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'POST OFFICE - ESTABLISTIMENT

The. following, Official Return to an Order 0f,,.
the House of-Lorkls ha,s been just published ; it
gives nil AccOunt of the Net Annual Emoluments- '
of the Office 'of JOint fostulaster Genera-14 dia•
tinguisbing what arites,from• Salary, arid wtvAt
trans Peesy and stating the Number of Offic-s
which the persons holding the said Office u
right o-iappointment-"; l'ogettr-er with -the no re-
eeipt eatli officer so appointed, as ;far As dm.:
same.can be made out. .

The Salary of the Joint, Postmaster General is 5,0001. per
Annum, iviiiiout Fee Or 14:,Molutrw ut of any Description. •
The Right of Appointment to.all Vacanci,is or Nev Offices
are vested-io the Postmaster' General by Patent.'`•••

The Departntents are as;:tunter;:-.-...-
Secretary!s Oltice—ota,'Secretary, 5001... salary, S7OOl. cure-
larnctits ; (the AsiStant Do. FlOol. arisi»g:from the profits Ofut.;!
the-sale of utitwspaper# to • Ante; ical, the liritish:Settlentegts,
&c:"; ajabuse, co.?! ~ and -candle; 7001. p'er aiiimrn,
ante, asNautitarised by tbe.l.orrls.of tbeTreasury in 1803„ for .
special services, in haviUg, by important suggestion•si, in;
creased the i'oat Olitee_revenue in a sum exCding3o9.oool.;
per annum : fifteen Clerks—on a ViliC:UlCy a junior is appitinteck •
at a salary-Of -001. -Peranirtint. . • ' -2
Sit ryeyurs—sea ttr 17H..a vacant; t jtinior is appofnaetl aV a -
salary of •2401. per antittni. and 266.'4 'day vdia,ii-ttavelling',
Solicitor.-1.410, salary cmo!noMitt.l'l !Qt.
Architect—one, 2311..-- Out i.t ,Ich he loi4 to pay a Clerk.
Accountillit General's Office—nue -Aecount.aitt
7001.; one I)eputv Ditto, six Clerlts.—On a vacancy a
.1.•,;11,*.•
is-appoialit at itsibtry per artituni.' • '
Bye Letter otfice—one Accountant, four Clerks.--On a
vacancy djuliior is appointed at a "safarty'Of 011 pertitnunr: '
'Ditto....istrihutor. of Vouelters, (211.7-1 s sakectetf front.
,
and in additiona to his situation as Messenger.
Letter Bill Office—one.Superinterittent.,,2slol,.• tva4lo
on a vacancy a junior is appointed at a salary of 501. per min:
Foreign, ()thee—bite Com ptrail' 3061.' I 75:§(1,.• arisikav
from he profits ha the sale of newspapers, &C. in tre4,,,,rx.
countries; one Deputy, Sixteen Clerks on a vaeaney ;t juni3Or-
is
,appointed at. a. salary of 701:..per annum.; oneDoorkt epee,
361. 4s.

Foreign Letter Carriers—one Inspector, 31 Letter Carriers,
on a vacancy a junior is appointed at an income of 521. per
annum. . • ,- •

