ingham, esq.; William-Coles Medlycott, of Ven-house, near Milborne Porty co. Somerset, esq.; Charles-Hoar Harland, of Suttonhall, co. York, esq.; John Perring, of Membland, co. Devon, esq. and aldn. of London; George Pigott, of Knapton, in the Queen's County, esq.; and George Ouseley, of Claremont, co. Hereford, esq. Admiralty office, Sept. 30. His majesty has been pleased, by his order in council of the 28th instant, to confer upon the masters of his royal navy the rank of lieutenants, according to the following regulations, viz. that they shall take rank in the ships of which they shall be warranted masters im mediately after the junior lieutenants of such ships; and that they shall have precedence in rank of surgeons of the navy. Foreign office, Oct. 8. Right hon. John-Hookham Frere, appointed his majesty's envoy-extraordinary and minister-plenipotentiary to his Catholic majesty Ferdinand the VII; and to reside in that character at the seat of the central or su preme junta in Spain. Downing-street, Oct. 8. Lieut.. general George Beckwith, appoint ed governor and commander in chief of the island of Barbadoes; sir Charles Brisbane, knt. captain in the royal navy, to be governor and commander in chief of the island of St. Vincent; Hugh Elliot, esq. appointed captain-general and governor of the Leeward Islands; and William Wooley, esq. to be lieutenant-governor of Berbice. Whitehall, Oct. 15. Rear-admiral Richard-Goodwin Keats, nominated one of the knights-companions of the most honourable order of the Bath. colonel Bloomfield, of the royal regiment of artillery, appointed (by the prince of Wales) gentlemanattendant to his royal highness, vie lord Lake, dec. Foreign-office, Nov. 2. Anthony Merry, esq. appointed his majesty's envoy-extraordinary and ministerplenipotentiary to the court of Sweden; and Augustus-John Fos ter, esq. to be his majesty's secre tary of legation at that court. War-office, Nev. 12. General the hon Chapple Norton, appointed governor of Charlemont; and major-general Francis Hugonin, to be colonel of the 4th regiment of dragoons; both vice the earl of Dorchester, dec. Queen's palace, Nov. 16. Sir Charles Brisbane, knt. captain in the royal navy, sworn captain-ge. neral and governor in chief of the islands of St. Vincent, Bequia, and such other of the islands commonly called the Grenadines as lie to the Northward of Cariaccou, in America. Queen's palace, Nov. 23. Right hon. George Coventry, commonly called: lord viscount Deerhurst, sworn lord-lieutenant of the county of Worcester, and of the city of Worcester, and county of the same, vice his father, the earl of Coventry, resigned. Whiteball, Nov. 26. Hon. William Harcourt, appointed gentleman and master of his majesty's robes, vice lord Selsey, dec. Downing-street, Nov. 29. Hon. Francis-Nathaniel Burton, appeint ed lieutenant-governor of Lower Canada, in America. Whitebail, Dec. 3. Rev. Walker King, D.D. recommended, by congé d'elire, to be elected bishop of Rochester, vice Dr. Thomas Dampier, translated to the see of Carlton bouse, Oct. 21. Lieut. Ely. Bowning Downing-street, Dec. 13. Henry Bentinck, esq. appointed governor and commander in chief of the settlements of Demarara and Essequibo.-Charles Bentinck, esq. to be governor and commander in chief of the settlement of Surinam, vice Hughes, dec. Foreign-office, Dec. 16. Right Hon. William-Pitt lord Amherst, appointed his majesty's envoy-extraordinary and minister-plenipotentiary at the court of his Sicilian majesty, vice Drummond recalled. Dawning-street, Dec. 20. Lieut.general sir John Stuart, K. B. appointed (by a commission dated Feb. 11) commander of his majes. ty's forces in the Mediterranean, the garrison of Gibraltar excepted. SHERIFFS appointed by his majesty in council for the year 1808. 1 Bedfordshire, Richard Orlebar,. of Puddington, esq. Berkshire, Wni. Congreve, of. Aldermaston, esq. Bucks, Rich. Dayrell, of Sillingstone, esq. Cambridge and Huntingdon, ür H. Peyton, of Emneth, bart. Cheshire, C. Trelawney Brere on, of Shot wich-park, esq... Cumberland, Thomas Irvine, of ustice Town, esq. Derbyshire, Postponed. Hertfordshire, James Smith, of Ashlyn's-hill, esq.. Kent, Charles Milner, of Preston-park, esq. Leicestershire, G. Finch Simp son, of Launde Abbey, esq. Lincolnshire, The hon.W. Beauclerc, of Radbourne. Monmouthshire, Wm. Morgan, of Mamhilad, esq. Norfolk, J. Thornton Mott, of Barmingham, esq. Northamptonshire, G. Fleet Evans, of Saxton, esq. Northumberland, Cuthbert Ellison, of Broomhouse, esq. Nottinghamshire, J. Manners Sutton, of Kelham, esq. Oxfordshire, The