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had the lame power to iffue commiffions to a court-mar¬ 
tial to try a prii'oner, as the lord high admiral was allowed 
to have; this and all the other powers of a lord high admi¬ 
ral were veiled in 1 'uch commiffioners by Hat. 2 W. & M. 
Hat. 2. c. 2. 
Members of courts-martial are liable to anfwer, in da¬ 
mages, to the party injured, for the confequences of any 
unjuft fentence. A remarkable inftance of this occurred 
in the cale of lieutenant Frye of the marines, who in the 
year 1743 was lentenced to fifteen years’ imprifonment by 
a court-martial. He brought an aftion againft the prefi- 
dent fir Chaloner Ogle, and recovered 1000I. damages. 
The following are fome minor regulations refpeding 
naval affairs. 
Perfons Healing or embezzling any of the king’s naval 
ftores, to the value of twenty Ihillings, are guilty of felony 
without benefit ofclergy. 22 Car. II. c. 5. And by 1 Geo. I. 
Hat. 2. c. 25, the treafurer and commifiloners of the navy 
are empowered to enquire of naval ftores embezzled, and 
appoint perfons to fearch for them, &c. who may go on¬ 
board Ihips, and feize fuch ftores ; and the commilTioners, 
See. may imprifon the offenders, and fine them double 
value, the ftores being under the value of twenty Ihillings. 
None but the contraftors with the commilTioners of the 
navy Ihall make any ftores of war, naval ftores, &c. with 
the marks commonly ufed to his majelly’s ftores, upon 
pain of forfeiting two hundred pounds. And perfons in 
whofe cuftody fuch ftores Ihall be found concealed, are 
liable~to the fame penalty. Stat. 9 Sr 10 W. 3. c. 41. 
The flat. 3 Ann. c. 10, was made for the encourage¬ 
ment of the importation of naval ftores from the planta¬ 
tions in America, and for prefervation thereof in thofe 
countries ; inflidting penalties for cutting down pine or 
pitch trees under luch and fuch fizes, &c. To the like 
purpol'e, and for the making the fame more effedlual, is 
the Hat. 8 Geo. I. c. 12. Alfo naval ftores are imported 
here from Scotland, under an encouragement by ftatute ; 
and a premium is given for the importing of naval ftores 
from America and North Britain, of one pound per ton, 
for mails and pitch, &c. by Hat. 2 Geo. II. c. 35. 
Juftices may mitigate the penalty of concealing ftores ; 
9 Geo. I. c. 8. Juftices of aflize and quarter-felfions may 
hear and determine offences relating to ftores; 17 Geo. II. 
c. 40. Pre-emption of ftores imported in neutral Ihips 
given to the commilTioners of the navy during the war ; 19 
Geo. II. c. 36. The exportation of naval ftores prohibited 
by 33 Geo. II. § 1. The dealers in naval-ftores, are put 
under certain regulations, by 49 Geo. III. c. 122. § 17, See. 
Navy and Victualling Bills, are bills or orders for 
the payment of money, iffued by the commilTioners of the 
navy and vidtualling offices, on the treafurer of the navy, 
&c. for ftores and provilions purchafed for the fervice of 
the navy. 
That the contractors may not be lofers by receiving 
thefe bills in payment, the current difeount, at the time of 
making them out, is added to the amount of the goods 
delivered. The inconveniences arifing from too great a 
number of thefe bills remaining undifehatged at any time, 
have induced government, at different periods, to allow 
the proprietors to exchange them fora certain proportion 
of redeemable flock ; and thus they become polfelfed of 
at leall an equal fecurity, with the advantage, that any 
part of it can be difpofed of as occalion may require, in- 
ftead of being limited, in this refipeCl, by the amount of the 
bills, which is generally confiderable; the interell alio 
becomes, by this mode of management, payable at cer¬ 
tain periods ; whereas the time of payment of the intereft 
on the unfunded bills, previoufiy to the regulation which 
took place in 1794, was always uncertain; no payment 
being made till the principal and the intereft due upon it 
were dilcharged together. In 1794, all navy and victual¬ 
ling bills were made payable on a certain day, to be ex- 
preffed in each particular bill, w'bich day was not to ex¬ 
ceed fifteen months from the date of the bill; but the bills 
now ilfued from the navy and victualling offices are at 
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ninety days’date, bearing intereft at 3d. per cent, per diem, 
commencing from the date of the bill, and payable with 
it; and thefe bills, being negociated as bills of exchange, 
of courfe cannot be bought and fold at a difeount. In 
negociating thefe bills, the whole property-tax on the 
ninety days’ intereft ufed to be deducted, and the intereft 
for the time they have to run taken on the nett fum. 
