The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-14
COST OF ROYALTY.
The Enormous Sans Paid Out to Support
Titled LOafers.

Titled LOafers.
Nasby's London Letter.
In England thousands of pounds are paid
out annually to support titled loafers in idle
| ness. fair sample of these pensions is that
of Duke Shomberg. The duke was killed at
| the battle of the Boyne, in the year 1880,
and pension of $4,000, or $4,000 per an
| mum, was given to his heirs. 1t is esti-
mated that this family, the heirs of foreign
| mercenary, have received from the British
| government the enormous sum of G65O,O
or So 400, 600 And this for being favorite
| of William of Orange-Dutch king.
Rev. J. Smith, whoever he may be, served
| at the Lord knows what twenty years mt a
yearly salary of f364, and was retired at
| fifty-sx years of age with the comfortable
/ life pension of f231 annually; and SO on you
go, wading through twenty-five closely
printed pages, two columns to the page, of
| Just such cases, the yearly allowance of
! these excrescences footing up for the year
| 1879 the enormous sum of, FL, 713, 258 II is
| good thing to be the favorite of duke
The royal family have a remarkably soft
| thing it, Her Royal HighLess the Princess
Royal receives yearly allowance of $4,000;
\ the Prince of Wales receives G40, 900, which
1 he manages to squander in questionable
! ways. This does not include the grants Par
| lament has made at divers and sundry
times to pay his debts. The Princess
of Wales. 10000; Prince Alfred,
| 100000 from his marriage and
ELS. 900 from his majority, EOS, 600 in all;
| Prince Arthur, els, 900; Princess Alice, &c.
900; Princess Louise, 5000; Princess Mary
f5 900; Prince Leopold G15000; Princess
| Augusta, 93,000 Duke of Cambridge, 912,
| 600; and in addition, the last mentioned
| fraud has princely pay as field marshal, gen.
eral, colonel, and no one knows what else.
| WbnaUar nh mas n
| this costs the people of Great Britain-I
| have not the patience. And bear in mind
| the fact that this. does not represent any
portion of what these absorbers take out of
| the people.
This is merely pin-money for the female
leeches and pocket-money for the male. In
addition to this they have enormous estates
all over England Ireland, Scotland and
Wales They have offices beyond number,
| with salary attached to each, and they have
allowances for everything under heaven. Ii
| the taxpayer breathes it always costs him
something, for the nobility have revenues
based upon everything.
The royal household Is curiosity There
is the lord steward, who drays e., 600 year;
the lord treasurer and comptroller, f900 each;
master of the household, f2, $50; secretaries of
the board of green cloth-whatever they may
be-e30o; paymaster, $500; lord cham berlain,
e.. 900; keeper of the priyy purse, 1000; the
assistant keeper of the privy purse, FL, 900. IG
takes two men to keep the privy purse, and it
Is large enough to require it. And then there
are eight lords in waiting, who get for wait
ing f182 each, and there are grooms in wait
ing, grooms of the privy chamber, extra
grooms in waiting, four gentlemen ushers,
one "black rod'-whateVer he may do,
don't know-but for being 'black rod he
gets e., 900 year. Then there is clerk of
the closet, mistress of the robes ladies of the
bed chamber and bed-chamber women,
maids of honor, and poet laureate, and ex
arfiner OF plays.
The poet laureate gets $500 a year for
writing a very bad ode in praise OF her
Majesty on each birthday, which must be
| very bitter pill for him. he being actually
| poet but he does not give the worth of the
money, for there is absolutely nothing in
the Queen of England to praise. Mr.. Ten
nyson has very hard place.
| The master of the horse receives 92,5o0,
| the master of the buck hounds 81, 700; the
| hereditary grand faiconer, 81, 200--and BY
the way, Kings don't facon any more. Then
there are eight equerries in ordinary, at
f200 each, which is certainly cheap; five
pages of honor, at f120 each. a master of the
tennis court at fl32
| These, understand. are only few of the
people belonging to the royal household.
| There are over 1000 persons, male and fe-
male attached thereto, all receiving magnif-
| cent salaries for real or imaginary services to
| her Majesty.
| The Queen receives, exclusive of the vast
! income of her estates, for the running of her
household and pensions for the deadbeats,
who get too old to show themselves. the
enormous sum of 9470,000, or $2,035, 900 per
annum, and this represents but portion of
the swindIe, as constantly allowances are be-
ing made and annuities granted which do
not show upon paper, and can only be
reached by the most ferret-like acuteness
and perseverance Ninety per cent. of all
| this mummery, Tor which the people of Eng
| land have to pay good hard cash, is the most
absurd and inter nonsense.