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Francis Drake, efq. appointed 
fecretary of legation at the court 
of Copenhagen. 
George Auguftus F rederick Lake, 
 efg. appointed one of the pages of 
honour to the prince of Wales. 
Alex. Shaw, efq. appointed lieut. 
governor of the lile of Man, vice 
Dawfon, refigned. 
His royal highnefs prince Wil- 
liam Henry duke of Clarence, pro- 
moted to the rank of rear-admiral 
ef the blue. 
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DEATHS for the Year 1790. 
Jan. At Lyons, fir Wm. Mere- 
dith, bart. He was elected.a repre- 
fentative in parliament. for Wigan 
' in 1755, and for Liverpool in 1762. 
In 1764 he was appointed a lord 
commifiicner of the admiralty, which 
he refigned the year following, on 
the diimiflion of the marquis of 
Roekingham. In 1768, he was 
again elected for Liverpool, and 
was afterwards appointed comp- 
troller of the hotfehold, from 
which office he was difmifled feve- 
ral years before his death. os 
At his feat at Killrudery, county 
of Wicklow, the right hon. Anthony 
_Brabazon, earl of "Meath. _ He was 
~ born in February, 1721; married, 
1758, Grace, daughter of, Jn. Leigh, 
efg. of Rofs Garland, county of 
Wexford, and had iffue four fons 
and fix daughters. His third fur- 
viving fon, William, lord Ardee, 
born 1769, lately elected knight of 
the fhire for the county of Dublin, 
fucceeds him in his honours and 
eftates. se 
Feb. In her 32d year, lady Hof- 
kyns, wife of fir Hungerford Hof- 
kyns, bart. only daughter of Edwin 
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Francis Stanhope, efq. groom of 
the chambers to her majefty. 
Geo. Darby, efq. rear-admiral of 
England, and an elder brother of 
the T'rinity-houfe, in which he is 
fucceeded by the right hon. William 
Pitt. 
March. Aged near 60, of a fe. 
ver and ftone in his bladder, Dr.* 
Samuel Hallifax, bifhop and arch- 
deacon of St. Afaph, to which fee 
he was-tranilated from Gloucefter, 
in March, 1789.—He was a prelate 
of great knowledge, and of great a~ 
bility; an incomparable civilian, and 
an extremely acute public fpeaker. 
His fermons at bifhop Warburton’s 
leétures and other writings are much 
efteemed, and are written with great 
_ elegance of ftyle, as well as with 
.much profundity of thinking. 
Sir John Coghill, bart. of ‘Cog 
hill-hall, in the county of York, 
- In his 19th year, Mr. Richard 
Green, of Minfterley. 
At Cambro, in Scotland, fir 
Charles Erfkine, bart. 
At Leinfter-houfe, Dublin, lady 
Augufta Fitzgerald, youngeftdaugh-~ 
ter of the duke of Leintter. 
Right Rey. Dr. Ch. Jackfon, 
lord bifhop of Kildare. 
April... Charlotte Countefs of 
Fauconberg. She was daughter of 
.the late fir Matthew Lambe, bart. 
and fifter of the prefent lord Mel- 
bourne ; ‘and: was married, May 29, 
1766, to Henry earl Fauconberg, 
by whom fhe had fowr daugh- 
ters. 
- Sidi Mahomet, emperor of Mo- 
roceo, Whilft taking the air on 
horfeback, he. was feized with a- 
pain near his heart; and-a ftorm 
fuddenly arifing, he called, with 
fome exertion, for his coach; was 
.placed in it, and inftantly expired. ° 
His 
