  DEAR NEPEAN,—I enclose a little project for destroying the Enemy's Flatboats if they venture over to our Coast, which you may shew, if you please, to your Sea Lords as coming from some anonymous correspondent. If they can improve upon it so as to make it useful, I shall be glad of it; and if they think it good for nothing, and throw it in the fire, there is no harm done. As the conveying an Army must require a very great number of Boats, which must be very near each other, if many such vessels as I propose should get among them, they must necessarily commit great havoc. I cannot ascertain whether the blocks or logs of wood would be strong enough to throw the shot without bursting, or whether they would not throw the shot though they should burst. I think they would not burst, and so do some Officers of Artillery here; but that might be ascertained by experiment at any time. This sort of Fire-vessel will have the advantage of costing very little; and of being of no service to the Enemy should it fall into their hands. W. YOUNG. LEWES, 14 Aug. 1803. [Illustration: Admiral Young's Torpedo. From the Original Drawing at the Public Record Office.] Secret "The success of an attempt to land an Army on an Enemy's Coast, whose Army is prepared to prevent it, will depend in a great degree on the regularity of the order in which the Boats, or Vessels, are arranged, that carry the Troops on Shore; everything therefore which contributes to the breaking of that order will so far contribute to render success more doubtful; especially if, in breaking the order, some of the Boats or Vessels are destroyed. For this purpose Fireships well managed will be found very useful; I should therefore think that, at all the King's Ports, and at all places where the Enemy may be expected to attempt a landing with Ships of War or other large Vessels, considerable quantities of materials for fitting Fireships according to the latest method should be kept ready to be put on board any small Vessels on the Enemy's approach; but, as such Vessels would have little or no effect on Gunboats or Flatboats, machines might be made for the purpose of destroying them, by shot, and by explosion. The Shot should be large, but as they will require to be thrown but a short distance, and will have only thin-sided Vessels to penetrate, Machines strong enough to resist the effort of the small quantity of Powder necessary to throw them may probably be made of wood; either by making several chambers in one thick Block, as No. 1, or one chamber at each end of a log as No. 2, which may be used either separately, or fastened together. The Vents should communicate with each other by means of quick Match, which should be very carefully covered to prevent its sustaining damage, or being moved by things carried about. Such Machines, properly loaded, may be kept in Fishing boats or other small vessels near the parts of the Coast where the Enemy may be expected to land; or in secure places, ready to be put on board when the Enemy are expected. The Chambers should be cut horizontally, and the Machine should be so placed in the Vessel as to have them about level with the surface of the water; under the Machine should be placed a considerable quantity of Gunpowder; and over it, large Stones, and bags of heavy shingle, and the whole may be covered with fishing nets, or any articles that may happen to be on board. Several fuses, or trains of Match, should communicate with the Machine, and with the powder under it, so managed as to ensure those which communicate with the Machine taking effect upon the others, that the shot may be thrown before the Vessel is blown up. The Match, or Fuses, should be carefully concealed to prevent their being seen if the Vessel should be boarded.... If these Vessels are placed in the front of the Enemy's Line, and not near the extremities of it, it would be scarcely possible for them to avoid the effects of the explosion unless, from some of them exploding too soon, the whole armament should stop. Every Machine would probably sink the Boat on each side of it, and so do considerable damage to others with the shot; and would kill and wound many men by the explosion and the fall of the stones.... As the success of these Vessels will depend entirely upon their not being suspected by the Enemy, the utmost secrecy must be observed in preparing the Machines and sending them to