waist. BIRTHS for the Year 1790. Jan. 1. Lady Compton, a fon and Feb. heir. 21. Lady of Sir Tho. Whichcote, bart. a fon. 9. Lady of Reg. Pole Carew, efq. M. P. a daughter. 13. Lady Warren, of Stapleford-hall, a daughter. 24. Right hon: lady Charlotte Dundas, a daughter. of St. Paul's fchool, from which em- fured 6 feet 4. inches round the ployment he had retired near twenty years. He died in the 77th year of his age. The mercers company had fo great an opinion of his worth, and fo much gratitude for his fervices, that they would not confent to his refignation, until he had named his fucceffor; and they fettled upon him, during his life, one hundred guineas a year. The late Mr. Holbeach, a bachelor of large fortune in Warwickshire, had been Mr. Thickneffe's friend from the time he was upon the foundation at Winchefter; and, when he refigned St. Paul's fchool, the good old man defired him to retire to a wing of his old manfion-house, which he had left standing for that purpose more than fifty years before. When Mr. Thickneffe arrived at this pleafant remnant of hofpitality and goodness, fituated in the midst of a noble park, he found a good fire burning upon all the hearths in the houfe; his binns filled with wines, and an annuity upon his table, the donation of the generous owner: but alas! before the revolution of one year, while Mr. Thicknesse and he were at dinner together, the good old man threw his head back in his chair, and died without a groan. At Alderwafley, Derbyshire, aged 102, Dorothy Fletcher. At Carlmywark, Galloway, aged 108, Jane Walker. Af Limerick, aged 102, Mrs, Magee. Near Donaghadee, aged 107, Mr. James Cree. At Uttoxeter, in Staffordshire, a perfon of the name of Raulin, aged 32, nearly equal in weight to the celebrated Mr. Bright, of Effex, viz. 34 ftone. Though but 5 feet 6 inches and an half high, he mea March Lady Herbert, a daughter. Lady Apfley, a fon and heir. 16. Lady of fir John Frederick, bart. a daughter. 19. Hon. Mrs. Finch Hatton, a daughter, April 5. Lady of the bishop of Lincoln, a fon. 11. Lady viscount Falmouth, a 23. Lady of W. Baker, efq. 28. Lady of hon. colonel Fane, May 8. Rt. hon. lady John Ruffel, a fon. 10. Lady of fir John Rous, bart. a daughter. 21, At Paris, the duchefs of Devonshire, a fon and heir. Hon. Mrs. Clifford, of New June 14. Lady Haddo, a fon. [P4] 28. Lady 4. Lady of hon, Lewis Watfon, a daughter. 15. Rt. hon. lady Charlotte Lenox, a daughter, 16. Lady of J. Cox Hippifley, efq. M. P. a fon and heir. 20. Lady of col. North, a fon. Right hon, lady Arden, a daughter. Lady of Sam. Smith, efq. Sept. 18. Lady of fir David Carnegie, bart. a daughter. Lady of fir John Ingilby, bart. a daughter. 25. Lady of John Anftruther, efq. M. P. a fon. 30. Lady of hon. col. Rodney, a fon. Oct. 4. Countefs of Lauderdale, a daughter. 6. Lady of fir Geo, A. W. Shuckburgh, baronet, a daughter, 8. Lady of fir Wm, Cunningham, bart. a fon, 9. Lady Grace Douglas, of 15. Lady of fir James Col- viscount Hinchinbrook, to 27. Col. Freemantle to the hon. July. In Italy, earl of Home to April. Rev. J. Eyre to Mifs Char- 13. Hon. Mr. Townshend to May. Col. Loftus to the right hon. Aug. Wm. Hen. Beauchamp, efq. Ch. Yorke, efq. M. P. to Mifs Harriet Manningham. Humph. Prideaux, efq. to Mils St. Aubyn, daughter of the late fir J. St. Aubyn, bart. Marquis of Graham to lady Caroline Montagu, filter of the duke of Manchef. ter. W. P. Hamond, efq. to Mifs, Carr, daughter of fir Rob. Carr, bart, Sir Wm. Wake, bart. to Mifs Sitwell. Hon. capt. Townshend to Mifs Gladwyn. Wm. Trenchard, efq. to lady Hefter Amelia de Burgh, fifter of the marquis of Clanricarde. Sir Griffith Boyntun, bart. to Mifs Parkhurst. Hon. Spencer Perrival to Mifs Jane Wilfon, daughter of fir Tho. Spencer Wilfon, bart. Benj. Jennings, efq. to the dow. vifcounters Dudley to Mifs Stirling, daugh- PROMOTIONS for the ter of fir W. Stirling, of Ardock, bart. Rowland Bateman, efq. to Mifs Arabella Denny, daughter of fir Barry Denny, bart. Oct, 6. John Wigften, efq. to Mifs Lake,daughter of fir James Winter Lake, bart. Chrift. Mufgrave, efq. fecond fon of fir Philip Mufgrave, to the hon. Mifs Archer. 