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Standley William, Whetstone, Leicester, malther, Feb. ar Steadman Geufes and John ML.can, Lamb ftreet. Chrift church, Middlesex, peatoe merchants, Feb. 18 Furman Williams, and Ephraim Ford, Cheltenham, linendrapers, Web. 25

After John Eg Retford, Nottingham, mercers March 18 Sutton James, Cheapüde, Goldimith, Feb. 28

Tannant John, Oxford fireet, wine and brandy merchant,
March 14

Thompfun William, Dean Breet, Southwark, merchant,
Feby 23
Thry James, and Robert Heiketti, cara merchants,
Teb28

Fucker William, the younger, Exeter, ferge manufacturer,..
May

Tupper George Linton, Kent, hopkeeper. April 8-
Tylar George, Houndfaites, flopfeller, April 18

Vino Thomas, Clement's lane, Lombard freet, dealer
Feb. 18

Wade Samuel, Manchefter, merchant, Feb. 28
Ward James Bermondfey, brewer, Feb

Waton Richard, Liverpool, mafter inasiner, Feb.25 Watfon William, Great Cambridge Areet, Hackbey road, builder, Feb. 28

Weftan James. Pal Mall, vintner, Feb. 18

Whitham George. Aduingham, York, drover, March 4 Wilkinfon Jothes Richard, Three Oak lane, Horfieydown, Cooper, May 2

Williams Henry, Chepatow, Monmouth, merchant, March 6 Wilfon John and Wiliam, St. Martin's le Grand, ware-r houfeman, Feb. 18

Winwood Edward and Sampel Thoday, Poultry, Scorp factors and glovers, April 18

Wood James. Midheld, suffex, victualler. Feb.11
Wright Charles, Aldgate, tobacconi, April 8

Wrigley James, Pitt Greet, Blackfriar's road, hat manue fatencer, Feb. 25

Zachary Henry, Lawrence lane, Cheapfide, Irish factor, Feb. 25

INCIDENTS MARRIAGES AND DEATHS IN AND NEAR LONDON: With Biographical Memoirs of distinguished Characters recently deceafed.

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Naperient chalybeateSpring has lately been discovered near Begging-hall, Norwood, which, from the analysis and repeated trials, I likely to prove a discovery of the greatest Importance, particularly on account of its Contiguity to London. In constitutional' Jisvases, especially scrofulous affections, inflammatery, gouty, and billous habits; eruptions, or leprous complaints of the skin; and such constitutions that have been impaired by long residence in hot climates, or by the too libetal use of spirituous liquors, it has proved more beneficial than any other spa water in this Eingdom, and has effected cures in cases of acrorola, and diseased livers, which appeared to the faculty hopeless.

About eleven o'clock on the night of the th of February, a fire broke out in the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane. So furious and rapid was the progress of the conflagration, that before two o'clock the whole of that ex tensive and magnificent edifice was totally consumed. The fire is said to have begun under the saloon, on the side of Brydges-street. Thus has the metropolis been deprived in the space of five months, by the same means, of its two principal places for dramatic enter tainments.

At St. Clement's Danes, John Morrough,.. es of Cork, to Mary, youngest daughter of Francis Plowden, esq.

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At St. Martin, Butler Thompson Claxton, esq. eldest son of Robert C. esq, of Bristol, to Miss Lucy Shuckburgh, Anderson, unly. daughter of John Proctor A, esq. of Newstreet, Spring Gardens.

At St. Sepulchre's, J. Moore, esq. of Newport, to Miss Iles, daughter of Jesq. of St. John-street.

At Lambeth, Mr. Keating of. the Strand, to Miss Brooks, daughter of the late William B. esq.,of Hern Hill, Surry.

The Rev. H. Hervey Barber, of the Bri tish Museum, to, Miss Smith, daughter of Harry S. esq. of Pentonville.

At St. Pancres, John Litherland, esq. to Miss Ellen Jepson, eldest daughter of the Rev. George J. senior vicar of Lincoln cathes dral William Shaw, esq. of heces Catharine, Bombay mili tary establishment, to daughter of the late R. R. P Steer, esq. ofBawtry, Yorkshire.

Mr. William Douglas, of Ware, to Miss Mary Lee, of Sunderland.

