Samuel Rowley, esq. sir Richard Bickerton, bart. and George Bowen, esq.-Vice-admirals of the blue, to be vice-admirals of the white: Samson Edwards, esq. George Campbell, esq. Henry Frankland, esq. Arthur Phillip, esq. sir William George Fairfax, knt.-Rear-admirals of the red, to be vice-admirals of the blue; John Child Purvis, esq. Theophilus Jones, esq. William Domett, esq. William Woseley, esq. John Manley, esq. George Murray, esq. John Sutton, esq. Robert Murray, esq. hon. sir Alexander Forrester Cochrane, K. B. and John Markham, esq.-Rear-admirals of the white, to be rear-admirals of the red: John Wells, esq. Richard Grindall, esq. George Martin, esq. sir Alexander John Ball, bart. sir Richard John Strachan, bart. K. B. sir William Sidney Smith, knt. Thomas Sotheby, esq. Nathan Brunton, esq. William Hancock Kelly, esq. John Schank, esq. and the hon. Michael De Courcy.-Rear-adnirals of the blue, to be rear-admirals of the white. Davidge Gould, esq. sir Richard Goodwin Keats, K. B. Robert Devereux Fancourt, esq. sir Edward Buller, bart. hon. Robert Stopford, Mark Robinson, esq. Thomas Revill Shivers, esq. Charles Cobb, esq. Francis Pickmore, esq. John Stephens Hall, esq. John Dilkes, esq.-The undermentioned captains were also appointed flag officers of his majesty's fleet, to be rear-admirals of the blue, viz. Row, ley Bulteel, esq. William Luke, esq. Isaac George Manley, esq. John Osborn, esq. Edmund Crawley, esq. Charles Boyles, esq. sir Thomas Williams, kut. Thomas Hamilton, esq. sir T. B. Thompson, bart. and George Countess, esq. Admiralty-office, Oct. 25.

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Charles Hamilton, bart. and the hon. Henry Curzon, appointed colonels of his majesty's royal marine forces, vice Charles Boyles, esq. and sir Thomas Williams, knt, appointed flag-officers of his majesty's fleet.

Whitehall, Oct. 28. Right hon. Henry John viscount Palmerston, appointed his majesty's secretary at war, vice lord Grauville Leveson Gower, resigned.

Whitehall, Oct. 31. Joseph Philimore, LL. D. appointed professor of civil law in the university of Ox ford, vice Laurence, dec.

Foreign-office, Oct. 31. Appoint ment of don Antonio Fernandez de Urruim, to be consul for his Catholic majesty at Gibraltar, approved by his majesty.

Queen's palace, Nov. 1. Right hon. Henry Jolm viscount Palmer ston, sworn of his majesty's most honourable privy council.-Right hon. Richard Ryder, sworn one of his majesty's principal secretaries of state.-William Plomer, esq. alderman of the city of London; James Athol Wood, esq. captain in the royal navy; Alexander Johnston, esq. on being appointed chief justice of the supreme court of judicature on the island of Ceylon; and Francis Macnaghten, esq. one of the judges of the supreme court of judicature at Madras, knighted.

Whitehall, Nov. 4. Right hon. Charles Plower, of Lobb, co. Osford, and of Woodford, co. Essex, esq. lord Mayor of the city of London, created a baronet.

Whitehall, Nov. 7. Right hon. Robert Dundas, appointed first commissioner for the management of affairs in India, vice lord Harrowby, resigned.

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Whitehall, Nov. 14. Willliam Lowther, esq. (commonly called viscount Lowther,) appointed one of the lords commissioners of the admiralty, vice lord Palmerston, resigned.-Robert Dundas, esq. writer to the signet, appointed conjunct clerk to the bills in the office of his majesty's registers and rolls in Scotland, vice Anstruther, dec. Queen's palace, Nov. 22. Jere Homfray, esq. of Llandaff-house, co. Glamorgan, knighted.

Whitehall, Dec. 2. Snowden Barne, esq. appointed one of the lords commissioners of the treasury. -William Alexander, of the city of Dublin, esq. and right hon. William Stamer, esq. lord mayor of the city of Dublin, created baronets.