12. Earl of Donegall to Mifs Barbara Godfrey. John Wharton, efq. M. P. to Mifs Sufan Lambton, daughter of gen. Lamb ton. Year 1790. January. Alan Gardner, efq. appointed one of the commiffioners for executing the office of high admiral of Great Britain and Ireland, vice Gower, refigned. Hon. Mifs Julia Digby, appointed one of the maids of honour to her majefty, vice Gunning, refigned. Wm. Bellingham, efq. appointed one of the commiffioners in quality of a principal officer of his majefty's navy, vice Campbell, deceased. Francis Stephens, efq. appointed á commiffioner for victualling his majesty's navy, vice Bellingham refigned. Henry Hamilton, efq. appointed governor governor and commander in chief of the Bermuda or Somers Iflands, vice Browne. Febr. Major - general Thomas Stirling to be colonel of the 41ft regiment of foot, vice major-general M'Nab, deceased. The earl of Chefterfield to be, joint poftmafter-general, vice the earl of Westmoreland, lord lieut. of Ireland. The right hon. John Charles Villiers to be chief justice in Eyre North of Trent. The hon. Dudley Ryder to be comptroller of his majefty's household, in the room of the right hon. John Charles Villiers, refigned. George Auft, efq. to be joint under fecretary of state with Mr. Burges, vice the hon. Mr. Ryder. March. The earl of Leicefter to be mafter of the mint, vice the earl of Chefterfield; and viscount Falmouth to be captain of the band of gentlemen penfioners, vice the earl of Leicester. Earl Harcourt to be master of the horfe to her majefty, vice the earl of Waldegrave, deceased. Doctor William Black to be firft phyfician to his majefty in Scotland. John Hunter, efq. to be furgeongeneral of his majefty's forces, and infpector of the regimental hofpitals, vice Robert Adair, deceased. Surgeon Thomas Keate, of the ift reg. of foot guards, to be furgeon of Chelfea-hofpital. Sir William Scott, to be mafter of the faculties, in the room of the late bishop of St. Afaph. Commiffioner Martin, of the dock-yard at Portsmouth, to be comptroller of the navy, vice fir Charles Middleton, refigned. The right hon. Dudley Ryder, to be one of his majesty's commiffioners for the affairs of India. Mr. Nicholas, member for Cricklade, and Mr. Buller, to be commiffioners of excise. April. The right hon. lord Henry John Spencer, his majesty's fecretary of embaffy to the ftates-general of the United Provinces, to the character of his majesty's minifter plenipotentiary to their high mightinefies. James Duff, efq. to be his majesty's conful at Cadiz. Sir Alexander Hood, to be rear admiral of Great Britain, in the room of admiral Darby, deceased. George Hammond, efq. to be fecretary of legation at the court of Copenhagen. Charles Henry Talbot, of Belfast, efq. to the dignity of a baronet of Ireland. The right Rev. Father in God Lewis lord bishop of Norwich tranflated to the fee of St. Afaph. June. Colonel George Hotham, David Dundas, Adam Williamfon, Robert Abercromby, Gerard Lake, Thomas Mufgrave, Jofeph Goreham, Guftavus Guydickens, John Manfell, George Morgan, Alexander Stewart, James Coates, Ralph Dundas, Richard Whyte, Alured Clarke, and James Hugonin, to be major-generals in the army. Right hon. John James earl of Abercorn, to be governor of the counties of Donegal and Tyrone, in Ireland. The Rev. Charles Morgan, A. M. to the deanry of his majefty's cathedral church of St. Patrick, in the diocefe of Ardagh, in Ireland. The Rev. John Horne, D. D. dean of Canterbury, to the bishop |