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PRINCIPAL APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS,

IN 1813.

General Floyd, Governor of Gravesend and Tilbury, vice Musgrave deceased. JAN.-George Foy, Esq. Consul at the City and Port of Stockholm.

Lieutenant-Gen. Frederick Maitland, Lieutenant-Governor of Dominica.

FEB.-The Prince Regent has conferred the dignities of Viscount and Earl of the United Kingdom on the Right Hon. Gilbert Baron Minto, and his heirs-male, by the style and title of Viscount Melgund, of Melgund, co. Angus, and Earl of Minto, co. Roxburgh.

William A'Court, Esq. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Barbary States.

David Moneypenny, Esq. Advocate, a Lord of Session, and one of the Lords of Justiciary, in Scotland, vice Tytler deceased.

Alexander Maconochie, Esq. Advocate, his Majesty's Solicitor-General in Scot land.

William Laird, Esq. Consul at Malaga. Bernard Athy, Esq. Consul at Alicant. Richard Chandos, Marquis of Buckingham, Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Buckingham.

Major-Gen. Sir Charles Shipley, Knt. Governor of the Island of Grenada; Major-General George William Ramsay, Governor of the Island of St Croix.

The honour of Knighthood conferred on E. Hyde East, Esq. Chief Justice at Fort William in Bengal.

MARCH.-Lord Whitworth, K. B. a Lord of his Majesty's Bed-Chamber.

William Pugh, of Car Howell, Esq. Sheriff of the county of Montgomery, vice Corbett; and the following amendments on the roll: Pembroke, Gwynne Gill

Vaughan, of Jordanstoun, Esq. Cardigan, Roderick Richardes, of Pentglais, Esq. Merioneth, Thomas Edwards, of Ty Issa, Esq.

Sir Richard Goodwin Keats, Governor and Commander in Chief of Newfound land.

Viscount Lake, a Lord of his Majesty's Bed-Chamber.

APRIL-James Hope, Esq. Conjunct Clerk to the Bills in the Office of Regis ters and Rolls in Scotland, vice Smith deceased.

Sir Thomas Plomer, Knt. his Majesty's Attorney-General, Vice-Chancellor of England.

Francis Lord Napier, his Majesty's High Commissioner to the General Ássembly of the Church of Scotland.

Lord Viscount Sidmouth, High Steward of Westminster, vice Marquis of Buckingham deceased.

Henry Richmond, Esq. a Commissioner of the Customs, vice Frewin retired.

MAY.-Archibald Campbell, Esq. one of the Lords of Session, a Lord of Justi ciary in Scotland, vice Sir William Honeyman, Bart. resigned; David Cathcart, Esq. Advocate, one of the Lords of Session, also vice Honeyman.

Sir William Garrow, Knt. his Majesty's late Solicitor-General, to be his Majesty's Attorney-General; Robert Dallas, Esq. one of his Majesty's Counsel, and late Chief Justice of Chester, to be his Majesty's Solicitor-General; and Richard Richards, Esq. one of his Majesty's Counsel, to be Chief Justice of Chester.

Viscount Melville, Admiral Domett, Sir J. S. Yorke, Right Hon. W. Dundas, Sir G. Warrender, J. Osborn, Esq. and

Lord H. Paulet, Commissioners for the Office of Lord High Admiral.

Major-General the Hon. Sir Charles Stewart, K. B. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia.

George Jackson, Esq. Secretary of Legation at the Court of Prussia.

Sir T. Plomer, Knt. Vice-Chancellor, to be a Member of the Privy Council. JUNE.-The Prince Regent has granted the dignity of a Viscount of the United Kingdom to Charles Baron Whitworth, by the title of Viscount Whitworth, of Adbaston, Staffordshire.

Viscount Whitworth, Lieutenant-Gen. and General Governor of Ireland.

James Earl of Fife, Lieutenant and Sheriff-Principal of the shire of Banff. George Ross, Esq. one of the four Commissaries of Edinburgh, vice Bruce deceased.

Mr Charles Grace, Commissary Clerk of St Andrew's in Scotland, vice Stuart Grace.

Right Honourable T. Maitland, Governor and Commander in Chief of Malta and its dependencies.

Lieutenant-General the Honourable Alexander Hope, knighted and invested with the Ensign of the Order of the Bath. Major-General H. Clinton, Colonel of 1st batt. 60th reg. an extra Knight of the Bath.

JULY.-Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville, Esq. one of the Clerks of the Privy Council in extraordinary.

Andrew Snape Douglas, Esq. Secretary of Legation to the Court of Palermo. Marquis of Wellington, K. G. to be a Field-Marshal.

