OCEAN: AN ODE
occasioned by His Majesty's Royal Encouragement of the Sea Service.
To Which is Prefixed an Ode to the King; and a Discourse on Ode.
I think myself obliged to recommend to you a consideration of the
greatest importance; and I should look upon it as a great
happiness, if, at the beginning of my reign, I could see the
foundation laid of so great and necessary a work, as the increase
and encouragement of our seamen in general; that they may be
invited, rather than compelled by force and violence, to enter
into the service of their country, as oft as occasion shall
require it: a consideration worthy the representatives of a people
great and flourishing in trade and navigation. This leads me to
mention to you the case of Greenwich Hospital, that care may be
taken, by some addition to that fund, to render comfortable and
effectual that charitable provision, for the support and
maintenance of our seamen, worn out, and become decrepit by age
and infirmities, in the service of their country.
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