An address to the officers of His Majesty's Navy / by an old naval surgeon.

Date:
1824
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An address to the officers of His Majesty's Navy / by an old naval surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    ADDRESS, <fcc. Having heard of the publication of a Pamphlet addressed to the Lords Commissioners of the Ad- miralty, on certain immoralities tolerated in the Navy, I was induced to read it; and discovered, that it treated of a very great existent evil, which I freely confess, from its general prevalence in the Service since I embarked in it, never before struck my mind with the full force it has now done; and I cannot but feel it a duty I owe to the Service, as well as to the Country in general, to make some observations upon the present System, which I shall address to the Naval Pro- fession, in the hope that this subject may engage the attention of those officers who are zealously bent upon the improvement of the navy, so that they may give it due and unprejudiced conside- ration, and be led to use their exertions, in order to remedy the svil.