Parliamentary Papers, Volumen36

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Página 3 - Pleasure is, that from and after this date this, Our Royal Warrant, to be administered and interpreted by Our Secretary of State for War, shall be the sole and standing authority upon the matters therein contained.
Página 1 - SIR, I AM commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you that, the...
Página 7 - ... aground ; they would be serviceable also in annoying the enemy while attempting to buoy the channel ; the vessels themselves being enabled to avoid an attack of a superior force, by retreating into shoal water, to which the sea-going vessels of the enemy would be prevented from following them, owing to their greater draught of water. Your Commissioners therefore recommend that measures should be concerted for the construction of vessels of this description for the special purpose of harbour defence,...
Página iv - Majesty, praying that the case of officers promoted to the rank of colonel for distinguished service in the field in...
Página 3 - VI. NON-EFFECTIVE SERVICES: Rewards for military service .... Pay of general officers ..... Pay of reduced and retired officers Widows...
Página 150 - Pounds, for defraying the Charge of the OutPensioners of Chelsea Hospital, of Pensions granted to discharged Negro Soldiers, of Pensioners from Hanoverian Corps which served with the British Army in One thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, One thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, and One thousand seven hundred and ninety-five...
Página 1 - ... for themselves, their heirs, executors, and administrators, and each of them doth hereby...
Página 7 - ... enabled to avoid an attack of a superior force by retreating into shoal water, to which the sea-going vessels of the enemy would be prevented from following them, owing to their greater draught of water. Your commissioners therefore recommend that measures should be concerted for the construction of vessels of this description for the special purpose of harbour defence, to be used in such positions as shall be hereafter specified. They should be divested of all qualities that are not necessary...
Página 3 - ... made out of the regular course of promotion, the recommendation in which the services of the officer shall be detailed, shall be published in the general orders of the army and in the Gazette in which his promotion appears.
Página 9 - ... every armed ship, which, in the aggregate, presents a considerable space for the entrance of shot or shells of the smallest force, and without any impediment whatever ; to which may be added the edges round them for about six inches are liable to very great injury ; so that altogether, although they would clearly require much more battering than a timber ship, which would give them an enormous advantage over the latter in action, it is a very bold expression to call these sides (as they have...

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