the places where they are to be kept. A few confidential men only should be employed to make them, and they should be so covered as to prevent any suspicion of their use, or of what they contain." INDEXAdams, Capt., Admiral Spry tender, Adventure, H.M.S., Ages below eighteen and over fifty-five exempt, Alcock, Henry, Mayor of Waterford, Alms, Capt., Amaranth, H.M.S., Ambrose, Capt., Amherst, Capt, Amphitrite, H.M.S., Andover, the press-gang at, Anglesea, H.M.S., Anne, Queen, impresses foreign seamen, arms of press-gang under, drummers and fifers pressed for navy in her reign, sailors unwilling to serve, Anson, Admiral Lord, Anthony, John, pressed with two protections on him, Appledore, press-gang at, 72, Apprentices, exempt from impressment only in some circumstances, in North-country pressed because their indentures bore Scotch 14s. stamp instead of English 15s., Archer, Capt, Arms of the press-gang, Assurance, H.M.S., Aston, Capt, Atkinson, Lieut., Ayscough, Capt., Baily, James, a ferryman, pressed for his inactivity, Baird, Capt, Balchen, Capt., Ball, Capt., Banyan days, Bargemen impressed in thousands, Barker, Capt., regulating officer at Bristol, midshipman. Barking, the press-gang at, Barnicle, William, Barnsley, Lieut., Barrington, Capt., Bath, Bristol gang's fruitless attempt at, Bawdsey, Beaufort, East Indiaman, Beecher, Capt, Bennett, Capt, Bertie, Capt, Bethell, Capt, paid damages for wrongfully impressing, Bettesworth, John, claims privilege of granting private protections to Ryde and Portsmouth ferrymen, Biggen, Charles, Billingsley, Capt., Bingham, William, Birchall, Lieut., Bird-in-hand, H.M.S., Birmingham, sham gangs at, Black Book of the Admiralty, Blackstone, Sir W., Blackwater, men working turf boats on, not exempt, Blanche, H.M.S., Blear-eyed Moll, Blonde, H.M.S., Boats for the press-gang, Boat steerers on whalers exempt from impressment, Boatswains, conditions of exemption, Bonetta sloop, Boscawen, Capt., Boston, Mass., Bounty system, the, Bowen, Capt., Box, Lieut, Boys, Capt., Brace, Lieut., Bradley, Lieut, Brawn, Capt., Breedon, Lieut., Brenton, Capt. Jahleel, afterwards Vice-Admiral, Brenton, E. P., Naval History, Brenton, Lieut, Brereton, Capt., Brett, Capt, 110, Bridges a favourite haunt of the press-gang, Brighton, the press-gang at, Bristol, the press-gang at, Bristol jail as press-room, Bristol, H.M.S., Brixham, the press-gang at, Broadfoot case, the, Broadstairs fishermen, the press-gang at, Bromley, Capt. Sir Robert, Bullard, Richard, a fiddler persuaded to go to Woolwich to play and for payment was handed to the gang, Bull-Dog sloop, Burchett, Josiah, Observations on the Navy, Burrows, Sam, Butler, Capt., Byron, Lord, Calahan, a gangsman, killed in attempting an arrest, Cambridge bargemen, press-gang among, Campbell, Admiral, Cape Breton, Caradine, Samuel, Carey, Rev. Lucius, Carmarthen, Admiral the Marquis of, Carolina, Carpenters, conditions of exemption, on warships on coast of Scotland could be replaced by shipwrights pressed from the yards, Carrying the ship up, Cartel ships, Castle, William, an alien, impressed on his honeymoon, Castleford, the press-gang at, Cawsand safe from the press-gang, Cecil, William, Lord Burleigh, Centurion, H.M.S., Anson's flagship, whose crew on their return had life-protection from the press, Chaplains, Charles II., Chatham, crimpage at, Chatham, H.M.S., Chester, the press-gang at Chevrette corvette, Clapp, Midshipman, Clark, George, Clephen, James, Clincher gun-brig, Cockburn, Bailie, of Leith, Cogbourne's electuary, Coke, Sir E., Collingwood, Admiral Lord, Lieut, Colvill, Admiral Lord, Colville, Lieut., Convoys, Conyear, John, Cooper, Josh, Cork, crimpage at, the press-gang at, Comet bomb ship, Cornwall, the press-gang in, Coversack, safe from the press-gang, Coventry, Mr. Commissioner, Coventry, sham gangs at, Cowes, press-gang at, Crabb, Henry, Crews depleted by the press-gang, Crick, William, Crimps, as sham gangsmen, Cromer, the suspicions of the inhabitants, bring the press-gang, to take a noted Russian, Crown Colonies, desertions in, Croydon, the press-gang around, Cruickshank, John, chaplain, Culverhouse, Capt., Customs, Board of, Dansays, Capt., Danton, Midshipman, Darby, Capt., Dartmouth, H.M.S., Dartmouth, press-gang at, Davidson, Samuel, of Newcastle, applies for life protection "DD," discharged dead, in muster books against names of persons deceased, Deal, press-gang