Dec. 2d. IVar-office. Brevet Lientenant-colonel John Frafer, commandant of a corps of infantry, to be colonel in the army. Barracks. Lachlan Maclean, to be barrack-mafter at Hamilton. 6th. Brevet Colonel Frederick Maitland, to be brigadier-general to the forces ferving in the Leeward Islands only. 9th. John Hiley Addington, efq. to be one of the lords commiffioners of the treasury, vice Sylvefter Douglas, created baron Glenbervie, of Kincardine, Ireland, and appointed governor of the Cape of Good Hope; right hon. Charles Sloane lord Cadogan, to be vilcount Chelfea, in the county of Middlefex, and earl Cadogan; right hon. James lord Malmesbury, K. B. to be vifcount Fitz-Harris, of Horn-Court, in the county of Southampton, and earl of Malmesbury. 16th. Right rev. William lord bishop of Armagh, and St. George Daly, efq. his majefty's prime ferjeant-at-law, fworn of the privycouncil of Ireland. 20th. Rev. George Murray, commonly called lord George Murray, recommended, by royal fign manual, to be elected bishop of St. David's. 20th. Right hon. John Toler, to be chief juftice of the court of common pleas of Ireland. 23d. Right hon. John Stewart, to be his majefty's attorney-general in Ireland; and William Smith, efq. to be his majefty's folicitor-general. Lord vilcount Loftus, John Stewart, efq. attorney-general, and Charles-Henry Coote, efq. fworn of the privy-council of Ireland. Dec. 27th. Dublin-cafle. The Dublin gazette notifies the elevation to the Irish peerage of lord Charles Fitzgerald, as lord Lecale; admiral Waldegrave, lord Radstock; Sylvefter Douglas, lord Glenbervie: John Toler, lord Norbury; and fir Alan Gardner, lord Gardner; the marchionefs of Buckingham, to be baronels Nugent, and her fecond fon, lord George Nugent Grenville, to be lord Nugent; Frederick Trench, lord Afhtown; general Eyre Maffey, lord Clarina; and the hon. Robert King, lord Erris. 29th. The Dublin Gazette announces the following creations: the earl of Inchiquin, to be marquis of Thomond; earl of Bective, marquis of Headfort; earl of Altamont, marquis of Sligo; and earl of Ely, marquis of Ely; vifcount Caftle Stewart, earl of ditto; viscount Donoughmore, earl ditto; vifcount Kenmare, earl of ditto; earl Clanricarde, the title in reverfion to his daughters; lord Glentworth, vifcount Limerick; lord Somerton, archbishop of Cahel, vifcount Somerton; lord Yelverton, viscount Avonmore; lord Longueville, vifcount, ditto; lord Bantry, vifcount ditto; lord Monck, vifcount ditto; lord Kolconnet, vifcount Dunbar ; lord Tullamore, vifcount Charleville; and lord Kilwarden, viscount ditto. 30th. Whitehall. Henry earl of Exeter, advanced to a marquis. 31ft. Dublin. Lord Conyngham, elected a knight of the order of St. Patrick. Edward Chriftian, efq. barristerat-law, and Downing, profeffor of the laws of England in Cambridge univerfity, appointed, by the bishop of Ely, chief juftice of his franchife in the Ife of Ely. Hon. Spencer Perceval, M. A. of Trinity-college, appointed counfel lor to the University of Cambridge. DEATHS. E 4 DEATHS in the Year 1800. Jan. 3d. Sir William Mufgrave, bart. V. P. R. S. and F. A. S. a truftee of the British Museum, formerly a commiffioner of his majefty's cuftoms, and afterwards an auditor of the public accompts. 6th. Aged 72, the right honourable Wilmott Vaughan, earl of Lifburne, in the kingdom of Ireland. He reprefented his native county of Cardigan near 40 years. 7th. Sir Edward Baynton, bart. aged 90 years. Henry, 12th lord Roper, of Teynham, born May 3, 1764; fucceeded his father, Henry, 1786; and, dying unmarried, is fucceeded by his only brother. 