The bursting of a blood-vessel Is supposed to have been the immediate cause of his death.

At Niagara, in Canada, sir William Erskine, baronet, of Cambo.

At Dunlop, in Scotland, the dowager lady Wallace, relict of Sir Thomas Wallace, baronet.

At his house in Great Queenstreet, Westminster, in his 80th year, lieutenant-general John M'Kenzie, colonel-commandant and adjutant general of the marine forces. He commanded the marines at the capture of Belleisle, in 1761, where that corps gained immortal honour by their gallantry and good conduct. The general (then a lieutenant-colonel) was severely wounded there. At her house in town, by an apoplectic fit, the dowager-countess of Glasgow. Her ladyship was the daughter of George lord Ross, and was married to the late earl in 1775.

At Chelsea college, Elizabeth countess dowager of Effingham, daughter of Peter Beckford, esq. of Jamaica. She married, 1. Thomas second earl of Effingham; and after his death, 1763. 2. Sir George Howard, K. B. She was one of the ladies of the bed-chamber to her majesty.

At his seat at Firle, near Lewes, in Sussex, after a long and painful illness, the right honourable William Hall Gage, viscount Gage of Castle-Island in Ireland, and baron Gage of Firle in England; paymaster, 1780, of his majesty's pensions, and F. R. S. K. B. and member of parliament for the cinqueports of Seaford, 1744 and 1754. His lordship married, February 3, 1757, Miss Gideon, daughter of the late Sampson Gideon, esq. and sister of the present lord Eardley,

who died in 1783, and by whom he had no issue.

At Sunniside, in Scotland, rearadmiral Inglis.

At Edinburgh, sir Robert Dalzell, baronet, of Bruns.

On board his majesty's ship Diana, in her passage from Jamaica to New York, whither her ladyship was going for the recovery of her health, Catherine countess of Effingham, wife of the earl of Effingham, governor of Jamaica, to whom she was married in October, 1765. She was daughter of Metcalfe Procter, esq. of Thorpe, near Wakefield, in the county of York, by his first wife, Martha, sister of the late John Disney, esq. of Lincoln, and was born September 17, 1746. Previous to her ladyship's death, she expressed a wish, that when dead her body might be opened, which was accordingly done, and the liver found closely adhering to the right side; in which situation it appeared to have been some time.

At his house at Snaresbrook, Epping-forest, rear admiral John Harrison, who was first captain under sir George Pococke, in all the engagements with the French admiral Monsieur d'Aché, and at the taking of the Havannah.

At the Hoo, near Welwyn, Herts, lady Georgiana Beauclerk, daughter of the duke of St. Alban's.

The honourable Thomas Henry Coventry, youngest son of lord Deerhurst.

At Chester-le-street, sir Blackston Conyers, baronet, late collector of the customs at the port of Newcastle, and captain in the marines, 1757. He was of a very antient family, seated at Houghton Comeis, and Sockburn,in the county of Durham, soon after the Con

quest,

quest. John was first created a baron by Charles I.; and from him was lineally descended the late baronet, whose father, sir Ralph, married Jane, only daughter of Ralph Blackston, esq.

In Switzerland, the right hon. William lord Craven, lord-lieuLenant of the county of Berks,

At Donnybrook, near Dublin, the right honourable William lord Chetwynd.

At his house of Barras, in Scotland, sir William Ogilvie, baronet. November, Bamber Gascoigne, esq. receiver-general of the cus

toms,

On her journey to Southampton, from which place she was to embark for the south of France, for the recovery of her health, Miss Percy, daughter of the late duke of Northumberland, and half-sister to the present duke, and to the earl of Beverley.

At his house in Lower Grosvenor-street, lieutenant-general Francis Smith, colonel of the 11th regiment of foot.

At her house in Epping-forest, Mrs. Harrison, relict of the late rear-admiral Harrison.

At his house in Queen-Annestreet, Westminster, sir Thomas Rumbold, baronet.

