The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-07-31
ENGLISH PENSIONERS.

ENGLISH PENSIONERS.
Among the curiostes of the British Blue
Books are to be found the returns of the
numerous annuities, pensions, superannui-
ties and compensations of all kinds made
to individual Englishmen at the expense of
the people through the public Treasury.
They exhibit rather startling array of
extravaganza in pensions, some of which
are mere perquisites and sinecure offices
handed down for generations. Beginning
with the annuities to the members of the
Royal Family, we find that these are paid
to twelve persons, including the nine chill
dren of Queen Victoria, and amount to
e140, 900, or 800, 900 per annum, exclusive
Of all that the Queen herself receives
Five of the Queens daughters who are all
happily or unhappily married off, receive
&c, 900 apiece per year from the British
people with the exception of the Princess
Royal NOW Crown Princess of Prussia)
who has the extra allowance in honor of
primogeniture of $4,000, or $40,0 900 per
annum.
After the direct collateral branches of
the Royal Family comes sundry honorable
sinecurists, who are, many of them, paid
magnificent sums on account of services,
real or supposed, rendered to the nation by
their illustrious ancestors. Among these is
the Duke of Marlborough, whose pension
to himself and ancestors dates from Queen
Anne's days, or the beginning of the 18th
century. This descendant of a brave,
illustrious, but penurious sire, receives the
magnificent yearly allowance of "a, 900, or
$50, 1000. The present Duke began to draw
this little stipend as far back as 1856, and
will have received by the close of the cur
rent year the very pretty sum of ESQ, 600,
or $400, 900, from the taxation of the peo-
pie, not for doing anything, but for the
lucky accident of having been born MARI
borough. Notwithstanding this pecuniary
felicity of his, the latest English journals
informs US that the Duke of Marlborough
is pecuniarily ruined, and is now passing
through the bankruptcy court.
The Earl of Morley has been drawing
$4,000 a year ever since 1908, or for 72
long years. He has been drawing it in
trust for the Earl of Amherst, favorite Of
King George III, and the amount of money
he has bagged from the British people by
proxy thus amounts to e216, 900, or much
!. over million dollars.
Nola a.,
ces Elizsra1..', Nelson, heirs to the title OF
the famous naval or 'cer who conquered and
died at Trafalgar have neen drawing e5,
600 from the Treasury ever s1nS"se the year
1906, Or sixty-nine years in air Inc
amount of their drafts upon the Treasury
thus amounts to e345, 900, or 81, 725, 900.
Another class of pensioners upon the
British Treasury are persons whose offices
have been abolished, and who have been
Unidentified for loss of fees and perquisites
through an annual grant or pension. Mr..
Charles Bowyer seems to be among the
foremost of these, and he has been in re-
ceipt of the very pretty sum of 60, 2S3 an
nually ever since 1912, when his position in
the Court of Chancery was abolished. He
has pocketed in all something like ESQ, o0O
or $500, 200 of the money of his fellow-citi
zens.
The heirs of Sir Thomas Charges are still
enjoying a pension granted to their ances-
tor by King Charles II, about two centu-
ries age, of $500 per annum. The amount
received under this preposterous and long
winded annuity considerably exceeds $780,
900, or $500, 900, and this for no earthly
merely as the surviving representatives of
one of the favorites of a profligate King
There is among the old English epigrams,
which are also epitaphs, one running as
follows" Here lies Father Charges, who
died to save charges"
But it would appear that this object, so
desirable to English tax payers, was by no
means achieved when this favorite of the
late Charles II was translated to another
sphere. On the contrary, the " charges !"
are still running, having already entered
upon their third century.
Niscount Comberniere has been receiving
go, 900 year on account of military SER
vices in India ever since the year of our
Lord 1914. The sixty-one years have net
ted this loyal subject e122,0O0.
Henry barley, formerly a Judge of the
Irish Court of Chancery, is receiving g.
357 per annum under what is known as
"Lord Chancellor's Order" ever since the
4th of June, 1910. He has received little
over ESQ.,, 900, or $500, 900, already, and still
goes up smiling to the Treasury every
quarter-day to receive the continuation.
Viscount Exmouth has drawn for sixty
years $4,000 per annum, or 1920, 900 in all,
for naval services.
The Hon. ]. w. Knox, who is nothing
but an ex-weighmaster of butter receives
in virtue of the abolition of that office the
very pretty pension of e1,07G annually.
AS his Office was abolished in 1880 he has
already drawn something like quarter of
million of dollars for no services what
ever, indicating that it is even more profit
able to be out of the butter business than
in it.
Richard Mills, of the Court of Chancery,
receives the very handsome allowance of
e5, 600 per annum, on account of the aboli-
ton of his office in 1S42. Being, like most
pensioners, long lived and vigorous, he has
already drawn e16o, 200, or $500, 900, and
at the latest advices was still at it.
One of the most ancient pensions quar-
tered upon the British people, is that drawn
by William Penn and his heirs, &C., for
ever. This pension amounts to GA, 900 an
nually, and was given something like GEN.
fury and ahalf ago for political services.
Under it there have been drawn between
one and two millions of dollars.
Viscount St. Vincent, for naval services,
enjoys pension of $4,000 yearly, and has
already drawn one million dollars there
under.
The late Lord st. Leonards, ex-Lord