Knights Commanders of the Order of the Bath.

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They shall not be entitled to the appellation, style, precedence, or privileges of Knights Bachelors, but they shall take place and precedence of all esquires of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

17th, No officer shall be nominated a companion of the said most honourable order, unless he shall have received, or shall hereafter receive, a medal, or other badge of honour, or shall have been specially mentioned by name in dispatches published in the London Gazette, as having distinguished himself by his valour and conduct in action against his Majesty's enemies, since the commencement of the war in 1803, or shall hereafter be named in dispatches published in the London Gazette, as having distinguished himself.

18th, The Companions of the said order shall wear the badge assigned to the third class pendant by a narrow red ribband to the button hole.

19th, And his Royal Highness the Prince Regent hath been pleased to ordain and enjoin, that the said knights commanders, and the said companions, shall be governed by the rules and regulations which his Royal Highness, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, hath been graciously pleased to make, ordain, and enjoin for them: and by such other rules and ordinances as may be from time to time made and ordained by his Majesty, his heirs, and successors, Kings of this realm.

And his Royal Highness the Prince Regent hath been pleased to appoint, that Sir George Nayler, Knt. genealogist, and Blanc Coursier Herald of the Order of the Bath, and York Herald, shall be the Officer of Arms attendant upon the said Knights Commanders and Companions; and also to command, that the Officers hereby appointed Knights Commanders, and those who shall hereafter be respectively nominated and constituted Knights Commanders or CompaЯions, shall immediately after such nomination transmit to the said Sir George Nayler, a statement of their respective military services, verified by their signatures, in order that the same may be by him recorded in books appropriated to the said Knights Commanders and Companions.

And his Royal Highness has also been pleased to approve, that Mr. Wm. Woods be the secretary appertaining to the said Knights Commander and Companions.

The Gazette of January 10, contains a further ordinance relative to the new classes of the order, according to which fifteen officers in the East India Company's service, holding commissions from the King not below the rank of Lieut.-Colonel, are advanced to the dignity of Knights Commanders; and a proportionate number of officers belonging to the same army, are admitted into the third class as companions of the order.

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Promotions and Appointments.] Henry Alexander, esq. to be oculist in ordinary to her Majesty, and surgeon oculist to his Majesty.

Edward Davies, esq. to be his Majesty's chamberlain, and chancellor of South Wales, in the counties of Carmarthen, Pembroke, and Cardigan.

The Hon. William Temple, to be secretary of legation, at the court of Stockholm. Dec. 27. The dignity of baronet was conferred on the following gentlemen: Sir Alexander Campbell, knt, commander of the forces in the Isle of France. Right Hon William M'Mahon, master of the rolls in Ireland.

George Buchan Hepburn, esq. late one of the barons of the exchequer in Scotland. Right Hon. John Majoribanks, lord provost of Edinburgh.

John Silvester, esq. recorder of London. Thomas Hugh Clifford. esq. of Tixall, Staffordshire.

John Simeon, esq. of Glazeley, Berks. Guy Campbell, esq. major in the 6th regiment of foot.

Gilbert King, of Charlestown, county Ros-, common, colonel in the army.

John Jackson, esq. of Ailsey, Bedfordsh. Henry Stewart, esq. of Allanton, with remainder to his son-in-law, Reginald Mac Donald, of Staffa, esq.

George Griffith Williams, esq. of Llwyny, Wormwood, Carmarthen.

David Dundas, esq. of Richmond, Surrey, serjeant-surgeon to the King.

Robert Holt Leigh, esq. of Whitley, Lancaster, with remainder to the heirs male of his father.

Edmund Antrobus, esq. of Antrobus, Cheshire, with remainder to his nephews, Edmund Antrobus, jun. and Gibbs Crawford Antrobus, esq.

Samuel Egerton Brydges, esq. of DentonCourt, Kent.

Jonathan Wathen Waller, esq. of Braywick-Lodge, Berks.,

John Compton Domville, esq. of Santry House, co. Dublin.

Thomas Preston, esq. of Beeston St. Lawrence, Norfolk.

