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liberty and public order. Upon the Tuesday, our deputation repaired to General Lafayette, and M. Odllion Barrot at the Luxembourg, to offer the services of the SchooL These ea- VMS were accepted, and on Wednesday we were employed at the Etat Major of the National Guild, conjointly with its own officetv. Now that eider is re.established, and our studies resumed, the scholars pro test against the denomination which has been given to them of the School of Aru. and Commerce,—a name which confounds them with the pupils of other institutions." Tbey then quote the following letter, addressed to one of them, to chow how they acted during the late troubles s " Paris, Dec 29, 1830. G. p r ay you, my dear Dation, to be the Interpreter among your comrades of my thanks for the conduct you and they pursued at the late crisis 1 have been deeply struck with it, and never shall I forget to bear testimony to their attachment for liberty and public order, as well as their friendship for me, which, believe me, is reciprocal. I offer :hem all the best wishes of my heart, and I hope that an acquaintance commenced under such auspices will always endure. `• LAFAYETTE." (There were other addresses from schools of the same kind.) CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES—Smuts or Dsc. 24. Tile President took the Chair at half-past one o'clock. M. lluntaun brought up the Report of the Special Committee ap. pointed to examine the law project relative to the sinking fund, which recommended its adoption, as amended by the committee. The President having announced that M. Balmy d'Anglas had laid upon the table • proposition which would be referred to the committees. M. de St. Aignan suggested that the proposition was extremely urgent, and moved that the committees should take it into consideration without delay. After a discussion, whether such a course would not be contrary to the standing orders, it was decided that it should be immediately ex amined, and the members retired into the committee rooms accordingly. After the laps of half an hour, the Chamber resumed. Groups were funned at the foot of the tribune, and animated conversation took place in all parts of the house. The President announced that five committees out of the nine were of opinion thrt 11. Bonny d'Anglas should read his proposition, but all di.eurisiost or vote upon it was incompatible with the standing orders. M. I•arubert said, that it could not be even read without violating the standing orders. M. Lupin observed, that, according to the standing orders, if three committees were of opinion that a proposition should be supported in public sitting, ii should be read in the bitting next after that when it was laid on the table. It could not, therefore, be read now without making an exception in its favour. M. Roissy d'Anglas, who was already at the tribune returned to his seat. (The object of the proposition was to demand that an enquiry be instituted 11.10 the recent events.) The Chamber then resumed the discussion of the law relating to the National Guards. Art. 47, submitting the appointment of Chefs de Bataillon to an elec. don, which asst leered back yesterday to the committee, was read and adopted. Art. 52, which was also referred for consideration, was reported by the committee in the following terms;—" The Majors, Adjutant. Majors, and i•urgeon.llajors, shall be appointed by the King." M. Vicnn, t proposed the suppression of Majors, or if persisted in, that they should be nominated by the o ffi cers an d sub-officers of the battalion. Air. A t .lter rose to object to this amendment, and took occasion to rectify some errors of the Minister of Public Instruction, in his state ments of yesterday tweeting the schools. (Interruption.) " I was yesterday mentsoned in my absence (continued Mr. Agler), and surely the Chamber will allow me to explain. (Hear, hear.) In the morn. ing, and not iu the evening, as stated by the blinister, the Stu dents of the Medical School, united with those of the Schools of Law, Pharmacy. and the Arts, and the pupils of the veteri nary School of Alrimt joined us on the Place du Pantheon, and were very serviceable in repelling the attacks made upon the National Guards, who were but few in number, and very much fatigued. I ant enabled to relate their language. (In