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THE annexed Summary, and the Tables that follow it, exhibit, we believe, a correct account of what are emphatically called Pensions,- excluding Retired Allowances, Half-pay, Pensions for Wounds, and annuities of several other descriptions,which are of the nature, though they do not bear the name, of pensions. It will be seen by a glance, that the cost of the Royal Family is one third, that of the Unknown one third, one third beim,b also paid for Service. Out of 12,4 are paid for ser- vices (many of them questionable), whilst for 8 the public have de- rived no benefit whatever.

SUMMARY OF PENSIONS.

To the Royal Family X 218,822 Military

. . £37,300 Naval ...... .......

. 20,073

Civil .....

. .

..... 21,1)0 Diplomatic. .. . .....

. . 63,423

Legal ... ..........

53,654 202,589

227,371

Unknown

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Total Pensions .

- £648,782

One of the first points which strikes the attention, is the eompara.. tive amount of Naval and Military Pensions. The latter exceed 37,0001., exclusive of large Parliamentary grants, which would suf- fice to treble the amount. The Pensions for Naval services do not reach 21,000/. It seems that the natural and constitutional force of England is, as the Navy used to be thought, not only the best, but the cheapest. Descending to the details of the Tables, the disproportionate ratio of reward between the People and the Aristocracy is not unworthy of notice. The average amount of a "Military" pension par excellence is

3,100/. An officer who has "lost an eye or a limb, or sustained other serious and permanent injury, on service," receives some 130/. a year. A man who has been "totally disabled, by blindness or otherwise, or

has served more than twenty-one years in the Infantry, or twenty-four years in the Cavalry," gets from 20/. to 30/. The pensions of the common rank and file average about 12/. per annum. Twenty pounds a year provides "Compassionate Allowances" for four relations of a Commissariat officer. Lord GIFFORD died poor ; his family are to be provided for on the "Compassionate List" of the Aristocracy-they receive 1,202/. a year.

Of the " Civil " Pensions it should be observed, that, with very few exceptions, the reward has been granted, not for any be- nefit done to the community, but at the best as a recompense for the zeal displayed in the service of faction, but most probably of corruption. Many of these names might, however, with more propriety have been placed amongst the Unknown. What are the services of Mr. S. R.

LUSHINGTON, Of Mr. H. HomousE, of Mr. PLANTA, Of Mr. CROKER, et id genus omne, that they should receive one of the highest marks of

public regard which a grateful nation can bestow ? What results of their toils remain in any department of the Civil Government, unless it be the receipts for salaries they receive no longer ? The time is fast approaching when the highest talent for " civil services" will be tasked to the very utmost. Let the lights of these Pensioners be no longer hid- den under a bushel : let us have the service they have done distinctly pointed out, that the country may decide whether, in the present dearth of statesmanlike ability, it may not be advisable to summon them from their retreat, and merge the pension in the Minister's pay. But, in sober seriousness, these pensions are annexed to the holding of parti-

cular offices for a certain length of time ; they are naked compensations for the loss of place. Thus, Mr. CROKER, after receiving during many

years 3,000/. per annum for doing mischief, gets 1,500/. for doing nothing. But the most unjustifiable pensions are the Diplomatic. This ser- vice is set apart for the "sole and separate use" of the Aristocracy, the only one for which they regularly prepare. It is the easiest and most lucrative in the patronage of Government ; and the pensions are in proportion. They amount to considerably more than the Naval and Military put together; they exceed even the Legal by ten per cent. ; they are more than double those for Civil services. At times, they have been granted without even a regard to common appearances. If there be one court more than another that requires the experience which only long residence can give, it is that of Constantinople : yet there are no fewer than seven "late" Ambassadors to the Grand Sig- nor, who receive pensions, the total amount of which is 14,100L-above double the salary of the acting Ambassador. This seeming enigma is capable of solution. These pensions were granted on the Civil List, and were not only removed from the control of Parliament, but till lately even from its knowledge. The Legal Pensions are heavy, but perhaps they cannot easily be dispensed with at present. The highest legal talent will remain at the bar, unless the emoluments of the Judge bear some proportion to those of the barrister ; and a man who has outlived his faculties will cleave to the judgment-seat unless his retirement be purchased by an annuity. A remedy for this portion of the Dead-weight must be sought for in Law Reform. There is one comfort, that the Judges are generally old men before they get upon the Pension-list.