11th. At Mr. Coke's, at Holkham, in Norfolk, Charles Nevinfon, viscount Andover, eldest son of the earl of Suffolk. He was born May 13, 1775. Returning from foot ing on the 8th, he handed to his fervant his fowling-piece, which went off at the inftant, and the hot penetrated his right fide and lungs. He furvived only three days. His lady was Mr. Coke's daughter. received in one of his arms foon caused an amputation to take place. He received the bishoprick of Waterford during his pupil's adminitration. 22d. In Lombard-ftreet, Mrs. Efther Ellis, daughter of William Fuller, efq. banker*, and wife of Mr. Thomas Ellis, tanner. She has left an only daughter. For Aged 64, after a few days illnefs, the Rev. John Warner, D. D. fon of the rev. Dr. Ferdinando W. (many years rector of Barnes, in Surrey, and author of the "Hiftory of Ireland," &c) He was of Trinitycollege, Cambridge; B. A. 1753; M. A. 1761; D. D. 1773. many years he poffeffed an unusual degree of popularity as a pleafing, manly, and eloquent preacher, at a chapel, his private property, in Long-acre; (which he fold to the late Dr. King, who had before been chaplain to the British factory at St. Petersburgh.) He was prefented, in 1771, to the united rectories of Hockliffe and Chalgrave, in Bedfordshire; and was afterwards prefented, by fir Richard Colt Hoare, bart. to the valuable rectory of Stourton, Wilts. Lady Elizabeth Worley, widow of the late fir Thomas Worfley, bart. in her 69th year. At Dublin, Dr. William Newcome, archbishop of Armagh. He At his houfe, at Hampstead, was of Hertford-college, Oxford, George Steevens, efq. F. R. and where he took the degrees of M. A. A. SS. the celebrated commentator Oa. 19, 1753; B. D. Oa. 30, on Shakespeare. 1765; and D. D. Nov. 6, 1765. He was in the 71ft year of his age, and had fucceffively filled the fees of Dromore 1766, Offory 1775, and Waterford 1779, till he was advanced to the primacy by earl Fitzwilliam, in January, 1795. He was buried in New College Chapel, Dublin. Dr. Newcome was private tutor to Mr. Fox, when that gentleman was at college. A wound which he at that time accidentally At Berlin, in his 87th year, count Finkenstein, the oldest of all the ftatefmen in Europe, and Pruffian minifter of ftate. In 1735, he entered on his diplomatical career, as ambaffador to the court of Sweden; from 1740 to 1742, he was at the Danish court; after which, he was fent to the king of England, See the Chronicle for a fhort account of Mr. Fuller. George George II. who was then on the banks of the Rhine, on business of great importance. He was afterwards ambaffador at Petersburgh, where he remained a twelvemonth, when he was appointed to the important ftation of minifter of the cabinet, which he held ever fince 1749, full fifty years. 27th. The rev. Dr. John Warren, lord bishop of Bangor. He was of Caius-college, Cambridge, where he proceeded B. A. 1750; M. A. 1754; and D. D. 1772. In 1779, he was promoted to the fee of St. David's; from whence, in 1783, he was tranflated to Bangor. The moft hon. Charlotte Jane Windfor, marchioness of Bute. At Gompas, in Hungary, a fhepherd, in the 126th year of his age. His manner of living was extremely fimple; he never ate any meat, but fubfifted entirely on milk, butter, and cheese, and had never been ill in his life. At Aufburg, baron de Steiger. The reigning prince bifhop of Conftance. At Nice, after twelve days illness of a putrid fever, general Championet, commander of the French republican army of Italy. At Nancy, Nicolas Guillemin, M. D. formerly professor of materia medica and botany in the medical college of that city. At Bourdeaux, citizen Garat, formerly an advocate there, and afterwards a member of the conftituent national affembly. At Drefden, in his 77th year, the Saxon minifter of ftate, Louis de Wurmb. Feb. 6th. At Cambridge, Robert Glynn Clobery, M. D. fellow of King's-college, 1737; A. B. 1741; A. M. 1745; M.D. 1752; and fel low of the college of phyficians of London, 1763. He practifed first