ports of the Auftrian dominions on the Adriatic fea.

10. Roger Moftyn, Clerk, A. M. to the place and dignity of a Prebendary of his Majesty's free chapel of St. George in the cattle of Windfor, void by the death of Doctor John Fofter, late one of the Prebendaries thereof. - Rev. Mr. Payne, Canon Refidentiary of the Cathedral of Wells.

O&t. i. The Rev. John Thomas, Doctor of Laws, and Dean of Weftminster, to the Bishoprick of Rochefter, in the room of Dr. Zachary Pearce, deceased.

20. Philip Jennings Clerke, of Duddleftone Hall, in the county of Salop, Efq. to the dignity of a Baronet of Great Britain.

22. Clement Richardfon, Efq. to be his Majefty's Conful at Cagliari in Sardinia.

-24. John Ives the Younger, Efq; a Herald at Arms Extraordinary, by the name and title of Suffolk Herald.-John Jenkinson, Efq. to be Gentleman Ufher to her Majefty, in the room of Sir James Calder, deceased. John Gowflade, Efq. fucceeds Mr. Jenkinson, as Gentleman Ufher Daily Waiter. John S Efq. fucceeds Mr. Cowflade,us of his Gentleman Ufher Quarterly Waiter.

29. The dignity of a Baronet of Great Britain unto the following gentlemen, viz. Sir Clifton Wintringham, Knt. of Dover-freet, in the parish of St. George, Hanover-fquare, and to his heirs male, and in default thereof, to Jarvis Clifton, Efq. fecond fon of Sir Jarvis Clifton, Bart. of Clifton, in the county of Nottingham;-- John Duntze, of Tiverton, in the county of Devon, Efq; And, William Pepperrell, of Bofton, in the

province of Massachusett in America, Efq.

Nov. 1. To George Harrison, Efq; the office of Windfor Herald of Arms, vacant by the death of Henry Hill, Efq.

8. Right Rev. Dr. Thomas, Bishop of Rochefter, to the Deanery of Westminster. The Right Hon. Sir George Macartney, to be Conftable and Commander of Fort Toome, in the county of Antrim, in Ireland.-George Chamberlayn, Efq; Secretary to the Tax Office, in the room of Auftin Leigh, Efq; deceased. Edward Naigh, Efq. to be Affiftant Secretary, in the room of Hugh Owen, Efq.George James Williams, Efq; to be Receiver General of the Excise, in the room of Sir William Milner, Bart. deceased.

10. Richard Browne, Doctor in Divinity, the office of Hebrew Profeffor, in the university of Oxford, with the Prebend of Chrift Church thereunto annexed, the fame being void by the death of Dr. Thomas Hunt.- Wadsworth Bufk, Efq. the office and place of his majefty's Attorney-General in the Ifle of Man.

22. Thomas Earl of Weftmeath, Richard Earl of Shannon, Binfey Earl of Lanesborough, Charles Earl of Bellamont, Lieut. General George Auguftus Elliot, Commander in Chief of his Majetty's land forces in Ireland, Charles Dillon, Efq; Henry Flood, Efq. of the county of Kilkenny, to be Privy Counsellors in Ireland.-Henry Hamilton, of Manor Cunningham, in the county of Donegal, Efq; John Allen Johnstone, of the county of Dublin, Efq; and Francis Lumm of Lumville, in the King's county, Efq. and to their