The majority of the Pensions terminate with the lives of the pre- sent recipients. Some of them, as Lord CoLcil ESTER'S, are for lives. A few might perhaps, with more propriety, be classed amongst the per- manent expenditure. The Duke of MARLBOROUGH'S for instance, terminates with the title, the pension ceasing when the Dukedom is

• In Prussia, and some other Monarchies abroad, almost all the great Officers of State, so largely paid in England, receive little or nothing. For Services. Total for Royal Family .£ 215,822 5000 1 000 2023 3,000

0,000 3 000 500 1 200

2,250 Total for Naval Services £20,873

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PENSIONS FOR CIVIL SERVICES. X Chatham, Earl 4 000 Colchester, I.ord 2 250 Sidmoutli, Viscount 3,000 Bexley, Lord 3 000 Jane Carr (late Perceral) 2 000 Lushington, Right Honourable S. R. 1 500

Gonlburn, H 2 000

Hobhouse, H 1,000 Courtenay, T. P. 1 WV Croker, J. W 1,500 Planta, Joseph 1,500 Canning, Right Honourable George (his Family) . . 3,000 Assignees of Charles Boone, Esq., moiety of the Earl of Bath's Pension (on Excise Revenue) 1,500 Total for Civil Services £27,250 DIPLOMATIC PENSIONS.

AMBASSADORS, &e.

Formerly charged upon the 3d class of the Ciril List.

Late Ambassador at X

Adair, Robert The Ottoman Porte . 2,300 Elgin, Earl of - 2,000 Frere B - 1,200 Liston, Sir R 2,300 Fagot, Sir A 2.000 Canning, Sir Stratford 2,000 Arbuthnot, Right Hon. Charles, 2,300 Total at the Ottoman Porte £14 100 Clanearty, Earl of Netherlands. . . 2,000 Cockburn A Wurternburg . . 1,700 Cathcart, Earl Petersburg . . . 1,784

Elliott, H. . . . . Two. Sicilies . . 2,000

Frere, Right Honourable J. H. . . Spam 1,700 Fitzgerald, Lord Robert Lisbon 1,700 Hammond, G. United States . . 1,200 • Received by Trustees, who repay a portion of the Pension, after discharging cer- tain payments. PENSIONS FOR MILITARY SERVICES. X Wellington, Duke of Lake. Lord 2,00) Lynedoch, - 2,000 Combermere, - 2,000 Beresford, - 2,500 Hutchinson (Lord Donoughmore) 2 000 Abercrombie, - 2 000 Hill, 2 000 Amherst - 3000 Dorchester - (supposed) 2000 Marlborough, Duke of (ott the Poet-Office Revenue) 5,000

Schomberg, heirs of ditto . 4,000

Total for Military Services X 37,389

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PENSIONS FOR NAVAL SERVICES.

Nelson, Earl Nelson, Lady Rodney, Lord Duncan (now Camperdown) on English Funds . £2,000 1.

