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Military Promotions.

West Regiment of Shropshire Local Militia:

Richard Peete, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Allen, promoted. Dated Feb. 14, 1812. Pimhill Troop of Sbropshire Yeomanry Cavalry.

Cornet Thomas Evans to be Lieutenant, vice Edwards, promoted. Dated Feb.

18, 1812.

John Edwards, Gent. to be Cornet. Dated as above.

Oswestry Yeomanry Cavalry.

William Owen, Esq. to be Major, vice Warrington, resigned. Dated March 18, 1812.

John Mytron, Esq. to be Captain.
John Hunt, Esq. to be Lieutenant.

Dated as above.

Dated as above.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF THE COUNTY OF NOT

TINGHAM.

3d, or Retford Regiment of Local Militia.

Martin Bower, Esq. to be Captain, vice Pegge, resigned. Dated Feb. 28, 1812. Jeremiah Raynes, Gent. to be Lieutenant, vice Bower, promoted. Dated as above. WAR-OFFICE, APRIL 7.

Royal Regiment of Horse-Guards—Everard William Bouverie, Gent. to be Colonel, by purchase, vice Hammer, promoted.

4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards-Cornet and Adjutant James Rallet to have the rank of Lieutenant; Cornet Thomas Woodcock to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Newman, who retires.

1st Regiment of Dragoons-Cornet Osborne Darwell to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Dillon, who retires.

12th Regiment of Light Dragoons-Major John Earl Waldegrave, from the 15th Light Dragoons, to be Major, vice Wyndham, promoted iu the regiment of Meuron. 13th ditto-Ensign John Morshead, from the 51st Foot, to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Lord George Lennox, appointed to the 9th Light Dragoons.

16th ditto-Cornet John Robert Baker to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Glasscott, who resigus; Cornet William Nepean to be ditto, by purchase, vice Sewell, promoted.

18th ditto-James Morris, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Rowlls, promoted.

20th ditto-Lieutenant Folliett Wynne, from half-pay of the 44th Foot, to be Lieutenant (repaying the difference), vice Elliott, who exchanges.

22d ditto-Cornet Robert Macalpine to be Lieutenant without purchase, vice Brooke, who resigns; Henry Davis, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Macalpine.

24th ditto-Hospital-Mate Wm. Brown to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Bean, promoted in the 78th Foot.

25th ditto-Lieutenant Benjamin Scott to be Captain of a Troop, without purchase, vice Allen, dismissed the service by the sentence of a General Court-Martial. 1st Regiment of Foot-Lieutenant Conrad Mayers to be Captain of a Company, vice Parsons, deceased; Ensign Charles Campbell to be Lieutenant, vice Mayers; Ensign Joseph Hoskins, from the Cumberland Militia, to be Ensign. Murphy, from the Kerry Militia, to be Ensign. 6th ditto-Staff-Surgeon William Vassal to be Surgeon, vice Bone, promoted on

2d ditto-Ensign

the Staff.

12th ditto-Lieutenant George B. Grey to be Captain of a Company, without purchase; Lieutenant Thomas Gale, from the 87th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Grey.

16th ditto-Ensign Gilbert Drummond to be Lieutenant, vice Sprowle, deceased; Ensign Derby Mahony, from the 104th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Coyue, who exchanges; James Bullteel, Gent to be Ensign, vice Drummond.

18th ditto-William Roper Little, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Rutherford, who resigns.

24th ditto-Lieutenant John Parsonage to be Captain of a Company, vice Strau. benzie, deceased; Ensign George Erratt to be Lieutenant, vice Parsonage; George Hewson, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Erratt.

38th ditto-Lieutenant Archibald Fullerton to be Captain of a Company, without purchase, vice Weaver, who retires; Ensign William Campbell to be Lieutenant, vice Fullerton.

45th ditto-Ensign James Stewart to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Hill, appointed to the 6th Garrison Battalion; Ensign J. F. Jones to be ditto, vice' Leslie, promoted; Averell Lecky, Gent. to be Ensigu, vice Stewart; George M❤rgan, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Jones.

Military Promotions.

46th ditto-Adamson George Parker, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hamilton, promoted.

47th ditto-Lieutenant Henry Oglander, from the 43d Foot, to be Captain of a Company, by purchase, vice Harding, who retires.

60th Regiment of Foot.

To be Lieutenants, without purchase-Lieutenant Samuel Nichols, from the 9th Foot; Eusign John Beevor, vice Gibson, promoted; Ensign Robert Atkinson, vice Baring, promoted; Ensigns James Fleeson, Henry Hudson, John Hardgrove, Joseph Crow, Donald Urquhart, George Cochrane, Edward Y. Le Maitre, and D. Carmachael.

