§ SIR H. DRUMMOND WOLFFasked the Secretary to the Admiralty, Whether an order has been recently issued to any of Her Majesty's Ships forbidding the seamen of the Fleet to land any of the fresh meat issued to them as rations; and, if there is any special reason for such an order, and by whose authority it was issued?
§ MR. TREVELYANThe Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth last January issued a confidential Memorandum, calling attention to the 648th Article of the Queen's Regulations, which directs that— 59
Provisions or stores are not to be issued on shore, or taken out of the ship, for any other purpose than for victualling portions of the crow when absent on duty, or on other public account; and they are never in any way to be deemed to have become public property.This is not a new Regulation. It can be traced in the Admiralty instructions as far back as 1844; and the reason why the Order referring to it was issued was that the Commander-in-Chief had cause to know that it was violated.