as a phyfician at Richmond, but afterwards at Cambridge, where he conftantly refided. In 1785, he received the Seatonian prize for the poem on "The Day of Judgement," which, however, was generally believed to be the production of another fellow of the college, not then of ftanding to be a candidate for it. He changed his name to Clobery for an eftate left him by an uncle. At Hamburgh, in the 85th year of her age, her excellency Sophia Charlotte, countefs dowager of Bentinck, only child of the late count Aldenburgh, and of the princess of Varel, widow of the late hon. William count Bentinck Rhoon, fecond fon of the firft earl of Portland, and grandmother to the prefent count Bentinck Rhoon, and of governor Bentinck, the latter of whom she has left her heir. In the city manfion-house, in Dawfon-ftreet, Dublin, the right hon. John Sutton, lord mayor of that city. He is the 7th magftirate who has died in that office fince the revolution. 10th. In his 57th year, cardinal Altieri. He renounced his dignity while Rome was in the hands of the French; which step he repented publicly, previous to his death, in a printed pamphlet, in which he entreats the pardon of God and the church for his fear of men. 21ft. In her 57th year, after a reign of four years, the princefs abbefs of Lindau, baronefs of Ulm. 24th. In her 80th year, Elizabeth Douglas Hamilton, countess dowager Brooke and of Warwick, eldest daughter of lord Archibald Hamilton, the youngeft fon of Anne, duchefs of Hamilton in her own right, and William Douglas, earl of Selkirk, created duke of Hamilton in 1661. Lady Archibald Hamilton, her mother, was the daughter of James carl of Abercorn, defcended from Claud Hamilton, youngest fon of James Hamilton, earl of Arran, and duke of Chatelherault. She was, by her own direction, interred in a very private manner in Weftminster-abbey, where her remains have been depofited with thofe of her maternal grandfather and grandmother, in the Ormond vault in Henry the Seventh's chapel. March 5th. At Pontoife, in France, George Barnewell, vifcount Kingf land, nephew to earl Fauconberg. John Macbride, efq. admiral of the blue. Sir Thomas Shirley, bart. many years governor and commander-inchief of the islands of Antigua, St. Chriftopher's, &c. and a general in the army. The right hon. Jane lady dowager Erne, relict of the late lord Erne. 17th. At Liege, the hon. and rev. William Afton, prebend of the collegiate church of St. John the Evangelift in that town, and brother to lord Afton, of Forfar. He died in diftrefs from the revolutionary government of that unhappy country. Hon. Daines Barrington, F. R. and A. S. S. fourth fon of the first vifcount Barrington, fo well known by his Mifcellanea Sacra," by Anne, his wife, daughter and coheirefs of fir William Daines. John vifcount Barrington of the kingdom of Ireland had iffue fix fons, viz. 1. William, his fucceffor in the peerage; 2. Francis, died young; 3. John, a major-general, who reduced Guadaloupe, and was governor of Berwick; 4. Daines, the fubject of this article; 5. Samuel, the cele brated admiral; 6. Shute, bishop of Durham, &c. He was one of his majefty's counfel learned in the law, and a bencher of the honourable fociety of the Inner Temple; appointed, May 24, 1751, marshal of the high court of admiralty in England, which he refigned in 1753, on being appointed fecretary for the affairs of Greenwich-hospital; was appointed a Welf judge on the North-Wales circuit, 1757; and afterwards fecond juftice of Chefter, which he refigned after 1785, we believe, on a penfion, and, at his death, retained only the place of commiflary-general of the ftores at Gibraltar. Although Mr. B. claimed no high diftinction as a lawyer, he was univerfally allowed to be a profound and judicious antiquary. His firft publication, which