Apr. 10. Sir George Yonge, bart., joint vice- | Aug, 29. H. R. H. GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDEtreasurer of Ireland. Secretary-atwar, July following. RICK, prince of WALES: introduced; not sworn. Afterwards George IV. Ap. 24. George, lord de Ferrars, captain of the Dec. 26. James Grenville. A lord of trade, Aug. 1786. Created lord Glastonbury, Oct. 1797. band of gentlemen-at-arms. Became May 3. George, viscount Chewton, vice-cham- Dec. 31. Heneage, earl of Aylesford, captain of Succeeded berlain of the household. the yeomen of the guard. Thomas, lord Walsingham, late a lord of trade; joint vice-treasurer in Ireland. Joint postmaster-general, July, 1787. For twenty years chairman of the committees of the house of lords. William Wyndham Grenville, joint paymaster-general. Vice-president of the board of trade, Aug. 1786. Speaker of the house of commons, Jan. 1789; home secretary, June, same year; and president of the India board, March, 1790. Created lord Grenville, Nov. 1790. Foreign secretary, June, 1791. First minister of the crown, Feb. 1806. 1784. Henry Dundas, treasurer of the navy. Jan. 7. Philip, earl of Chesterfield, ambassador hold. Apr. 9. Charles Greville, treasurer of the house Aug. 20. extraordinary to Spain. Joint post- Lord George Lenox, constable of the Lloyd Kenyon, master of the rolls. Constantine-John, lord Mulgrave, joint James, earl of Courtown, treasurer of the household. Sir James Harris, knt., envoy extraordinary to the States General. Created lord Malmesbury, Sept. 1788, and viscount Fitz-Harris and earl of Malmesbury, Dec. 1800. Minister to several courts of Europe. Apr. 14. George-James, earl of Cholmondeley, Nov. 17. George, lord Herbert, vice-chamberlain captain of the yeomen of the guard. Colonel, the hon. Richard Fitzpatrick, secretary-at-war. Lieutenant-gen. of the ordnance, 1804. Again secretaryat-war, Feb. 1806. Frederick Montagu, a lord of the trea of the household. Succeeded his father as earl of Pembroke, Feb. 1794. 1785. Nov. 23. Thomas Orde (Powlett), secretary in Ireland. A lord of trade, Aug. 1786. Assumed the name of Powlett on the decease of the last duke of Bolton, 1794. Created lord Bolton, Oct. 1797. 1786. Sept. 6. John Foster, speaker of the house of 1 With the short interval of Mr. Addir gton's administration, Mr. Pitt was at the head of his majesty's councils for twenty-two years: he died universally lamented, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, at the public charge. Having directed the councils of his country so long, and at a period of great financial embarrassment, difficulty, and danger, the friends of his principles and policy (particularly of the Pitt Club) usually honoured his memory as "the Pilot that weathered the storm." 2 The "irregularities" of lord Melville in his office of treasurer of the navy led to this expunction of his name, a step that anticipated a resolution of the house of commons (proposed by Mr. Whitbread), and an address to the king, praying his majesty, "that the name of lord Melville be erased from the council, and that he be dismissed from his presence for ever." His lordship was afterwards resworn of the council, having been acquitted, on an impeachment by the commons, of the malversations alleged against him. Jan. 5. John-Hely Hutchinson, secretary of board of trade, Oct. 1790; treasurer of the navy, June, 1800. Succeeded as lord Harrowby, June, 1803. Chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, July, 1805. Created viscount Sandon and earl of Harrowby, July, 1809. President of the board of controul, July, same year. Declared lord president, June, 1812. state in Ireland. Held à plurality of May 28. George Granville-Leveson, earl Gower. appointments. Feb. 19. John-Charles Villiers, comptroller of Mar. 23. the household. Sir John Skynner, knt., chief baron of the exchequer. Aug. 8. H. R. H. FREDERICK, duke of YORK: introduced; not sworn. Nov. 30. Alleyne Fitz-Herbert, chief secretary to the lord-lieutenant of Ireland. En voy extraordinary to the Hague, Succeeded his father as marquess of Oct. 1. John, lord Fitzgibbon, lord chancellor of Ireland. Created viscount Fitzgibbon, of Limerick, Dec. 1793; earl of Clare, June, 1795; and lord Fitzgibbon, of Sidbury, in the English peerage, Sept. 1799. 