The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-08-04
Ghings Abroad,
ENGLISH PENSIONERS.

nuities aud cOmpensatiOns OF all kinds
made to individual Englishmen at the ex-
pcnsc Of the people through the public
Treasury. They exhibit a rather startling
array Of extravaganza in pensions, some Of
which are mere perquisites and sinecure
offices handed down for generations. Be
ginning with the annuities to the members
Of the Royal Family, we find that these
are paid to twelve persons, including the
nine children of Queen Victoria, and
amount to Ell0,0O0, or 500, 900 per an-
mum, exclusive Of ali that the Queen her
self receives. Five Of the Queens daugh,
ters, who are all happily or unhapplly
married of, receive $4,000 apiece per year
from the British people with the exception
of the Princess Royal (now Crown Prin,
cess of Prussia who has the extra allow
ance in honor Of primOgoniturc Of Is 900,
or $4,000 per uunula.
After the direct collateral branches of
the Royal Family comes sundry honorable
sinccurists, who are, many Of them, paid
magnificent sums on account Of services,
real or supposed, rendered to the nation by
their ilustrious ancestors. Among these
is the Duke Of Marlborough, whose pen
sion 10 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, re.
ceives the magnificent yearly allowance of
$1,000, or 100000 The present Duke
began to draw this little stipend as far
back as lSJG, and will have received by
the close Of the current year the very
pretty sum of ESQ., 900, or 500, 900, from
the taxation Of the people, not for doing
anything, but for the lucky accident of
having been born Marlborough. Not
withstanding this pecuniary felicity of his,
the latest English journals inform us that
the Duke Of Marlborough is pocuniarily
ruined, and is now passing through the
bankruptcy court
The Earl of Morley has been drawing
$4,000 year ever since 1903, or for ~
long years. He has been drawing it in
trust for the Earl of Amherst, favorite
Of King George III, aud the amount of
money he has bagged from the British
people by proxy thus amounts to E2lG,-
900, or much over million dollars.
The Earl Nelson and the Countess Fran
ces Elizabeth Nelson, heirs to the title of
the famous naval officer who conquered
and died at Trafalgar, have been drawing
$4,000 from the Treasury ever since the
year 1906, or sixty.nine years in all. The
amount Of their drafts upon the Treasury
thus amounts to E3i5, 900, or 81, ,725, 900.
Another class Of pensioners upon the
British Treasury are persons whose offices
have been abolished, aud who have been
indemnitied for loss of fees and pcrquisites
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 E2, 2S3 an
nually ever since 1872, when his position
in the Court of Chancery was abolished
lie has Pocketed in all something like
100000, or 100000 Of the money of his
fellow citizens.
The heirs of Sir Thomas Charges are
still enjoying pension granted to their
ancestor by King Charles III, about two
centuries ago, Of $500 per annum. The
amount received under this preposterous
aud long -winded annuity considerably cx-
cecds SlGO, 900, or $500, 900, and this for
no earthly service and no conceivable hon
or, but merely as the surviving representa-
tive Of one of the favOrites Of profigate
King. There is among the old English
cpigrams, which are also epitaphs, one
running as folows;-"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 iavorite of the
late Charles IL was translated to another
sphere. Ga the contrary, the "chargcs"
are still running, having already entered
upon their third century.
Niscount Comberniere has been receiv.
ing e. 900 year on account of military
services in India ever since the year of our
Lord 1914, The sixty.one years have net.
ted this loyal subject El22 900.
Henry barley, formerly Judge of the
Irish Court of Chaueery, is receiving g.
357 per annum under what is known as
"Lord Chancellors Order, ever since the
lth of June, 1910. He has received
little over ES0,00O, or SiO0, 900, already,
and still goes up smiling to the Treasury
every quarter-day to receive the continua-
tioa
Niscount Exmouth has drawn for sixty
years e., 600 per annum, or 100000 in
all, for naval services.
The Hon. j. 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 81 l,076 annually
As his Office was abolished in 1880 he has
already drawn something like quarter of
a million Of dollars for no services what.
ever, indicating that it is even more pro-
ftable to be out OF the butter business than
in il.
Richard Mills, Of the Court of Chaucery,
receives the very handsome allowance Of
$4,000 per annum, on account of the
abolition of his Office in 1912. Being,
like most pensioners, long-lived and Wig
orous, he has already drawn e160,O00, or
SSO0,0OO, 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 "a, 900
annually, aud was given something like
century and half ago for political ser
vices Under it there have been drawn
between one aud two millions of dollars.
Viscount st. Vincent, for naval services,
enjoys a pension of e3, 900 yearly, and has
already drawn one million dollars there
under.
The late Lord st. Leonards, ex.Lord
Chancellor, who was hoaored with a pen
sion in 1851 of $4,000 per annum, for
Judicial services, had drawn ell0,00O
Hereunder up to the time of his de-
cease at the good old age of ninety-six.
The heirs Of the Duke Of Schomberg,
who was killed at the battle of the Boyne
in 1890, have been drawing e2,l00 per
annum ever since from the British Treas
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