To be Ensigns-Ensign W. F. A. Gilfillan, from the 5th West India Regiment, vice Beevor; William Handley, Gent. vice Atkinson; Henry Blunt, Gent. vice Fleeson; James Rollo, Gent. vice Hudson; Joba Torbock, Gent vice Hargrove ; R. King, Gent. vice Crow; Robert Pannell, Gent. vice Urquhart; Christopher Bernard Martin, Gent. vice Cochrane; Hugh Dickson, Gent. vice Le Maitre ; Robert Nettles, Gent. vice Carmachael.

63d ditto-Ensign John M'Kay to be Lieutenant, vice Edensor, deceased. 64th ditto-Ensign Richard Bradish to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Wilson, placed on half pay; Robert Latham, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Bradish. 67th ditto-Ensign William Warburton to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Hall, promoted; Ensign William Blair, from the 5th West India Regimeat, to be Ensign, vice Warburton.

71st ditto-Robert Dalgleish, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Woolcombe, promoted; Robert Hall, Gent. to be ditto, without purchase, vice Gavin, appointed Quarter-Master; Quarter-Master Donald Harrow to be Pay- Master of the 2d Battalion, vice Evans, deceased; Ensign Gavin to be Quarter-Master, vice

Harrow.

79th ditto-Captain N. Cameron to be Major, by purchase, vice D. Cameron, who retires; Lieutenant John Cameron (2d) to be Captain of a Company, by pur. chase, vice N. Cameron; Lieutenant Robert Mackay to be ditto, by purchase, vice Alexander Cameron, who retires; Ensigu K. I. Leslie to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Cameron; Ensign Duncan Cameron to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Mackay; Allan Macdonald, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Cameron.

95th ditto-Second Lieutenant John Orrell to be First Lieutenant, vice Coane, deceased; Frederick Mansell, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant, vice Orreil.

98th ditto-Brevet-Major Cecil Bishop, from the 1st Foot Guards, to be Major, by purchase, vice Bates, who retires.

103d ditto-Heary Ibbotson, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Cuppage, promoted; William Weinright Lynar, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Burke, promoted in the 7th Foot.

104th ditto-Ensign James Coyne, from the 16th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Mahony, who exchanges.

3d West India Regiment-Ensign A. Farrington to be Lieutenant, without purchase; George Twisleton Ridsdale, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Farrington.

4th ditto-Ensign Thomas Workman to be Lieutenant, without purchase; Wm. Boxall Scott, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Workman; Edward Tichbourne, Esq. to be Pay-Master, vice Hinton, superseded.

5th ditto-John Nelson, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Blair, appointed to the 67th Foot; John Campbell, Gent. to be ditto, vice Gilfillan, appointed to the 60th Foot.

8th ditto-Broom Penniger, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice J. Pen→ niger, who resigns.

Dillon's Regiment-Ensigns

Belatre and

Paget to be Lieutenants,

without purchase; William Bate, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Belatre.

Meuron's Regiment-Major George Wadham, from the 12th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice L'Ardy, who retires.

5th Royal Veteran Battalion-Lieutenant William Drew, from the 8th Royal Veteran Battalion, to be Lieutenant, vice L'Estrange, who exchanges.

8th ditto-Lieutenant Francis L'Estrange, from the 5th Royal Veteran Battalion, to be Lieutenant, vice Drew, who exchanges.

The King's German Legion.

1st Battalion of Light Infantry-Gentleman Cadet Charles Kessler to be Ensign, vice Hedeman, promoted.

2d Battalion of the Liue-Gentleman Cadet Adolphus Kessler, to be Ensign, vice Fleisch, promoted.

Military Promotions.

Bourbon Regiment.

Lieutenant Martin Hillhouse to be Captain of a Company, without purchase.

Memorandum.

Lieutenant Greene, of the 34th Foot, who was superseded, as stated in the Gazette of the 17th ult. is reinstated in his rank.

Errata in the Gazette of the 17th ult.

15th Light Dragoons-For Captain Dalrymple to be Major, by purchase, vice Lord Waldegrave, who retires, read Captain Dalrymple to be Major, by purchase, vice Lord Waldeg ave, appointed to the 12th Light Dragoons.

In the Gazette of the 24th ult.

1st Regiment of Life Guards-For Francis St. Pilcher, Gent. to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, read Cornet Francis S. Pilcher, from the 14th Light Dragoons, to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant.

The under-mentioned are appointed Deputy Assistant-Commissaries-General to the Forces, instead of Assistant-Commissaries-General, as stated in the Gazette of the 31st ult. viz

Arthur Lovelidge, John Laidley, James Paterson, John Ward, and William O'Meara, Gents.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, APRIL 4.
Corps of Royal Military Artificers.

Second Captain Rice Jones, of the Corps of Royal Engineers, to be Adjutant. Dated February 1, 1812.

Royal Regiment of Artillery.

Second Lieutenant Wiiliam Wood to be First Lieutenant, vice Croke, deceased. Dated February 8, 1812.

