March 10. Hon. John Townshend, to Mifs Poyntz,daugh

ter of the late William Poyntz, Efq.

31. Jofeph Yates, Efq; fon of the late Sir Jofeph Yates, to Mifs Charlotte St. John, daughter of the late Lord St. John, of Bletfoe. Hon. W. Forward, to Mifs Caulfield.

9.

April 8. Lord Herbert, fon of the Earl of Pembroke, to Mifs Beauclerk. Rob. Dundas, folicitor general of Scotland, to Mifs Dundas, daughter to the treasurer of the navy.

12. Lord Carysfort, to Mifs Grenville, fifter to the Marquis of Buckingham.

May 12. Hon. Geo. Neville, bro. ther to the Earl of Abergavenny, to Mifs Walpole, daughter of the Hon.Richard Walpole.

24. Earl of Aldborough, to Mifs Henniker, daughter of Sir John Henniker, Bart.

27. The Earl of Altamont, to the Hon. Louifa Howe,youngest daughter of Lord Viscount Howe.

29. The Hon. R. Lumley

Saville, to the Hon.
Henrietta Willough-

by.

June 5. Edward Place, Efq. to Lady Anne Gordon,

daughter of the Earl of Aberdeen.

7. Reverend Sir Thomas

Bart. to Mifs Mary
Newcombe, daughter
of the late Dean of
Rochester.

Sir John Ramsden, Bart.
to the Hon. Louifa Su-
fannah Ingram Shep-
heard, daughter of the
late Lord Viscount Ir-
win.

12. Sir John Swynburne, Bart. to Mifs Emma Eliz. Bennet, of St. James's, Weftininfter. 30. Penn Curzon, Efq; to the Hon. Mifs Howe, daughter to Lord Vifc. Howe.

Aug. 3. Hon. Charles Redlynch

Strangeways, brother to the Earl of Ilchef

ter, to Mifs Jane Haine, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Haine. 11. At Milan, by difpenfation from the pope, the Marquis Lewis Marifcotti, to Lady Sophia Butler, daugh ter of the late Earl of Lanesborough.

18. Lord Compton, to Mifs Smith, daughter of Joshua Smith, Efq. of Earl Stoke Park,Wilts. Lord Barnard, eldest fon of the Earl of Darlington

Sept. 17.

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Jan. 30. Rev. George Cotton, LL.D. to be dean of Chefter.

Feb. 9. Sir Alexander Thomfon, Knt. Simon Le Blanc, and Soulden Laurence, Efqrs. to be ferjeants at law.

Sir Nash Grofe, Knt. to be one of the Juftices of the King's Bench. Sir Alexander Thomion, Knt. to be a baron of the exchequer.

19. Right Hon. John Charles Villiers, fworn of his majesty's privy council.

20. Dr. George Pretyman, to be bishop of Lincoln.

-24. George Miller, Efq. to be conful in North and South Carolina, and Georgia, and deputycommiffary for commercial affairs to the United States of America.

27. Dr. George Pretyman to be dean of St. Paul's, and canon refidentiary.

March 17. Rev. Samuel Smith, LL.D. tó be a prebendary of Westminster.

Rev. William Pearce, B. D., to be mafter of the Temple.

23. Sir John Skynner, Knt. fworn of his majefty's privy council.

April 17. John Seton, Efq. to be governor of St. Vincent.

Arthur Philip, Efq. to be governor of New South Wales.

24. John Edward Aftley, Efq. fon of Sir Edward Aftley, Bart. to be one of the equerries to the Duke of Cumberland.

- 25. Gerard Fortescue, Efq. to be Ulfter king at arms, and principal herald of all Ireland.

27. Sir Thomas Wroughton, K. B. envoy extraordinary to Sweden, to be minifter plenipotentiary at the fame court.

William Fawkener, Efq. to be

envoy

Lord Southampton, groom of the ftole.

Viscount Parker, Viscount Mel bourne, Lord Spencer Hamilton, and Viscount St. Afaph, gentlemen of -the bedchamber.

