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27. Robert Bisset, Esq. late commissarygeneral to the forces at home. 29. Suddenly, at the house of his son-in-law, the Lord Chief Baron, in George's Square, Edinburgh, the Right Hon. Henry Viscount Melville, Baron Duneira, &c. He came to town in order to attend the funeral of Lord President Blair, who was interred that day.

JUNE 1. The lady of the Hon. Thomas Bowes. 2. Lady Gordon, wife of the Rev. Sir Adam Gordon. 3. At Forge, Dumfries-shire, suddenly, Rear-Admiral James Dundas, aged 64. 5. Rev. John Markham, A. M. minister of Northhill, Bedfordshire. 14. At Edinburgh, Dr John Brown, of Hill, physician. 16. The Hon. Charles Bagenal Agar. 17. The Rev. Richard Dodd, M. A. brother of Dr William Dodd, who was executed for forgery. 23. Right Hon. Ursula Mary, Viscountess Sidmouth. 26. The Right Hon. Sir John Anstruther. Philip Rashleigh, Esq. F.R.S. and many years M. P. 28. At Tynningham, William Oliphant, Esq. collector of his Majesty's customs, Leith. 30. Sir Edward Dering, Bart.

JULY 2. Killed by lightning in the parish of Brinkworth, Wilts, William Grinman, James Wheale, and Reuben Vizard. 3. At Edinburgh, Colin Campbell, Esq. eldest son of Sir James Campbell, of Aberuchill, Bart. and Lieut.-Col. of the Royal Perthshire regiment of militia.-The Hon. Baron Dimsdale, banker, Hertford. 4. Sir Sitwell Sitwell, Bart. 7. Rev. Ralph Price, only brother of Sir Charles Price. 11. Mr Joseph Halfpenny, an eminent draughtsman at York. 18. Rev. Lewis Mercier, pastor of a French church in London, and a very eloquent preacher.-Right Hon. Gen. Fox, brother of the illustrious statesman, C. J. Fox. 26. The lady of Sir Wil. liam Skeffington. 27. Marquis Townshend. 29. His Grace the Duke of Devonshire.Aged 60, Victor Emanuel, King of Sardinia, 17 years after his expulsion from the throne.

AUG. 1. Hon. Catharine Gordon By

Nottinghamshire. 11. Mrs Dobson, widow of the late Michael Dobson, Esq. 12. Rev. Mr Spencer, a popular preacher at Liver pool, drowned as he was bathing 17. Rev Dr Pearson, Rector of Rempstone, Note tinghamshire, 20. Mr Thomas Hood, book seller, London. The wife of Dr White,w canon of Christ Church. 27. Aged 88, Mrs Margaret Burnet, widow of Thomas Burnet, Esq. surgeon, who was the last of the family of Bishop Burnet. 29. Lady Bickerton, relict of the late Admiral Sie a R. Bickerton. 30. In his 77th year, John Crickett, Esq. Marshal of the High Court of Admiralty. 31. Mr Astell, game-keeper 3 to Earl Spencer.-J. Mills, Esq. one of the persons who survived their sufferings in the Black Hole of Calcutta.

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SEPT. 1. Peter Baillie, Esq. eldest son T of Evan Baillie, M. P. Esq. 4. Aged 109, at Hubberstone, near Milford, Mary Mar tin. Till within a month of her death she never kept her bed on account of illness. 5. Rev. Edward Kimpton, author of a Fas mily Bible, and several works in science. 7. At Edinburgh, Sir Alexander Innes, of Coxton, Bart.-Sir William Mordaunt Milner, Bart. 14. At Glasgow, the Rev. James Grahame, author of The Sabbath," and other admired poems. 17. Most highly respected, the Rev. Matthew Raine, D.D. master of the Charter House. 22, Mrs Wakefield, widow of the Rev. Thomas Wakefield, late of Richmond. 28. Aged 92, Sarah, relict of the late James Graham, and mother of the Hon. Mr Baron Graham. 26. J. Billingsley, Esq. author of "The Agricultural Survey of the County of Somerset. 29. In his 83d year, Thomas Percy, D.D. Bishop of Dromore, in Ire land

