Paget to Under-Secretary of State

Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your
letter of the 24th Inst. with its enclosures respecting the
application for a grant of Colonial Pay to the Lieutenants in command
of Her Majesty's Gun Boats Grappler and Forward while employed on the
Vancouver Station; and suggesting that as the Revenues of those
Colonies are not in a state to admit of any grant on this account, an
Extra rate of Pay might be allowed; I am commanded
by their Lordships to acquaint you, for the information of His Grace
the Duke of Newcastle, that my Lords consider there are great objections
to the principle of granting Extra Pay, and that they do not deem the
case in question sufficiently strong to be made Exceptional.