Henry Lyte, Efq. treasurer. Hon. Hugh Conway, mafter of the robes and privy purse.

Col. S. Hulle, comptroller of the .household.

J. Kemys Tynte, Efq. Col. Sir John S. Dyer, Bart. Hon. G. Fitzroy, Col. Stevens, Lieut. Col. St. Leger, Hon. Lieut. Col. Stanhope, Warwick Lake, Efq. Lieut, Col. Sloughter, and the Hon. Edward Bouverie, grooms of the bed-chamber.

Rev. Dr. J. Lockman, clerk of the closet,

Col. Gerard Lake, firft equerry and commiffioner of the ftables.

Col. Charles Leigh, Edward Scott, Efq. Major Churchill, Hon. Capt. Ludlow, and Anthony St. Leger, Efq. equerries.

June 1. Henry, Duke of Beaufort, to be lord lieutenant of the county of Brecon.

23. Lord Carteret and Lord Wallingham, to the office of postmafter-general.

27. Henry Partridge, Fofter Bower, and Edward Law, Efqrs. to be king's council.

John Toler, Efq. to be the king's fecond ferjeant at law, and the Hon. Jofeph Hewitt to be his third ferjeant at law in Ireland. ̧

July 5. Dr. Richard Warren and Dr. Robert Hallifax, to be phyficians in ordinary to the prince of Wales.

-7. Sir George Auguftus Eliott, K. B. to be baron Heathfield, of Gibraltar.

Efq. to be grooms of the bed chamber to the duke of York.

Aug. 11. Rev. Charles Inglis, D.D. to be bishop of the new fee of Nova Scotia.

18. Right Hon. W. Eden, to be ambaffador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the king of Spain.

28. William Richardfon, John Craven Carden, Charles Defvoeux, Edward Leflie, Henry Mannix, and Richard Gorges Meredyth, Efqrs. to be baronets of Ireland.

Sept. 15. Henry Frafer, Efq. to be fecretary of legation at Peterf burg.

24. Richard, Viscount Howe, and John Montagu, and Hugh Pigot, Efqrs. to be admirals of the White.

Molyneux, Lord Schuldam, Sir Hugh Pallifer, and Sir Peter Parker, baronets, John Vaughan, John Reynolds, and Matthew Barton, Efqrs. and the Hon. Samuel Barrington, to be admirals of the Blue.

Marriot Arbuthnot, Robert Roddam, George Darby, John Campbell, James Gambier, William Lloyd, and Francis William Drake, Efqrs, to be vice-admirals of the Red.

Sir Edward Hughes, K. B. Sir Jofhua Rowley, Bart. Sir Edward Vernon, knight, John Evans, Mark Milbanke, Nicholas Vincent, and Robert Edwards, Efqrs. to be viceadmirals of the White.

Samuel, Lord Hood, Sir John Lockhart Rofs, Bart. Sir Chaloner Ogle, knight, Thomas Graves, Robert Digby, Benjamin Marlow, and Alexander Hood, Efqrs. to be viceadmirals of the Blue.

Sir Richard Hughes, Sir Francis Samuel Drake, and Sir Edmund

Affleck, Barts. to be rear-admirals of the Red.

*. The following captains were appointed flag-officers, viz.

Sir John Lindfay, K. B. and John Elliot and William Hotham, Efqrs. to be rear-admirals of the Red.

Sir Charles Middleton, Bart. Sir Richard King, Knt. John Peyton, John Carter Allen, John Dalrymple, Herbert Sawyer, and Jonathan Falconer, Efqrs. to be rear-admirals of the White.

Sir John Jervis, K. B. Sir Richard Bickerton, and Sir Charles Douglas, Barts. Hon. John Levefon Gower, and Philip Affleck and Adam Duncan, Efqrs. to be rear-admirals of the Blue.

Hon. William Cornwallis, and Philip Colby and George Bowyer, Efqrs. to be colonels of marines.

