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Excerpt from A Letter to the Mayor Of: Wherein the Discouragements of the Seamen Employed in His Majesty's Navy, and the Merits of the Bill Brought Into Parliament in the Last Session, for Their Relief, Are Impartially Examined
This Scheme of allotting the Supplies granted for the Department of the Navy, hath broughtievery Dif'trefs upon our brave Seamen; whofe Necefli' ties, and the Title they have from their Sufferings, and Services, to public Favour, firongly plead for their immediate Payment, preferably to other Claimants; At' leaf't, Humanity and Jufiice require, that the Sums, which are exprefsly granted by the Legiflature for their Supp'ort, fhould not be with drawn from them, and allotted to other Creditors -his prefent moff gracious Majef'ty, compaf fionating the Sufferings of this brave meritorious Band of his Subjects, recommended from the Throne in his firft Speech, on the 3 JR of yanaary. 1727, to the Parliament elected on his Accefiion, the Confideration of proper Means for their Re' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
