The Sun.
London, England, 1814-09-05 00:00:00

MONDAY, SEPTEMEEA 5, 1814,

ItEGIIt.ATIONS IN RESPECT TO lIALF,PAV
'APPOiN PMENT, AND RANK., OF PURSERS OP THE
14,441, NAVY. . -
Admiralty-Office,. 2t;th July, 1,514.
TITS Royal Highness the PRINCE REGFNT
hav:ng. been graciously pleased to
.approve of certain
REQULATIONS proposed by the Lords Conowissioners
of the Admiralty for the ENCOURAGEMENT ;Lod RE-
WAItD of rI7II.7SERS of the Royal NAVY, and for re-
gulating. the Appointment, and fixing- the Rank of this
useful and deserving class of-- Officers ; Notice is hereby
given that the.following. Regulations have been established
by Order in Council, dated the 2`,tt.l instant, and that Orders
bure been in consequence given for the immediate discharge
of a!• Parst.ns-froM Ships in Ordinary and the Cheque of ;the
several Yards,
I.— That Pursers of the Royal Navy, instead of being con-
sidered as standing Warrant Officers of his Majesty's Ships,
and borne in Ships in Ordinary, or tin the Cheque of the se-
veral Dock Yards for Personal ray and Allowances of Provi-
sions, as at present, shall, when the Ships to which they are
warranted may be paid off, be immediately discharged, and
allowed in lieu of their present Witges and Provision, Half-
Pay, according to the following scale, viz.:—
•

S.
To the first 100 Pursers on the Seniority List..s per Diem .
The next S?OtY s 4
The remainder
The said liall-pay,of Pursers shall commence from the Ist
of JULY instant, and be subject to the same Regulations dud
RestrictioUs as the Half-pay of the Commissioned Officers of
his Majesty's Fleet, and be allowed to all Pursers, who shall
have been Five Years in his Majesty's Service, either as Clerk
or Purser, from the Day on which their respective Ships Indy
put out of Commission.

That all Pursers coming on Half-pay shall report them-
selves to this Office, without loss of tiaw, in order to be placed
on the Quarterly Half-pay Lists, on pain of forfeiting the
Half-pay for the time not reported.
II —ln order to prevent any improvident or unnecessary
increase of the Number of Pursers, and at the same time to
• ensure the Appointment of such persons only as may be duly.
qualified for the duties of the situation, no .person shall he
warranted as Purser, until the number of Pursers be re-
duced below the number of Ships on the List of the Royal
Navy (exclusive of such as are building and haze not been
launched), and that ho.-eafter the number of Pursers shall
never exceed the number of such Ships.
That no Person shall be appointed a Purser who shall be
less than Twenty-nue oi more than Thirty-live years of age.
.That no Person shall be appointed --Purser of any of hit
Majesty's ships Unless he have been rated as, and actually dis•
charged the 'duty of, Captain's Clerk in one or' more ist his
Maje,ty's ships for two complete years; or has discharged the
said duty of Captain's Clerk for one complete year, and the
duty of Clcik to the secretary at a Flag Officer for one other
year; and shall, in every case, produce a certificate of • his
good conduct, pass the usual examinations, and give such se-
eurity.for an honest arid faithful discharge of his•duty, as may
froortimet6 tinie-be requir?d.
• That no Purser shall he capable of being appointed to a
Fouroi:Or Fifth Rate, who shall not have Keen Two Yews a
Warranted Purser on the List, nor to a First, Second, or
•Third Rate, till he shall have been Fire Years on the List of
Warranted Pursers.

Older to give a greater respectability' to the Situa-
tion of this Class of `Officers, his Royal Highness has been
gracionsly pleased-to confer on Pursers of the Royal Navy,
the sane Itank as granted by his lklajesty's Order in Council
of the 25th of January, 1804 to the Surgeons of the Fleet.
J. W. CROKE&

REGIAATIONS. IN RESPECT TO THE HALF-PAY
AND APPOINTMENT OF MASTERS OP.THE ROYAL'
NAVY. Admiralty-Oftice, Q;tti Jail isl 4.

