The Sun.
London, England, 1820-05-06 00:00:00

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er rig-ti to rettitinieend this course to Lim, inOcae
of going on in the old way with the sacred, mys-
terious, acid obscure Civil List. le that lisi
found a great variety of persems included. Look-
ing AL page 64 of the appendix, he found there
wal the Vicar of the Towel. He wished other
'persons in the list were as cheap. He cost the
country annoally 11. 135. 4tl. He would recom-
mend him as an example. This was one of the
dignitaries of the Civil List, He was in the
seventh class. Then there was the Minister of
St Botolph, Aidgate, who received the annual
amount of 11. 15s. Prom these, deseending to
the officers of the Vestry, who were very useful, .
but had not so much dignity as others in the list,
he found the Chorchwertien of the Church of St.
John the Baptiste a Schoolmaster, and another
person received stuns of 11. 31. and five pounds
yearly. The Ark itcelf• did not contain a greater
variety of beings than were to be found ice the
Civil foist. There was no ela'ts, no Corporation,
which did not fluids!) it wi h a specimen : Lay
Lawyers, sod Secular Clergy, were there. The
two Universities con' rihuo d 16 it-e-Preachers,
Professors, and Fellows. Then there seas the
Mayor of Macclesfield--e•Enelish +11)(1 Foreign Mi-
nisters—the Prote,sor r,t &IVA
Mini-ter of the Isle of Man---an Astronomer—e
Geneelegiso--ea Chaplain of the Gerter-e-t Master
of the Hawks---a Maser the Ceremoiliese-ea
Knight's Harhineer Loin: Secretary
15.iier of the Black [toil--a Master of Mechanics
—and an Excheqeer Watchman. tie
know whether the Chancellor of tire Exchequer
was acquainted with the person last mentioned,
tw•o it appeared received for Ws vigilance but the
annual soot of one hundred and eigh
When he went on with the List he came to other
Watchmen of the Exchaquer who received their
thousands yearly. Theie he did not grudge them
it they %vete fai hitt' guardians of the ExcheTter ;
but he ,‘ished tot an at ra,igement that should en-
able honest, well intentioned men to disr.harge
their duty kitty. This he would defy them 'o do
so hung as the Civil List continued to be the con-
falser, inexplicable mass which it was at present.
His no•ion was, that a liberal grain- should be
msde at once for the King and Royal Family.—
He proposed that this should he nietle, (slice for
all, to continue not merely doting the life of the
King (tor it was useless to make such a provision),
till, by consent. of both ;emirs, it should again
be altered, when it should no longer appear fit
and equitable. What he meant was this, that the
arrangement now to be 'Tole should continue in
force till, -from the :alteration in the prices of
things,
.it' shoulri be necessary to change it. To
make it fur the life of the King appeared to him
ridiculous. The late reign happily extended to
sixty years, and in the course- of that lime from
particular circumstances, it became necessat y to I
make six new arrangements, besides payiog off:
the debts of the Civti List eight times- But had:
the late King died in 1769 instead of living tall
Is2o, it would be seen that the arrangement madel
when he ascended the Throne would not have co-1
vered the expellees up to that period. In 1777 an
additional 100.0001. was found necessary ; but
in the former year, in 1769, a debt of
500,0001. had been cotoracteo. This proved
that there was no sense in making an ar-
rangerneto for the life of the Suveleigt). It that
life proved short, it might he eitough—if long, it
mieht prove itisuftieieut,; therefore, the only ra-
tional wily was to Make the arrangement indepen-
dent of the lite or the Monateh, separating from!
the Civil List the Judges' salaries, the Trea-
sury selatievethose of the Foreign Ministers, the
bills of incidents, &c. anti keeping all the contin-
gent expences which ought in most cases only to
be incurred on estimates "filst given in. In :he:
bills of incidents there appeared some etoirmottsl
charges. He would not say the sums there ex- I
pearled were ill bestowed, butt lie thought it likely
that some of the charges would never have appea-red,
bad an estimate of them been first given in. For
thea oils of the Crown, he cisetlel not big object
to them. He thought a loud of thattiescription
might be much perverted io bad limes. He was
not bound to shewthat the'Droits had ever been
misapplied. eth
icwhen such large star4s- came to
the Crown, as sometimes accrued fropethis source.
it was clear that they itileht•he Used in a way mast
injurious to the best interests of the country. }ti-
the year 1507, the SUM of 113,04301. devolved to
the 'King, in consequence of the death of a lona-. •
tic. In INS, a sum of 49,0'001. -came to the
(;rowan; through its former possessor..rlying with-
out an heir.. tu 1809, the sum of 62,000/. came
to the Crown in- the same way. Such sums cran-
ing unexpectedly into the uncontrolled possession
at the Crown, at the eta of is General-Election, it
was obvious might he misapplied. He then enume-
rated the sums which in other years had accrued
to the Crown in various ways. At one time, at
or about the tiihe the proceeds of the Diode
prizes were received, a sum of 1.00 000/. came
to the Crown ; and at another pet iod, when the
Spanish condemnations took place, the amount of
the fonds placed in the Monarch's hands was no I
less then 2,200-,000/. In 1806, the King bad-
graciously sent a Message to that House; stat-
ing, that in consequence of the distress
occasioned by the continuance of the war)
lie hail determined on granting the sum sst
100,0001. nut of the Droits of the Crowe. I
in aid of the Ways and Means of the year.—
For this, that House, as in duty bound. returned
a loyal and dutiful AddreSs, expressing their
gratitude for the sum thus advanced by his Meles-'
:ty. Did he charge the House with obequions-
, ness, or with performing a writ k of eupereroga-
lion for the course they took on that occasion
No—hut he could nor help thinking that'our an-
cestors would have stared at witnessing a state of
things so completely reversing what had been the
course of peoceediag between King and Parlia-
ment an their days. What would they have
thought,_it,. Instead of seeing the King ask-fur a
subsidy or a betaevolence—a 10-di or a 15th, they
had beheld him giving a. million of money to them,
from whom it was Wi itren in the constitution of
• this count' ye LI sacred characters, all pecattiary
supplies were to. come AllOl her part-of the Re.
venues at the disposal of the Crown demanded
notice—he al'oded to the foto audit half pet cent.
tlitries raised in thei •land of Ratbadoes and the
• , Leeward Islands. These the Crown had the power
of bestowiog for good or for b.ed services or front