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 | |
HIS MAJESTY’S SPEECH TO THE FIRST UNION PARLIAMENT (1801).
Source.—Annual Register. Vol. xliii., pp. 207 et seq. of State Papers.
His Majesty’s Speech to both Houses, on opening the Imperial Parliament, 2d February, 1801.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
At a crisis so important to the interests of my people, I derive great satisfaction from being enabled, for the first time, to avail myself of the advice and assistance of the parliament of my united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
This memorable era, distinguished by the accomplishment of a measure calculated to augment and consolidate the strength and resources of the empire, and to cement more closely the interests and affections of my subjects, will, I trust, be equally marked by that vigour, energy, and firmness, which the circumstances of our present situation peculiarly require.
The unfortunate course of events on the continent, and the consequences which must be expected to result from it, cannot fail to be matter of anxiety and concern, to all who have a just feeling for the security and independence of Europe.
Your astonishment, as well as your regret, must be excited by the conduct of those powers, whose attention, at such a period, appears to be more engaged in endeavours to weaken the naval force of the British empire, which has hitherto opposed so powerful an obstacle to the inordinate ambition of France, than in concerting the means of mutual defence against their common and increasing danger.
The representations which I directed to be made to the court of Petersburgh, in consequence of the outrages committed against the ships, property, and persons of my subjects, have been treated with the utmost disrespect: and the proceedings of which I complained have been aggravated by subsequent acts of injustice and violence. Under these circumstances, a convention has been concluded by that court, with those of Copenhagen and Stockholm; the object of which, as avowed by one of the contracting parties, is to renew their former engagements for establishing by force a new code of maritime law, inconsistent with the rights, and hostile to the interests of this country.
In this situation I could not hesitate as to the conduct which it became me to pursue.
I have taken the earliest measures to repel the aggressions of this hostile confederacy, and to support those principles which are essential to the maintenance of our naval strength, and which are grounded on the system of public law so long established and recognised in Europe. I have, at the same time, given such assurances as manifest my disposition to renew my ancient relations with those powers, whenever it can be done consistently with the honour of my crown, and with a just regard to the safety of my subjects.
You will, I am persuaded, omit nothing on your part that can afford me the most vigorous and effectual support, in my firm determination to maintain, to the utmost, against every attack, the naval rights and the interests of my empire.