Star.
London, England, 1817-04-07 00:00:00

DWIDENDS to be /wade in the CO U N CRY.

April 24, James Wheatley and MIIiiICW LlMott, No:thigham,
mercers, a Wei, at she !plead, -Eagle, Liucum. Anil 23, John
Linig Sutton, miller, at twelve, at the acne rod
Wished'. • April 25, banywu awl leen iCurny, late of Nottlnz-
ham, merchants, at tea, at ale•Hyang liur... olvttingbarn. Apnl
sS; Thomas White, Lirripuelli guircitaut, .L our, at the Crete of
Messrs. and Hissdc, Fesswa..lo-str..c., lav:rpoul. April 29,
Thomas badham, ikistut, enginermaier, at one, at the I(nnit ter
Bruitol. April ad, lirlwaisl Aluswortfi,cif Manchester,
wine:merthant, at one, at Guildhall, London. May 5, kichard
Pole, Macclesfield, tintbar tilafchaut, at five, at the Angel lt:n,
Macclesfield.
ChItTIFIcATES—Anist. 21..

E. mraldegrave, Seviirdsione, coach-waster. 8. Elceck, Ttt.
teuUsupcoursroad, warelsoitserrau. F. Litmus:oaf. Upper K.t.s-
street, Bloomsbury, jeweller. J. Ward. Banbury, grocer. U.
James and H. Cos, litistcll, brwady-tnerchassis. tv:. 1/odd,
'Change- alley, ship•Lreker., J. %Psi:. sir ight, Dusteaster, s i oct r.
L Wilitsm• Lasser Coletuau•strcet, ButtisdNrow, paiwi..;;,:ner.
E. j. vowel), Pia, Sottugetu,kire, tlerser. W.'2.attssoy, I:.tstti„
baker. 1". bailey, ma:,iebis,44, e,..por. 3• Riddiu....ii, Man.
tkester, ir• ;keeper. W. Ade, '1 otte.dians-eoutt • t.,34, • .11,1,1 ier.—
W• Fclllol3 mid b: Let, Leeds, w;o:•;t:i..ters. H. 5:..,. le, :strand,
bOrt.enaker. J. Coles, West mutt Whitt, Waken;
AVERAUE PRICE of CORN to I,..NOLAND at-. 1 WAI E 7,
trent the returns ending the 29tb at idetieb, INIT.
Wheat. Rye Kan.,. ostrs, ofe...ets. Peso.
s. 4.- 1 s. 4. I. s. 4. I a. dug
,(1. I a. 4.
104'910101.512 1326. 4115 S 2
The average Price a msgar,chrupu,ed trot t..e retr•Tti Made
W the wick tist.itz :he 2d se Aird, is Cr. 1 id. per cwt.

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FIRST REPORT
Fran Ms SELECT COMMITTEE if FINANCE.

