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wasters General should be left out ; but to that
proposal the` Committee bad refused their assent.
P e therefore wished to. submit to the House a
proposition in thishape of a ri.es;lution upon that
stihaeet. In 1810, a Colimaliftee having been ap-
pointed to say What sinecore offices could' be
declared that this office and its deputy
;were amongst the number. One of tbe'existiug
Paymasters General (Mr. C. Long)- haVing been
introduced to that Cinntnittee, stated, that the
duties of the offiee of Paymaster General could be
as easily executed by one as by two. Be sides this,
) e had also ,the authority of Lord Charles So 7
merset, who had expressed his approbation of the
report of Mr. Long. Indeed his motion wits so
perfectly consistent with rectitude, that* he con-
ceived it ti, be irresistible ; and 'all the objections
which had been made to it were (mile. One
Right Hem: Gentleman bad nrged, -as an aren-
anent, against it, that the office being one of high
trust, was safer in the responsibility of two per-
sons than of one. This targunten was by no
means relevaot ; for Lord Charles , ...;oinerset
(whose office be meant to abolish),' not taking
any active part in the discharge of 'the ditties' of
the office, was' not respodsible for the maim- r
which those duties were discharged. It, had also
been said, that the abolition of the office would
nut not salve tiny of' the public moneyt Certain-
ly, by abolishing the office, the amount of the
salary; at least, would be saved. His object,
however, was not SO much to. have the amennt of
the salary of that office saved; as to abolish a
Parliamentary Office. lie had been told that
there was something inconsistent in this, and
bad been desired to lodk at the Bffl before
the House, in 'which that Office was includ-
ed amongst others, whose abolition' was zU..-
dared necessary. The Bill to which he had been
referred had just passed through that House, so he
Should state why he had exercised his discretion in
proposing a resolution to the. House,'Which in
consequence of that Bill must b tieemed'super-
fluous. He was Witted to submit to the House
a resolution on the subject, froth it- conviction
that the Bill which bed passed through. that
House would not receive the assent of the Lords,
and tat course could not pass into a law, It was
too good a Bill, and destroyed too much
mentary provender, .ever puss into* -a
Wear I hear I from the.- Opposition Benches
That Bill was also one of those called Place
and there was no instance in the history Of
ittliament 'of any. Place Bill on so large a settle.
having passed into alaw he was, therefoee, by
history, confirmed in his opining, that it Would
not pass into a It might he asked, since
• the office of one of the Joint Paymasters General
bad so often been recommended to be abolished„
why did it. still exist 1. The reason was simply
this, that the person who held it belonged to a
noble and powerful family, and had very great
political interest. He, however, thought that
there was a necessity for reforni on thd subject,
because substantial economy could only be arrived
at by a gtadital diminution of the number of
offices held by 'Members of that Honse. He then
moved a' resolution, the fsithtanee of ,which' was,
that as Lord Charlex Somerset received a salary ti
of 20001, for holding. the ()thee of Joint Farms-
ter-General of the' ForceS, and at thrk, same time i
received pay as a 4,lentenant-General in the army,
the House recommended' the abolition of the
office which he held.
Mr. C.140N0 observed, that' the Ifonourahle

Gentleman who had moved'the Resolution, had

not stated any sufficient reason why the opinion of
the !House on the subject of that abolition Should
be alt(4;ed; lin.
.1810 it bail been thonght that
the office wasuniteceSsary, there were very strong,
grounds why that opinion should now be changed.
A Bill had pissed through the House, in which
the office was Mentioned As one of those which
i.bottld be abOlished : it was therefore veristrange
that after tide the Honourable Gentleman should
propose such a resolution. But the reason which
Ire had assigned was, that he was certain that the
. would not receive'the assent of the Lords.—
Tile Honourable' Gentleman would have done well
at least to have waited until he fnuud iti .c 1.!; her or
not this was the, case. 'The'llonoural,lc Gentle:-
man bad been pleased.to say, that he (Nlr. L.)
bad said that it was unnecessary because its duties
might be disehin ged by 'one person as ,well as by
two. He begged to remind the IriOn. Gentleman
that he had never rested his opinion on any such
ground, 'On the contrary, be. had stated,
lOoking.at the state. -Of -the office, he had found that
for the last century its tabour and responsibility
bad. very much increased, taxi, that its salary had
'never been augmented.. Mr. Burke reformed the
office, and
,very properly had taken away from it
the custody ot' public money,. at the same time re-
aiming the salary to 40601. A year. The (Alec
had also been considered by a Cmnutittee appoint-
ed to e in what offices the sirlary could be
refine(' without detriment to the public: On the
likitijeCt of -this office, the, Committee reported,
" enw>iderniti; the state of the .Parviffice,
and the pi CSOittre al.)lllt.;sN. Con3idcrilig a15..0 that
that the sublry had been reduced by Mr: Anike, it
coolcl not be tnythvi:.twhiced 'about detriment to
the 'labile -81,reice." krVhat had ,liappeueil since
the tune of that report ? The duties of the Office
kolincrelisedfour,:fold. Under theseeirentristances
tbe,Honse think, that with it view to the pub-,
tic service, thesalitry of the offiee could be redue-
ed ? Assuredly hot., 'lt had been said, that he
(Mr, Long) had reported that Lord Charles So-
inerset did none of the.duties of the aloe, This.
VMS another Mistake; for he bad not said that his
Lordship did.' none, but that he: did not do touch of
theduties of the office. No important step Wus
ever taken' without consulting him. And all
that part of, the duty which related to Chelsea
llospitnl, nod which was by no means inconsider-
aliie, his 14,mtship tools upon himself; and it tvai
Mitt jituti :c: to state, that be had iii,v,ttys of himself
proposod to takeehar.ge of any of the duties of the
whie.h might be thought iweesSary. lie did
not cow;eive the. Itouse couht agree to the
mot:4w of the flonourahle Cienth.nian, while the
offwe .wh . it propo3eil to tiholish was invitided in
a large phOt. able Gentleman had
said that, he did not wish that tine office ~!:rule( he
abolished so much on.aceount of the sala' ry, as b,'

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