war; to class his payments under heads appro.. 66 except within the walls of their own houses and those of the Treasury, Sir William D'Arley will, I should think, be very much obliged to me, Mr. Tucker's case is worthy of particular notice. The public will recol· lect, that, at the very time, when, as it now appears, this pension was granted, Mr. Tucker was at daggers drawn with Lord Melville, and, indeed, with the whole of the ministry, by whom the pension was granted. They were accusing him, and he was recriminating. Yet, from their hands he accepts of a pension! And for what? What had he done to deserve a pension? A pension, too, observe, of a thousand a year? What had he done to deserve it? He had been a captain's clerk on board a man of he had been Lord St. Vincent's Sccretary; but, were these services to warrant the giving of him a pension, and a pension of 10001. a year too? No: but, Mr. Tucker had, by Lord St. Vincent, been appointed a Commissioner of the Navy, a place, for life, worth, I believe, about 1,5001. a year; and, upon giving up this place, he receives a pen-ceiving, that all the sources abovementioned sion of 10001. a year, now 1,0821. a year, with a reversion of 300 1. a year to his wife in case of his death. So that, the public, instead of paying Mr. Tucker 1,5001. a year, as a Commissioner of the Navy, an office which he might have filled for thirty years yet to come; instead of paying him 1,5001. for his performance of the duties of that of fice, the public now pays 2,5821. a year for the performance of the duties of that same office; to wit; 1,5001. to the person appointed in the room of Mr. Tucker, and 1,0821. a year to Mr. Tucker himself! Sueli gracious acts as these do, however, tend to produce harmony; and, they certainly prove, that, amongst the persons in question (though there be a great deal of apparent apger and even hatred), as to the interest of the public the Tuckers and the Home Pophams are all of a mind; all animated with one soul! The following pensions are stated, in the account, to be paid out of the duties of 44 per centum in Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands. And here we may stop, for a moment, to observe on the perplexity, the apparently studied perplexity of all these lists and accornts, laid before parliament. Why not pay all the pensions out of one fund, and let them come under one single head, in chronological or alphabetical order? Why not divide them the males from the females: Why not give them seme division morę ratichal than that of referring merely to the sources whence is drawn the money wherewith to pay them? Which appears not to be less absurd than it would be in a mechant ser are, in fact, sources of revenue as much as 1804. 30 Oct. 9th Oct. Names. Pensions per ann Mrs. E. Fearon, Mrs. Jane' A. Shaw, Esq. late Gov, of the £100 R. Mitlord and J. Unwin, 15 Do. Miss Let. Morgan 300 616 50 15 May Miss F. Morgan Miss Rosalie Huyghnes 16 July 1805. 11 Jan. 91 The Rev. R. Elliot, in trust for Lady Elear. Auckland 500 The late Governor of the Isle of Man was, we may suppose, silenced by this sop, which was, in all probability, one of the measures preliminary to the grand job which afterwards made its appearance, and which received the applause of so many persons notoriously corrupt.-This Mrs. Charlotte Sargent is, doubtless, the wife of John Sargent, Esq. late a Secretary of the Treasury; and, therefore, this must have been a job of the Addingtons. What claims Mrs. Sargent may have upon us, I know not, but, that her husband has none, and never had any, I think, cannot be denied. He was a nierchant; he continued to be a merchant while Secretary of the Treasury; and he is still a merchant. He was in the public service three years, for which service he received 12,0001. We left him where we found him, having put 12,000. in his pocket; and, now, behold, we find him fastened on us for 6161. a year for life, or, which is worse, for the life of his wife and himself. Why this provision for the wife first? Lord Chatham was too much of a patriot to accept of a coronet for himself, but accepted of it for his lady, taking care, however, afterwards, to slide it from her head to his own. This has always appeared to me as an act of meanness unpardonable in any man; and, really, Mr. Sargent's obtaining a pension for his wife, with the reversion to himself in case of her death, is something not much behind it. The philosophy of Lord Melville, who could so deliberately calculate and even speculate upon the death of his son as to secure the reversion of his place to himself, in case of such accident, has been very much admired; and, there appears no good reason why the philosophy of Mr. Sargent should excite less admiration. Some persons, however, have ascribed this securing of the reversions to excessive affection in the party so seguring; for instance, they say, that a husband who doats upon his wife ought to secure a reversion of her pension, in order that her death may be sure to bring with it something by way of set-off'; something that may tend to make the world worth remaining in for a little