£674


bf  th6    House — ^he  meant  our  present  |
enofmous  civil  expenditure.     To    show
the  vast  increase  under  that   bead,   he
Would  briefly  compare  the  expenses  of  the
civil  list  in  the  years  1792  and  1821.    In
1792,  ihe  whole  amount  of  the  civil  h'st
Was  898,000/.    In  1821  It  was  1,027,000^.
In  the  former  year,  the  pensions  amounted
lo  iSi.OOO/.;  in  1821,  they  wfcre  434,000/.
Salaries,  in  1792  (charged  on  the  civil
list),  were  25,000/.;  in  1821,  they  wen*
72,000/.    Taken  altdgethet,  Ihe  civil  ex-
penditut'e,  and  other  permanent  chargds,
Hmounted,   in  1792,  to  1,111,000/.;  in
1821,  they  amounted  to  2,M0,O0O/.  eic-
cluding  ^,000/.  for  bounties,  and  ittdking,
thus,  double  th^  amoi^nt  of  the  charge  hi
1792.    He  admitted,  thai  the  charge  of
the  civil  list  of  Ireland  was  not  included
in  1792;  but  even  considering  that,  th6
Increase  wa^  out  of  all  proportion,  &nd
ought  to  b6  revl^etl.    Besides  this  ebof-
inous  amount  6f  th'e  civil  list,  there  wer^
othdr  expenses  fb  V^ich  a  considerable
reduction)    might    easily  he  made.     H^
owned  that  the  recent  determination  of
\h^  Spanish  government  not  to  send  am^
bassadors  to  foreign  courts.  Struck  him  as
an  excellent  plan  of  economical  reform,
titid  one  Which  he  should  wish  to  see  fol-
lowed, in  a  great  degree,  in  this  country.
