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the best possible remedy against all such misapplica-
tions, would be-the publicity of the grants themselves;
if they were all publicly given, if no compensation
could be given without every circumstance of the grant,
nature, and object of, it beinlg laid upon the table of
that House, they would not have to complain of so
many improper grants, and indeed in general, the
best remedy against the evil they so often heard corn-
, plained of in that House under the term job:, would
' be publicity in every thing relating to the disposal of
the public money. He had now mentioned the evils,
and he should state the means by which he proposed
to come at the remedies. He had in his hand a series
of Resolutions, which he would submit to the Com-
mittee, in case the House agreed in appointing it :
Here the Hon. Gentleman read those Resolutions,
which stated in substance, the urgent necessity at such
a period of the strictest economy in the disposal of the
public money. That it was not so much the object
to abolish certain offices, as that the amount of those
charges should not exceed the just estimate of the ser-
; vices rendered thereby to the public. That it was de-
sirable that the emoluments of offices appertaining to
Courts of Law should not be permitted to fluctuate
or to go beyond their estimate at their first institution.
That Mr. Burke's Bill had wisely stipulated against
the unneeessery creation of places and offices, and that
it would be expedient to follow up that stipulation by
providing for the annual publicity of all such places.
i The Learned and Honourable Gentleman then con-
eluded with moving, That a Committee be appointed
to take into further consideration the Third Report of
the Committee of Finance on this day se'nnight.*
• The following is an Abstract of the Pensions,
&c. from the Papers on the Table, as referred to in
Mr. Martin's statement :

ENGLAND.—PENsroms.

Royal Family, and paid by Act of Parliament
out of the Consolidated Fund
House of Orange, by same Authority •
Royal Family, out of Civil List, by Letters of
Privy Seal and Sign Manual
Ditto, out of Consolidated Fund, by Act of Par •
liament

se 133,000 0 0
_ 16,000 0 0

162,000 0 0

72,060 0 0

383,000 0 0

Floating Pensions for the Princesses, to com-
mence on the demise of his Majesty, 30,0001.
Other Pensions, paid out of the Consolidated
Fund, by Act of Parliament (only 4000:. of
which is contingent) - -
Ditto, on Civil List, under the Regulations of
the Act 22 Geo. 111. - .

75,990 14 10

89,067 13 4

165,058 8 2

Floating Pensions which will become a Charge
on the Civil List, 8471 E _

ARMY, &C.

To Officers' Widows

34,926 6 2

NAVY.
To Snperanuated Officers, including those who
have received Wounds in the Service, and the
Widows and Children of other Officers, pay-
able on the Ordinary Estimate of the Navy
To Muter Attendants, &c. Artificers, and ler-
-1 sons employed is the Yards -
ORDNANCE.
To Officers' Widows, &c. - -

62,884 0 0

6,306 0 0

• 45,572 17 1

149,689

Total Unobjectionable Pensions, 697,7471. les. 3d.

FISSIONS ORPICTIONABLZ OR quarrtosAaLs.
Pensions called Allowances from the War-Office 5,640
Ditto by Paymaster-General, Royal Bounty • 5,163
• (Officers' Widows nut here included).
Isle of Man

Gibraltar 692
Out of Treasury Fee Pund, Civil List, and Law
Charges, deducting for Persons who have died 4,990
Allowances out of Fee Fund and Messengers •
Fund, Foreign Office
Additioas to the Establishment of the Foreign
Office - .
- -
Paid out of Civil List or other Fund (6COI. of
which is contingent)
Allowances out of Home Department -
Pensions.and Allowances out of the Ordinary
Estimates of the Navy to Retired Civil Offi-
cers and Wives of Living Naval Officers (ex-
clusive of Master Shipwrights and other Work-
ing Officers employed in the Yards, and not
including those lately dead). These payments
are lately increased
Floating Pensions in the Ordinary of the Nary,
11821. 10s. of which is now in a course of pay-
ment - .
Out of Old Stores (not including Widows and
Children of Officers, or Pensions for Wounds)
floating Pensions out of Old Stores, 58511. 10s.
Note.—The Payments out of Old Stores, by
Sign Manual, amount, exclusive of Bills as-
signed on the Treasurer of the Navy (which
are £43,432. 18s. 4d.) to £9,083. 4s. 111 of
Which £7059. 10s. 6d. was in payment of
Pensions.
Payments in aid of Salary to the First Lord of
the Admiralty
Pensions or Allowances at the Tax Office
Compensations, Pensions, and Allowances in
The Offices of Master of the Horse and Lord
Steward
Pensions out of Transport Office -
Pensions out of Excise and Salt Duties
Allowances to Suppressed Commissaries
I.ottery Office Pensions
Pay Office ditto
Post Office - -
Stamp Office
Annual Payments from Civil List to Rangers, &c.
Allowances out of Ordnance, (deducting for Of-
ficers' Widows, &c.)
Pensions added since the Account of those made
up to the sth January, 1807
Allowances under the name of Compensations in
the Departments of Lord Chamberlain and
Master of the Robes
In the Customs
In the Pell Office, for Places abolished
Deputy Surveyor of Woods and Forests, in lieu
of an Office in Chatham Barracks
Small Pensions to different Churches and Pa-
rishes formerly paid by the Paymaster of Pen-
sions, transferred to Exchequer by Act of
Parlitunent
To Foreign Ministers • •
(22 G. 3. sect. 18. Act not to extend to those
Pensions, provided the Persons receiving
them do not enjoy some place of profit
from the Crown to the amount of the
Pension usually allowed in those cases )
Contingents ditto - £3,900.
Paymasters' Poundage out of Army Pensions
(Qu. Whether this Office be not executed by
Deputy and if so, might not a small sa-
lary be allowed in lieu of poundage ?)

2,000 0 0
1,900 0 0

7,414 19 1
1,100 0 0
1,696 0 0
1,66 14 3

() 0
I,leo 0 0
591 0 0
3,080 0 0
10,1C8 3 3

15,e32 13 0

3,766 0 0

2,885 10 0
807 0 0
280 0 0

500 0 0

1,758 5 4
51,689 0 0

Note-Marshal of the Admiralty and other
offices omitted, and no Returns from the
Courts of Vice Admiralty abroad, twelve in
a umber.

1,746 6 S

150,437 16 7
OFFICES SINECURE, 01 EXICUTED IT DIPUTT.
Twenty-two out of 36 Sinecure Offices, or exe-
cuted by deputy (of the emoluments of the
remaining 14 no return has been made) 18,791 0 0
Alienation Office and Hsnaper, also sinecures 3,407 11 6
Apothecary General (sinecure) of 3 years 12,158 6 4
Thirty-six other offices, executed by deputy, isc
the Exchequer, Customs, Erse, Navy, Pay
Office, and Privy Seal
Ditto in courts of Justice
_ _

80,814 0 0
97,307 0 0