The Washington times., 1901-09-17
ENaLAND's TITLED GENERALS.
Grants of Money and Land to War;
rfOrs Before Roberts.


In one respect, l fancy. this grant to
Lord Roberts will constitute a record. 1t
will come, that is to say, before both
houses at the same time. The respective
figures of grants of this kind have an in
terest beyond that which they naturally
afford to the curious. AS matters of COM
parison they possess a retrospective inter-
est even for the most preoccupied man in
the street.
Lord Kitchener, the latest grantee, got
a lump sum of $15o,000 for Khartoum.
Khartoum certainly meant all that. Sir
Garnet Wolseley was voted s125.OW for
Ashanti. 1t has never seemed to me at
all an extravagant vote. But Lord Wolse-
ley benefited by subsequent vote or
two, j believe.
Lord Clyde-what was the salvation of
India considered worth from pariia-
mentary point of view when that great
soldier had ground out tile mutiny under
his heel in 1883? Parliamentary records OF
that date are a good deal more concerned
with the question of how on earth We
were to garrison India If We took 1t over
from John Company. One of John Com
pany's last acts. inCeed, was to vote the
new peer $40. 600 per annum pension. But
he took his title from river and mao
never an acre to his name when ne TOOK
it. However. his will--it was drafted, you
may remember strange to say, on cluD
paper" when it was proved In lseS,
| showed personally sworn at under YOU oVo.
When this will was reproved In ls6i the
personally was sworn at under half a MIL
| lion dollars. a.,
Wellington's pecuniary rewards are all
| filed and docketed, as are Marlborough $.
| With the viscountcy, In 1910, the former
| was voted $4,000 q year for his own nte
and the lives of two successors. With
his earldom, in 1872 he got $1,000 addition
al on the same terms. With his marqul-
! safe, in the same year, ne got $5poW Ior
1 af ft.n dc tn
| His dukedom, in 1914, put him in posses
sion of an additional 100000. And, In
| the July after Waterloo, he received w.
| coo 900 more for the purchase OF an es-
| tate TO be held by him and his heirs on
| the tenure of the yearly presentation or a
| tricolor flag on June IL. he had also ac-
\ quired as Prince of Waterloo an estate In
| the Netherlands. which was estimated at
| $4,000 per annum. Well, he had saved
| Europe and If Europe was not particu-
| Iarly grateful. 1t cannot be said that Eng
land, who had to pay the piper, was uh-
| grateful
John Churchill certainly got nothing
| like these sums in the way of pariiamen-
tary grants of cash. The MARQUIS OF
| Blandford and Duke of Marlborough OF
| l7O2 was voted $4,000 year during her
Majestys life And the life of her Maj
| esty, Queen Anne, was not then what an
actuary would have considered par
| the duke got 22, 900 acres. the manor OF
| Woodstock, the hundred of Wooten, alo
the site for the future palace of Blen-
helm And the cost of the BlenheiH
works presently totaled up to some
81, 100000, of which sum the Marlborough
never paid more than 100000. Moreover
the duke had sundry other sources oi
income He had 900 per annum as
| PIeniDotentiary; $50 600 as general of the
| English forces; $4,000 as master of the
ordnance; $4,000 as colonel of the guards
$50. GOO froln the states general; s9,lZo foi
travelling expenses; 5000 for table money
| Add his grant of S25, 600 year to all this
and you have. or rather he had, s2oO,eV
| annually to dispose of.
And as. over and above an thls' 1 m niio
his grace in receipt of further annua
sum of $4,000, mysteriously put down a:
percentages" l do not find IL dithcui
to understand why Parliament did no
consider ii necessary to vote even so dis
tinguished a commander a lump sum IL
addition.-Pan Mall Gazette.