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London, England, 1806-02-14 00:00:00

fupport the dignity of his Office, and to command
the refpeEt due to his rank as commanding °nee/ his
Majeltv's veirels of war.
The general fcrvice or cnttom requires the Captain
to keep a table for his Officers, and, in general, the
Officer of the Watch and one Midfitipman take
breakfaft with the Captain. At dinner, the Lieute-
nant, one of the Ward-room or Gun-room Mel's, and
a Midibipman; the party that dines always drinks tea
alto with the Captain ; (flippers are but feldom eaten
now in any Chip.) Nonce the leaf% polPic WON
is as follows, viz.
nreattait for three
Diener for four

o i 6
o 6 o

Wine. fay two bottles, duty free. o 5 0
at as. 6d.
Tsi t!se aim:noon, at 3d. cads o t 0

Daily expense ois 6 whims a defert,fup-
--• per, or ears *fry.
IP. dd. Per day, amounts In a year to £.246 7 6
Income Tax, about i 6 o Q
Palsy swoonti,sl sc. and dedudtiona / Bls 0
for Widows
Stationery, and Agency, sot.
Maths, 234 - / 10 o
Vl/amitag• - 1s 0 0
The leaft pofkble annual expences of 1. 320 1$ 0 per ;an.
Captain
I have no doubt, Gentlemen, of your fufficient
knowledge of his Majetty's Naval Service, to know
that there are many other erpences, equally difficult
for a Naval Commander to avoid ; nor is there any
notice here taken of the expence a Captain is at for
his firß fitting out, for linen, earthenware, plate,
glafs, breakages, pottage of letters, &c. &c. and I
have to °Verve, that this calculation of expenses is
made at the average prices on the home Ration ; for
if in the Welt Indies, the fimple article'of waking
only would be at 'call forty pounds per annum, and
every thing elle in proportion. Thus, Gentlemen,
fhould a Captain be married, and have nothing but
his pay, ruin mutt inevitably be the refult of his Cer-
vices, and mifery the lot of his family.
Perhaps, Gentlemen, you may At, why are thole
Officers fo anxious to be employed, if it is impoffible
Attlee on their pay. In anfwer to this quettion'
mere is a degree of blame (which prevents their ufe
'is the fervice)_ attached to thofe who d, not do their
ettmoft to get employed, when the country wants
their fervices, and they learn with their profeffion the
neceffity urging their fervices when the nation is
at war ; another great inducement is the chance, like'
the Lottery, of making a fortune by prize money-t•
and like the Lottery Is the chance, the lucky few get
the prize.
You, crentlemen, who live on fhore, do not hear,
that perhaps eighty out of the hundred employed do
not get one hundred pounds during a war. I think'
I could pledge my reputation, as an Officer, that wat
the Houfe to requeft the names of the thips from tile.'
Admiralty Courts, that have had prizes condemned
to them this war, it would be lets than one fifth of
the number employed.
What I have written is the fruits of experience,
having commanded a (loop a • few years ago, and,
',ll the greatett economy, I always (pent one 4aa.
-n& per annum more than my pay.
ISAVTICUS.
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INSURRECTION AT 7- RINID.W.
PRO" • "

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1Y HIS BSCRILIINCY THOMAS HMOS, BK._
Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief in
and over the Bland of Trinidad and its Dependen-
cies, Sm. Sec.
Whereas, there are Rrong reafons to apprehend
that this Colony is threatened with internal dangers,
from the nefarious machinations of ill difpofed
Imes and Slaves in this Community ; and his MR.
Jefty's Council of this ifland having recommended
me to adopt the eneafure of Martial Law, 'I have,
therefore, thought fit, by and with the advice of his
IMajefty's fMd Council, to iffue this my Proclamation,
and do hereby declare, that from and after the pub-
j lication hereof, Martial Law (hail be. and hereby is
in force untill further Otters ; of which alibis Ma-
j.* s liege fubje&s are required to take due notice,
ern tbemfalvesaccordingly. And all his Ma.
jel s good and loyal fobjeat, of all deferiptions and
of all colours, are hereby culled upon to make every
pnflible exertion to defeat the diabolical plaits fuppo.
fed to be in agitation. And as the purple of this my
Proclamation is for the more fpeedy and effeCtually
fupprdfing fuch dangers only, I do hereby, by and
with the advice of his Majelly's raid Council, autho-
rize all Civil Courts of Juitice to remain and conti-
nue in force, notwithfkanding Martial Law.

All Commanders of IZarters and Alcades de Bar-
rio, are hereby ordered to put their indrudions into
full force, and to give every poßible effeet to them.

And whereas, under the prefent circumflance, of
the colony, which involve its very exiflence,it is pro-
per and expedient that all perfons mutt fuffer tempo
nay and individual inconvenience, for the gene*
welfare of the community, and that the molt exems
plary and fummary I:rudiments thould he inflieted
on all offenders, Notice is hereby gives), that the le-
veret patroles will be ordered to take up all negro and
other Haves who than be in any of the streets of
Port of Spain after eight o'clock at night, and to
lodge them in fecurity during the night, that fuch
negro, or other More or Lives, who may be found to
have offended against any of the ordinances now in
exitlence, will be immediately punithed with Death,
or otherwife, according to the regulations of the faid
ordinances. And in order to give the molt public
notice of the hour eight in the evening, not only
the gun at the fen battery will be fired as anal, but
the bells of the Spanifh Catholic Church will be rung
for the fpace of five minutes ; and all loch negro,or
other (lave or flares, attempting to elcapeirnm the
patroles, will be immediately Shot. All perfons
concerned, are therefore' required to make the fame
known to their feveral Haves.

Given Buda my band and teal at arms, in Council, at o*.
vernment Houle, this lath day of December, ahoy, and in
the 46th year °llia IVlsjcity's reign.

THOMAS HISLOP.

By Ms Excellency's Contrnsnd,
W. Hoxssat. Secretary.
On* SAW& Tilt KING

I hereby certify the above I roelamatfoh to have bren duly
proclaimed by nit, In the town of Port of Spain, thin t 4th De-
cember, tfes. HCCTOR
Deputy Provolt Marthul.