Rose Price, esq. of Treagwainton, Cornwall. Sir Hew Dalrymple, knt. of High Marll, Wigtown, general in the army.

Sir John Hamilton, knt. of Woodbrook, co. Tyrone, lieutenant-general in the army.

Richard Mountjoy Jephson, esq. of Spring Vale, Dorset, late judge-advocate, and judge of the vice-admiralty court at Gibraltar.

Ecclesiastical Preferments.] The Rev. Dr. Barrow, to the stall in the collegiate church of Southwell, Notts. vacant by the death of Dr. Berdmore.

The Rev. M. W. Jones, B. D. fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, to the vicarage of Ospringe, Kent.

The Rev. H. Salmon, B. A. of St. Joha's

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College, Cambridge, to be a minor canon of
Lichfield cathedral.

The Rev. D. Davies, M. A. fellow of Jesus
College, Oxford, to be minister of Emsworth,
Hants.

The Rev. W. Kitson, to the living of Marksbury, Somerset, void by the death of the Rev. Dr. Baker.

The Rev. F. E. Witts, of Wadham College, Oxford, to hold, by dispensation, the vicarage of Stanway, with the rectory of Upper Slaughter, both in Gloucestershire.

The Rev. J. Edwards, M. A. of Huntingdon, to the rectory of South Ferriby, Lincoln. The Rev. J. B. Coley, M. A. chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford, to the perpetual curacy of Drayton, in that county.

The Rev. A. Dawson, M. A. fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, to be one of his Royal Highness the Duke of York's chaplains.

The valuable rectory of Purleigh, Essex, is annexed to the provostship of Oriel College, Oxford, to which the Rev. E. Copleston has been elected.

The Rev. S. Welfit, to the vicarage of Theddlethorpe, All Saints, Lincolnshire.

The Rev. H. S. Plumptre, A. B. to the vicarage of Lanblethian, with the chapels of Cowbridge and St. Donat's, Glamorganshire.

The Rev. Benj. Newton, to the rectory of Wath, Yorkshire.

The Rev. Wm. Skey, to the vicarage of Little Bed win.

The Rev. H. Wilson, to the vicarage of Great Bedwin, Wilts.

The Rev. W. E. Simis, M. A. of Nayland, to the rectory of West Tofts, Norfolk.

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The Rev. Charles Champness, to be a minor canon of Windsor.

Births.] In Great George-street, Westminster, the lady of Dr. Sutherland, of a daughter.

In Bernard-street, Russell-square, the lady of Richard Gott, esq. of a daughter.

In Portland-place, the lady of H. S. U. Heathcote, esq. of a daughter.

In Upper Harley-street, the lady of Geo. Smith, esq. M. P. of a son.-The lady of N, Garland, esq. of Michaelstow-Hall, Essex, of a son.

In Wimpole-street, Lady Bridport, of á son and heir.

In Fleet-street, Mrs. J. H. Butterworth of

a son.

At Edmonton, the relict of John Whitbread, esq. of a son.

In Berkeley-square, the Duchess of Newcastle of a son.

Married.] John Mackie, esq. of Jewtystreet, Aldgate, to Miss Simpson, of Gowerstreet.

Major Wm. G. Eliot, of the royal horse artillery, to Anna, daughter of Mr. Serjeant Heywood.

Captain Bennet Carrington, to Miss M. A. Croft, of Hunter-street, North.

Sir Henry Wm. Carr, K. C. B. lieut.-col. of the 83d foot, to the Hon. Mrs. Perceval, reliet of the Rt. Hon. Spencer Perceval.

James Franklyn, esq. R. N. to Mary, eldest daughter of Wm. Hales, esq. of Walworth.

Lewis Ferrier, esq. of the war-office, to Cecilia, youngest daughter of P. Violet, esq. Golden square.

Henry Charles Howard, esq. to Lady The Rev. C. Alford, of Bleadon, to the Charlotte Gower, youngest daughter of the rectory of Quantoxhead, Somerset.

Rev. John Davis, M. A. vicar of Cerne, Dorset, to the rectory of Horsey-Melcombe, in that county.

Rev. Mr. Doyle, to the rectory of Stoney Stanton, Leicestershire.