while longer. After all, however, perhaps, this is mere refinement, and that the obtaining the pension for the wife and the reversion for the busband would require no explanation, if one were to be admitted to the honour of seeing their faces. We should, it is probable, at ence perceive, that the mode of the grant had been adopted upon the plain and unerring. rules of the insurance offices; and, that, to all appearance at least, the lady's was, as the phrase is, "the better life of the two;" but, as there is no certainty in life, the gentleman had a mind to make assurance double sure; Of the two Miss Morgans I know no- : thing, and the name of Miss Rosalie Huyghnes has all the appearance of being feigned. Indeed, there are as many Romance names in the Pension List as in the volumes of a circulating library.- -Last upon this list comes Lady Eleanor Auckland with her 5001. a year, and which 5001. a year I, for my part, do most heartily grudge her. Her husband receives, in the pension.before stated, 2,3001. a year from the public, and observe, that lie stands his chance of official emoluments besides, being in-place always as often as he can, and, when out of place, returning to his pension. His children, some of them at least, are provided for at the public expence; reversions of sinecures are secured for them. And now comes Lady Eleanor Auckland with her claim for 5001. a year, in addition to what is already enjoyed by her family! Am I told, that Lord Auckland is poor, and, . having a large family, has not wherewith to support an appearance suitable to his rank, without some said from the minister? My: answer is, that we did not compel Lord Auckland to assume that expensive rank: the assumption was his own choice; for his own and his family's gratification; and, not,? in any degree, for the advantage or the gratification of the King or the people. It is one thing to apply the public money to, the supporting of the aristocracy of the kingdom), and another thing to apply it in the creating of a new aristocracy. The former every man who wishes to preserve the monarchy.will approve of, when the support is unconnected with corrupt influence; but, the latter, every man who does not wish to see the monarchy destroyed must earnestly reprobate. There are cases, which may, which have, and which will again, justify a departure from this rule; but, the case of Lord Auckland will never, I imagine, be regarded as one of these; and I do hope, that the day is not very distant, when the pension of which I am now more particularly speaking will be no longer paid.The next list is that of Pensions on the Irish Establishment, respecting which I have only to beg the English reader not to imagine, that he does not pay his share of them. As was before observed, it is no matter what head the pensions are classed under: no matter whether they are paid outof this fund or out of thất Pensions fund, whether in Treland, or in England, or in|122 Oct. Margaret and Ann Halkett 100 Do. Do. Mary Bruce inTH Do. Helen Christie To 25 Do. Katherine Margaret Swindell Dates. 1805 20 Mar. Dame Mary Pitt, wife of the Rt. Hon. Sir William Augus tus Pitt!! Do. Rob. Wynne, Esq. his execu tors, administrators, and as- Charles Hope, and David Wil Menzies Baillie, Widow - 300 300 Do. 50 150 Do. Theobald Mc. Kenna, Esq. sen. and Theobald Mc. KenAna, Esq. jun. and survivor There is, somewhere or other, the history, and a curious one it is, of a pension to Mr. Marsden; but, as I do not find it in the account now before me, I must reserve the particulars relating to it, till I have an opportunity of referring to the papers.-Now, "Stars put out your lights!" for the SCOTCH LIST is approaching. Do. Do. Do. Do. Jane Brown These pensions were all granted under the Privy Seal of Scotland, of which seal, the reader will recollect, that Lord Melville, the right trusty and well-beloved councillor” Lord Melville, was and is the keeper! But, let us be just for, not a penny of this money could have been granted without the consent and approbation of Mr. Pitt, who, indeed, must have proposed the measure to the King.In return for this liberality, on the part of the right trusty" Lord Keeper of Scotland, with regard to others, his friend, the Lord Treasurer of England, seems to have thought it just to do a liberal thing with respect to him, and, therefore, we find a King's warrant, dated in July, 1804, giving to Lord Melville, for life, an addition to his salary of Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland, of 1,5001. a year, making the whole yearly salary for that sinecure, for the life of Lord Melville, 4,5001. This deed was done, observe, in about ten weeks after Mr. Pitt and Lord Melville returned to 50 office last year, the warrant being signed by, WILLIAM PITT, C. LONG, and LORD LoVAINE; names well worthy of the instrument to which they were affixed.