E. H. Lushington, Esq. Barrister, Coroner, and Attorney in the Court of King's Bench.

Earl of Delaware and Right Hon. Lord Graves, Lords of his Majesty's Bed-Chamber.

Lord Cathcart, F. Townsend, Esq. Windsor Herald, (as Deputy to Sir Isaac Heard, Garter Principal King of Arms,) and Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt, Plenipotentiaries for investing the Emperor Alexander with the Order of the Garter.

AUG.-The Gazette contains his Majesty's permission to John Dimsdale, Esq.

of Hamptstead, to assume the dignity of Baron, conferred by the late Empress of Russia on his father.

Thomas Tombs, Esq. Water Bailiff and Verger of Sandwich, vice Harvey deceased.

J. Cathrow, Esq. late Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms, Somerset Herald, vice Atkinson deceased.

SEPT-Earl of Aberdeen, K.T. Pleni. potentiary at the Court of Vienna; Fre derick Wise, Esq. Consul-General in Sweden.

Lieutenant-General Earl of Dalbousie, Lieutenant-Gen. Hon. W. Stewart, MajorGeneral G. Murray, and Major-General Hon. E. M. Packenham, extra Knights of the Bath; D. Douglas, Esq. one of the Lords of Session, vice Craig deceased.

Sir Rupert George, Bart. James Brown, Esq. Hon. John Douglas, John Harness, M.D. Hon. Courtenay Boyle, and John Forbes, Esq. Commissioners for conducting the Transport Service, &c.

A. Palmer, Esq. one of his Majesty's Serjeants-at-Law, Commissioner for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors.

The Prince Regent approves of the re newal of the appointment of Mr Emanuel Viale to be Consul for the Emperor of all the Russias at Gibraltar.

The Prince Regent has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, to grant the dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom to the following gentlemen and their respective heirs-male: viz. Sir John Thomas Duckworth, K. B. Admiral of the Blue; George Hewitt, Esq. General in the Army; Hildebrand Oakes, Esq. Lieutenant-General in the Army; Thomas Hislop, Esq. LieutenantGeneral in the Army; Josias Rowley, Esq. Captain, R. N.; Philip-Bowes-Vere Broke, Esq. Captain, R. N.; Richard Puleston, of Emral, co. Flint, Esq.; Joseph Radcliffe, of Milnsbridge House, co." York, Esq.; John Beckett, of Leeds, co. York, and of Somerby Park, co. Lincoln, Esq.; Brydges-Trecothick Henneker, of Newton Hall, Essex, Esq.; Horace-David-Cholwell St Paul, of Ewart Park, Northumberland, Esq., with remainder to his brothers, Henry-Heneage St Paul and Chas. Maximilian St Paul, of Ewart Park, Esqrs.; Richard Borough, of Basledon

Park, Berks, Esq.; James Duff, Esq. Consul at Cadiz, with remainder to his ne phew, Wm. Gordon of Stanhope Street, and his heirs-male; Rev. Samuel-Clarke Jervoise, of Hanover Square, of Idsworth Park, Hants, and of Woodford, Essex; Nathaniel William Wraxall, of Wraxall, Somerset, Esq; George Wm. Denys, of Stratford Place, Middlesex, Esq.; Samuel i Young, of Formosa Place, Berks, Esq.; Frederick-Gustavus Fowke, of Sowerby, Leicestershire, Esq.

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Earl of Aberdeen, K. T. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Court of Vienna; Hon. Frederick Lambe, Secretary to the Embassy.

OCT.-Viscount Melville, Rear-Admiral Sir J. S. Yorke, Knt., Right Honourable W. Dundas, Rear Admiral G. J. Hope, Sir G. Warrender, Bart. John Osborne, Esq. and Rear-Admiral Lord Henry Paulet, Commissioners for the Office of Lord High Admiral.

Mr Andrew Dubatschefsky, approved of as Consul General for Russia; and Mr Joze Manoel de Couto Garrido, Consul for Portugal at Dublin.

Nov.-The dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom to the Right Hon. Sir Archibald Macdonald, of East Sheen, Surrey, Knt. late Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and his heirs-male.

Right Hon. Charles Long, and Right Hon. Fred. John Robinson, to the office of Receiver and Paymaster-General of the Forces,

Lieutenant-Gen. Lord Charles Henry Somerset, Governor and Commander in Chief at the Cape of Good Hope. [The Gazette also notices the honour of Knighthood having been conferred upon Colonel G. Elder, and on Nathaniel Conant, Esq. on being appointed chief magistrate at Bow Street; the appointment of H Savage Yeames, Esq. to be Consul General at the Russian Ports in the Black Sea; and of Robert Southey, Esq. to be PoetLaureate.

