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London, England, 1812-03-28 00:00:00

[PItICE SIXPENCE-HAT.F PEN t,;

EAST IADId HOUSE,

March 25, 1812.
rrHE COURT of DIRECTORS of the L 1171 TED
-A- COMPANY'uf MERCHANTS y EAGLAND Trad-
ing to the EAST INDIES do herdy give Notice, •
That a General Court of the said Company will be held at
their llouse in Leadenhall-street, on Thursdg, the zd of .11›,
next, at Eleven o'clock in Ike Forenoon, to take into consia'eratio,
the Papers laid by the Court DireElors hejore the General
Court this day.

RAMSAY, Sec.

NEW ESTABLISHMENT OF PAY AND HALF.PA Y

FOR NAVY CHAPLAINS.

-•
Admiralty-Office, 9th March, 1812.
HE LORDS COMMISSIONERS for' execut-
ing -the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United
Kingdoms of Great, Britain and Ireland, do hereby give Nu.
tice, that his Royal _Highness the Prince Regent has been
graciously pleased, by his, Order in Council of the.gth
in the Name and on the Behalf of his Majesty, to threat, that
the. following Regulations, in respect to the HALF_ PA V
or PENSION to be allowed to CHAPLAINS of l-is Ma-
jesty's Fleet; after long and meritorious Service., as Well
the PAY and ALLOWANCES during the perucl. of such
servitude, shall be established in future, viz.
" First,:fhat every Ship in his Majesty's Navy, from a
,First uit a Fifth Rate inclusive, shall be'allo'wed a ChaPlain
on her Establishment."

" Secondly, That every Chaplain after Eight Years, of
actual Sea Service, (or it in a Guard Ship, Ten Years,) dur;
lug which period hel shall not have been absent Irons his
Duty Six Weeks at any one time, except by special leave
from' the Board of Admiralty, and who shall produce Certi-
ficates of good Condut and moral Behaviour from the Cap-
tains he may have served under, shall be entitled to a Pension
in the nature of Half. pay ; but no Chaplain to he entitled.
toHalf-pay or Pension it he shall accept any Preferment
with Cure of Souls during the term of his required Service
at Sea."

Thirdly, That the amount of this Pension or Half-pay
to each Chaplain shall be Five Shillings per pay."

" Fourthly, That it in the event of a Peace, or from other ,
circumstances not depending himielf, a Chaplain sliall
not have been able to complete the full Servitude of Pigll
Years, a Pension may be conferred by the Board of Admiralty
according to a scale to be determ.nel on, proportionate to
the term of Service, in no case, however, to be granted lot
less than Three Years Service at Sea."

" Fifthly, That on the expiration of the period of eight
(or ten)years, as the case may be, every Chaplain shall give
Notice in writing, whether it is his intention to continue to
serve or not ; in the first case, every year's additional S(r.
vice shall entitle him, when placed on the Pension List, to
receive at the rate of Sixpence a day in addition to the
which his eight (or ten) years servitude may have en-
titled hini to, until the aggregate rate amounts to Ten Shil-
lings a day, being the greatest Pension which any length of
Service can confer; in the second case, where no further
Service is intended; the Pension shall remain at Five Slid-
lingS a day as above-mentioned.,"

" Sixthly, That length of Service and meritorious Con-
duet shall render Chaplains eligible to all the Chaplainci'
of all Naval Establishments whatver, thedispos4 of which
shall, Or may be, left to the consideration of the Board of
Admiralty ; and that no other Clergyman shall be eligible to
any of those pieces of preferment than a Navy Chaplain ;
and that the Presentation to any of those pieces of Prefer-
ment, whose emoluments may amount to Four Hundred
Pounds per Annum, shall cause the Half. pay of the respoc-
tive Chaplains to cease, as is provided oy Law in the case of
the divided Living of Simonbourn."

" Seventhly, That the Pay of a Cbaplain,_ while in
a6lual Service, shall be according to the following Rate,

viz. I:-

" One Hundred and Fifty Pounds per Annum, and the es--
tablished compensation of r ii. 85, a-year, fora Servant, in
each Rate, and to have a Cabin allotted for him, in the
Ward Room, or Gun Room, where he is to Mess with the
Lieutenants and to be rate* for Victuals : and when the
Chaplain shall be .willing to aa as Schoolmaster, he shall
be entitled to the Bounty of Twenty Pounls a year,- granted
by her late Majesty Queen Anne, by her Order in Coundl,
of the zist April 1701, provided he shall pass an examination
before the Lieuteriant-Goy,ernor, Professor, :and Preceptor of
the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth, instead of at the
Trinity-House, as required by the above-mentioned Order
in Couticil ; and be shall be further entitled to Five Pounds
per Annum, to be paid to him by every young Midshipman
and Volunteer of the first class, as a Remuneration for his
Education, the same to be stopped out of the said young
Gentlemen's Pay. .

" Eig,hthly, That a Chaplain General shall Le appointed,
with such Emoluments as may be deemed proper by the
Board of Admiralty, to whom all applications for Appoint-
ments shall be made, or will be referred, and all Regnla-
tions entrusted, relating to the Establishment of Chaplains
for the Royal Navy, in thesarne manner as is pradised with
regard to Army ChaplainW"

" Ninthly, That no warrant will be granted by the Board
of Admiralty, toany Candidate for an Appointment, unless
recommended by the Archbishops ot Canterbury and folk,
and the Bishop of London, 'through the Chaplain-General,
as in every way properly qualified."
" Tenthly, That Chaplains now serving in the Navy,
who may upon due examination 'be deemed proper
continued, shall be allowed the time they may have serve 4.
as part not exceeding one half) ot that required to entitle
them to the Pension or Half-Pay."
By Command of their Lordships,
1. W. CROKER.

' N. B. The Rev. Archdeacon John Owen, has been ap.
pointed Chaplain-General to the Fleet, to whom all lcitcrs
are to be addressed, under sover to the Secretary of the Ad-

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