East India Packet Oflicp-one Inspector, 4001.; seven
Clerks ; on a vacancy a junicrii apil-Oiated at a salary Of 801.
pey.annutu. - • . • .
,Mail Coach Office-one §l4lo.llntrictferit, 8001.; 1501
tionaki) present possesior,-.bitt tint to' be continued to his
successor; two Deputy Superititpdents, 10,1.. each • 4 Clerks;
on-a:vacancy a jsu;ior is appointed at, a salary. of 801. per anu.
Dead Letter Oflice-one Inspector; ene Assistant, ti Cierkii
on a vacancy a junior is appOirited a'salafy of 701. per ann.
-Return Letter Otlice-pu,Onspectori fire Clerics; on a_ va, •
eaneya junior,is..appoilitetata.salary 0(901. per annum.
1 la ndOffice-on e Superintending President, 1501. selected
from the 'i-oilicers.of Depn:tmelit* fi.r this specia
service; three Cler ks; on a vacancy a junior;is appoitged.at,a
salary-of
.461; I-3i, 4(1. .K 1: atkoriph_selecteo_ fronirthe list '"of
sorters , flail; P,residents, SOL caehoeleeted from the otliteis'
of the Inland 011.ee tor this.:lddiritoial duty; seventy-three"
Clerks and Sorters, on. a vacancy a juiliar.is. appointed
salary. of 541..125. per innuni; .txv ClLarge-Takers-, on a va-
cancy a jutiit)r is appointed at a salary of 461. r6s. per athiuin";
one instructor ofJututir Sorters, 201.-in addition to 13.'4:sift:me
lion.' as 'a 'Sortei-; twenty,fire.Nlessengers, on a..vacany
junior is a appointed st a salary of 701. pyr annuirk six In;
spectors Of Flanks, salarie; fr0mE51.t.0.401: perannutii, '4e-;"
lected fsam t Inland Ollicers; :- • . -
Inland Letter 'Carriets' Office.-Two Inspectors, .two Der
pity Do. one hundred:lLnc'
.sixty-seven,Leti.r Carriers i tin a
vacancy a junior is appointed at Bs,l4rlvetl:,-Wit'll eln49lu-
ments, making from 501: tb-f3Ol, per atintiut-thp Irspeetort,
are from the batty, of Letter: Carriers. • • , , •
Watchtne.n,-1Tw0;.., one at 821. 145., one at 621. Is. •
West India Otfice;-litotir Clerks; 301. each, sek,cted frihrt
tire ittiand-Oliie-ers...- • • -
• I.l.egitrArs-oll3onds-tw0,401. each,in addition to the sari:.
ations of senior .clerks-in the Secretary's Office,
„xpress Office, Haymarket, one Clerk, 1001. one felesieti-
ger, 541. 125. • • • '.
faiambet Fr.:77",:per--ofte, 1911: •.
Lettep,Receivers---sixty-tire, from lel:. to 24 per ann'uni,
Commanders of Packets..-At Falmouth tWeatty-seven`;".at
,fst Dover three; at liolyheteiitteven ; at Mil-
ford sever ,Lat•At•vmontli tin eel- 81. per month in war; 61.
ditto in peace,-T11,4 net seeejpt of these Centin4nders is un-
certain, their profits-,:l.tiellY arising from .tne freight of pas-
sengers'and bullion.
Agents.-One at Falmouth, 7001.; one at Harwich, 3301.;
one at Dover. 50014 woe at Holyhead, :3601.; one at Milford,
1601„; one at Weymouth, f501.i onfat. lelroetsluys, 30.011;
o.tie at CnxViavei, '3001.; one-at 301.; one at Lisbon,
300E'; one at 3001. ;.one at Gibatar, '2001.;
.one at
one New yovii, 2101. - • ,
Postmasters in,.Englapd, Five Hundred and Fifik.-Theia-
laries to these Postmasters are re,l4irlAterl according to the ex-
tent of duties perfornied and theamount of revenue collected.
They are. appointed by the Postmaster-Geaeral, hrough local
recommendations tratisMitted by the Treasnry,•'•
Postmasters in' the West Indies and'Atnerica;.Seventeen.•-•'
Salaries regulated as above.
TWOPENNY POST OFFICE.
-Comptroller otielsooL---,With a house, coals, and candle,
, Clerks to ditta,.two.-On a vacancy a junior is. appointed
at a salary of .801. per annum.
Accountant on4,:4001.• and 401.-in lieu of a.bouse.
-.;Clerks to.ditto, two..---On a, vaca,ncy,a junior is appointed
at a salary of SO. per.annum•
Collector one, 2201. Sub-Collectors three.-On a vacancy
a junior is fitippinted at salary of 100L•per. annum.
Dead Letter Otlice.ector.one, 701.; Assistants three,
. Insp
401..eac--- h.Selecled„ from the Sorting:Ciffice.
Utter Bill'Offiet.-Ci.rks 301:-Selected fro%
the Sorting Office:. •
Check „Clerks twa, -01;•each.-7-Selected . from the Sorting
Office. ..
Dejitity Reoistrat of Bonds one, 201.-Ditta
Sorting (-Wile, twenty-four.,-On a vacancy a junior is ap.
pointed of 701. perpint.uw.
Sub-Sorters six, at 801. and 701.
Stampers eight; at 701: and-601. •
Letter-Receivers-two hundred and ninety-seven, from 21.
tio:4,ol,per.rinnutn. ,
- Letters Catriers three hundred and thirty.-fire, '2os. per
Week bk salary and perquisites.'• ,
SCiftLAND.

