The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-08-08 00:00:00

Ilt-E ST AITSMAN

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Warehouse.keeper 14; the itamp' Office.
".Cortstable 'tit the Castle of Limerick.
' • iriScotNail the Ace of laord.Justice General,
oppfkira t. 111,1,1; ilefVille a perfect sinecure. The
dity of thie.OfEeee was to
.presidein the Court-of
Justiciery. File a long 4sutiod• thin high office has
been' hestoweil on iii,rstittli• whir have not been
brought up to the profession of she Nissan( the
'lluti'es• of
.ie have in consequence been suspended.
. Your. Cutnusittee think it necessary, on this sub-
feet, to call the attention -of 'the. House to an Arti.
Ole of the I.J.nitet, . w'herein it is. nacted, ,
• ..., "rnat the Court of .Justiriory do akin, after the Milan,
and 'no a itlotanding thrreof, remain in rill time mining
wiiiiia 5r4111.414:1 as it is lion• coo‘tituted, stibjevt, ueverthe•
lesi, to soda regulation, for the better uttunolstratio.r of jus-
tire ;101401 be mad.. tor toe Portia:am-of Great Britain,
and a iihian preitit:tee•of other riglit, of josticiar)."
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• Your C.onolif tee have next proceeded to 'consi-
der tnnae Offices, white have revenue extremely
disproportionate to employment ; or the duties of
which are principally perfornseA by Deputy ; two
classes, which are 444.1 intimately blended together,
that your Committee have judged it useless, if not
inytracticable,au keep theta perfectly distinct.
Upon this subject, they think it necessary first
to advert to those Offices, the duties of which
are important, though requiring little personal at.
tendaece; but which, from their nature or respon.
sibility, can only be discharged 1,1 persons of
high official sit tiatiott. With respect to these
offices, pier Committee sewn the expediency
of annexing them to other offices of high rank
and responsibility, by which means a sating of
their whole emoluments may be derived to the
public. •
Amon,; the most•important offices of this des.
cription are those of the Auditor of the Exchequer,
and Clerk of the Pelts. It is staled to be male-
tial that these offices should be preserved as essen.
tial cheeks olt the ispoe of public money ; but it
appears to your Committee that such Offices might
with groat plow-41y be annexed to those of Pre.
sident of the Council and Privy Seal for the time
being, or to any other offict. of high responsibility
which is nut connected sitli the Treasury or Ex-
chewier.
The office of Master of the Mint it found in the
list in the Supplementary Rewire, which_ your
Committee have adopted as the poised of their Re-
port. But your Committee conceive that neither
this office, nor that of one of the jeint Paymasters,
which is also incinded in the same list, comes un.;
der that description of " tincture .effices," or
offices executed by deputy, which, is intended to
be referred to their consideration. 'They, are not
offices held,.eiiher ,by patent or custom, for life.;
nor giset v the re!sarif of public service. The
question of their. exiskettee in th'eir P.resent, or in
any other slate, as well asAats.ot the. amount Of
their emolument,..w odd theitife're he: to be deCided
on other:, grounds. Miii. principles., then these upon .
which your Committee have .thought thquatelvis
Callea upon toOffcr any recommeteletiOn:,.
Itanay,.however; he ript to. observe, thet the
division of the office of Paymaster of the 'Forces
does not appear to grew Out of any thing in the
Constitution of that office; and that, in point of
, fact, the whole duty of. that office, now *utile
1111
very considerable,. may be said to be peifornied
Molusively 4 One of the joint Paymasters.
. The office of Maati:e of the Miut is *undoubtedly 1
in office requiring little or. no attendance,
.tlitiugh
pee of ocroional resp,:msibility ;-,-. but the present
Natiterief the :Riot discharges the duties of Piesi-
dent of the Board of Trade, a situation td or) WOO.
o,
'win and requiring constant ittendaticiaind ap-
plication. . ,
The duties iif the Office.of Vice.Presidittit of the
same Board are in like manner discharged by the
Treasurer of the Navy ; and, generally, the e-
lective situations at this Board, and °Altera of a ei..
Miler description, to which no salary or emoln..
ment is attached, have been filled by persons bold.
iug other high official situations, puck as those.
above mentioned ; the emolutuents of iihieh would.
otherwise appear disproportionate to their actual.
employment.
This observation applies equally to. the whole,
business of the Privy Council, which is transeeted•
by Members, who, with the single exception of
the Lord President himself, arc not entitled to'
any salary or emoloment fur their attendance .at•
that Board.
For the duties still performed by the chief J us.
iiCe in Eyre, South of Trent, your Committee re.
fir to the evidence of Mr. Hanson, now,, sand for.
a long time past, Secretary to that Chief Justice.
The duties appear to your Committee to be of a
merely formal -nature, which, so far as. the eonti-
nued performance of them is (*cilia' to the pre.
aervatou of any Of the rights olthe Crown, might,
in the inioo of :,our Committee, without incun.
wen*, be transferred to some other efficient of.
`face, )ch as that of Surveyor of the Woods and.
Forests. . .
The Government of the Isle of WiAt.appears.
not to be of a military nature. 4. part qt the
functions of the Governor, are tiMiler to those or
;the 'Lords' Lieutenant, of LlOtinties, tutti like them
might be discharged without eatelweent; the other
functions appear to be performed hr deputy ; but
with respect to .this Office, pier ConueittershaVe`
not yet been able to obtain stiffiCientlidetaad ie.:
formation. . ..
Your Committee have. next proceeded to- eta.
IlliliOs so far.as their times and Means
.4f, itifornia-
. . am would permit, the more quinerous saint or,
01*re, which, being perforttie,d f Mir* or pyl9-.
. . cipally by deputy, appear to literp tu. come more
immediately within the purVieW .uf the third !'els!.t
' 'lotion. .. . .. -
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Of this descriptinit yeitr•C4lniniltsl,llinrato no-
.
• -• Ake the following offices ;
In the Court of Exchequer--..Clad[ of tbu Ripe,
- Comptroller of the Pipe, (Aerie ~.cif .-FetchtlfillPr
Miss Clerk of Foreign Estruatsi Giimptfolier..a..
Fir., Fruits, the. Chirograpliers„ForoignAfWe
seer, King's Remembrance', together with wl#ichi
Ii ' , • h. il tha.olEzu of Register of Deals In Middle,
• Mix, Marshal of the g4Chicuei, 'Survejoi pf
•I OreenW at. . • . •
' ' 14.114 Si tjho HkioCPu.rt f. o 4dasitaltiot • Re'
, • ~ fur , t
. s r4jzftite.l!tgli'etiurt of II ppe its .
lOUS{
fai HO (lan of Delegales.
t—Throe Comotioslos.

