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pay which the militia officers had 
not ; and the militia officers were 
required to havequalifications, which 
were not demanded from the 
officers of the line. The proposed 
increase of pay to the officers of the 
line did not injure the militia officers, 
for it left them with the same pay 
which they now enjoyed. Nor 
could it be regarded as an affront 
to them that they were not included 
in the present arrangement ; for 
the same reason, that had induced 
government to withhold the addi- 
tional pay from the field officers of 
the militia, had determined it 
te act in the same = manner 
with respect to the officers of 
the cavalry and the guards; namely 
that nove of these deseriptions of 
officers were in the same want of 
additional pay as the officers of the 
line, and that, if an addition of pay 
was to be made tothose who were 
mot in want of it, Jess could be 
afforded to those who stood in ac- 
tual need of it. On the third read- 
ing of the bill the house. divided ; 
ayes35; noes 245; majority for 
the bill 11. The additional pay to 
infantry officers was afterwards 
yoted in a committee of supply 
(July 14th.) without opposition, 
along with an increase of pay to ser- 
jeants, corporals and privates, an 
addition to the Chelsea pension, and 
an increase of pensions to officers’ 
widows. 
In this laudable anxiety shewn by 
government forjimproving the present 
condition, and adding to the future 
prospects of the army, the interests 
of thenavy were not forgotten. _ In 
a committee of supply (April 25th.) 
Jord Howick explained to the house 
the intentions of his majesty’s go- 
vernment respecting the allqwance of 
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1806. 
additional pay to the officers, petty 
officers, and seamen of the royal 
navy, and on the motion of the 
same noble lord asum was voted 
for enabling government to carry 
that measure into effect. Two acts 
of parliament were afterwards pass. 
ed, in pursuance of a recommenda- § 
tion from his majesty, to empower 
the governors of Greenwich Hospi- 
tal and the directors of the chest of 
Greenwich, to increase the allow-— 
ances to out-pensioners of Green- 
wich Hospital, and to grant pen- 
sions to old, infirm, and disabled 
othicers, not provided for in that 
hospital, in addition to their half. — 
pay ; and in order to defray these 
xpences, additional funds were 
appropriated by act of parliament 
to the support and increase of that 
noble establishment. ) 
One subject relating to the army © 
still remains to be mentioned—_ 
When ministers came first into 
oflice, they found that a greater # 
number of foreign troops had been 
enlisted and brought into the king- 
dom, than was authorized by law, — 
in consequence of which they were 
induced (February 27th.) to ap-— 
ply to parliament for an act of ine 
demnity to the advisers of that 
measure ; and aS it would have 
been inexpedient to have disband. 
ed these troops, and inconvenient, 
if not impossible, to have sént them 
immediately out of the kingdom, 
they procured authority for his mae 
jesty to retain them in the coyntry, 
and to increase them permanently to 
the number of 16,000 men. It is 
to be regretted that the necessity 
for this bill should have arisen, and’ 
it is still more to be lamented, that 
any temperary convenience should — 
have Jed to the permanent augmen~ 
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