Y.*
,llßeval--f1ig1a.4.40-LPILINCti: RE-G.E2S,TP.
haaing been graciously pleased to approve-Of certain
REGULATIQNS, proposed by the Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty, for the ENCOURAGEMENT and REWARD
of MASTERS of the ROYAL NAVY, and for regulatin.
the ApPointment of this highly meritorious and useful Class
of °filters,. Notice is hereby given, that the following Regu-
lations 'awe beeu established, by Order in Council, dated the
9.'0 instant :
I "That Masters, on their first. Appointments, shall be
allowed their Travelling Expenses, at the same hate, and in
the same manner, as the Lieutenants of his Majesty's Fleet.
11. " That, in lieu of the Half-pay established for Masters,
in the Royal Navy, by the 7th Article of the Order in Council
of lath August, 1805, and the Regulations appertaining
thereto, the follawing Rate of Half-pay shall be established-
and atibwed, from the let July instant, viz.:
" To the first 100 Masters, being qualified,
. for Ist and 2d rates - 7s. per diem.
"To the next 200 being qualified for ad and
4th Rates
" The Remainder ss. ______
"The said Rates of Half-pay for Masters to be subject to
the same Regulations and Restrictions as the Half-pay of the
Commissioned Officers of the Fleet, and also to the following:
Regulatians,
That such Master as shall have served Five Years in his
Majesty's Navy, two of which aS -Acting-Master, Second Mas-
t er, Master's-Mate, or Midshipman, previously 'to receiving
n appointment, as Master, shall be entitled to Half-pay im-
mediately on' his being put out of COnimission."
5, That such Master as shall have served as aforesaid, in
ms Majesty's Navy, hut not for the full space of Five Years,
shall be entitled to Half-pay only when the time of his Service
as Master, added to that before passed iu the King's Service,
shall complete the said period of Five Years."
" An 4 that such as shall have been-appointed Master without
having previously served in the Royal Navy, shall be entitled
to Half-pay, -after -having served as Master Five Years. But
that no Master shall be permitted in time of. War, on any ac-
count whatever, to,receive Half-pay daring such time as he
shall be employed in the Merchaat Service, or in auy.other
occupatitin, unless,sullicietit proof be •add uced to' the Com-
Missioncrs of the Navy, that such Person is, from infirmity •
of body, absolutely incapable of 'per-farming the Duty of a
Master in his Majesty's Navy.
And his Royal Higliness.has been further gracious,
lv pleased to direct, that Masters of the Royal Navy, .instead
of being required,as at present, to,pass ail Examination before
the Master and Wardens of the Corporation of Trinity !louse,
for each Rate of Slips separately, shall he required only to.
pass an Examination tOaching their Qualifications to serve as
Mas'ters of the following Rates jointly.
" First and second Rates jointly.
" Third and fourth Rates jointly.
-" Fifth and sixth Rates jointly.
" Sloops and•smaller Vessels jointly.
IV. '" And in Order to prevent any unnecessary, or int-,
prov7dent increase of the number of Masters, suds at the
same time to ensure, that all persons warranted as Masters
in his Majesty's Navy, 'be men of experience and judgment. '
" That no Person shall be warranted as Master, anti} the
tiny:titer of Masters on the List be reduced below the number
of Ships on the' List of the Navy, (exclusive sif such ;is are
building, - and • have asot been launclied), and that no More
Masters shall be ever appointed, thats the Number of such
Ships at the time that any Appointment of Master is to be
made."
" That no Person than he allowed \to pass an F.xami-
nation touching his qualifications to serve as Master in
the Royal Navy before lie shall have attained the, Age
of *Tweiltv-one , Yeats, or after the Age of Thirty-live -
Years; and have bean at least Seveu Years at Sea, two
of Which roast have liven served in 'his Majesty's Navy in •
tire quality, of.,Acting Master by Order, Second Master,
Ma'ster's Mate, or Nlitishipalan, or ht.ing within the afore-
said-ages. and having served "'even Years sit-Sea; ,shalt have
„t,„„iir been One Year or more Cliit:if,lM Gus l
te,a.zdrl;is ~,(st,tYerea,r.sf
MMuster,er, Two Years Chief Mate, a
a 3.lerchant Ship ; and shall produce Certificates of Diligence,
Sobriety, and good Conduct, Winn the Owners, for the tiate,
he served as Master, and frarn the Owners and Master for
the tiaie h. averveil as Mate." •
II:MAI:nu Master shallsbe permitted to pass his Examina-
tion for a higher-Rate, until he shall have served One Cour-
ple:e. Year in a Ship in Commission, under his last quali-

J. W. CatOli.Elt.

i7CTC.ILLING-OFFICE, .dag. 30, 1814.
•
PrIIE CO.II347ISSIDNEI:IS.for VICTUALLINGZIL His .11.4./ES Tr S N-117Y do h(reby,give Notice, .That
on Tuesday, the 13th of Septemb,er next, they will be ready
to receive Tenders in 17-riling? sealed vp, and treat for the
SUPPLY ay: TWO HUNDRED TROUSAND BAVINS for'
the Service of HIS IYIAJESTI"S BAKEHOUSE at DEPT-
FORD, ta be 'delivered at the rate of from 25,000 to 30,000
per fr'eeh, from the date of tke Contract ; and to be paid for
by Bills, payable with Interest Ninety days after date.
7'he Conditions' of the Contract racy be seen' at the Sc-
cretary's Office.
No regard will be had to any Tender in which the Price
shall not be inserted in words at length, or that shall not be
delivered to the Board befinv One o' Clock on the said Tues-
day, the 13th of Septeinocrnext, nor unless the Person who
siuelus the,,Ttutkr, or some Person on his behaf, attends, to
answer when called for.

r, 21.N.47.0Fr1CE, ,fg :10,1814.
THE COMMISSIONERS for VICTWILLING
Ili. Ard,TE,SrY'S ArrilrY do hereby give Notice, That
on Tuesday the 6th of September next, they will be ready to
receive Pendcrsin (eakd vp); and treat for .fro/it
SIXTY to EIGHTY TONS of COCOA, to be answernble fo
Samples (of not less than One Pound .V'eight each), to be
produced wish the'Venders;!o be delivered in the space (?f tz
3lonth, into his illiejes.Ve Vietuolling Stores at Deptford;
and to be paid for by Bills Payable with Interest Ninety
-Days after date.
The Conditions of the-Contracts may Le seen at the Scare-
t ary's Ogee. .
No regard twill be hall to any Tender in which the Price
shalt not be inserted in wor6 at length, or that shoal not
be delivered to the Board beforf One o'Cloch on the said
Tuesday, the (3111 of September, nor unless the Pers'on Who
makes the Tender, or sonic Person on his behalf, attends, to
answer when called frlr. •