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Bornholm, captured off Bornholm by Captain Acklom, of his majesty's ship Ranger. November 10.

Danish cutter privateer Danneskiold, captured off Anholt by Captain J. B. Perlet, of his majesty's gun-vessel Wrangler. November 14. Member returned to serve in Parliament.-Borough of Agmondesbam, William Tyrwhitt Drake, Esq. in the room of Thomas Drake Tyrwhitt Drake, Esq. deceased.

3. Extraordinary from Lord Wellington, informing that Marshall Masseria, after having been a month before the British lines, at Torres Vedras had suddenly broke up and retreated towards Santarem. The French threw several bridges over the river Zezere; and appeared to have designs on Abrantes, and the southern bank of the Tagus: his lordship had taken measures to render such attempts fruitless. His lordship praises Lieutenant-Colonel Fletcher, and the officers of engineers, who had brought the enemy to a stand.

8. The French privateer Le Roi de Naples, taken by Captain Dowine of his majesty's sloop Royalist, off Dieppe, December 5.

11. Member returned to Parli ament.-Borough of Milborne Port. The Honourable General Edward

Paget, in the room of Lord Viscount Lewisham, now Earl of Dartmouth, called up to the House of Peers.

14. Admiralty Office." Intelligence has been received, that on the 23d of August, his majesty's ships Nereide, Sirius, Magicienne, and Iphigenia, stood into the harbour Sud-Est, in the Isle of France, with a view to attack an enemy's squadron, of two frigates, a corvette, and an armed Indiaman, lying at anchor there. In pushing for

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their stations alongside the enemy, the Sirius, Magicienne, and Nereide, unhappily grounded, and it was found impossible to get them off, though the utmost skill and gallantry in endeavouring to save the ships, under circumstances of peculiar disadvantage, was displayed.

"After two days unremitting but unavailing exertion, under the fire of the heavy batteries, Captain Pym abandoned all hope of being able to get off the Sirius and Magicienne, and they were in consequence burnt by their own crews.

"The situation in which the Nereide grounded, enabled the enemy to turn the whole fire of their ships on her; but even in this unequal contest, Captain Willoughby continued to fight her to the last extremity, till every officer and man on board were either killed or wounded.

"All the enemy's ships were driven on shore, but one of the frigates was afterwards got off, and being joined by three others from Port Louis, they blockaded the Iphigenia at her ancorage under the Isle of Pas, on which island (it having been previously garrisoned by us) the crews of the Sirius and Magicienne were landed."

This gazette also announces the capture of a French privateer, Le Renard, of six guns and twentyfour men, by the Quebec, commanded by Captain Hawtayne; of the French privateer Le Caroline, of one gun and forty-two men, by Captain Bluett, of the Saracen ; and of the Mamelouck privateer, of sixteen guns and forty-five men, by the Rosario sloop, Captain Harvey.

25. From Lord Wellington, December 8, giving an account of a panic-struck retreat of General Gar

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danne, with a body of troops from au advance to the southern bank of the Tagus into Spain.

They were followed by the ordenanza, who did them much mischief on the march, and took much baggage from them. The enemy destroyed many horses and mules which could not keep up with them; and this march, if it was ordered by superior authority, and is conDected with any other arrangement, had every appearance, and was at tended by all the consequences, of a precipitate and forced retreat.

Capture of the French privateer Le Hero du Nord, off the Texel, by Captain Douglas, of his majesty's ship Bellona. December 18.

PROMOTIONS in the year 1810.

War-Office, Jan. 2. LieutenantColonel George Vigoreux, of the second royal veteran battalion, appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Scilly Islands, vice Major-General Hewgill, deceased.

Foreign-Office, Jan. 9. Charles Stuart, Esq. appointed to reside at the seat of the provisional government of Portugal as his majesty's envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary.

Whitehall, Jan. 9. Rev. George Gordon, B. D. Dean of Exeter, promoted to the deanery of the cathedral church of Lincoln, and also to a residentiary's place in the said cathedral, both vice Kaye, deceased. War-Office, Jan. 20. Garrison. General the Hon. Henry Edward Fox, to be Governor of Portsmouth, vice Pitt, deceased.