The Select Committee appointed to Inquire into,
and state, the Income and Expenditure of the United
Kingdom, for the Year ended the sth of January,
1817, and also to consider and state the probable In-
come and Expenditure (so far as the same can now
be estiniated) for the Years ending the sth of Ja-
nuary, 1818, and the sth of January, 1818, respetH
Lively, and to report the samei together with their
Observations thereupon, from time to time, to the
House ; and also to consider what further measures
may be adopted for the relief of the Country from
any part of the said Expenditure, without detriment
to the Public Interest.
Havint; had under their consideration the state of
various Offices in the United Kingdom; which are
commonly, though incorrectly, known under the
general denomination of Sinecures, conceive that
they cahoot better discharge the duty imposed upon
them by the latter part of the order of reference,
than by bringing under the early notice of the House,
the annual charge incurred by the continuance of
Offices, either wholly useless, or the salaries of which
appear disproport.onate to their actual duties 1 and
of the system which they submit as et to be ached-
toted in their stead.
The subject is by no means new to the House,
having been brought under discussion at Various
times within the last ten years, and particularly in
the Session of 1812, when it was made thelounda.
tion of a Bill, which having passed the House, was
carried to the House of Lords on the 17th June, and
in the Session of 1818, when the same Bill was car-
ried to the House of Lords on the sth April.
The classification of the several Offices, and some
of the provisions of that Bill, are followed and referred
to in the,course of this Report. as the most convenient
mode of conduiting the inquiry relating to them.
The object of your ComMittee was to ascertain,
First, what Offices may be reduced or regulated
(after the expiration of the existing interests), with-
out doriment to the public service. Secondly, un-
der what regulations such of those Offices, as it may
be deemed proper to continue, ought to be admini-
stered atter the expiration of the existing interests.—
Thirdly, as it is obvious, that whenever such regu-
lations and reductions as are contemplated by your
Committee, shall be carried into effect, the means
of rewarding meritorious public service will be in
great measure taken from the Crown, your Com-
mittee deem it indispensable that provision should
be made for enabling the Crown, under proper re-
gulations and restrictions, to afford a reasonable re-
compence for the faithful discharge of high and
effective civil Offices.
OFFICES IN ENGLAND.
The view which your Cominittee have taken of
the two Offices of Chief Justice in Eyre, North and
South of Trent. is, that they may be abolished with-
out detriment to the public service, and the amok-
melts thereof become a future saving to the public ;
Tepid being had in these, is well as in every other
Office which forms the subject et this Report, to the
existing interests.
In the Ixchequer, reasons of a like nature exist
for dealing in the same manner with the Offices of
Auditor of ctie Eel: goer. Clerk ridge Pdlo.
• • Fuur loner, ut t e Exchequer;
so that whenever vacancies shall occur in any of them,
the salary payable to the principal in such Office shall
cease. and become a saving to the public.
Warders of tin Cinque Ports.
Oovittnol:of Ulu of Wista.

The same rule applies to these tiro Offices, so that
the salaries payable at the Exchequer. or out of any
Peblie Funds, may cease, and become a future
-saving to the pliblie.
Commissary-General of Musters.--This Office
may be abolished, without inconvenience to the pub-
lie service.
Joint Paymaster•General.--The Office of one of
the Joint Paymasters may also be abolished, being
wholly inefficient and useless, with regard to all bu-
siness connected with the army but it must be re-
collected, that an effective and very important situa-
tion, without salary, has been frequently held, and
is now held by one of the Joint Paymasters; for the
discharge of which your Committee do not considerl
the salary of ,000 at present attached to the Office
of Snood Paymaster, as more than adequate; but
they submit to the House, that it will be more con-
sistent with the system which ther wish to introduce,
that the Vice-President of the Board of :Taade should
receive a salary as such, than be paid indirectly ai
cue of the Joint Paymasters•GeneraL
One Deputy Paymaster-General.—The Office of
Paymaster• General being recommended to be ese-1
toted by one person, it follows of course that one
Deputy in the Office will be sufficient, and that the
Salary now received by the Second Deputy should
be saved.
There are 'Unger_ any • Deputp Paymaleset'
abroad, acting by deputy; and the duties of all
Depety Paymasters tikeareelem, *during. Peace, aitil
transferred to the Commissariat. ,
The office of Paymaster of Marines is now dis-
charged .in person, .ender regulations adopted in
181$, without any deputy allowed, or paid by the
public; but, as some harsher enquiries may be neces-
sary before year COMUliiioc.cen filially report Upon
it, they deter their observations until the Estimaesii,
for the Navy • shall come before then), with whisk
this office is immediately connected.
Upon the office of Paymaster of Widows' Pommes,'
although no strong objections occur to your Cone.
mittee against uniting it with the foregoing office,
yet so long as it .continues at the low scale of ex-
pense at which it is now used, it does not seem cape.
client to recommend any alteration fox the purpose of
effecting a saving, which would, in any, be very in-
considerable. The annual charge is no more than
/MO, and ample security is taken, amOunting to
diSO,OOO -for the money in charge, -and for the
punctual payment of nearly at70,(100, in very
small sums, to two thousand two hundred widows,
scattered over every part of the United Kingdom,
and many of them sessdent abroad. It must be fur-
ther observed, that though the salary of this office,
having been formerly paid out of the produce of old
stores, ratios; annually voted in the Naval Estimates,
yet the appointment is not vested in the Crown, but
in the Governors of this Charity.
Law Clerk in the Secretary of State's Office...-It
appeasing that au duties %rheum are annexed to this