heirs male, the dignity of Baronets of the kingdom of Ireland.Godfrey Lill, Efq; (late his Majefty's Solicitor-General) to be one of the Juftices of his Majefty's court of Common Pleas in Ireland, in the room of Edmund Malone, Efq; deceased.-John Scott, Efq; (late Counsel to the Commiffioners of his Majefty's revenue, and one of his Majefty's Coun el learned in the law) to be his Majefty's Solicitor General in Ireland, in the room of the faid Godfrey Lill, Efq. - 26. James Earl of Courtown, to be of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council in Ireland.The Right Hon. Lord North, to be Recorder of the borough and town of Taunton, in the county of Somerfet, in the room of the Earl of Thomond, deceased.-Richard Earl of Shannon to be Mufter Mafter and Clerk of the Cheque of his Majefty's armies and garrifons in Ireland, in the room of Robert · Earl of Belvedere, deceafed.Major-General James Johnfton, to be Governor of Quebec. The Hon. Lieut. General James Murray, late Governor of Quebec, to be Lieut. Governor of Minorca.Lieut. Col. Beauclerc, to be Governor of Pendennis Castle, in the room of Colonel Owen, deceased.Colonel James Grant, of Ballindalloch, to be Lieutenant-Governor of Fort George, near Invernefs, in the room of Colonel Beauclerc.

Decemb. 3. By letters patent under the great feal of the kingdom of Ireland, George Lewis Jones, D. D. to the Bithoprick of Kilmore vacant by the death of the Right Rev. Dr. Dennifon Cumberland, late Bishop thereof.

6. The Rt. Rev. Father in

God, Dr. Brownlowe North, Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry, to the See of Worcester, in the room of Dr. James Johnfon, late Bithop thereof, deceased.

24. The Right Hon. John Earl of Sandwich, John Buller, Efq. the Right Hon. Henry Vifcount Palmerston of the kingdom of Ireland, Charles Spencer, Efq; commonly called Lord Charles Spencer, the Right Hon. Wilmot Vife. Lilburne of the kingdom of Ireland, the Right Hon. Auguftus John Hervey, and Henry Penton, Efq; to be his Majefty's Commiffioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Dominions, Iflands, and Territories thereunto refpectively belonging.

-29. Commiffions pafled the Great Seal, conftituting Guy Carleton, Efq; Captain-General and Governor in and over the province of Quebec. And Commodore Shuldham Governor of Newfoundland.-Mifs Johnfon, daughter of Gen. Johnson (one of the equerries to the King), to be one of the Maids of Honour to the Queen, in the room of the Hon. Mifs Cathcart.-Thomas Bernard, Efq; to be Deputy Commillary of the Mufters.-Colonel Amherst, to be Lieutenant-Governor of Saint John's, Newfoundland.

DEATHS, 1774.

January. Lately, at Hawkfton in Salop, the Lady of Sir Rowland Hill, Bart.

At Hopetoun Houfe, in Scotland, Miis Jemima Hope, third daughter of Lord Hope.

At Paris, the Princefs du Tul

mont,

mont, of the house of Jablonowski, in Poland. This Lady(who countenanced the Jefuits after their late difgrace) was allowed bythe French King 80,000 livres a year for the 1upport of her dignity.

Mrs. Ethelred Mannock, ladyabbefs of the English Benedictine ladies, at Bruffels.

4. The Counters Dowager of Oxford, mother to the prefent Earl. 7. In Lower Grovenor-ftreet, greatly advanced in years, Lady Dowager Dorothy Montague. fier death was occafioned by her cloaths accidentally taking fire, as he was fitting in her apartment.

16. At Bury, Sir John Cullum, Bart. King at Aims. He is fucceeded in title and efiate by his eldeft fon, the Rev. Mr. Cullum, of Hardwick, in Suffolk.

21. At Cofefey Ball in his 94th year, Sir George Jerningham, Bart. He is fucceeded in title and eftate by his eldest fon William.

At Conftantinople, the Grand Signior, Muftapha III. in the 59th year of his age and 17th of his reign. He is facceeded by his brother Abul Hamed, after a confinement of 44 years.

In Grafton-firect, Dublin, of an apoplectic fit, Lady Dorothea Dupois.

At the Hague, Peter Quefnel,, furnamed Benard, well known in the republic of letters, particularly by the two firft volumes of his Hiftory of the Jefuits, publifhed in 1741 in Utrecht.-- A few hours before his death, he was prevailed upon, by fome perfons who made it a point of confcience, to burn the remainder of the manufcript of that work, which he finished about three months ago, and which would have made 20 volumes in 12mo.