At Mary-le bonne, Captain Peter Par ker, of the royal navy, commander of his Majesty's ship Melpomene, to Miss Marianne Dallas, second daughter of Sir George D. Bart.

C. Ellison, esq. to Miss Lovegrove, Great Marlow, Bucks.

At Chelsea, Henry Willmott, esq. of Shoreham, Sussex, to Miss G, H. Gregory, of Cheyne Walk, Chelsea

At Hammersmith, John Dickson, esq Helshleshields, Dumfriefshire, to Christian Sole, heiress of John Bethune, esq. of Ben

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At St. James's, Captain G. Peters, of the
Oth light dragoons, to Miss Read, of Wal-
thamstow.-Deorge Wills, esq. of Newgate-
Street, to Miss Sophia Griffin, third daughter
Robert G. esq. of Golden-square.-T.
Bramall, esq. of Lichfeld, to Miss S. Ro-gal
, second daughter of Mr. K. of Warwick
Set, Golden-square.

At St. George's Bloomsbury, Mr. Horlex, Chisweil-street, to Phebe, eldest daughof James Johnston, esq. of Lincolneneser Gardner, esq. of Cannon-street, to Harriet, only daughter of the late T. Mere th, esq. of Calcutta,

DIED.

In Arlington street, the infant daughter of Loud Milton.

La Upper Seymour-street, Miss Langbam, sister of Sir William L. Bart.

ArKennington, Mus Maria Meyricke. In Hill-street, Dr. Jubn Hunter, F.R.S. physician

Physician extraordinary, to the Prince of Wals.

In Half Moon street, the Reg. Philip Stanhope Smet, Vicar of Aston Abbott, Buck inghamshire, and chaplain in ordinary to his M.jesty..

In Charles street, Perkeley-square, La

re Dundas Campbell, esq. editor of the Asiatic Aneual Register, and author of seveTal publi ations on East India affairs.

In Pall Mall, the Rear. Robert Phillips, rector of Great Whelnetham, Suffolk, vicar of Kempstone, Norfolk, and chaplain in ordinary to the Prince of Wales."

In 'Baker street, the Rev. George Chandler, fate of Myless, near Chipping Ongar, Essex. At Blackheath, Captain Thomas Gosch, a member of the Turkey company, in which tride he commanded a ship for thirty years,

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In Allemarle-street, Lieutenant-Colonel Bothwell, late or the 20, or North British Dragoons.

At his house in Whitehall, at the advan code of 82, James Duff, Eail of File, Viscount Macduff, Baron Braco, of Kilbryde, in the county of Cavan, in Ireland. His fordship was created an English peer, by the title of Baron Fife, in Great Britain, and was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Bamshire. He is succeeded in his titles and estates by his nephew, Janies Duff, esq. [Further particy lars of this nobleman will be giars in our next

In Southampton-street, Strand, Wam Burrofes, esq. eldest son. Ly the second marriage of the late Sir Kildare D. Burrowsy Bart.

At Stockwell, T. Barrett, esq. proprietar. of Vauxhall Gardens.

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In St. James's Place, General Mordaunt,

In Pater noster-row, Mr. Alexander Hogg, bookseller, 564

In Argyle-street, Lady Lumm, relict of Sir Francis 1. Bart.

In Upper Norton-street, Mrs. Adair, see lit of Mr. Serjeant A.

In Old Burlington-street, his Excellency Cunt Brubl, any years minister from the 11 tor of Saxony, to ki Britannic Majesty, Knight of the Order of the White Eagle..

At Belchamp Hall, Essex, the Countess of Dundonald.

In Upper Titchfield-street, the Rev. Charles Powift, late tector of St. Martin's, year Love, in Cornwal!, 80.

lu Great Russel-street, M3, Judio, [e. lict of Resq of Chancery-Tane.

At Flammersmith, Simon Lesage, esq. 81.

In Mount street, Grosvenor square, Harry Ia mend, esq. 70.

In Lamb's Conduit-street, Mr. John Ma le solicitor.

In *ckingham-street, Fitzroy Square, Mr. P. Sling suk of Julin S. etg. of Hunton, Kent.

