Information filed against them, by his Majesty's Attorney Gene- ral, for a Misdemeanor, in arresting, imprisoning, and deposing George Lord Pigot, Commander in Chief of the Forces in Fort St. George, and President and Governor of the Presidency and I. ADDEND A. To the Case of Captain BAILLIE. "In the Will of John Barnard, (son to the late patriotic sir John Barnard, many years father of the city of London) late of the Parish of St. George, Hanover-Square, in the county of Middlesex, esquire, deceased, dated the 6th of November, 1779, among other things therein contained, is as follows: I give to captain Thomas Baillie, late 'deputy-governor of Greenwich Hospital, five hundred pounds, as a small token of my 'approbation of his worthy and disinterested, though ineffectual, endeavours to rescue ' that noble national charity from the rapacious hands of the basest and most wicked of 'mankind."" New Annual Register for 1784 (Principal Occurrences, p. 97.) II. To the Case of Lord GEORGE Gordon. Lord George Gordon published a curious (and, as I have reason to believe, a true) account of some of his strange proceedings connected with the transactions out of which this Trial arose. The title of his publication was, "Innocence Vindicated, and the Intrigues of Popery and its Abettors displayed in an Authentic Narrative of some transactions, hitherto unknown, relating to a late Act of the British Legislature in favour of English Papists, and the Petition presented to Parliament for its Repeal." In this case of Lord George Gordon were first exercised the privileges granted by stat. 7 Ann. c. 21, to persons indicted for High Treason. See East's Pleas of the Crown, chap. 2, sect. 48; and p. 648 of this volume. III. To the Case of the DEAN OF ST. ASAPH. Of the Richmond Park business mentioned p. 858, see Vol. 20, p. 1389, and elsewhere. PARLIAMENTARY WORKS. 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The Twenty-Second Volume is ready for delivery, bringing the Parliamentary History of England down to May 1782. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; J. Richardson; Black, Parry, and Co.; J. Hatchard; J. Ridgway; E. Jeffery; J. Booker; J. Rodwell; Cradock and Joy; R. H. Evans; Budd and Calkin; J. Booth, and T. C. Hansard. A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF STATE TRIALS, &c. &c. 562. The CASE of the ROYAL HOSPITAL for SEAMEN at GREENWICH, in relation to alleged Mismanagement and Abuses thereof; and of Captain THOMAS BAILLIE, Lieutenant-Governor of the said Hospital, under a Prosecution for a Libel upon certain other Officers of the same: 18 & 19 GEORGE III. A. D. 1778, 1779.* Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, [The following particulars I have extracted To the Commissioners and Governors of the from Captain Baillie's "Introduction to the Proceedings in the Court of King's-bench," &c. Captain Baillie prepared and caused to be printed, a book entitled, "The Case and Memorial of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, addressed to the Governors and Commissioners thereof." The "Case" I have not seen. It was not inserted in captain Baillie's "Solemn Appeal," "because," as he states, "it might create fresh disputes, is very long, and the greater part recapitulated in the King'sbench and House of Lords." The Memorial he exhibits as follows: Extracted from "A Solemn Appeal to the Public, from an injured Officer, Captain Baillie, late Lieutenant Governor of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich; arising out of a series of anthentic Proceedings in the Court of King's-bench on six Prosecutions against him, for publishing certain Libels (as it was alleged) in a printed book, entitled, The Case and Memorial of Greenwich Hospital, addressed to the General Governors, in behalf of Disabled Seamen, Widows, and Children; and the Evidence given on the subsequent Enquiry at the bar of the House of Lords, in consequence of the several Prosecutions being discharged with Costs. London: Printed for Captain Baillie by J. Almon, opposite Burlington-house, Piccadilly; and may also be had of Captain Baillie, at Mr. Roberts, china-man, near Hatton-street, Holborn. Price two guineas, stitched in sheets, with a fine engraving of captain Baillie, in mezzotinto, by James Watson, esq. painted by Nathaniel Hone, esq. of the Royal Academy, or separately, one guinea eaoh, 1779," VOL. XXI. The MEMORIAL of Captain Thomas Baillie, Lieutenant Governor of the said Hospital, in behalf of Disabled Seamen, their Widows and Children, Humbly sheweth; That through the various abuses set forth in the Case prefixed, the British navy has been deprived of the full benefit of this wise and munificent establishment, which the generosity of princes, and the gratiThat landmen have been introduced into the tude of the public, had bestowed. Hospital, contrary to the charter and to the spirit of the institution; and that some of the principal wards have been torn down, and converted, at a great expence, into grand apartments for officers, clerks, deputies and servants, who are not seamen. That several thousand pounds are annually expended in repairs and alterations, under the pretext of finishing or carrying on the building, though it is already sufficiently grand, roomy and convenient. That the settled and ample revenues of the Hospital being wasted by this and other improper means, the present managers, sheltering themselves under the popular character of the poor defenceless men under their care, make frequent application to parliament for the public money, which they squander in a manner that has no tendency to promote the welfare of the pensioners or of the sea-service. B That the pensioners are fed with bull-beef, and sour small beer mixed with water. That the contracting butcher, after having been convicted in a public court of justice (the King's-bench) of various fraudulent breaches of his contract, was, on a second prosecution, suffered to compound the penalties, and renew the contract: and that many evident and injurious abuses in the supply of other necessaries are daily suffered without any due enquiry. That under pretence of raising a charity stock for the boys in the Hospital, the pensioners are deprived of at least 2,500l. per annum out of their frugal allowance of provisions, &c. settled at the first establishment, and are compelled to accept of a part of the value in money; which causes frequent drunkenness, irregularity and disobedience. That these enormous abuses are the effects of the total subversion which the due government of the Hospital has undergone, arising from the inattention of the great and respectable characters who were appointed its perpetual guardians: and that the acting directors, being in general concerned in the receipt and expenditure of the revenues, are therefore improperly entrusted with the care of controuling the accounts, and of directing the affairs of the Hospital; yet that these men have, by successive encroachments, extended the proper powers of the board of directors, and taken upon them a great part of the government of the house, in the exercise of which they are deaf to every expostulation or complaint, however reasonable in itself, or regularly urged. That a faction, under the title of the Civil Interest, is maintained in the Hospital, which consists of such officers, under officers, deputies, clerks and servants, as are not seafaring men, and who are therefore illegally appointed; which faction has kept the Hospital in a state of confusion and disorder for several years: and there is no pretence of right or necessity for their continuing in offices to which seamen alone have any claim, there being many brave men fully qualified to execute the business of these offices, who, after having fought the battles of their country, are now in a state of poverty and want. That, independent of the obvious reflections suggested by justice and humanity on this occasion, the manner in which the pensioners are supported in Greenwich Hospital is a material subject of political consideration; particularly at this interesting period, when the endeavours to obtain volunteers for the navy are unsuccessful. Were a residence in the Hospital considered by seamen in general as a desirable object, it would have an evident tendency to lessen their reluctance for his majesty's service, as the loss of temporary advanPages, or the dread of approaching hard ships, can only be balanced by the hope of Till some effectual means are taken to re- That the contest, so far as he is concerned in |