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masters general.-Dudley Alexander Sidney Colby, efq; refident at the court of Denmark.-Ema nuel Mathias, efq; his majesty's agent in Hamburgh, Bremen, and Lubeck.

September 10. Henry Talbot, Joshua Churchill, John Milbanke, Denzil Onflow, efqrs; together with Henry Fane, efq; in the room of Edward Aftley, efq; deceafed, his majesty's commiffioners for the duties on falt.

James Porter, efq; his majefty's minifter plenipotentiary in the Auftrian Netherlands, and late ambaf. fador at the Ottoman Porte, a knight batchelor.

October 8. Montagu Wilmot, efq; his majesty's captain general and governor in chief, in and over his majefty's province of Nova Scotia in America, in the room of Henry Ellis, efq; who has requefted leave to refign that government.-The honourable James Murray, efq; his majesty's captain-general and governor in chief in and over his majefty's province of Quebec in America.-James Grant, efq; his majesty's captaingeneral, and governor in chief in and over his majesty's province of Eaft Florida in America.-George Johnstone, efq; his majefty's captain-general and governor in chief in and over his majefty's province of Weft Florida in America.-Robert Melvill, efq; his majefty's captain-general and governor in chief in and over his majefty's iflands of Grenada, the Grenadines, Dominico, St. Vincent, and Tobago, in America; and of all other islands and territories adjacent thereto, and which now are, or heretofore have been dependent thereupon.

October 18. His grace the duke of Richmond, lord lieutenant and cuftos rotulorum of Suffex.-Sir James Lowther, bart. cuftos rotulorum of Cumberland.

October 29. The right honourable James vifcount Charlemount, and his heirs male, an earl of the kingdom of Ireland, by the name, ftile, and title of earl of Charlemount in the county of Armagh. Nov. 9. William Fawkener, efq; one of the clerks of the privy council.

Nov. 15. Arthur Brooke, of Colebrooke, in the county of Fermanagh, efq; and his heirs male, a baronet of the kingdom of Ireland.

Nov. 29. Gregory Sharpe, L.L.D. mafter of the Temple, in the room of Dr. Nicolls, deceased.

Dec. 13. Col. Edward Hervey adjutant general.

DEATHS. 1763.

January 2. Right honourable the earl of Granville, knight of the garter, and prefident of the privy council; his lordship was born in 1691, and fucceeded his father in the barony of Carteret in 1695; and on the death of his mother in 1744, he became earl Granville; he married the only daughter of fir Robert Wordley, by whom he had iffue one fon, now earl of Granville, and four daughters; he married fecondly lady Sophia, eldest daughter of the earl of Pomfret, by whom he has no living iffue.

5. General Handafyd, colonel of the fixteenth regiment of foot; one of the oldeft generals in the fervice.

8. Thomas Howard, efq; at [K] 2 Becken

Beckenham, Norfolk, next heir to the title of the duke of Norfolk; he was the eldest fon of Philip, youngest brother to the present duke.

11. Mrs. Palmer, mother of fir Thomas Palmer, bart.

12. Sir Archibald Stewart of Scotland, bart.

15. Count Gaftaldi, late minifter from Genoa, to this court, at St. Omer's.

18. Sir Henry Slingfby, bart. member for Knaresborough.

20. Hon. Mrs. Hammond, at Wotton, Norfolk; fifter to the late fir Robert Walpole, earl of Orford.

22. Sir Nathaniel Ogle, of Kirkhay, in Northumberland, bart.

Lady Penelope Compton. General la Faufille, colonel of the 66th regiment, on board the Marlborough, two days before the foundered.

31. Lady vifcountefs Longueville, aged 98, at Brandon in Warwickshire, where the refided for the last forty years of her life, and kept up the fpirit of old Englifh hofpitality, by relieving all her poor neighbours, and every indigent perfon that applied at her gate.

February 1. Sir John Swinburne, bart. at Paris.

6. Relict of Sir Thomas Palmer, near Canterbury.

8. Lady viscountefs dowager Barrington.-Countess of Caffils in Scotland.

12. Hon. John Finch, efq; brother to the earl of Winchelsea.

14. Countess dowager of Coventry, at Snitfield, in Warwickfhire, aged 90.

15. Sir Francis Pool, bart. member for Lewes.

16. Viscount Pulteney, only fon to the earl of Bath, a lord of the bed-chamber, member for Westminfter, and colonel of the royal volunteers, at Madrid in Spain : His lordship went over with his regiment in the defence of Portuga-Lady of the bishop of the Ifle of Man.