Deputy Postmaster General one, 8001.; Clerk to ditto one,
aGol. Seer.4-ory.one. 5001.
Pffitet.s.t.wenty-six.—On a vacancy a junior is appoiot:e4 at
a salary of 451. per annum. - • •
Letter Carriers twenty-two.—On a vacancy a junior.is ap-
plated' at a i4lary of 451. 10s. per..auuw.,
,tlonsekeeper ore, .1241. 12s. ; Porter pne, 451., •
-Postmastet s two hundred and serentST:three.:-;--The salaries
are reg'ulated actfOr'ding to the extent of,dutyperformcd, and
the aniotrot-of revenues collected.-*Tbey.are _:appointed by
the Postmaster.Gencral through local recommendations trans-
witted 1y the Treasury. F. FREELlNG;Secretary;

Mr. SIVRWRIdIIT has rendered a great service
to hit Biotite'. Unice-Keepers, by setting the ex-
aMple of moderate Prices, for the Public now buy
-many"fickets.and Shares as• they used to
do.;—he ha's much merit also in having introduc-
ed 'a ne* feature into Schemes, whereby.the Pub,.
lie arc much benefited;: for the Number of Blanks
decreased, arid the'Value of. the Tickets en-
,e,4used: h.t.th'Lottery -which is to Commence
giltof "N there are -SIX. Prizes ofOvembdr,*
20;001.!1-'a mitnher quite unprecedented, and it
n ill be retollected the' Last 20,0001.- was sold its
Skires at: StvEWlteitT's Offices,

ENGLAND'S I'R'OSPECTS.

LE'l''fEß 1.

l'o JOHN BULL, tsq. Lord of the Ocean, Lora of the Isle's,
Master of Arts, and a good Fellow of all Societioy &c.

&c.