terruption ) Give me a hearing. gentlenten. for it Is important. Their sandmen a were not only good, but admirable. I will not take up your time in repeating their expre s sion s . I love t he youth of France, but lam certainly not accustomed to natter. I found them deeply impressed with a convict on that it was necessary to rally round a throne founded upon the laws, and a liberty that can only be preserved by public order. I at the same time saw behind this niass of the schools, a body of young men, who w, re not of any of these institutions, and who wore no dia. tinguislung mark that expressed opinions that were repudiated by the schools with indignation, and were answered by acclamations of " Vive VOrdre z' and when the King came to visit our posts and review us on the Place du Pantheon, I will appeal to all who were prat nt whether they heard any cries but those of Vire le Koh' These brave and pa riotic youths ought not then to be confounded with the agitators. It has been said that the schools have tarnished their noble conduct by a protest. This I cannot believe. I am fully convinced that if any protests were issued, they never emanated from the young men of the schools, but from those whose only object was to stir up riot and disorder. Again, nothing could be marked with greater propriety than the conduct of the labouring classes. (Murmurs of impatience.) Allow me, gentlemen, but a few words of explanation as to the conduct of the labouring classes of the arrondissement, the legion of which I have the honour to command. (Hear, hear.) These did th e i r duty as well as the sc ho o l s , an d all their sentiments were of the most satisfactory nature, expressing a sincere attachment to order, and a decided aversion to disturbance. All they required was, that the government should display energy and firmness. It was the universal cry, that it was time that scandal and riot should be put an end to, and that the government s h ou ld act w i t h out h es i tat i on against all wh o were guilty of exciting the existing agitation, whatever might be their rank or station in society. (Ch eers f rom the left.) The go. vernment ought to employ none but men who enjoyed the general con fidence, and, to make use of the expressions repeated, it had become necessary that the government should assume a real energy, and act with firmness founded upon wisdom and the laws." The President of the Council (M. Lame) then rose, and said— " The hon. member who last addressed the Chamber calls upon the Government to display energy, and take all the precautions required by the present state of things. I render all justice to his good intentions, but am called upon to answer what may he deemed a species of reproach to the Ministry. To recommend firmness is in a measure to declare that it has been wanting. ( 6 True, true,' from the centre.) The country, therefore, ought to be made aware that the Government has done all that it ought to have done. A great agitation has prevailed. I have already said, that Go. vernment had reasons to suspect conspiracies', and I admit that it was absolately necessary, and that the Government was bound to act as if they had been apparent. Public tranquillity has been endan. gered. What has the Government done? list it exerted the full ex ercise of the power intrusted to it by the laws Has it triumphed ? Its only answer and justitica•ion is fitund in these few words :—Tranquil :Sty is restored. You must have felt the deep impression made by the prosceuiion of the ex-ministers. The National Gouda, in face of all the attempts to exe;te disturbance, protected the independence of the Judges, and insured their safe retirement from the place of their deli. beratiun. An inquiry into the late occurrences has been mentioned : I tint ready to give an account of the past ; but as to the future eon. duct of the Government, I an bound to be silent. This Chamber is not the seat of the Administration, which must be looked for elvelsere. In the course of the late disorderly proceedings, a great number were seized in th e very act o f their guilty attempts, and some utders have been arrested since; and yet, as an inquiry is talked of, an insinuation is thrown out that the ministers have not done their duty. Yesterday there was a question of a placard that had been posted up. To-day there are doubts as