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Tu Shillings fer month to the wages 
of Landmen. 
That we have refolved, that 
feamen wounded in a¢tion fhall be 
continued in pay until their wounds 
are healed, or until, being declared 
unferviceable, they fhall receive a 
penfion, or betreceived into the 
Royal Hofpital at Greenwich; and 
that having a perfeé& confidence in 
the zeal, loyalty, and courage of all 
the feameh in the fleet, fo generally 
expreffed in their petition, and in 
their earneft defire of ferving their 
country with that fpirit which al- 
ways fo eminently diftinguifhed 
Britifh feamen, we have come to 
this refolution the more readily, that 
the feamen may have, as early as 
poflible, an opportunity of fhewing 
their good difpofitions, by return- 
ing to their duty, as it may be ne- 
ceffary that the fleet fhould fpeed- 
ily put to fea, to meet the enemy 
of the country. 
Given under our hands, at Portf- 
mouth, 18th April, 1797. 
SPENCER, 
ARDEN, 
W. Young. 
To the Right Honourable 
Lord Bridport. 
Tue Seamens Rep ty. 
WE received your Lordfhips 
anfwer to our petition; and in or- 
der to convince your Lordfhips, 
and the nation in general, of our 
moderation, beg leave to offer the 
following remarks to’ your ¢onfi- 
deration, viz. — That there never 
has exifted but two orders of men 
in the navy, able and. ordinary, 
therefore ihe diftinétion between 
ordinary and Jandmen is totally 
new; we therefore humbly propofe 
to your Lordfhips, that the old re- 
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gulations be adhered to: that the» 
wages of able feamen be raifed to 
one fhilling per day, and that of 
petty officers, and the ordinary, in 
the ufual proportion: And asa fur- 
ther proof of our moderation, and 
that we are a¢tuated by a true fpirit 
of benevolence towards our bre- 
thren, the marines, who are not 
noticed in your Lordfhips anfwer, 
we humbly propofe that their pay 
be augmented, while ferving on 
board, in the fame proportion as 
ordinary feamen. This we hope 
and truft will be a convincing proof 
to your Lordfhips that we are not 
actuated by a fpirit of contradiction,’ 
but that we earneftly with to put 
afpeedy end to the prefent affair. 
We beg leave to ftate to your Lord- 
fhips, the penfions from Green-. 
wich Coilege, which we earneftly 
with to be raifed to ten pounds 
per annum; and, in order to main- 
tain which, we humbly propofe to 
your Lordfhips, that every feaman 
employed in the merchant fervice, 
inftead of fixpence per month, 
which he now pays, fhall hereafter 
pay one fhilling per month, which, 
we truft, will raife a fund fully ade- 
quate to the purpofe; and as this in 
time of peace muit be paid by your 
petitioners, we truft it will give a 
convincing proof of our difintereft- 
ednefs and moderation: We 
would alfo recommend that this re- 
gulation be extended to the feamen 
in the fervice of the Eaft India — 
Company, as we know by experi- 
ence that there are few failors em- 
ployed by them but who have been 
in the Royal Navy; and we have 
feen them with our own eyes, after 
ficknefs, or other accident ‘has difs 
abled them, without any hope of 
relief or fupport, but from their 
former fervices in the navy.—-As to 
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