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Captain Curtis of the Brilliant, who behaved so well at Gibraltar, is now Sir Roger Curtis Kt: with an Annuity of £500 for Life. Your Royal Highness will observe that The Admiralty Board has undergone another change. Lord Howe first Lord, & Capt: Leveson Gower one of the members. Sir John Jarvis has got into Parliament, but for what place I do not recollect. I am confidently assured that, at the resignation of Ld Keppel, ministers wou'd have offered the Presidency of that Board to my Lord Hood, if He had been in the Kingdom. There is a Print coming out of Him by Sherwin from a miniature in the possession of Lady Hood, which promises to be very like. He is so much & so deservedly a favourite of the Public, that the impression will doubtless be eagerly bought up. The miniature Your Royal Highness did me the Honor to give me for my Box is now in the hands of Myers, who is to paint
