WILLIAM BARRELL. _Appointed 8th August, 1734._ This officer entered the army in the reign of William III.; he obtained the rank of captain in 1698, and his distinguished conduct in the wars of Queen Anne was rewarded with the brevet rank of colonel on the 1st of January, 1707. In 1715 he was promoted to the colonelcy of the twenty-eighth foot; in 1727 he was appointed brigadier-general; in 1730 he was removed to the twenty-second regiment, and in 1734 to the KING'S OWN. In the following year he was promoted to the rank of major-general; in 1739 to that of lieut.-general; and he was also appointed governor of Pendennis castle. He died on the 9th of August, 1749. ROBERT RICH. _Appointed 22nd August, 1749._ ROBERT RICH, second son of Sir Robert Rich, baronet, a distinguished officer in the wars of Queen Anne, was promoted by King George II. to the lieut.-colonelcy of the KING'S OWN, at the head of which corps he distinguished himself at the battle of Culloden and was wounded; and in 1749 he succeeded Lieut.-General Barrell in the colonelcy of the regiment, which he held seven years. In 1758 he was promoted to the rank of major-general, and in 1760 to that of lieut.-general; he also held the appointments of governor of Londonderry and Culmore-fort in Ireland; and in 1768 he succeeded, on the decease of his father, to the dignity of a BARONET. He died in 1785. ALEXANDER DUROURE. _Appointed 12th May, 1756._ This officer was promoted on the 27th of February, 1751, from the lieut.-colonelcy of the twenty-fourth, to the colonelcy of the thirty-eighth regiment; and was removed in 1756 to the KING'S OWN. In 1758 he was promoted to the rank of major-general, and in 1760 to that of lieut.-general. He died in 1765. THE HONORABLE ROBERT BRUDENELL. _Appointed 23rd January, 1765._ ROBERT BRUDENELL, third son of George Earl of Cardigan, was many years a member of parliament for Marlborough, also groom of the bedchamber to his Royal Highness the Duke of York, whose train he bore at the coronation of George III. He was appointed captain and lieut.-colonel in the third foot guards in 1758; was promoted to the colonelcy of the sixteenth foot in 1763; and removed to the KING'S OWN in 1765. He died at Windsor in October, 1768. STUDHOLME HODGSON. _Appointed 7th November, 1768._