Queen's palace, Dec. 6. The most noble marquis Wellesley, K. B. sworn one of his majesty's principal secretaries of state.-Thomas Staines, esq. captain in the royal navy, knighted,

Foreign-office, Dec. 15. The hon. Henry Wellesley, appointed his majesty's envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to his Catholic majesty Ferdinand the Seventh; and directed to reside in that character at the seat of the central or supreme junta in Spain.

Queen's palace, Dec. 20. Right hon. John lord Sheffield and right hon. Henry Wellesley sworn of his majesty's most honourable privy council.-Henry Pelham, duke of Newcastle, sworn lord lieutenant of the county of Nottingham, vice duke of Portland, dec.

War-office, Dec. 23. William Merry, esq. appointed, by the right hon. lord viscount Palmerston, his majesty's secretary at war, to be his deputy, vice Francis Moore, esq.

Downing-street, Dec. 26. Rearadmiral sir Richard Goodwin Keats, K. B. appointed his majesty's commissioner for the civil affairs of Malta, vice admiral Ball, dec.

the services of Great Britain, for the year 1809.

An act for raising the sum of 1,500,000l. by excl:equer bills, for the service of Great Britain, for the year 1809.

An act to allow a certain proportion of the militia of Great Britain, Rr 4

to

to enlist voluntartily into the regular forces.

An act to allow a certain proportion of the militia in Ireland voluntarily to enlist into his majesty's regular forces.

An act for the relief-of prisoners in custody for non-payment of money, pursuant to orders of Courts of Equity.

An act to prohibit the distillation of spirits from corn or grain, in the United Kingdom, for a limited time, An act to suspend the importa tion of British or Irish made spirits into Great Britain or Ireland respectively, until the 1st of June, 1809.

An act to grant bounties on the importation of flax seed into reland from Great Britain, until the 8th day of April 1809; and to amend the laws for the regulation of the linen manufacture in Ireland so far as relates to importers of flax seed.

An act to continue so much of an act of the 47th year of his present majesty, as allows a bounty upon double refined sugar exported, until the 25th of March 1811; and so much of the same act as allows a bounty on raw sugar exported, until the 25th of March 1810.

An act for further continuing, until the 25th of March 1810, certain bounties and drawbacks on the exportation of sugar from Great Britain; and for suspending the coun-. tervailing duties and bounties on su gar when the duties imposed by an act of the 46th year of his present majesty shall be suspended.

An act for punishing mutiny and desertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quar

ters.

An act for the more effectually

preventing the forging of bank notes, bank bills of exchange, and bauk post bills, and the negociation of forged and counterfeited bank notes, bark bills of exchange, and bank post bills, of the governor and company of the bank of Ireland.

An act for repealing an act of the parliament of Scotland, relative to child murder; and for making other provisions in lieu thereof.

- An act to indemnify such persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments, and for extending the times limited for those purposes respectively, until the 25th of March 1810; and to permit such persons in Great Britain as have omitted to make and file affidavits of the execution of indentures of clerks to attornies and solicitors, to make and file the same on or before the 1st day of Hilary Term 1810.

An act to allow the importation of rum and other spirits, from the island of Bermuda into the province of Lower Canada, without payment of Duty, on the same terms and conditions as such importation may be made directly from his majesty's sugar colonies in the West Indies.

An act to authorize his majesty, during the present war, to make regulations respecting the trade and commerce to and from the Cape of Good Hope.

An act for continuing until the 25th day of March 1814, several acts for the free importation of cochineal and indigo; and until the 25th of March 1819, an act of the 46th year of his present majesty, to permit the exportation of weol trom the British plantations in America.

An act for the regulation of his majesty's royal marine forces while on shore.

An act to make perpetual several laws relating to the encourage ment of the silk manufactures; to the allowing the importation of rape seed, and other seeds used for extracting oil, whenever the prices of middling British rape seed shall be above a certain limit; to the encouraging the growth of coffee in his majesty's plantations in America; and for amending and making perpetual several laws relating to the preventing the clandestine running of goods, and the danger of infection thereby; and to the allowing the importation of seal skins cured with foreign salt free of duty.

An act for granting annuities to discharge certain exchequer bills.