on Irish ditto . 1,000y Exmouth St. Vincent

Collingwood, Hon S 3 be Saumarez, I ord

Smith, Sir Sidney Consolidated Fund £1,000 . . 44 per Cents. . . 1,250

extinct. The .Thlke of SCHOMBERQ'S Appears. dependent on a less fa- vourable contingency. There may come a time when there Shall be no Duke of MARLBOROUGH, but it is scarcely within the bounds of probability that an "heir ". will ever be wanted to 4,000/. a year. The two enor- mous pensions of the Duke of GRAFTON, we rather think, are commu- tations for rights of revenue granted to him by his regal ancestor. Those of the PENNS, if we correctly remember, are for some proprie- tary rights which the family possessed in Pennsylvania. These perpe- tual pensions are .matters for grave consideration. It is doubtful whether they should not be made to terminate in the course of two or three lives, where no "valuable censideration " has been given. At all events, they should be commuted for a sum. The Dukes of MAItLao- novair have received some 600,000/. or 700,000/. from the nation, in the shape of an annuity, which 120,000/. would have purchased in the first instance. These perpetual pensions are a sort of Funding system in

miniature.

The amounts to the greater part of the items are taken from the "charge" on the Consolidated Fund of last year, tested, where practi- cable, -by Parliamentary Returns. The odd sums in many of the Pensions arise, we believe, from deductions for fees or the duty on Pensions. Wherever the source from which the Pension is paid is not specified, it is charged upon the Consolidated Funds of Great

Britain or Ireland.

PENSION'S TO TIIE ROYAL 'FAMILY.

Charged in MI. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland X 17 0.0.1

.. Sussex 17,250 •• .. Cambridge 23.250 .. . .. Gloucester 14(100 .. Prance George of Cumberland 6 000 ITer Royal Highness the Princess Augusta 13 000

Ditto Wary, now Duchess of Gloucester X13.000 I Ditto on the 44 per Cents. I 0001 Ditto the Princess Elizabeth, now Princess

of Hesse Homburg . . .. . ... 13,000} . . . . 14,000 Ditto on the 41 per .Cents. 1,000 Ditto ditto Sophia . . ....... 13.000 Ditto the Duchess of Kent and Princess Victoria . . . . 22,000 Ditto Princess Sophia of Gloucester 7,000

The Trustees ot Prince Leopold5 50 000

Serene highness Prince Meeklenburgh Strelitz 1 846 The 5 Misses Fitzelannice, on the 44 per Cents 2 500 Lady Augusta de A meland, ditto 1 292 Colonel D'Este (on the English Civil List) 467 Miss D'Este, ditto 467 Lord George Fitzclarence, ditto 500 Lord Adolphus Fitzelarence, ditto 500 Lord Frederick Fitzelarence, ditto 500 14,000

Sli;aatiti,IAntLassados at Hervey L

Z Daniel 1,200 Ilaile

I at Envoy to different Courts 1,127

Lamb, Sir Frederick ..... . . Frankfort . . .1,700 Merry, A. Late Envoy to 17nited States . Moner, J. Mexico 1,700 1,100 Motto, on

r, J. I'. Say :070000

Ouseley, Sir Gore Persia 21 Pierrepeiut, Honourable H Stockholm 1,200 Strangford. Viscount Russia 2,300 Smith, J. S. Stutgard 1,200 Sweden Straton, J. 1.500

St. Helens, Lon . . . . . RUSS.10, 2,300

Thornton, Sir E Portugal 2,000 Wickham, Right Honourable W. Swiss Cantons. 1200, Taylor, Sir Brook Prussia 1,500

Hill, Right Honourable V. N 1-I Naples

(under consideration) . . . Roth Paris esay, Lord 1,500 2,31)0 Mackenzie, C. A. 1:340

0 Total of Ambassadors ' . £54,711 (CoNseLs Annually Voted in Miscellaneous Estimates amongst Civil Superannuations.)

Consuls-Gem:1-.1 at B.. 13. Hoppner 6501. (supended whilst at Lisbon) Venice Sir J. Gambier Netherlands .

3.11. Wise Gottenburg .

A. W. John Baker United States Sir D. Bayley St. Petersburg lion.). Meade spaiu I). R. Mosier . France • • Sir II. Lushington Naples onf.als at A. Allen Massachusetts J. Lempriere Pernambuco . H. Werry Levant . . C. Fenwick . Elsinore . .