NA'VY, in geography, a townfliip of America, in Or¬ 
leans county, Hate of Vermont. 
NAVY HA'LL, a fettlement of Upper Canada, on the 
river Niagar, at its union with the Lake Ontario, oppo- 
fite Niagar-fort. 
NAVY I'SLAND, an ifland in the river Niagar, about 
three miles in circumference : twenty miles north-eaft of 
Navy Hall. 
NAVY I'SLAND, a fmall ifland on the north coaft of 
Jamaica. Lat. 18. 13. N. Ion. 76. 10. W. 
NAW'DIA, a town of Hindooltan, in Bahar : twenty- 
five miles fouth-weft Bahar. Lat. 25.1. N. Ion. 85. 17. E. 
NAWDOWES'SIE IN'DIANS, Indians of North- 
America, inhabiting the banks of the river St. Croix, and 
lands weftward. 
NAWER'RA, a town of Hindooftan, in Guzerat: 
twenty miles eaft of Godra. 
NAWL, _/.' An awl. See Nall. —The mailer was ap¬ 
pointed to bore their ears through with a naivl, and fo to 
mark them for perpetual fervants. Fotlierbif s Atlieom. 1622. 
NAW'ORTH, a village in Cumberland, ten miles from 
Carlifle, and two from Brampton, on the borders of Scot¬ 
land. Here, in a low fituation, and furrounded with 
wood. Hands Naworth-caftle, the feat of the earl of Car¬ 
lifle. It is a fine Gothic ftruClure, of confiderable anti¬ 
quity, and formerly of great llrength. It is llill entire, 
and inhabited. Some reparations have lately taken place, 
planned with great tafte and judgment. It is a large pile, 
fquare, and built round a court. On the north it Hands 
over the river Irthing, at a great height, the banks fhagged 
with wood. The whole houfe is a very irregular build¬ 
ing ; the rooms numerous, acceffible by thirty-fix ftair- 
cafes, with moft frequent and fudden afeents and defeents. 
The great hall has a gallery at one end, adorned with 
four vaft crefts carved in wood, viz. a griffin and dolphin, 
with the fcollops; an unicorn, and an ox with a coronet 
round his neck. In front is a figure in wood of an armed 
man ; two others, perhaps vallals, in fliort jackets and 
caps. The top and upper end of the room is painted in 
fquares, representing the Saxon kings and heroes. This 
caftle was built by one of the Dacres about the reign of 
Henry III. In the garden-walls were Hones with Roman 
inferiptions, which the late earl of Carlifle gave to fir 
Thomas Robinfon, and were by him removed to his mu- 
feum at Rokefby. On one of thefe Hones is this inferip- 
tion, Peditum centum quinquaginta liritummrum : whence 
it appears that the Romans, when in polfeffion of Britain, 
fometimes indulged the national troops with the favour 
of garrifoning their own territories. 
Here the lord warden of the marches fometimes refided, 
and a garrifon was kept for the defence of the border. 
Between this place and Brampton is a high hill called the 
Mote, the fummit of which is caft up, and appears to 
have been a beacon to alarm the country in times of dan¬ 
ger. Before the union of England and Scotland, when 
the rights of raeum and tuum were little known ,or va¬ 
lued, thefe beacons were extremely necelfary. This forms 
a link in the chain of communication between Penrith 
and other places on the louth, and Burnlwork and other 
parts of Scotland. Hence a range of country to the ex¬ 
tent of fifty miles and upwards couid be informed of an 
invafion m the fpace of a few minutes. From the l’ummit 
of this Mote there is, perhaps, the moft extenlive view in 
the north of England. The eye carries you down the plea- 
iant vale of Irtnmg, over the city of Carlille, Solway Frith, 
as far as Whitehaven, or even to the Ifle of Man. Many 
of the Scottiffi hills too Hand forth to view, and claim at¬ 
tention. This Mote is now ornamented with a young 
thriving 
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