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PETER THE GREAT
Per Month.
£
s.
d.
A Captain of 2nd Rate’s former pay
having 640 men was ....
1 7
10
O
His allowance of servants being 32,
comes to .....
27
16
O
Which comes to ...
45
6
O
The double pay is ...
35
0
O
Servants now allowed being 8, is .
7
4
0
The allowance with pay doubled
42
4
0
A Captain of a 3rd Rate having 476 men ;
his former pay was ....
14
0
0
His allowance of servants being 23,
comes to .....
20
0
0
Which is .
34
0
0
The double pay is .
28
0
0
Servants now allowed being 6,
comes to
5
8
0
The allowance with double pay .
33
8
0
Note. —The ‘ month’ was 28 days.
It follows from the above that a Captain of a First Ratewas to get, per lunar month, 49 I. 4^. instead of 54/. 6s., a lossof about 66/. a year, equal to perhaps 200/ now. TheCaptain of a Second Rate got 42/ 4^. instead of 45/ 6s.The Captain of a Third Rate 33/ 8s. instead of 34/ amonth, his loss being 7/ 16s. a year, perhaps equal to 25/now.
The author of the pamphlet, however, does not saywhether the proportion of servants which he gives as theold scale, viz. 5 per hundred men of the ship’s company,was temporary and exceptional or not. The recognisedproportion, at all events during many years, was 4 perhundred men. It is difficult to believe that the authordeliberately made a misstatement which would have beendiscovered at once ; and, evidently, he was not ignorant ofthe facts of the case. At the same time he does notexplain why or when the long-established proportion wasaltered.