20. Admiral Toms.

22. Hon. Mrs. Fitzgerald in Dublin; he has left only one daughter, to whom the estate of the late lord Kingston defcends.

28. Hon. Mr. Charles Erfkine, advocate at Edinburgh.

March 1. Sir William Wentworth, at Bretton-hall, Yorkshire, baronet.-Sir John Whitford, bart. at Edinburgh.

7. Lady Cath. Jones, daughter of the earl of Tyrone.

18. Sir Matthew White, of Northumberland, bart.

25. Lord Afton, baron Forfar, of Scotland; he was a few years ago cook to Sir Mordaunt, bart. when the title defcended to him; he is fucceeded by Mr. Walter Afton, a watch-maker.

26. James Stewart, efq; eldest fon of Lord Blairhall, in Scotland. Countefs Dowager of Northesk, Edinburgh.

April 3. Right hon. fir Marcus Beresford, earl of Tyrone.

8. Right hon. James earl of Waldegrave, lord fteward of Cornwall, lord warden of the ftannaries, and one of the tellers of the exchequer, a knight of the garter, one of the privy council, and F.R.S. of the fmall-pox, in the 50th year of his age.

Right hon. Charles Erskine of Alva, at Edinburgh, one of the lords of feffion, and juftice clerk. 10. The

10. The only daughter of lord Fitz-williams.

13. The countefs of Northampton, at Venice; fhe was fifter to the duke of Beaufort.

23. Sir Arthur Hafilrigge, of Northampton, bart. fucceeded by his eldest fon, now fir Robert. Lady of lord Brownlow Bertie. 30. Lady Riverftone, fifter to the earl of Tyrone.

May 1. Hon. Henry Reginald Courtenay, efq; uncle to viscount Courtenay and member for Honiton.

The countefs of Upper Offory, fifter to earl Gower, and wife of Richard Vernon, efq; at Bourdeaux.

18. Right honourable Anthony Duncombe, lord Feverfham, baron of Downton, in Wilts, fo created in 1747. The title, for want of iffue male, is extinct.

19. Lady of fir John Ruffel, bart.

Lately. Hon. Mrs. Child, daughter of lord Luxborough. Right hon. and rev. doctor George Ingram, vífcount Irwin, fucceeded in title and eftate by his nephew, Charles Ingram, Efq; now lord viscount Irwin Lady Hartup, relict of the late fir John Hartup, bart.-Right rev. doctor George Marlay, bishop of Dromore, in Ireland.-Lady Gairlies of Edinburgh.-Sir Philip Anftruther of Balkaskie, bart.-Right hon. Chaworth, earl of Meath, &c.

June 29. Sir Thomas Webb of Great Canford, Dorfet. -Sir Monoux Cope of Hanwell, Hants, bart.

July 2. Right reverend doctor Downes, bishop of Rapho, in Ireland.

6. At Geneva, lord Mahon, eldeft fon of the earl of Stanhope, aged 17.

14. Sir John Evelyn, bart, F.R.S. at Wotton, Surry; he was poft mafter general in the reigns of queen Anne, and king George I. and afterwards a commiffioner of the customs.

20. Lady of fir William Gage, at Bury.

Hon. James De Burgh, uncle to the Earl of Clanrickard.

26. Lady Charlotte Anne Chichefter, only child of the earl of Donegal.

August 5. Lady of fir John Guyfe, bart. at Mungwell.

13. Prince Louis Erneft, third brother to the Duke of Saxe Gotha, and to the Princess Dowager of Wales, aged 55 years.

15. Hon. Mrs. Sherrard, fifter to the earl of Harborough.

21. Right hon. Charles earl of Egremont, baron of Cockermouth, and baronet, lord lieutenant and cuftos rotulorum of the county of Cumberland, and one of his majefty's principal fecretaries of state. His lordship married, March 12, 1751, Alicia Maria, daughter of George Carpenter, by whom he had iffue George, now earl of Egremont, born Dec 7, 1751; three daughters, and two other fons. He was fon of the great fir William Wyndham, chancellor of the exchequer in the reign of queen Anne,

Sept. 3. Hon. Robert Butler. capt. of the Battle-axe-guards at Dublin.

26. Sir Wyndham Knatchbull, bart. member for Kent.

30. Lady of fir Edward Wil. liams, bart. at Langoyd caftle, Breconshire.

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Counters of Darlington, mother of the prefent earl, and fifter to the duke of Cleveland.

The earl of Fife, at Rothmay, Scotland.

October 1. Sir James Fleming, bart.

