SOTVATE EVP A RIED S: 
hereby promife our moft gracious 
pardon to all feamen and marines 
ferving on board the faid fquadron, 
who fhall, upon notification hereof 
on board their refpective fhips, re- 
turn to the regular and ordinary 
difcharge of their duty : and we do 
hereby declare, that all fuch feamen 
and marines fo returning to their 
duty, fhall be difcharged and releaf- 
ed from all profecutions, imprifon- 
ments, and penalties incurred by 
reafon of any act of mutiny or dif- 
obedience of orders, or any breach 
or neglect of duty previoufly com- 
mitted by them, or any of them. 
Given at our court at Wind- 
for, the twenty-fecond day 
of April, one thoufand, fe- 
ven hundred, and ninety-fe- 
ven, and in the thirty-fe- 
venth year of our reign. 
GOD SAVE THE KING. 
Corre Statement of the Demands of the 
2 Sailors. 
Art. Ut. THAT every indul- 
gence granted to the fleet at Portf- 
mouth be granted to his Majefty’s 
fubjeis ferving in the fleet at the 
Nore, and places adjacent: 
2d, That every man, upon a 
fhip’s coming into harbour, fhall 
have liberty (a certain number at a 
time, fo as not to injure the fhip’s 
duty) to go and fee their friends 
and families, a convenient time to 
be allowed to each man. 
3d. That all fhips, before they’ 
go to fea, fhall be paid all arrears of 
wages down to fix months, accord- 
ing to the old rules. 
4th. That no officer that has been 
turned out of any of his Majefty’s 
fhips fhall be employed in the fame 
fhip again, without the confent of 
the fhip’s company. 
5th. That when any of his Ma- 
jefty’s fhips fhall be paid, that may 
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have beén fome time in commiffion; 
if there are any preffed men on 
board that may not be in the regu+ 
lar courfe of payment, they fhall re- 
ceive two months advance to furs 
nifh them with neceffaries. 
6th. That an indemnification be 
made any men who run, and may 
now be in his Majefty’s naval fer- 
vice, and that they fhall not be lia- 
ble to be taken up as deferters. 
7th. That amore equal diftribu- 
tion be made of prize-money to the 
crews of his Majefty’s {hips and 
veflels of war. ; 
8th. That the articles of war, as 
now enforced, require various alte- 
rations, feveral of which to be ex- 
punged therefrom; and if more mo- 
derate ones were held forth to fea- 
men in general, it:would be the 
means of taking off that terror and 
prejudice againft his Majefty’s fers 
vice, on that account too frequent- 
ly imbibed by feamen, from enter- 
ing voluntarily into the fervice. 
The committee of: delegates of 
the whole fleet, affembled in coun- 
cil on board his Majefty’s fhip 
Sandwich, have unanimoufly agreed 
that they will not deliver up their 
charge until the appearance of 
fome of the Lords Commiffioners 
of the Admiralty to ratify the fame. 
Given on board his‘ Majefty’s 
fhip Sandwich, by the dele-. 
gates of the fleet, May 20th, 
1797. F 
Rrcwarp Parker, Prefident. 
Anfwer from the Lords Commiffioners of 
the Admiralty. 
To the Seamen and Marines of his Ma- 
jefy’s Ships and Veffels. at the Nore, 
and at Sheernefs. 
Sheernefs, May 22,1797. 
In purfuance of orders communi- 
cated to me by the Lords Commif- 
Q3 fioners 
