Salaries, Pensions, and Emoluments of Members of Parliament. EMOLUMENTS OF MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT. [The following is the document alluded to at page 134; it is the return made by the members themselves of their salaries, sinecures, pensions, and emoluments. It does not, however, exhibit the whole mass of corruption and sinister influence acting on the representatives of the people :-first, because it does not include the relatives and dependents of members in the possession or expectancy of salaries, pensions, and emoluments out of the public taxes;-secondly, because it does not show the connexions and dependents of members in the Church, whose prospects and possessions may be supposed to have considerable influence on the proceedings of the Lower House; and, lastly, because it does not show the members (forming a vast majority of the House) who are mere 'nominees of the aristocracy, and, of course, whose parliamentary conduct is influenced by the interests of their patrons. For the names of the places for which the members sit, their families and connexions, and their votes on public questions, see the " Key to the Lower House."] Report of the Select Committee on the Returns made by Members of the House of Commons, to the several Orders of the House, of the 8th day of June, 1821. Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, 9th July, 1822. YOUR Committee have to report to the House, That it appears to them that fifty-seven Members of Parliament hold offices under the Crown, at the pleasure of the Crown or otherwise, the net emoluments of which are £108,565:11:0; that there are thirteen Members of Parliament, holding offices in the appointment and at the pleasure of the Public Officers, the emoluments of which are £28,107 : 4:2; that there are Salaries, Pensions, and Emoluments, of Members of Parliament. seven Members of Parliament holding offices or pensions for life, under grants from the Crown, the emoluments of which are £9,6588: 10; that there is one Member of Parliament holding office for term of years, under grant from the Crown or other Public Officers, the emolument of which is £15: 9:1; that there are four Members of Parliament holding offices for life, under appointment from the Chiefs in the Courts of Justice, or from other Public Officers, the emoluments of which are £10,050 1:3; that there are five Members of Parliament holding pensions, or sinécures, or offices chiefly executed by deputy, held by Members of the House of Commons, under grants from the Crown, or by Act of Parliament, the emoluments of which are £7,478; that there are two Members of Parliament holding the reversion of offices under the Crown after one or more lives, the emoluments of which are £6,489; that there are seventy-nine Members of Parliament holding naval and military commissions; that fifty-nine of them hold other offices, and are included in the preceding classes. It then appears to your Committee that eighty-nine Members of Parliament hold offices or pensions either in possession or reversion, not including those who have naval and military commissions, to the annual amount of £170,343: 14:4. 1.-A Return of Members of the House of Commons, holding Offices under the Crown, at the Pleasure of the Crown, or otherwise. Antrobus, Gibbs Crawfurd, secretary of legation to the Archdall, Mervyn, governor of the Isle of Wight £ S. d. 550 O 0 346 5 0 Bagwell, Right Hon. William, joint-muster-master-general in Ireland Barry, Right Hon. John Maxwell, lord of his majesty's trea 486 6 9 sury 1,220 O 0 Bathurst, Right Hon. Charles, chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster and a major-general in the army. Beresford, Lord George Thomas, comptroller of the king's household..... 3,563 0 0 880 13 0 nance. Burgh, Sir Ulysses Bagenal, surveyor-general of the, ord a lieutenant.colonel in the army, and a captain in the Guards. Clerk, Sir George, Bart. lord of the Admiralty ..... 