9. Countess dowager of Glencairn, aged 81.

10. Right hon. the earl of Northampton, at Lyons, on his return from Venice to England; he married Sept. 13, 1759, lady Ann Somerset, daughter of the late duke of Beaufort; by this lady, who died a fhort time before him at Naples, he had only one daughter, born June 26, 1760; fo that dying without iffue male, his title defcends to his only brother the hon. Spencer Compton, efq; member for Northampton.

1. Lady Lucy Clinton, fifter of the earl of Lincoln.

18. Sir Henry Elves, bart. at Stoak, Suffolk.

28. The countefs of Home, at Harfield, Scotland.

Nov. 6. Sir John Fleming, bart, 7. Sir Michael Fofter, knight, one of the juftices of the King's Bench, and formerly recorder of Bristol.

The only fon of the late hon. but most unfortunate James Annefley, efq; by whofe death, his right to the whole Anglefey eftate, in England and Ireland, devolves on his two fifters, the furviving daughters of the faid James An

nefley, This youth, being the laft of the male line of the body of Arthur the first earl of Anglefey, the honours of earl of Anglefey, and baron Newport Pagnel in England, and of viscount Valentia and baron Altham, in Ireland, are extinct by his death; Richard the laft earl of Anglesey, who died about two years ago, having left only three daughters by Anne, countefs of Anglefey, his wife, but no legitimate male iffue.

19. Right hon. Thomas Howard, earl of Effingham, deputy earl marshal of England, colonel of the first troop of horfe grenadier guards, a lieutenant general, and one of the fearchers of the port of London; he hath left iffue Thomas lord Howard, born Jan. 13, 1746-7, and Richard, born Feb, 21, 1747-8, and four daughters. 21. Lady Jean Erfkine in Scotland.

Dec. 17. Field marshal count Seckendorf, aged 91.

The elector of Saxony, of an apoplexy, aged 41, fucceeded by his eldeft fon, aged 15.

18. Lady of fir Neville George Hickman, bart.

21. Sir William Lowther, of Swillington, in Yorkshire, bart, The countess of Abingdon. 24. Lady of fir Francis Blake Delaval, bart.

25. Lady Dyke of Lullingstone caftle Kent.

APPENDIX

APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE.

An account of the proceedings in re. lation to John Wilkes, Efq; member of parliament for Aylesbury, as author of the North Briton No. XLV. &c.

N the night between Friday the IN 29th and Saturday the 30th of April, three of his majefty's meffengers, by virtue of the following warrant, entered the houfe of Mr. Wilkes, with a defign to feize his perfon, and keep him in cuftody: George Montagu Dunk Earl of Halifax Viscount Sunbury and Baron Halifax one of the lords of his Majefty's most honourable Privy Council Lieutenant General of his Majesty's forces and principal feeretary of State.

These are in his majesty's name to authorize and require you (taking a conftable to your affiftance) to make ftrict and diligent fearch for the authors printers and publifhers of a feditious and treasonable paper entitled the North Briton No XLV. Saturday April 23 1763 printed for G. Kearfly in Ludgate-freet London and them or any of them having found to apprehend and feize together with their papers and to bring them in fafe cuftody before me to be examined concerning the premises and further dealt with according to law And in the due execution thereof all mayors fheriffs juftices of the peace constables and all other his majefty's officers civil and military and loving fubiects whom it may concern are to be aiding and affifting to you as there fhall be occafion and for fo doing this fhall be your warrant. Given at

St. James's the twenty-fixth day of
April in the third year his Majesty's

reign.

figned Dunk Halifax directed to Nathan Carrington John Money James Watson and Robert Blackmore

Four of his Majefty's meffengers in ordinary

Mr. Wilkes's houfe, and produced this warrant, he excepted to the generality of it, and his name not being mentioned in it, and threatened the

When the officers had entered

first who should offer violence to his perfon in his own houfe at that unfeafonable hour of the night, upon any pretended verbal order which they might or might not have received for that purpose; upon which the meffengers thought proper to retire, and to defer the execution of their warrant till next morning, when they took him into cuftody without oppofition, but used fome force in putting him into a hackney coach, which carried him before his majefty's fecretaries of state for examination.

On the intimation of Mr. Wilkes's being in cuftody, a motion was made in the court of Common Pleas, then fitting in Westminster-hall, for a habeas corpus, which was gran ed, tho' by reafon of the prothonatry's office not being open, fuch habeas corpus could not be fued out till four o'clock in the afternoon.

In the mean time, the messengers being in poffeffion of Mr. Wilkes's houfe, feveral gentlemen, his friends and acquaintance, applied for admittance, which was then peremptorily refufed, upon pretence of an order from the fecretaries of state,

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