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me relieving guara or uie uue uruarus , ana an uiuse suiuicrs who were at the engagement were exempted from doing duty and received one day’s extra pay on the occasion.Friday’s Gazette records the following elevations to the Upper House:—The Earl of Fingall, by the title of Baron Fingall, of Woolhampton-lodge, Berks; Earl of Sefton, as Baron Sefton, of Croxtetb, Lancashire; Lord Kinnaird, as Baron Rosaie, of liossie, Perthshire ; and the Right Hon. G. J. W. Agar Ellis, as Baron Dover, of Dover, Kent.—The same Gazette announces the appointment of General William Loftus te be Lieutenant of die Tower of London.—The newly-created Peers took the oaths and their seats on Monday. Mr. Ellis is only son and , heir-apparent to Viscount Clifden, who inherits the English 1 Barony of Mendip, which of course enables him to sit in the Upper House of Parliament. The Barony of Dover is not a new title in the English Peerage, having been successively borne by the distinguished families of Douglas, Carey, and Yorke. The last occasion on which it became extinct or dormant waa in 1792, on the death of Field-Marshal Sir Joseph Yorke (created Baron Dover 178#). Ou the accession of Earl Grey to office, Lord Dover was sworn in a Member of the Privy Council, and appointed First Commissioner of Woods and Forests, in the room of Lord Lowther. This office, however, his Lordship resigned on the plea of ill health, and was succeeded by Viscount Duncannon.—The Earl of Sefton is one of the few Irish Peers who have on succeeding to the family honours, con- -tinued to represent English boroughs in Parliament. Although the. Earldom is an Irish title, his Lordship’s property and connexions are we believe exclusively British. His Lotdship is a Nobleman of very liberal politics, and during the long period that he sat for Droitwich, a borough under the influence ol Lord Foley, he invariably acted with the Whig party.—The venerable Earl of Fingall is also distinguished by his liberal political
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London County Herald and Weekly Advertiser
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Jun 25, 1831
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