at, cutters, Death of sailor in resisting impress, "accidental", Debusk, John, shot by the press-gang, on the Britannia, Dent, Capt., Deptford, the press-gang at, Desertion from the Navy, Devonshire, H.M.S., Dipping the flag, Director, H.M.S., Discipline in the Navy, Disinfecting a ship, Dispatch sloop, Dolan, Edward, Dominion and Laws of the Sea., See Justice, A., Dorsetshire, H.M.S., Douglas, Capt. Andrew, Dover, press-gang at, Downs, crimpage in the, press-gang in, Doyle, Lieut, Dreadnought, H.M.S., Drummers pressed for the Navy, Dryden, Michael, illegally pressed, Dryden's sister, Dublin, sham gangs at, the press-gang at, Duke, H.M.S., Duke of Vandome, H.M.S., Duncan case, the, Dundas, Henry, Dundonald, Lord, Autobiography, Dunkirk, H.M.S., Eccentricity leads to impressment, Eddystone lighthouse, building delayed through impressment of workmen, builders of the third, protected, keepers at, put inward-bound, ships' crews ashore, Edinburgh, press-gang at, Edmund and Mary Collier, Edward III. on the Navy, Elizabeth, Queen, Elizabeth ketch, Ely bargemen, press-gang among, Emergency crews of men unfit for pressing supplied to merchant-men by the crimps, Emergency men working on their own account, places of muster for, English Eclogues. See Southey, R., Evading the press-gang. See under Press-gang, How it was evaded., Evans, Richard, keeper of Gloucester Castle, Exemption from impressment, not a right, of foreigners, negroes not included, of landsmen only theoretical, property no qualification for exemption, of harvesters, of gentlemen, judged by appearances, below 18 and over 55 years, of apprentices dependent on circumstances, of merchant seamen dependent on circumstances, of masters, mates, boatswains, and carpenters dependent on circumstances, of some of crew of whalers, of Thames wherrymen by quota system, of Tyne keelman by the same, of Severn and Wye trow-men by 10% levy, did not extend to turf boats on Shannon and Blackwater, special for four on each fishing vessel, and later for all engaged in taking, curing, and selling fish, of Worthing fishermen for a levy, of Scottish and Manx fishermen, on similar terms, worthless without a document of protection, Exeter, the press-gang at, Falmouth, H.M.S., Falmouth, press-gang at, Faversham, the press-gang at, Ferme, H.M.S., Ferries, a favourite haunt of the press-gang, Feversham, H.M.S., Fifers pressed for the Navy, Fire on ship board, Fisheries, carefully fostered, three fish days made compulsory, became a great nursery for seamen, few exemptions granted, at first special concessions only to the whale and cod fisheries, later only such number as the warrant specified might be taken, and these the Justices chose; in 1801 no person employed in taking, curing, or selling fish could be impressed, with their best men impressed, only small smacks could be worked, a quota system preferred by the fishermen of some ports, in Cornwall, the men turned tinners in the off-season, Flags, flying without authority, omission to dip, Fleet, Liberty of, Folkstone market-boats, Folkstone, press-gang at, Forcible entry by the press-gang illegal, Foreigners impressed, theoretically exempt, married to English wives considered naturalised, in emergency crews, Frederick the Great, Freeholders at one time exempt from impressment, Fubbs, H.M.S., Gage, Capt., Galloper, tender to the Dreadnought, Ganges, H.M.S., Garth, Dr., Gaydon, Lieut., Gentlemen exempt from the impress, but judged by appearance and manner, Gibbs, Capt., Glory, H.M.S., Gloucester, the press-gang at, Gloucester Castle used as press-room, the keeper's magic palm, Godalming, the press-gang at, Golden, John, Lord Mayor's bargeman, wrongfully impressed, Good, James, midshipman, Goodave, Midshipman, Gooding, Richard, Gosport, the press-gang at, Gravesend, the press-gang at, Gray, John, Great Yarmouth, press-gang at, Greenock, crimpage at, press-gang at, Trades Guild, Greenock ferries, the press-gang at, Greenwich Hospital, Grimsby, the press-gang at, Habeas Corpus, writs of, as means of arresting, and so freeing, pressed men for debts not owing, Half-pay officers, their projects and inventions, Hamoaze, the, an entrepÔt for pressed men, Harpooners exempt from impressment, Harrison, Lieut., Hart, Alexander, Harwich, H.M.S., Haverfordwest, press-gang at, Hawke, Admiral Sir Edward, Hawke, H.M.S., Haygarth, Lieut., Health and