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• In Hoxton-square, Samuel Tcoth, esq. 65. At Grimsthorpe Castle, near Bourn, Lincomshire, his Grace Brownlow Bertie, Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, Marquis and Earl of Lindsey, Lord Lieutenant and Cust tos Rotulorum of the county of Lincoln, and Recorder of Boston. He was born in 179, and was consequently in his 80th year. In 1762, while Lord Brownlow Bertie, he married his first wife Harriet, daughter and heiress of George Motton Pitt, esq. but by her he had no issue. In 1769, he was unf ted to Mary Anne, daughter of Peter Ledyærd, esq. who died in 1804. By this lady he had one daughter, Mary Elizabeth, botn in 1771, and mariied in, 1793, to Viscount Millington, eldest son of the Earl of Portmore She died in 1797. */ His Grace, while a coninioner, was returned knight of the shire for the county of Lincoln in several parlia ments In 1799 he succeded his nephew, Robert in the dukedom of Ancaster, and hecame a claimant for the office of great Cham berlain of England, but, filed His Grace having no male issue, by his death the dukedom is extinct: the marquisateds also extinct; but the title of Earl of Lindsey devolves upon General Albemarle Bettie, M P. for the borough of Stamford; umccompanied, however, by any estate, unless it shall be determined that that of Uthngton descem!s with the title. Grimsthorpe Castle and purk descend to Lord Gwydir, by right of his wife, Lady Willoughby d'Eresby, and, it is believed, will be made the residence of his lordship's son, the Honour ble Peter Burre), who lately married, the heiress of the house of Perth. The personal property of the duke (amounting, it is supposed, to upwards of 200,0001), is, chiefly bequeathed to his grace's grandson, Mr. Colyear, the heir in abeyance of the carldom of Portmore. The death of the Duke of Ancaster is a subject of real sorrow to hundreds. His Grace was the common benefactor of all who lived around him; and, as a maiord, was regarded as indisputably the best in England: Very few of those who held farms of the extensive domain of the Duler, have had their rents advanced during the 30 years in which His Grace was their landlord.

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At his fathers house in Manchester Buildjags, Westminster, 29, Mr. Edward Wild Eluidge, who had been employed in the pay department upon the expedition to Monte Video, and Euenos. Ayies; and upon his return from thence, in consequence of his reutation as a calculator and accountant, was selected by the directors of the Provident Institution, to be their secretary, which sifaith a he failed to their satisfaction, and received every acknowledgment of their appropation. Being howeveriately offered the appointment of assistant paymaster to the troops at List on, he was preparing for his voyage to that place, but illiess prevented his setting out. He was a young man of great pro

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mise, possessing abilities and virtues which myst in time have raised him to eminence.

At his lodgings, two pair of stairs room, in Angel court, Windmill-street, Haymar ket, u, Mr. Christopher Bartholemew, tore merly proprietor of White Conduit House, which owed its celebrity to the taste he dis played in laying out the gardens and walks, rendering it the first place of resort in the class of tea-gardens. Possessed of a good for tune from his parents, the gardens, and the Angel inn at Islington, being his freeholds; renting 20001, a year in the neighbourhood of Islington and Holloway, remarkable for baving the greatest quantity of hay-stacks of any grower in the neighbourhood of London; at that time, the writer of this article was in formed by himself, he was worth 50,0001. Not content, he fell a victim to the mania of insuring in the lottery, for which he has prid 10001. a day. He passed the last 13 years of his life in great poverty, subsisting by the charity of those who knew his better days, and as a juryman of the Sheritis Court for the county. In August 1907, he had a thirty-second share in a 20,000l. prize. By the advice of his friends, he purchased an sauity of 601. per annum yet fatally addicted to that pornicious pursuit, insurance, be disposed of it and lost it all: a few days before he died, fie solicited a few shillings to buy him necessarius. gentleman in his manners, with a mind asther superior to the generality of men, he at one time pds seled the esteem of all who knew him; yet he became the prey of that artful and designing ser of men, who are interested in eluding all the laws which are made to pre vent their nefarious practices, and which nese can be effected while government seduce the individual to pay 201 for the liberty of gambling for 401 This obituary is furnished