28. Major-generals Spencer Cowper, William Wynyard, Edward Mathew, Richard Burton Philipfon, Francis Smith, John Pattifon, John Douglas, Hon. Alexander Leflie, Samuel Cleavland, Hon. Henry St. John, Sir William Erfkine, John Campbell, and Sir George Ofborn, Bart. to be lieut. generals.

Colonels Thomas, Earl of Lincoln, John Campbell, John Leland, James Hamilton, John Scratton, Allan Campbell, James Rooke, Samuel Birch, Charles Crosbie, John Martin, Winter Blathwayte, John, Earl of Suffolk, Ralph Abercrombie, Hon. Chapel Norton, Alexander Rigby, and John Gunning, to be major-generals.

29. John Douglas, D.D. to be bishop of Carlife, and dean of Windfor.

Oct. 2. John Cayley, Efq. to be conful-general of Ruffia.

oa.

Oct. 25. Samuel Wallis, Efq. to be a commissioner of the navy.

26. Paul Joddrell, M. D. knighted.

27. George, Viscount Townfhend, to be marquis Townshend. Samuel Marshall, Efq. to be a commiffioner of the victuallingoffice.

John Daniell, Efq. to be comptroller of the falt duties.

20. Richard, Lord Rokeby, archbishop of Armagh; James, Lord Lifford, Lord Chancellor ; and the Right Hon. John Forster, fpeaker of the house of commons; to be lord juftices of Ireland.

Nov. 2. George, Marquis of Buckingham, to be lord lieutenant of Ireland.

6. Hon. and Rev. Dr. John Harley, to be bishop of Hereford. -17, Dr. Beilby Porteus, bifhop of Chefter, to be bishop of London.

-27. Charles Runnington, Samuel Marshall, and James Watfon, Efqrs. to be ferjeants at law.

30. Right Hon. Alleyne Fitzherbert, a privy counsellor.

Dec. 5. Henry, Duke of Beaufort, to be lord lieutenant of Leicefterfhire.

-7. Beilby, bishop of London, a privy counsellor.

8. Beilby, bishop of London, to be dean of the chapels royal. Rev. Benjamin Blayney, to be Hebrew profeffor at Oxford.

15. Rev. William Longford, D. D. to be prebendary of Windfor.

Rev. John Plumptree, M. A. to be prebendary of Worcester.

16. Right Hon. Alleyne Fitzherbert, chief fecretary to the lord lieutenant, to be a privy counsellor of Ireland.

Dec. 29. Thomas Millar, of Barfkimming, Efq. to be prefident of his majefty's college of juftice in Scotland.

Robert McQueen, of Braxfield, Efq. to be his majesty's justice-clerk in Scotland.

John Swinton, of Swinton, Efq. to be one of his majesty's commiífioners of jufticiary in Scotland.

John Maclaurin, Efq. to be one of the ordinary lords of feffion in Scotland.

SHERIFFS appointed by his
Majefty in Council, for 1787.
Berkshire. William Byam Martis,
of White Knights, Efq.
Bedfordfaire. Jofeph Partridge, of
Cranfeld, Efq.

Bucks. R. Dayrell, of Lillingftone Dayrell, Efq.

Cornwall. Sam. Thomas, of Tregols, Efq.

Cumberland. Thomas Whelpdale, of Skirfgill-Hall, Efq.

Chefter. Sir Richard Brooke, of Norton, Bart.

Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonfhire. William Camps, of Wilburton, Efq.

Devonshire. J. Quick, of Newton Saint Cyres, Efq.

Dorfetfhire. Peter William Baker, of Ranfton, Efq.

Derbyfbire. Sir Rich. Arkwright, of Cromford.

Effex. J. Judd, of Chelmsford, Efq,

Gloucestershire. Sam. Richardson, of Newent, Efq.

Herefordshire. R. Cope Hopton, of Cannon Froome, Efq.

Hertfordshire. J. Roper, of Berkhamitead St. Peter, Efq.

Kent.