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of Wales has been pleased to ap- 

 point John M'Malionj esq. to be 

 his vice-treasurer and commissioner 

 of accounts ; and Robert Gray, 

 esq. to be deputy-commissioner of 

 accounts. 



Feb. 1st. The king has been 

 pleased, by letters-patent under the 

 great seal of Great Britain, to con- 

 fer the dignity of a knight of the 

 said kingdom unto Edward Hamil- 

 ton, esq. captain in the royal navy, 

 and commander of his majesty's 

 ship the Surprize. 



William Thornton, esq, elected 

 a director of the East-India Com- 

 pany for two years. 



The marquis of Bute, elected a 

 trustee of the British Museum. 



Edward King, esq. of Lincoln's- 

 inn Fields, appointed vice-chancel- 

 lor of the ducliy and county-pala- 

 tine of Lancaster. 



4th. War-ufftcc. Invalids. En- 

 sign William Lodge, from the half- 

 pay of the 91st foot, to be lieute- 

 nant in the hon. major-general Na- 

 pier's independent company' of in- 

 valids at Guernsey, vice Brigges, 

 deceased. — Brevet. Captain W. A. 

 Phipps, inspector of tlie royal mili- 

 tary academy at Woolwich, to be 

 major in the army. — Hospital-staff. 

 Surgeon James M'Niell, to be as- 

 sistant-inspector of hospitals at Su- 

 rinam. — Barracks. David Scott, 

 gent, deputy barrack-master of 

 Fort-George, to be barrack-master 

 of Fort-Augustus. 



8th. Whitehall. Rev. Daniel 

 Robertson, presented to the church 

 and parisli of Meigle, in the pres- 

 bytery of Meigle and county of 

 Perth, vice Playfair, late minister 

 there, transported to the united 

 colleges of St. Salvador and St. 

 L«onard, in the university of St. 



Andrew ; and rev. John Sangster, 

 to the church and parish of Garvald, 

 in the presbytery of Haddington, 

 vice Nesbit, deceased. 



1 5th. War-qffice. His majesty 

 has been pleased to appoint the un- 

 dermentioned officers of the East- 

 India company's forces to take rank 

 by brevet in his majesty's army in 

 the East-Indies only: Majors Tho- 

 mas Holland, John Barton, Nicolas 

 Carnegie, James Gordon, John 

 Horseford, Richard Humphries, 

 Patrick Alexander Agnew, Edward 

 Gibbings, Robert Macka}^, John 

 Tindal Evans, Hector Macleane, 

 Robert Cameron, Thomas Dallas, 

 John Torin, Keith Macalister, 

 Chas. Frederick Mandeville, Rich- 

 ard Gore, Francis William Bellis, 

 John Little, John W^iseman, Henry 

 Oakes, Thomas Marshall, Charles 

 Reynolds, Burnaby Boles, George 

 William Mignan, William Home, 

 Andrew Anderson, Charles Boyle, 

 John Macdonald, James Romney, 

 Henry Long, Jacob Thompson, 

 Jeremiah Hawkes, John Baillie, 

 Joseph Bland, and William Henry 

 Blashford, to be lieutenant-colonels. 

 — Cajjtains Richard Walker, Ed- 

 ward Pennington, Thomas Polhill, 

 Alexander Legertwood, Andrew 

 Eraser, Edward Tolfrey, Samuel 

 Jeannerett, John Chalmers, and 

 George Knox, to be majors. — Bre- 

 vet. Captain Charles N. Cookson, 

 of the royal artillery, to be major 

 in the army. — Garrison : Lieute- 

 nant-general David Dundas, to be 

 governor of Landguard fort. 



21st. -SV. J unless. Right hon. 

 Thomas lord Bolton, took tlie oaths 

 on being appohited lord-lieutenant 

 of the county of Southampton, and 

 of the town of Southampton and 

 countv of the same. 

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