In Dublin, the Hon. Mis.

Molefworth, relict of the Hon. Edward Molefworth, Efq; and aunt to the prefent Lord Viscount Molefworth.

In Lower Grofvenor-street, aged 92 years, the Marchionefs de Montandre.

26. At Stradbally in the Queen's County, Ireland, the Right lion. Dudley Alexander Sidney Coily, Lord Sidney of Leix, Baron of Stradbally, L. L. D.

In St. Margaret's-ftreet, Weftminfier, Lady l'Aufon, widow of the late Sir Tho. l'Anfon.

Feb. 8. At his feat at Newburgh, Yorkshire, the Rt. Hon. Thomas Earl Fauconberg. His Lordship fucceeded his father as Viscount, Baron, and Baronet, in the year 1718; and was created Earl Fauconberg by his late Majefty. He is fucceeded in his title and eftates by tienry, now Earl Fauconberg, his only furviving fon and heir, who married, in the year 1766, Charlotte, eldeft daughter of Sir Matthew Lamb, Bart. deceased, and has iffue 3 daughters.

At Paris, aged 74, M. De Condamine, Fellow of the Royal Society at London, and celebrated for his voyages to determine the figure of the earth.

14. The Rev. Mr. Bertie, prebendary of Exeter, and rector of Kean, in Devon, brother to the late, and uncle to the prefent Earl of Abingdon.

18. At Edinburgh, Lady Amelia Lindfay, relict of the deccafed Sir Alexander Lindsay, Bart.

23. Sir Marmaduke Afty Wyvil, Bart. of Conftable Burton, in Yorkshire.

24. The Lady of Ashton Curzon, Efq; Member for Clithero, in Lancashire, and fifter to the prefent Lord Grofvenor.

The

The Right Hon. Lady Anne Parker, youngest daughter of the Earl of Macclesfield.

25. At Vienna, Count Wallis, Count of the Roman Empire, Knight of the Golden Fleece, &c. At Chadderton, in Lancashire, Sir William Horton, Bart.

At Drefden, in the 73d year of his age, Prince John George Chevalier de Saxe, Field Marthal of the Electoral Saxon army, Commander of the artillery, and Chief of the council of war, Knight of the order of Malta, and of the White Eagle of Poland,

March 2. At Salthill, in his way to Briftol, the Rt. Hon. Henry William Arundell, Viscount Galway, and Baron of Killard, in Ireland.

3. The Hon. Andrew Oliver, Lieutenant-Governor of the province of Maffachufett's Bay, in New England, in his 68th year.

The Rev. William Talbot, rector of St. Giles's in Reading, fon of the late Gen. Talbot, and grandfon of Dr. William Talbot, late Bifhop of Durham.

6. The Hon. Henry Fane, youngest fon of the Earl of Westmoreland.

7. At Pardo, his Royal Highnef's Charles, Infant of Spain, aged two years and fix months.

8. In Dover-ftreet, the Rt. Hon. Dowager Lady Mary Griffin, relict of the late Rt. Hon. Lord Edward Griffin.

10. In Queen-fquare, Sir William Browne, Knt. M. D. aged 82.

11. At Quanbury, in the county of Galway, in Ireland, the Rt. Hon. Henry Benedict Barnewall, Lord Viscount Kingfland, and Baron of Turvey, aged 66.

14. The Hon. Robert Harley,

Efq; Barrifter at Law, Recorder of Tewketbury, in Gloucefter fhire, uncle to the Earl of Oxford, and one of the members for Droitwich, in Worcestershire.

18. At Gatk, in Scotland, the Hon. Amelia Nairn, relict of Laurence Oliphant, and daughter of the deceafed Lord Nairn.

At Huntingdon, on the Norfolk circuit, Sir Richard Adams, Knt. one of the Barons of the court of Exchequer, whofe death is faid to have been occafioned by the gaol diftemper, which it is fuppofed he caught laft feilions at the Old Bailey.

