The National Register.
London, England, 1811-09-08 00:00:00

FOREIGN MINISTERS.

The accounts and papers presented to the House
of Commons relating to the increase and diminu-
tion of salaries, &c. in the Public Offices of Go.
vernment from Ist January, 1809, to 31st Decem-
ber, 1810, contain th? following return from the
Foreign Department, dated 28th February last,
and authenticated by Thomas Bidwell, Chief
Clerk :-
The following late Foreign Ministers, Secretaries, and Con-
suls, are upon the Contingent Pension List:-
PPR ANNUM-William Wickham, 1,2001.-George Cooke,
2481.-John Colman, 1201.-Nathaniel Davison, 3001.-Rev.
Louis Dorms, 3001.-John Lewis Doerfeld,'2sol.-Earl of El-
gin, 20001.-Sir Robert Gunning, WOOL-Morton Lord Hen-
ley, 2000'..-Daniel Hailes, 11271-Charles Kettle 2.301.-Rob.
Liston,2oool.(,,uspvided on account of empleymenti--lohn Mil-
liquet, 2501.-John Osborne, 8001.-!iorace St. Paul, 6.;01.,
Alleynei Lord Sr. Fie.ens 23h01.-Sir John Stepney,oool.-
Richard Shepherd, 2501.-Lord Viscount Torrington, 18t)41..
John Trevor, 12001.-James 6001.-James, .Earl of
Malmesbury (12001. reversioDary..o Lord Viscount Fitzliarrisl
23001.-1-Thomag Walpole, 8001 Charles, Lord Whitworth,
23001.-Robest Walpole, 20001.-William Drummond, 17001.-.
James Craufurd, 10001.-u-John Hookham Frere, 17001.-
David Gray, 5001.-Perkins IVlagra, 5001.-Robert Walrond
3501.-John Falcon, 5001.-William, Lord Auckland, 2:3141.--
Francis Drake, 1.5001.-George Hammond, 12001.-Charles
Henry Frazer, 500.-Joseph Fry, 2001.-4=raticis James Jack-on,
17001.-Anthony Merry, 17001.-Brook Taylor, 12001.-John
Spencer Smith, 12001.-Henry \Vatkiu Williams Wynn, 12031.
-Charles Arbuthnot, 204.:01. (suspended as joint Secretary of
the Treasury.)-Alexander Straton, 15001.-Edward Thornton,
12001.-Sir John .11oriase Warren, 20001.--Sir Arthur 1
17001.-Henry Pierrepoint, 12001.-Watson,
John Wat3ool.- Ir-
mas Jackson,.l3oo4.
No change in the number of persons' employment,
nor in official emoluments. • An additional atraVy.
ance of 2001. per ann. has been granted to his Ma.
jesty's Secretary of Legation in Sicily, from the .sth
of Jan. 1809, by order of the Marquis Wellesley,
upon the ground of the inadequacy of his- existing
pay to meet thexpcnses attending a residence at Pa-
lermo. A diminution of 15.5761. has taken place
in the expenses, occasioned principally by the de-
crease in the number and amount of the sums paid
to messengers, and other persons employed as cou-
riers abroad. The librarian, and keeper of the pa-
pets in this department, having been permitted to
retire on account of the infirm state of his health,
the Secretary of State,' in consequence of Mr. An-
cell's ;services • during thirty-four years, has super-
annuated him upon an allowance equal to his forrntr
salary, viz. 2001. annually, from the sth of January,
1810. Per contra, by the death of one of the late
senior clerks his superannuation of 3801. ceased on
the Bth of August, 1809. By the death of a late
extra messenger a farther diminution of 1361. 178. 6d.
per annum, has taken place since the 22J of July,
1810. By the death of a retired messenger his al.
lowance of 1501. also has ceased, since the 28th of
October, 1810.

Accounts from Archangel state, that eighteen
ships had sustaired great injury in a heavy gale of
wind ; some of which were reduced to a complete
wreck.

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