Agria,, awl Consul,

I n Barbary. 4:et...I at It.t )glauder Tunis Morocco ( ;min

11. M.Domzell Algiers

vire.e0m.a4.ot C. Ellis Tangier . . . 200 R. Chaillet Mogadurc . . . 200 -- Total for Consuls Total for Ambassadors . . . 5 i;111 - - Total fur Diplomatic Services. . Xti3,423 _ LEGAL PENSIONS.

4 (4;00

Eldon, Earl of

Wynford, Lord 3 750 1...!.ndlturst £4 000*

G Milt, Sir W. (dead) 375u Ri ebanlson, Sir J. 1 500 Graham. Sir It. 3,500 Holroyd, Sir G. S. (deal) ...

Alexandos, Sir W. (dead) 3 il-,3

Burroughs, Sir James 500

Jervis, TIrmris 1,015 Bailie, Jonathan (Acad.)

Casbetd, Robert. Mutt hew £050

I Of10 Cowper, Earl 01' ( on Excise F. The six Ildlowing are char!-,1 nn a par.,: uf the gross Excise Revenue paid to Reeeiv.1; II' Crown Rent, in Scotland.

Moneyp,wny, D. as late Lord of Session 2.400

("arapbell, is A. Aiitio 1 050

Ramatyne, Sir W. ditto 1,000

Abererumby, James ditto .::13,'':::1:4:'1°'):

Roberstsun, William ditto Clerk, John (f. ince dead) I tilt,)

Shepherd. Sir S. (late Lord Chief Baron of Exchequer) . Gifford, Robert Lord, Children of the late (on Scotch Cisil List) 193 Gifford, Lord Robert Francis Oa Irish Cie;' Ii.) .4') . . £20-1 Ditto Oa English Girl! .1.ist) . :300 -

Manners, Lord Hart, Sir Anthony (dead) Norbt ay. Lord (dead) O'Grady, Right Honourable O'Standish Johnson, Robert Day, Robert Jawes Total for Legal Services

* Suspended so long as his Lordship continues Chief Baron of the -Exeln:quer.

PENSIONS FOR UNKNOWN SERVICES.

Enumerated. R Pfefu, T 0,000

Penn, R.- I 000 liamilton, W R 1 000

Ward, It. 930

Croke A. LLD I 000 Ilinebelifi'•, J 1(100 Dyer, 11, M 1(101) Sewell, J. 1 onD Terrett, W. 1 000

Grafton, Duke of, on Post Office Revenue . ,174,700 - - on the Excise ditto . .

- 13,700 Dame Catherine Clements 553

Trustees of Mrs. Sarah Hamilton and Children 6:6

- Mrs. Alicia Knipe and Children . 276 Countess of Westmeath 923 Athlone, Earl of I046 Aylmer, Baron 553 De Blaquiere, Baron . . . . . . ., . 500 Persons who sabred by tiw Irish Rebellion of 1798 . 909 Servants of his late Majesty George the Fourth . . 13,832 - her late Majesty Queen Charlotte . • . 9,681

- her late Majesty Queen Caroline. 1 283

£55,642

Uneawnerafed. .£

Pensions on the English Civil List 70,739 - . Irish ditto 53,717

- . Scotch ditto .33 425 . 4¢ per Cent. Duties 13 848

Total Unentimerated 171,729 -- Enumerated 55642 of Unknown £227,370

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1,200 500 800 500 660 1,000 500

611 .13t;

300 £3046 1.001 3 6`41 3,692

3045'

11(17

2,400

The above amounts on the Civil List and za per Cent. Duties are exclusive of the sums stated in the preceding lists as paid to certain in- dividuals. It should be observed, that the whole of the Pensions on the Civil Lists and 44 per Cents. are by on act of last August trans- ferred to the Consoliilated Fund, excepting 75,000L still paid from the Civil List. The name of each individual is to be found in a Parlia- mentary Return, reprinted in the Appendix to the third and fourth...edi- tions of Financial Reform.