Excerpt from Naval History of Great Britain, Including the History and Lives of the British Admirals, Vol. 6 of 8<br><br>The address to his Majesty, as usual, echoed the principal topics of his speech, and breathed the ut most confidence that the war would proceed and ter minate happily and gloriously, while it promised those supplies which might be necessary to secure this important object: some opposition was indeed made to ministers, in the address they moved, but they carried their question by a great majority. The supplies, so far as they regarded the navy, were very great: eighty-five thousand seamen, including ma rines, were voted for the service of 1780; the sup plies for these men amounted to a sum then deemed enormous and unprecedently great, rig. The whole sum voted for the navy was upwards of and the total supplies were 12s.9d.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.