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ers, Receiver General, Matter in Chancey, Two
tClerke. •
The duties of 'the four Tellers of the niche-,
iquer ire performed Slt-igether by their deputies
land as to their responsibility for the custody of
public money, your Committee observe, th.it the
same amount of security. which is required from
the Tellers is usually given to thuin by their depii.
ties ; from which your Committee are led to infer,
that,, both with' respect to their duties, and to„.1
their respOusibility, these offices might be. safely
reduced to the present emoluments of the deputies.
Theoffice t,f-Cierk. of the Parliaments is per-
•formed almost wholly by deputy and is one of
those which would come within the purview of the
Third Resolution. On-thee subject of this office,
however, .your• Committee think it necessary espc.
cially to represent, that the Clerk of Parliament,
though tippoititeJ by the .Crown, is a servant of
theilouse of Lords. • •
In the Milo, your Cninmittee have to notice the
folk% big offices :—Warden, Comptroller, Sur.
veyor of lleitings; and Clerk of the Irons.
In the Privy-Seal Othco :—Tlie four principal
Clerks.
Foley Clerka in the Sigoef.Office.
. In the Excise —The C oin Orel ler- Gen eral of
Accounts, Inspector-Getteral of Inland Duties,
Register to the Commissiouers of Excise.
Your Committee having adverted, to ,the offices-
perfumed by deputy in the Colonies, think it ne.
cest.ary to, observe, that •theie.emoluetents Arise
from fees end
.salai lee pail within the Colonies.
Your Committee have further to observe, thai ea.
withstanding an Aet.passed in the isit.rl year of his
present Majesty's reign, c. 75, the object of
which was to -eta trce residence in the principals,
many of these offices. 'continue to be executed
wholly by deputy. That Act., contains a clause
empowering the Governor* of Colonies. to *give
such leave of 'abs;aoce as they shall tiee occasi.en to
give.' But that power appears to have been exer-
cised to so great an extent, as to ffustrate what
must, no doubt, have been the true intention of the
Legislature. . •
Your Committee have meitabled the following
to. be of that :---Secretary and Clerk
of ,Ittrolinetits in the Islam! of
..Jit Moira, Aegister
of. Chancery in ditto, Receiver-General in ditto,
Clerk of the.CrOwn'Courts in ditin, Naval Olker
in einto, Secretary xed Clerk Of .the Courts in
BarbadaiCs; Prothonotary of the Conrt-of Com.
Mon Pleas in ditto,' PrOviisf Marshal in dittot Na.
Tar Officer of: Curilerra,! Secretary • of: Tobago,
Naval Officer of •Detnerara. . . - •
appearx tO.your ;Committee- that
the:following- officee coine•Within the ,purvinVit of
the Thkrd %poi Oti oti, " as: being- whotly,'eriptinei-
pally:.diseliarged by deploy.- •l'hiti existence .of
anrof itiele•anelerit. 'efficeS' appears to' be tutu ri4ll
to.Scottand by, the Act of. Viii On.; bet it lis.•also
provittett in that Act, 'that they .`shall subject
to suck legelitioni es. ttieT#ll,antent Of 'Great
Britain ehall:iteitieftertiaititi—TheK.eeper Of libi
Great Seal, the • Keeper of -the Priey- Seal,, the
KeePer of the Signet, 'Lord 'Register, Director of
