§ SIR CHARLES NAPIERsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty, Whether a circular has been issued forbidding Officers to give passes out of the Sea Port Town; and whether the Captain of—asked permission to give passes, and was reproved for so doing?
§ LORD CLARENCE PAGETsaid, the order had been issued in consequence of 1351 complaints made by the inhabitants of Weymouth of some irregularities on the part of sailors; since these complaints sailors had not been allowed to leave the neighbourhood of the ports at which their ships were lying. The captain alluded to by the hon. and gallant Gentleman had not been reproved; but the general order would remain in force.