STATE 1>APERS. 



349 



REAR-ADMIRAL. 



Sea pay 



Ai Commander in Chief 



1,0Q5 

 1,095 



£2,190 



MAJOR-GENERAL. 



4A6 



3,4.'S8 



Unattached pay . 

 As Com. of Forces 



Your Royal Highness will per- 

 ceive that the military officer's pay 

 is, in every case, nearly one-third 

 more than we propose for the na- 

 val officer ; but tliere are circum- 

 stances peculiar to the naval ser- 

 vice, which, in our opinion, coun- 

 terbalances this superiority. 



In times of peace, the number 

 of officirs having commissions as 

 Commanders of the Forces, is, 

 we aie informed, very limited ; 

 whereas the Commanders in 

 Chief in the navy are almost as 

 numerous in peace as in war : the 

 number, therefore, of flag officers 

 who will receive this advantage, 

 and the narrower sphere of their 

 duties, must be set off against the 

 inferiority of the sum received. 



In times of war, the number 

 of Commanders in Chief, if not 

 greater, is not less than that of 

 Commanders of the Forces ; but 

 we consider that the superior ad- 

 vantages to be derived by the flag- 

 officer, from his share of prize- 

 money, will generally aftbrd an 

 ample compensation for the pro- 

 posed inferiority of pay. 



Upon the whole, then, of this 

 part of the subject, we trust that 

 your Royal Highness will agree 

 with us, that the proposed rates of 

 pay are just and equitable, as well 

 with regard to the officers them- 

 selves, as to the public service at 

 large; and that,however they may 

 nominally differ from the rates 

 allowed to the general officers of 

 his Majesty's army, they will be 

 found to e&tabUsh u much real 



£3,904 



equality as the difference of the 

 two services will admit of. 



We have presumed to enter into 

 this comparisim with the pay of 

 the army, lest it should be here- 

 after supposed that we had not 

 considered the subject in reference 

 to the military service ; and in 

 order to show that, although a 

 perfect similarity cannot be effect- 

 ed, we have endeavoured, as far as 

 it was possible, to attain a real 

 equality, and to obviate any com- 

 plaint on the score of the apparent 

 differences. 



We think it farther necessary 

 to propose, that Commanders in 

 Chief shall be entitled to this al- 

 lowance of 31. per diem, only 

 while their flags are flying within 

 the limits of their respective sta- 

 tions, and that, on their decease, 

 or during their absence, the said 

 sum shall be paid, as is at present 

 provided, to the officer who shall 

 succeed to the command, if he be 

 a flag-officer ; but if he be a cap- 

 tain, that he shall be entitled to 

 the sum of U. jjer diem during the 

 time his broad pendant may be 

 hoisted as commanding on the 

 station. 



And we farther propose that all 

 flag-officers, whether Commanders 

 in Chief or otherwise, shall be al- 

 lowed to draw for the whole of 

 their sea pay and Commander in 

 Chief's pay, without distinction. 



We farther beg leave to ob- 

 serve to your Royal Highness, that 

 the advance of three months' pay 

 now made to flag-officers on their 



appoint- 



