The Sun.
London, England, 1834-03-22 00:00:00

QUEEN'S-HOUSE, ST. JAI4EB'a PALACE, Miami 20.
This day M. Tricoupi, Envoy Extraotdinary and Minister
-Plenipotentiary from the King of Greece; had lickfirst audience
of her Majesty : a•
To which he was introduced by the Earl of Denbigh, her
`Mijesty's Lord Chamberlain, and condncte4- litOir Robert
Chestfr, Knt., Master of the Ceremonies.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, MARCV
Cel•sponial of the Investiture of Major-Genet:A SO Arthur
Brooke with the Ensigns of a Knight Corpnpt;aer of the
Most 'Honourable Military Order of th4itathl
J3' command of the Sovereign, Major- Arthur
Arthur
Brooke was conducted, with the usual revereW, toll* Majesty,
preceded by Sir William Woods (Clarencedn/Lirgtlf Arms),
the Officer of Arms attendant upon the Knigrits,Coninanders,
bearing upon a crimson velvet cushion tlfeitttr; riband, and
badge of the second class of the Order. tri
The sword of state was thereupon .deliverelfto his Majesty,
. 'and the, Major-General, kneeling, as knighted therewith ;
"tarter which he had the honour to kiss his Majesty's hiae
Then the Oflioee.of Arms, on-his knee, presenting' 'So_
vereign • the riband and badge of a Knight Commander, the
King was graciously pleased to invest Sir Arthur Brooke there.
with.

The Major-General having again had the honour to kiss the
Sovereign's hand, and having received from his Majesty the
star of a Knight Commander, retired from the Royal Presence
with the usual reverences.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, MARen 19

The King was this day pleased to confer the honour of
Knighthood upon Major-General Lorenzo Moore, Companion
of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, and Mili-
tary Knight ComMander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic
Order.

At the Court at St. James's, the 19th day of March, 1834,
PRESENT,
The KING'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

Whereas there was this day read at the Board a memorial
from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, dated the 31st
of January, 1834, in the words following, viz.--
Having had under our consideration the several existing
modes in which the net proceeds of prizes captured from the
enemy by your Majesty's ships and vessels of war, and of cap-
tures and seizures made by such ships and vessels, under the
several acts passed for the prevention of smuggling and other
acts relating to your Majesty's revenue of Customs, and to trade
and navigation, for the abolition of the slave trade, and for the
capture and destruction of piratical vessels, and of the rewards
which have been conferred for the same, have been distributed
to the several ranks and classes of officers and men serving on
board your Majesty's ships and vessels, which distribution differs
in all of them and from each other, and being of opinion that
an alteration in the several modes at present in force would be
productive of beneficial effects to the naval service if the whole
were arranged under one uniform system by equalising the mode
of distributing the said proceeds and rewards; and having had
at the same time under our consideration the great dispropor.'
tion in the present mode of distribution between the higher
ranks of officers and' the warrant and two classes of petty officers,
seamen, and marines, and being also of opinion that it would
bestow upon your Majesty's naval service a most important be-
nefit, and tend greatly to the encouragement of petty officers
and able seamen entering voluntarily on board your Majesty's
ships of war, if the shares of the proceeds and rewards above_
mentioned were considerably increased beyond what those
valuable officers and men do now receive:—

We would, therefore, most humbly submit that your Ma-
jesty may be graciously pleased, by your Order in Council, to
cause the royal proclamation of the 29th of June, 1815, for
granting the distribution of the proceeds of prizes captured
from the enemy, and the Order in Council of the 30th of June,
1827, for the distribution of the proceeds and rewards arising
from the several other captures and seizures beforementioned,
to be annulled, and that in lieu thereof your Majesty would
cause your Royal proclamation to issue, directing the distri-
bution of the proceeds of all such captures and seizures and
rewards henceforth to be made and conferred among the
officers, seamen, and marines of your Majesty's fleet in the
manner following, viz.:—
First —By taking a reasonable sum from the flag officers,
captains, and commanders, and commanding officers' shares of
two eighths, as at present allowed, and adding it to the shares
of the other commissioned and warrant and petty officers,
seamen, and marines.
Secondly.—By giving to the flag-officers, captains, and com-
manders, and commanding officers, definite shares of the whole
suns to be distributed respectively, without snaking the flag-
officers' share dependent on that of the captains and com.
manders.