to certairs words that have been ut tered. As to the placard, I repeat what I have said already, that its authors were unknown, and that it was posted tip without the au thority of the police, and those who have thus violated the law lately passed with respect to bill-stickers will be proccuted. There has been some uneasiness expressed on the ground that the Government has not punished those who excited the troubles in October. But the Government did bring before Justice those who were suspected of being guilty on that occasion, and the tribunals have done their duty. Upon the examination there did not appear sufficient evidence to place many of them upon their trial, and they were consequently discharged. Others have been condemned by the Correctional Tribunals to slight punish. menu ; one alone was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. The rest were sent before a jury —it has not been the fault of Government, if they have not yet been tried—they still remain in prison, where no grace or favour is shown. On the present occasion, as soon as Government shall have acquired all the necessary information, it will be laid before the Chamher, and all their duties, of which there is no occasion to re mind them, shall be performed." (Applause.) This speech having excited considerable agitation, the President was obliged to reniital the Chamber of the order of the day, and the number or articles of the law of the National Guards that still remain for discus. .10n. The members resumed their seats, and 31. de Marsnier resumed the discussion upon the organization of the National Guards, when the li2d article was adopted. From Fe Meesager de* Chartibres, dated Dee. 25. Letters from St. Petersburgh of the Bth of December announce, that As soon as the news of the insurrection in Warsaw was spread in the capital of Russia, a violent irritation manifest e d it se lf among the young !nen, and th a t i n a short time 20,000 inscribed their names to make t , “rt of the army which the Government intends to send to Poland. " WARSAW, Ec. 9. " The Poli s b army now amounts to 140,000 men, na D mely, 45,000 r ..ular troop s , 20,000 di s b an d ed soldiers who again take up arms, and 4rly 80,000 recruits. " On the :id inst. a deputation from the Polish corps, placed at the rrier called the Moscow battier, consisting of General Mulbtsg, and Lieutenant-Colonel Wylerynaky, waited on General Chlopicki, oaring him troops for the defence of the Polish cause. " EPERNAT (MAR NE,) Dec. 21. Correspondence of the Messages des Ch. beer. " A riot has taken place at Epernay, where a great number of factions persons went to the house of the receiver of the indirect taxes, broke open the door, carried away the account-books, papers, and furniture, and burnt them in the market-place. They were going to proceed in the same manner at the house pi the inspector, but the sub-Prefect, the Mayor, and some citisens, succeeded in dispersing the mob. The Na tional Guard was not assembled. Vine-dressers, who belong to it, are among the rioters. " TOULOUSE, Dcc 16. Corrsepowdersee of the Messages des CAinsebres. From the 26th of November to the 27th of December, about 700 Spanish refugees, of whom 110 were officers, t►avelling singly, or in detachments, and coming from the four departments of the Eastern Py renees, the Arriege, and the Aude, successively passed through the de. partments of the Upper Garonne, to go to Bruges or Limoges. Most of them were obliged to stop one or several days at Toulouse, either to take some rest, or to receive the allowance made them for the expenses on the journey. Provisions were every where given to them, and lodgings assigned them, and the presence of those foreigners did not any where cause any disorder. LETTER IN THE HERALD. Palle, Drc.26. Order and tranquillity are restored. The extra service of the Na tional Guatd is dispensed with, and, generally speaking, the military posts are not this day stronger than they were a month since. The crisis has passed, but accompanied by circumstances full of importance. The discussion In the Chamber of Deputies yesterday was but the forerunner of others still more interesting; but the meeting of the students at the Pantheon was an affair of yet greater consequence. It is fortunate that Paris has been restored to tranquillity, and that blood has not been