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laid, sheaving again the excess under the several
heads, and the,arrears itfeach class. There then re..
mained.Exchequer Bills issued in 782 to the amount
of aomool. uncancelled ; for the imymenrof
as well as of the debt of 30,0001. provision was
made, whereby the income of svo,oool. for the
Civil List Expences was left free 'and a plan was,
in consequence of an 'order of the 1 louse of Commons
"prepared,.and laid before that House, of the future
charge of be Civil Establishmetsc, distinguishing
every head cf expense, arranged in• the order pre-
scribed by Mr. Burke's Al, estimated from the.
experience of the,two former years, and amounting,
in the whole, to 897,9001: 4.
_ .
" From that time no grant has been made, by Par.:
liament in aid of the Civ,il List ; it is, therefore,
not necessary to refer to ,any later proceedings of
the House of Commons on the Subjeet, any further
than merely to mention thAt on occasions, when
recourse was had . to Parliament for
,provision for
different branches" of the Royal Family from the
Consolidated Ford, accounts were laid from time
to time, which sheaved there, were great arrears, and
in which classes. These,. together _ with some out-
standing demands for special services, 'when His
Majesty's Message was sent in this session, to both
Houses, amounted to 89s,orool."

Mr. ROSE next examines how. this debt was in_
curred, under every head of charge, so as toi aseer-
tain with accuracy and precision, how, and for what
purposes the exceedings arose. He follows the Re-
port of the Committee of the House of Commons,
and divides the expenditure into its proper classes,
sheaving in each the excess above the estimate in,
1786, and the causes of such excess. The sum..
mary of this- examination is, that the expenditUre
in sixteen years is more than 1,527,0001., except
under the head Salaries and Pensions, where it is
less by 244,0001., leaving ,an excess on the whole
of 1,283;000l."

" This, on the first view," says he, " appears
to be a very large sum, by which,!.he estimate made
in 1786, of the Civil List expences, was exceeded
in sixteen years, equal to about 80,0001. per an-
num ; but it. will be seen, by looking pt the state„
ment of the expence in each year, laid before the
ComMittee, and printed at the end of this pam-
phlet, that the exceedings were inconsiderable
during the first seven years while we were at peace;
they increased afterwards largely, under heads {with -
the exception of tradesmen's bills) conneaed prin-
cipally with the War, or with the internal state of
the country. It, is not necessary to enumerate the
particulars again ; it will be sufficient to remind our
readers, that they arose Chiefly in the department
of the Secretaries of State ; Messengers' bills, from
expenCes incurred' by Ministers at Foreign Courts
(except the augmentation of their salaries) ii/clud-
ing presents to Foreign Ministers here on signing
Conventions, '&c. and from the charge incurred for
Law Proceedings and Police Establishments. These,
with Tradesmen's bills, above alluded to, will ac-
count for nearly the whole excess ; and when the
increased price of -almost every "article included in
•these bills is adverted to, it Must be a matter of
considerable surprize, that the exceedings were not
much greater, for the reason already suggested in
the observation on that head.

" If any one has imagined, that the debt in-
curred nn the Civil List has arisen, in the remotest
possible degree, from any expences of His Majesty,
that could have been avoided, he will see how en-
tirely he has been mistaken ; and that, instead of!
a want of due attention to economy, it is manifest,
tint His Majesty's personal arrangement, and strid
injunftions to his servants, could alone have kept
down the expences of his household ; without
which, they must have borne
sa much larger pro-
.,
portion to those of individuals than they do ; for
it may safely be stated; that there is hardly a pri-
vate gentleman in the' kingdom, whoseiexpences of
living have not increased,' within the period alluded
to, in a much greater degree than those of His Ma-
jesty. In the fixed allowances to the Royal Family,
there is but a trifling excess : they have varied only
as circumstances rendered that variation indispensi-
bly necessary. On /the head of Pensions, resped-
ing which a jealousy would most naturally be en-
tertained, there was an aaual saving to a consider-
able amount : of those indeed that were granted,
it would be seen, on a close investigation, how few
were likely to have been given from pure favour :
And all the gifts of Royal Bounty, in the sixteen
years, were under 30,0001.—n0t one shilling of
which was for any concealed purpose, as the names
of the parties who received the same, and the ser-
vices, are entered in 'the book whiCh was before
the Coinmittee composed of Gentlemen of different
political connedions.; and no suggestion was heard
of clic most trifling sum having been bestowed im-
properly,"
(To be )

IRELAND.

NENAGH, MAY 23.