illness, Hector, H.M.S., Herbert, Emanuel, Hind armed sloop, Historical Relation of State Affairs. See Lutterell, N., Hogarth's "Stage Coach," Hook, Joseph, Hope tender, Hotten, J. C., List of Persons of Quality, etc., who went from England to the American Plantations, Hull, press-gang at, Humber, the press-gang on, Hurst Castle, the press-gang at, Ilfracombe, the press-gang at, Impressment. See Pressed labour., Informers, Inland waterways and the gang at one time without the jurisdiction of the admirals, Innes, Capt, Ipswich, the press-gang at, Isis, H.M.S., Isle of Man fishermen, Jackson, Daniel, pressed from the Chester Volunteers, Jamaica, Jason, H.M.S., Jervis, John, Earl of St. Vincent, Jews, pressed on account of bandy legs, John and Elizabeth pink, John, King, impressment under, Johnson, Rebecca Anne, Jones, Paul, Justice, A., Dominion and Laws of the Sea, Keith, A., parson of the Fleet, Observations on the Act for Preventing Clandestine Marriages, Kilkenny, the press-gang at, King's Lynn, press-gang at, Kingston, William, case of, King William, Indiaman, Lady Shore, the, Landsmen exempt only in theory, Latham, Capt., Law officers' opinions on pressing, Leave, stoppage of, Leeds, the press-gang at, Leith, crimpage at, press-gang at, Lennox, H.M.S., Letting, John, pressed with two protections on him, Lewis, Edward, chaplain, Libraries, ships', Lichfield, H.M.S., Licorne, H.M.S., Limehouse Hole, the press-gang at, Lindsay, Admiral the Earl of, Instructions, Linesmen on whalers exempt from impressment, Liskeard, the press-gang at, List of Persons of Quality, etc., who went from England to the American Plantations. See Hotten, J. C., Litchfield, H.M.S., Littlehampton, the press-gang at, Liverpool, crimpage at, press-gang at, Lodden Bridge, the press-gang at, London, the press-gang in, Londonderry, the press-gang at, Longcroft, Capt, Loo, H.M.S., Love, Henry, gets life protection as promised by Pitt and Dundas, Lowestoft, the press-gang at, Lulworth, Lundy Island, safe from the press-gang, but not to the sailors' liking, crews marooned on, Lutterell, N., Historical Relation of State Affairs, Capt. Hon. Jas., Lymington, the press-gang at, M'Bride, Admiral, M'Cleverty, Capt., M'Donald, Alexander, impressed under the age of twelve, Charles, M'Gugan's wife, M'Kenzie, Lieut., M'Quarry, Lachlan, Magna Carta, its provisions contrary to impressment, Mansfield, Lord, Margate, the press-gang at, Maria brig, Marines, Marooned crews on Lundy Island, Martin galley, Mary smuggler, Masters, conditions of exemption, Mastery of the sea, a necessity for England, Mates, conditions of exemption, Medway, press-gang on, Medway, H.M.S., Men in lieu, Merchant seamen, conditions of exemption, unprotected when sleeping ashore, the most valuable asset to the Navy, Merchant service, hard conditions of crews, Mercury, H.M.S., Messenger, George, Mike, James, hanged for desertion, Moll Flanders, Monarch, H.M.S., Monmouth, H.M.S., Monumenta Juridica, Morals in the Navy, improved by Jervis, Nelson, and Collingwood, Moriarty, Capt, Mortar sloop, Mostyn, Admiral, Mediator tender, Mitchell, Admiral Sir D., Montagu, Admiral, Mousehole, safe from the press-gang, Moverty, Thomas, pressed, not having protection on him, Nancy of Deptford, Naseby, H.M.S., Nassau, H.M.S., Naval History. See Brenton, E. P., Navy, the growth of, in 18th century, natural sources of supply of crews, hard conditions of service in, discipline in, provisions in, comforts in, Negroes not exempt from impressment, Nelson, Admiral Lord, Nemesis, H.M.S., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, press-gang at, grand protection enjoyed by, New England, Newgate compared with the press-room, Newhaven, the press-gang at, Newland, safe from the press-gang, Newquay, safe from the press-gang, Nore, the press-gang at the, the mutiny at, an entrepÔt for pressed-men, Norfolk, Indiaman, Norris, John, North Forland, press-gang at, Nymph, H.M.S., Oakley, Lieut., Oaks, Lieut., O'Brien, Lieut., Observations on Corporeal Punishment, Impressment, etc. See Penrose, Admiral Sir V. C., Observations on the Act for Preventing Clandestine Marriages. See Keith, A., Observations on the Navy. See Burchett, J., Okehampton, the press-gang at, Onions, Thomas, Orford, H.M.S., Orkney fishermen, Osborne, Admiral, Osmer, Lieut., Otter sloop, Oyster vessels, Pallas, H.M.S., Parker, Richard, president of the mutineers at the Nore, Parkgate, a