offices your Committee recommend that it should be
altogether abolished.
Collector and Transmitter of State Papers...TY
same observation applies as to the last office.
The inconsiderable offices of Principal House-
keeper, and Warehouse-keeper in the Excise Office,
Established Messenger in the War Office, and some
others included in the table of the Bill of 1812 and
1813, were at that time held as sinecures; with re-
gard to these, it is sufficient to lay down as a rule,
that no person in future should be allowed to hold
any inferior office of this description without. per-
forming the duty in person; and where no duty is at-
tached (as in the case of Cartaker to his Majesty) all
such nominal offices should be suppressed.
The offices of Joint Postmaster-General in England
and Ireland do not appear to your Committee to
come under the general description of those which
form the subject of this Report. They are, there-
fore, not prepared at present to suggest to the House
any alteration in the mode of conducting this impor-
tant apartment of the public service. If, on the
one hand, they are strongly of opinion that it would
be inexpedient to place this branch of the Public Re-
venue under the direction of a Board, with a consti-
-tution similar to that of ether Revenue Boards, as
recommended by the Finance Committee of 1797, in
their seventh Report ; on the other hand, they are by
no Means prepared to state an opinion that the ma-
nagement of the Revenue of the Post Office. amount
tag to England to a gross receipt of £2,116,087, and
involving an expenditure of £593,620; and amount-
ing in Ireland to a gross receipt of £230,000, and in-
volving an expenditure of £148,000, together with
the complicated concerns by which this Department
is Connected with the convenience of the community,
and the commercial interests of the Empire, can, 1
without disadvantage, be permanently confided to I
one individual.

Your Committee have learned with satisfaction,
that, by the last Indenture of the Mint, the office of
Clerk of the Irons has been merged in that of the
Superintendent of the Machinery, which is a very ne-
cessary and effective office; 'and that it is provided
by the same Indenture, that the office of Comptroller
of the Mint should, at the termination of the present
existing interest, be executed in person by the present
deputy, at the salary which he now receives;, thereby
effecting a saving of the salary and emoluments of
the principal. The office of Warden of the Mint it
is understood, will, in like manner, be discontinued;
as well as every other office in this department whith
comes within the principle of regulation or abolition,
which it is the object of your Committee to extend to
all offices of this description.
Clerk of the Parliaments.—Your Committee re-
commend that this office should be abolished ; and
that the fees, it continued, should be appropriated
towards defraying the Sessional expenses of the House
of Lords.

Four Clerks of the signet, and Four Clerks of the
Privy Seal. —Your Committee are not aware of any
detriment which can accrue to the public service from
discontinuing these offices. the dutrof which is exe-
cuted by deputy.
Comptroller General of Accounts, Excise, and in-
spector General.—These offices being connected with
the collection aril management of the Revenue) eon
having no efficient duties, ought to be abolished.
Register to Commissioners of Excise ' • Inspottor-
General of Coffee and Tea, &c. and all r.tber offices,
whether enumerated in the Table to the Bill of 1813,
or not, the duties of which are connected with the
collection and receipt 9f the public revenue, ought,
in the opinion of your Committee, to be abolished,
so far as the salaries of those offices are payable to in.
dividuals who do not execute in person the efficient
duties of such offices.

SCOTLAND.

Keeper of the Great .Beal.—Your Committee re-
commeud that this Once should be preserved; but the salary re-
gulated, so as not to exceed 419,000 per annum.
Keeper of the Privy Seal.—.ln recommending that this office
should be continued, s salary of ISI,COO a-year appears to be
suflicient. • -
•I•be °Zee of Lord Juadoe-General —Yovr Committee re-
commend, that after the termination at the reisfing interest In
this uCire, the President of the Cuurt of Session for the time
being should assume the dtle, rank, and privileges of Lard Jus-
tice-General, anti that the salary now annexed to this olkee
should he discontinued.