was lieutenant-colonel of the 11th regiment · of dragoons, and Alan was the eighth of twelve children by his second wife. Having manifested an early predilection for the naval service, he was stationed at the age of thirteen years, on the quarter deck of the Medway,' of sixty guns, and had the good fortune to be placed under the immediate inspection of an excellent officer, Sir Peter Denis, who had.~ been third lieutenant of the Centurion, and was patronized by Commodore, afterwards Lord Anson. In this vessel he remained two? * years, and was present at an engagement, at the conclusion of which a French ship of the line (the Duc d'Aquitaine) struck her colours: to two English men of war. Our young midshipman afterwards accompanied his commander, first into the Namur, of ninety guns, in which he served under the gallant AdmiralHawke, during the expedition against Roche fort, and then into the Darsetshirey of seventyguns. While on board of the latter, he was taught one of the lessons of the old, which he, in his turn has frequently repeated to the new school. Being cruising with a squadron to the westward, May 29, 1759, a signal was thrown out for his ship to give chase, which she accordingly obeyed, and soon after came up with the Kaisonable, a French sixty-four.commanded by the Chevalier de Rohan Captain Denis did not fire a single gun until he could do it with effect; and then, af ter a close engagement, that continued with out interruption from seven until nine o'clock in the evening, obliged the enemy to strike: the number of the killed amounting to sixty-" one, and the wounded to one hundred. Mr. Gardner was also on board the Dorsetshire, November the 20th, 1759, in the general engagement off Selisle between the English and French fleets, commanded by Sir Edward Hawke and the Marshal de Conflans; and Captain Denis was one of those officers who particularly distinguished themselves on that occasion. The highest encomiums were bestowed on him personally by the commander in chief, who thanking him for his services, At his house in George-street, Hanover in the warmth of his gratitude declared that quare, Mr. Shellay, miniature painter. This the captains of the Dorsetshire and Resola ingenious artist has long been distinguished tion (Denis and Speke) had behaved like for hu merit in the above line, but he ten-angels. After near five years constant em dered that,branch of art:subservient to the illustration of historical and poetical sube which he treated with taste, skill, knowledgry anul, elegance. He was one of kundąsą of the exhibition of drawings in cylents, in which department a degree excellence has been attained, that detrates, a considerable advance in the arts of this country's and which far exceeds any f the suma natuve in formertimes. Bath, where he had been some time for of his bealth, the Right Hendran Sezon Gardner of Leoxeter, in hel.nd Gardust; of Uttoxeter in England. may, be justly considered as 4 bin owo fortune. His father

Warning to all ranks, particularly the trading one, not to engage in a pursuit which vill ultimately be their ruin, and when temp ted to insure, let them remember the fate of Bartholemewe

ployment, Mr. Gardoer in, 1760, passed the usual examination, and was appointed a lieutenant on hoard the Bellana, into which he followed his patron, Sir Peter Denis, who' was soon after appointed to the Charlotte vatch; for the purpose of bringing over her present Majesty. Under Captain Falconer, who suceeded to the command, he assisted at the capture of Le Courageux, of seventy-four guns, and was in April 1762: promoted to the rank of master and commander and appointed to the Raven, of sixteen guns. Mr. Gardner remained upwards of four years without ob. talning any superior unk. In May 1766 he was aide post, into the Preston, or afty glins which had been fitted out as the flag ship of

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of the British squadron, gave chace, the mos ment that the signal was thrown out, and did not return the enemy's fire until she could get into close action. The English admiral was once more unfortunate; fer although he des termited, notwithstanding his manifest infe

