The Sun.
London, England, 1831-02-17 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY EV

THE PENSION LIST.

(From the Sheffield Mercury of Saturday.)

These are not times for a slavish support of Govern-
ment, any more than for a factious opposition to all tin•
measures of Ministers. In the present state of the country
as much evil might accrue from one course as from the
other. This conviction was fu ly impressed urn us when
Earl Grey and his colleagues entered upon office ; and as
we then avowed our intention to support Ministers
wherever we could upon principle, and wherever we
could not, upon principle to oppose them. Measures, not
men, was then our motto, and it is to measures that we
shall direct our attention.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer's statement on the
Civil List shall have, as it deserves, our decided opposi.
tion. It is a breach of faith with the country, and one
which the country will not fail to view in a proper light.
We disapprove of Mr. Gou!burn's proposition both iii
principle and amount, and Lord Althorp's is so little
better that it would not have been worth while to divide
the House upon the two, much less to supplant one set of
Ministers and raise another class of men to office. How
sane Members of the present Cabinet could oppose Mr.
Goulburn and support Lord Althorp, is certainly beyond
our comprehension, unless it be, that politics is a game at
which men play that they may deceive the country and
improve their own fortunes. The late Chancellor of the
Exchequer sustained a defeat because his dem indsrwere ex
orbitant as well as because he sought to deceive Parliament
and the public by continuing items in the Civil List over which
Parliament ought annually to have the controul. LordAlthorp
has separated those items, and so far his plan is an improve-
ment, but no further. The great source of all the mis-
chief, that which goes to corrupt the minds of public men
and poison the springs of Government, the Pension List,
remains untouched in all its former vigour. Now or never
is the time to cut it down, and the conduct of Ministers
is therefore the more reprehensible. True the sum is but'
75,0001., but that amount expended in corrupt influence is
more injurious to the interests of England than if ten
times as much was annually cast into the sea-75,000/.
will directly and indirectly go a long way in the purchase
of loyalty, and until this system of plunder and corrup-
tion is put down, no Ministers can be honest in the dis-
charge of their public duties.
It will not be understood that we would have his Ma-
jesty obliged to support himself and his establishment on
la mean and miserable pittance—that we would not have
Ministers liberally remunerated for their services, or that
our solicitude is about the saving of 75,0001. No such
thing. On the contrary, we would that the King should
be supported in a style befitting his dignity, his Ministers
liberally paid, and if it should be shewn that individuals
had rendered the State signal service for which they had
received no return, or that their health or circumstances
had been impaired by their zeal for the public weal, let
them receive compensation, and at once, but away with
all pensions, for it is hardly possible that persons who re-
ceive public money without having deserved it, as is ge•
nsrally the case, without such persons henceforward be-
coming the enemies of their country by supporting mea-
sures subversive of its interests. If it be of importance
that Legislators be men of fortune, that they may be
raised above the temptation to countenance laws that
might endanger the property of the wealthy, it is equally
important that they maintain their station without being
provided for out of the public purse. The influence of po-
verty, when it affects those who fill high and important
situations, is injurious, the influence of pensions is more
so. The tor•mer may debase the mind, the latter is sure
to corrupt and enslave it. If Ministers, then, are as
anxious to manage the affairs of the eountr•y in the man.
ner they would have us suppose, why continue to support
a number of time-serving creatures who have not the sha-
dow of a claim upon the public ?

Yestethy a Court of Directors was held at
the East India Hott.e, when the following ships were thus
timed, viz.:—Minerva, Captain G. PROS] N, Madras and
Bengal, be afloat 19th of March, sail to Gravesend 11th
April, stay there 21 days, and be in the Downs 9th of
May. Thomas Grenville, Captain C. SHEA, Bengal
direct, be afloat 19th of April, sail to Gravesend 11th of
May, stay there 21 days, and be in the Downs 6th June.