Whitehall, Jan. 27. Rev. John Parsons, D. D. appointed Dean of the cathedral church of Bristol, vice

the Rev. Dr. B. E. Sparke, promoted to the see of Chester.

Treasury Chambers, Jan. 27. The king has been pleased to appoint Thomas Alcock, Esq. to be treasurer of the ordnance, vice Joseph. Hunt, Esq. resigned.

Treasury Chambers, Feb. 2. Alex. Osborne, Esq. to be a commissioner of the customs in Scotland, vice Alex. Cochrane, Esq. deceased.

Whitehall, Feb. 10. Rev. John Garnett, M. A. deanery of Exeter,.. rice Gordon, resigned.

Treasury Chambers, Feb. 13. Wm. Manley, Esq. a commissioner of excise, vice Maling, deceased.

War-Office, Feb. 27. His majesty has been pleased to approve of the following officers being appointed, and formed into a board for superintending and conducting the whole medical business of the army, viz.

John Wier, Esq, from half-pay as inspector of hospitals, to be director-general.-Charles Ker, M. D. an inspector of hospitals, to be principal inspector.-Theod. Gordon, M. D. from half-pay as inspector of hospitals, to be principal inspector.

War-Office, March 10. Rev. Archdeacon John Owen, chaplain-general of the forces, vice Gamble, resigned.

Foreign-Office, March 10. Sir Gore Ouseley, Bart, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary at the court of the King of Persia.

Foreign Office, March 14. James Morier, Esq, secretary of embassy to the King of Persia.

War-Office, March 24. Rev. Wm. Whitfield Dakins, LL. D. chaplain to the forces.

March 3. At a chapter of the most noble order of the Garler, Marquis Wellesley invested with the

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blue ribband, vacant by the death of the Duke of Portland,

Whitehall, April 7 Peter de Haviland, Esq. bailiff of Guernsey, vice Robert Porrent le Marchant, Esq. resigned.-John Dumaresq, advòcate-general of Jersey, vice Joshua Pipon, Esq. resigned.-Right Hon. Francis Napier, high commissioner to the general assembly of the church of Scotland.

War-Office, April 7. George Jenkins, clerk; and Sam. Briscall, clerk; chaplains to the forces.

Downing Street, April 16. John Henry Newbolt, Esq. a judge of the supreme court of judicature at Madras.

Admiralty-Office, April 21. Sir Richard Bickerton, Bart. major-general of marine forces, vice Collingwood, deceased.

Downing-Street, April 27. Hildebrand Oakes, Esq. major-general, his majesty's commissioner for the affairs of Malta.

-Whitehall, April 28. Right Hon. George Earl of Glasgow, lieutenant and sheriff principal of Renfrewshire.

Whitehall, May 1. Right Hon. Henry Baron Mulgrave, master-general of the ordnance.-Right Hon. Charles Yorke ; Sir Richard Bickerton, Bart. Vice-Admiral of the Red; Robert Ward, Esq. James Buller, Esq. William Domett, Esq. ViceAdmiral of the Blue; Robert Moorsom, Esq. and Viscount Lowther, commissioners for executing the office of lord high admiral.

Downing Street, May 2. Robert Gordon, Esq. Lieutenant-Governor of Berbice.

Downing-Street, May 4. ViceAdmiral Sir John Duckworth, K. B. Governor and Commander-in-chief of Newfoundland.

Foreign-Office, May 10. John Phil. Morrier, Esq. secretary of legation to the United States of America.

War-Office, June 2. William Granger Cautley, clerk, late chaplain of brigade at Madeira, a chaplain of the forces.-Thomas Williams, clerk, late garrison chaplain at Landguard Fort, a chaplain to the forces.

Queen's Palace, June 20. Captain James Lucas Yeo, R. N. commander of the royal Portuguese military order of Saint Bento d'Avis, knighted.

Whitehall, June 23. Right Hon. Spencer Perceval, Right Hon. John Forster, chancellor of the exchequer in Ireland, Hon. William Brodrick, Hon. William Elliot, Snowden Barne, Esq. and Hon. Berkeley Paget, commissioners for executing the office of treasurer of the exchequer.

