Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 110: For July, 1859 October, 1859 But the augmentation does not stop within the limits of the estimates laid before Parliament in February last. Since then a bounty has been issued by royal proclamation for the purpose of adding seamen to the fleet, and an increase in the number of seamen involves a corresponding increase in the number of ships and officers on full pay, and in the expense of almost every branch of the service. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.