The Rev. C. M. Babington, M. A. rector of Peterstow, Hereford, to the prebendary of Withington

Marquis of Stafford.

James Stephen, jun. esq. barrister at law, to Jane Catherine, daughter of the late Rev. John Venn, rector of Clapham.

The Rev. William Gilbank, to Eliza, second daughter of the late Sam. Nicholson, esq. R. N.

Mr. James Albers, of Lime-street-square, to Mary Denis, daughter of J. B. De Groffe,

The Rev. T. Clarke, M. A. to the rectory esq. of Benevente, Spain, of Broadways, Worcester.

The Rev. R. George, LL.B. to the vicarage of Stoke Prior, Worcester.

The Rev. T. Grylls, A. B. of Trinity College chapel, Cambridge, to the rectory of Cardynham, Cornwall.

The Rev. Wm. Pearse, to the rectory of Drayton and Hanwell, Oxon.

The Rev. S. Briscall, B. D. fellow of Brasenose College, to the lectureship of Rodborough, Gloucester.

The Rev. W. Curwen, to the rectory of Harrington, Cumberland.

The Rev. J. Whitelock, of Harrington, to the vicarage of Deerham, Cumberland.

The Rev. J. Seagram, M. A. to the recory of Godmanston, Dorset.

Mr. Jer. Smith, of Tokenhouse-yard, ta Adeline, daughter of the late Geo. Urling,

esq.

Geo. White, esq. of Newington-House, Oxon, to Harriet, youngest daughter of Wm. Stacey. Coast, esq. late of Sevenoaks, Kent.

Mr. Geo. Hadfield, solicitor, Manchester, to Lydia, fourth daughter of Sam. Pope, esq. of Dalby-House, Islington.

Mr. Jos. Lloyd, of St. Mary Axe, to So-, phia Eleanor, only daughter of Geo. Lyne, esq. of Norwood.

The Rev. Michael Terry, rector of Dummer, Hants, to Mary, youngest daughter of John Crooke, esq. of Norwood.

H. Wm. Hore, esq. of Pole Hore, co. Wexford, and captain in the royal navy, to

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Deaths in and near London.

Eliza, second daughter of the late George
Curling, esq. of Cleveland-row.

Mr. Vulliamy, of Pall-Mall, to Miss Stiles, of Brompton.

At Tottenham, R. H. Moubray, esq. of Dalgetty, Fifeshire, and a captain in the royal navy, to Miss Emma Hobson, daughter of Wm. H. esq.-Mr. H. Field, of Walbrook, to Mary Jane, third daughter of A. W. Rutherford, esq. of Stamford Hill.

Mr. Thomas Whiteley, of Mile-End, to Henrietta, youngest daughter of the late Geo. Frend, esq. of Birchington, Kent.

At Harefield, Thomas Montague, esq. to Miss Sarah Burbridge.

The Hon. George Germaine, brother of Viscount Sackville, to Miss Pearce.

At Paddington, Rich, Pollen, esq. brother of Sir John P. bart. to Ann, eldest daughter of S. P. Cockerell, esq. of West Bourne. Col. Bathurst, son of the Bishop of Norwich, to Lady Caroline Stuart, sister to the Earl of Castlestuart.

Beardmore, esq. of Queen-street, May Fair, to Miss Parke, the celebrated vocal performer.

Captain Sandes, 3d guards, to Mary, only sister of Sir Charles H. Coote, bart.

Major W. Gore, of the King's dragoon guards, to Mary Jane, only child of the late Owen Ormsby, esq. of Porkington, Salop. Died.] In Upper Gower-street, Lancelot Shadwell, esq. of Lincoln's Inn.

In Great Eastcheap, Mr. James Whyte; and, a few days before, his eldest daughter Sarah.

In Golden-square, Mrs. Karr, wife of John Seton K. esq. of Kippilaw, Roxburghshire, N. B. In Brunswick-square, James Morisset, esq. In Philpot-lane, Mr. Martin Forster. In Devonshire-place, the youngest daughter of R. C. Plowden, esq.

In Lombar-street, Mr. W. Paling, 69, In Berners-street, the wife of Rob. Tomlinson, esq.

In Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury, Mr. J. W. Waskett, late of Holkham, Norfolk, 30. In Gloucester-street, Portman-square, T. Normansell, esq. 83.

In Albemarle-street, Jane Maria, eldest laughter of the late Henry Blake, esq. of Le Hinch, co. Mayo, Ireland.

Mrs. Walker, of the White Hart tavern,
Holborn, 72.

In the Strand, Mr. John Ford.
In Abingdon-street, Mary, widow of John
Delamain, esq. of Berners-street.

At Highbury-place, Harriet, second daughter of Mr. Jos. Watson.

In Cheapside, Mr. Dan. Geo. Tolkien.
In Montagu-place, Mrs. Matilda F. Prest-
widge.

In Gloucester-place, Eliza nn, second
daughter of Col. Hughes, M. P.

In Love-lane, Ann, widow of Mr. Alex.
Crawford, of the London Assurance Office.
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John Jefferys, esq. late of Furnival's Inr
In Long-Acre, Mr. Jas. Wells, 95.
In Featherstone-buildings, Thos Taylor,
esq. 67.

In Somerset-street, Ann, relict of George
Cuthbert, esq. of Jamaica.

At Berymead Priory, near Acton, Mrs.
Akers, wife of Edm. Fleming A. esq.
At Brentford, Jos. Mead, esq.

At Ealing, Lady Gott, relict of Sir Henry
Thos. G. 75.

In King-street, St. James's, the Hon. Fred.
John Hay Kinnaird, third and youngest son
of the late Lord K.

Wm. Thos. Stretton, esq. of Twickenham, and Broad-street, St. James's.

In Queen-square, at his uncle's, Col. Hamilton, Thomas Hamilton, esq. late of Glasgow, 42.

At Hackney, Dec. 1, Mary, wife of Mr. Thomas Glover, of the Bank of England, and on the 7th Jan. their only daughter Elizabeth, aged 19.

Mr. John James Ashley, son of the late musical veteran, who so lung and so ably conducted the oratorios in the metropolis, and all of whose offspring have been highly distinguished in the same line. He possessed great professional talents; was an admirable performer on the organ, and celebrated for his taste and skill as a teacher of singing.Many of his female pupils have been much admired for taste, simplicity, and expression.

At Camberwell, Wm. Angell, esq. late de puty of Cornhill ward, 81.

At Brompton, Maria, youngest daughter of the late George Wood, esq. of Richmond, Surrey.

In Dover-street, Mary, wife of W. Wilson, esq. 66. Her youth was dedicated to the care and education of her children—her riper years to the more finished cultivation of those accomplishments, with which an elegant mind, and superior understanding, had most eminently endowed her. Her abilities, which were of the first class, were ever employed in the exercise of the most amiable virtues. Her

writings, long the theme of admiration among her private friends, have never been obtruded upon public notice, although they would have conferred immortal honour on her head and heart. Her skill in the works of art, more especially music and painting. was eminent in the highest degree, and could only be surpassed by the ample possession of those more substantial endowments, which enabled her, with piety, to bear up against afflictions, inseparable from humanity, and meet the awful but common fate of all with firmness and resignation.

Mrs. Coutts, wife of Thomas Coutts, esq.
banker, and mother of the marchioness of
Bute, the Countess of Guildford and Lady
Burdett.

Thomas Mullett, esq. merchant. This
gentleman was born at Taunton in 1745, of
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Account of Mr. Mullet, Earl of Westmeath.