Medical Establishment for the Military Department of the Ordnance. Surgeon Wyville Smyth, M. D. to be Resident Surgeon. Dated March 13, 1812. Surgeon William Wittman, M. D. to be Resident Surgeon. Dated March 13, 1812. COMMISSIONS IN THE THIRD, REGIMENT OF ABERDEENSHIRE LOCAL MILITIA, SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF THE COUNTY OF ABERDEEN.

Lieutenant-Colonel George Gordon to be Lieutenant-Colonel-Commandant, vice the Earl or Aberdeen, resigned. Dated March 15, 1811.

Captain Alexander Gordon to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Gordon, promoted. Dated May 25th, 1811.

COMMISSION IN THE ROYAL DEVON AND CORNWALL REGIMENT OF MINERS MILITIA, SIGNED BY THE LORD WARDEN OF THE STANNARIES. Lawrence Holker Potts, Gent. to be Surgeon. Dated March 25th, 1812.

COMMISSION IN THE DORSETSHIRE REGIMENT OF MILITIA, SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT.

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Charles Beale, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Godwin, resigned. Dated March 23, 1812. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF THE WEST RIDING OF THE COUNTY OF YORK, CITY, AND COUNTY OF THE CITY OF YORK.

2d West York Militia.

Joseph Thomas Tuite, Gent. to be Ensign. Dated November 15, 1811.
Edward Hodgson, Gent. to be ditto. Dated November 16, 1811.
Joseph Barton Daikin, Gent. to be ditto. Dated January 26, 1812.

3d West York Militia.

Lieutenant-Colonel William Bryan Cooke to be Colonel. Dated Feb. 23, 1812. Ensign Frederick Atherstone to be Lieutenant. Dated March 6, 1812.

Ensign Thomas Eyre to be ditto.

Dated March 7, 1912.

"Ensign William Read Vincent to be ditto. Dated March 8, 1812.

Leonard Leaf, Gent. to be Ensign. Dated January 7, 1812.

Thomas Gee, Gent. to be ditto. Dated February 3, 1812.

City of York Local Militia.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Mordaunt Milner, Bart. to be Lieutenant-ColonelCommandant. Dated November 7, 1811.

Military Promotions.

Major John Foster to be Lieutenant-Colonel. Dated November 25, 1811.
Staincross and Osgoldcross Regiment of Local Militia.

James Cockshott, Esq. to be Captain. Dated April 25, 1810.

Charles Gleadhail, Esq. to be ditto; John Wade, Esq. to be ditto; Richard Perkins, Esq. to be ditto; and James Emmerson, Gent. to be Lieutenant. Dated May 1, 1810.

Halifax Regiment of Local Militia.

Ensign Bejamin Freemaa to be Lieutenant; and Charles Walsh, Gent, to be Ensign. Dated February 8, 1812.

George Walsh, Geat. to ditto. Dated February 9, 1812.

Claro Regiment of Local Militia.

Ensign Robert Donkin to be Lieutenant; and John Bernard, Gent. to be Eusiga. Dated March 11, 1812.

John Wilkinson, Gent. to be ditto. Dated March 12, 1812.

Northern Regiment of Yorkshire West Riding Yeomanry Cavalry.

Captain Richard Thompson to be Major, vice Stainforth, resigned; and George Lane Dox, Esq. to be Captain. Dated November 1, 1911.

WAR-OFFICE, APRIL 14.

5th Regiment of Dragoon Guards-Cornet William Hammersley to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gordon, promoted; and James Spence, Gent. to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Brooke, promoted.

18th Regiment of Light Dragoons-Ensign George Woodberry, from the 10th Foot, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Greville, promoted.

19th ditto-George Suoad, Gent. to be. Cornet, by purchase, vice Armstrong, promoted.

1st Regiment of Foot Guards-Ensign Robert Thornton to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bishopp, promoted in the 99th Foot; and Captain James Gunthorpe to be Adjutant, vice Miller, appointed Brigade-Major.

3d Regiment of Foot-Captain the Honourable Charles Gordon, from the 34 Foot Guards, to be Captain of a Company, without purchase, vice Brenan, appointed to the 1st Royal Veteran Battalion.

7th ditto-Alexander John Wynch, Gent. to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Holden, who retires.

10th ditto-Ensign Thomas Baylis to be Lieutenant, vice Champion, deceased. 15th ditto-Ensign William Woods to be Lieutenant, vice Goodhall, deceased; and Frend, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Woods.

22d dittc-Lieutenant William Norton to be Captain of a Company, vice Owen, deceased.

25th dittto-Ensign George Needham to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Dale," promoted in the 4th West India Regiment.

29th ditto-Captain Deuis Mahon, from the 56th Foot, to be Captain of a Company, vice Forbes, who exchanges.

