Star.
London, England, 1830-12-27 00:00:00

Murray, Lady Virginia.
B—August 7, 1798 - - . . 184
This Lady is the sister of the Earl of Dunmore.
Maim, Baroness. _ _

B—February 18, 1829 . . - - 184
Palmer, Lady Madeline.
FA—December 17 - - - - • 184
This Lady is sister of the Duke of Gordon, and wife, by
second marriage, to the member for Reading, who should
imitate the conduct of another public man, who does not
allow his wife, nearly of the same rank, to draw her pen.
lion, as the widow of a naval officer. His name I must
not publish, because I know I should wound him to cause
even his high feelings to be noticed.
Sinclair, Lady Isabella.
B—July 2,1790 . - - . - 115
&tenpin, Janet.
S—July 1, 1801 . _ . - . - 97

Sempill, Hon. Billie&
S—November 21, 1821 - 93
Strathmore, Marianne, Lady.
S—November 19, 1828 - 230
If this lady be the wife of the present Earl, Is it because he
may be always in difficulties that the public should main.
tarn her ? If the widow of the late Lord, it is more re-
prehensible, as she was married just in his dying moments
to rob his heirs of rank and fortune.
This list closes the pensions previous to the accession of the
present King, and the public will perceive bow even the
smallest sums are grasped at. Will not the Earl of WM
ton, if this list meets his eye, and he, has nerve to run
it through, learn how the nobility no longer possess the
attachment of the people ? We find the late King left
to his brother claims for
Lady Hill,
A warrant for whom on the English civil list was made out
on the lbth of Apvil, 1830 - - 467
This lady, I presume, is the wife of Sir George Hill, who
has always held large sinecures in Ireland, but who, from
his imprudence, has always been greatly embarrassed. He
was lately named Governor of the Leeward Islands, a
very lucrative post. I trust Lord Grey, with his stern
integrity, will advise King William to cancel this pro.
posed pension.
Miss D'Este.
E.—June 29, 1830 - • - 467
This lady is the daughter of his Royal Highness the Duke
of Sussex, by his marriage with Lady Augusta Murray,
but which, by the severity of our law, was set aside.
I egret that his Royal Highness should suffer his
children to be provided for at the public expense. I
had calculated he would have been higher minded.
Mrs. Tierney.
E.—June 29, 1830 - ; 400
Far nobler would it have been had his Parliamentary pa.
trots, the Duke of Devonshire, with his princely fortune,
.;
charged himself to supply the comforts of this lady's de.
clining days, or his noble political friends should have
met him, and assistance might have been obtained from
the rich banker, her relative. It is disgraceful that the
public should have thrown on their industry, the charge
of the widows of public men, however meritorious, but
who leave their families distressed, because they have
lived too expensive in their life.
Dame Mary Rae.
R.—November 20, 1830 . . 660
This is an appointment made ghee the Duke of' Wel-
lington dismissed himself from office. This lady is
the wife of the late Lord Advocate for Scotland,-_
an official legal situation, resembling our Attorney.
General as public prosecutor. The only pretext for such
a pension is, that this gentleman has lost his practice,
that he gave up the office of Sheriff-Depute, worth
some six hundred a year, and that as a seat in Par.
liament is held essential for the office, he has been
put to considerable expense in procuring it. A pity
may be felt for the lady, but is the public deserving
of no compassion ? It is well known that Sir Wm.
Rae, as an Advocate, had little or no practice in his
profession : that he was named Lord Advocate for his
political willingness—that no talent was to be found
on hie side of servility. Let Dame Rae die before him,
and is he then to have a pension ? Let him have the
Sheriff Deputeship that falls vacant, and let Dame Rae
be provided for as other dames are whose husbands do
not sell themselves to Ministers.
Lady Elibank.

S—October 9, 1830 - - - - - 138 I) •
Here I find an old friend again, who has already Lem
exhibited with two grants. What arc the peculiar me-
rits of this lady to deserve such favour ?
Mary Cockburn,
One of the family, no doubt, turns up for - - 49 10 0
1 also find a Miss Catherine Sandford, a Lady Charlotte Murray
Macgregor, a Miss Harriet H. Gordon, a Mrs. Brown, a Barbara
Keid, and an Agnes Lindsay,—but really, Sir, lam nauseated, and I
fear you and the public are also sickened at such details, and I go to
my pillow to sleep off my disgu‘t. You will find the total sum that
these noble, honourable, and other ladies, consume, amounts to nearly
30,0001. of the public money. RADICAL
'aa This letter has been omitted owing to the great press of matter,
occasioned chiefly by the news from France and our own spacial ettM•
mission.