STATE PAPERS. 



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1,044,529/. 10s. Hd , or an in- 

 crease in both establishments, oc- 

 casioned by the war, of 870,710/. 

 per annum. 



But this is not the whole of the 

 incrcMse occasioned by the arrange- 

 ment of 1 806 ; because, by the 

 provisions of that arrangement, a 

 much larger proportion of dis- 

 charged soldiers are added to the 

 pension list than were formerly 

 admitted. 



The average rate of pension, 

 previous to the regulations of 1806, 

 was little more than 5d. per man 

 per day : whereas, under those 

 regulations, it is nearly one shil- 

 ling. 



(iieat as the charge has been 

 which the measure of l&OG has 

 thrown upon the country, your 

 committee are decidedly of opinion, 

 that no step should be taken to re- 

 duce the rate of pension as then 

 fixed with respect to those who 

 are at present serving or receiving 

 such pensions, but that they should 

 all be continued under certain re- 

 gulations. 



ROYAL MILITARY ASYLUM. 



Of the Royal Military Asylum, 

 your committee need say no more, 

 than to express their general ap- 

 probation of the economical man- 

 ner in which it is conducted, 

 annexing the substance of the 

 regulations for its government, 

 and a return of casualities since it 

 v\as established in 1803. 



The object of the institution is 

 to provide for the "maintenance 

 and education of a certain number 

 of orphan and other children of 

 non-commissioned officers and 

 privates" of tlie army. 



In the selection of the children 

 for julmi?sion, preference is given. 



1st. To orphans. 



^d. To those whose fathers have 

 been killed, or have died on foreigii 

 service. 



3. To those who have lost their 

 mothers, and whose fathers are 

 absent on duty abroad. 



4th. To those whose fathers are 

 ordered on foreign service, or 

 whose parents have other children 

 to maintain. 



COMPASSIONATE LIST, BOUNTY- 

 WARRANTS, AND PENSIONS FOR 

 WOUNDS. 



Allowances to officers wounded 

 on service have been put upon a 

 new footing since; the battle of 

 Waterloo, in 1815, which entails 

 considerable ex])ense upon the 

 public, without keeping that exact 

 gradation which was apparently 

 the object of it. The inequality 

 of the rule will be evident by 

 putting the case of any young 

 officer, so far disabled in action as 

 to be absolutely incapable of fol- 

 loAving his profession, who nmst 

 remain with the pension attached 

 to the rank which he held when 

 he received his wounds, while ano- 

 ther of the same age and rank, less 

 injured by wounds, and there- 

 fore not incapable of continuing 

 in the service, receives an aug- 

 mentation of his pension accord- 

 ing to the successive steps which 

 he may obtain in rank. There 

 seems to be neither reason nor 

 equality in such a regulation as 

 this ; which requires to be recon- 

 sidered, and perhaps to be replaced 

 upon its former footing. 



The grants of bounty warrants 

 are to \k undeistood as generally 

 confined to tlie relatives of officers 

 killed in action, or dying from the 

 immediate Qffects of fatigue on 



service. 