OCT. 2. Sir Hervey Smith, Bart. last surviving officer present at the death of General Wolfe. 10. Lady Louisa Hartley,!!! sister of the late Earl of Scarborough. There i-Rev. J. Banister of Wareham 14 Hon Louis Duff, brother of the late Earl of gir Fife. 15. At Fairlie, Sir William Cun ningham, Robertland, Bart Sir Nons ron, mother of the Right Hon. George Holland, Bar Powrie, Forfarshire, the of Cranbury House, Wine Lord Byron. Son Franklin, of the celebrated Dr Franklin. 6. Rev. Aston Smith, secretary to the Portuguese ambassador, by a fall from his horse. 8. Benjamin, son of the Rev. John Charlesworth, of Ossington,

Mary, wife of William

chester. 18.
Hon. Charles Hay, Lord Newton, one of
the Senators of the College of Justice
In her 90th year, Mrs Elizabeth Brandin
sister of the late Thomas Brand, Hollis
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MARCH. Robert Townshend Farquhar, Esq Governor of the Islands of Bourbon and Mauritius, and their dependencies. Lieut.-Gen. Sir John F. Cradock, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Cape of Good Hope.

John Hodgson, Esq. Major General, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Island of Curacoa.

Sir James Cockburn, Bart. Governor and Commander in Chief of the Bermuda Islands.

David Hume, Esq. one of the Six ordinary Clerks of Session in Scotland.

James Ferguson, jun. Esq. one of the Four Commissioners of Edinburgh.

William Harding Read, Esq. ConsulGeneral in the Azores; Louis Hargrave, Esq. Consul in the Balearic Islands; and Robert Staples, Esq. Consul at Buenos Ayres and its dependencies.

Robert Liston, Esq. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Ottoman Porte; and Bartholomew Freere, Esq. Secretary of Embassy to the same.

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

Lieut.-Gen. Sir George Nugent, Bart. Commander in Chief in India, and a Member in Council of the Bengal establish

ment.

APRIL.-C. Maxwell, Esq. Governor of Sierra Leone and its dependencies.

MAY.-Field Marshal his R. H. the Duke of York, Commander in Chief of

the Land Forces.

JUNE.-R. Ward, Esq. Clerk of the Ordnance.

Major Generals-F. Baron Dreschel, with temporary rank; C. Baron Linsengen, with ditto; R. Aytoun; G. Rochfort; F. Grose; H. R. Gale; J. Spens; W. Scott; R. Tipping; A. Campbell; A. Trotter; F. Fuller; Sir J. Affleck, Bart.; G. V. Hart; J. Robinson; G. Warde; Hon. T. Maitland; R. Bright; W. Rainsay; J. Campbell; J. Skerrett; H. Oakes; C. Campbell; Sir G. Prevost, Bart.; W. Waller; M. Archdall; Sir J. C. Sherbrooke, K. B.; G. Drummond; J. Wharton; W. Payne; Hon. E. Bligh; W. Earl Craven; Lord W. Bentinck; E. Earl of Cork; Hon. H. G. Grey; Hon. E. Paget; A. Wetham; Sir B. Spencer, K. B.-to be Lieutenant Generals in the army.

