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• - March 25, ~,z.
THE COURT of DIRECTORSV the I'N.ITE4
gA CUMPANY uf MERCHANTS of EAGLAND Turd-
ingtl the EAST INDIES do hereby give Notice,
That a General Court of the said Company he held at
their H,use in Leadenbeill-strret, on Thursday, tbe 21 of April
next, at Eleven o'clock in th: Forenoon, to take into coPtsideration
the Papers tad ly the Court 61 Direelors be.Pe the General
Court this ilfy.

tsar. R4A7SAY, Sec.

NLIV ESTABLISHMENT OF PAY AND HALF.PAY
FOR NAVY CHAPLAINS.

Admiralty-Office, 9th March, 1812.
AHE LORDS COMMISSIONERS for execut-
ing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the *United
Kingdoms of G teat Britain and Ireland% do hereby give No.
tice, that his Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been
graciously pleased, by his Order in Council of the 4th inst.
in the Name and on the Behalf of his Majesty, to direct, that
the following Regulations, in respell td the HA I,F-P A Y
or PENSION to be allowed to CHAPLAINS of his Mae
jesty's Fleet, after long and meritorious SerViee, as wet/ as
the PAY and ALLOWANCES during the period of such
servitude, shall be established in. future, viz.
" First, That every Ship in his Majesty's Navy, from a
First to a Fifth Rate inclusive, shall be allowed a Chaplain
on her Establishment."

" Secondly, That every ,Chaplain after Eight Years of
aaual Sea Service, (or it in a Guard Ship, Ten Years,) dur.
ing which period he shall not have been absent trout 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 Condul and moral Peliaviour from the Caiv,-
tains he may have served under, shall he entitled to a Pension
in the nature of flalf:pay ; but no Chaplain to be entitled
to -Half-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 Shilliags'per pay."

" Fourthly, That it in the event of a Peace, or from other
circumstances not dep riding on himself, a Chaplain shall
not have been able to complete the full Servitude of Eight
Years, a Pension may be conferred by the Board of:Admiralty
according to 'a scale to he determ,nel on, proportionate to
the term of Service, in no case, however, to be granted for
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 contianee to
serve or, not; in the first case, every year's additional Ser.
vice shall entitle him, when pl.nxd on the Pension I.ist, to
tnp rate! ot SivportrP a day in addit►on to the Pen—
sion which his eight (or ten) year/. servitude may )).2ve en-
titled him to, until the aggregate rate amunts 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 Shil-
lings a day as above-mentioned."

" Sixthly, That length of Service and meritorious Con..
dud shall render Chaplains eligible to all the Chaplaincies
of all Naval Establishments whatever, thedisposal 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 liundrtd
Pounds per Annum, shall cause the Half-pay of the respec.
tive Chaplains to cease, as is provided oy Law in the case of
the divided Living of Simonbourn."

" Seventhly, That the Pay of a Chaplain, while in
aaual Service, shall be according to the following

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" One Hundred and Fifty Pounds per Annum, and the et.
tahlished compensation of r 11. Bs. a year, for a 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 rho
Lieutenants and to be rated for Vinuals : and when the
Chaplain shall be willing to aa as Schoolmaster, he shall
be entitled to the Bounty of Twenty Pounds a year, granted
by her late Majesty Queen Anne, by her Order in Council,
of the 21st April 1702, provided he shall pass an examination
before the Lieutenant-Governor, Vrofessor. and Preceptor of
roe Royal Naval College at Portsmouth, instead a at the
Trinity.llorise, as required by the abotre mentioned Order
in Council ; and be slutl he further entitled to Five Pounds
per Annum, to o.:e paid to him by every young Niidshiprnan
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.

" Eighthly, That a Chaplain General shall be appointed,
with such Emoluments as may be deemed proper by the
Board of Admiralty, to whom all applications for A ppoint•
ments shall be made, or will be referred, and all Regula-
tions entrusted, relating to the Establishment of Chaplains
for the Royal Navy, hi the :,ame manner as is practised with
regard to Army Chaplains."

" Ninthly, That no warrant will be granted by the Board
of Admiralty, toany Candidate for an Appointment, unless
recommended hy the Archbishops of Canterbury and York,
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 to be
continued, shall he allowed the time they may have served,
as part not exceeding one half) of that required to entitle
them to the Pension or Half-Pay."
By Comthand of their Lordships,
I. W. CROKER.

N. B. The Rev. Archdeacon John Owen, has been ap.
pointed Chaplain-General to the Fleet, to whom all letters
are to be addressed, under *over to the Sesretary of the Ad.

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