Rear-admiral Parry, whom he accompanied to Port Royal, in Jamaica, As profound peace then prevailed, Captain Gardner had neither an opportunity to distinguish nor to enrich himself. On the expiration of the usual period the Preston returned home, and was pat, out of commission The contest with Ameriotity, to give battle, yet the French always rica, soon after followed by a general war with took care to bear up so as to avoid it; and France, Spain, and Holland, however unfor- their ships being far better sailers, they were tunate it might prove for the general interest thus enabled, at will, to prevent a'decisive enof the country, yet was attended with many gagement. Byron, in his official letters to individual advantages, as it restuch a number the lords of the Admiralty, pays many comut promising young men from obscurity, and pliments to the gallantry of Vice Admiral enabled them to prove serviceable to their Barrington, and, the Captains Sawyer and country. Captain Gardner had by this time. Gardner, the last of whom had no less than become a husband and a father. While at sixteen men killed and thirty-nine wounded, Jamaica (May 20, 1769) he married Susan Soon after this drawn battle, the Sultan was aah Hyde, the only daughter of Francis Gale. ordered to Jamaica, whence Captain Gardner Esq. a planter in Liguania. This lady had, returned the following year to England with already brought him four children; and as he a convoy under his care. On his arrival, his. had now the prospect of a family to the full strip was paid off; and after remaining för á as numerous as that of his father, and was at, shurt time out of commission, towards the end the same time ambitious of rising in the ser- of 1791 he was appointed to the Duke, a sevice, an appointment of course became an ob- cond rate of 98 guns, one of the ships sent to ject of consequence to him. Nor did he soli- reinforce the fleet of Sir George Rodney, cit in vain, he obtained the Maidstone, a fti- who had meanwhile succeeded to the gate of twenty-eight guns, in which he sailed chief command in the West Indies. Capfor the West Indies early in 1778, and in the tain Gardner had the good fortune to join course of that year he fortunately obtained a the Admiral previous to the memorable 18th ich capture on the coast of America. On of April 1782. On that glorious day the the 4th of November, while truising about Duke was second to the Formidable, the flagsixty leagues to the eastward of Cape Henry, ship of Sir George Rodney, and Captain Gardhe gave chase to and came up with the Lion, ner was the first to break through the ene a French man of war, with fifteen hundred my's line of battle, according to the new plan' hogsheads of tobacco belonging to the mer- of attack adopted by the British Admiral on chants. Although the hold of this vessel that occasion. During one period of the ac- .. was crowded with merchandize, yet there tion, the Duke, in conjunction with the Forwere forty guns and two hundred men on midable and Namur, had to sustain the fire of board; she therefore sustained a severe action” eleven of the enemy's ships,, and their leer and killed four and wounded nine of the was proportionably great. On board the Maidstone's men before she surrendered. Cap. Duke thifteen men were killed, and fifty seven tain Gardner bore away with his prize for wounded, among the former of which were Antigua; and soon after his arrival in the the master and boatswain. Such a spirited West Indies, he was appointed by Vice-ad-conduct entitled Captain Gardner to the parmiral Byron to the command of the Sultan of ticular notice of the commander in chief, 74 guns. Hitherto the subject of this me who was so well pleased with the exertions moir may be considered merely as a private of all under him as to remark in an emphati» character; but from this moment he is to be cal manner, that he wanted words to exranked as a public man, occupied with his press how sensible he was of the meritorious professional duty, and engaged in almost eve conduct of all the exprains, officers, and men,, ry great action during the space of the subse who had a share in this glorious victorý ob quent twenty-two years, which constiture one tained by their gallant exertions.". Soon after of the most important epochs in the naval his- this, a long peace ensued, during which, the tory of Great Britain. Haying now obtained subject of this memoir, appeared sometimes, a ship of the line, Captain Gardner remained in a civil, and sometimes ina'naval capacity; under the command of the gallant but unfor- having acted as commodore on the Jamaica tunate Byron, whose fate it was to encounter station, on board the Europe of fifty guns, in and combat unceasingly with danger, dili the years 1783 67-8 and 9, and in 1790-as a culties, and hurricanes, in every quarter of lord of the Admiralty; he also, as will be the habitable globe. la an engagement which seen hereafter, obtained a seat u parliaments took place with the Count Daing, off the Having been af length raised to the rank of Island of Grenada, the French, instead of be`rear admiral of the slog Feb.1, 1793, he soon ing far inferior in force, as bad been supposed, exhibited no less than twenty seven sail" of line of battle ships, notwithstanding, which, the Sultan, which was the headmost

after hoisted his flag on board the Queen of nine,. "ty-eight guns, and on the 24th of March.hs: sailed in the capacity of commander in chief tothe Leeward Islands. Upon the arrival of