→→→→Another warrant, dated on the 6th of October last, grants an additional 2001. a year to the Royal Academy at Edinburgh, which Academy was totally devoted to the Dundases. The account concludes with a King's warrant, granting to all the Sheriff's Depute and Sheriff's Substitute of Scotland, nine -100 only of the latter excepted, an addition of 25 25 100 100 50 50 50 50 40 40 salary, making in the whole, an annual addition of 3,9251. This warrant bears the names of WILLIAM PITT, C. LONG, and the MARQUIS OF BLANDFORD. After such a statement of facts, very little is required by way of comment. Some few observations, however, I cannot refrain from making, the first of which relates, of course, to the aggregate amount of the pensions here particularised. By adding them together, the reader will find, that they amount to 36,2451. and, if we thereunto add the grant to the Duke of Athol, we shall find the total to be 39,745. This, let it be observed, is the yearly amount of this one year's grants. No small part of the whole is granted in perpetuity or in reversion; and, at any rate, none of us now alive can hope to see the day, when, in the common course of things, we shall be relieved from any considerable portion of the burden. The light in which we are to view this burden, therefore, is, as an annual charge fixed upon us, the people of this country, for ever, the principal of which charge, if to be purchased or sold, ought to be reckoned at about 800,000l. This is the amount, therefore, to which the heaven-born minister, the vehement advocate of deconomy, has mortgaged our property and our labour, in this one year, for the purpose of gratifying his adherents, and, thereby, of preserving his power. The reader will recollect, that, in the early part of the session, when the taxes upon salt and upon draught horses were before the House of Commons, Mr. Pitt lamented, or, at least, professed to lament, at the necessity he was under of adding to the burdens of the people; so, too, did he advise his Majesty to express himself in his speech from the throne. We now may judge of the degree of sincerity with which that declaration was made, and that advice was given. Another observation for the reader to make, is, that the heaven-born minister and his colleague began their operations the moment they resumed the reins of power. By a reference to the dates of the several pensions, it will be seen, that they lost not a day. The warrant -for augmenting the salaries of the long list of Sheriffs Depute and Sheriffs Substitute of Scotland bears date, indeed, on the 24th day of October, last; which was five months after Mr. Pitt and Lord Melville got possession of the Treasury and the Cabinet; but (and I beg. the reader to mark it well) it is ordered in the body of the warrant, that the payment of the additional salaries shall com I find my former conjecture fully verified; to wit; that the grants of this one year by the Pitt and Melville faction have surpassed, more than one half, the grants made by the Addingtons in three years and upwards! This is well worthy of notice. If Mr. Ad dington had been willing to employ the same means that the Pitts and Dundases have em ployed, he might, notwithstanding all the weakness of his ministry; notwithstanding the utter incapacity of himself and his colleagues to manage the affairs of the country, in a manner consistent with its interest and its honour; notwithstanding all his faults, and they were neither few nor trifling, he might, if he had chosen to employ the means that his successors have employed, have set all his opponents at defiance, for, at least, a year or two longer,I shall here quit this subject for the present, purposing, to return to it in a short time, with some additional proofs of the advantage we derive from being governed by a minister of celestial mould. [Want of room must be my apology. for deferring the several other topics, which ought to have found a place here.]. CONTINENTAL CONNECTIONS. Note in the French Official Journal, the Moniteur, of the 7th of July, on His Britannic Majesty's Message la Parlia ment, of the 19th of June, 1805. (See Vol. VII. p. 955.) Thus his Britannic Majesty confesses that, after six months, he has no relations with the powers of the continent which could have prevented, as stated by his ministers in their letter to the Minister for Foreign Af fairs, an answer to the overtures of peace made by the Emperor of the French. These relations, which appeared then to be so close that he could not dispense with consulting those powers with whom he had contracted them, are nothing more than "communications which have not yet acquired a degree of maturity which will permit him to enter into ulterior explanations with the French government." The answer made by the ministers six months ago was therefore false, and if there were not relations then, there are no more now. His Britannic Majesty adds, "That it may be of essential import ance that he should be enabled to profit by every favourable conjuncture to effect, with other powers, such a concert as may give him the means of resisting the unqualified ambition of France.' What pacific dispositions! Two years since his Britannic Ma mence from the 5th of the preceding July!jesty neither looked nor wished for any Upon examining the pension lists for the years that Mr. Addington was