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Feb. 2d. Right rev. Dr. Charles 

 Manners Sutton, bishop of Nor- 

 wich, recommended by conge cPelire, 

 to be elected archbishoj) of Canter- 

 bury, vice Ur. ]\Ioore, deceased. 



5fh. Sir John Colpoys, K. B. 

 and admiral of the blue, appointed 

 treasurer and receiver-general of 

 the royal hospital at Greenwich, 

 vice captain Jervis, deceased. Right 

 hon. William Hay, earl of Erroll, 

 appointed knight-marshall of Scot- 

 land, vice sir Robert Laurie de- 

 ceased. 



20th. Vicary Gibbs, esq. his ma- 

 jesty's solicitor-general, knighted. 



2lst. The most rev. father in 

 God Dr. Charles IManners Sutton, 

 lord archbishop of Canterbury, 

 sworn of his majesty's most hon. 

 privy council. 



22d. Edward Thornton, esq. ap- 

 pointed his majesty's minister-pleni- 

 potentiary to (he circle of Lower 

 Saxony, and resident with the Hans 

 Towns. 



23d. The hon. and rev. E. Legge, 

 L.L. B. appointed dean of his ma- 

 jesty's chapel royal in the castle of 

 Windsor, dean of Wolverhampton, 

 and registrar of the knights of the 

 most noble order of the garter, 

 thereunto annexed, vice Dr. Sutton, 

 bishop of Norwich, translated to 

 the arciiiepiscopal see of Canter- 

 bury. The hon. and rev. J. Mars- 

 ham, D. D. appointed prebendary 

 of his majesty's free chapel of St. 

 George, in the castle of Windsor, 

 vice Legge, rcsianed. 



Rev. John George Bcrcsford, 

 commonly called lord John George 

 Bcrcsford, dean of St. JMacartin's, 

 Clogher, promoted to the bishop- 

 rick of Cork and Ross, vice Dr. 

 Thoma-s Stopford, deceased. lL;v. 

 Richard Bagwell, M. A. promoted 

 tw the deaiiry of the cathedral 



church of St. Macartin's, Clogher, 

 vice Beresford, resigned. 



March 1st. Lord Henry Stuart, 

 appointed his majesty's envoy ex- 

 traordinary and minister-plenipo- 

 tentiary to the elector of Wirtem- 

 berg; the hon. William Hill, envoy- 

 extraordinary and minister-plenipo- 

 tentiary to the circle of Franconia; 

 the hon. John King, secretary of 

 legation to the elector of Wirtem- 

 berg ; Benjamin Bathurst, esq. se- 

 cretary of legation to the King of 

 Sweden ; and Andrew Allen, jun. 

 esq. consul for the states of New 

 Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode 

 Island, and Connecticut. 



9th. Rev. Henry Bathurst, L.L.D. 

 recoinmended, by co7ige (Telire to be 

 elected bishop of Norwich, vice Dr. 

 Sutton, archbishop of Canterbury. 



13th. Right hon. Francis lord 

 Napier, appointed his majesty's 

 high commissioner to the gencraj 

 assembly of the church of Scotland. 



Rev. Philip Fisher, elected master 

 of the charter-house, London, vice 

 Ramsden, deceased. 



The bishop of Durham, elected 

 visitor of Baliol-college, Oxford, 

 vice the late archbisliop of Canter- 

 bury. 



D'-Ewes Coke, esq. barrister-at- 

 law, appointed (by the duke of 

 Rutland) deputy recorder of the 

 borough of Grantham, vice Sir Tho- 

 mas Manners Sutton, resigned, 



Charles Saxton, esq. barrister-at- 

 lavv, elected recorder of the borough 

 of Abing'ion, Berks, vice sir Robert 

 Burton resigned. 



Jpril^lat. Josepli Sydney Yorkc, 

 esq. of the royal navy, knighted. 



27th Sir Charles Middleton, bart, 

 admiral of the white, created baron 

 Barham, of Barham-court and Tes- 

 ton, CO. Kent ; and in default of 

 male-issue, the dignity of a baroness 



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