The Sun.
London, England, 1805-01-03 00:00:00

CHELSEA HOSPITAL

29th December', 404. "•
THESE are by Order 01 the Right Honourable
the LORDS and others COMMISSIONERS tbr
managing the AFFAIRS of the ROYAL HOSPITAL at
CHELSEA, to give Notice, that all Out.:Pensioners (as
well Lettermen as others) belonging to the said Hospital,
residing in London, or within twenty-live miles thereof, are
required to appear eersonally and Regimentally, at the Se-
cretary's Office, in the said Hospital, on the respFtlive.dars
wider-mentioned% when Attendance will be given from
Nine o' Clock in the Morning until Three in the After.-
nOon, viz.

MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 180.5.
The Pensioners from the Ist and zd Regiments of Life.
Guards, the late, tst and ad Troops of Horse-Guards, the
late tst and 2d Troops of Horse Grenadier-Guards. the
Royal Horse-Guards (Blues),, the bragoon-Guards, the 3d,
4th, and 7th Regiments of Horse, all the Dragoons, and Fen
cable Cavalry, the-British Legion of Horse, with the Waggon
Train.

TUESDAY," JANUARY S.
The Pensioners.from the ist mild Coldstream Regiments
of Foot-Ggards.

WEDNESDAY, TANUARY 9.
The Pensioners from the3d Regiment of Foot-Gusrds, and
those from the Ist to the ti th Rejtiments of Foot, inclusive.
THURSDAY, IANUARY to.
Those front the rith to the 35th Regiments of Foot in-
clusive. - •
FRIDAY, JANUARY IT.
Those from the 36th to the sgth Regiments of Foot, in.
elusive.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 12.
Those from the both to the 89th Regiments of Foot, in-
clusive.

MONDAY, JANUARY 14.
Those from the 90th to the r3stil aegiments of Foot, in.
elusive; also the Pensioners front the Queen's German Re-
giment, the African Corps', Loyal Irish, Lord Strathaven's,
Majors Waller's, Elford's, and Fish's Corps, tf,e Queen's
Rangers' .Fencible Corps, Royal Garrison and Veteran Bat-
tations,.Cinque.Port, and Lancaihire Voluntecrs, the Royal
Hospital Corps; also the American hrid other Corps, • with
the Militia, .
• . TUESDAY, JANUARY
Those from the Independent.Cowpanies of Invalids, Re-
duced Regiments of Marines, and Lettermen.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY i 6.
• The Serjeants from the Foot-Guards at Ninepence
diem; the Serjeants, Corporals, and Private Men, who
ceive the increased Pension on account of Blindness;
also the Serjeants disbanded from the late Independent Com-
panies, who receive One Shilling per day; also those dis.
charged from the Royal Yeteran Battalions, who have am
Increased Pension of Ninepence, and One Shilling, per day
with the Private Gentlemen who receive Annuities from the
late Ist and 2d Troops of Horse-Guards,
And that all Out-Pensioners (ao.well Lettermen as otherS)
belonging to the said Hospital, who live at a greater distance
than twenty-five miles from London, and those in Scotland
and Ireland, are hereby required. and commanded, after the
asth June next, and after every succeeding 25th June and
25th of December, until further Orders, to apply'to one of
His Majesty's Justices of the Peace in the neighbourhood
where they reside, and make the followin Affidavit, which
the said Magistrate fur the .County, City, Borough, or Riding,
before whom the Pensioner appears, will sign and date, viz.
It came before me, one of His Majesty's Jus.
tiees.of the Peace for the County of ~ and made
HODatspititli on .thehathe was admitted an Out-Pensioner of Chelsea
day of . 17 (or IS ),
" from the Regiment of, conunand.
(.4 by
Wasllten aged yearsi,was
" discharged for ; and that he is no otherwise pro.
vidd fur by the Public, but as a Pensioner of theeeid Has-
" pital,,arld now lives in the Parish of in the
Crunty of

" Sworn before me, this day of 180 • ."
The Affidavit, drawn according to the above Form, dated,
and 4ttested by a Magistrate, is to be put under a cover, and
sent by the General Post, di;eited thus : " To the Right Ho-
" nourabl; the. PaymasterXeneral, at the How Guards,
London ;" and Counterparts, or • Oupiicates,-of the said
Affidavits are to be reserved by the Out-Pensioners respec-
tively, to be exhibited to such persons as shall he direded to
pay them, that they may be satisfied that all such as may
claim Out-Pensions are the real persons entitled to receive
the strap. •