Keeper of the Signet—AU the dudes of this office may be an-
mud to that of Lord Register, and the fees-should be carried
to the public account ; and with respect to the once of Lord,iteo
gister, a find salary of Al ,Sue a-year appears to be an adequate
prov Woo.
Knight Marshal.—The office to be retained, but the Way to
fie discontinued.—Vice-Admiral.—Oltto.
Governor iind other oilers in the Mint may he abolisitet The
buildings of the Mint fa Scotland should be Meyers& of in such
Manner as may appear to the Leeds of the Treasury snot Wean
terms to the Crown.
Receiver-General of Bishop's Rents,
Auditor of Exchequer,
Assistant Surveyor-General of Taus,
Comptrollee•Ofteral of Caimans. "
These dices may be Washed.
The Cashier sad Reosiver-Clemeal of listclee --Your Cams&
ten cannot ton *ma* InPrortbnir torlsion that this °Seale*
to be egegglgtm perces; eat even Ming bits moslderatilit the
amount of the security rostdred, which le statatito be ASSAM
they an of optimise thatieeney of .11,10•••yeee weeldito es-
pla to lasers the regular attendance of a respeeilble pen= caw
pecan to give wacky to that ansoset.
Three old laspectoes of Wheel-caaviages, Gantt, Writer. and
Ingenue-Omani of Roads, are eikees cob* abolished ; the lase
being added to this list as Minded in Me Army Estimates. .
11111LAIIIN

Clerk of tbe NM—Teller of the Isc6blow—Auditor4wiecaL
TM acessary duties attached to these seas men cooties' to
be performed, bat the eatery and easolsimente sew rowitabie4
..
the Principals, should become, as la the BROM Ischeittere a'
emits to tits public.
Keeper of the Privy SaL—This ales k ear held for life ;bet
„it should, after the tersainadon of the esineg tatareee. be
ended during plasma_ only, sod always awned to the aloe if
Chid ersaitary to the Lord Unmeant.
- SerrepaGeoeset of Crowe Leads,
Keeper of Records, Birminhaa Tower,
Keeper of the Records of Parautest,
•
Clerk Of the Paper Odin
These oaten have charge of puhlk domain, which mop be
tesaafcfred to the hulldiug which has been Weatructal for the
of the pubto records of kneed; sad the several hp.
polmasets above entiaersted may be abethebed.
Accounts' to the Bard of Omani Ofikers--Secretarp so Meta
Gnaw mad airpervisor of Me Majesty e ranee Pres%
c!Nelpse et the Robla Gamut,
e Ma Rada, •
. _

(ao Aar paid bun aka Chß Ll*
• AOMINO, Barrack Dapartscat,
barrack4Lanatnit aka Royal Banackri •
Thaw Mesa inay be abolislisd, or if Jo any Imam Ay lan
pogrom stlisastiifte iliasbed an Om, lebieb it I i WININIBY to
milk 4irr may be Pesellesell en fiber Actin Aka. nilition
ant_ aill .ii whatiner ii disk aniskoneserinek
not any alkilined Moss sr
Conatabbn dirt Cada alliaarfikeidCnadonisin-.44.1

YU edify payabk to these Akers out of the Civil Llat should
become a saving to the public. The offices may, If neemary, be
ribbed without salary.
Clerk of the Conned,
Mastermaster-Geneeal (held by two persons),
Pradque Master of the Port of Dublin,
Storekeeper of the Customs;
The duties attached to these offices ought to be discharged la per-
-1011 by those who hold them, and the salaries now-paid to the
principals to become a saving to the public.
There were several other cakes enumerated in the Table an-
nexed to the Bill of t 813,in the Customs and Excite departments
of the revenue, the dudes of which were not performed In person.
Your Committee have learnt with Radsfaction, that to any of
these Mikes which have become vacant since the passing of that
Bill by the House, no appointment has been made by the Irish
Government ; and that the salaries attached to them have been
saved, by removing the individuals holding them to other Area
live offices.

They therefore have only to express their opinion that each of
the dices enumerated in the Table as yet remain, should be abo-
lished as opportunities occur, and to recommend generally that
the dudes of all Aces, of whatever description, costumed with
the collection and receipt of the Public Revenue, should be per-
formed in person, by those who hold them, at reasonable rates
of salary.

!NOLAND.

