The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-10 00:00:00

TORY JOBBING.

The Times has the effrontery to say " that the Whigs,
NI, ho came into office with the words ' economy and re-
trenchment' upon their lips, have perpetrated more jobs,
created more patronage, and appointed a greater number
of new salaried officers than any Tory Minister ever
thought of in his wildest dreams."
What description of jobs Tory Ministers are in the
habit of dreaming of we cannot undertake to say, but of
those perpetrated in their sober waking senses, there are
fortunately, or rather unfortunately for the pockets of
the unhappy tax payers, official records which any one
may consult who chooses.
In the year 1835 a return was made, dated Treasury
Chambers, and signed Thomas F. Freemantle, of pen-
sions and annuities paid in the course of that year out of
the Consolidated Fund. In that return we find, among
a long list of pensions, amounting to 510,0861. a year,
granted by Tory Administrations, the following names :
PENSIONS FOR NAVAL AND MILITARY SERVICES.
Earl of Chatham £2.000
PENSIONS FOR CIVIL SERVICES.
Right Hon. H. Goulburn £2,500
Right Hon. J. W. Croker 1,500
Right Hon. T. P. Courtenay l,OOO
Lord Sidmouth
Lord Bexley 3,000
Hon. Jane Carr (late Perceval)
Joseph Planta, Esq.
Spencer Perceval, Esq. 675
The Countess of Westmeath 923
Earl of Athlone 1,846
Baron Aylmer 553
In the return of sums paid in 1840 to officers of
Courts of Justice, we find—
Lord Ellenborough, Chief Clerk in the
Plea side, Court of Queen's Bench £7,700 0 0
Lord Kenyon and Lord Ellenborough,
Custos Brevium 2,089 17 4
The Hon Thomas Kenyon, filacer, &c.
Hon. Charles Law, late Clerk of the Rules 1,000 0 0
Among the diplomatic pensions we find—
Sir Stratford Canning £1,786
Lord Strangford 2,056
Lord Heytesbury
The Right Hon. C. Arbuthnot 2,056
Sir A. Cockburn 1,516
And a long list of other Tory Peers and scions of the
aristocracy, who, together, bleed the country to the tune
of 198,0821. a-year.
The pensions charged on the Civil List and Consoli-
dated Fund amounted, at the date of the last return, in
1835, to 138,083/. The nature of these pensions is best
described by a few specimens picked at hazard from the
foul mass of indiscriminate and abandoned jobbery.
Drummond, Edward £250
Greville, Algernon
Holmes, Thomas Knox 5OO
Rae, Dame Mary 660
N.B. These pensions were granted on the 16th No-
vember, 1830, being the day after the Duke of Welling-
ton in the House of Lords, and Sir R. Peel in the House
of Commons, declared that they had resigned, and only
held office till their successors were appointed
Arbuthnot, Catherine £l3B
Arbuthnot, Jane
Arbuthnot, Augusta lOO
Brudenell, Augusta
Bloomfield, Lord
Beaufort, Louisa Catherine Bl
Bathurst, Charlotte
Ditto, Dec. 31, 1829 lOO
Carmarthen, Marchioness of
Croker, Rosamond
Courtenay, Ann
De Roos' Lady G. Fitzgerald 2OO
Herries, Isabella Maria
Ditto ditto
Hill, Lady, sth of April, 1830
Johnstone, Sir W., Bart. 714
Murray, Lady Charlotte Ann 3OO
Roscommon, Earl of 192
Roscommon, Countess of BB
Rothes, Earl of 276
Strangford, Lord BB
Strangford, Dowager Viscountess
Smyth, Hon. G. A. F. Sydney
Tyrconnel, Earl of
Ditto ditto
Westmeath, Marchioness of 389
If we were not sick of sounding this cess-pool of cor-
ruption, and impatient to return to a purer atmosphere,
we could add names, not by the score, but the hundred,
to the catalogue of Tory leeches, fattening on the na-
tion's blood. But we will conclude with this challenge
to the organs and spokesmen of the faction in or out of
Parliaoent. Let them, if they can, point out one single
public service of the Right Hon. H. Goulburn, of the
Right Ho 13. J. C. Herries, of Thomas Knox Holmes, of
Lord Sidm ouch, or of one single name among the long
list of Tory Ministers, Noblemen, Members of Parlia-
ment, partis. ins and retainers, who, either by them-
selves, or thoir relations, are quartered on the pub-
lic purse.
Let us now turn to the doings of the Whigs. We
search in vain for the name of one single Member of the
Government, of one single Member of Parliament, of
one single person of note connected with the party,
who, in the event of the Whigs going out of office,
will enjoy a. sinecure pension, granted during the ten
years they have been in power.
Instead of drawing increased salaries, the scale of
official salaries, especially those of the higher class, has
been greatly - reduced, as appears from the following
table :
AMOUNT OF REDUCTION IN SALARIES OF 1,000/. AND

UPWARDS, EFFECTED BY THE WHIGS.

