The Sun.
London, England, 1826-10-26 00:00:00

p,
ernuttea, under the Acts regulating Superannuations,
ta retire on pensions though not worn out ; and to
sheer, fly the charge of the War Office Penstons ' 1 • laving
greatly increased since 1810, and being likely to be
augmented by the pension of 2,0001. per annum to be
granted to Mr. MERRY, the Dept* Secretary at War,
on ills retirement, that abuses of this description
have existed in that department to all immense extent.
It is not necessary to follow this article through all
its long statements and assertions ; for it is sufficient
by proving that its argument proceeds on an assump
tion not supported by fact, to upset it altogether.
By the regulations to which this article refers, 110
person can be superannuated whose state of health is
not certified by two medical practitioners and the
heads of his department, to be such as to render him
incapable of performing the duties of his station : 5101
in no other. case can a retiring pension -be granted,
except when offices are reduced, the holders of which
are entitled to a graduated scale of retiring allowance
proportionate to their services. The whole, therefore,
of the assertions, that persons are superannuated at the
pleasure of the heads of departments, are unfounded
and all the arguments built on that gratuitous assump-
tion necessarily fall to the ground. It is true that the
amount
mostooie
of the
offices, retiringc pensions
iacansions of the War Office, and
war ! ::!it why ? Not becaugs
has been mace for worn-outuce servants, (the Actr. of
1810, which was ins., odd by Mr. Bloom, being
to limit the rates ofrec aatli)l
ohrtec rleiabsee :
al l spitrt:ve
istilole:l
been improperly allowedto'r nor
,; but because, in ad-
dition to those reductions which the 11.1eada of- del'2l4-
ments considered could be made of penslOn.?'tircbecause persons have
Vnseq
of the diminished extent of business on tl:e
t.truleB
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tion of the war, the Government have been drivell by
the very party who - now find fault with the total
amount of retired allowances, to make such additional
reductions in every department of the state, as to esve
in the respective offices scarcely a sufficient number of
clerks for the efficient execution of the business. Alia
can it be argued for a moment that persons so reduced
are,' after having spent the best years of their life in the
civil service of their country; to be thrown ilpon tht
wide world without the smallest provision, to as:sist 111
the support of themselves and families ? I las not the
Morning. Chronicle, and the whole host of its re-
forming writers, frequently calumniated the Government
for, having cruelly discharged clerks and other stibor;
dirmtes, for whose services occasion no longer etisted .
And have they not censured the parsimonious proiii
who co°
sion made for these unfortunate persons,
not find employment in the already crowded stati°ns
cacsasiitonetibyt.he does'
opwefinlislie:?nisi a
sißutuboteueliiilic:swo, when the sum total of these Vell
to a `cry.
undoubtedly
trt, bat
considerable annual charge upon the coun''''
establishments during the war, and thnell3rgetii'liticuedde
them now, not by any lavish bestowal of the allowsuees'e
they turn round upon the Government,
them of a profligate conduct in this branch of expo"_,
diture, attributing too, to the system itself, the tow
a by the
evils which, in their opinions, are occasion(
-li tell tiles'
operation of the Poor Laws. Now, we wt
State s°
writers boldly, that there is no system in the
asill'
just in principle, and so faithfully acted upon, ,
tt4 °I
pensioning of the worn-out or reduced civil serve°.
00
the Crown ; and that if the system under vehich tll .
it
toe,
pensions are granted, resembles the Poor do
is only in one respect, viz.—that as the land-owiie° i
Os 0
e thenTO
not pay the labourers a fair portion or r do
the soil arising from their labour,they iict aft e°(l)rf
provide for them in old age, and for their children.:
1., (;over"
when left unprovided for in infancy ; 80 tHe rvots
mew, because they do not make to their civil se
enable
a remuneration for their services, sufficient to 8
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them to provide for the days of their infi
are to
t°
bound in reason, and justice, to provide as--
1 tier able
of maintenance for them, when they are nO '().'y
to execute their duty, or when the coill'lrY 459 1101
ysteill
longer employment for them. Wii" th. ii'„ovisiOn
fees existed, official men were able to toake 1"" .
try,
for their families without burthening
tiler 0
when those perquisites were abolished, °' 'a case
rigid to the- public account, as now done the od
illy b°t)
was totally altered, and the country was eV oval
t 1
to provide for its civil, as for its military 0
servants. .c. °f its
The Chronicle is most unhappy in the chor Mr,
subject in attacking the grant of a PenO°ll to
MERRY, as that Gentleman, we believe, has 6
1 Weise
upwards of fifty years, and his well known ses ' .0 till
and application to the duties of his office, gio I"' ,
'cle, I°l
strongest claim on public favor. The Chrunt 0
05
ever, cares not for tile incorrectness of its argil I,
dots'
so that it can lead, or rather mislead, its; tea ,
t 111(
believe that the Government are corrupt in all 11
their Administration. the coon b, I,lt,
areinodbiajgccet '

The death of
viewed with regret by
iii Paris, do
this TALMA has caused a deep b'el
ai
"d the loss of such a man will be "'w ;
admirers t
O.' genius. But there were some circli"
stances of a peculiar nature attendant. on the death '
the lovers of learning end t''
le
Roecius of the French Drama, which must '''''
ti
i
his memory to those actors left behind him with
h
anathema
,of the church hanging 0;411
over their eeds, ar
rendered still more alarming from the spirit 041i'
TALMA resisted the Jesuitical intrusions of tile Arc'
bishop of PA Rig, who retired from the dying now, 'l'l
ing all the vengeance of disappointed malice.