The Sun.
London, England, 1802-07-21 00:00:00

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(Conducted from our Paper of lune 2.1

Under the head of Traa'esmees•Bills, Mr. Rosr
observes, " Thai an exceeding of less than
400,0001. in the Departnients of the Lord Steward,
Lord Chamberlain, and Master:of the Horse, is to
be explained on an expenditure, estimated ..at
116,0001. per annum, amounting in sixteen years to.
r,856,0001. equal to about zo per Cent. thereupon.
This increase must be thought extremely moderate,
when it is known that it appeared by accounts be-
fore. the Committee, that in the Lord Steward's
Department, the prices of many kinds of provisions
are more than double, and on the whole at least
7o per Cent. higher . than in 1786. It is also
notorious that very great advances have taken place
in the price of labour, and articles for building,&c.
under the direction of the Lord Chamberlain ; and
in the price of provender, &c. for horses, under the
control of the Master of Horse.

" Much commendation is':justly due to those to
whom the management in the different Departments
has ‘been,entrusted; but unless there had been con-
siderable retrenchments and deprivations by the
Sovereign himself, the excess of expenditure must
have been much greater. •
.Mr. ROSE having alluded to the disadvantageous
exchange for His Majesty made on his accession,
remarks, ". That if His, Majesty had been inpos-
Session of the same sources of revenue as his Royal
Grandfather, his Income from 1786 to 'Soo, would
have been t,+t6,0001. per ann. i.,stead of 900,0001.
and of course, if the 120,0001. per ann. granted to
King George 11. to supply eventual deficiencies in
the Civil List Revenue, had 'been' withheld,, his
Revenue wohld still have been nearly 400,0001:
a-year, more than the Grants of Parliament."
After stating the whole of the Aids granted to
each. Sovereign in the last century, .sp as to chew
the average income of each, he gives from a table
construaed by. Sir Gr.oRGE SHUCKBURGH, shelv-
ing the average value of,money at different periods,
according to the prices of the principal articles
of consumption anti of use.

-23 g i7Bo
- 257 7790
7795 - -
- 34? I IB°°

1700 - -
1720 - - -
1740
I 7 6o

- - - - 384
- - - 496
531

If,':. observes Mr. ROSE, " 761,0001; was' a
suitable inconie for the Civil Isis during the Reigns
of Queen Ann • and King Ge0..1. the amount ought,
according to the above. ,proportion,.. to have been
double in 1792; at the end of which year .the War
began.; and when the' excess in consequence thereof
became considerable; from causes. entirely uncon..
neaed with His Majesty's faMily, or with any
source of favour. or patrdnage."
Mr. ROSE concludes hii very clear and satisfqc-
tory statements with the- following observations,
which We cannot deny ourselves the gratification of
laying before our Reader's in his-own words. •
'' We trust, that these Statements are niaie:ih
so plain a manner, as to be intelligible even tO those
who are not very conversant with accounts : `."lf
they are attentively considered, we are-persuaded a
judgment will be formed not unfavourable to -the.
Administration which was responsible ;for the ex-
penditUre, during all the period of our inquiry, ex-
cept the 'last year.
•

:The praise or the oblOquy of that Adininistra-
Tian, in other matters, is subjea to the opinion of
their Country : Theßepresentatives of the, People
have given a favouralile judgment on the condul
they pursued, in times certainly the most critical
that ever occurred in the History of Great ;Titain ;
in which judgment, there is reason to believe,
very great majority of the People themselves con,
cur.
.Whether their measures were the best and
.wisest that could have been pursued, it is not for
their friends to pronounce ; but they may venture
to assert,:that the adual situation.of the-Country is
such ,s to-- afford no unfavourable presumption .of
their wisdom ; .with such a Constitution,as.is pre-
served to us, with such power, and such resources as
have been shewn ; with such general prosperity as
the Nation enjoys after a struggle so unexampled in
all respe&s, merit will'hardly be denied to them by
any candid or fair mart.
'‘ But, whatever may be the general charaaer
they may be thought to deserve,' On.an investigation
of the widely extended objeas which their Admi-
nistration embraced, this subjet of the Civil List,
on which the Public naturally feel a great degree of
present interest, and 'for which one only of their
number is' responsible, may be easily brought under
the view of every man, whom that interest will in-.
duce to examine with-attention the statements by
which it may be judged."