Places, Pensions, Grants, Sinecures, and Emoluments. .... .... Pennefather, William, of Clonmel....... Spencer, teller of the exchequer .... Of Mr. Perceval, it is enough to say, that his maiden speech, on the appointment of six equerries to the king, was rapturously applauded by the immaculate Castlereagh. Percy, hon. A. secretary of legation, Sardinia Peterkin, Alexander, Orkney....... ...... ...... Petersham, viscount, lord of the bed-chamber .... William, clerk in the navy-office, 1801 Phipps, hon. Aug. deputy paymaster, Gibraltar •(8) .... 250 0 £ 547 commiss. of excise.. 1250 hon. Edmund, M. P. clerk of deliveries in .... the ordnance office Brothers to earl Mulgrave, master-general of the ordnance, £3160. Pierrepoint, hon. H. envoy extraordinary, Stockholm Pierson, rev. Thomas, March 1801 .. Sarah, Francis, Mary, and Diana, each £29, 1786 .... 1015 9 8 1200 0 0 ........ • (s. m) Pitmilly, lord, commiss. civil jury court, Scotland.. Plat, Samuel and Joseph, clerks of the papers Plumer, sir Thomas, master of the rolls. Mint, £10,350; joint remembrancer court of Brother to the marquis Wellesley, and the duke of Wel- 12450 0 0 300 0 0 114 0 284 0 0 250 0 0 500 0 0 200 0 0 Elizabeth, on the death of her husband.. 500 0 0 Porteus, John, macer of session.. 120 0 0 Pond, John, astronomer royal, Greenwich. .... Places, Pensions, Grants, Sinecures, and Emoluments. Poulett, earl of, lord of the bed-chamber ... •£1000 0 0 Pownal, sir George, provost-marshal Leeward Is lands .... Powys, Thomas, dean of Canterbury Praed, W. M. chairman of the commiss. for auditing the public accounts .... ... [Auditing of the public accounts cost last year more than Price, N. compiler of the Dublin Gazette gov. of Nevis.... Provost, Thomas, keeper of records, Whitehall... ...... Q Quarme, R. George, usher of the black rod, house of peers.. Robert, gent. usher of the green rod to the order of the thistle.... R 200 0 0 100 0 0 Radstock, lady, bed-chamber woman to the queen • (8) Wm. sheriff dep. for shire of Edinburgh ••(s) sir William, bart. lord advocate for Scotland. Rafferty, Wm. clerk of the fees and the minutes (i) Ralfe, rev. William, Sep. 1784.... •(w) Ramsay, major gen. governor of Antigua and Mont Ramus, George•••• Rankin, Peter, Forfar (8). Real, major-general, governor of Granada.......... Brother-in-law of the earl of Egremont, a lord of trade and plantations, and a privy counsellor in Ireland. His lordship was lord chancellor in Ireland, from 1802 to 1806; and since then received a pension. The late Mr. Ponsonby, the whig leader, was only lord chancellor for fifteen months, when he received a similar pension till his death. Places, Pensions, Grants, Sinecures, and Emoluments. Reid, Andrew and Joseph, clerks of the juries court, common pleas, with reversion to Andrew's son Reilly, James, for diminution of salary •(i) £ 211 This is excellent! reduce his salary and then make him, amends with a pension. Reily, Michael, dep. sec. and clerk of council, St. Renard, Lewis Peter• Rennie, Archibald Hill, Clackmannan Reynoldson, Jacob, clerk of privy seal 800 Rice, hon. Edw. canon and precentor residentiary, ..... York .... This enormous sum was granted by act of parliament in lieu of the duty on coals. His grace is also governor-general and commander in chief of Upper and Lower Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, the emoluments of which offices amount to more than £10,000 per annum: He is son-in-law to the duke of Grafton, and an illegitimate descendant of Charles II. by Louisa de Querouelle; and returns three members to parlia ment. Richardson, Townley, assistant engrossing clerk, (i) Isabella, ditto Rickman, John, second clerk assist. house of commons Rits, George. Louisa, June 1787. Rivers, James, clerk of the signet .... 