resort of seamen, Paying off discharged entire crews, Paying the shot, Pay of sailors, deferred, Pembroke, Earl of, Lord High Admiral, Penrose, Admiral Sir V. C., Observations on Corporeal Punishment, Impressment, etc., Pepys, S., Peter the Great, Czar of Russia, Petitions of seamen of the Fleet and others, Phoenix, H.M.S., Pill, a favourite haunt of sailors, and shunned by gangsmen, Pilots, Pitt, William, Plymouth, the press-gang at, Polpero, safe from the press-gang, Poole, press-gang at, mayor refuses to back press-warrants, Popham, Admiral Sir Home, his scheme for coast defence, Portland Bill, press-gang off, Portland Island, Portsmouth, desertions at, the press-gang at, Post-chaise, sailors in, Press-boats sunk at sea, Pressed labour (see also Press-gang), antiquity of, for civil occupations, for warfare, means of enforcing, contrary to the spirit of Magna Carta, penalties for resistance, derivation of the term, the classes from which drawn, exemptions from, necessity of, in English Navy, its crippling effect on trade, Press-gang, the why it was a necessity for the Navy, its services not needed by some captains, what it was, the official and the popular views, the class of men it was composed of, its quarters, landsmen joining the land force not to be pressed for sea service, ship-gangs entirely seamen, varying numbers in gang, the officers, the shore service the grave of promotion, general character of officers ashore, duties of the Regulating Captain, pay and road money, etc., perquisites, peculation, and bribery in the service, sham-gangs, the rendezvous, boat's arms, press warrant, whom the gang might take, primarily those who used the sea, later on trade suffers from the gang, exemption granted as an indulgence, the foreigner first exempted, but not if he had an English wife, and was soon assumed to have one, negroes not exempt, landsmen theoretically only, harvesters were exempt if holding a certificate, gentlemen exempt if dressed as such, only those proved to be between eighteen and fifty-five, the position of apprentices was uncertain, to press merchant seamen was resented by trade, masters, mates, boatswains, and carpenters were exempt, colliers were exempt up to a certain proportion, ship protections did not count on shore, mate was not entitled to liberty unless registered at the rendezvous, harpooners were protected out of season on land or on colliers, the press-gang preyed upon its fellows, watermen, bargemen, and canal boat-dwellers were considered to use the see, Thames watermen and some others exempt if certain quota of men supplied, large numbers pressed from Ireland, fishermen indifferently protected, but fisheries fostered, all protected persons bound to carry their protection on them, an error in protection invalidated it, protections often disregarded, special protections, its activities afloat, the merchant seamen the principal quest, the chain of sea-gangs, the outer rings, frigates pressing for their own crews and armed sloops as tenders to ships of the line, and the vessels employed by regulating captains at the large ports, the inner ring of boat-gangs in harbour or on rivers; their methods., methods of pressing at sea, complications arising from pressing at sea, their varied success., and the right to search foreign vessels for English seamen, and convoys, and privateers, and smugglers, smuggling by, and ships in quarantine, and transports, and cartel ships, and pilots, how it was evaded, in the ship, with her or from her, or a combination, hiding on board from, evasions assisted by the skipper, and men in lieu and foreigners in emergency crews, pilots and fisherman taken by, when acting as emergency men, evaded by desertion from the ship, evaded by hiding on land and changing quarters, Cornwall dangerous for, safe retreats from, empowered to take Severn and Wye trow-men, unsuccessful efforts of, evaded by borrowed, forged, and American protections and by disguises, what it did ashore, the sailor betrayed by marked characteristics; sailors outnumbered on shore by the gang, its object the pressing of sailors who escaped the seagangs, its London rendezvous and taverns used. the inland distribution of, the class of places selected for operations of, the land-gangs necessarily ambulatory, its resting and refreshment places chosen for purposes of capture, the methods adopted, a hot press at Brighton, a ruse at