The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-11 00:00:00

THE CIVIL LIST.

The Select Committee to whom the Accounts of Income
and Expenditure of the Civil List, from Ist January, 1831, to
31st December, 1836, with au estimate of the probabL future
charge of the Civil List oflvr Majesty, were referred ; have,
pursuant to tho order of the House, taken the same into their
consideration, and agreed to the following
REPORT.

In the performance of the duties entrusted to them by the
/Imre, your Committee have found their inquiries much
abridged and simplified by reason of the arrangements made
by Parliament on the accession of his late :‘,1,1 sty. By the
Act of 1 Will. IV., c. 25, the Civil List of the Crown was
relieved from those expenses which had no immediate connec-
tion with the Royal dignity or personal comfort of the Sove-
reign, but which belonged rather to the Civil Government
of the State. Under this distribution, a sum of upwards
of 600,0001., which during the reign of his late Majosty
George IV. had been charged on the Civil List, and .he here-
ditary revenues of Scotland, was provided for in Supply, or
fromthe Consolidated Fund. Your Committee see every
reason to approve of this arranmemenr. The House is aware
that in t. e sum a ler of the liredi ary revenues made by his
late Majesty were included several braeches of casual reve-
nue which hal been left in former times at the so:c disposal of
the Crown. The sums by which the public have thus bene-
fited, amount to 70,684/. 10s. 5d., which unchr previnas set-
tlements of the Civil. List, would have begin applicable to the
pricy purse of the King, but which, by 1 Will. IV., c. 25,
have been appropriated to the public service. This amount
has been received, it is obs,-rvable, at a time of profound peace ;
in time of war the total amount would have been much more
considerable. The Civil List of his late Majesty was appor-
tioned for the following purposes:

. .
Ist Class Privy Purse -. .ZllO,OOO
2d Class Salaries, &C
3d Class Tradesmen's Bills 171,500
4th Class.-- Royal Bounty—Special and
Secret Service. 23,200
sth Class Pensions

£510,000

It is satisfactory to your Committee to be enabled to state.
that it has nut been found necessary during the two last nigns
t) apply to Parliament for the means of defraying any In
c ea ed expenditure beyond the amount originally fixed as the
inco.ne of the Civil List. The importance of this strict at-
tention to the due and careful appropriation of the funds pro-
vided for the support and dignity of the Sovereign is so ob-
vious, as to require no further obs,rvation on the part of your
Committee ; and the necessity of avoiding all debt or excess
of expenditure for the future, is no less e,sential to the best
interests of the Crown than to the reasonable hopes and ex--
ectatisms of the people.
In considering an estimate for the future Civil List of the
Sovereign, your Committee have been guided, to a consider-
a'Ae extent. by the expenditure during the late reign. In the
papers laid before Parliament by command of her Nlajogy o ill
be found information respecting the expenditure of the late
r similar to that submitted to the Committee appointed in
1830, to consider the Civil List.
Not having the power of sending for papers, or examining
witnesses, the information on %%filch your Committee have
proceeded has been necessarily limited to the papers before
them, and to the explanations given by the official servants of
her Majesty, who were members of the Committee. It is
fitting, however, to add, that not only has this information
been given to the extent afforded in 1830, but that much fuller
and more detailed explanations were added, in order to assist
your Committee in your deliberations.

CLASS I.

The privy purse of the Sovereign has been for upwards of
half a century fixed at 60,000/. During the late reign, there
b..ing- a Queen Consort, a further sum of 50,0001. wa3 allotted
to this class. Under existing circumstances, your Com-
mittee recommend that an annual sum of 60,0001. be provided
fo: this ianch of he Royal expenditure.

CLASS 11.
The second class comprehends the salaries of the Great
Officers of State, those of the officers and menial servants of
the Royal Household, and the superannuation and retired al-
lowances pa3able to persons of the lath'. class. The Com-
mittee, concurring in the of inion expressed in the report c,f
1831, " that it was not consistent with the respect due to her
Majesty to scrutinize the details of her domestic household,"
have not undertaken any minute investigation into that branch
of the subject ; but they have received, as already stated, a
very full analysis of the whole of this branch of expenditure.
The principal Officers of State in a tendance on the pe:son of
the Sot ereuzn are the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain,
the Master of the Horse, and the Cream of the S.ole. Tho
Report of the Select (i4animi:tee Of 1831 reconimended that
did be reduced in the following
the salari,s of these officers silo
proportions
Oh iginal Salary. Salary recommended.
Lord Steward A;2,436 10 £2,000
Lord Chamberlain ... 3,085 0 2,000
Mesta of the Horse... 3,350 0
Grogrn of the Stole— 2,163 O 1,500
In the prnposua t.stlllla. ;•111ippttecl to them your Committee
lY intended that Ate reductlons recoul,
neri deei vd e the three first officers, should be car-
ried into immediate effect, but that it is not proposed to fill
perceive
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