spilt; but the agency employed to bring about those de. sirable results suggests matter for grave reflection. The King, it ap pears, invited portions of the students of each of the three schools to dinner, in acknowledgment of the service they had just ren dered. Did he not thereby tacitly admit the powerful influ ence those young men possess over the populace ? and observe, notwithstanding (that which some people would call) three arro gant addresses, in which they say, in other terms, •• but--if the Chamber does not proceed to extend the elective franchise, and to dis solve itself; if, in short, they do ilnot give us frankly and freely that constitution about which they are now huatering with us, who paid seedy money for it in July, we will, &A* The species of impetium in imperio which the schools have the power of exercising, is found inconvenient. You will see that measures will be taken to put an end to it. The funds recovered miraculously, as an uninformed observer would think, in the midst of the alarm of Wednesday last, and maintained themselv s the day after, but, no longer supported by artificial means, they fell off on Friday. The belief on 'Change is, that the Goverment devoted millions to that object. The only circumstance connected with it which could bring the correctness of this suspicion into question was, that the principal purchaser on Wednesday and Thursday was Alum.. Ouvrard, who would not, in ordinary circumstances have betn the agent selected by the present Government to conduct a financial operation. Yesterday, however, the funds experienced a real, though trifling, imptovement. Confidence was, in some measure, restored. The near approach of the close of the year, with the immediate intervention of two holidays, rendered it necessary that those who had made their bar. gains should make arrangements to meet them. The consequence of these co-operating causes was that the Bourse of yesterday was the most animated known here during seven" months. It would appear from the tone of some of the journals that (in two words) endeavours are making to separate the National Guards from the people. This would be desirable by a government determined to fall into the old track, but cannot be seriously entertained by one only four months established on the ruins of despotism. The crisis has, I repeat, passed away, but you will find that a stormy season awaits us. The opposition to the Chamber now so unequivocally pronounced in Paris, will lead to another and still more formidable " movement," un less obviated by concessions, which up to last Wednesday the Govern. ment thought it would be possible to avoid. SPIRIT OF THB JOURNAL& CHIONICLI.—Every reflecting Reformer wishes to see a high pro. perty qualification substituted to the present miserable borough system. The example of Liverpool shows that there can be no secuting against corruption in Borough Elections. The qualification ought to be uni form throuhout the country ; and Di s t r i cts su b st i tute d for Counties and Boroug h%. What we dread is a system which allows the extremes of wealth and poverty to come into contact. Such is our present sys tem ; and with such a system corruption is inevitable. We wish to see property protected, and to property alone would we trust the defence of property. Texas.—The distressing trials at Winchester are still in and very numerous capital convictions have tak e n place, alrhporglittshge pain with which one reads of such prosecutions, for offences arising from such melancholy causes, is alleviated by the obvious and praiseworthy lenity with which the poor culprits have in every instance been treated by the learned judges who tried them. One circumstance apparent on the face of these proceedings is to us inexpresibly humiliating, —we mean the ignoran ce and intellectual degrndation of the peasants, who throughout these southern counties have first been starved into disc content, and then entrapped, by reason of their very stupidity, into criminal and brutal courses u the means of relief from suf. feting. What, indeed, but blindness the moat barbarous, set. ed upon by selfish and practised cunning, could induce a mul. rude, whose chief a ffl iction was the in su ff i c i enc y o f t h e i r wages compared as with the price of bread, on the one hand to dtstroy machinery, the sole use and purpose of