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shipping interest should have a very early consideration
Wit the Cotnmittett.—(Hear, bear.) The Committee
had adopted a course which they thought to be best, viz.,
by first inquiring into the general state of trade, and then
branching out into the several portions of it.
After a few further observations from Mr. YotING and
Mr. P. ThOMSON, the motion was withdrawn.

BANK CHARTER.
Lord ALTHORP gave notice, that be should, on
Friday se'nnight, submit a proposition to the House upon
the subject of the Bank Charter.
CIVIL LIST PENSIONS.
Mr. D. W. HARVEY, in rising to submit a motion to
the House on the subject of the pensions paid out of the
civil list, said that his object was to put this question dis-
tinctly to the House vi healer any portion of the public
money was to be received by any persons of either sex, for
which some known and adequate service had not been
rendered.—(Hear, hear.) That was the simple point
which he wished to impress on the House, and he had no
intention to touch on any other subject. He did not mean
to attack either military or naval sinecures, for he knew
that if he did he should have all the heroes in that House
rising up against him--(Laughter)—and asking whether
the House was prepared to sacrifice, on mercenary grounds,
men who had risked their lives in defence of their
country, and who were associated with the brightest pe-
riod's of our history. His motion, therefore, would be con-
fined solely to the pensions on the civil list ; but he trusted
that the Hon. Member for Middlesex would not suffer
the first session of the reformed Parliament (whose com-
mencement, he could not avoid saying, had been most
gloomy and disheartening) to pass over without moving
an inquiry into the nature and extent of all our payments,
whether consisting of half-pay, retired pensions, superan-
nuation., or of any of the various and ingenious contri-
vances by which the people of this country were defrauded
of their money. It was only by a review of all these
various items of expenditure that they could hope to dis-
cover the means of reduction to any great extent.—
( Hear, hear.) Such an inquiry would be found a most
fruitful source of economy ; and the question he was now
submitting to the House, being a branch of that extensive
inquiry, was, in his opinion, a most appropriate fore-
runner of the motion about to be brought forward that
night by the Hon. Member for Marylebone, because it
would point out one way by which the deficit in the
revenue caused by the repeal of the assessed taxes might
be supplied.—(clear, hear.) The Noble Lord opposite and
his colleagues had honourably consented to a deduc-
tion of ten per cent. from their salaries, and he (Mr.
Harvey) would venture to say that if the same deduction
was made from the pensions on the Civil List, and from
all the payments which came under the head of "half-
pay," " superannuations," and "sinecures," a more than
sufficient sum would be realized to meet the loss occasioned
by the repeal of the assessed taxes. He held in his hand
a statement of the annual expenditure of the United King-
dom, in salaries, pensions, half-pay, superannuations, com-
pensations, and allowances ; and be believed that the only
reason why it had been allowed to go on was, that the
country was totally ignorant of its amount. The annual
sum paid under those various and confused heads exceeded
9,000,0001. sterling ; and the following was a detailed
account of the expenditure:—
Salaries of 2>2,919. persons employed in the public
offices X2,788,907
Retired full-pay, half-pay, superannuations, pen-
sions, and allowances in the army
Retired full-pay, half-pay, superannuations, pen-
sions, and allowances in the navy 1,583,797
Retired full-pay, half-pay, superannuations, pen-
sions, and allowances in the ordnance ...
Superannuated allowances in the civil departments
of Government
Pensions

2,939,652

374,987

Pensions in the nature of compensations for the
loss of offices in England
Pensions in Ireland, chiefly in consequence of the

Union
Annual value of sinecure offices
_ _

89,245
356,555
56,:294

Commissioners of Inquiry

£9,457,985
He was ready to admit that Government had gone to a
considerable extent in reducing the amount of the above
expenditure, but allowing for all they had done in that
way, he might with safety state that the payments ex
ceeded upwards of 8,000,0001. Besides this he held in
his hand a

Classification of 95G Placemen and Pensioners whose Sa-
,, Profits, Pay, Fees, and Emoluments, exceeded,
ary 5, 1830, 1,0001. per annum, which was as

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