Thirdly.—By giving to the first lieutenant or commander
doing the duty of a first lieutenant (where there is any), a spe.
cific number of shares.

Fourthly.—By adding a third class of petty officers, and
dividing the boys into two classes, by which the present num-
13.sr of classes, namely eight, will be increased to ten.

Fifthly.—By throwing the whole, after deducting the parts
allotted to the flag officers, captains, and commanders, into
specific shares to each individual of the several classes, instead
of appropriating a fractional portion to each class collectively.
Should your Majesty be graciously pleased to accede to these
general principles, we would humbly submit that the flag of-
ficer or officers should have one sixteenth part of the whole
net proceeds arising from prizes captured from the enemy, and
from all other captures and seizures as aforesaid, made by the
ships and vessels under his command, and of the rewards con.
ferred for the same, save and except as hereinafter mentioned.
That the captain or captains, or commanders, of any of your
Majesty's ships or stoops of war, or the officer or officers respec-
tively commanding such ships or sloops of war, who shall have
been actually on board at the time of any such capture or
seizure, shall have one sixth part of the remainder, and where
there is no flag officer, one sixth part of the whole.

That the remainder should be distributed into shares accord-
ing to the annexed scale:—
First class.—To the senior lieutenant, from first to fifth rates
inclusive, or the commander acting as first lieutenant (where
there is one), the master of the fleet and field officer of marine
(if embarked)—fifty.five shares each.
Second class.—To the other lieutenants, captains of marines,
master, physician of the fleet, and secretary to the commander
in chief—forty-five shares each.
Third class.—To the chaplain, surgeon, and other flag
officers, secretaries, purser, lieutenants of marines, boatswain,
gunner, and carpenter—twenty-five shares each.

Fourth class.—To mates, second master, assistant-surgeons,
schoolmaster, clerks, master at arms—eighteen shares each.
Fifth class.—To midshipmen, master's assistant, admiral's
coxswain, ship's corporal, captain's cockswain, quartermaster,
gunners' and boatswains' mates, captains of forecastle and ho!d,
cockswain of launch, caulker, sail-maker, carpenters' mates,
armourer, captains of main and fore tops, sergeant of marines—
ten shares each.

Sixth class—To captains of masts and afterguard, yeomen
of signals, coxswain of pinnace, sailmakers', caulkers', and
armourers' mates, cooper, ropemaker, volun:eers of first class,
ship's cook, corporals of marines—eight shares each.
Seventh class.—To seamen, gunners, gunners' crew, car.
penters', coopers', and sailmakers' crews, able seamen, yeomen
of store-room, private and fifer of marines above seven years—
five shares each.

Eighth class.—To cook's mate, barber, ordinary seamen,
captains' and pursers' and ward-room stewards, captains' and
ward-room cooks, private and tiler of marines, under seven
years, and admiral's steward, cook, and domestics—three shares
each.

Ninth class.—To landsmen, stewards' mates, and others not
described, including supernumeraries for victuals only, boys of
the first class—two shares each.
Tenth class.—To boys of the second class—half a share each.

When land forces are embarked to serve as marines, they
are to share according to their respective ranks as marines.
Secondly.—ln the cases of prizes captured from the enemy,
and all other captures and seizures as aforesaid, made by the
officers and men of cutters, schooners, brigs, and other armed
vessels of war, commanded by lieutenants, when not in com-
pany with other ships commanded by captains or commanders,
the said lieutenants to share as captains; and where more small
vessels than one shall be together, the lieutenants shall have
equal shares of the one sixth part.

But a lieutenant or lieutenants commanding small vessels,
when in company with captains or commanders, shall share
only as commanders doing duty as first lieutenants, or first
lieutenants of first to fifth rates inclusive, namely—they shall
have 55 shares.

The remainder to be shared as in the foregoing scale, with
the exception of the clerk in charge, who is to share as purser ;
but if a ship or vessel bearing a purser be present, he is to
share only as clerk.
Thirdly.—In all cases in which supernumeraries, whether
officers or men, shall be borne by order of the Lord High Ad-
miral, or the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord
High Admiral, or by other proper authority, they shall share
with the respective ranks in which they may be acting; save and
except, that no flag-officer or other person, not actually present
at the capture or destruction of any pirate vessel, shall be enti-
tleJ to share in any distribution of the proceeds or bounty in
respect of the crews of such piractical ships, vessels, and boats;
and also save and except, that no flag-officer or other person,
who shall not have been actually on board any of your Majesty's