Portsmouth, how the sailors' liking for drink was turned to account, the amount of violence used, outside assistance to, rivalry between gangs, assisted by mayors and county magistrates, assisted by the military, townsmen who sided with the sailors against, brutal behaviour of, at Poole, resisted at Deal and Dover, forcible entry by, illegal, magistrates consign vagabonds and disorderly persons to, how it was resisted, various weapons used against, gangs-men killed by sailors resisting them, sailors killed by gangsmen, by armed bands of seamen, by the populace in attempting to impress, pressed-men recaptured from, tenders attacked, rendezvous attacked, press-boats attacked and sunk, resistance when the press-gang had come abroad, the hardship of impressment on arrival from long voyage, the only means of resistance, a sailor's death in such case "accidental," casual, unavoidable, or disagreeable, a case in point, at play, humorous reason given for impressing a person, inculcating manners by means of the press, the respect due to naval officers, the outsider liable to be pressed for breach of naval etiquette, rudeness to the press-gang treated the same way, damages from officers for wrongful impressment, failure to dip the flag, or flying an unauthorised flag, might lead to pressing from that crew, unseamanlike management of a ship laid the crew open to pressing, pipers and fiddlers, etc., impressed, ridiculous reasons given for impressing, unsuspecting passenger in a smuggler declared owner of contraband and pressed, tattoo marks and bandy legs lead to pressing, any eccentricity sufficient to ensure the attention of the press-gang, used by trustees to keep heirs from their money, and by parents to rid them of incorrigible sons, used for purposes of retaliation, used by strikers to get rid of a "blackleg." used by stern parent to part his daughter and her lover, a drunken cleric's revenge by means of, by pressing a sailor, causes his late bedfellow to be hanged as his murderer, and women, of women and sailors in general, lack of sentiment in gangsmen, women impressed by, women masquerading as men to go to sea, women in the gang, the hardship brought on women by the gang, fostered vice and bred paupers, women who released sailors from the press-gang, the devotion of Richard Parker's wife, In the clutch of, the press-room, what it was; strongly built and small as it might be, could hold any number, Bristol gaol and Gloucester Castle used as press-rooms, inadequate precautions for retaining pressed men on the road, regulations for rendezvous, victualling in the press-room, regulating or examining for fitness for service, fabricated ailments and defects, dispatching pressed men to the fleet, tenders hired for transport of pressed men, comfort and health of pressed men on tenders, the victualling of pressed men on tenders, prevention of escape, an attempt to escape-with the Tasker tender escapes from, The Union tender cut out from the Tyne by the pressed men, various excitements aboard a final examination, petitions, substitutes, How the gang went out, causes of withdrawal of press-gang, the increasingly bad quality of the product, the spirit of restlessness and mutiny engendered, the injury to trade, only continued so long by the apathy of the people, the cost of impressing, Press-Gang, or Love in Low Life, The, Press warrants, forged, Presting, the original term and its meaning, Prest money, Price, Capt, Prince George guardship at Portsmouth, Princess Augusta, a letter of marque, Princess Augusta tender, Princess Louisa, H.M.S, Privateers, loss of seamen by, pressing from, recapture of pressed crew of, Prize money, Profane abuse of crews by officers, Protections, for masters, mates, boatswains, and carpenters, worthless, if the holder were ashore, bound to be always carried, slightest error in description invalidated, were often disregarded, special, for men in lieu, for crews of convoys and privateers expired on arrival in home waters, lent, bought, and exchanged, American, Provisions in the Navy, Quarantine, Queensferry, the press-gang at, Quota men, "R" for "run" in ships' books to denote deserter, Raleigh, Sir Walter, Ramsgate, the press-gang at, Reading, the press-gang at, Registration of seamen, Regulating, i.e. examination of pressed-men for fitness, ailments and defects fabricated or assumed, Regulating captains, character of