APRIL.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

1. Garrisons-Major-gen. sir Colin Campbell, K. C. B. to be lieut.-governor of Portsmouth.

2. The right hon. James Ochoncar lord Forbes, to be high commiss. to the general assembly of the church of Scotland.

14. Staff lieut.-col. lord Chas. Fitzroy, to be inspecting field-officer of militia in the Ionian islands.

The earl of Morton elected a representative peer of Scotland, vice the earl of Kellie, deceased.

Rear-adm. the hon. sir C. Paget, to be cominander on the coast of Ireland, vice rear-adm. Plampin.

17. Major-gen. Nath. Blackwell, to be governor and commander-in-chief of Tobago.

18. Henry Stephen Fox, esq. (late sec. to his majesty's legation at Naples), to be minister plenip. to the United provinces of Rio de la Plata.

29. William Blamire, of ThackwoodNook, esq. to be sheriff of the county of Cumberland, vice Thos. Parker, of Warwick-hall, esq. deceased.

Rev, W. Canning, canon of Windsor.

MAY.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

Rev. A. Morgan to be dean of Killaloe. Right rev. Dr. Murray, bp. of Rochester, Bromsgrove V. county Worcester.

JUNE.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS,

17. The right hon. John Wilson Croker and the right hon, John Calcraft, to be of the privy council.

be

principal secretaries of state.-Arthur duke of Wellington, to be first commissioner of his majesty's treasury-Right hon. H. Goulburn, chancellor of the

exchequer.-Lord Wallace, right hon. John Sullivan, lord Ashley, marquess of Graham, Lawrence Peel, esq., and the right hon. T. P. Courtney, to be commissioners for the affairs of India. 27. Col. Thos. Armstrong, groom of his majesty's bed chamber.

Thos. Godfrey Turner, esq. to be consul at Gibraltar for the free Hanseatic Republics of Hamburgh, Bremen, and Lubeck.

28. Dr. Herbert Jenner, his majesty's advocate, knighted.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

Clare (county). Daniel O'Connell, esq. vice the right hon. William Vesey Fitzgerald, who has accepted the office of president of the committee of council for the affairs of trade and foreign plantations.

City of Durham.-The right hon. sir Henry Hardinge, K.C.B.

Perthshire. The right hon. lieut.-gen. sir George Murray.

Plymouth.-The right hon. sir Geo.

Cockburn.

St. Ives. The right hon. Charles Arbuthnot.

Totness.-The right hon Thos. Peregrine Courtenay.

Weobly-Lord Henry Fred. Thynne. Wareham.-Right hon. John Calcraft. Wenlock.-The hon. Geo. Cecil Weld Forester, vice lord Forester.

Westmorland.-The right hon. Will. visc. Lowther.

Perceval, esq. clerk of the Ordnance, reelected.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Right rev. Dr. W. Howley, (bishop of London,) to be archbishop of Canterbury,

Right rev. Dr. C. J. Blomfield, bishop of Chester, to be bishop of London. Rev. W. Lisle Bowles, canon res. in Salisbury Cathedral:

CIVIL PREFERMENT,

Rev. R. Williamson, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, head Master at Westminster School, vice Goodenough, resigned.

AUGUST.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

4. Spencer Perceval, esq. to be clerk of the Ordnance of Great Britain and Ireland.-lord F. L. Gower, to be Secretary of State in Ireland, and sir John Byng, commander of the forces. sir A. Barnard, to be equerry to the kingFred. A. Barnard, esq. to be G.C.H.

9. The earl of Belmore, to be governor in chief of Jamaica, and its dependencies. Major general Lewis Grant, to be governor of TrinidadLord Granville C. H. Somerset, R. Gordon, esq. M.P., Lord R. Seymour, Lord Ashley, right hon. C. W. W.. Wynn, sir H. Rose, hon. F. G. Calthorpe, William Ward, esq. M.P., F. Baring, esq. M.P., George Byng, esq. M.P., C. N. Pallmer, esq. M.P., T. B. Lennard, esq. M.P., C. Ross, esq. M.P., sir G. F. Hampson, bart., the hon. B. Bouverie, col. J. Cli therow, Dr. T. Turner. Dr. J. Bright, Dr. H. H. Southey, Dr. T. Drever, and Dr. J. R. Hume, to be commissioners for licensing and visiting all houses within the cities of London and Westminster, and within seven miles thereof, and within the county of Middlesex, for the reception of lunatics.