which was to lower the coat of manufactured corn, and on the other to lay waste the earn itself on whit ir the machinery operated ; thus, by the Fame system of self ruinous outrage, diminishing the amount of :he raw material, and augmenting that of the labour em. ployed in fitting it fur consumption ? We are tempted to ask, in what savage cemmunity have ste h wretched men been born? Under what government have they lived, that It allows their na. tural wants to be so cruelly disregarded ? Who is guilty of the heinous Clime of so neglecting their general, sad espe cially their moral instruction, as to have looked on whilst the whole agricultural inhabitants of this (self-called) humane and enlightened country, grew up in utter callousness to the difference between right and wrong,—of utter incapacity to release themselves by means becoming any reasonable creatures from a condition of prostrate pauperism, the exisance of which, almost incredible anywhere, ou g ht t o b e cons idered monstrous in England. foremost of nations in industry, wealth, and knowledge? We do affirm that the actions of this pitiable race of men, as a commentary on the treatment experienced by them at the hands of the upper and middling classes—the gentlemen, the clergy (who ought to teach and comfort them, and the farmers, who ought to pay and feed them)-are disgraceful to the British name. The present population must be provided for in body and spirit, on more liberal and Christian principles, or the whole mass of labourers will start into legions of ban. ditti—banditti less criminal than those who have tnade them so—than those who, by a just but fearful retribution, will soon become their victims. PosT..—lt being evident almost to demonstration that such, and so formidable, and so progressive is the character of the disease which preys upon the prosperity and happiness of Ireland, and threatens her existence, it Is truly melancholy to reflect upon the nature of the reme. dies which our State physicians in their wisdom have thought proper to administer. They have, at a cost to the people of England of 40001. a year, withdrawn from the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland a person who possessed, in as high a degree as it is possible fur any man to possess, the united confidence and esteem of both the Ca tholic and the Protestant portions of the community, in order to bestow this high and influential office upon an individual who, whether justly or unjustly, is in fact the object of extreme dislike to bah; and have given to the latter, suspected and hated though he be, equally by P ro . testant and Catholic, a large share in the general government of the country, extensive powers of nomination to offices in the Church as well as the State, together with a controul all but absolute over the entire Alagistracy. This is the first ingredient in the mixture by which agi. tation is to be allayed. Such is the deplorable and wretched cam . meneement of his Majesty's present Ministers with respect to the affairs of Ireland, which we are to cousider as the symptoms of that prudence and energy with which they are prepared to encounter the difficulties and dangers visible in the state of that country, and to subdue them. A guard of Royal Marines, under the command of Captain Humphrey Moore, has been embarked on board the ship Eliza, now lying at Spithead. This ship is to receive on board all rioters who may be sentenced to be transported at the present Speoial Assizes, without their being allowed to associate with the felons now in the hulks. The ship is destined for Sydney. THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS AND THE BARON Ha m- BOLDT.—The Emperor Nicholas has lately made a present to the celebrated traveller Humboldt of a magnificent vase. It was hewn from a block of Siberian marble, of nearly 20 cubic feet in size, is in the ancient style, and richly orna mented. The name of the species of quartz of which it is formed, and which is peculiar to Siberia, is awe:shwas. In colour and general appearance it bears a resemblance to the onyx, but with that peculiar interchange of hue found in the opal. It is the admiration of all who have seen it.