SUPPLIES GRANTED BY PARLIAMENT FOR NAVY AND ARMY (1800). Source.—Annual Register. Vol. xlii., pp. 160 et seq. of Appendix to Chronicle.
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Navy.
October 1, 1799.
£ s. d.
That 120,000 seamen be employed for two lunar months commencing 1st January, 1800, including 22,696 marines:
For wages for ditto 444,000 0 0
For victuals for ditto 456,000 0 0
For wear and tear of ships in which they are to serve 720,000 0 0
For ordnance sea service on board such ships 60,000 0 0
October 3.
For the ordinary establishment of the navy, for two lunar months, commencing 1st January, 1800 121,510 0 0
For the extraordinary establishment of ditto 115,625 0 0
February 10, 1800.
That 110,000 seamen be employed for eleven lunar months, commencing 26th February, 1800, including 22,696 marines:
For wages for ditto 2,238,500 0 0
For victuals for ditto 2,229,000 0 0
For wear and tear of ships in which they are to serve 3,630,000 0 0
For ordnance sea service on board such ships 302,500 0 0
February 13.
For the ordinary of the navy, including half pay to sea and marine officers, for eleven lunar months, commencing 26th February, 1800 685,429 13 11
For buildings and repairs of ships, and other extra works 656,515 0 0
For the probable expense of transport service, for one year, commencing 1st January, 1800 1,300,000 0 0
For the maintenance of prisoners of war in health 500,000 0 0
For the care and maintenance of sick prisoners of war 90,000 0 0
£13,619,079 13 11
Army.
October 3, 1799.
£ s. d.
That 90,047 men be employed for land service, including 5,766 invalids, from 25th December, 1799, to 24th February, 1800:
For guards, garrisons, and other land-forces in Great Britain, Jersey, Guernsey, and Alderney, and in Holland 510,596 0 0
For forces in the plantations, including Gibraltar, Minorca, the Cape of Good Hope, and New South Wales 166,480 0 0
For the increased rates of subsistence to be paid to innkeepers and others, on quartering soldiers 40,000 0 0
For expenses expected to be incurred in the barrack-master general’s department 120,000 0 0
February 13, 1800.
That 80,275 men be employed for land-service, including 5,792 invalids, from 25th February, 1800:
For guards, garrisons, and other land-forces in Great Britain, Jersey, Guernsey, and Alderney 2,337,159 8 8
For forces in the plantations, including Gibraltar, Portugal, Minorca, and other stations in the Mediterranean, the Cape of Good Hope, and New South Wales 1,004,480 13 6
For difference between the British and Irish pay of six regiments of foot for service abroad 42,901 19 0
For four troops of dragoons, and sixteen companies of foot stationed in Great Britain for recruiting regiments serving in East India 24,558 3 8
For recruiting and contingencies for land-forces, and extra feed for the cavalry 530,000 0 0
For general and staff-officers, and officers of hospitals 105,054 7 11
For full pay to supernumerary officers 26,230 14 6
For allowance to the paymaster-general of the forces, commissary-general of the musters, &c. &c. 105,747 2 6
For the increased rates of subsistence to be paid to inn-keepers and others, on quartering soldiers 140,000 0 0
For allowance to the non-commissioned officers and private men of the land forces, in lieu of small beer 120,000 0 0
For reduced officers of land-forces and marines 138,979 7 1
For allowances to reduced horse-guards 20 12 11
On account of officers late in the service of the states-general 1,000 0 0
Ditto, of reduced officers of British-American forces 52,500 0 0
For allowances to several reduced officers of ditto 7,500 0 0
For the in and out-pensioners of Chelsea hospital, and the expenses of the hospital 143,310 7 3
For pensions to widows of officers of land forces 20,231 12 0
For expenses incurred, and expected to be incurred in the barrack-master general’s department 359,334 0 0
For foreign corps in the service of Great Britain 471,128 12 3
February 24.
To defray the extraordinary services of the army for 1800 2,500,000 0 0
May 27.
For the troops of the elector of Bavaria, in the pay of Great Britain, pursuant to treaty 566,688 10 0
July 16.
For the expense of a royal military asylum for the reception of the children of soldiers 25,000 0 0
£9,558,951 12 3