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TnE Civil List is for the direct expenses of the Monarch, or. in the words of the Act, "for the support of his Majesty's Household, and of the honour and dignity of the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland." As will be seen by the annexed Civil List of GEORGE the Fourth, a variety of miscellaneous payments were formerly charged upon it ; and being, as a grant for life, removed en- tirely from the control of Parliament, it became a rich fund of pa- tronage to the Ministry, whilst the King had with many the discredit of the whole expense. It was on the question whether the old system should be continued or the more sim.le Schedule of WILLIAM the Fourth adopted, that the Duke of 11....i.r..usto.rox was driven from office.

CIVIL LIST OF GEORGE THE FOURTH.

1st Class. Ills Majesty's Privy Purse £60,000

20 - Allowances to the Lord Chancellor, Judges, and Speaker

of the House of Commons 32,956 Salaries, &c. of His Majesty's Ambassadors and other Mi- nisters. Salaries to Consuls, and Pensions to retired Ambassadors and Ministers 226,950 4th - Expenses (except Salaries) of his Majesty's Household in . the Departments of the Lord Steward. Lord Chamber- lain, Master of the Horse, Master of the Robes, and Sur- veyor-General of Works 209,003 5th - Salaries in the above departments 140,700

6th - Pensions limited by the Act 22 George III. c. 82. 95,000 7th -- Salaries to certain Officers of State, and various other al- lowances 41,306 fah - Salaries to the Commissioners of the Treasury and Chan- cellor of the Exchequer 13,822 Occasional payments not comprised in any of the aforesaid

classes 26,000 00,734

Civil List of Scotland, expended in Pensions, the Civil Government of X Scotland, and a variety of Local contingencies 109,132

207,000 Civil List of Ireland, (expended in)

1. Pensions to the Royal Family, and the Salaries of the Lord Lieutenant anti his Chief Secretary.

2. The Salaries of the Lord Chancellor and the Judges.

3. The Bfils of all Tradesmen. Artificers, and Labourers, for every article supplied or work done in the Castle of Dublin, or in any other Houses of the Lord Lieutenant, the Chief Secretary, or Under Secretary.

4. Pensions.

Total of the Civil List of George the Fourth £1,161,866

C/VIL LIST OF WILLIAM THE FOURTH.

Total of Civil List of William the Fourth £510,000 Deduct-Pensions exhibited under the Head of PellSiOTIS 75,000

£435,003

In point of simplicity, the new plan has the advantage over the old one ; its advantage as regards economy is not immediate. Upon the

first, third, and fourth classes, there was certainly some room for re- duction, though it was ruled otherwise in an Aristocratical Parliament:

and a considerable saving might have been effected in the Solarif,s of his 1st Class. Their Majesties' Privy Purse- The King. The Queen

20 - Salaries of his Majesty's Household 3d - Expenses of his Majesty's Household 4th Special and Secret Service.... .. 5th - Pensions Granted for Life. £60,000

50,000 110.000 130.300 171,500 13,200 75,000

Majesty's Household. A large proportion of the 130,000/. is paid for such quasi Sinecures as the "Master of the Stag-hounds," and other offices with sounding titles but little or no duties. The distinction which these places confer, would always have rendc red them an object of ambition to a certain part of our Aristocracy, even had they been merely honorary.* At present, the salaries annexed to them serve to increase the patronage of the Minter and the burdens of the People, but they contribute no- thing to the real comfort of the King. The fifth class we have de- ducted from the " Schedule," and the amount will be found stated under the more appropriate head of" Pensions."