Miss Jenkinson, sister to lord Hawkesbury.

At Albyns, Essex, the lady of lieutenant-general sir Robert Boyd, K. B. governor of Gibraltar.

Sir William Fagg, baronet. At Jamaica, Thomas Howard, earl of Effingham, lord Howard, governor general of that island, and a colonel in the army. He had been for some time in a dangerous state of health; and it was partly in the hope of amendment from

the climate, that he solicited the appointment to the government of Jamaica.

At his seat at Aldenham, near Bridgnorth, in the county of Salop, in his 80th year, sir Richard Acton, baronet, fourth baronet of the family. He was sheriff of Salop, in 1751, and married, 1744, lady Anne Grey, daughter of the earl of Stamford,

The right honourable lord Chetwynd.

In Clarges-street, the lady of sir William Wake, baronet, after being safely delivered of a son and heir the preceding day, Her death was occasioned by an incurable disorder in her stomach, supposed of long duration.

The reverend John Shirley Fermor, brother-in-law to lord viscount Conyngham.

At his seat at Hoddesdon, Herts, sir John Baptist Hicks, baronet, of Beverston, in the county of Gloucester. He is succeeded in title by Howe Hicks, esq. of Whitcombepark, in the county of Gloucester.

At Bath, sir Henry George Ravensworth Liddell, of Durham, baronet.

Wiliam Dutton Napper, esq. brother to the right honourable lord Shireborn.

December. At Grantham, in Lincolnshire, in his 70th year Francis Cockayne Cust, esq. member of parliament.

Aged 86, Evan Lloyd Vaughan, esq. of Corsygedhl, member of parliament in the two last and present sessions for Merionethshire North Wales,

Of a long illness, George third earl of Orford, viscount and baron Walpole, baron of Houghton, and (from the death of his mother in

1781) baron Clinton and Say. He was grandson of the first earl of Orford, prime-minister of George II. and was born April 1, 1730; and in the late reign enjoyed the places of lord of the bed chamber, and of lord-lieutenant and custos-rotulorum of the county of Norfolk, and of the county and city of Norwich; in all which he was continued by his present majesty, who appointed him also, 1763, ranger and keeper of St. James's and Hyde parks. He was also steward of the corporation of Yarmouth.

At Buckland, Berks, in his 90th year, sir Rob. Throckmorton, bart. At his seat at Winterdyne, in Worcestershire, sir Edward Winnington, baronet.

Sir George Richardson, baronet, of Abingdon-street, Westminster. In her 88th year, honourable Mrs. Martin, sister to the right honourable lord Fairfax.

At Summer-hill, in the county of Meath, in Ireland (the seat of her husband), the right honourable Elizabeth Ormsby Rowley, viscountess Langford, of Langfordlodge, and baroness of Summerhill, in the county of Meath. Her ladyship married on the 31st of August, 1732, Hercules Langford Rowley, esq. by whom she had issue three sons and four daughters; viz. Hercules, member of parliament for the county of Antrim; Clotworthy and Arthur, both deceased; Jane, married to Thomas earl of Bective; Catherine, to Edward Michael lord Longford; Elizabeth, and Maria. She was raised to the peerage of Ireland in 1776, by the titles of viscountess Langford, and baronese of Summer-hill, with limitations of the honours of viscount and baron to

her heirs-male by the right honourable Hercules Langford Rowley; and she is succeeded in these honours by her eldest and only surviving son, Hercules, born in October, 1737, and who is yet unmarried. She was the daughter of Clotworthy Upton, esq. member of parliament for Newtown, 1695; and for the county of Antrim, from 1703 to his death, 1725, by Jané, daughter of John Ormsby, esq.

At Fern-hill, Windsor-forest, in her 63rd year, lady Mary Knollys, relict of sir Francis Knollys, baronet, and daughter of sir Robert Kendall, Cater of Kempston, in the county of Bedford. She was married in 1756,

At Edinburgh, the right honourable lady Mary Campbell, relict of Dougal Campbell, esq. of Glensaddie.