Honest JOHN.,---Yonr Bible tells you, that in
a usultiunde of Counsellors there is wisdom ; but,
in Solomuo's days, Counsellors were only Ho-
.
bout able ; had they been Right Honourable,
then would he have told
.yrnt *hat you already
well know, that in a multioide tif Privy Counsel-
lors tide4ve is much contradiction. Amidst the
matey who now profess great regard for your
Constitution, all State Physicians or Quacks of
great promise) how few are there that can •be
found to agree upon your case, and how many
are there who are not even consistent with thetil-
selves. They all allow, indeed, that you have been
in a plethora, from which you have escaped by
copious bleedings ; but with respect to the slight
weakness which you now experience in your con-
italeseent state, 'their opinions are as various as
their remedie-s are contradictOry. One class, sup--
posing your Constitution pulled to pieces, like
Harlequin in the pantomime, professes a great de--
sire to reform it ; but I fear they have too many
tricks tore, to be allowed to undertake it,
lest like other undertakers they inhume the body,
though unable to raise up any thing but its phan-
tom. A second class thinksyOu live too high, from
the cheapness of your markets. &third is afraid
of your living too low, from not being able to get
employment io your present sickly state. Whilst
a
fourth order of phySicians'asserts, that your
cress proceeds from too rapid circulation ; and yet,
with a strange spirit of contradiction, recom-
mend a forcible stimulus to -your life's blood as
the only infallible method of. cure.
Your worldly affairs also seem- in danger from
the number of advisers, particularly of sonic who
wish to have the management of. them. Gene-
rous souls ! they are alarmed lest you fret your-
self into •a decline, on account of the money you
owe, though you are paying it off as fast as you
can, and will do so even with greater rapidity,
provided you can suffer a few Terms to pass over
without any fresh law-snits. But as you have
vow a Writ of Execution upon your neighbours
premises; and there is no great probability of an
ejectment, I begin to hope that you may speedily
diminish both legal and -medical fees, and find
yourself in a sound, hearty state, enjoying a cup
of good Stout of your own brewing, and smoking
those who are running about thinking of nothing
but dividing your house for what they can get in
the scramble.
In short, JOHNNY, I am of opinion, that you
are still able to cut its great a figure as ever but
..=-Since some of your advisers may perhaps con-
sider me as too figurative—l shall now proceed to
examine your case, without figures, at least with
fewer than are used by some of our modern cal-
culating prophets, who, with one dip iu their
inkstand, can prove your titter ruin, in defiance
of plain facts, that stare every man in the face,
who will take the trouble of walking about with
his eyes open.
• Jr is but fair to acknowledge that, during the
late revolutionary contest, you have displayed a.
degree of perseverance which; if had not been
successful, world have been designated by some
of your children as obstinacy, and have manifest-
ed resources in the management of your family
estate, which have astoaished not onlythe world
but voarself. In short, JOHNNY, it was by that
steady wilfulness, so often thwarted, that you have
stow arrived,"sound wind and limb, though a lit-
tle fatigued, at a most important crisis; but with
the satisfaction of having put a successful close
to a contest carried on unremittingly for a period
equal to one generation of mankind—a contest in
which many of your brave defenders started in
the bloom of youth and have grOwn grey in the
fields of glory, or on your proper Empire, the
Ocean ! This contest you have carried on upon
the most generous and liberal •principles ; not
only for your own honour and independence, but
for the salvation of other nations, even of your
ancient rival, and in which your gallant sons have
tirade a display of glory, both naval and military,
which, I trust, will contribute not only to your
own personal security, but also to the due main-
tenance of your Constitution.
:Notwithstanding all the clamour of pretended
friends, who wish to persuade you, in downright
opposition to your own senses, that you are
ruined, it is most satisfactory to he able to assure
you, that I never saw you look better in your
life—a little out at elbows, 'tis true—but a few
tiurely. repairs, and rather less profusion in-pocket-
money to some of your little imps-, will soon en-
able /you 'to dance to the tune of Money, in boilt

-It is not by "crude assertions-that I wish to con-
vince you of ibis; but I have no doubt that a
fill*ht reference to facts, in the course of this
Epistle, will convince you that your resources are
actually in a flourishing state, notwithstanding the
distress of some of your tenants and that, since
part of that distress proceeds, in a great measure,
from the poverty of your neighbours, whose estates
have bon been ravaged by a baud of freebooters,
so will much of that distress cease with the opera.
tion of the cause, provided you only maintain a
due portion of that perseverance and of that cool,
rational, firmness which have saved you during
your past arduous contest.
I feel the more certain of this, when I reflect,
that, even (luting the protracted progress ot your
difficulties, you have invariably manifested an its.
*creasing energy and enterprise, net only against
your enemies, but also in many and various local
improvements upon your estate, whilst the indus-
try, and consequent reproduction of the resources
ot your family have added to your real wealth,