minister, coalition. Will he succeed, or will he not succeed, is a question not difficult to re solve. How does the case stand? His Majesty would have been much more frank, and would not have entangled a simple proposition, if he had said, that he did not wish to treat before he had had five or six campaigns with the coalesced powers. Then it would remain to be ascertained what advantage had been gained after these five or six campaigns, and if this advantage should be in proportion to the sacrifice of 2 or 300,000 men. His Majesty might then resolve to make peace. Peace, the object of just ambition to all wise governments, appears to be only a sort of last shift to his Britannic Majesty. Who does not wish that England may find Europe deaf to every project of coalition? Who does not pray for the success of the arms of a nation, who wishes for nothing but peace, whilst England, its enemy, calls out with loud cries for the return of those disasters which have so long afflicted Europe?His Britannic Majesty thinks he can quote a part of the letter of the Emperor of the French, to prove to the continent that the Emperor fears England, and that, because he desires peace, he fears war; thus hoping to induce some power to enter into a new coalition. The Cabinet of London has not neglected to support weak reasoning by offers of subsidies; but it will be perceived, that it does not place a value sufficiently high on such services, and that it must pay still dearer. 'The Parliament have granted 5,000,000l. sterling; still more will be asked of them. We shall see whether the generosity of the merchants will render the course more easy. It will Every word, every act of this government, bears the character of disorder and madness. It is a strange political declaration, which the ministers put into the mouth of the King, when they make him say, distinctly enough, that he will not make peace, until he can no longer make war. necessarily result, that, when he wishes for peace, it will be imagined that he is constrained to make it, and that more, therefore, may be exacted from him.-What then is to be concluded from such a message? It is, that the re-establishment of the tranquillity of Europe is far distant, as the English government will not be disposed to peace until it shall be convinced that no power will concur in feeding the flame, and that it has no longer ministers or intriguers who can hope to purchase such assistance. NAPOLEON, KING OF ITALY. (Continued from p. 32.) Official Account of the Coronation of the Emperor of the French, as King of Italy, at Milan, on the 26th of May, 1805. From the French Official Paper, the Moniteur." On the 25th of May, his Excellency the Cardinal Caprara, Archbishop of Milan, Legate-a-latere of his Holiness to his Majesty the Emperor of the French, was admitted to a private audience, and delivered to the Emperor the new credentials of the Holy Father, accrediting him also in the same dignity to his Majesty as King of Italy, for the transaction of all affairs in which the Holy See is interested in that kingdom. Besides these new credentials, his Eminence delivered on the part of his Holiness, the following congratulatory letter to his Majesty: "Pius VII. to our dear son in Jesus Christ: greeting and apostolical benedictions. Your Imperial and Royal Majesty is not unacquainted with all the sentiments with which we are penetrated for you, and with what gratitude we remember the things you have done in France in favour of the Catholic religion, and the proofs of love and respect which you gave us during our stay in Paris; you can then readily comprehend with what interest we have learned that the regal dignity was united in your person to the imperial dignity with which you were already invested. The reciprocity of our love, and that paternal tenderness which we feel towards you, render very dear to us whatever is glorious for you. We should have sent a particular Nuncio to testify to you these dispositions; but, knowing all your benevolence towards our dear son, Jean Baptista Caprara, Cardinal Priest of the Holy Roman Church, Archbishop of Milan, we have not hesitated to believe that the testimonies on our part could not be better received than when presented by him. We have then charged him to present himself before you, and to impart to you all the sentiments of our heart, on this occasion, in which you receive a new dignity. It is he who will present to you this letter, and we are sure that the congratulations he will make to you in our name will be accepted by you with benevolence. In fine, we doubt not but you will employ all the authority you are invested with to secure in your new kingdom all the advantages of religion, which is the column and the support of all kingdoms; and we have the farther confidence that you will continue to give us those marks of love and filial respect which we have always received from you. In the mean time we give, from the bottom of our heart, the apostolical benediction to your Imperial Majesty, in pledge of our paternal benevolence. Given at Rome, at Marie Maggiore, under the ring of the fisher, the |