OMCIS ilf MOTS OP LAW 1W TAP 017 T OP TIM cams.

The appitintamot to the under•mentioned Aces In the Coen
of Exchequer having been stated to your Comminee not to be-
long to the Judges of that Court, but to be in the gift of the
Crown, and it appearing that the duties of them are executed by
deputy, there appears no reason for their beiercontinued, except
epon such an establishment as may afford an adequate remune-
ration to the proper oaten hereafter appointed to discharge the
duties In person.

Kiog's Remembrantur, Clerk a the Phis. Omit of the Pipe.
Comptroller of the Pipe, Deputy loco, Marshal, Foreign Ap-
poservburvryor and Re-critter Generator Grata Wes, Three Mes-
sergers out of four. Lord Treasurer's ltentrenbranter, Clerk of
Foreign Es:mu, Clerl: of the Melia% Comptrollers of First nuke.

ALIRNATION OMNI.

Tbree Continitsioners."Reeelver General. two Entering Clerk%
Miner In Clunrery, Sulleitor a the Exchequer.
SCOTLAND.

Director of the Court of Chancery, Clerk of the Court of
Chancery, Principal Clerk in the Court of Admiralty, King's
' Remembrancer, l.ord Treasurer's Remembrancer in the Court
of Exchequer, one of the Ckrks in the Pipe Office, Presenter of
Signatures, Exchequer, Register of Steals, Clerk of the Admis-
sion of Notaries in the Court of Session.
AU these Offices are understood by your Committee to be
executed *holly by Deputy, and to came therefore within the
principle of regulation or abolition, after the termination of
the present interests. It is, however, necessary to observe, with
respect to the offices of Director of the Court of Chancery, Pre-
senter of Signatures, and Register of Santos in Scotland, that
as the duties of these three dikes are stated to be highly ins-
potent, and not only intimately connected with each other, but
with the • legal forms and proceedings on which the titles and
security of reel estate essentially depend in that part of the
United Kingdom, your Committee would, upon every prin-
ciple, abstain boss interfering with any of those legal forms and
proceedings; and all which they have to submit with respect to
the (Mikes in goatbs,ls, that the emoluments of them ought to
be sOlvgnlated ns to kisses the due execution in person of their
retinae* duties, by, individuals competent by their proles-
.sional knowledge to discharge those duties, and by their station
is society to gtve seek security as may be deemed adequate to
the extent and nature of the trust appertaining to each of diem
respectively.
IRELAND.
All the Oakes Is the Courts of Law in Wend, Wed.d in
the hat annexed to the Bill of tali, with the of those
which have hitherto best Ice the gift of the Met 7sips of the
Courts of Law in Ireland, ought, in the glides of year Cent.
milts*, to be reluic'ed on *eh princtpk• so shall Imre the
performance of their duties in person, by those who held them,
at such just and remosable salutes as shall haat/Orbs deter.
mined on.
The following are the Offices iminierated In that List, Which
ate undentood to have beano been in the notoleation of she'
Crown . .
Public Registrar of Deeds, Clerk of Cream bad Hamper.
Chief Remembraneer, Clerk of the Pipe. Comptroller of the
Pipe, Chirographer, Prothonotary, 'Ceases Mem; Protbooo.
nary, King's Back • Crown Oiße,. Kisses Bench ; Trameriptee
and Foreign Apposero Clerk et the Report Office Punstivant,
Court of Exchequer; Register of Forfeitures Usher of the Ea.
chequer, Register. Coors of Chancery; Forfeiture,
ditto; lerjeattt at Anne. Pleas ORes; Lei d 'freasomets, or eel
Remembrance, Exchequer.
Tee right of appointment to the Clerkship of the Pins rid*
Court of Exchequer has been contested by the Chief Bata et
that Court, and the right is mot yet finally determined.
'rise duties of the Accoustant.ekrieral of the Court of Chan-
cery are now performed in person by the individual who beide
the Office, a vacancy having occurred slime the passing of the
hill of 1113.

The scene °Wanda° applies to the Me of Compeller
of the Pipe.