1791. May, 1789. Created lord St. Helen's Mar. 9. Thomas Steele, joint paymaster-gene of Ireland, 1791; and of England, July, 1801. ral previously secretary to the treasury, &c. Dec. 7. Dr. Beilby Porteus, lord bishop of Apr. 21. George, viscount Parker, comptroller of London. 1788. June 18. Sir Richard Pepper Arden, master of the rolls. Lord chief justice of the common pleas, 1801. Created lord Alvanley, May, same year. 1789. the household. Succeeded his father as earl of Macclesfield, Feb. 1795. June 8. Sir William Hamilton, K. B., ambassador at the court of Naples. 1792. May 2. George, lord Macartney, ambassador to China. Earl Macartney in Ireland, 1794. April 3. John, earl of Chatham, first lord of the June 15. Sir James Eyre, lord chief baron of the president, Jan. same year. Privy June 21. Richard, earl of Mornington. Go seal, Feb., and again lord president, Oct. 1806; a third time lord president, April, 1812. Secretary of state for the home department from June, 1812, to Jan. 1822. Aug. 8. James, marquess of Graham, vice president of the board of trade, and, in Sept. following, joint paymastergeneral. Succeeded as duke of Montrose, Sept. 1790. Master of the horse, Dec. same year. Oct. 14. John, earl of Westmoreland, lord-lieutenant of Ireland. Lord privy seal, Feb. 1798; and again privy seal, March, 1807. vernor-general of Bengal, Oct. 1797. Created marquess Wellesley, Dec. 1799. Secretary of state for foreign affairs, Dec. 1809. Lord-lieutenant of Ireland, Dec. 1821. Lord steward, Nov. 1830. Again lord-lieutenant of Ireland, Sept. 1833. Lord chamberlain, April, 1835. Henry, ford Apsley. Succeeded his father as earl Bathurst, Aug. 1794. Master of the mint, July, 1804; president of the board of trade, March, 1807. Foreign secretary, Oct. 1809; and colonial secretary from June, 1812, until April, 1827. John Jeffreys, viscount Bayham, a commissioner of trade. Succeeded as earl Camden, April, 1794. Lordlieutenant of Ireland, March, 1795. Lord president, July 10, 1805; again, March 26, 1807. Created earl of Brecknock and marquess Camden, Sept. 1812. May 4. Sylvester Douglas, secretary in Ireland. Sept. 28. William Shaw, lord Cathcart. Created A commissioner for India, June, 1795; a lord of the treasury, Feb. 1797. Created lord Glenbervie, Nov. 1800. Joint paymaster-general, March, 1801; vice-president of the board of trade, Nov. same year; surveyorgeneral of woods and forests, 1803; first commissioner of woods and forests, July, 1810. Oct. 24. Oct. 31. viscount Cathcart, Nov. 1807; and earl Cathcart, July, 1814. [Commanded the land forces in the expedition against Copenhagen, 1807.] Charles, earl of Harrington. Sir William Scott, knt., a commissioner of the board of trade. Judge of the high court of admiralty. Created lord Stowell, July, 1821. July 11. William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, earl Dec. 5. Thomas Grenville. Chief justice in Fitzwilliam, declared lord-president. Again, lord president, Oct. 19, 1805. [He was appointed lord-lieutenant of eyre, July, 1800; president of the India board, July, 1806; first lord of the admiralty, Sept. same year. Ireland, Dec. 1794; but was recalled Dec. 19. Robert, viscount Castlereagh, secretary March following, and succeeded by George-John, earl Spencer, lord privy seal. Lord of the admiralty, Dec. July 16. William Windham, secretary-at-war. Nov. 12. Sir Morton Eden, K. B., minister to Vienna, and previously to several Jan. 23. courts of Europe. Created lord Hen- Mar. 13. ley, Nov. 1799. Dec. 17. George Damer, viscount Milton, secretary for Ireland. Succeeded his father as earl of Dorchester, Feb. 1798. 1795. Mar. 11. Hon. Thomas Pelham, secretary for Ireland. Summoned to the house of peers, vitâ patris, as lord Pelham, June, 1801. Home secretary, July, same year. Chancellor of the duchy in Ireland. President of the India board, Sept. 1802; colonial secretary, July, 1805; again, March, 1807. Secretary of state for foreign affairs, from March, 1812, until his death, Aug. 1822. He had succeeded his father as marquess of Londonderry, in April, 1821. 