440 0 0 1000 0 0 pension, April 1794 (s. m) George Pitt, baron, lord of the bed-chamber Dame Mary Pitt has a pension, dated March 1805, of £600, and another, granted August 1806, of £150. His lordship returns two members for Dorsetshire. Roberts, Edw. yearly sum, 'formerly paid to the au ditors of the exchequer.. Robertson, Robt. dep. sec. and clerk of enrolments, Jamaica.... James, chief justice of Tortola. -100 100 0 0 t Places, Pensions, Grants, Sinecures, and Emoluments. Robinson, George, director of the East India Com pany (s) lord treasurer's remem. • • • •• Robert, clerk to the secretaries of admiralty Catherine Gertrude Robinson, 1793 (s.m) right hon. F. J. brother of lord Grantham, joint paymaster of the forces Roche, dame Mary..... (i) 300 0 0 1047 0 0 1200 0 0 Rochford, Richard, and hon. Henry Forbes, pra tique-masters, Dublin Rochford, earl of, a pension of £200, and another of £1000 Rocheed, James, for Aun and Mary Mac Kay.. (8) These pensions to take place on the death of their mother, and to continue while they remain unmarried, or during his majesty's pleasure. Roden, Robert Jocelyn, earl of; joint auditor-general in the Irish treasury £1784 er, port of Galway search 605 His son, viscount Jocelyn, is another auditor of the treasury, and vice-chamberlain to the king, £2940, Rodney, George, lord, two pensions Rogers, James, late clerk in the treasury 400 0 0 2389 0 0 2923 1 500 0 0 George, late com. in the navy-trustees (pl) 300 0 0 Rolleston, S. gazette writer 300 0 0 Rollo, Barbara and Isabella, and survivor ... (8) Rooke, Charles, serjeant king's band..... The two last are the sons of " old George Rose", who in his life-time held situations worth more than £10,000 per annum, and whose family, it has been calculated, received, in principal and interest, nearly two millions of the public money. The two sinecures, of clerk of parliament and clerk of exchequer pleas, were conveyed by letters patent, in reversion, from old Rose to his sons, and is one of the most impudent and selfish jobs record Places, Pensions, Grants, Sinecures, and Emoluments. ed in the history of these scandalous transactions. Old George originally was a purser in the navy. He was one of Pitt's warmest admirers; a strenuous supporter of Saving-Banks; and a striking example of that disgusting mockery, which plunders the people of the just rewards of industry and toil, and then hypocritically laments the privations created by its rapacity. Ross, George, esq. commissary of Edinburgh .... There are three more commissaries with the same salary. They are appointed by patent under the great seal, and hold their situations as other judges, ad vitam aut culpam. The jurisdiction of the commissary-court extends to questions of the constitution of marriage, of divorce, and legitimacy; and has an exclusive power in the confirmation of testaments of persons dying abroad, who have personal estates in Scotland. Actions may also be maintained in this court, under certain forms, for the recovery of ordinary civil debts to the amount of £40. The principal clerk of the court formerly purchased his commission; the duties of his office are preformed by deputy, who purchases his office of the principal. The emolument of deputeclerk for three years, ended July 1, 1816, amounted to £1873:15.-Third Report on Courts of Justice in Scotland. Ross, James Tyrrell, pension Hugh... ...(8.m) •(3) T. superintend. of letter-bill-clerks, post-office Rosslyn, James St. Clair Erskine, earl of, a general, The earl's children are clerks to the court, £925. His sister, •(8) 100 0 195 0 0 2800 0 0 £148 554 Brothers to the earl of Harrowby, lord president of the council, £4000. S St. Vincent, Jolm Jervis, earl of, an admiral of the red, general of marines pension by act of parliament.. £2000 Į 3083 0 0 |