COLONIAL OFFICES. •
Upon the Colonial Dices, suident manilas have not WI
laid before your Committee for presenting them fully mei Mts.
factorily to the view of the House; but the general pin* le
be applied in dealing with them appears to be, in the %pt
that of enforcing, to the utmost, residence IMAM dm
or Foreign Postessioas to which thorn codices belle&
social performance by the principal, of. the thane to
them; the second object to be attained ought to beat eshaniso
of the salaries to such a rate as may afford a fair and soihot.sw,
convenes for the services to be performed; and my
which can be derived from such regulations, should be tie
(as the ease may be) in aid of some of the public burdens
dental to amoeba onsonmeent of such Colonies or Foreign Per
sessions t obeer!es tardier. that In the old Colonies, any Ink
syphon's= of catnap most be made at the recommendation of
the Governors of sookCeindes, with the consent of the local
ttigof midi. •
olligesek se state withsaccursey the aggregate amnia walla
of all the Mese which have been mentioned. Those whisk &;-
peed epeo feet lientiate conehierably in their &mom from earl.
not cireemetamtes; and there are several others (pardaderly
those behoging to the Colonies) of width the income has nowt
his etas* returned. Referring. therefore, to the stoomeote
already before the Hoe in doe 'a bird Report on Public
inure, and hi thew Riposte' upon Vonore Offices, sot tieZ
also Into account the regulation,or abolition of some Oilers since
that period, pew Oommittee 'see no reason to doubt that lbw
annual kinerne now *rival tram the Oakes which are thus
brought under the observaties of the House, as being at the dis-
posal of the Crown and et to be abolished or regulated, may be
estimated et from IMMO,. ‘lllO,OOO.
anotif.ftnotta APYLICASLIsTO oFFIcES, THI DUTIES Of
MUCH AU NECESSARY TO BS CONTINUED.
The hiqulries new made have fully confirmed the observation
contained to the But Report of the Committee upon Sinecure Of-
fices appointed 10 1110: "That the number of offices which have
MOM without IMF empleymeet either of principal or deputy,
Is nay leoessiderable, and that -by tar the greatest number of
Alaue described as Sinecure, fall properly
sal r the dotarirrrveLicam minuted by &pay, or offices
hikef mem e to employment.-
The only similes, in rnd, et any amide:able mole•
mann which con be eartidnQ -perhet daemon, are the two
alma of Chief loft to lyre 'fordo and South of Treat; upon
sib* your Cammainee have °sty to state, that there will be no
dlikuiry wendsitieg any formal duties belonging co Ante
dims Wary such WI remote) to the Conontissionen of Woods
andlard &avows ; and that by this arrangement the present
sehrlis may be wholly saved whenever them offices shall become
MOW: Thar saris% se well me goat of the Lord Warden of the
=rase Wog Paid ant of the Se4lisk Own List, mad the
niand.alkas in Scedmelaid Imbed being in like
didabeist.•tr lies=re Line, el those
eoeeauwaed that rignesne.of
rel mee should be heirkezrying le the Consolidated
Isqd these and dialler ea as they sew edge, after the tar-
tulanienthe interests in any alas charged upon
ht these
lieldlandAlaus Is opt site of high rank and emolument,
ties of Lord Justice Ontoral„ which appears to come under the
sense destripdon at hem, ootaispieyeaset either of principal or
depwitiond to the mtary of which the tome principle of sodom-
ites wield apply. le of alls idlll4ll-
- law PIPS Prislint the Court of Session.

