STATE PAPERS. 



S47 



Your Boyal Highness will ob- 

 serve in this table, that the most 

 considerable alteration has been 

 niiide in favour of flag officers ; 

 and of this we beg to submit the 

 following explanations : — 



bo long ago as the year 1693, 



] 

 £. 

 Admiral of the Fleet G 



Admiral 4 



Vice- Admiral 3 



Rear-Admiral 2 



By the, said order in council of 

 the 19.A of February, 1693, the 

 extravagant number of servants 

 ])reviously allowed was aiiolished, 

 and the officers were allowed a 

 number equal to the present es- 

 tablishment. 



This wise and salutary plan, 



£. 

 Admiral of the Fleet 5 



A niiral 3 



Vice-Admiral 2 



Rear- Admiral 1 



And at these rates the pay of 

 the flag-officers remained for up- 

 wards of iOO years, till, by order 

 in council (if the 2-<d of April, 

 ISOS, liis Miijesfy was pleasecl, by 

 a small addition, to maiie the pay 

 what it at present is. 



It is not easy to determine what, 

 besides their pay, were the ad- 

 vantages that these officers maiie 

 by tlii-ir seivunts ; but it is com- 

 puted, in the appendix to the 

 ordt-r in council of tl;e '■22il of Fe- 

 biuary, lo'93, that the annual 

 saving to the public, uw the re- 

 duction (.f the seivanfs, would be 

 oil each officer as follow s :— 



t. s. d. 



Adm. of the Fleet 1,014 



' Admiral 55; 14 



the pay of the flag officers of tlie 

 fleet was at a higher rate ihan it 

 stands at present, as will appear 

 on a comparison of the rates es- 

 tablished by order in council of 

 the 2d of February of that year, 

 with the present rates : — 

 693. 1816. 



s. d. £. s. d. 

 5 10 ^ S 



3 ir 01 I 

 2 15 I j; 



1 18 6 ' a. 



which excluded all profits on ser- 

 vants, and assigned an adequate 

 late of net pay, was, however, 

 rescinded by order in council of 

 the 13th April, 1700, whicii esta- 

 blished the follow ing rates of pay, 

 and re-established the following 

 exiravai2;ant mmiber of servants : 



Vice-Admiral . . . 304 4 

 Kear-Admiral ... 177 9 

 Whether, therefore, tliese sums, 

 or the sums granted as compen- 

 sation, be adiled to the officers 

 pay, it will be apparent to your 

 Royal Highness, tliat even on the 

 reduced scale of 1*00, the pecu- 

 niary ativaiitagcs of the Flai:;- 

 Officers of His Majesty's fleet 

 were as great as th.ey were for up- 

 wards of 100 \ears after, and very 

 inconsiilerably, if at all, less than 

 they are at present 



We tru-t, therefore, on a xe- 

 view of tliese circuiS'Stances, and 

 of the increase which has taken 

 place in other parts of liis ilajes- 

 ty'iscr\i'-e,that the addition which 

 we propose, of about 150Z. per 



annum 



