The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-16 00:00:00

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A paper has been pritited by order of the
House of Commons, which bears an ominous
title. The title is as follows :—" A List of the
Names of all Persons having Pensions on the
Civil Lists of England, Scotland, and Ireland, on
the 30th of November, 1830, stating the Date
of the Grant and the Amount of each Pension,
distinguishing those that have been continued
on the Civil List, and those that have been paid
from the Consolidated Fund, agreeably to the
2d and 3d of William IV., c:116, and also
distinguishing those who have ceased to receive
their Pensions from the Consolidated Fund,
and the Dates when the Payments were dis-
continued, stating whether by Death or other-
wi'e." We have looked into this valuable list,
which contains, as near as we can conjecture,
about 1,100 gentlemen and lady pensioners.
Really, on a consideration of the names of these
reapers in the wide field of public bounty, one
is perplexed by a variety of feelings. When we
,ee the immense number of females, constituting,
we believe, a decided majority of the whole, the
first question that occurs is, what service can these
urivileged regiments have rendered to justify
such large draughts upon the means of the people?
Then again, when the names of fair plunderers
are just at our pen's end, a qualm of delicacy
comes between us and our duty, and we dread
the reproach which was formerly made, of want
of decorum towards " helpless and unoffending"
ladies ! But, painful as is the task, it must be
executed. There is Mrs. Harriet Arbuthnot,
1,000/. and three more A. A. A.'s, all of the
same family, with the several pensions of 1501.,
1501., and 1001, set down against them. There
is an illustrious Duke's and a Lord Lieutenant's
sister, with 6001. a-year paid to her by the people
of England. What service can she have ren-
dered the country, any more than the above-
mentioned Harriet ? There is a Dowager
Countess Clare, the widow of a deceased Tory
Chancellor and termagant politician, with 8001.
a year. There is a female Cameron, with 5001.
a year ; a Dame something with 700/. ; a
Rosamond, with 3001. ; a Dame Dundas,
8001.; an Isabella Goddard, 7001.; a Mary
Gwyn, 400/. , three ladies of the name of
Hamilton, 450/.; a Lady Hill (who is she ?) 500/4
a Mr. Thomas Knox Holmes !—Holmes 500/.
Is this a second edition of Harriet ? One
Dame Lushington, 350/. ; another Honourable
Dame Lushington and her children, 624/. ; a
Lady Charlotte Murray, 3001.; a Catherine
Gertrude Robinson, 5001. ; a Dame Sarah
Torrens, 6241. Is this enough ? There are
dozens more of them, but we are sickened
heartily. What cause can be offered to the
people of this country for such a frightful spo-
liation ? This only remains to be said upon
the return, barren as it is of every thing but as
a record of crime and baseness. We defy Lord
Althorp to treat the matter of the Pension List.
this year as he did the last. In the name of
the country we defy his Lordship to stifle every
thing, to cushion everything in the nature of a
public and a grave inquiry into this disgraceful
register. Every pension must be submitted to
Parliament, must become the subject of Par-
liamentary interrogatories, and must be suffered
to stand or fall according to the sense expressed
by Parliament of the adequacy of the reasons
assigned as a justification for the grant of it.
This is the reflection suggested to us by the
Pension List return. We are astonished that
to the Chancellor of the Exchequer it could
have appeared in any other light but as the
people out of doors have seen it.—Times.
We are glad to perceive, that notwithstand-
ing the accession of the Ultra-Radicals to the
party of Mr. Sadler, at Huddersfield, he has
no chance of success. In the Leeds -Mercury
there is an excellent exposure of the tricks of
the ex-nominee of the Duke of Newcastle.
When the Radicals understand their man, they
must feel ashamed at having been for a moment
deluded by him. The corn law is, of course,
a sore point in a manufacturing town like Hud-
dersfield. It may not be difficult to persuade a
landowner that a law which is supposed to, have
the effect of raising the price of corn, and con-
sequently adding to his rent roll, is deserving of
all praise. A man may generally be trusted for
a reasonable inclination to discover arguments
in favour of his own interest. But it is not
very likely that a manufacturer should be parti-
cularly enamoured of a law whiclHis,eliealisevel
its
to have the effect of lowering the, price of his
own commodity, and raising the price of his
food. Mr. Sadler, between his Conservative
new
a dilemma. Radical
connections,
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deavoured to shuffle. That it seems he tried to
do also at Leeds. When he was pushed on the
subject of the corn laws, he became suddenly
faint and indisposed, and claimed the indulgence
of the meeting. Mr. Sadler is not deficient in
cunning, and it may be presumed, that if his
opinions on the corn laws were calculated to
benefit him, he would be eager to deliver them.
In short, it is only allowing hitn credit for ordi-
nary discretion, to suppose that he considered
beforehand with some care the various topics on
which he should harangue the electors. When,
therefore, he omitted such a subject as the corn
laws, the inference is that he had reasons for
so doing. At Huddersfield he was not allowed
to steal off, but called on distinctly to express
his views respecting the corn laws. He en-
deavouredalteration to escape by a piece of Jesuitism. He
thought the corn laws ought to be altered, and
he referred them to his book, in which he had
advocated alteration. .In his book he doe,, in-
deed, advocate alteration,,:eutlaint
r'",:i. A trick of thiskir:a
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surprise ; whenb ut i
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the wrong way—an alteration }b raise the price,
and add to the rent of
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jectis M carry a point
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..nowed, exposure seldom fails to follow. The
very persons who may have promised to vote for
him under
,the influence of trick, will be the first
to quit him in resentment of it. The Ultra
•Radicals were no doubt delighted with his abuse
of the Whigs, and: Mr. Sadler certainly exerted
himself greatly to afford them gratification. One
might have supposed that he himself was a Ra-
dical. In the midst of the abuse, however, he
allows it, every now and then, to be disco-
vered that the reason of his hostility to the
Whigs is not that they have done too little but
too much in improving our institutions. They
have given to property and intellect their fair
and legitimate protection. They have rendered
for Nobles and
hereafter impossible pauperhands -
their pauper connexions to put their in
the pockets of the -
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and their other 01'
ea,ily forgiven.
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be forgiven them.
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