1799. Sir William Fawcett, K. B., general. Robert Banks Jenkinson, lord Hawkesbury, master of the mint. Secretary of state for foreign affairs, Feb. 1801; home secretary, May, 1804. Summoned to the house of peers, vitâ patris, in his father's barony, Aug. 1806. Again home secretary, March, 1807. Succeeded as earl of Liverpool, Dec. 1808. Secretary of state for the colonies, Dec. 1809. First lord of the treasury from June 1812 until April 1827. of Lancaster, Nov. 1803. Succeeded June 5. H. R. H. EDWARD, duke of KENT: his father as earl of Chichester, Jan. 1805. Postmaster-general, May, 1807. July 29. Sir George Howard, K. B., field mar shal, governor of Jersey. July 3. July 18. introduced; not sworn. H. R. H. ERNEST AUGUSTUS, duke of CUMBERLAND : sworn. introduced; not Thomas, earl of Elgin, ambassador to Sir John Scott, lord chief justice of the Sept. 25. Isaac Corry, chancellor of the ex- Oct. 30. Ralph, lord Lavington, K. B., governor of the Carribean islands. During nearly half this term, marquess Camden relinquished the large income arising from the office of teller, amounting in the whole to upwards of a quarter of a million sterling, and placed it to the service of the state; an act of patriotism that throws a lustre over his name and character. His lordship died in 1840, at the age of eighty-two, having been one of the most respected noblemen of his time. 1800. May 28. George Canning, joint paymastergeneral. Secretary of state for foreign affairs, March 1807; president of the board of controul, June 1816; again foreign secretary, Sept. 1822. First minister of the crown, April 1827. June 25. William Dundas, a commissioner of the India board. Secretary-at-war, May, 1804. Nov. 5. Charles, lord Whitworth, late ambassador to Russia. Negotiated a peace with Denmark, 1801. Plenipotentiary to Paris, June, 1802. Created viscount Whitworth, June 1813. Lord-lieutenant of Ireland, Aug. same year. Earl, Nov. 1815. Feb. 20. John, earl St. Vincent, first lord of the Jan. 4. Hon. Arthur Paget, afterwards sir Aradmiralty. thur, G. C. B., minister to Vienna. Afterwards minister to the Sublime Porte. partment, July 1803. First lord of Jan. 20. Sir Evan Nepean, bart., secretary to the Mar. 17. Philip, earl of Hardwicke, lord-lieu the admiralty, May, 1810. tenant of Ireland. George, viscount Lewisham, president of the India board. Created, vitâ patris, baron Dartmouth. Succeeded his father as earl of Dartmouth, Nov. 1810. May 8. May 21. Sir William Grant, master of the rolls. May 14. lord-lieutenant of Ireland. Previously secretary to the admiralty, and subsequently a junior lord. Sir James Mansfield, knt., lord chief justice of the common pleas. George, earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham, groom of the stole. Lord George Thynne, comptroller of the household. Charles Abbot, chief secretary in Ire- June 6. Henry, lord Mulgrave, chancellor of the land. Speaker of the house of commons, Feb. 1802. Created lord Colchester, June 1817. Thomas Wallace, commissioner for the affairs of India. Again, April 1807. Vice-president of the board of trade, duchy of Lancaster. Secretary of state for foreign affairs, Jan. 1805; first lord of the admiralty, April 1807; master-general of the ordnance, May, 1810. Created viscount Normanby and earl of Mulgrave, Sept. 1812. Jan. 1818; master of the mint, Oct. June 27. William Drummond, late ambassador 1823. Created lord Wallace, Jan. Charles Long. A lord of the treasury, to the Sublime Porte. Charles Arbuthnot, ambassador extraordinary to Constantinople. Secretary to the treasury, 1810; first commissioner of woods and forests, Feb. 1823; chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, June 1828. July 11. Lord John Thynne, vice chamberlain of the household. Succeeded as lord Carteret, Feb. 1838. July 19. Granville Leveson, lord Gower, ambassador extraordinary to St. Petersburgh and to France. Viscount Granville, Aug. 1815, and earl Granville, May, 1833. May 1804. Secretary in Ireland, 1806. Jan. 14. John Hookham Frere, ambassador in Paymaster-general, April, 1807. Created lord Farnborough, Aug. 1826. Feb. 3. H. R. H. ADOLPHUS FREDERICK, DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE: introduced; not sworn. Spain. Nicholas Vansittart, secretary to the lord-lieutenant of Ireland. Secretary to the treasury, 1806. Chancellor of the exchequer from June 1812 until PRIVY COUNCILLORS. Feb. 1. H. R. H. WILLIAM FREDERICK, duke of GLOUCESTER : introduced; not sworn. Feb. 5. Francis, earl of Moira, master-general Feb. 7. Feb. 12. 