I One or two ether tam enamerated Pt the etlsothle, bat Weft..
riot rank and emolument, have not, as far se your Commie('
hive been enabled to ascertain, any duties or responsibility an-
nexed to them; they therefore should be abolished al o her, as
woo as they may become vacant.
With respect to all the remaining dikes included in the Sche.
duk of the Bill of IRIS, being those wt, ch are not altuolier
without employment, but which have either entoiuments greatly
disproportionate to such employment, or are wholly eaecited 1,7
deputy, your Committee do not tett th. masks com, cited to .e.
commend any general regulation by which the prop •t• side of sa-
I lary in any of them may br settled, as soon as the proptoir.i re.
elections can be accomplished.— they do not possess all tee i .
formation necessary for this purpo.e; and even It they did, it is
pastible that an establishment which might be now adequate for
tlsy particular office, might cease to be so before the termination
of the existing interest.
Your Committee are therefore of opinion that it should be left
to the judgment and responsibility of the Lords of the Treasury
for the time being, atevacancies occur, to place the several offices
proposed to be regulated upon such au establishment with respect
to the number and rank of the persons requalie for the discharge
of the 'Meant sanctions of such ~Meet, and the amount of ea.
key to be assigned to each person, as may appear to t!,em ade.
ovate, after a full inquiry into the nature . nd extent of the du.
tin to be performed, and the degree of official and pecuniary re.
spmeibility which necessarily attatthes to some of them. If i:
'Meld be thought proper in any Act to be passed with relevance
to the subject of this Report, to enact, that whenever any oldie
said offices shall be reduced and regulated, there shall be said be-
della both Houses et Parliament a comparative state menu or the
nieleber, duty, and emolument of the respective °threes under
the 'Waged new establohmen•i, your Committee cu, c the that
the parliamettary check, created by this arrangement, would be
Sufficient to prevent any abuse of a power which s-ems properly
.belong to the Lords of the Ire isury„ at .be official and respon-
air advisers of the Crown, mien all matters which relate to the
soperintendacce and controol over the eubiic expenditure.
It may not be improper, in ireatieg this part of the inquiry, ei
mill the attention of the House snore distinctly to some /stead
dreumvances before alluded to, which are connected Stith unites
of great emolument in the Courts of Law in lieland.
appears, that upon a vacancy wb ch recently occurred in the
office of Clerk sif the 'leas in the Court of eixelsequer by the
death of the Earl or Buckinghamshire, a claim to the appoint-
ment to chat office'was prelet red by the Chid Baron of the Ex-
'Chequer in Ireland, and an was appointed it) him, and
was sworn in before the Court of Exchequer. .t proceeding by
w warrant* was instituted on the part of the LI 0•• II and the
judgment el the. Court of King's Beach was adverse tit the claim
of the Chita Baron. Au appeal, however, Ps* been state .0 the
Court of Error; and may hereafter be made by rimer periy, to
the House of Lords, in the mean time, by an Act t,I the Le;
glslature, 56th Geo. 11l c. I ein the entoluturtits of Ott ~(ice :re
paid into the treasusy, and the due discharge tat all t official
duties provided for. It Is not impussible ton Haim% . :near to
those which have been preterred in this instanc, by the Chid
BeCOO, may be preferred to the appointment to other (Akio is
the Law Courts to Ireland, of greet and disoroponionate
ment, whicb have hitherto beets come:Lard as at the
the Crown.
Your Committee cannot, however, avoid submitting to the
House, whether it would nut be I ertecily comietent, butt, woo
justice and sound policy, to provide for the regulation of all sues
offices atter the expiration of the leg.lly vested interests, epos
the principle on which it is proposed to regulate other unites
partaking of the nature of Sinecteres.
The duties attached to many of the principal Offices in the
Courts of Law In Ireland, appear indeed to be so various and
Important, and to be nnewasely performed by so many prisons,
that it would* be extremely difficult, without the most mature
coosideration, and probably without Inquiries, Moine id on the
spot. to suggest any arrangement for the future conduct ei lice
business ot,these offices, when the exisoug interests in them shill
have terminated.
Yoor Committee Understood. however, that there is at prescot
a Colindesiso in Irelandoppointed in consequence of an A.:dnes
if the Hesse. to Itiledes Imo the state of the t ours ot fait us
that part of the United Kingdom. It would be very desirable
that the Members of this Commission shoold be required by the
11Leaseutive Government, to examine, with as little &hie at Fot-
o**, info tee tirconestances under which the several 0111 w, 'a
the Coors of Law, which have hitherto been considered in the