— Spectator. PENSIONS. (Cosesiusksaissy the Them) The pensions of the Civil List are now before me, and I must confess I am affrighted at the task I have engaged to perform. It is Herculean, and I would sooner adventure to attack the Phrygian Boar, or Newman Lion, than ana tomize the pages which my eye has scarcely scanned. however, am pledged to you and the public, and will proceed, invoking Cato's spirit and all his Roman virtue, to accom pany Ins in my labours. I will, if possible, spare no one, but I will not inte n ti ona ll y d rag any one before he public gaze, but who I consider it indispensable to bring forth from the dark recesses of this hitherto forbidden forest into public view ; it is impossible but that I must be guilty of some mistakes, for as the mere names are only given, without any relation to services, or why these pensions have been granted, I can make no distinction, but dress up all alike, as if they were all undeserving. I must be allowed to remark, that the abo minable system of pensions, as the whole exhibits, ought to be totally done away with. There should be no such an establishment attached to the revenue voted to the sovereign. The monarch's allowance should be distinct. It cannot be objected to, that such allowance should be liberal and equal to maintain the royal consequence, as long as the people are pleased to consider their happiness bound up in royal pro tection. I would uphold the royal establishment in splen dour as long as there shall be such an establishment, but then that splendour should be really the recompense for those sa crifices which are exacted of those persons who play the royal part; but royalty should be no covert for the abuses of the servants of the state. The royal name should not be abused for the provision of a set of noble proletaries, or other useless beings, who are foisted on the public maintenance, to lighten the burdens of their own immediate relatives. The allowance to the sovereign should be such as to enable him not only to be generous but to be splendid ; but then all such acts of generosity and splendour should emanate from his own bosom, and his Ministers should have nu pretext of using his name in granting rewards from the public purse to their own satellites. It is not the amount of the sums that I so much complain of, but it is the lamentable system of corruption which it introduces, and the sad example which it holds out to the producing classes of society, that the con veniences of life are obtained by so many drones on their industry, without the necessity of any labour. The trap pings of monarchy, however costly, are nothing in compari son to the corruption of courtiers, who in all ages have been, and still are, heedless of their masters' interest if they can indulge in their own baseness. The King must be relieved of the odium of granting pensions to most undeserving per sons, of whose very existence he is even ignorant. No pen sion in future should be chargeable on the civil list; there should be none but what originates in acts of parliament, for services performed by the individuals themselves, or by rela tives so near of blood, whose existence was essential to their maintenance. s. d. The Engliah Pensions amount to .. 73,973 7 0 The Irish ... 53,921 410 The Scotch .. 32,023 18 8 Total 0150,91810 6 The public must bear in mind that this sum is totally in dependent of that which is charged to the Consolidated Fund by particular grants of Parliament, or upon a general principle of compeosations for retired allowances, and also charges upon the extraordinaries of the army for services performed, as I shall exhibit, particularly when I come to the ordnance department. Out of this sum of 160,0001, taken from the industry of the people, I shall be able clearly to show that one-third of it has not been earned in the public service. As becoming one who has breathed the air of a Court, I shell begin, as in due order, with the uoble personages who claim relief from the public purse, under the pretext of being poor Peers, and which is a sufficient argument against hereditary legislators. As some ha:e double charges, I shall bring the whole together, distin guishing the lists upon which they are separately charged— as E. English, I. Irish, and S. Scotch. I shall, in many instances, he obliged to recapitulate in my remarks some what of my former letters ; but it is unavoidable, if the system is to be correctly exposed. I shall begin, and go on alphabetically. Some of the pensions are of such an age, that their exact date cannot be ascertained ; but these were all granted previous to 1784. POOR PEERS. Auckland, George John, Baron. X a. E —July 21, 1814 - - - - 300 7 - This noble Lord holds besides a lucrative office in Green wich Hospital, of which no mention is made, and has been lately appointed to the office of President of the Board of Trade and Mutter of the Mint. I trust his Lordship. as long as he holds such offices, will not deign to accept his paltry pension. Audley, George John, Baron. E.