the (;hurt of Chancery, Clark .W ditto, Reviver
of Bishops' ROMs; Rentembrancer iu
the -Court of "-Exelteltiei.. - • . .
witeland, the followingefficati appear to your
Comthittee ,to come within
.the, purview of: the
same .B.tiolution Rentembrancer of :Abe
'tug'.a Wench, Clerk of the Pipe, Clerk of Com.
men. filets Office; 'Court of Exchequer, reptile.
notary of Common Incas, Prothonotary of
Befirb, Crown (Ace, King's' Bench, Tifezeces
Office, and
,Keener ni:Declarntinsis,:iKing's Bench,
Teller of the Exchequer, Keeper of Privy Seal,
Keeper of Itecords, Two Soint Muster Mashers
General.
Your Committee have opt .been able to extend
_Oar inquiry to many other offices in the {Jailed'
Kingdom, and the Colonies, -eneeterated in the
Su eplement.to . the Third Retport. ' With respect,
however, to eome which ara turluded iu (hit Re.
port,
.and which have not been already adverted
to, they think it necessary to submit thelollow.l
ing observations. - 1
• The inconsiderable office of Cartakqe
Majesty, is connected with the personxi servicel
of .the Royal Family, and consequently does Dot
fall under the cognizance of your Committee.
The office of Keeper of Records in the receipt
of • the Exchequer, appears tube an efficient office
of trust, and not overpaid by a salary of .4001.
per.annwo. . • • .
The 'places-of ()tee Keeper in the War Office,
and of Register of Seizures In the rt.( of Lond.on,
are to be suppri•ssed after this decease Or asioa.
tion of tire present officers.
..The Auditor bf Excise has beets 'tendered gill
efficient office. The Office of Register to the'
Commissioners of Soft Duties, has been alrently
abolished; the Wary -atsw paid isle the taalatru-nfl
a compensation. -• .
The Receiver.of Stomp itppears to be a nett,.
nary and relponsihte Am.,. sad _his .onoliamentst.,
notelets Than adrqtretre.
1' he INA/1440es offitempsere effective Officer's.:
.TheDistriburOve • for liticktagisamehire iandlent"
nre'equally so with then 1 they have been
.in.
.serted iu the list ot-offiasis executed by deputy la;
Consequence of ,no indelgenee which is cosifiaed to'
the prcieut .titgers.". • . •
It appotte,h7 theevidauSnltheA -the Office Or A .4,
countant-General of the Pust.Officc is an efficient'
nifiee; requiting periotiel aftendiecr, With respell..
and tbat.Slie ,evooluipeists of this office•
will not tethrotiow. • •;iffitte- of Apo.:
cliedery.4eneral 13411• utsdlr ttseesipitier at inn
Of the Treaeury,; auriliy.en.sigtattossitvoneludecli
'w h hint hie indent it is bellAtlvOltdertittion ebndi.'
bottof receiving -au itennitv,ortAckii .11 yeaihrl
Ede t an agreement viitieh .appears to liOur Com.'
mitten to be.enviiiintfi..berieftiat to thiqubfic.
frelanif, 141)411 frpee. s. pia. to lite.teeper
of the.. late 'Parliarnent.House, apliettre • tu.*o
.compensation for.att ;AGO %Weir 'llMppreespd.
Theoffire of Joint SulicitOr if Ireland in Great
Britain is also aboliiiied, as well as that' of Etta.
•lltikr"Of fleaillkMoney4.ailit.o; tiMiis ;of CIA*
,of.ibe Quit:Revs, :TpeaSurse. of .tlie Poit.officeii
'and •AcColinta n teitoserartif the N!eoaaree; lA,
been made efficient.-:The fees, *Miff umtelF file
head of 'Master.Muter.Getiersl of I,Tch_t_ltd, are