Colonels-B. Fisher, royal engineers; T. Nepean, ditto; T. R. Charleton, royal artillery; H. de Hinuber, king's German legion, with temporary rank; Sir C. Shipley, Knt. royal engineers; H. Bell, royal marines; T. Strickland, ditto; T. Mahon, 9th light dragoons; W. T. Dilkes, 3d foot guards; H. Rudyerd, royal engineers; J. Oswald, 35th foot; J. Gashard le Mar chant, Military College; J. M. Hadden, royal artillery; W. Doyle, 62d foot; J. Hatton, 66th foot; Pinson Bonham, 69th foot; J. Burnett, military superintendant of hospitals; W. Anson, 1st foot guards; J. Bourchier, of the late royal Irish artillery; I. Brock, 49th foot; G. W. Ramsay, 60th foot; R. Craufurd, on half pay of 60th foot; E. Howarth, royal artillery; J. Dorrien, royal horse guards; T. Desbrisay, royal artillery; C. Terrot, ditto; W. Fyers, royal engineers; G. Glasgow, royal artillery; R. Winter, royal marines; W. Bentham, royal artillery; E. Stehelin, ditto; J. A. Schalch, ditto; H. Hutton, ditto; T. Barrow, 5th West India regiment; J. S. Farley, 68th foot; J. Wood, on the half pay of the Liverpool regiment; H. Churchill, of the late horse grenadier guards; J. Jenkinson, on half pay of the Sheffield regiment; T. Lewis, royal ma rines; T. Dunbar, 3d West India regiment; R. Williams, royal marines; L. Desborough, ditto; A. Keith, 65th foot; J. Mackelcan, royal engineers; J. T. Lavard, 54th foot; J. Skinner, 16th foot; J. Meredith, royal marines; R. H. Farmer, ditto; Watkin Tench, ditto; J. S. Saunders, 61st foot; L. Maclean, quarter-master-general in the West Indies; G. Wilson, royal artillery; S. Rimington, ditto; D. Ballingall, royal marines; D. Shank, Canadian fencibles; . Shaw, on half pay of the queen's rangers; G. Dyer, royal marines; A. Hay, 1st foot; J. J. Barlow, on half pay of the Cheshire fencibles; W. Minet, 30th foot; W. M. Peacocke, Coldstream guards; Sir J. Douglas, Knt royal marines; J. Pare, on half pay of 69th foot; W. P. Clay, on half pay of 40th foot; C. Wale, 66th foot; T. Hull, 62d foot; J. Kemmis, 40th foot; R. Burne, 39th foot; J. O. Vandeleur, 19th light dragoons; C. Pye, 3d dragoons; Sir W. Aylett, Knt. on half pay of the 6th garri son battalion; J. R. Fletcher, 6th dragoons; R. Browne, 12th light dragoons;

H. M. Gordon, on half pay of the 16th foot; A. J. Goldie, 6th dragoon guards; R. B. Long, 15th light dragoons; R. H. Sheaffe, 49th, foot; A. Duff, on half pay of 4th foot; G. Airey, 8th foot; R. S. Donkin, quarter-master-general in the Mediterranean; Hon. E. Stopford, 3d foot guards, G. Cooke, 1st foot guards; T. J. Backhouse, 47th foot; J. Wilson, 4th Ceylon regiment; W. Eden, 84th foot; F. G. V. Lake, 60th foot; G. T. Walker, 50th foot; J. A. Vesey, on half pay of 29th foot; R. Stovin, 17th foot; K. Mackenzie, on half pay of 15th foot; Sir J. Dalrymple, Bart. 3d foot guards; F. J. Wilder, 35th foot; Hon. G. de Grey, aid-de-camp to the king; S. Hawker, ditto;-to be Major Generals in the army.

Right Hon. Charles Yorke; Sir Richard Bickerton, Bart. Vice Admirals of the Blue. James Buller, Esq. William Dommet, Esq. Vice-Admirals of the White.

Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke, Hon. Frederic Robinson, and Horatio Walpole, Esq. commonly called Lord Walpole,-Commissioners of the Admiralty.

Frederic Edgcumbe, Esq. a Commissioner of the Victualling Board.

JULY.-Lieut.-Col. H. Torrens, Military Secretary to the Prince Regent.

Hon. Wellesley Pole, Chancellor of the Exchequer for Ireland.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Chancellor of the University of St Andrews.

John Allen, Esq. Warden of Dulwich College.

Robert Viscount Melville, Keeper of the Privy Seal in Scotland.

General William Earl of Harcourt, Governor of Portsmouth.

* Major-Gen, the Hon. A. Hope, Governor of the Royal Military College.

Col. G. Murray, Lieut. Governor of Edinburgh Castle.

AUGUST.-Vice-Admirals of the BlueH. D'Esterre Darby, E. Bowater, G. Palmer, W. O'Bryen Drury, and W. Essington, Esqrs. to be Vice Admirals of the White.

Rear Admirals of the Red.-F. Pender, W. A. Otway, and G. Lumsdaine, Esqrs.; Sir S. Hood, H. Nicholls, H. Sawyer, D. Gould, Esqrs. and Sir R. G. Keats, to be Vice Admirals of the Blue.