a, Repulse, H.M.S., Rendezvous, attacked, regulations of, Rescue of pressed men from the gang, Reunion, H.M.S., Rhode Island, Rice, Richard II, Richards, John, midshipman, Richardson, Lieut, Right of search, Roberts, Capt. John, Rochester, the press-gang at, Rodney, Admiral Lord, Roebuck, H.M.S., Romsey, the press-gang at, Routh, Capt, Royal Sovereign, H.M.S., Ruby gunship, Rudsdale, Lieut., Rum, Rupert, H.M.S., Russia, impressment in, Russian Navy, Ryde, the Lord of the Manor, claimed the privilege of private protections for his ferrymen to Portsmouth and Gosport, the press-gang at, Rye, H.M.S., Rye, the press-gang at, Sailor, the word disfavoured by Navy Board, a creature of contradictions, St. Ives, safe from the press-gang, St. Lawrence River, deserters in, St. Vincent, Earl of. See Jervis, J, Salisbury, the press-gang at, Sanders, Joseph, Sandwich, H.M.S., flag-ship at the Nore, Sax, Lieut, Scipio, H.M.S., Scott, John, pressed when his protection was lying in his coat beside him, Scottish fishermen, Seahorse, H.M.S., "Serving out slops," Severn trow-men, exempted from impress by 10% levy, Court of Exchequer rules the reverse, Seymour, Lieut., Sham gangs, Shandois sloop, Shannon, H.M.S., Shannon, men working turf boats on, not exempt, Shark, sloop, "She" applied to a ship, a recent use, Sheerness, crimpage at, Shields, press-gang at, Ships, impressment of, Shipwrights in Scotch yards could be pressed as carpenters on warships, Shirley, Governor, Shoreham, the press-gang at, Shrewsbury, H.M.S., Shrewsbury, sham gangs at, Sloper, Major-General, Smeaton, John, Smugglers, crew of, pressed, unsuspecting passenger declared owner and pressed, Solebay, H.M.S., Southampton, the press-gang at, Southey, Robt, English Eclogues, Southsea Castle, H.M.S., Spithead, crimpage at, an entrepÔt for pressed men, Spy sloop of war, Squirrel, H.M.S., Stag, H.M.S., Stag privateer, Stangate Creek, the fray at, Stephens, George, impressed at thirteen, Stephenson, George, Stepney Fields, press-gang at, Stillwell, John, Stourbridge, the press-gang at, Strike-me-blind. See Rice, Sturdy, Ralph, shot by the pressgang on the Britannia, Sunderland, press-gang at, Surgeons, Swansea, Tailors pressed on account of bandy legs, Talbot, Mary Anne, Tasker tender, Tassell, William, a protected mate, pressed ashore, Taunton, Denny-Bowl quarry, near—three girls as sham gang, the press-gang at, Taylor, Lieut, Taylor, William, Teede, John, undone by tattoo marks, Tenders, attacked, hired for transport of pressed men, the health and comfort of pressed men on, their victualling, attempts to escape from and with, Thames, press-gang on the, wherrymen exempted by levy of one in five, Thetis, H.M.S., Thomson, Lieut, Thurlow, Lord, Ticket men. See Men in lieu, Tobacco, Trading classes the greatest sufferers from impressment, not without resentment, various trades gradually exempted, Tramps. See Vagabonds, Transports, Travelling, cost of, Trial and Life of Richard Parker, Trim, William, Trinity House, Triton brig, Triton, Indiaman, Turning over of crews, Tyne keelman exempt from impress by levy—the men supplied being obtained by them by bounties, Union tender, Utrecht, H.M.S., Vagabonds handed over to the press-gang, Vanguard, H.M.S., Vernon, Admiral, Victualling in the press-room, Virginia, Wages due to sailors to date of impressment, Walbeoff, Capt, Ward, Ned, Wooden World Dissected, Waterford, press-gang at, Watermen's language, Watson, Lieut, Watts, John, punished with 170 lashes, Weapons used against the press-gang, Weir, Alexander, Wellington, Duke of, Whalers, some of crew of, exempt from impressment, Whitby, the press-gang at, White, John, pressed at Bristol ninety yards from his vessel, Whitefoot, James, impressed at Bristol, Whitworth, Charles, Envoy to Russia, "Widows' men." Williams, John, Willing Traveller smuggler, Wilson, John, shot by the press-gang on the Britannia, Winchelsea, H.M.S., Winstanley, London butcher, served as pressed man 16 years, Wolf armed sloop, Women and the Press-gang, See also under Press-gang, "The Press-gang and Women." Wooden World Dissected. See Ward, Ned, Wool, illegal export of, Worth, Capt, Worthing fishermen, Wye trow-men exempted from impress by 10% levy, Court of Exchequer rules the reverse, Yarmouth Roads, the press-gang in, "Yellow Admirals." Yorke, Sol. Gen, Young, Admiral, his torpedo, |
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