'Opted if the.eown, wand, with respect to the performance of
tin duties atfachit so them; aid that they shouid
,also be rt.
Spiked td suggest such a plan for the future regulation of thin
offices, as Shall provide for the respective duties being di•chargel
in per.on, at such Werke as shall be deemed a just and reatec.
able
meansiden to the individualsdiseheiling theft.
Act opts die Legislature will be necessary to give effect 'o
say plan whisk Mit be suggested by the Commissioners ; it toil
thifeforie be ammetest in Parliament to adopt generally the
seines= made by the Comnsiteionen, or to depart from hen
according to their diseredop.
ledge supposable Anent of a vacancy occurring In any el
these offices before the Commissioners made their Report, it is
of Coarse understood that it temporary arrangement will be made
for the performance of all the necessary duties which shall net
R au way interfere with the Immediate regulation of die office',
an the principles above recommended.
Woos or laWeltelNG 1.1011 AND IPPICItICT POLITICAL
aavccaa.
Your Committee would have found themselves under cond.
derible difficulty in submitting to the House any spenEe plait
for enabling the Crown to reward high and efficient political ter•
vitas, if they bad set taken for their guidance the principles and
regulations established by the Bill, so one% referred so, as the
bads of the suggestions which they have to offer under this head.
Atter an &Standee consideration of the mode proposed in that
Bill for enabling the Crown to recompense the faithful and mte
citations discharge of high and efficient civil office, your Co n-
mhtee cannot, but entertain an opinion that consistently, as they
trust, whir this important object, it will be practicable to mde
the now means of reward which it is proposed to grant to the
Crown less extensive, and, at the same time, to place the power
of conferring tbose rewards under limitations more restrictive
than bad been provided by dm regulations of that Bill.
Retaining the list and classificadon of offices according to Mg
BM, your Committee are Of opinion that it would be expediert
either to limit the total sum, which should is no case be exceolot
or to proceed. in another mode, towards attaining the sante object.
Ist, By limiting the number of Pensions which could be gran:-
ed,- and in operation at any one time In each Class. toffy, By
providing that the power of granting such pensions should to
called progressively into operation at stated interval, affordic; s
reasonable probability that at least an equal saving will have hero
effected by the falling in of the salaries Or emoluments of sours
if the Offices to be regulated or abolished, instead of ctunmenciq
at once up;tn the vacancy of the first of such Offices at might ex-
ceed ced,ooo &lease or at any one given period. Sdly, 'that the
prothlon of the Bill which would' have made it lawful for hie
Majesty, when any person should have served in more than ore
of the four Classes. to grant such Pension as is annexed to "C
highest Class In which he may have been employ-I, ("tithe's
any reference to the duration of his service In that Ciao), :bold
he so far amended as to require from any such person a cerrh
period of service in the higher Class.
With referfnce to these principles of modification, your Corn
calcite submit, that the number of Pensions ice each of the Oa
Claws should be Limited as follows:
Ist Classo-First.Lord of the Treasury, First I.srd of the Ad•
mkahy. Three Secretaries cf State, Chancellor of the Exdo•
quer--ain Pensions of 43,000.
24 Class—Chief Secietary for Ireland, Secretary at. T./3r—
three Pensions of 45,000.
N.B. The Chancellor of the Exchequer for Ireland was Ir•
elided in this Class in the Bill of 1513.
.341 Class—Two Secretaries of the Treasury, Principal go ie.
issy of the Admiralty—six Pensions of £l5OO.
4th Class—Under-Secretaries of State, Clerk of :he Cr !r:-.ct
—six Pensions of £lOOO.
That the Crown should have the power of granting cre c •
dos in each of these classes, except the second, at the end c. • •?
years from the adoption of this system by the Legi,%t:
so In succession at intervals of two years, until the exrirat,..., of
twelve years, when it shall be lawful to the Crown ei gratt
whtile number of pensions proposed in each class. With re•Fect
to the second class, it is proposed that the power should no: CCM'
Menet dll the expiration of four years, so as to come into c.-a•
plate operation at the same period of twelve years, as la the t'odt
other.claases.

Your Conituittee cooceive that the uffices of the Pre.tient ct
the Board of Controul, and Secretary to that Boar!, conic ".•`' 3
the description of effective civil And political so far -s
With* thtni to be considered in any geuvrat sy.tent in etulrd to
be laid down with regard to such offices • but they learc u ;o
wisdom. of the Hooke to detenuino whether, as their valaissi,y
andralT drawn tram angriest quans, and not front tit- t•-•'•

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