Rear Admirals of the White.-R. Watson, Esq. Lord Gardner, M. Dixon, G. Losack, W. Mitchell, G. Hart, and T. Bertie, Esqrs. to be Rear Admirals of the Red.

Rear Admirals of the Blue.-J. Langharne, W. Hargood, G, Gregory, J. Ferrier, R. I. Bury, R. Moorsom, Esqrs.; Sir C. Hamilton, and the Hon. H. Curzon, to be Rear Admirals of the White.

And the undermentioned are appointed flag-officers :-A. Fraser, B. Hallowell, G. J. Hope, Esqrs; Lord A. Beauclerk, W. Taylor, J. N. Morris, G. Burdon, W. Brown, T. B. Martin, J. Lawford, F. Sotheron, and T. Woolley, Esqrs. to be Rear Admirals of the Blue.

Captain W. Bligh has also been appointed Rear Admiral of the Blue, by a commission dated July 31, 1811.

Lieut.-General Arthur Visc. Wellington, K. B. General in the army in Spain and Portugal only.

John M Mahon, Esq. Receiver and Paymaster of the Bounty to Officers' Widows. Sir S. Hood, Naval Commander in Chief in the East Indies.

Sir S. Achmuty, Provisional Governor at the Presidency of Fort St George.

Duke of Devonshire, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Derby.

James Buller, Esq. one of the Clerks of the Privy Council.

Lieut.-Gen. Sir J. C. Sherbrooke, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.

Col. J. Butler, Lieutenant Governor of the Royal Military College.

Lieut.-Col. G. Vaughan, Governor of Fishguard Fort.

Lieut.-Gen. Gother Mann, Inspector General of Fortifications.

Lieut.-General Sir G. Prevost, Bart. Capt. General, Governor in Chief, and Commander of the Forces in Upper and Lower Canada, &c.

Right Hon. George Rose, an Elder Brother of the Trinity House.

Sir John Sinclair, Receiver General of the Taxes in Scotland.

Rev. John Davie, B. D. Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

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SEPTEMBER.-Winkworth Tonge, Esq. Deputy Judge Advocate of the Forces in Jamaica.

OCTOBER.-Right Hon. Henry Wellesly, Ambassador Extraordinary and Pleni

potentiary to his Catholic Majesty Ferdinand VII. Charles Vaughan, Esq. Secretary to the Embassy.

Charles Stuart, George Cockburn, and John Philip Morier, Esqrs. Commissioners in Spanish America. Rich. Belgrave Hoppner, Esq. Secretary.

Thomas Sydenham, Esq. Minister Plenipotentiary to the Portuguese Government, during the absence of Charles Stuart, Esq. Lieut.-General Robert Brownrigg, Governor and Commander in Chief of the British Settlement in Ceylon.

J. C. Herries, Esq. Commissary in chief. Burnet Bruce, Esq. one of the Four Commissioners at Edinburgh.

John Drinkwater, Esq. a Comptroller of Army Accounts.

Duke of Norfolk, High Steward of Glou

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Dr Baillie, one of his Majesty's Physicians extraordinary.

Rev. John Cole, D. D. Rector of Exe ter College, Vice Chancellor of Oxford. Rev. Tho. Browne, D. D. Master of Christ's College, Vice Chancellor of Cambridge.

Rev. Thomas Elrington, D. D. Provost of Trinity College, Dublin.

Rev. George Doyly, D. D. Christian Advocate in the University of Cambridge, Rev. John Russel, M. A. Head Master of Charter House School.

Lord A. Hamilton, Lord Rector of Glasgow University.

Adam Gillies, Esq. one of the Judges of the Court of Session in Scotland.

DECEMBER.-His Royal Highness William Henry, Duke of Clarence, Admiral of the Fleet.

Right Hon. Spencer Perceval, Right Hon. W. W. Pole, Hon. W. Broderick, Snowden Barne, Esq. Hon. B. Paget, and R. Wellesley, Esq. Commissioners of the Treasury.

Duke of Devonshire, High Steward of Derby.

Dr Arnold, Advocate to the Admiralty, William Petrie, Esq. Governor of Prince of Wales's Island,

Rev. Wm. Jackson, D. D. Canon of Christ Church, Bishop of Oxford. Rev. John Leslie, D. D. Dean of Cork, Bishop of Dromore.

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