—. March 17. 1821 - - - - - 462 16 Gifford, Robert Francis, Lord R—March 26, 1827 . . 800 8 . L—June 27, 1827 - - - - 204 6 B.—August 17. children of the late Lord . - 198 16 Here is seen the evil of calling legal officers to the House of Peers beyond the period of their own lives. Hereford, Henry Fleming, Viscount. E.-111ay 29,1800 - . . - - 176 19 E.--Se 'ember 17, 1800 - - - - 467 12 This nobleman was lately the Captain of the Band of Pen sioners, with a salary of 2,6001. and enjoyed his pension all the while. Huntingdon, Earl of. E.—August 26, 1829 - - - - - 400 lb With a whole tribe of brothers and slum, as will be here after shown. linto, Earl of. E.—April 2. 1800 . 998 10 Thl.l pension seem. a great abuse. Montford, Henry, Lord. R..m.October 8, 1800 . - - - - 467 12 - E.—March 10, 1803 - - 135 2 - Why this Lord should have obtained a second pension, Is not shown. Portmore, Thomas Charles, Earl of. E.—April 15, 1825 - - - . - 233 5 S.—October 25, 1824 - . - - • 276 10 Rockford, Earl uf. E.—February 10, 1782 - - - - - 780 0 Tyreonnel, John Delaval, Earl of. IL—March 9, 1813 - • - - I.—June 16, 1813 - - Walsingharn, Lord, and de Grey, Thomas. E.--July 27, 1794 - . - Aylmer, Lord, and H. F. W. Aylmer. I.—February 24, 1783 My Lord Aylmer is a Lieutenant-General, has a regiment, and is now Governor of Canada. Allan, Viscount. L- B eptember 15, 1821 - - - - 266 18 Blaquiere, John, Baron de. L—December 8. . - - 893 13 This nobleman's father went over an adventurer to Is land: a very handsome man and by his intrigues at the Cards, obtained many good things, and got him. self created a Peer, and the public are charged with his descendants. GOO 8 445 19 338 10 364 8 Cavan, Earl of. • I. June 7, 1706 . . - . - 286 18 4 This nobleman is a General Meer. has a regiment, and is Governor of a Fort. Kingsland, Viscount. I.—October 10, 1828 . • - 192 6 $ Mountioy, Lord, Representatives of. I.—October 8, 1794 _ . . - 177 11 $ Ditto ditto _ . . . - 183 2 4 Why the representatives of this nobleman should have had any pension is most extraordinary. He bad large es- tares, which demanded to his only son, and be left hie this daughters lugs fintsures. idokowurth, Viscount. I.—September 16, 1818 . . . . I.—July 19, 1820 - - . . _ . Mountmares, Viscount. I.—November 23, 11120 - - - 1.-11. Feb 10, 18211 - - - I.—April 13, ISO _ - •_ __ - llasooromon, Berl at. 1.--&pternbar 28, 1820 Btrasgford I—Jannary 2, 1797 . - , LorrL This nobleman has a large passion as an ambassador; and It will be seen how the public are charged with his family. Aston, Walter Hutcheson, Lord. B—January 27, 1801 . - - - Cessation, James Edmund, Lord. B—Novembes 97, 1811 Ziphinstone , John E. Lord. B—February 23, 1824 - - - B—August 31, 1828 Stroll, Gene, an of. 8-31ay 6, 1819 Inibaak, Alexander Murray, Lord. 3—August 31, 1326 - - . Falkland, lades B. Viscount. B—June 14, 1816 . . . Home, Alexaoder, Earl of. E.—August 23, 1792 - _ - 276 10 0 _ . . Nalroe, Lord. 8--September 17, 1822 . - 184 0 0 Remy, Erie Mackay, Baron. 3—January 3, 1804 . - - - 184 0 0 Rothe', Earl of. B—June 16, 1821 276 10 0 Sinclair, Charles, Lord. B—August 14, 1778 lel 0 0 Semphill, Hugh, Lord. B—August 31, 1828 . 97 0 0 It may and will undoubtedly be exclaimed by many persona, " Good Heavens, our poor peers only cost us 13,4001. Ix. 4d. annually. 