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than Faulkner, esq. to sir Thomas 

 Louis. The under-mentioned cap- 

 tains were also appointed ilag- 

 ofiicers of his majesty's fleet, viz. 

 from John M'Dougali, cs(j. to Phi- 



r, Up D'Auvergne, prince of Bouillon, 

 to be rear-admirals of the blue. — 

 Riclnrd Goodwin Keats, esq. Ed- 

 ward Biiller, esq. and the hon. 



' ■ Robert Stopford, to be colonels of 

 his majesty's royal marine forces, 

 vice George IMartin, esq. Sir Richard 

 John btrachan, bart. and sir William 

 Sydney Smith, knt. appointed llag- 

 officjrs. 



15th. John Clerk, esq. advocate, 



, appointed, by the prince of Wales, 

 his royal highness's solicitor-general 

 for Scotland, lice William Robert- 

 son, esq. now lord Robertson. 



19th. The most hon. Richard 

 marquis Wellcsky, K. P. permitted 

 to receive and wear the insignia and 

 order of the crescent, which the 

 grand signior has transmitted to 

 him. 



21st. Right hon. Edward earl of 

 Powis, sworn of his majesty's most 

 honourable jjrivy council, and de- 

 clared lieutenant-general and gene- 

 ral-governor of that part of the 

 united kingdom called Ireland, vice 

 Earl Ilardv.ickc. 



23d. General the right hon. lord 

 Cathcart, invested with the ensigns 

 of the most ancient and most noble 

 order of the thistle, his lordship 

 having previously received the ho- 

 nour of knighthood from his ma- 

 jesty. 



25th. His royal highness Edward 

 duke of Kent, appointed keeper and 

 y)aler of the house and park of 

 Hampton Court, and mower of the 

 brakes there, and of the herbage 

 and pannage of the said park, with 

 the wood called browsings, wind- 

 fall wood, and dead wood, happeTBu 



ing in the said park ; and of all the 



barns, stables, outhouses, gardens, 

 and curtileges, belonging to the 

 great lodge in the said park, to- 

 gether with the said lodge itself, &c. 

 during his majesty's pleasure. 



26 th. James Willis, esq. ap- 

 pointed a commissioner for managing 

 his majesty's customs, vice Agar, 

 deceased. 



30th. Sir C. Green, knt. major- 

 general of his majesty's forces, col. of 

 the regiment of York light infantry 

 volunteers, and governor oi Suri- 

 nam ; and George Prevost, esq. 

 major-general of his majesty's forces, 

 governor of the island of Dominica, 

 and lieutenant-colonel of the 60th 

 (or royal American) regiment of 

 foot ; created baronets. 



December 7th. Rev. Thomas 

 Rennell, D. D. appointed dean of 

 AV inchester, vice Dr. Robert Holmes, 

 deceased. 



DEATHS in the Year 1805. 



Jan. 1st. At Nantcribba-hall, in 

 Montgomeryshire, George Deve- 

 reux, viscount Hereford, and a ba- 

 ronet, premier viscount of England; 

 born April 25, 1744, succeeded his 

 brother Edward Aug. 21, 1783, 

 married Dec. 15, 1768, his cousin 

 JMarianna, only daughter and heiress 

 of George Devereux, esq. of Tre- 

 goyd, in Brecknockshire, by whom 

 (wUo died April 10, 1707), he had 

 thirteen children, of whom one sou 

 aud live daughters are living. He is 

 succeeded in title and estates by his 

 son Henry, now viscount Hereford. 



2nd. At Baylis, near Salt-hill, 

 suddenly, inhis7L'd year, Alexander 

 Wedderburn, fcarl of Rosslyn, baron 

 of Loughborough ; an elder brother 

 of the Trinity-house, and a trustee 



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