Right Hon. Charles Yorke, Sir Richard Bickerton, Bart. Vice-Admiral of the Red, Robert Ward and James Buller, Esqrs. William Domett, Esq. Vice-Admiral of the Blue, Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke, Knt. and Hon. Frederick Robinson, commissioners for executing the office of high admiral.

Board of Green Cloth, June 27. William Kenrick, Esq. master of his majesty's household.

Whitehall, June 30. Right Hon. Robert Dundas, Earl Camden, Earl of Liverpool, Right Hon. Richard Ryder, Marquis of Wellesley, Right Hon. Spencer Perceval, Lord Lovaine, Lord Teignmouth, Right Hon. Thomas Wallace, and Viscount Lowther, commissioners for affairs of India.

Downing-Street, July 3. ViceAdmiral the Hon. Sir Alexander Forrester Cochrane, K. B. gover

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nor and commander in chief of the Island of Guadaloupe, &c.

Whitehall, July 14. Captain R. Moorsom, R. N. surveyor-general of the ordnance.

War-Office, July 25. His majesty has been pleased to appoint Major-Generals P. Sinclair, W. O. Huddlestone, G. Fead, J. Sowerby, Sir T. Blomefield, Bart, G. Mann, D. M.Donald, J. Pratt, F. Champagné, J. Champagné, H. Calvert, G. Cockburne, E. Dunne, J. Drummond, W. Dowdeswell, A. Mackenzie, G. Moncrieffe, T. Meyrick, T. Graham, C. Craufurd, G. H. Vansittart, Hon. C. Fitzroy, and F. Hugonin-to be lieutenant-generals in the army.

Leigh Douglas, Esq. William Swiney, Esq. Charles Edmund Nugent, Esq. Charles Powell Hamilton, Esq. Edmund Dod, Esq. Sir Charles Cotton, Bart. John Thomas, Esq. James Brine, Esq. Sir Erasmus Gower, Knt. John Holloway, Esq. and George Wilson, Esq.-to be Admirals of the White.

Vice-Admirals of the Red-Sir Charles Henry Knowles, Bart. Hon. Thomas Pakenham, Robert Deans, Esq. James Hawkins Whitshed, E q. Arthur Kempe, Esq. Smith Child, Esq. Thomas Taylor, Esq. Sir John Thomas Duckworth, K. B. Sir Robert Calder, Bart. Hon. George Cranfield Berkeley, Thomas West, Esq. James Douglas, Esq. Peter Aplin, Esq. Henry Savage, Esq.

Staff. To be aides-de-camp to the king, Colouel H. Davies, twen-Bartholomew Samuel Rowley, Esq. ty-second light dragoons; Colonel Sir Richard Bickerton, Bart. and D. Pack, seventy-first foot; Colonel George Bowen, Esq.-to be AdmiLord R. E. H. Somerset, fourth rals of the Blue. dragoons; Colonel G. Wilson, thirty-ninth foot; Colonel F. W. Buller, Coldstreamg uards; and Colonel R. Ross, twentieth foot.

Foreign-Office, July 27. J. Parke, Esq. Consul in the Island of Iceland.

Admiralty-Office, July 31. This day, in pursuance of the king's pleasure, the following flag-officers of his majesty's fleet were promoted, viz.

Admirals of the White--Skeffington Lutwidge, Esq. George Montagu, Esq. Right Hon. George Lord Keith, K. B. James Pigott, Esq. Right Hon. William Lord Radstock, Thomas Mackenzie, Esq. and Sir Roger Curtis, Bart.-to be Admirals of the Red.

Admirals of the Blue-William Young, Esq. Right Hon. James Lord Gambier, Philip Patton, Esq. Sir Charles Morice Pole, Bart, John Vol. LII.

Vice-Admirals of the White-R. Montagu, Esq. John Ferguson, Esq. Edward Edwards, Esq. and Sir John Borlase Warren, Bart. and K. B.to be Admirals of the Blue.

