Star.
London, England, 1809-08-26 00:00:00

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.

GiAVICSIND, AUGUST 25.—Arrived the Providence, ;
Succe.,, Robinson, from Grenada ; Progress, Richardson, and
Hercules, Leach, from Gottenburgh ; and Fanny, Sheave, from
Mogadore.—Sailed the Enterprize, Pauiion, for New York ;
Miteiere, Hart, for Baltimore; Arundel, Steele, for Antigua ;
Swan, Green ; and N. S. us Rosario St. Domingo., &mantles,
for I.isbon.

ARRIVED-At Falmouth, the Jolly Bachelor, Watt, from
Oporto ; Rover, Waite, from Virginia ; and John Bull, Lefevro,
from Algeziras. At Portsmouth, the Friends, Reed; and Palla-
dium, from Oporto. At Plymouth, the John, Irwin, from
Oporto. At Hull, the Search, Bloomfield, from Oporto. At
13ristul, the Sincerity, -, from Oporto; and Avon, Robe,
from Africa. At Whitehaven, the Swallow, Fisher, from An-
tigua. At Dublin, the Dublin, Grantham, from Jamaica. At
the Clyde, the Jane, M'Kenzie, from Virginia. At the Creek,
the Hawke, Reay, from Malta. At Grenada, the Eden, -,
front Whitehavcn. At Trinidada, the Mary, Creighton, from
the Clyde. At Lisbon, the Sir John Moore, M'Carthy; and
Boca Fin, Ferro, from Cork ; Mary, Cavell, from Bell ast ;
and Telemachus, Wilkinson, .from Waterford.

Off Dover, the Diamond, Butler, from Cadis.—ln the Downs,
the Ann, Ford, from Oporto.—ln the Creek, the Trust, Win-
ter, from Malta.—At Liverpool, the Crescent, Bethwick ; and
Mary, Waldron, from Africa; Industry, Hamilton, front Port-
au-Prince; and Maria, Harvey, from Messina.—At Plymouth,
the Union packet, --, from the coast of Spain.—At Newhaven,
the Thomas, Call, from Oporto.—At the Clyde, the -Isabella,
Newcombe, from Philadelphia; wad Highlander' Cooper, from
Virginia —At Tenerife, the Flora, Herres, and Heroine Gray,
from London...-At Si. Croix, the Beltki Thempsen, Ina; Lou-
den.

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REPORTS,

FIFTH REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF NAVAL
• REVISION. '

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On the subject of his Majesty's Dock yards abroad,
the Commissioners observe--

" We have found from officers who had served
on the stations abroad, that a wasteful expenditure of
the public stores has taken place, which we conceive
may be lessened or altogether prevented, by the esta-
blishment of proper checks.

" The Commissioners of Inquiry, in their Ninth
Report, dated Ist May, 1788, after exposing abuses
of the most alarming nature, which had prevailed at
different foreign stations," recommend, in order to
prevent and correct abuses in future, " That a Com-
missioner be appointed to reside at Halifax, and like-
wise at one of the islands in the West Indies, and
at Bombay, as also, at any other port, during ac-
tual war, at which a large fleet may be expected to
rendezvous.

44 Commissioners have since very properly been
appointed at Halifax, Jamaica, Antigua, and Malta,
from whose superintendence we have no doubt much
public good has arisen ; but as a Commissioner has
not yet been appointed at Bombay, we recommend
that one may be established at that island, and also
another at Madras.

44 Admiral Rainier, who has served as Comman-
der in chief in the East Indies for more than lOyears
without intermission, concurs with us in thinking that
the appointment of a Commissioner at Bombay would
be a very beneficial measure.