34th ditto-Ensign Joseph Murphy to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Sherer, promoted.

50th ditto-William Freebairn, Gent. to be Eusign, without purchase, vice Sayers, whose appointment has not taken place.

53d ditt Ensign John Fraser to be Lieutenant, vice Langton, deceased; Volunteer Nagle to be Ensign, vice Fraser.

56th ditto-Captain Charles Forbes, from the 29th Foot, to be Captain of a Company, vice Mahon, who exchanges.

60th ditto-Captain James Stopford, from the 99th Foot, to be Captain of a Company, vice Suasso, who exchanges.

63d ditto-Ensign Thomas Fairclough to be Lieutenant, vice Edensor, deceased;

O'Neil, Gent. to be Ensiga, vice Fairtlough.

64th ditto-William Trail Douglas, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Latham, whose appointment has not taken place.

70th ditto-Lieutenant Donald Mackay to be Captain of a Company, by purchase, vice Hawkins, who retires; Ensign Donald M'Iver to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Mackay.

75th ditto-James Browne Steward, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Palmer, promoted.

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84th ditto-John Inglis, Gent. to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Gramlick, deceased. 85th ditte-Hospital-Mate Thomas Lukis to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Weir, deceased.

Military Promotions.

89th ditto-Ensign Thomas Taylor to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Watts, whose appointment has not taken place.

90th ditto-James Abbott, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Freer, promoted.

96th ditto-Ensign Luke Stock to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Pickering, placed on half-pay; Daniel Fergusson, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Stock.

99th ditto-Captain Anthony Suasso, from the 60th Foot, to be Captain of z Company, vice Stopford, who exchanges.

4th West India Regiment-Lieutenant Robert Dale, from the 25th Foot, to be Captain of a Company, by purchase, vice Read, promoted.

Royal African Corps-Volunteer William Salter Saunders to be Ensign, without purchase.

1st Ceylon Regiment-Serjeant Richard Pollington, from the 66th Foot, to be Adjutant (with the rank of Second Lieutenant), vice Eaton, deceased.

2d ditto Second Lieutenant James Macdonnell to be First Lieutenant, withou purchase, vice Kitson, promoted; Paget Bayly, Gent. to Be Second Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Macdonnell.

3d ditto-Second Lieutenant Raymond Williams to be First Lieutenant, vice Collier, who resigns; T. Addison, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant, vice Williams.

4th ditto-Second Lieutenant Edward Nolan to be First Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Johnston, who resigns; Charles Kenrick, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant, vice Nolan; First Lieutenant R. F. Fellows to be Adjutant, vice Stace, who resigns the Adjutancy only.

Canadian Fencibles-Lieutenant John S. Peach, from the 91st Foot, to be Captain of a Company, vice Cameron, deceased.

5th Garrison Battalion-John Manly, Esq. to be Paymaster, vice Christie, deceased.

6th dittc-Quarter-Master-Serjeant

Kemple, promoted in the 13th Foot.

Yates to be Quarter-Master, vice

1st Royal Veteran Battalion-Captain Robert Brenan, from the 3d Foot, to be Captain of a Company, vice Sheldon, placed on the Retired List.

ed Ditto-Quarter-Master Henry Heartzoake, from the 60th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Kitt, deceased.

4th ditto Serjeant William Taylor, from the 63d Foot, to be Ensign, vice M‘Alpin, promoted in the 12th Royal Veteran Battalion.

8th ditto-Captain James Bissit, from the 69th Foot, to be Captain of a Company, vice Hitchcock, placed on the Retired List.

12th ditto-Eusign Robert M'Alpin, from the 4th Royal Veteran Battalion, to be Lieutenant, vice O'Hea, placed on the Retired List.

Brevet.

Captain Alexander Thompson, of the 74th Foot, to be Major in the Army.

Staff.

To be Deputy-Assistant-Commissaries-General to the Forces, William Furnridge, and Alexander Begbie, Gents.

Hospital Staff.

To be Hospital-Mates for General Service-David Findlay, Gent. vice M'Bain, promoted; William Fasken, Gent. vice May, promoted; William B. Clements, Gent. vice Parker, promoted.

Barracks.

William Jephson, Esq. to be Deputy Barrack-Master-General to the Forces in Nova Scotia, vice Major-General Vesey, deceased.

C. F. Rait, Gent. to be a Barrack-Master to the Forces in Great Britain.

Memorandum.

Lieutenant James Hewson, of the 82d Foot, who was superseded, as stated in the Gazette of the 11th ultimo, is reinstated in his rank.

The promotion of Ensign John M'Kay to be Lieutenant in the 63d Foot, vice Edensor, as stated in the Gazette of the 7th instant, has not taken place.

Erratum in the Gazette of the 24th ultimo.

99th Foot-For E. T. Poe, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Watts, read E. T. Poe, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Taylor, promoted.

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