500 
appointed commissioners for audit- 
ing the public accounts. 
11th. Horatio Nelson Thompson, 
an infant, authorized to assume and 
use the surname of Nelson only, in 
compliance with an injunction con- 
tained in a codicil annexed to the 
Jast will and testament of the late 
-lord viscount Nelson. 
Gilbert Blane, of Cleveland-row, 
M.D. F.R.S. appointed (by the 
prince of Wales) one of his physi- 
cians in ordinary, vice Dr. Turton, 
deceased ; and William Fraser, of 
Lower Grosvenor street, M. D. and 
William Saunders, of Russel-square, 
M. D. to be his royal highness’s phy- 
sicians extraordinary. 
14th. Edward Dawson, esq. ap- 
ointed standard bearer to his ma- 
jesty’s honourable band of gentle- 
men pensioners, vice Frederick, re- 
signed. 
15th. Right hon. Henry Richard 
lord Holland, sworn keeper of the 
privy seal. 
Right rev. William Cleaver, D.D. 
bishop of Bangor, recommended by 
conge d'elire, to be elected bishop of 
St. Asaph, vice Dr. Horsley, de- 
ceased.—Augusta Murray, (com- 
monly called the right hon. lady 
Augusta Murray) second daughter 
of John-carl of Dunmore, autho- 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806. 
rized, out of respect to herdescent, 
from the family of De Ameland, to - 
take and use the surname of De 
Ameland, instead of her present . 
surname of Murray. 
24th. Right honourable Charles 
Bathurst, appointed master and 
worker of the mint. 
25th. Rev. John Martin, pre- 
sented to the church and parish of 
Kirkaldy, in the presbytery of Kirk- 
aldy, and county of Fife, vice rev. 
Dr. Thomas Freeling, promoted to 
the church and parish of lady Yes- 
ters, in Edinburgh. 
Thomas Francis Fremantle, and 
William Frankland, esqrs. appoint- 
ed lords commissioners of the admi- 
ralty, vice sir Philip Stephens, and 
sir Charles Pole, resigned ; the for- 
_mer on a pension*, the latter, to 
have a command in the Channel 
fleet. eee: 
29th. Sir George Hilaro. Barlow, 
bart. appointed one of the knights 
companions of the Order of the 
Bath. ; 
Sir Philip Francis, invested with 
the Order of the Bath. 
Nov. 4th. Right hon, Alexander 
Hamilton (commonly called marquis 
of Douglas and Clydesdale) sum- 
moned to the house of peers, by the 
style and title of baron of Dutton, 
county | 
* Mr. T. Grenville, first lord of the admiralty, laid before his majesty, at the 
levee, on Friday, October 24, the resignation of sir PhilipStephens, asa lord of the 
admiralty, who retires on account of old age. He likewise Jaid before his majesty 
a memorial from sir Philip, praying for a pension. » It stated that he wasa clerk in 
phe Navy Office several years in the reign of George II. from which he was re- 
moved, in 1751, to be the senior clerk of the Admiralty ; in which situation he 
tinued till 1759, when he was appointed second secretary, under Mr,Cleveland; and 
upon his death, in 1763, he was appointed sole secretary, which situation he held 
twenty years. In 1795 he was made one of the lords commissioners of the Ad- 
miralty ; and, in the whole, had been employed 61 years in the public service ; 
and, being now 83 years of age, he found himself too infirm to execute the duties - 
of his office with satisfaction to himself. [is majesty, under these peculiar cir- 
cumstances, was pleased to order him a pension of 15001. per aunum net. -This is 
the first instance of a lord of the admiralty being allowed a pension upon retiring 
from office, 