:stated to be "due, but suspended," are in fact
abolished.
Your Committee will.coneltide their Report by.
bringing distinct!), before the Moose the result of
their examination into loth of the.afices, stated
'by the Committee on Public Expenditure to be
sinecures or ofbces wholly -or chielly.eseented by
depwty, as they hare since their appointment had
time or opportunity to investigate, u WO, in their
opinion, came within the purview Of the 2d and ;Id
Resolutions referred to thein.
After Parliament shall have, provided ,stich.other
sufficient means for enabling 14.4 Majesty d.CY
to recompense the faithful discharge of high 'att.!
1 effective civil offices, as to the wisdom of Patbil-
-1 meta shall seem fit, and your Committee are of

opinion.
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Ist.—That the following offices, 44 having re.
venue without employment," might, at the expi-
ration of the existing interests, be abolished :
Nos. io VAL
Appendix (A.) • per Annum.
54—Chief Justice in tyre North of Trent £1,790
64.---I.iove Clerk in Secretary of State's Office, i SOO
Home Department
63—Collector and Transmitter of State Papers, i 600
• Foreign Department
145---Coostableorthe C.mstleof Limerick, Ireland 759
Not repotted by Committe of Public E. xpenditure. •
Principal Housekeeper in the Excise Office 145
Warehouse-keeper, Stamp Office . 200

5et3,698
tdly. that the ftillowing offices Might continue
'at the expiration of the existing intere.ts to he
tteanagett by the deputy, as at present, withoot
any .addition to his salary and. emoluments ; 'but
II that Crum the peculiar nature of the re.sponsildlity
attathed to them; however limited' the actual duties
to be performed, these offices wout,l, in the opi-
into' of the (:onvnittee, be thi'ist 'conveniently
by some of those pettions who hold for the
time being certain high official gauntlet's, leaving
the annual atnnont now paid to the principiil at
the disposal of Parliainent
Nos. in Appendi i( A.) pate-Ana.
56. A ittlitor4d the Itidtequire •••• MAUD
• • 69., Clock Pell* :3,1100
55. Chief Justice in Eyre South of Trent 1,9(t)

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Illy. That the following &Bees would admit of
being left, after the expiration of the existing- in.
tercets, .altogether under the management of the
deputy, without any *addition to his present sala-
ry or emoluments, the ,emoluments now re-
ceived by the principal being placed at the disposal
of Parliament.