nay, haVe el en found elrpplics for the
,verx.ae-
mantis arising from Chute improvements.
.„
A great and sudden change has indecOT-..laiten
place ; but that is rather a temporary than a rA-
dicaLdistress ; and, though the farming part of
your family cannot get such•good prices at market
as they did formerly, it is surely possible that
others. of your children may derive advantage
"from being able to get a bellyfull, a thing whit It
some of them had begun to consider as a kind of
natiii-iftl curiosity, a something whose former
exist'euce they had heard of; but whose speedy re-
appekrence was rather to be wished for than ex-
pected. It behoves you also, my good friend, to
be careful how you yield to alarm upon this sub-
ject, bebause tbe principles upon.. which some
folks prognosticate your ruin, are directly at va-
riance with what the world had believed to be
true fur the last seven centuries, nay, at variance
with the very principles laid down by these gen-
try themselves only two years ago.
To drop all metaplior—it is easily remembered,
that when the Peace took place with France in
1814, great clamour was excited by the fear of
than country excelling Britain in manufactures,
and shutting her out from the Continental mar-
kets, in consequence of the cheapness of provi-
sions in that country ; but no sooner did Peace
produce its natural concomitant of Plenty, with a
consequent reduction of price, than the tables
were turned with a rapidity that bade all defiance
either to calculation or conFistency, and you were
told that the cheapness of provisions must prove
your ruin ; without any attention being paid to
the Net,- that even if taxation could not be in-
stantly lowered, yet the annual expenditure would
he lessened as,far as had formerly been met by
loans, so that there being less dernand in all the
markets, all prices would soon conic:to the level
of agricultural prices, whilst increasing trade
would rapidly con-mu-nee a new circolation, suffi-
cient to meet the artificial exuberance of actual
taxation, for the interest of the National Debt,
above the, general level of depreciated prices.—
For, though the absolute property and annuel in-
come from property and labour are nominally
worth fewer pounds sterling than they were two
years no, whilst the number of puands sterling
in the interest of the National Debt continues the
same, yet, as our wealth, our population, and
the ttcvelopement of our industry have been in-
creasing during war, surely it is not too much to
expect that they will do so also in peace, to an ex-
tent fully geloal to the difference. -
It is true that so great a ehange cannot he ef-
fected itt. a day or in a month, nor that the re-
gular demands of peace can instantly give_ bread
to all those discharged from war employ ; for
even the decrease of taxation discharges many ef-
ficient hands, and ilms, though. the blessings of
pt-ace are what many of your family have been
long clamouring for, yet it is now found that even
peace leas i!s inconveniences, and though it must
eventually increase the demand for employment ;
nay, trin&t produce a temporary evil, by diminishing
the resources generated by war for the support of
the people, not only in the various services con•
nected with the army and navy, but, even in time
inure legitimate pursuits of peace.. itself, inas-
much as a certain portion of our commerce and
navigation must now be shared with other na-
tions.

These are troths, JOHNNY, which must not be
lost sight of. You must be permitted to grumble,
Confess ; but you must not suffer your exer-
tions, nor even your expectations, to be.checLed
in their operations, by a false view of your own
situation : a sit nation proceeding from events over
which you have no cotitroul, or which are so in-
terwoven in the very tissue of public weal, that
an attempt to remove theta- hastily would en-
danger the temute and continuity of the political
web._

. That lAm not attempting to keep up your spi-
rits upon► false grounds, may be spew❑ with the
greatest facility,
_from the well-authenticated fact
of the increase of your family, amounting now
to a total of nearly eighteen millions upon your
three great home estates, indevendent of your
progeny in other parts of the globe. Mr. MALTHUS,
so often quoted, anti so little nutlet stood, looks to
war, indeed, as a moral means of keeping clown
the natural increase of population, beyond the
practicable means of support ; but your experience
sets this reasoning at defiance, to a certain ex-
tent, inasmuch as recent intervals of warfare have
actually increased your family, which became
more numerous not only during tke wars of 1756
and of the American Rebellion, but also in sub-
sequent periods ; for the population of England
and Wales, ascertained in 1801 to amount only
to 9,340,000, was actually 10,150,615 in 1811,
to say nothing of Scotland and- Ireland, which
were found to increase during the same periods,
so that the aggregate population is now-incontro-
vertibly known to consist of upwards of seventeen

So extensive a family must certainly work, and
work hard too ; but we may say, though in a
different sense from its usual acceptation, that
thfir labour is its own reword ; for, it it be true,
as recently stated, that the labour of the county
of Kent is equal to 340,0001. annually, it will not
be unfair to estimate the whole annual produce of
tho labour •of England alonc at• rht 'aienige
200.000/. per county, or the immense sum of
8,400,0001. This sum, however, is much too
moderate, if we can place any dependance upon
recent calculations, which rate the annual crea-
tion of property, in the years 1812-13, at the
immense amount of four hundred and thirty mil-
lions, and in the following ratio