0 dear, what an insignificant sum ! the vulgar creatures that would grudge to these unfortunate decayed persons so paltry an allowance!" Their understanding is nor to be envied. I have classed all the above names in the liat as poor peers, though many are possessed of affluence; but there is a tenacity of holding the smallest sums, which is quite dis graceful. I shall now go to the cost of the noble ladies, and younger branches of noble families, amongst whom wilt be found a sad Applica tion of the public money; and it is no excuse to say, " The Pension Lists do not exceed the sum named by Act of Parliament ;" but then, should not Parliament do away with the whole, and then the King and his Ministers would be left untrammelled with the solicitations ut no ble paupers ? Harriet Arbuthnot heads the list Next comes Mrs. Augusta Brudenell, whose very name smacks of nobility. She stands thus— Brudenell, Augusta. - 938 19 0 11— March 21, 1769 E--January 28, 1808 - 101 4 8 - 101 4 8 Brooksbank, Annc. E-31arch 4, 1783 155 2 0 . - Bouverie, Francis Charlotte. Ig—September 17 - 81 11 0 - _ Bentinek, lady Jeutinut Helen. K—Noventber 10, 1809 - - - This lady is the sister of the Earl of Manlier% Hendrick, Antoinette, W. J. E—January 28, 1814 - - - - Zi3 5 0 - 100 8 8 Bouverie, lion. Arabella. E—December lb, 11321 . - 300 7 3 Bathurst, Charlotte. E—February 10, 1823 . - E—January 7, 182 5 . - IL—Dec=lW 31, 1829 - 600 8 0 - 200 6 7 - 100 13 9 Bathurst, Mary. 11,-.June 6, 1836 - 250 7 5 _ Burrard, Dame Hannah. E—November 27, 1813 - - - 400 13 0 _ . Brodrick, Mary. B—February 20, 1827 . 900 G 7 Cockburn, Dame Augusta Anne. E.. . - - - - - 638 17 0 This lady, if I mistake not, is the mother of Sir James, Sir George. the Dean of York, and the Colombian or Mexican Ambassador. She was of a noble family, and fell in love with her husband, a very handsome man, but who was either a merchant or held an office in the India house. To reconcile her marriage with this person to her family, be was made a baronet. It will be seen hereafter how this family is provided for by the public. Carey, Lavinia, Matilda and Angelis, 8- . £.. d. 163 18 0 Cumberland Lady Alblida. E.—July 1, 1794 3JO 11 10 Cathcart, Elizabeth, Baroness. E.—Ottober 10, 1798 . Thi■ lady, 1 believe, has also some pension, as having be longed to the household of Queen Charlotte, but of which no mention Is made. Cockburn, Marianne. E.—May 29, 1800 389 9 U Cockburn, Jean. 116 19 0 S.—August 8, 1789 - - Fanny Cockburn. S.—February 14, 1791 . - Cockburn, lMary and Harriet. 1.--March 14, 1791 - Clare, Dowager Lady, mid Lady Fitsjibbon. E—March 10, 1803 - - - _ . Campbell. Elio Maria - E.—September 16, 1805 - - - 184 0 0 97 0 0 IN 0 0 780 2 0 389 9 0 Courtcnay, Elizabeth. E.—September 17, 1808 - - Clarina, Peru!lope, Baroness. E.—March 11, 1803 - . 7.1 19 0 233 5 0 Coke, Elizabeth Anne. E.—January Si, 1818 This certainly cannot be the Ledy of the Member for Norfolk. Cameron, Lady Margaret. E.—December 22, 1819 - - . Cockburn, Dame Mary. E.—May 20, 1825 . . . . $1 19 0 SOO 6 1 680 1 8 .. . Cockburn, Augusta Harriet Mary. B—April7, 1827 200 G 7 _ Congreve, Dame Inhale. E.—August 26, 1829 - - - - This must be the widow of the gentleman of share.noto riety, and who was, at oue time, so much about the per son of Cierge IV. Dorchester, Lady Mary. E.—January 16, 1766 - - - . Drummond, Mary Dulcibella. E.—July 1, 1818 _ - _ - . . . 300 11 W Douglas, Dame Anne. E.—August 1, 1120 - . - Do Boos, Ludy G. Fitzgerald. E.—August 26 Enkine, Louisa. IT..—hebruary, I, 1801 We believe this pens to be the same as—. Erskine, Lady Louisa. B.—March 8, 1801 - If thin Lady now receives this pension, it is most extraor ' dinary : she was daughter of the old Lord Uxbridge, and ran away to many Colonel Erskine—a lov e m atc h which greatly offended her father, and the old King gave her this pension. She afterwards became the wife of Sir George Murray. This gentleman has just retired from the office of Colonial Secretary. If he sanctions her drawing this pension as the divorced wife of Sir James Erskine, well may it be exclaimed "Nob putior 1" Three Younger Children of the late Lord Erskine, Lord Chancellor of England. E.---September 30, 1824 276 10 151 1 5 Fox, Elizabeth Bridget, Widow. B.—December 4, 1808 This Lady is the Widow of Charles James Fox, and the pension is a stain on his nephew, Lord HoUAW, and the other great Whig Foxites. The Fox ilub should have found the funds for a pension for his widow. Fitzroy, Lady Mary. - E.—February 7, 1821 - - Berries, Isabella, Math. B —April 17. 1799 - . . . . B.—December 2, 1814 - 938 10 0 SOO II 7 Huntingdon, Children of the live Earl of, Z.—August 29, 1839 Nuthingten, Dame Panay, Z.—November 47,1813 I • • , 116 19 6 116 19 6 222 14 10 150 8 G 177 11 177 11 43 13 177 11 88 1 1:12 6 88 1 07 0 184 0 138 6 188 6 276 10 138 5 184 0 115 le 210 IV 300 7 200 1 233 5