i ..ql fit
Alg A) ;re E ec
...
A
"a ci 4' s' "a ua,
la •-• a '' E -,li .'' cn
41 p(.3 4.1 gc3
- -
X. Z.
Treasury.... .••••• .. 29,900 14,800 6,100
Home, For sign, and Colo-
nial Departments .......... 58,828 36,100 16,728
Admiralty
Army
King's bons eho ld, &e 11,286 2,000 9,286
Customs ... 64,520 18,400 46,120
Excise . ... .
Courts of Law. 52,492 18,000 14,492
Ireland . ... 49,903 32,989 16,914
Ambassadors
Envoys and Mi inisters Pleni-
potentiary ..... 50,300 38,900 11,400
Consuls, SP: 44,450 21,800 22,650
..................... ----
Total .. .... £ 459,095 272,044 187,051

As for the c. harge of increasing patronage, it suffi-
cient to say that they have abolished offices to the
nnmber of 1 ,20C and upwards, and effected a saving of
upwards of half .a million in the cost of the revenue,
mainly by si ippreseing small places, in former times the
fertile source ) of political patronage, in the Customs and
Excise.
With rep- ird to Commissions, it is sufficient to say that
none have be en issued which have not been approved of
by the leadi nig men of all parties in Parliament, and
which have n. of collected a vast mass of the most valuable
information, ,vhich could not have been otherwise ob-
tained. The appointment of Mr. Frankland Lewis, a
political op? meat, to the most important of all the
Commissione rships created by, the Whigs, viz., the
Chief Poor-12 w Commissionership, is a sufficient a•:swer
to the imputation of having jobbed their patronage.
We have dwelt more at length than we should have
otherwise dm ie upon these facts, because it is most im-
portant that. the cause of the present deficiency of the
revenue al.loti'd be distinctly understood. The increased
expenditure h as arisen solely and entirely from the ne-
cessity of add in; to our naval and military establish-
ments—a mee ssity which has been admitted to the ful-
lest extent b y the Duke of Wellington, Sir R. Peel, and
every man e f note on the Tory side, who have even
gone further, and repeatedly made it a subject of charge
against the G overnpaent that they did not spend money
enough.
The diminu Lion of .the revenue is attributable to two
causes :-
Ist. That tl to Whigs have relieved the country from
an annual burd en of taxation to the amount of 7,000,000/.
and upwards.
2d. That th s pernicious effect of monopoly cramps
trade, and impe d es the developement of the industry and
resources of the country.

~.. .
TREAT'S OF COMMERCE BE-
TWEEN TM 1 NETHERLANDS AND TEXAS.
" Art. 1. TI len .1 shall be a firm and sincere friendship
between his 7.dajk 'sty the King of the Netherlands, his
heirs and snc :cesst irs, and the republic of Texas, and be-
tween the s alajtlci s and citizens of the two States, with-
out exceptio ri of p ersons and places.
" Art. 2. Thei .0 shall be reciprocal liberty of commerce
and navigat ion b. s:tw, een and amongst the subjects of his
i
Majesty the Kin g of ' the Netherlands and the citizens of
the republic of 1
etas, and the said subjects and citizens
respectively shall . not pay in the ports, harbours, roads,
cities, towns, or pl sees v,"hatsoever in either of the two
countries, Any other or hijher duties, taxes, or imposts,
under Whatsoever -awn e designated or included, than
those which. are the re pa id by the subjects of the most
favoured na lion, au, 1 the s objects and the citizens of both
contracting parties shall Onjoy the same rights, privi-
leges, fiber+ aes, fax( curs,
imcnunities, and exceptions in
matters of c :ommerc a and navi. gado% that are granted or
may hereal ter be gi :anted in the States of either of the
two contra sting pa rties to the subjects of the most fa-
voured nation,.
"3. The i_nhabil ants of both countries respectively
shall enjoy liberty and security to proceed with their
ships and et irgoes, tt , all places, ports, and rivers, where
other foreifsners a re k
t the present or shall be in future
admitted, and to r ema
in and reside in any part of the
said posse ssions a, 2d St
"In like manne r ates, and also to hire and occupy
houses arid wareh, Rises for the purposes of their trade.
respectively shall . h'a %he
li e *ships of war of both countries
e same liberty freely and se-
curely to touch at all 7 Irtt, . river
iations, and placeste, whor ere the
ships of war of any . other t are permitd, s
in future be permitter ito ente.r, subject, however, to the
laws and statutes of the I.espec:ive countries.
"In the right mf utioned in this article to enter all
places, ports, and Hi ers, is not included that of trading
from port to port, no: : the coasting trade, which is allowed
only to national Toss 31s.
"4. Vessels of hi i Majesty the King of the Nether-
lands arriving at, or a ailing out of the ports of Texa^, and
vessels of the repuhli cof Texas on their entry into the
ports of the Netherl ands, shall not be subject to other
or higher duties of ton nage, of light money, port charges,
or pilotages, quarantine, or any other aftectmg the body
of the vessel, than thus e which are paid or shall be paid
by the vessel of the con atry itself.
"5. Go xis and nierea tandise, whatever their origin
may be, imported into, or exported from, the ports of
the Netherlands in Europ
~ from or into the ports of the
republic of Texas, in ve:s 21s of the Netherlands, shall
Pay no higher or other ctutiS ,s than shall be levied on the