An act for allowing the importation and exportation of certain goods and commodities into and from the port of Falmouth in the island of Jamaica.

An act for further continuing until the 25th of March 1810, an act made in the 39th year of his present majesty, for prohibiting the exportation from and permitting the importation to Great Britain of corn; and for allowing the importation of other articles of provision without payment of duty.

An act for charging with duty spent wash, re-distilled in Great Britain.

An act to permit, until the 25th of March 1811, the importation of tobacco into Great Britain, from any place whatever.

An act for allowing, until the 25th of March 1810, the importation of certain fish from parts of the coast of his majesty's North American colonies; and for granting a bounty thereon.

An act for establishing courts of

Judicature in the island of Newfoundland and the islands adjacent; and for re-annexing part of the coast of Labrador and the islands lying on the said coast to the government of Newfoundland.

An act to enable the clerks of the king's coroner and attorney in the Court of King's Bench to be admitted as attornies.

An act for the appropriation of 20,000l. out of the consolidated. fund of Ireland, toward the encouragement of the saving of flax seed for sowing in Ireland.

An act to continue until the 25th of March 1810, certain acts for regulating the drawbacks and bounties on the exportation of sugar from Ireland, and for warehousing in Ireland, rum or spirits of the British sugar plantations.

An act to continue until the 25th day of March 1810, an act of the 41st year of his present majesty, for probibiting the exportation from Ireland, and for permitting the importation into Ireland, duty free, of corn, and other provisions."

An act for continuing and makking perpetual several duties of 1s. 6d., repealed by an act of the last session of parliament, on offices and employments of profit, and on annuities, pensions and stipends, and thereby granted for one year to the 25th of March 1809.

An act to grant an excise duty on spirits made or distilled from sugar in Ireland, during the prohibition of distillation from corn or grain there, in lieu of the excise duty now chargeable thereon, and to allow a drawback on the export thereof to foreign parts.

An act to permit the registry at Malta of ships taken as prize. An act for the more convenient

pay.

An act to amend an act made in the 45th year of his present majesty, for amending and rendering more effectual an act of the parliament of Ireland, for erecting and establishing public infirmaries or hospitals.

An act for increasing the rates of subsistence to be paid to inn-keepers and others on quartering soldiers.

An act for further continuing until the 25th of July 1811, an act made in the 33rd year of his present majesty, for rendering the payment of creditors more equal and expeditious in Scotland.

An act for making compensation to the proprietors of such lands and hereditaments as have been purchased for better securing his majesty's docks, ships, and stores, at Portsmouth and for extending the lines and works at Dover; in pursuance of an act made in the 46th year of his present majesty.

An act to amend and render more effectual an act, passed in the last session of parliament, for enabling his majesty to establish a permanent local militia force, under certain restrictions, for the defence of the realm.

An act to amend an act made in the 48th year of his present majesty, to provide that British ships captured by the enemy, becoming the property of British subjects, shall not be entitled to the privilege of British ships.

An act for better regulating the public records of Scotland.

An act for regulating the mode in which the average price of Brown or Muscovado sugar, exclusive of the duty thereon, is to be ascertain ed under the provisions of an act

An act to permit goods brought in as prize, and restored by the court of admiralty, or which have been seized as droits, and so restored, to be sold or transferred within this kingdom, without paying the home consumption duty.

An act for more conveniently paying of allowances on the compassionate list of the navy, and of half pay to officers of the royal marines.

An act to authorize the principal officers of the customs in the Bri tish colonies and plantations in America and the West Indies, to examine witnesses on oath.

An act to permit certain articles, the growth, production, or manufacture of Europe, to be laden and shipped on board ships arriving with British North American produce, and fish taken by settlers in the British North American colonies, at any port of Europe, in order to he exported to the principal ports in the British colonies and plantations in North America.

An act to amend and render more effectual an act, passed in the last session of parliament, for enabling his majesty to establish a permanent local militia force in Scotland, under certain restrictions, for the defence of the realm.

An act to authorize his majesty to permit, until the 25th of March 1812, any goods and commodities to be imported into and exported from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, in any ship or vessel whatsoever.

An act to amend so much of an act made in the 37th year of his present majesty, for granting to his majesty certain stamp duties, as re

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