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London, England, 1808-08-29 00:00:00

PUBLIC EXPEI Li/ UllE.

Liz Third Report of the Committee on the Pub-
lic Expenditure, &c. of the United Kingdnut, has
Just been printed. It is a bulky volume, coniisting
of 31,1 folio pages.

that reNw.iion.ir e, in 1,1!no
been applied to pen•ions on the Civil List : and it is
easy to see to what an extent such a rraaice might
be carried, and how entirely it might xi.au•-1 the
means of bestowing the Royal Bounty, even
upon the most deserving objeCii."

COMPENSATIONS.
Upon the suhjeel. of Compensations, the Report
makes the following observations :
" It must not he overlooked, that in tact:; of dis-
tinguished merit Parliament has ever been ready to
exempt the Civil List from any additional burden;
and as inses.nces of this honourable description have,
fortunately for the Country, never occurred more
frequently than within these latter years, so the li-
berality of the Nation has been called forth to a larger
extent than in any former period.
" A further consideration is, that although most of
the grants are nominally during pleasure, they are
generally regarded as equivalent to an interest for
life ; and that examples rarely occur, where a change
in the circumstances of the grantees has occasioned
those who have the legitimate controul to abolish, or
induced -those by whom they are held, voluntarily to
surrender them. The footsteps towards royal boun-
ty are visible in all dire lions, but few traces of re- CORK, At G. 2.2.--The 9th Garrison Battalion,
turn are discoverable. i which lately went from this country to s F •e h , d eeae, ,
" Under all these circumstances, your Committee i
with an intention of being disbanded, their time
do not hesitate in submitting to the House, that all : having terminated, have entered for general service,
anet
allowances in the nature of pensions, which are not ! ,
are appointed a Legion to serve in Spain, under
striCtly superannuation, should be classed under their 1. the
command of Sir SAMUEL ACI-INIUTY, wh has
proper head, and paid at the Exchequer ; preserving
been permitted to receive an untimitted number of
at the same time entries of such pensions, together i i volunteers from the Irish Militia.
with the circumstances under which they have been
granted, on the establishment of the offices in which On the celebration of his Royal Highness the
the services have been performed. It may be also Duke of CLARENCF.'S Birth-day, - last week, at
expedient to limit the • sums in which allowances Bushy, the -grounds were thrown open to the popu-
may be applied to cases of superannuation, so as not - lace, for the first time since the very expensive and
to exceed a certain proportion of the former salary." tasteful improvements whirh they have lately re-
ceived. Among the new ornaments which heighten
SINECURES AND OFFICES EXECUTED wHott..Y OR the beauty and effsect of the ecene is an o&agon tern-
CHIEFLY BY DEPUTY. pie ereCied by his Royal Highness to the memory of
" The view which your Committee take of this
:Lord NELSON, adorned with a bust of that ever to
subject corresponds in principle, and differs.oely in
be.. lamented Hero, standing on a piece of the iden-
degree from that of the former Committee ; but it is
e tical mast of the Vi wry, before which he fell in
their anxious wish to guard against suffering the
the great and glorious battle of Trafalgar ;and bear-
subjett to escape notice, • without being titled upon, .
ing the memorable signal which he threw out on the
while the information is fully brought under ob-
morning of that celebrated day—
servation. If the opinion should prevail, that a le-
gislatiVe measure ought to be no longer deferred with -" England expeas every man to do his duty."
regard to offices of this description, your Committee Tlt whole was designed by his Royal Highness,
submit that, leaving untouched all places of honour • and does credit to his taste. It was a pleasing and
and distindtion connected with the personal service of affeeting, speaaCie to behold the awe and reverence
His Majesty and his Royal Family, it may be exile- with which the people approached this fane, and
client considerably to reduce the emoluments of j viewed She bust of the immortal Hero. They could
some, and to abolish others. not appear impressed with stronger emotions on en-
"At the same time, regarding it as a fundamental tering the inmost recesses of tile most solemn and
part of the Constitution of this Country, and of the sacred of the temples of antiquity dedicated to reii-
reason of state in every country, that there must .be gion. Every hat, as the populace approsehed, was
means of rewarding public service, and that those off as it were by one impulse, and the tears glisten-
s will be incomplete, :led indeed wholly in- ed in the eye,.or•trickled down the cheek, of many
"sittlicient for that purpose, if there should be no a bold and manly rustic, while contemplating ttlis s
..: further reward for that service than the daily wages tribute to theertemory of the bravest, the most fur-
it receives during the pleasure of the Crown, your tunate, and the most popular Commander that
Committee are of opinion, that such sinecures as adorns the annals of our naval history.
the House in its wisdom may think fit to retain,
On Teesday, SEID ACUMET EFFnNIII, Turkish
should al ways in future be ;Tithed to recompence •t Envoy. Extraordinary, who lately arrived in this
the faithful discharge of the duties of efficient otiice ; country, in tile Bitter, with renewed pacific over-
or in the event of the House preferring to abolish tares, from Constantinople, arrived at Portsmooth,
generally ail such offices, they conceive that it will from London, on his return home, iii company with
become proper to substitute some other mode, by A. Sr. J. BAItEu,
Esq. Private Secretary to R.
which the Crown may he enabled to reward public ADAIR, Esq. charged with important dispatches.--
servants in a moiler proportioned to the nature and 'They embarked on board the Success o sT Frigate, C t
e •
length of the duties performed." ATSCOVGII, which sailed the next morning for