Agriculture =1.17
Manufactures =ll4
Inland trade = 31 . •
Foreign Counnerce---- ‘1,64313 Millions.
Of this the department of Agriculture is sup-
posed to give employment to 5 millions of people ;
and the calculation scarcely seems exaggerated, it
we were to calculate the expenditure of the whole
population of the three kingdoms at the rate of
ONE SHILLING per clay, equal to TI-lEEE HUNDRED
AND TEN MILLIONS sterling per annum!
This is plain work, JoaNNY, and dcfiei all .spe-
cious argument ; and even if your annual Taxes
were ONE HUNDRED MILL/ONS, and that sum
added to your Expenditure, it would only raise
the average of annual expence to the' sum of one
shilling andfour-peace per Arty for each individual.
it is true, indeed, that Many, eery mealy; are

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sappotted for less; bitt if ti take tliein at uric
half of the ‘4.li4e-po'pulatism, you niust Make al-
lowances for the i:i!ater- expendittire. of the i.e=
inAintler, which *ill Ftitintkrhalatice the difference
to an enormous extent 'since One shilling and
four-pence per day inake, only 2-11. Gs. per
annum, and even dMilile sum would not
amount to 501. per year; ti rate which millions
exceed, even though H the liiidililest situations
of social life. I %vill grant to von, that a p:i•es--
sure is felt when the Tax-gatherer calk, and (bete
is no money in the purse or in the tin hitt it is
not the less evident that the whOle alinital
CX-
pence of the nation is fully equal to meet the
...an-
Jima! taxation. If it were not, joitINN, you
would not hate become so rich during warfare as
to feel thus acutely the temporary difficulties
arising from a change of circumstances necessarily
resulting from the effects of Peace:

Nor have all your children suffered by these
changes. Some have actually benefited ; but it
is unfair for some of your advisers to tell you that
none have benefited except annuitants and place-
men ; for as it is impossible for one part of your
family to suffer distress without others experienc-
ing a portion of it also, so is it equally impossible
for one part to benefit directly in any circum-
stances, without that benefit extending indirectly
to others--thus preserving a balance in the ag.;
grepte, and to a nicer calculation than at first
appears possible to a casual observer.
To a certain extent, then, the distresses of one
part of.the community must not be considered as
a total loss to the national Wealth, or to the an-
nual expenditure; for though,,the nominal incomes
of fixed annuitants do not increase, yet as com-
parative cheapness enables them to procure a
greater quantity and a greater variety of necessa-
ries than they did before, their comfort and hap-
piness will at least be increased, a thing at which
surely, JontiNY, you will not grnmile-, indepen-
dently of the additional stimulus which this 'in-
creased demand in quantity, though not in no-
minal value, will give to general industry.

IGNOTUS.

0,0 We beg our Readers will particularly attend to the ad-
mirable Letter of IC:corns, which comes from one of the
ablest Political Writers of this Country. We nay say the
same also of the Author of A. C. on t beatiical Emigration,
whose hand-writingWe age happy to recognize; and we trust
that both of these valuable Correspondents will often en-
lighten the pages of Tar. Sux.
Iaxo• seCciiid Letter on Monday.

THEATRICAL. REGISTER.
Performed Last Night.
THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARnES.—The Belle's Stratagem:
Duricourt, Mr. C. Kemttle ; Letitia Hardy, Brinmon.
After Web, The Russian Fest.w.al. To which was added,
The Youthful Days of Frederick the Great,
NEW THEATREitoTAL, ENGLISH OnvA-HousE.—First Per-
fottnanee•,—How tu Die for Love. •?fitter u loich, Wanted a
Governess : Principal Characters by Ms. Bartley and Miss
Kelly. Second Performance—Fire and Water. Atter which,
The Woodman's Hut: Ferdinand, Mr. T. Short; Alsieoa,
Miss Kelly. '