1,261 10 0 1,000 0 0 Salaries, Pensions, and Emoluments, of Members of Parliament. Cockburn, Sir George, Bart. lord of the Admiralty.. Cole, Hon. Sir Galbraith Lowry, governor of Gravesend Congreve, Sir William, Bart. king's equerry.. superintendent of the royal military reposi tory. a pension for good services Copley, Sir John Singleton, solicitor-general and a king's serjeant-at-law. 750 0 91 5 1200 0 4,500 0 0 2,200 0 0 Courtenay, Thomas Peregrine, secretary to the East-India agent to the Cape of Good Hope, with a salary of sion 1822. Cranbourne, Lord Viscount, commissioner of the board of house-rent for his majesty's legation 400 Forbes, Lord Viscount, aide-de-camp to his majesty, at 10s. 5d. per diem.... 190 2 1 and a colonel in the army. Fremantle, Right Hon. William Henry, commissioner of the board of control Gifford, Sir Robert, attorney-general Graves, Lord, lord of the bedchamber Hart, George Vaughan, governor of Londonderry Hill, right hon. Sir George Fitzgerald, vice-treasurer of Holmes, William, treasurer of the Ordnance.. Hope, Sir William Johnstone, bart. lord of the Admiralty Huskisson, right hon. William, 1st commissioner of woods and forests agent for Ceylon... £2,000 3,100 0 0 1,100 has a pension of £1,200 from the civil list, as a retired * It appears, by Parliamentary Return, No. 602, of Session 1821, that Sir George Cockburn was appointed a Major-general of Marines on the 5th of April, 1821, and receives £1,037 per annum, pay. + It appears by Parliamentary Return, No. 158, of 1804, that William Henry Fremantle, Esq. receives one-half of an annuity of £2,030:10:8, Irish, as compensation for loss of office as joint-resident-secretary in London to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland; and, also, joint-solicitor in England for the revenue of Ireland. It appears by the Act of 40 Geo. III. c. 50, of the Irish Parliament, that Sir George Hill also receives an annuity of £2,265:13:9, Irish currency, for life, as a compensation for loss of office as the Clerk of the House of Commons of Ireland. Salaries, Pensions, and Emoluments, of Members of Parliament. under secretary of state, which ceases whilst receiving Londonderry, marquis of, secretary of state for foreign of the army 2,000 3,500 0 0 1,500 409 5 4 a pension from the 44 per cents. Lovaine, lord, lord of the bedchamber Manners, right hon lord Charles Somerset, extra aid-de- and a vice-admiral of the white (no half-pay). presenter of signatures in the Court of Ex- Nolan, Michael, king's counsel 1,218 0 0 2,000 0 0 1,220 0 800 1,350 0 0 550 36 14 0 102 6 2 Nugent, Sir George, bart. governor of St. Mawes Castle and a captain in the guards. Onslow, Arthur, king's serjeant Osborn, Sir John, bart. lord of the Admiralty Paget, hon. Berkely, lord of the Treasury.. Palmer, Charles, aid-de-camp to his majesty at 10s. 5d. per diem and colonel on half-pay of the 22d light dragoons. Palmerston, lord viscount, secretary-at-war Peel, Right Hon. Robert, secretary of state (home-depart ment) Phillimore, Joseph, commissioner of the board of control Plunket, Right Hon. W. Conyngham, attorney-general of Ireland... Ponsonby, Hon. Frederick, aid-de-camp to his majesty.. Salaries, Pensions, and Emoluments, of Members of Parliament, Scarlett, James, king's counsel Somerset, Lord Granville C. H. lord of the treasury. commissioner for inquiring into the department of cus toms 250 Vivian, Sir Richard Hussey, equerry to his ma jesty with allowance for house-rent and a major-general in the army. Wallace, Right Hon. Thomas, vice-president of the board of trade... Ward, Robert, clerk of the ordnance Warren, Charles, king's counsel chief-justice of Chester missioner of East-India affairs 2,000 0 1,117 0 0 Wynn, Right Hon. Charles Watkin Williams, 1st com 5,000 0 0 Total......£108,565 11 0 John Thomas Fane, for Lyme Regis, being abroad, no return has been obtained; but the Committee find, on inquiry, that he holds the office of one of the clerks of the privy seal, is an inspector of the Ionian militia, and a major in the army. 2.-A Return of Members of the House of Commons, holding Offices in the Appointment and at the Pleasure of the Public Officers. Arbuthnot, Right Hon. Charles, joint-secretary of the Treasury* Bathurst, Hon. Seymour Thomas, agent for the Island of Malta... and a captain in the Guards. Calvert, John, secretary to the Lord Chamberlain Canning, Right Hon. George, receiver-general Alienation Office.. Croker, John Wilson, secretary to the Admiralty. secretary to Sea- Officers Widows. Dawson, George Robert, under secretary of state for the home-department. Goulburn, Henry, chief-secretary to the lord-lieutenant of Ireland, and bailiff of PhoenixPark Lushington, Stephen Rumbold, secretary of the Treasury * A pension of £2,000, as ex-ambassador, but does not receive it since his appointment as secretary of the Treasury. |