Vice-Admirals of the White-Edward Tyrrel Smith, Esq. Sir Thomas Graves, K. B. Thomas Macnamara Russel, Esq. Sir Henry Trollope, Knt. Sir Henry Edwyn Stanhope, Bart. Robert M'Douall, Esq. Billy Douglas, Esq. John Wickey, Esq. John Fish, Esq. John Knight, Esq. Edward Thornborough, Esq. Sampson Edwards, Esq. George Campbell, Esq. Henry Frankland, Esq. Arthur Phillip, Esq. and Sir William George Fairfax, Knt.—to be Vice-Admirals of the Red.

Vice-Admirals of the Blue-Sir James Saumarez, Bart. and K. B. Thomas Drury, Esq. Albermarle Bertie, Esq. Right Hon. William Earl of Northesk, K. B. James Y

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Vashon, Esq. Thomas Wells, Esq. and Sir Edward Pellew, Bart.-to be Vice-Admirals of the Red.

Vice-Admirals of the Blue.-Sir Isaac Coffin, Bart. John Aylmer, Esq. Samuel Osborn, Esq. Richard Boger, Esq. John Child Purvis, Esq. Theophilus Jones, Esq. William Domett, Esq. William Wolseley, Esq. John Manley, Esq. George Murray, Esq. John Sutton, Esq. Robert Murray, Esq. Hon. Sir Alexander Cochrane, K. B. and John Mark ham, Esq.-to be Vice-Admirals of 'the White.

Rear-Admiral of the Red-C. Stirling, Esq.-to be Vice-Admiral of the White.

Rear-Admirals of the Red-Henry d'Esterre Darby, Esq. Edward Bowater, Esq. George Palmer, Esq. William O'Bryen Drury, Esq. William Essington, Esq. John M'Dougall, Esq. James Alms, Esq. Eliab Harvey, Esq. Sir Edmund Neagle, Knt. John Wells, Esq. Richard Grindall, Esq. and George Martin, Esq.-to be Vice-Admirals of the Blue.

Rear-Admirals of the Red-Sir Richard John Strachan, Bart. and K. B. Sir William Sidney Smith, Knt. Thomas Southeby, Esq. Nathan Brunton, Esq. William Hancock Kelly, Esq. John Schank, Esq. and Hon. Michael de Courcy-to be Vice-Admirals of the Blue.

Rear-Admirals of the White William Bentinck, Esq. Paul Minchin, Esq. Philip d'Auvergne, Prince of Bouillon, and John Hunter, Esq. -to be Vice-Admirals of the Blue. Rear-Admirals of the White-Fr. Pender, Esq. William Albany Otway, Esq. George Lumsdaine, Esq. Sir Samuel Hood, Bart. and K. B. Henry Nicholls, Esq. Herbert Sawyer, Esq. Davidge Gould, Esq. Sir

Richard Goodwin Keats, K. B. Robert Devereux Fancourt, Esq. Sir Edward Buller, Bart, Hon. Robert Stopford, Mark Robinson, Esq. Thomas Revell Shivers, Esq. Francis Pickmore, Esq. John Stevens Hall, Esq. and John Dilkes, Esq.-to be Rear-Admirals of the Red.

Rear-Admirals of the Blue.-William Lechmere, Esq. Thomas Foley, Esq. Charles Tyler, Esq. and Robert Carthew Reynolds, Esq.-to be Rear-Admirals of the Red.

Rear-Admirals of the Bluc.Robert Watson, Esq. Right Hon. Alan Hyde, Lord Gardner; Manley Dixon, Esq. George Losack, Esq. William Mitchell, Es q George Hart, Esq. Thomas Bertie, Esq. Rowley Bulteel, Esq. William Lake, Esq. Isaac George Manley, Esq. John Osborn, Esq. Edmund Crawley, Esq. Charles Boyles, Esq. Sir Thomas Williams, Kut. Thomas Hamilton, Esq. Sir Thomas Boulden Thompson, Bart. and George Countess, Esq.-to be Rear-Admirals of the White.

And the undermentioned captains were also appointed flag-offcers of his majesty's fleet, viz.John Laugharne, Esq. William Hargood, Esq. George Gregory, Esq. John Ferrier, Esq. Richard Incledon Bury, Esq. Robert Moorsom, Esq. Sir Charles Hamilton, Bart. Hon. Henry Curzon; Lawrence William Halsted, Esq.

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