On Tuesday his Grace the Archbishop of
CANTERBURY wa., Pleased to collate the Rev. ROBERT
Cosa, M.A. Rector of Burmarsh, Kent, to the vicarage
of Debtling, vacant by thedeath of the Rev. Mr. SHARP.
The Hon. Mrs. ANNE BOSCAWEN, whose
death we announced yesterday, was 64 years (and not 54
years only), in the service of the late Queen CHARLOTTE.
Mrs. BoscAwEN died on the anniversary of the very day
on which she entered St. James's Palace and became one
of the Household.

The ex-Governor of a Colony who affably
shakes hands with all his visiters, and invites them all to
" take dinner with him," i❑ the new novel of " Mothers
and Daughters" is, unquestionably, a sketch after the life.
We are credibly informed, however, that General de VESCI
is, in reality, a Knight of the Bath, and still a candidate
for the favours of the Colonial Office.

DUTCH SALE.—That is, bidding down-
wards; which is the invariable practice throughout Hol-
land. An article is set up at any price the auctioneer
pleases; if nobody bids he lowers the price, and so con-
tinues lowering until some person cries " Mine," and the
person who so claims it is then entitled to it ;—a practice
congenial to Dutch taciturnity.—Legal Recreations.

The novel so long announced under the title
of The Premier will certainly appear in a few days. There
is scarcely one character introduced, the original of which
will not be easily recognized, especially the nine who
figure in a political and literary society called by the author
" the Muses." The following are understood to be among
the character, introduced :—CANNING, Lord LIVERPOOL,
the Duke Of WELLINGTON, Sir ROBERT PEEL, Lord EL-
DON, Lord MELYILLE, Viscount LOWTHER, Sir JOHN
BECKETT, LUSHINGTON, Lord BROUGHAM, Lord MIL-
TON, Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH, WAITHMAN, HUME, Ge-
neral THORNTON, Colonel BERKLEY, Sir FRANCIS Bun.
MITT, CROKER, HORACE TWISS, PLANTA, &C. &C.

TOOMER, the gamekeeper of Sir H. ST.
JOHN &lumbar, broke in a black sow to find game, back,
and stand to her point as steadily as a well-broke dog. It
often played and fed when very young with some pointer
puppies, and it occurred one day to TOOMER that as he
bad broken many an obstinate dog, he might also succeed
in breaking a pig. She quartered her ground as regu-
larly as any pointer, stood stock still when she came on
game, and backed dogs with great steadiness. When she
came on the cold scent of game she slackened her trot,
and gradually dropped her ears and tail till she was cer-
tain, and then fell down on her knees Quarterly Jour-
nal of Agriculture, No. 12.
There is much less of the faults of the British
Annuals in those of Germany. Their annuals have long
been admitted within the literary pale, and the greatest
names have voluntarily chosen this vehicle of communi-
cation with the public—Gorrux still continues in this
manner to present his new year's greeting to his country-
men. SCHILLER'S " Thirty Years' War" was written
for a Lady's Almanack. The philosophic KANT and
JACOBI, the majestic KLOPSTOCX, the wild and original
llUFrm,tx, hare, in their insinuating form, instructed the
public with their wisdoni, or delighted and agitated it with
their striking and grotesque combinations.—Foreign
Quarterly Review for January.
LORD THURLOW'S RESIGNATION.—When
it was resolved to deprive Lord Titus. Low of the Seals,
none of the Minist,rs seemed willing to he the person to
demand them (which it was desirable should be done per-
sonally), from the ungracious reception which it was sup-
posed he would meet with. At last Lord AIELVILLE was
prevailed upon to undertake the task. He adopted the
following plan for th it purpose :—The evening before he
sent a note to the CHANCELLOR, informing him that
he proposed having the honour of breakfasting with
his Lordship next day, and than he had some
very particular business to settle with him. On
his coming next morning, Lord TriuttLow said to him,
" I know the business on which you have come. You
shall have the bag (purse) and seals. There they are,"
pointing to a table on which he had placed them, " and
there is your breakfast," of which they partook very so-
ciably together. Lord IVIEuvILLE said that he never saw
Lord TniraLow in better humour, and they parted appa-
rently very good friends.— The Correspondence of the
Right Hon, Sir John Sinclair.