Earl of Liverpool, Right Honourable N. Vansittart, Right Hon. W. Fitzgerald, B. Paget, and J. Brogden, Esqrs. and Viscount Lowther, Commissioners for exe cuting the Office of Treasurer of the Exchequer.

Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of

Cumberland and Cambridge, Field-Marshals in the Army.

DEC.-The following Flag-Officers were promoted: viz.

Admirals of the White, Richard Rodney, and Alexander Græme, Esqrs. to be Admirals of the Red.

Admirals of the Blue, Arthur Kempe, Esq. Sir J. T. Duckworth, K. B. and Sir R. Calder, Bart. to be Admirals of the White.

Vice Admirals of the Red, Robert M'Douall, Billy Douglas, John Wickey, John Fish, John Knight, and Edward Thornborough, Esqrs. to be Admirals of the Blue.

Vice-Admirals of the White, William Domett, William Wolseley, John Manley, George Murray, John Sutton, Robert Murray, Esqrs. Honourable Sir Alexander Cochrane, K. B. and John Markham, Esq. to be Vice-Admirals of the Red.

Vice-Admirals of the Blue, Nathan Brunton, John Schanck, Esqrs. Hon. Michael de Courcy, Philip d'Auvergne, Prince of Bouillon, and John Hunter, Esq. to be Vice-Admirals of the White.

Rear-Admirals of the Red, Charles Tytler, Robert Watson, Esqrs. Right Hon. Allan Lord Gardner, Manley Dixon, George Losack, William Mitchell, Esqrs. and Sir Thomas Bertie, Knt. to be ViceAdmirals of the Blue.

Rear-Admirals of the White, Sir Charles Hamilton, Bart. Hon. Henry Curzon, W. Bligh, Laurence W. Halstead, Edward Oliver Osborn, Esqrs. Sir Harry Neale, Bart. Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke, Knt. Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge, to be Rear-Admirals of the Red.

Rear-Admirals of the Blue, John Lawford, Frank Sotheron, Thomas Wolley, William Johnstone Hope, Esqrs. Right Hon. Lord Henry Paulet, C. W. Paterson, George Cockburn, Thomas Surridge, Samuel Hood Linzee, Esqrs. to be RearAdmirals of the White.

And the under-mentioned Captains were also appointed Flag Officers of his Majesty's Fleet: viz. Philip Wilkinson, Esq. Hon. Charles Elphinstone Fleming, Charles Vinicombe Penrose, William Hotham, George Hopewell Stephens, Pulteney Malcolm, William Nowell, James Bissett, John Clements, Esqrs. Sir John

Gore, Knt. and John Harvey, Esq. to be Rear-Admirals of the Blue,

Hon. Henry Hotham, George Boulton, Esq. Sir Josias Rowley, Bart. and Edward Codrington, Esq. Colonels in his Majesty's Royal Marine Forces, vice Hon. C. E. Fleming, C. V. Penrose, J. Bissett, and P. Malcolm, Esqrs. Flag-Officers.

John Hunter, Esq. his Majesty's Consul-General in Spain.

Earl of Clancarty, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Prince of Orange Nassau, Sovereign Prince of the Netherlands; Robert Gordon, Esq. Secretary to that Embassy.

Colonel his Serene Highness William Frederick Henry, Hereditary Prince of Orange, a Major-General in the Army.

Earl of Liverpool, Right Hon. Nicholas Vansittart, Right Hon. Wm. Fitzgerald, Berkeley Paget, Esq. Viscount Lowther, and Charles Grant, jun. Esq. Commissioners for executing the Office of Treasurer of the Exchequer.

Major-Gen. Barnes, Lieut.-Gen. of the Leeward Islands, vice R. H. Losack, Esq. G. Warre, Esq. Consul for Biscay and Guipuscoa.

Sheriffs appointed by the Prince Regent in Council, for the year 1813. Bedfordshire, Richard Parks, of Luton,

Esq.

Berkshire, W. Y. Mills, of Wadley, Esq.

Buckinghamshire, Thomas Sheppard Cotton, of Thornton-hall, Esq.

Cambridge and Huntingdonshire, Char. M. Chere, of Papworth Everard, Esq.

Cheshire, Fra. Jodrell, of Henbury, Esq. Cumberland, Sir Wastel Brisco, of Crofton-place, Bart.

Derbyshire, Robert Holden, of Darley Abbey, Esq.

Devonshire, Richard Hippisley Tuckfield, of Fulford, Esq.

Dorsetshire, Robert Ratcliffe, of Winterborne Zelston, Esq.

Essex, R. J. Brassey, of Great Ilford,

Esq.

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