hon. T. Parker, of Ensham-hall. Rutlandshire, Thos. Bryan, of Stoke, esq. Shropshire, Ralph B. Wyld Browne, of Coyghley, esq. Somersetshire, C. Hemeys Tynte, of Haleswell, esq. Staffordshire, Postponed. Southampton, George Hanbury Michell, of Titchfield-lodge, esq. Suffolk, J. Vernon, of Nacton, esq. Surrey, James Mangles, of Woodbridge, esq. Sussex, W. Stanford, of Reston, esq. Warwickshire, Post o d. Wiltshire, J. Holton, of Grittleton, esq. Worcestershire, Sir J. Packing. Devonshire, Sir H. Carew, of ton, of Westwood, bart. - Jaccobe, bart. Dorsetshire, Nicholas Charles Gloucestershire, Sir Thomas rawley Bowey, of Flaxley-abbey, irt. Herefordshire, Samuel Peploe, Garnstone, esq. 1608. Yorkshire, Wm. Joseph Dennison, of Ayton, esq. SOUTH WALES. Brecon, Postponed. Cardigan, Morgan Jones, of Panthyrlis, esq.. Caermarthen, Morgan Price Lloyd, of Glansevin, esq. (M) Glamorgan, Glamorgan, Hon. Wm. Booth Grey, of Duffryn. Pembroke, John Henslergh Allen, of Carselty, esq. Radnor, Thos. Thomas, of Pon kerrig, esq. NORTH WALES. Carnarvonshire, Rob. Thos. Carreg, of Carreg, esq. Denbighshire, R. Henry Kenrick, of Nanlewydd, esq. Flintshire, T. Lloydd, of Trebierdd, esq., Merioneth, Lewis Price Edwards, of Tolgarth, esq. Montgomeryshire, R. Knight, of, Anglesey, Edward Jones, of Gwernygoe, esq. Cromlech, esq. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for the last twelve months at In the neighbourhood of London, the greatest cold was on January 22; and the greatest heat July 14; and of the 366 days, 162 were reckoned very brilliant; on 119 there was rain, in less or greater quantities, and on 18 there was snow or hail. The wind has blown from N. NW. and NE. 147; from S. SW. SE. 113, from the W. 52, and from the E. 54. At Carlisle, there was falling weather, or rain, snow, &c. 202 days, and the wind was W. SW. S. SE. 190, and E. NE. NW. 176. Average state of the Atmosphere for seven years, near LONDON. The mean state of the Thermometer and Barometer, and the quantity of rain for the last eight years at CARLISle. PUBLIC PAPERS. PRUSSIA. DECLARATION OF PRUSSIA AGAINST ENGLAND. TH HEking being obliged, by the 27th article of the treaty of the peace of Tilsit, concluded on the 9th July, 1807, to shut, with out exception, the Prussian ports and states against the trade and navigation of England, as long as the war lasted between England and France, his majesty has not hesitated to take progressively the most appropriate measures to fulfil his engagements-In directing these measures, his majesty did not dissemble the prejudice and loss which would result to the commerce of his dominions in general, and that of his subjects, who, by a long series of misfortunes, have acquired new rights to his paternal solicitude and benevolence; but his majesty yielded to the consolatory hope, that the mediation offered by Russia to England, by accelerating the return of a definitive peace between Great Britain and France, would soon. bring about an order of things more congenial to the particular interests of each power. The king, has been deceived in his just expectation; the events that have taken place since, and which are too well known to render it necessary to recapitulate them, far from bringing the so much desired period of general peace nearer, have only placed it at a greater distance. All communication is broken off between Russia and England. The declaration of his majesty the emperor of all the Russias, published on the 26th October, proves that there is no longer any relation between those two powers. His Prussian majesty, intimately connected by all his relations with the cause and system of the continental neighbouring and friendly powers, has no other rules of conduct than his duties, founded upon the interests of his states, and the obligation contracted by a solemn treaty.Conformably to these principles, his majesty, setting aside those considerations which he had hitherto respected, in the wain hope for a speedy general pacification; and having refused, since the mission of lord Hutchinson, to receive at his court any English diplomatic agent, has just ordered his legation at London to quit England as soon as possible, and return to the continent.-His majesty the king of Prussia, in making known the resolutions which his engagement and the interest of his monarchy impose upon him as a duty, declares by these presents, that, till the restoration of a definitive peace between the two beiligerent powers, there shall be no relation between Prussia and England. FREDERICK WILLIAM, Memel, Dec. 1, 1807. IMPERIAL |