And .to the end- that the Commissioners • for the Affairs of
Clie4sea Hospital may be satisfied that the Pensioners are the
same persons-who have passed their Examination, it is" here.:
by further direled, that such of them ,who have served in,
and have been, discharged from. any of the:Regiments, .or
Independent Companies of Invalids.. are not to mention in
their Affidavits such Regiment, .or Company:of Invalids, in
whics they served last, but the Regiment, Troop, or Corps
of the Army front which they ware first disnhirged, and re,
commended and received at Chelsea HoSpital.
Ana as the General Payments in Great Britaittand Ireland,
at the end of the ensuing six months, are generally regulated
by tha Places of Residence mentioned by the Pensioner; who
are ranstaed at .Chelsea in Person, and in the body of the
Affidavits.of those Who live at a distance, it'is hereby ordered
and directed? that no person who shall • change: 7 the, P lace'of
his Abode given in at
.his Muster, er specified in,his Affidavit
atoresaid,• and who may apply for his Pension (etcepting
the Officers of gxcise neareit such Place at Abode), call
receive the Lune, unless it -appears, by the„Certificatc of Te.
spedoble persons, that such removal %v 4 'Through unavoid-
able necessity, which he or they Could friresee or prevent,
It is also hereby notified, that • none will he...entered upon
,the Pay Lists of the said' Hospital, or be entitled to receive
any benefit therefrom, who shall not at agreeably to these
Orders and Diredions. .

And.his Majesty having been pleased, upon this occasion,
to order an Examitution of all the Out-Pensioners belonging
to the said hospital, resident in London, or within fwelity;
five miles thereof, WhO have been discharged-from their Re.'
giments as Private Men, as well from the Cavalry, Foot-
guards, and.ltifantry of the Line, as from the Militia and
Fencibles (the Out-Pensioners trout the lite Horse-Guards,-
and Horse Grenadier-Guards; the Lite-Gords, and Royal
Regiment of horse.Guards' such Men as by the hospital
Books:: are 'now more than fifty-five years of age, or had
served twenty-five years in the Army previously to their Dis-
charges, those who have,lost a limb or their eyesight. or ate
cripples, or who received a Certilicate of their total taldittlesS,
for further Service, from any of the Officers employed at the
General Examination of Out-Pensioners iii the month of De.
ember iSoa,.excepted); all 'such Private. Out-Pensioners
.are therefore required and commanded, at the times of their
respective appearance as above mentioned, to put themselves
under the Orders of the Officers who have been appointed to
take them in charge, and to cause them to be examined as to
their fitness forduty in a Royal,Veteran Battalion.
His Majesty is graciously pleased to declare, that all the
said Private Men Shall be considered as entitled to the Pen-
sion for the Six months commencing from the aetli inst. not-
withstanding those found fit for S. rvice will commence Pay
from the respeelive days of their appearanee in pursuance of
this Order; and that none shall be required' to serve any
where but in a Veteran Battalion ; that every Man found ht
for that duty shall be entitiNi, on his joining the Battalion to
which I.)e shall be appointed, to receive a Bounty of 11. Ss;',
or so much-thereof as shall retmin, alter supplyytg him with
proper necessaries; and those who, chi exanunation, are tinind
.unfit far duty, shall be ditinisscd; With proportionate Sub.
sisterice.to carry them back to' their homes.

flisrMajesty is further pleased to declare, that.every.,Pri-
vate Out- Pensieuer received, in contbrrnity to this
_Order,
into a 'Veteran Battalion, shall he coutled, when discharged
therefrom, to the inereaszt Allowance of gd. per &ern, pro.
vided they are recommended by lheir Colonels, or Corntnandm
ing Offiebrs, as objects deserving of His. Majesty's Royal
Bounty. -
And it is her-by notlfierlat hat all the Private Out-Pension- •
era in London, or within twenty-rive miles ttwreol.
charged as aforesaid (except as above excepted)a,tvtto skull
not :appe:a and be. examined, at tile titlic's liergin appointed;
will he considered as otherwise privided for by Goverinneht,
or as demi, 4:114 they will atordnigly be struck +Antic hooks
of the Out-Pensioners of the sin,' Hospital, without any
pre*lN:44 bring restored thereto.

G. A lISTt
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