The Sun.
London, England, 1817-05-20 00:00:00

ATIOLITION OF SINECURES.

Mr. D. GILBBKT moVediirCse;;;d reading of
the Justiceships in Eyre's Abolition Bill.
Mr. Bosweta., after regretting that some Mem-
ber of more influence titan himself did not step
forward to oppose the series of Bills which origi-
nated in the abolitions recommended.by the Fi-
trance Committee, spoke at considerable length
against the proposed measure, Lie •woeld not be
deterred by the eopueularity to which he should
be exposed ; nor did he think that Parliament
• ought to yield to clamour hi its legislative enact-
metus. conomy•was necessary in the present
moment; but the abolition of these places would
create no immediate relief, and no great ultimate
saving. He (ported Mr. Burke against the pre.,
sent system of abolitions. He objected to the
Compenaation Bill, as a -measure which would
make duration of service, rather than tranacen-
deeey of talent or brilliancy of exertion, the cri-
terion of merit. In the history of the country
there would be found names which had been illus-
trated in a short career, and the records of imii-
videals, who in a abort space bad conferred immor-
tal obligations on their fellow-citizens and man-
kind. Length of service might be a proper mode
of estimating the reward of clerks, or ascertaining
the value of mechanical perseverance. He denied
that the influence of the Crown bad increased to
any undue or alarming extent. Fevouritism had
not placed Nelson in the command of a fleet, or
conferred on Lord Wellington the conduct of our
army. He would oppose all the Bills, as parts of
a system for tusking inroads on our present Coe-
stitution and Government.

LOUT MILTON Wilbed only to aay a few words

on ;I: measure eetich 'he-Mau& 1101111111aicTi7.7
with no nppoiitiuu ; and he would not have said
any thing at all, had be not been induced to ani-
madvert on some parts of' the Hon. Gentleman's
speech. He bad quoted Mr. Burke's speech on
the Civil List, and seemed to consider himself as
an hereditary commentator on his attuning : brit he
bad totally misapprehended him.' If he (Lord M.)
hid any fault to find with the Committee, it was
because they had not viewed the whole subject so
comprehensively as' Mr Burke, but had taken
scraps and shreds of his principles. The Hon.
Gentleman bad said, that Alt, Burke was against
the abolition of sinecures, and qaoted it part of
his speech that seemed to countenance that idea ;
but had he read the whole he would have seen
that Mr. Burke, in advising the alienation of the
own lands, contemplated ttie abolition of this
very office of the Justices in Eyre, as one of the be•
neficial consequences of that measure. Thus, said
he, would fall the justiceship in Eyre, &c. Mr.
Burke thus not only recommended the abolition
of these sinecures, but the removal of the very
foundation on ,which they rested. The Hon.
Gent, had said, that the proposed system ofabo-
!kiwi would make. inroads on our Constitution,
but these sinecures were no parts of our Constitu-
tion. As efficient offices, they were parts of our
Government formerly ; as sinecures, they were
now none.. lie (Lord M.) wits as little disposed
to, yield to the clamour of which the Hon. Gent,
had spoken as any mats, but it was not clamour.
only that was against sinecures ; all the middling
ranks of society, and even the highest order ot the
public out of doors, had expressed a decided opi-
nion against them ; anti though he would not yield
to clamour, be would say, with Mr. Burke, God
forbid that he should oppose the universal and de-
cided sense of the coontry. 'The Bill was read a
second time, and ordered to be committed to•
Morrow.

The second reading of the Exchequer-oilices'
Regulation fill of England and Ireland was then
moved.

Sir OHN NEWPORT made: a few observations,
which we could not distinctly bear fiom a noise
in the gallery.
Lord CASTLEREAGH observed, that the division
of the measure into so many separate Bills had
been adopted .upon mature deliberation, both as
rendering the plan more practicable,and less likely
to be defeated in another place. I-lis Majesty's
Government were dispoitd to regard the prineed-
ing as a whole, and to support it in all its parts.
Sir JotcN NEWPORT explained; after which the
Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be
committed to-morrow.
On the motion for the second reading of the
011 ices in Ireland Regulation Bill, SirJonN /law-
PORT inquired, why no notice was taken in this
Bill of the Board of Works in Ireland, which had
been some years since the subject of a distinct
report, in which its abolition was recommended ?
Mr. feat, Still!, this subject was at present under
consideration. The principal.offieer. toad Litherto
been also employed as superintendent of the bar-
rack department% Some new arrangement; how.
ever, in the present circumstances of the public
service, was felt to be necessary, dud he hail a
clause to propose in the Committee which hail that
object in contemplation.
'lice Bill was then read a second time, as was
also the Board of 'Trade Regulation Bill, after a
few wools from Mr. CA;..CRAPT► and ordered seve-
rally to be cotmuitted to-mormw,