An. Amount received.
Nos. in Dep. Pin.
Ap. (A) . X
66. Consp4rolkr cif the Pipe, •Eteheepter 190 100
35. Chirographer's Court, Common Plead 1641 '.4.h1
29. clerk of the Exchequer of Pleas . 663 66•1
37. Kicit's Rememhranrer, Exrliequer ' 1400 991
45. Registrar.of the Iligh Court of Appeals
46. Do. or Delegates-44. Do. of ._
Ardroirrilty—one third of *profits pay-
. able to the *Priori pal - - --.- 12,548
61. clerk ‘sf the Parliaments, on arerage 79617
earl
- - - - 3617
-613. Principal Clerk Sigoet °See - 160
Do. Do. , Do.. 110
Do. Do. Do. 110
DJ. 1)0. no. 110
71, Comptroller-General of Accounts Ex-
cise - - - - 503
71a Inspector-General - - ia
57. Teller of the Ey/chequer * - . 10• J„)
18. Do. Do. • - - 1000
76. Litt. 110. as limited after Life
of 'present Possessor - 100) 2700
77. Do. Do. D.). ' 1000 2700
12d. Chief Rentetahraneer. Exchequer, Ire-
hind • • - - • - 507 3694

I'6o
260
YoU
Y6t)

445
19-2
2700
WO)

41111. 'clerk al the Comma Pleas. Exchequer
Do. - - - - lancer. 8253
113. Prothonotary (oturntm Pleas, Ireland,
on an a.veraps of three years. -1908 139)
132. Prothonotary King's Beach, 'lreland,
on an average nt three years-133. -
Crown Officer, Do. Do.-134. Filo-
her Da. D..—nor-third of Total Fees
for self au& Clerks - ---. IpAg
MIL Keeper of the Privy Seal, Ireland 13D IVO
Muster Master-Geueral, do. ancer. 40'.10

68,983
4thly.—That the following Offices would admit
of being brought, at the-expiration of the existing
interests, entirely under the management of the'
Deputy as now constituted ;'but that the degree of
responsibility, or ttoitble attending the discharge
of the whole duties, would entitle the Deputy tot
an increase of the salary' to be hereafter settled,
which renders the amount of ultimate saving to
the public uncertain :
Now. is
.Ap17...1.
Clerk of the Pipe, Exchequer
- 96. Toreiga Apptoer, Do.
39. Marshal 'Do.
42. Surveyor Green Watt, Do. is. in the .4
53a.Aliesuttion Office.
Vottimisviouir
Ditto
Ditto

Value per Annum.
Dep. • Prin.
no 720
160
150
94

52 11G
50 107
lift , 107
170 • "31 •
10 10r. 101
10 1118

Receiver-General
Master in Chancery
• Cirri;
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Ditto -
Warden of the Mint
. Comptroller po -
Surveyor Itteltiogs Da. ' •••
Priseipal Giese*, ?rimy seel
• ' Do. • Do.
De. Do. -
71a. Regiribee to •ecisootiodeoris bf
Excise. self :led Clerk • -
le: tiertt .iter"cieqFfilisllrelami)
494. of the Pipe,qureelle!d) -
A dd, oot reputed by pomosittee of
Public .Xxprecliturr, • . •
ReMg*.er of Weeds for Dimity of
Middlesex - - 50
Under this bead way be dazed the •
often; wholly or riskily executed 'by • •
deputy io Scotland; of Sim some
mot be retained' by the provisions of
the Act of Union, although 'ojected' • •
by the same Act to •be •regolased by • •
rAtuto. What the, ultitoute sav-
ing w •be after yetii reguintiois as
may be thought expedient, is uncer-
ip • •
• 1010.1. Xer per or the Great Seal .
• JOS.' KeOper of the Pricy Std
. .-- • irja•
-JOS. ii.typeref the Signet - 2/17
105. Lora Register - . 500 2olgy
107. Director of the Court-of Chao- • - ••
cerY -• • • - - - 65 -.-- 1335
• clerk to ditto - ese-ftwurib brute fees 679
.110.' Kis(' Remeorlartiadur •• •
o.eCnivetut %baps' Yeats 176 . , 4711
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19,955
'With relpeet to (Aces in the eolonits where,
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DILIPOY. Face" 14e !hole
losem°ll"ollemoluments,Paiint
to tAilmorladipal, by- Atiifteeatt a fixed annual 'mho
wsift•Fßat leetrity for 'the setae, as Well u for the
Maki execution of the Ace abroad; your Cos-

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