41'We find that in 1804 the sums of money which
were drawn from the establishments at Bombay and
Madras, in one department of the Naval Service—
that under the Navy Board—amounted to almost as
much as the expence of the other Naval Establish-
ments abroad,* where Commissioners of the Navy are
now 'resident, and in 1805 to upwards of £150,000
more than at all those other establishments together;
and, by the accounts in the Appendix it will appear,
that the expence of the different Naval Establish.
ments at Bombay and Madras, which we propose to
submit to the superintenderqy of the Commissioners
whom we recommend being appointed, amounted in
1804 to E 387,382 12s. 2d. and in 1805 to £496,665
13s. 3d.

" Considering therefore that these vast sums of
money are annually expended for the Naval Service
in those parts, without the disbursements being in-
vestigated and controuled on the spot by any officer,
except occasionally by the Commander in chief, ow-
ing to whose long absence at times,' as Admiral Rai-
nier observes, " from the principal ports of repair
and refit, the above services are but very imperfectly
attended to, in default whereof, many abuses and it-'
regularities take place, detrimental to the service,'
and putting the Crown to unnecessary expences
We feel it our duty to urge the necessity of appointing
a Commissioner at Madras, as well as at Bombay, in
preference to one at Bombay only, which Admiral
Rainier seems to be of opinion would be sufficient
for a first essay."

With regard to the salaries for these Commissio-
ners, they observe—

,6 As the principles of economy, by which we have
deemed it right to govern ourselves, would not al-
low of our, recommending such salaries as would
compensate for the danger and inconvenience of liv-
ing in foreign climates, and enable the officers hold-
ing those appointments to make any provision towards
their future support ; we recommend that, after a zea-
lous and faithful discharge of their duty for not less
than five years on a foreign station, the Commissio-
ners be removed, on the first vacancy, to a seat at
the Navy Board, or have an appointment at one of
your Majesty's dock-yards at home, and that after the
same period of zealous service, the Officers of the
Foreign Yards should be considered as entitled to
fill the first vacancy in their respective lines of duty
which may happen in any of the Dock-yards in
England."

The Seventh Report is occupied by the subject of
Naval Hospitals. After some details on the history
of the Naval Hospitals, and on the necessity of se-
curing to the sick and wounded seamen and marines
that care and kind attention to which they are so
well entitled, they observe—" The more effectually
to accomplish this desirable object, we earnestly re-
commend that the Physicians and Surgeons to be ap-
pointed to your Majesty's Naval Hospitals may be al-
ways selected from among the most able and eminent
of their professions belonging to your Majesty's fleet,l
and that no one be eligible to be appointed to either
of those situations who shall not have served seven
years at sea in your Majesty's Navy as Surgeon; and
as a further security against inattention to the sick,
we have judged it proper, in the instructions before
mentioned to prohibit the Physicians and Surgeons
of your Majesty's Naval Hospitals from having any
private practice whatever, strictly enjoining them to
confine their time and professional abilities solely to
the cure of their patients in the Hospitals.

66 We had no hesitation in deciding on the pro-
priety of this measure, from the representations we
have received respecting the evils which have former-
ly occurred from the want of this prohibition • and
one circumstance, mentioned in the Seventh Report
of the Commissioners of Naval Inquiry, is of so ex-
traordinary a nature, that we think it proper here to
insert it in their own words :

44 We understand that evils have frequently arisen
from the Physicians and Surgeons of Naval Hospitals
pursuing private practice ; an instance was indeed ad-
duced to us of a patient in this Hospital (Plymouth)
who was about to have a limb amputated, beint, _ne-
glected in consequence of the Surgeon having 'been
called away to attend a patient in the neighbourhood.
Private practice in time of peace is authorised by the
Governor's instructions. We think, however, 'that
their practising out of the Hospital ought to be pro-
hibited both in peace and war."

gs This disgraceful circumstance is confirmed by
the evidence of one of the Medical officers, who states
" that they were all assembled at the hour appointed,
and the patient ready, when suddenly the operation
was put off, the Surgeon who was to have performed
it haring been called away, as it was then understood,
to attend a patient in Stonehouse."

• Gibral:ar, Malta, Halifax, Jamaica, Antigua, X 175,132 116.741.
Madras and Dumbly •