will al ways maintain its rank, and has gone through five editions, the au: thor liberally canceling each preceding at his own expenfe, was 66 Obfervations on the Statutes, chiefly the more ancient, from Magua Charta to 21st James I. c. 27; with an Appendix, being a Propofal for new-modeling the Statutes, 1766," 4to. two editions in one year. He was alfo the author of many valuable papers in the Archæologia, and the Philofophical Tranfactions. John vifcount Arbuthnot, lord Inverbervie. Lady Chapman, widow of fir John Chapman, bart. The rev. John Norbury, fellow of Eton-college. He was the fon of a barrister in Chefhire. He was admitted into King's-college 1744, and took the degrees of A. B. 1746; A. M. 1750; S. T. P. 1784. On 3d Dec. 1783, he was chofen fellow of Eton. On the death of Mr. Barnard, 1772, he fucceeded to the living of Maple Durham, in Oxford fire, for which he refigned the rectory of Walton-upon-Trent, in Derbyshire, to which he had been prefented by the marquis of Townfend. He was many years an affiftant at Eton, and published, in 1793, a tranflation into Greek verfe of Gray's Elegy in a Country Church-yard. Aged 83, lady Hawkins, relict of fir Chriftopher Hawkins, bart. Lady Charlotte Radclyffe, daugh ter of the hon. Charles Radclyffe, by the countels of Newburgh, who was a Scotch peerefs in her own right. The hon. colonel Rawdon, M P. for the city of Lincoln, brother to the earl of Moira, and nephew to the late earl of Huntingdon; and traced, in his very illuftrious anceftry, the blood royal of the Plantagenets. The lady of fir Thomas Miller, bart. Sir John Menzies, bart. He has left a widow without any iffue, lady Charlotte, eldest daughter of the duke of Athol. The title and eftate devolve to Robert Menzies, efq. of Edinburgh. Philip Wenman, feventh lord vilcount Wenman, baron Wenman, of Kilmaynham, and a baronet. He was born April 18, 1742, and was united July 7, 1766, to the lady Eleanora Bertie, fifth daughter of Willoughby, earl of Abingdon; but, having no iffue, the title is ex tinct. April 6th. Right hon. James Stewart Mackenzie, lord privy feal of Scotland, fecond brother of John third earl of Bute; elected M. P. for Argylefhire, in 1740; Bute, 1747; burghs of Air, &c. 1754; Rofsfhire, 1761; envoy extraordi nary to the king of Sweden, 1759, He fucceeded to the estate of Rofehaugh by the entail of his great grandfather, fir George Mackenzie, whofe name and arms he took. He married lady Betty Campbell, one of the daughters and co-heireffes of of John duke of Argyle. At Oldenburgh, in Germany, the right hon. lady Ifabella-Henrietta de Ginkell, fourth daughter of the earl of Athlone, and fifter of lord Aghrim. Her ladyfhip was, fome time back, united to her relation, baron W. T. de Recde. At Perth, Elípet Watson, at the great age of 115. She was born in 1685, in the reign of James II. and is probably the laft Scottish fubject born in the reign of that prince. She was undoubtedly one of the fmalleft, or rather fhorteft women in the three kingdoms. When in the prime of life, fhe did not exceed two feet nine inches in height. She has not had any other way of living, for many years, but begging her bread from door to door; and fo ftrong a predilection had flie for this way of life, that she went her ufual rounds till within a few weeks of her death, although he had more than 301. fterling of ready cash in her poffeffion when he died. At Berlin, in his 81ft year, the Pruffian minifter of state, count Blumanthel. He had retired from the greater part of his public functions fome time, and only retained the infpection of the royal treasury. At Vienna, count Nadafti, imperial field-mar@hal-lieutenant, and proprietor of a regiment of infantry. At Nice, of abfolute want, the artist Corbion, master of the celebrated Viotti. At |