502 England and Europe in October 1830. [Nov. 



The whole annually amounting to 70,000,000 



Of which Ireland, having no poor-rates, pays 



about 7,000,000 



Scotland, having neither poor-rates nor tythes, 



pays about 7,000,000 



England thus pays 56,000,000 



which, among her twelve millions of people, is equal to five 

 pounds a head. 



The taxation of America, estimating her population at twelve 



millions, is nine shillings and three-pence a head ! ! ! 



It is then in the government taxation and the local taxation that the 

 reforms must be made. They amount to forty millions ! The interest 

 of the debt must be untouched ; but on the two classes of taxation there 

 can be no doubt that a vast reduction might be made. By reducing the 

 enormous expenses of ambassadors, commissioners, public servants, sine- 

 curists, &c., it is unquestionable that ten millions a year might be taken 

 off the burthens of the country ; of which a portion might be remitted at 

 once, and the rest applied to the diminution of the national debt thus 

 permanently relieving the country of a weight which severely oppresses 

 even the mighty strength of England. 



Court financiers will pretend to doubt that we can be*thus relieved. 

 The Chancellor of the Exchequer would never recover from his asto- 

 nishment if he were told that the operation was about to be tried. But 

 it must be tried. If the unhappy tamperings which have excited the 

 insolence of the popish demagogues only to more hazardous insolence, 

 compel us to keep tip an army to the war establishment in Ireland, yet 

 much may be done on this side of the water. We must have a super- 

 vision of the pension-list, and of the salaries of the household ; we must 

 know the use of those seventy places which the Queen has to give away. 

 We must be told the use of that troop of idle people who hang on the 

 court employments ; from Lord Chamberlain, and Master of the Horse, 

 down to a private of the band of gentlemen pensioners, or of that well-fed 

 regiment, of which George Colman, junior, is the banner-bearer. Every 

 beef-eater of them all must be brought into inquiry. The whole court- 

 lumber of the tribe who fill Windsor, Kew, Hampton-court, the Pavi- 

 lion, and St. James's, with their sinecure importance, must shew, for 

 what national purpose they draw the national money. For the King 

 and Queen we have loyal respect. For the due decorums of Royalty we 

 have every consideration. But we have yet to learn the national neces- 

 sity of a Lord Steward, or a Master of the Robes, or a Master of the 

 Buck-hounds, or any of the Maryborough generation, or a Ranger of 

 this or that park, which means no more than a fine house and demesne, 

 with a pension, besides, at the expense of the people. 



We allow that none of these things may be new, but they may all 

 be useless, and we who must pay for them have a perfect right to know 

 why they are to be paid for ? The time for those extravagancies is 

 gone by. We honour the King as the head of the state, and we value 

 him as an estimable and popular monarch ; but the man who will do 

 him the best service, and will give him a popularity, worth all the tri- 

 umphal arches of Brighton, will divest his government of all frip- 

 pery, strike away all the costly absurdities of the court, reduce the pub- 

 lic expense within the bounds of actual utility, and give him the high 

 honour of being a patriot as well as a king. The sinecures, the mock 

 places, the undeserved pensions, the bed-chamber tribe, the noble rever- 



