The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-02-17 00:00:00

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statement as that the estif.—
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year, as compered *4 the lest, presented only a
reflection of 11,PMOL, where* the real slifesessee
was 53,0001. There was a cousielerable reduction
to evert branch of the Ordnance Estimates, eAcept
the sine one of supetannuation, which of *equally
was .a WWI iSereased. The Neu, (lea% dim en-
tered isilaililetail of the reductions, abusing a total.
of 00,a041. Vibe Hon. Gesetleman oppaise could
make se grass a mistake with the agree aa law
lieflois hand, he would put it to the Ileum, whet
9egrec of relience could fie placed in his aptieplettl*
+where 6.114 within to gelds him. Tie Hum
tientlemon bed remarked very much upon the ser-
vants allowed to °Seers ; that wis not an abuse of
the present time, it had bees, the system fora long
course of years. The Noble Hulse now at the
beed. of the Department bad noticed it as an
*so, and bad. sitegamt • plea for its gradual
tore. _ He did 'lot think it proper to take away
the prirthge from them who hid heretofore en-
.
Joyed it; bat lie had directed that Do officer
hereafter appointed should be perimittell a hare
such servants. The Honourable Gentleman had
she resulted upon the increase of the salary of
the Minster-General, from 1,5001. to 3,000/. When
She Hoot. Gentlernau's speech reached the puhlic,
especially if he furnished the copy himself, as he had
it from the Hon. Geodesist' thet he sometimes did,
it might be thought, frets the manner in which he
had treated the subject, thst this doubling of the
salary hid been effected in the titue of the iDuke of
Wellington, or of his predecessor, Lord ifiulgrese;
whereas it had in fact occurred upon the Union of
Ireland with Guest Britain, when the Irish Master-
Generalship was incorporated with the English,
and the duty being doubled, the salaries also were
united. The Marquis Coruwallis was the Master.
(intend at that time, and his character would free
hips from say suspicion of corrupt intention. His
pun lifr. Vt'srd's) ',Helvetica hid been reduced
from sereuseen or eighteen buodeed to about
twelve hundred pounds; and he euumereted se-
vend other instances of reduction in the salaries.—
Yet he had no doubt that the alistateoleut of the
Huu. Geutleniso would be repeated over sad over
spa ; because be never knew any correction of
bis statements to alter his disposition to militate.
The. Hun. Gentleman caused e taistuteateut to he
luserte4 iu Or Tinter, which aid, that "' the Clerk
.4 :the Ordminee dewd that the Storekeeper at
Dua'er had a pension of 500/. • year." Now what
ilia (Mr. Ward) had stated on the occasion was this,
the 'fon. Gros. Ittvipi; staled that the Storekeeper
ais
Rorer* refired qua pertain of 5001. he dewed
. Ai Sileseattpar had retired from the office.
, staresseale bad been made in The Times, to
' ne6eillis (116,:irmirs) imeoevectosae, abeam' ON
inaccuracy of, the [fort. Member's ateteraeal had
notbeenputiued st i',l). Whits. ilia statement ap-
peared in The fires, is conversation with the Hun.
Gentleman he told him that it was false ; and the

Honourable tlentleman answered, he was sorry
for -it, es he wrote it himielf. To this he (Mr.
Ward) replied, that it was rather an awkward
eircurnsisoce, but that he now knew his opiuion,
winch wish intuit was false. To do the Honours.
Llt Gentleman justice, he mast add, that, in-.
• tilithidrafjompipg down his thrimr, he said, "If so,
.1401 hove it corrected ;" and twisted on doing au
oil ars *et of justice; but to this monseat it had not
been corrected, lithe. Editor, or the Writer in
TA le.Tiates were now in the .nel ery.—(Repeoted
• • • asses of " Urder !")—He believed he was out of
.order, but he' had °illy intended to expresa his hope
..that it would now be corrected. The Honourable
-..rirtiensitra then deprecated the imputations of
corruption which had been cast upon the drpert-
.:rotent. He bad, by chance, in his 'flood,
9 ttelement of the number of offices in the detach-
west ;glitch had been seduced in the shod time
since the Duke of Wellington had been at its head;
the 'lumber was 68, and the amount saved was
about 14,0001. a year. Whenever • vacancy oc-
curred, the first question silted by the Noble DPke
was, whether the office could be dispensed with.
On • recent occasion the Adjutant-Generalehip of
t;ilstaltar became vacant, and was applied for by
insey distinguiplied orilitsry
.clier..cters, who had
se'svid lit various parts of the world ; the Noble
.fluke asked, as towel, if it could be diapeirsed
-Arab and after inquiry of the limper officers, he
• veutured to disprove with it. The system of gra-
tuities had been much mistaken by the Hon. Mem-
ber. It was sir addition 10 the salaries of certain
officers, regulated by a scale of proportion to the
Length of their entice., ,and intended to 'dime them
altawisit Noel footing with. the officers of tither
stsvortategtivaith ohonsthey.wore entitled to rank,
he meant the War Office mid the Navy Office—rod
not, es the Hort. Member had incorrectly suited,
the Admiralty and "fressury, Mud Secretary of
titate's Office. The nature of this system might
lie explained by the case which had Isidore been
mentioned, of the storekeeper of Dover : the salary
of that office was 300/. ; having served 30 year.,
be became entitled to a gratuity uf.2.00/. which
lie woold take with bias wherever he went.—
doodler mistatement of the Hon. Member's was,
that the Mager-General was indulged with a Secre-
tary for his pirate affairs, whose salary from 3001.
bad been russet! to 2,0001. The fact was, that from
the limner Queeu Anne to Lord filulgrave's time,
two Seoretelies had been allowed to the Master-
• General; the first as Mtlitary Secretary to a
Comenander-in.Chief, with a salary of 7001. staff
"11"attees and fees upon commissions, which
made it equal to 2,0001. Lord filolgrave re-
duced the Utider-Secretary, and appended an
additional Clerk in the Office, with the same
salary of 3001. and took away the staff allow-
emcee tad (rte from the oilier Secretary, giving
him a fixed salary of 2,000/.; •so that the ac-
tual expense of the office was not increased
by the reform.—/.Lead loathier from the Op-
P°sitiva.)—Tbe next office remarked upon was
• that of inspector of gunpowder at Feversham. The
Cale stood thus—there had been two manufectoties,
sue at Fever sin and the other at Waltbata Meal.

&cadent Is refer to Itttskto the statedents of
the Honourable Gandeioak' Ve believed that
no permit bad ever before been placed in
such a siessesdes .1 014 in nhiOt
his elf, of baa:lume.rnexpesto)! cilTed"V
inisaar rn 14.10 ippl4wl44l Laa‘
*acb peeporaPoo to Mscorowei""dn__ Awn
U. had felt math asrpoiso that the biononnibie-
Gentleman, vit Itle a dammed before him, the
firm" in his bantetinf4 brWcted Mich a
statement as Oat" eiti, maten or the present