20. At Sherfield, in Hampshire, Mrs. Beauclerk, wife of the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Beauclerk.

24. At his houfe near the Horse Guards, Sir Matthew Featherstonehaugh, Bart. Sir Matthew was member in the laft and prefent parliament for Portsmouth, and before for Morpeth in Northumberland; a governor of St. Thomas's and the Middlefex hofpitals, and F. R. S. He is fucceeded in title and estate by his only fon, now Sir Harry Featherstonehaugh.

Lately, Mrs. Harris, relict of John Harris, Efq. late of Hayu, in Devonshire, and filter to the Earl of Hertford.

At his feat near Kilkenny, the Right Hon. Somerfet Hainilton Butler, Earl of Carrick, one of his Majefty's privy counsellors in Ireland. He is fucceeded in title and eftate by his eldeft fon, the Right Hon. Henry Thomas Butler, Lord Ikerrin, one of the reprefentatives of the borough of Killyleagh.

25. At Durham, the Rev. Dr. Spencer Cowper, Dean of that thedral.

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27. At Darmstadt, the princefs of Deux-Ponts, in her 69th year.

30. At Manheim, her Highness the Duchefs Dowager of DeuxPonts, grandmother of the reigning Electress of Saxony, in her 65th year.

31. James Leigh, Efq; of Adleftorp, in the county of Gloucefter, brother-in-law to the Duke of Chandos, at his Grace's houfe in Charles-fircet, Berkley-Square.

April 1. The Hon. Thomas Hamilton, fecond fon to the Earl of Haddington, in Park-street.

4. At his chambers in the Temple, the ingenious Dr. Goldfinith, much admired in the literary world for his poetic and other publications.

5. Sir Alexander Gibfon, Bart. of Pentland, in Scotland.

8. In Hatton-ftreet, Mrs. Martha Peers, fifter of Sir Charles Peers, Bart.

18. At Kenfington, the Rev. Thomas Herring, M. A. rector of Chevening, in Kent, and Cullefden, in Surry, treafurer of Chichefter, prebendary of Southwell, and one of the principal regifters of the prerogative court of Canterbury. He was nearly related to Archbishop Herring, and one of his executors. He married a daughter of Sir John Torriano.

Greathead, fifter to his Grace the Duke of Ancaster.

26. The Right Hon. the Earl of Weftmoreland, after a few hours illness. His Lordfhip fucceeded his father on Noy. 24, 1771. He first married Augufta, daughter and coheirefs of Lord Montague Bertie, fecond fon of Robert Duke of Ancafter; but which lady deceafing on January 3, 1766, he married, fecondly, May 28, 1767, the Right Honourable Lady Sufan Gordon, fifter of Alexander Duke of Gordon. His Lordship is fucceeded by his fon, who is a minor.

At Shawfield, in Scotland, Lady Harriet Campbell, widow of John Campbell, Efq; and fifter to the Earl of Glencairn.'

29. At Bargat, near Fordingbridge, Hants, in her 105th year, Lady Bulkley, reli&t of the late Sir Dewey Bulkley.

May 4. In Berner's-ftreet, Major-General Worge. He commanded the expedition to Senegal, in the late war, and was afterwards Governor of that place.

6. At his houfe in Park-Lane, the Right Hon. John Ward, Vifcount Dudley and Ward, Lord Warden of Birmingham, and Recorder of Worcester. His Lordship was born in March 1704, and fucceeded William, the late Viscount Dudley and Ward, as Baron Ward of Birmingham, in May, 1740. On Dec. 26, 1723, he married Anna Maria, (who died in 1725), daughter of Charles Bourchier, Efq; by whom he has iffue, the Hon. John Ward, born in 1724, now Lord Vifcount Dudley and Ward. He married, fecondly, in Jan. 1744-5, Mifs Mary Carver, daughter of John Carver, Efq; by whom

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