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out to the two parties ~~meernec’, the nation on the one hand
and its servant = gervants, on the other:
Uawise to encour-- ref the navy, parents might
find a much bett wowed regions abroad’!
Leaving 11.1 * touching at Gibraltar, he
there in the ¢.=v sable questioning found new
confirmetir  * ‘mpetent and disinterested
informen:

versation Waghorn said that the
admire, ", ad that ns accounts for the
service being 1... .._ ._ 3% lL. i heretofore; that the
ships are put wn» for si wr hs ia the winter months nk
Malta, during ~~ * © ©" thurse no exercise in seamanship
 for the mer Tews told me that there are
sometimes twenty sng at one time in Malta,
The mode of prom: 1 ar worse now than under
the Tories; there : * "Ow ‘n the command of ships
who five years ag. ‘& a8 midshipmen, and there
are hundreds of - lieutenancies, who have
passed ten years. presses upon the Admiralty
for the promotion -48 tnd Gependants of the ministers
of the day, and tu “vor fur the exercise of justice
towards the ¢!” flicers. This was more
excusable at the . ro. °n boroughs than now, when
no such interest can ne. sary There are thirty or forty
midshipmen in on: ide first-raters how much incipient
disappointmen’ rover 1, nd neglect! i. Lciniral states
that it is enc .g. Seals Litt by ser oung
men, some f t+ ding
the best sia, ay Young
Baily in conv v.. ~ a he Portland
was fitted up for che wu. areto and her maids of
honour, twenty guns removed and the space converted inte
v Journal, March 31. 1837.

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