parents belonging to the community of Friends, among whom he was brought up; but on his marriage, he relinquished his connexion with that society. He was educated for commerce, and humanly speaking, was the architect of his own fortune; for, by continued and persevering efforts, he at length attained an honourable independence. In the pursuits of trade, he thrice visited the United States of America, and there formed connexions upon an extensive scale, and of high respectability. At Bristol, where he began his career, and resided for many years, he took the lead in every thing that concerned the welfare of that flourishing city, and he was the last of the twelve persons that invited Edmund Burke to offer himself as its representative. There too it was that he opposed, in every stage of its progress, the unfortunate war which sevǝred the colonies from the parent state. It was towards the close of this war that Mr. Mullett first visited the United States, and was introduced to General Washington, with whom he passed some time at his seat, Mount Vernon. One day, being alone with that great man in his library, the General asked him if he had seen any person in America competent to the task of writing a history of the unhappy contest. "I know of one, and only one, competent to the task," replied Mr. M. The General eagerly asked "Who can that individual be?" His guest remarked, "Cæsar wrote his own Commentaries." Washington bowed, and replied"Cæsar could write his Commentaries; but I know that the atrocities committed on both sides have been so great and many, that they cannot be faithfully recorded, and had better be buried in oblivion."-Mr. Mullett married Mary, daughter of the Rev. Hugh Evans, and sister of the Rev. Dr. Caleb E., president of the Baptist Academy at Bristol. This lady bore him eleven children, of whom a son and three daughters survive, and died in 1800. The disorder which put a period to the life of Mr. M. was the dropsy, the cevere and accumulated sufferings of which he bore with the fortitude of a man, and the resignation of a Christian conversing freely, and even cheerfully, about his approaching dissolution, and giving deliberate orders for his funeral. He expired Nov. 14, 1814, and was interred on the 23d in Bunhill-fields burial ground, where an appropriate funeral address was delivered by the Rev. John Evans, of Islington. From that address, which the author has since given to the public, the preceding particulars are extracted.

At Kensington, H.Thornton, esq.who represented the borough of Southwark in parliament ever since the year 1783, and was a partner in the banking-house of Down, Thornton, and Free. This gentleman was a warm patron of the plan of trading with Africa, in a fair and honourable manner, by

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the interchange of commodities caculated to supply the deficiencies and relieve the wants of the natives, instead of degrading or enslaving them by means of a traffic hostile to the claims of humanity. This plan gave rise to the Sierra Leone Company, of which he became chairman.' The failure of this company seems not to have originated in any defect in the plan, or mismanagement of the directors; but in a series of misfor tunes, partly arising from the circumstances of the times, which it was impossible to anticipate or prevent.

In Dublin, George Frederic Nugent, earl of Westmeath, baron Delvin, governor of the county of Westmeath, clerk of the crown and hanaper, and one of the representative peers of Ireland in the parliament of the united kingdom. His lordship, the seventh earl, was born in 1760, and succeeded his father in 1792. He had previously married, in 1714, Marianne, eldest daughter of St. John Jefferyes, of Blarney Castle, in the county of Cork, and niece to the late earl of Clare. From this lady he was divorced in 1796, for adultery with the Hon. Cavendish Bradshaw, to whom she was immediately married, after she had borne his Lordship four children-George Thomas John, Lord Delvin, born 1785; Louisa Maria, born 1786, died young; another daughter, born 1788; Frederic, born 1792, died 1803. By his second wife, Lady Elizabeth_Emily Morres, daughter of the Marquis of Drogheda, to whom he was united in 1797, the earl had issue-Elizabeth Emily, born 1798; Catherine Anne, 1801; Henry Edmund, 1802; and Robert Seymour, 1805. Lord Westmeath was a strenuous advocate for the union of Ireland to Great Britain, and an able supporter of the Earl of Clare, though divorced from his niece. In 1802 he was elected a representative peer of Ireland for life. He is succeeded in his honours by his eldest son, Lord Delvin.

At his residence, Farnham, Surrey, William John Kerr, marquis and earl of Lothian, earl of Ancram, baron Kerr, of Newbottle and Jedburgh, K. T. a general in the army, and colonel of the 11th regiment of dragoons. His Lordship was born in 1737, and early made choiee of the military profession, and obtained a troop in Elliott's light horse. He accompanied this celebrated regiment to Germany, where it acquired such high distinction, under the command of the late Duke of Brunswick, and afterwards assisted in some of the expeditions to the coast of France. In 1761 he was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of the 12th light dragoons; in 1767, in consequence of the demise of his grandfather, he exchanged the title of Lord Newbottle for that of the Earl of Ancram, and by the death of his father in 1775, he became Marquis of Lothian. About this period the family sustained a great loss in consequence of the destruction by fire of