The Sun.
London, England, 1812-12-18 00:00:00

loans o i nly,.nv tree at the •loWeit
tenders proposed. Fioth a table of the prernitims'
'at which (minium lids sold, Mr. Itosei in liit.rea-•
tise on the Influence., and kozpeditiireof , c
has sheWn that the haying by'this' system is-very
moderately estimated at-three percent: j. itn(l
adds, that, as 274,000,0001, bad- been borroived.
in the seventeen years pra.ceding, for the service oF
Great Britain only, exclusiVely of nary and ex:
chequer bills funded, the saving to the public,
an average of thcse seventeen fears,:way fairly be
computed at 483,0001. ' • .

But Government did not rest satisfied 'vivid/ ap-
'applying the new system -of open.competitiOn to
loans only : it was IntrOdUceil into the Victualling;
Office, the Transport Oil-ice, aiid the othei• great.
departments or public expcmlitiire: . •
To this estimate should tie idded'sornething for
• the limitation-forthe' saving of horne Secret scivict;
money, whichviii Ol,forinty relgtiS Wzis totally un-:
restrieted, but is now;fixecl at 'lo,oooi.
At this amount, I consider it .absithitely. tE.gatorv.
as a means of influence; although I lstio-w that if.. ,
is tti this head that people unaciditaint=.l.l witl7r.b
he business refer all the hrii-!erv, of which the/
presume the existence, among of Parli-:
airient In the 'seven last years :of George 11.
braach of exipence averiged '6,4,285/. pc.: Innitt::i.
llowever, even if WC take 'the 'yearly saving by the
modern yegulations .on this head to
illow*azul pot:41(1s a year, we shall still have
.2.
very large reduction in a Most suspieious'ecPprt-
inent.

But without de.taining my readers for the pre-,
sent, by any further commentaries upon iudivitiz,al
items, I will take the libe'rtY, of stating, at
from Mr. Rose's account, the "net 4triount" the
savings which beenbare ina`de to the public
in the last thirty years:
•
Saving,
,
On Loans' .
• L.. 483.„0 9
on purchases made by the Corrintigs;oners for Vic-
-Walling, to the exeinsion of facourtrl contractors .213,(X)Ci
From official meason:s adopted by the Commis-:
sinners of 'frlosports. Q22,000
.
From the di.S.Conti:;;l::::,:e a discount-oh_rith;v•and • ,
.'iictuall'ing bills. • • 10r),(L.4
From ditto, on ordnance debentures 49;i,E)01.
By improvements iu the 6flicial managerocUt. Of the •
proceeds arising from the landed estatek of the _
Crown - • • -
-By the limitation .of . hozne,ser.rctstryicc-money...
By the suppression of 416 offices, in the civil list
.exchequer, customs, and rand:revenue. & 2.75,7,1+3

1.. ;j743

From this -glim we milst oiCours't: deduc, the • lades of the newly created .establishinvots '
, were before enumerated.. TheSe salaties..amoun.?-.'
"to
.1,016001. and by WaY 'Of obviating all f.);-::-
.'sjoble cavil, let us strike off, as T befc>re -prnpoF.cd,,
tee sum of 2.50,01)0/.,more, for the incrcasc., whicY
may be conjectured to have taken filaCe.in
fliiance of the Crown, during the first. or'
ninety years after the revolution.- This allowance
--
is, I am: well convinced,- much larger than the'
amount of the influence which I am ealckililiing it
to cover; but the strength of the acedunt
ink of liberal concession: After all these deduc-
tions, the clear yearly saving to the'cOnntry,
the revolution will stand at unless a stint tifai
.very, nearly half a.million'sterling. -
While we are examining the retrenehrimttl nip
royal influence, it behoves us to take noti,.._'e of the
Act of Parliament, which overthrew the practice;
previously very preialent among persons in luera-;
tive places, of retaining large sums of 'money for
many years after their retirement from 'office; a
practice immensely profitable to the
themselves, but attended with considerable risk as •
well as' certain loss to the nation, Net. Must we
forget the measures instituted -for siroplifing. and_
rendering public all official accounts nor the
rogation of the once frequent custom of quarttring;
several persons upon a single office.,
. The reader who refers to those official details -'
which Mr. Rose has set forth, and front whieh.
these brief -and general statements haVe beeia
formed., wsll find all the fadts. concur in provin..;',
that the patronage, retained, or added Tonsists
chiefly in offices of great utility and active oFni-
pation, while that abolished consisted almost Cl)- •
tirely in superfluous and lucrativeplaces, or iii-rich
bonuses.. howe. much more useful, therefore, the
patronage howalai:dished must have been to a
rupt minister than the patronage-retaineit, is -stir-
ficiently obvious. Indeed, as Mr.
.Rose 'observes,
of the patronage abolished, hifluei',,c...e tray in
many cases the direct
. object ; of the patronag-e
retained, iefinence. is only an incidental and uue:-
'vpidable Consequeniter'

(To he conti.nuei:)

mirrn§

On the 130 inst. at Haiti the Lady of Litntenant-Coband
West, of title :3..k1 Regina ot, of a you:
'Thu .iathe day, tht Lady of fienry,narratt, },§q. Riehroond,
of a Son.
On the 17th?ost. Mrs. Sapders, of Fleet-itfttet; of a Dangli—
.ter, being ber Llth child.