10. George Magrath, M.D. to be physician extraordinary to the duke of Clarence.

11. The earl of Chesterfield, to be a lord of his Majesty's bedchamber.--sir Astley Paston Cooper, bart. to be sergt. surgeon to his Majesty.--Benj. Collins Brodie, esq. and James Wardrop, esq. to be surgeons to his Majesty.

14. Lieut. gen. sir James Kempt, G.C.B. to be governor in chief of Lower and Upper Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Island of Prince Edward.--Major general sir Peregrine Maitland, K.C.B. to be lieut. governor of Nova Scotia, and its dependencies.Major general sir John Colborne, K.C.B. to be lieutenant governor of Upper Canada.

21. The hon. Robert Cavendish

Spencer, R.N. to be groom of the bed

chamber to the duke of Clarence.

25. Lieut general sir Herbert Taylor, to be adjutant general to his majes ty's forces.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. J. B. Sumner, D.D. to be bishop of Chester.

Rev. W. Dealtry, chancellor of the diocese of Winchester.

SEPTEMBER.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

1. 2d foot, Gen. sir W. Keppel, G.C.B. 67th foot, to be colonel.-67th ditto, major general John Macdonald, to be colonel.

-8. Major general John Ross, to be lient. governor of Guernsey.-Brevet. major general sir Peregrine Maitland, K.C.B. to be lieut. general in North America. Lord Arthur Marcus Cecil

Hill, to wear the insignia of a knight commander of the royal Portuguese Military Order of the Tower and Sword.

17. Viscount Melville, sir George Cockburn, the hon. sir H. Hotham, sir George Clerk, bart. and the earl of Brecknock, to be lords commissioners of the Admiralty. Lord Ellenborough, right hon. R. Peel, earl of Aberdeen, sir George Murray, duke of Wellington, right hon. H. Goulburn, lord Wallace, right hon. J. Sullivan, lord Ashley, marquis of Grabam, Lawrence Peel, esq. and right hon. Thomas Peregrine Courtenay, to be commissioners for the affairs of India.

25. Hon. John Townshend, to be groom of his Majesty's bedchamber.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

James Parke, esq. to be Judge of the King's Bench, vice Holroyd, resigned. Henry Goulburn, esq. barrister-atlaw, a Welsh Judge.

Adam Rolland, esq. to be one of the
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six ordinary clerks of session in Scotland.

Rev. Edward Bouverie Pusey, to be Hebrew Professor in the University of Oxford, with the canonry of Christ Church thereunto annexed."

OCTOBER.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

11. Nicholas Carlisle, of Somersetplace, esq. F.S.A. to be a gentleman of his majesty's privy chamber in ordinary.

21. J. H. Lance, esq. to be commissary judge; and C. J. Dalrymple, esq. to be commissioner of arbitration to the Mixed British and Netherland commission established at Surinam for the preven tion of illegal traffic in slaves.

MEMBER RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT. Tralee. Sir Ed. Denny, of Traleecastle, county of Kerry, bart.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Hon. and rev. G. Pellew, to the deanery of Norwich.

Rev. W. G. Broughton, archd. of New South Wales.

NOVEMBER.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

Garrisons.-Lieut. gen. sir John brevet lieut.-col. Alex. Cameron, 1st Fraser, to be lieut.-governor of Chester; Greek light inf. to be deputy-Governor of St. Mawe's; gen. Geo. Moncrieff to be governor of Carrickfergus.

Hon. Robert Cavendish Spencer, capt. R. N. to be K. C. of the royal Hanoverian Guelphic order.

26. Right hon. baron Rivers, of Sudeley castle, county of Gloucester, to take the surnames of Pitt-Rivers, instead of that of Beckford.