5. March May 7. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, treasurer of Ireland. Henry, earl of Carnarvon, master of John Joshua, earl of Carysfort, joint Charles Augustus, lord Ossulston, trea- St. Andrew, lord St. John, of Bletsoe, William Elliot, chief secretary for Ire- George Ponsonby, lord high chancellor the exchequer of Ireland. of the ordnance. Governor-general June 18. Alexander, marquess of Douglas and Created viscount Loudoun, earl Rawdon, and marquess quess of Chandos and duke of Buck- July 21. Aug. 27. Clydesdale. Summoned to the house James, earl of Lauderdale, keeper of the great seal of Scotland. Henry Richard, lord Holland, lord privy seal. Sir John Anstruther, bart., late chief justice of the supreme court of judicature in Bengal. 1807. again, April 18, 1835; and a third Mar. 26. Hon. Spencer Perceval, chancellor of time, July 6, 1846. Hon. Charles Grey, first lord of the of the crown, Nov. 1830. Charles James Fox 1, secretary of state Feb. 7. George, viscount Morpeth, a commis sioner for India affairs. Succeeded Mar. 30. his father as earl of Carlisle, Sept. April 1. Lord John Townshend, joint paymaster- the exchequer. First minister of the crown from Dec. 6, 1809, until May 4, 1812, when he was assassinated by a person named Bellingham, in the lobby of the house of commons.2 Hon. Robert Dundas, president of the board of controul. Lord privy seal Succeeded his of Scotland, 1811. father as viscount Melville, May, same year. First lord of the admiralty, March, 1812. Sir James Pulteney, bart., secretary-at war. Charles, duke of Richmond and Lenox, Thomas, lord Erskine, lord high chan- April 8. Henry, viscount Melville: a member cellor of England. was now re-sworn. of the board of trade (his name which 1 Mr. Fox, who had been sworn of the council, March 30, 1782, but had been struck from the list, May 9, 1798, He had continually opposed himself to the minister and the government, and inveighed against the war with France; and while revolutionary principles had been making rapid progress, he attended popular meetings, and uttered such language as the following: "France," said Mr. Fox, "has set an example to all the nations of the earth, and above all to Great Britain." Again, at a meeting of the Whig Club, held at the Freemason's Tavern, he proposed a toast, "than which," he declared, "nothing could be better the sovereignty "" and he there drank of the people of England." Even after the erasure of his name from the council, he continued to express similar sentiments; and later, in 1802, at the anniversary of his election, celebrated at the Shakspeare, he said, "The peace (that of Amiens) is glorious to France and to the French Consul, and I rejoice at it;" "To the man whose glorious victories have given peace to the world." But Mr. Fox, at the same time, affirmed, almost as frequently as he spoke, that he "would be among the first to repel a foreign enemy, under whatever government England might be;" and however parties differed as to the soundness of his political views, and the propriety of his heated language on particular occasions, none doubted that he "loved his country with a patriot's love," and was "a sincere friend to the best interests of mankind." It will be observed, too, that the same sovereign who had struck out his name, now sanctioned his appointment as foreign minister. 2 The criminal, it was supposed at the time, had been lying in wait for lord Leveson Gower, late ambassador to the court of St. Petersburgh, and that Mr. Perceval fell a victim to the misdirected vengeance of a man who conceived himself injured by the conduct of that nobleman, for whom he had mistaken him. The assassin was tried, found guilty, and hanged, all within one week afterwards. |