REVERSIoNS. Malta. It may be recollected that the Bittern tell
" The chief objeetions to this method of convey- in with the Hyperion, in the Bay, which had the late
ing contingent interests are, that in the first instance Charge D'Affaires (SEDKI EFFENDI) from Constan-
of every such grant, a diminution must take place in tinople on board ; and that in consequence of the
the permanent prerogative, equal to the difference in communications made. to him by SEID ACHMET
value between expectancy arid possession : that the EFFENDI, he returned to London, where he is now
appointment of fit and sufficient persons to hold re-established ,in his diplomatic charetier.—Mr.
offices is less likely to be regarded when it is to take i ADAIR is negotiating with the Ottoman Court for
effect at a distant and uncertain period, than when a the perfect re-establishment of amity between the
certain notoriety attaches open the manner in which two countries. Lord Viscount JOCELYN, with
each vacancy is filled ;and it can hardly be disputed, dispatches for the Junta at Seville, also went in the
that incapacity from age, sex, or natural disability, Success, to be landed at Cadiz.
may be distegarded, in the former case, which could R 'the principle of Conscription is as rigorously car-
not be tolerated in the latter. It may be furl her r;ed into effect in every part of Poland as it is in the
urged, that anticipations of this sort tend to per- French Empire. Neither the privileges of rank, nor
petuate inefficient places, and to render any altera- I the prejudices of religion, are respected. Nettling
tions and regulations less effectual, and more distant, i :
is allowed to stand in the way of that great ohjehl,
which the wisdom of Parliament may think fit to j the augMentation of the army. Persons of the Jew-
adopt with regard to them. i ish persuasion are enrolled and competed to march,
" On the other hand, Reversionary Grants may j and none of the Nobles are exempted in case the
be defended as a cheap and econumical mode of con- ballot should. fall on them. A person of this elites
ferring favours, of paying services by expeftation, being lately drawn, offered to provide ten men in
rather than by actual office or pension ; and of en- i his place. ' The proposal was rejeCted by the French
abling the Crown to draw distinguished talents and Officer superintending the execueion of the ballot.
eminent charaaers into the public employ, who, i " The example of one man of your rank (said he)
without some prosped of permanent provision for being compelled to march, will produce she greatest
their families, might be unwilling to give up their effect—it will at once shew the power and the im-
time and labour, and above all, their professional partiality of my Sovereign."
emolumerite, upon the hazard of the short and un- It is stated that a Gentleman of respeEtability in
certain duration of two things, so precarious tn their the City has received a letter from the.,Continent,
nature, as office and lite..
It must be admitted, chat the prerogative will stating, that a Revolution has been effeeled in Tur-
be abridged during the; of the power of 'b
, rsesereet, which has fhr
e :suspension key,
making any such grants, so far as relates to the va- bje)6l the intrigues of Sthe placing of the Grand Duke Coes er-
re
ff
on the throne of that Empire.
lue of the reversionary right in these particular offices, T": c‘:
and no farther. It is also coutended, that Grants of biUONAPARTE, profiting by the wretchedness to
this sort, have nether been carried to excess, nor be- which he has reduced the people of Germany, has
drawn from the Northern Provinces a cousiderable
Caine chargeable with actual abuse.
number of seamen. To arrest for the moment the
" With the view of fairly stating this part of the
case, your Committee
progress of famine, the poor mariners of Stettin,
proceed to lay before the .
Rostock übec HaMburgh, Oldenhurgh, &c. have
House the extent mnt d aou of all suwisting rover- : 'I ' ,
accepted the bribes be offered fist ,their services ;
lions, some of which Will be found to come distinct- ;
after undergoing a rigid probation at Wesel, they
ly within the class of those offices which they re- i
are marched to Middleburgh, where they are further
commend to be regulated or suppressed; and with
regard to the remainder, they see no cause to depart
disciplined and kept till they are embarked.
from their opinion, which was reported to, and According to the most recent accounts which
adopted unanimously by the House, on the 24th of reached Holland from Prussia, the patience of the
March, 1807, thinking it safer to invigorate and re- wretched inhabitants is quite exhausted. The inso-
stere to an entire state this branch of the preroga- hence and exactions of the French have driven them
five, than to allow that it should continue eneum- to despair, and they are ready to rise upon their op-
bered by any such anticipations. The light of the pressors, be the consequences what they may.—
Crown over its ewn demesne lands was torrnerly as 1 They are not deficient in zeal, numbers, or courage,
consflete as its power of conferring offices ; and I but they are miserably provided with the means of
yet the use which was made of that part of its pre- I defence. They have few arms, and hardly any am-
rogative occasioned Parliament frequently to inter- I munition. •
pose; and particularly after the Crown had been Most of the Transports that were lying in the
greatly impoverished, en Act passed, whereby all fie- River have been ordered to bring of the Spanish
tune grants, for any longer term than 31 years, were I Troops from the Baltic.
declared void. Jamaica appears to be abundantly supplied with
The miefortune is, as Mr, Justice Blackstone provisiOns. The Gazette of the :.'sth of June saes,
remarks, that the Act was made too late, after every " Exclusive of the supply of flour, &c. lately brought
valuable possession of the Crown had been granted here from America, three licenced traders arrived on
away for ever; or else upon very long leases. Saturday from Cuba, oneot which was entirely laden
" It must not be passed altogether without notice, \ with that article."