DECEMBER.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

1. James Parke, esq. one of the justices of the court of King's Bench, knighted.

9. Barrington Reynolds, esq. to be deputy warden for Cornwall; John Ennis Vivian, esq. to be ditto. Jeffery Wyatville, esq. knighted.

12. Thos. Cartwright, esq. to be secretary to his majesty's embassy at the court of the Netherlands.-George P

Tierney, esq. to be secretary to his majesty's legation at Munich.

DEATHS

1827.

April 13. At Sockatoo, in Africa, aged 40, capt. Hugh Clapperton, the celebrated traveller. He was born at

Annan, in the year 1788. His father was a surgeon--married early-became a widower-married again, and had no fewer than twenty-one children. Of the fruits of the first marriage, six sons and one daughter grew to man and woman's estate, and the youngest of these was the justly celebrated African traveller. In his person he resembled his father, stood at least six feet high, had great breadth of chest and expansion of shoulders, nerves of steel, and sinews of iron, and was altogether a handsome, athletic, powerful man. He received no classical instruction, and could do little more than read and write, when he was placed under the care of Mr. Boyce Downie, a man of general information, though chiefly celebrated as a mathematician. Under him he acquired a knowledge of practical mathematics, including navigation and trigonometry. At the age of seventeen Clapperton was bound an apprentice to the sea, and became the cabin-boy of capt. Smith, of the Postlethwaite of Mary port, to whose notice he was recommended by the late Mr. Jonathan Nelson of Port-Annan. The Postlethwaite, a vessel of large burthen, trading between Liverpool and North America, and in her he repeatedly crossed the Atlantic, distinguished even when a youth for coolness, dexterity, and intrepidity. On one occa. sion, the ship, when at Liverpool, was partly laden with rock-salt, and, as that commodity was then dear, the mistress of a house which the crew frequented, enticed Clapperton to bring her a few pounds a shore in his handkerchief. After some entreaty the youth complied; and, being detected by a customhouse officer, was menaced with the terrors of trial and imprisonment, un less he consented to go on board the Tender. He chose the latter alternative, and, after being sent round to the Nore, was draughted on board the Clorinde frigate, commanded by captain Briggs. Here he was ranked as a man

before the mast; but, feeling a desire to better his situation, he addressed a letter, detailing his mishap and recent history, to Mr. Scott, banker, in Annan, who had always taken a warm interest in the family. Mr. Scott, ap plied to Mrs. General Dirom, of Mount Annan, who was related to captain Briggs; and, through the influence of that lady, combined with his own pro fessional merit, Clapperton was speedily promoted to the rank of midshipman. Previous to 1813, our sailors, in boarding, used the cutlass after any fashion they pleased, and were trained to no particular method in the management of that formidable weapon. It was suggested, that this was a defect, and, with the a view of remedying it, Clapperton and a few other clever midshipmen, were ordered to repair to Portsmouth Dockyard, to be instructed by the celebrated swordsman Angelo, in what was called the improved cutlass exercise. When taught themselves, they were distributed as teachers over the fleet, and Clapperton's class-room was the deck of the Asia seventy-four-the flagship of vice admiral sir Alexander Cochrane, and since engaged at Navarino. The Asia was then lying at Spithead, and continued there till the end of January 1814; but her admiral had been intrusted with the command of our whole naval force on the coast of North America, and was making every thing ready to sail for his final destination. Clapperton's services as a drill sergeant were to be performed during the passage out to Bermuda; and he was afterwards to make the best of his way to the Canadian Lakes, which had then, or were just about to become the scene of important naval operations. While at Bermuda, and on the passage out, nothing could exceed Clapperton's diligence in discharging the duties of his new occupa tion. Officers as well as men received instruction from him in the cutlass exercise; and his manly form, and sailor, like appearance on the quarter-deck, tended to fix the attention of the crew. At his own as well as the other messes, he was the very soul and life of the party; sung a good song, told a merry tale, painted scenes for the ship's theatricals, sketched views, drew caricatures, and, in one word, was an exceedingly amusing and interesting person. Even the admiral became very fond of him, and invited him to remain on board the Asia, under the promise of