SHERIFFS appointed by his Majesty in Council, for the Year 1791.

Berkshire. Timothy Hare Earl,of Swallowfield-place, esq. Bedfordshire. F. Pym, of Hasell hall, esq.

Bucks. Sir Robert Bateson Harvey, of Langly-park, baronet.

Cumberland, Edmund Lamplugh Irton, of Irton, esq.

Cheshire. Charles Watkin John Shakerley of Somerford, esq.

Cambridge and Huntingdon. Geo. Thornnill, of Diddington, esq. Devonshire, Walter Palk, of Marleigh, esq.

Dorsetshire. John Calcraft, of Rempston, esq.

Derbyshire. John Broadhurst of Foston, esq.

Essex. Donald Cameron, of GreatIlford, esq.

Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire. Michael Hicks Beach, of Williamstrip, esq. Hertfordshire. Matthew Raper, of Ashlyns-hall, esq.

Herefordshire. Thomas Stallard Pennoyre of the Moor, esq.

Kent. James Drake Brockman, of Beechborough, esq. Leicestershire. John Frewen, of Cold Overton, esq. Lincolnshire. Robert Mitchell Robinson, of Hanthorpe, esq. Monmouthshire. William Harrison, of Ragland, esq.

Northumberland. J. Wood, of Beadnell, esq.

Northamptonshire. Sir William Wake, of Courteenhall, baronet. Norfolk. Sir John Fenn, of East

Dereham, Kent.

Nottinghamshire.

George de

Ligne Gregory, of Lenton, esq. Oxfordshire. J. P. Auriol, of Woodcot, esq.

Rutlandshire. Thomas Woods the younger, of Brooke, esq. Shropshire. Thomas Pardoe, of Fairtree, esq.

Somersetshire. Abraham Elton of Whitestanton, esq.

Staffordshire. Moreton Walhouse, of Hatherton, esq. Suffolk. Sir William Rowley, of Stoke, baronet.

County of Southampton. Charles Poole, of Woolverton, esq.

Surry. Henry Bine, of Carshal

SHERIFF appointed by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, in Council, for the Year 1791.

County of Cornwall. Sir William Molesworth, of Pencarrow, baronet.

APPEN

The humble petition of the subscribers who are proprietors in the public funds of Great Britain, Humbly sheweth,

T HAT your petitioners are deeply interested in the public funds of Great Britain.

That your petitioners have invested their property in those funds, with the most perfect reliance on the faith and justice of parliament, and in full confidence and persuasion that the legislature of Great Britain would never, without the consent of the proprietors, make any essential alteration, either in respect to their securities, which consists principally in funds specifically appropriated to the payment of their annuities, or in respect to the mode of their payment, expressly stipulated and delineated in the several statutes that fix the conditions of the public loans.

That your petitioners have seen, with equal concern and astonishment, a bill brought into parVOL. XXXIII.

liament by the right honourable the chancellor of the exchequer ; the avowed object of which is to take back five hundred thousand pounds, part of the sums that have been issued by the exchequer to bank of England, in pursuance of the governor and company of the many acts of parliament; and particularly of the consolidated act, passed in the 28th year of his present majesty, being part of the funds appropriated by law to the payment of the public creditors, and expressly declared not to be divertable to any other use or purpose whatsoever.

That the principle of the said bill appears to your petitioners to have a direct tendency to destroy that confidence which many natives and foreigners have hitherto reposed in the equity and justice of parliament; to violate the public faith solemnly plighted; and by seizing on private property, accurately described, and standing as such in the books of the bank of England, to excite alarms and apprehensions of the most serious and dangerous nature.

That your petitioners wish to be heard by counsel, if it shall appear to them to be necessary; although it is a case that does not depend on nice and intricate subtilty, or on a deep knowledge of F

the