr. Ferdinando W. (many years rector of Barnes, in Surrey, and author of the "Hiftory of Ireland," &c.) He was of Trinitycollege, Cambridge; B. A. 1753; M. A. 1761; D. D. 1773. For many years he poffefled an unusual degree of popularity as a pleafing, manly, and eloquent preacher, at a chapel, his private property, in Long-acre; (which he fold to the late Dr. King, who had before been chaplain to the Brith factory at St. Petersburgh.) He was prefente in 1771, to the united rectories of Hockliffe and Chalgrave, in Bedfordfhire; and was afterwards prefented, by fir Richard Colt Hoare, bart. to the valuable rec tory of Stourton, Wilts.

At his houfe, at Hampstead, George Steevens, efq. F. R. and A. SS. the celebrated commentator on Shakespeare.

Lady Elizabeth Worfley, widow of the late fir Thomas Worley, bart. in her 69th year.

At Berlin, in his 87th year, count Finkenftein, the oldest of all the ftatefmen in Europe, and Prussian minifter of fate. In 1735, he entered on his diplomatical career, as ambalador to the court of Sweden; from 1740 to 1742, he was at the Danish court; after which, he was fent to the king of England,

See the Chronicle for a fhort account of Mr. Fuller.

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George II. who was then on the banks of the Rhine, on bufinefs of great importance. He was afterwards amnballador at Petersburgh, where he remained a twelvemonth, when he was appointed to the important ftation of minifter of the cabinet, which he held ever fince 1749, full fifty years.

27th. The rev. Dr. John Warren, lord bishop of Bangor. He was of Caius-college, Cambridge, where he proceeded B. A. 1750; M A. 1754; and D. D. 1772. In 1779, he was promoted to the fee of St. David's; from whence, in 1783, he was tranflated to Bangor.

The moft hon. Charlotte Jane Windfor, marchionefs of Bute.

At Gompas, in Hungary, a fhepherd, in the 126th year of his age. His manner of living was extremely fimple; he never ate any meat, but fubfifted entirely on milk, butter, and cheese, and had never been ill in his life.

At Aufburg, baron de Steiger. The reigning prince bishop of Conftance.

At Nice, after twelve days illness of a putrid fever, general Championet, commander of the French republican army of Italy.

At Nancy, Nicolas Guillemin, M. D. formerly profeffor of materia medica and botany in the medical college of that city.

At Bourdeaux, citizen Garat, formerly an advocate there, and afterwards a member of the conftituent national affembly.

At Drefden, in his 77th year, the -Saxon minißer of ftate, Louis de Wurmb.

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Feb. 6th At Cambridge, Robert Glynn Clobery, M. D. fellow of King's-college, 1757; A. B. 1711; A. M. 1745; M. D. 1752; and fel

low of the college of phyficians of London, 1763. He practifed first as a phyfician at Richmond, but afterwards at Cambridge, where he corftantly refided. In 1785, he received the Seatonian prize for the poem on "The Day of Judgement," which, however, was generally believed to be the production of another fellow of the college, not then of ftanding to be a candidate for it. He changed his name to Clobery for an eftate left him by an uncle.

At Hamburgh, in the 85th year of her age, her excellency Sophia Charlotte, countefs dowager of Bentinck, only child of the late count Aldenburgh, and of the princefs of Varel, widow of the late hon. William count Bentinck Rhoon, fecond fon of the firft earl of Portland, and grandmother to the prefent count Bentinck Rhoon, and of governor Bentinck, the latter of whom the has left her heir.

In the city manfion-houfe, in Dawfon-tireet, Dublin, the right hon. John Sutton, lord mayor of that city. He is the 7th magflirate who has died in that office fince the revolution.

10th. In his 57th year, cardinal Altieri. He renounced his dignity while Rome was in the hands of the French; which step he repented publicly, previous to his death, in a printed pamphlet, in which he entreats the pardon of God and the church for his fear of men.

21ft. In her 57th year, after a reign of four years, the princefs abbets of Lindau, baronefs of Ulm.

24th. In her 80th year, Elizabeth Douglas Hamilton, countefs dowager Brooke and of Warwick, eldest daughter of lord Archibald Hamilton, the youngest fon of Anne, duchefs of Hamilton in her own

right,

Berwick; 4. Daines, the fubject at

right, and William Douglas, earl of Selkirk, created duke of Hamilton this article; 5. Samuel, the celein 1661. Lady Archibald Hamilton, her mother, was the daughter of James earl of Abercorn, defcended from Claud Hamilton, youngest fon of James Hamilton, earl of Arran, and duke of Chatelherault. She was, by her own direction, interred in a very private manner in Weftminster-abbey, where her remains have been depofited with thofe of her maternal grandfather and grandmother, in the Ormond vault in Henry the Seventh's chapel.

March 5th. At Pontoile, in France, George Barnewell, vifcount King land, nephew to earl Fauconberg. John Macbride, efq. admiral of

the blue.

Sir Thomas Shirley, bart. many years governor and commander-inchief of the islands of Antigua, St. Chriftopher's, &c. and a general in the army.

brated admiral; 6. Shute, bishop of Durham, &c. He was one of his majefty's counfel learned in the law, and a bencher of the honourable fociety of the Inner Temple; appointed, May 24, 1751, marshal of the high court of admiralty in England, which he refigned in 1753, on being appointed fecretary for the affairs of Greenwich-hofpital; was appointed a Welf judge on the North-Wales circuit, 1757; and afterwards fecond juftice of Chester, which he refigned after 1785, we believe, on a penfion, and, at his death, retained only the place of commiflary-general of the ftores at Gibraltar. Although Mr. B. claimed no high diftinction as a lawyer, he was univerfally allowed to be a profound and judicious antiquary. His first publication, which will always maintain its rank, and has gone through five editions, the author liberally canceling each preceding at his own expenfe, was

The right hon. Jane lady dowager Erne, relict of the late lord Erne. 17th. At Liege, the hon. and" Obfervations on the Statutes, rev. William Afton, prebend of the collegiate church of St. John the Evangelift in that town, and brother to lord Afton, of Forfar. He died in diftrefs from the revolutionary government of that unhappy country.

Hon. Daines Barrington, F. R. and A. S. S. fourth fon of the firft viscount Barrington, fo well known by his "Mifcellanea Sacra," by Anne, his wife, daughter and coheirefs of fir William Daines. John viscount Barrington of the kingdom of Ireland had iffue fix fons, viz. 1. William, his fucceffor in the peerage; 2. Francis, died young; 3. John, a major-general, who reduced Guadaloupe, and was governor of

chiefly the more ancient, from Magna Charta to 21ft James I. c. 27; with an Appendix, being a Propofal for new-modeling the Statutes, 1766," 4to. two editions in one year. He was alfo the author of many valuable papers in the Archæologia, and the Philofophical Tranfactions.

John vifcount Arbuthnot, brd Inverbervic.

Lady Chapman, widow of fir John Chapman, bart.

The rev. John Norbury, fellow of Eton-college. He was the for of a barrifter in Cheshire. He was admitted into King's-college 1744, and took the degrees of A. B. 1746; A. M. 1750; S. T. P. 1784. On

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