speedy promotion. But the active work going forward on the Lakes, had more attraction for his enterprising mind, and, having procured a passage in a vessel to Halifax, he bade adieu to the flag-ship, to the regret of every individual on board. From Halifax he proceeded to Upper Canada, and, shortly after his arrival, was made a lieutenant, and subsequently appointed to command the Confiance schooner. While she rode at anchor on the spacious shores of Lake Erie or Lake Huron, her enterprising commander occasionally repaired to the woods, and with his gun kept himself in fresh provisions. In these excursions he cultivated an ac quaintance with the aborigines, and was so much charmed with a mode of life, full of romance, incident, and danger, that he at one time entertained thoughts of resigning his commisson when the war was ended, and of becoming a denizen of the forest himself. At this time he Occasionally dined on shore, and, as few men excelled him in swimming, he not unfrequently plunged into the water, and made for the schooner, without either undressing, or calling for a boat. In the year 1817, when our flotilla on the American lakes was dismantled, lieut. Clapperton returned to England, to be placed, like many others, on half-pay, and ultimately retired to his grandfather's native burgh of Lochmaben. There he remained till 1820, amusing himself with rural sports, when he removed to Edinburgh, and, shortly after, became acquainted with Dr. Oudney. It was at Dr. Oudney's suggestion that he first turned his thoughts to African discovery; and, through all the varieties of untoward fortune-suffering and sorrow, sickness and death, clung to his friend with the constancy of a brother. After closing his eyes in a miserable hut, far from the decencies and comforts of Britain, he even assisted to dig his grave, and read over the lonely spot the burial service of the church of England. Captain Clapperton himself died on the 13th April, 1827 at Sockatoo, where he had been detained for five months, in consequence of the sultan Bello of Sockatoo not permitting him to proceed, on account of the war with Bornou. He had waited there in hopes of getting permission to go on to Timbuctoo, and lived in a small, circular, clay hut be longing to the sultan's brother, the size of which was about fifty yards each way. He was attacked with dysentery, and

his illness lasted thirty-two days; he latterly fell away rapidly, and became much emaciated. Two days before he died, he requested his servant to shave him, as he was too weak to sit up. On its completion he asked for a lookingglass, and remarked he was doing better, and should certainly get over it. The morning on which he died, he breathed loud and became restless, and shortly after expired in his servant's arms. He was buried by him at a small village (Jungali), five miles to the S. E. of Sockatoo, and was followed to his grave by his faithful attendant and five slaves. The corpse was carried by a camel, and the place of interment marked by a small square house of clay, erected by his servant, who then got permission from the sultan to return home. He accordingly journeyed to Badagry, which occupied him seven months, and was taken off the coast by capt. Laing, of the merchant brig Maria. of London, in January, 1828.

July 6. At Puttercoodah, near Gootz, of cholera morbus, after only two hours' illness, major-general sir Thomas Munro, bart, and K.C.B. governor of Madras: This distinguished public servant proceeded to India in the year 1778, as an infantry cadet, in the service of the East India Company. After attracting by his services the notice of government during lord Cornwallis's Mysore war, he was nominated by that noble. man to be one of the assistants to col. Read in settling and governing the provinces conquered from Tippoo. After the fall of Seringapatam, he was appoint ed, jointly with captain, now sir John Malcolm, secretary to the commissioners to whom were confided the ad. justment of the affairs, and division of the territories, of Mysore, and the investment of the young Rajah with the government of that country. He was present at the fall of Seringapatam, in the month of May 1799, and, after that event, was selected by lord Wellesley, to whom he was personally unknown, to administer the government of Canara, to which the province of Malabar was afterwards annexed. He obtained the rank of lieut.-colonel in 1804. In 1808 he returned to England. He was next sent to Madras, by the court of directors, on an important duty connected with the permanent settlement of the revenues of that presidency. In 1813 he attained the rank of colonel. In 1817 colonel Munro being in the neigh