PATRICIAN PAY—THE MARQUIS WELLESLEY'S.
AT the age of seventy-eight the Marquis WELLESLEY applies to the East India Company for 20,0001.—almost in the way of charity; and receives it too I This is a humiliating consummation of so bril- liant a life. The Marquis was the founder of his very lucky and prosperous family. From the heirship of a poor Irish Earldom he made himself a British Peer and a Marquis, and was the moving power by which two brothers were created Barons and a third a Duke. Every one of these, in the shape of salary, pension, or sinecure, has shared largely in the money of the peeple ; and they are now dividing among them upwards of 50,000/. a year of public revenue. Let us take a glance, however, at what the Marquis himself has pocketed in the course. of his long. career. His first. appointment, we believe, was Reroem- braneer of the Irma Court of Exchequer, of which the pen- sion is 2,693/. per annum : we shall reckon this only from the Union, making no allowance for the full salary. From a member of the Board of Control, Pm and GRENVILLE sent their school- fellow to India as Governor-Genera;, in 1797; and he held the appointment till 1805. In 1809 he was a Secretary of State, and afterwards went on a very expensive embassy to Spain. He has since been twice Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and besides held the offices of Lord Chamberlain and Lord Steward of the Household. Moreover, from 1799 he has received a pension of 5,000/. a year from the East India Company, as the reward of his cons que-t of Seringapatam and advocacy of their monopoly in 1813. To sum up these items—
Pension as late Joint Remembrancer of the Irish Exchequer, £ for :37 years, at 2.6931. per annum 99,641
pa...age-money to India 5,000
Salary as Governor.General, for 8 years, at 25,000 per annum 200,000 Salary as Lord•Lieutenant of Ireland, for 5 years, at 20,0001. 100,000 gilaries in various high offices of State, say 20,000
Pension of 5,0001. from the East India Company, for 39 years 195,000
Donation just voted by the East India Company 20,000 £039,641
Thus, the veteran Peer has received—without reckoning interest, and to say nothing of accommodations attached to most offices, or of the pleasures of power and patronage, and the satisfaction of con- tributing on a large scale to the pecuniary wants of friends and relations—nearly six hundred and thirty thousand pounds of the people's money. The amount that this single nobleman has received for his public services, some of them questionable and some nominal, would pay the salary of the Presidents of the American republic for four generations; and in reality, is more than double the amount of what has been paid to the First Magistrate in America from the foundation of the republic to the preent hour. Indeed, all that the patriot WASHINGTON ever received in his life from a grateful country would hardly exceed a single year's income of our well-paid yet pauper patrician. Even in this expensive country, it would be sufficient to endow for ever six hospitals on a. splendid scale, competent to the comfortable maintenance of the aged and the infirm.
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