The principal officers are a Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, four Captains, eight Lieutenants, a Treasurer, Secretary, Auditor, two Chaplains, a Physician, Surgeon, &c.

The number of pensioners is two thousand three hundred and fifty: they are provided with clothes, diet, and lodging, and have an allowance called tobacco-money, which, to the boatswains is two shillings and sixpence; to the boatswain'smates, one shilling and six-pence; and to the seamen, one shilling per week. There are also one hundred and fifty nurses, who are widows of seamen.

In 1763 a very spacious building was erected for an infirmary, for the sick pensioners, with every necessary accommodation.

The school-house was erected in 1783, with dormitories, &c. The school-room is one hundred feet long, and twentyfive feet broad, and capable of containing two hundred boys. They are carefully educated, and, after a certain period, are bound apprentices to the sea service. The expenses of this school are paid from the money received by showing the chapel, &c. and some other incidental funds, which have proved more than adequate to this most useful and beneficent purpose.

Such is Greenwich Hospital, which may be considered as forming a part of the naval glory of the British empire,