Expenditure of the Civil List. dukes of Clarence, Kent, Cumberland, Sussex, and Cambridgé, £75,000 out of this fund, which in justice ought to have been divided among the sailors. It was these precious WHIGS, too, who added £6000 a-year to their incomes at the same period. The claims of this faction, who solicit the confidence of the people on the grounds of economy and retrenchment, ought to be well understood. There is an account of a neat little Whig job in the "Reply to Lord Erskine," which will serve to illustrate their pretensions on this head. It relates to alterations in the audit-office. ADDITIONS TO THE AUDIT-OFFICE IN 1806. One chairman of the board, per annum Six inspectors, £600 each £1500 4800 1000 3600 1040 600 With numerous other appointments, which increased the expense of the establishment from about £14,000 to £38,000 per annum; and, after all, the office was made less efficient than under the old and less expensive system. 2. Salaries of the Judges.-After reading our observations on sir Charles Abbot and ford Eldon, it will be obvious, that the judges have other emoluments besides their salaries. 3. Foreign Ministers.-The following is a more particular statement of the estimated expense of foreign embassies, at different courts, in 1804 :Paris Petersburgh. Constantinople £12,129 12,129 9869 * The mission of George Canning, when there was no court, cost the publie £18,000, but then be was a right honourable gentleman, aud, of course, his expenses would be great. These selections will be sufficient to show the annual cost of this class of public servants. The expense of their outfit, a service of plate, and their equipage, on going abroad, is paid by the public; and, on their return home, after the absence of two or three years, they receive a pension to about half the amount of their salaries, for life. 4. Tradesmen's Bills.-The amount of these bills, from 1805 to 1811, appears gradually to have increased. It is easy to imagine the influence, dependence, and loyalty, which must be created among a numerous class of tradesmen in the metropolis, by the disbursements to the amount of £250,000 annually. 5. Menial Servants.-The expenditure in the department of the lord chamberlain is greater than in any other department of the household. The following were the estimated charges in 1804:— This officer defrays all expenses for the repairs of the royal palaces, the two houses of parliament, the expense of funerals, royal visitors, ambassadors, governors, processions, &c. which do not enter into the ordinary charges of the civil list. The following account, taken from the civil list in the Extraordinary Red Book," exhibits a statement of the actual expendi Expenditure of the Civil List. ture, principally on these subjects, from the 5th April, 1812, to the 5th January, 1815:— For the expenses of work and the repairs of public buildings, the following were sums laid before parliament in 1818: ROBERT BROWN, esq. for several works at both houses of parliament. at the Speaker's house. £ S. d. 5362 1 8 334 14 4 Robert Smirke, esq. for balances to tradesmen employed at the New Mint prior to 1812 Robert Browne, esq. to pay fees on issues made to him for expenses of work done at various public buildings 6926 10 0 6159 10 0 701 3 0. £41,195 4 It is unnecessary to remark the profitable jobbing, and the loyalty which will be manifested in illuminations, mournings, addresses of condolence, and the forming armed associations to oppose the people, in consequence of these various disbursements. 6. Pensions.-These are principally in the nature of compensations and bounties to different servants of the household, and in pensions to late foreign ministers. 7. Salaries of other Places, &c.-The sums paid under this head are too numerous, too miscellaneous, and too small in amount to bring under any particular description. 8th and 9th classes include various miscellaneous payments to foreign ministers, for alms, secret service money, allowances to certain corporations, the universities, &c. of which, in a subsequent part of the article, we shall give a more particular detail. Civil List Expenditure during the Regency. CIVIL LIST EXPENDITURE DURING THE REGENCY. OUR preceding observations apply more particularly to the period prior to the indisposition of the King. By referring to our statement in page 117, it will be seen, that the average expenditure for the seven years up to 1811, inclusive, amounted to £1,103,000. Under the government of the Regent, this sum was found vastly inadequate to meet the increased charges on the Civil List. The expenditure From a Report made to the house in 1815, it was clear, that there had been the most profuse expenditure in different departments of the household ever since the commencement of the Regency. In the first two years and three quarters, the expense of furniture and tradesmen's bills for CarltonHouse alone, amounted to £160,000. The following statement will show at one view the rapid increase of expenditure during that period, in four branches of the lord Chamberlain's department:— The Regent, on assuming sovereign power, had a grant of £100,000 as an outfit. This sum was intended to defray any additional expense he might incur in consequence of his new office; but instead of being applied to that object, it was appropriated to the liquidation of the debts he had contracted as Prince of Wales; and the public were called upon, under a new |