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Admiral Gardner on this station, Sir John Laforey resigned the command, and returned to England. Soon after this, being encourae ged by the disputes between the republicans and royalists in the adjacent colony of Martinico, and earnestly pressed by the latter to make a descent on that island, he determined to give them every assistance in his power, Accordingly, on the 16th of June, ater a previous consultation with Major-general Bruce, that officer effected a descent with about 3000 British troops, under cover of the ships of war; but finding the democratical party too strong, they were reimbarked on the 21st with considerable loss. The adhe rents to the house of Bourbon, who had magnified their means and numbers, were the chief sufferers, many of them having peished in arms, while those who could not be taken on board the squadron, experienced a more cruel death in the hands of their inexprable countrymen. After, dispatching the Hannibal and Hector, of seventy-four guns each, to reinforce the squadron on the J maicastation, Admiral Gardner returned home, and arrived at Spithead October 1, 1793. In 1794 we find him as rear admiral of the white, serving in the Channel Beet under Earl Howe, and contributing with his usual intrepidity to the success of the memorable 1st of June. On the morning of this day the English and French fleets being in order of battle, when The British admiral threw out the signal to bear p, and for each ship to engage her oppo. pent, Rear-admiral Gardner desi ed his crew "not to fire until they should be near enough to scorch the Frenchmen's beards," The Queen bore a conspicuous part in this action; Jar Captain Hutt and Lieutenant Dawes were mortally, and her master, with two lleure. nanta and a midshipman, slightly wounded; thirty-six tamen were killed and sixty-seven disabled. In thort, no vessel in the whole Beer, the Brunswick alone excepted, experi enced so severe a loss. Earl Howe in his public dispatches, of course, made particular mration of Rear-admiral Gardner; and when his Majesty afterwards gave orders for a gold, merial emblematical of the victory to be preacted to certain distinguished officers,

was at only included in the number, but she appointed major-general of marines, and treated a baronet of Great Britain. Sir Alan continged to serve under Earl-Howe white that gogleman went to sea; and when lord Bridport succeeded to the comunand, his ser

congidered su indispensálile in the,
li that he was uniformly employed
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1797, such a dangerous mutiny took place at Portsmouth, that on the 21st of February it was deemed necessary for some persons, of au thority in the fleet. tta confer with the delegares. Accordingly the Admirals Gardner, Colpays, and Pule, repaired on board the Queen Charlotte, then in the possession of the mutineers; but they would not enter into any negociation, as, they said, no arrangement whatsoever could be considered as final until it was sanctioned by both King and parliament On this Sir Alan was so dis pleased that, without reflecting on his own danger, le seized one of the chief conspirators by the collar, and sware that every filth man on board should be executed The crew, in their tero, were so exsperated, that it was with no small difficulty he escaped with his dife after which Lord Bridport's flag was struck, and a bloody one, the emblem of tozror, displayed in its place: On this Adural Gardner, together with two of his lieutenants were afterwards obliged to go on shore, and he declined an invitation to return until those officers were also permitted to accom pany him; which was at length complica with. He accordingly hoisted his flag ar vice admiral of the white, and proceeded to sea in the Royal Sovereign, of one hundred and ten gans, on the 6th of May, to cruise us be one under Lord Bridport, in the Channel: The spirit of mutiny, howeyer, was ne yet laid, for it discovered itself once more in Jane, when the brews of several of the ships behaved in a most audacious manner, and two of his own seamen were condemned to death. We now recur to less disagreeable scenes. It being determined to celebrate the date victories in a solemn manner, St. Paul's cathedral was chosen as the most suitable place, and the 19th of December, 1797, fixed for the day. His Majesty and all the royal family, attended by the great officers of state and both houses of parliament, accordingly repaired thither to deposit the standards taken from the French, Spaniards, and Darch. Sir Alan Gardner assisted upon this solemn occa sion, and the following was the order of the procession

British peerage, and gold chains and medals

were conterred on the following officers:

Vice adinital Sirs Hoo: nowLord Bridport
T. Grates.
Rear-admiral A Gardner,

Bowyer.

T Pastey.
Sir R. Cords.

Capr. Willem Hope.
Elphinstone.

Hon. Pakenham.
1. Durk worth.

9 A Douglas.
Heary Harvey,
W. Damett.
JW. Payne, and
T. Prige

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