250 Europe, and the British Parliament. [MARCH, 



Vice-Treasurer of Ireland 



Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance 



Cierk of Delivery ditto 



Auditor of the Civil List 



Treasurer of the Military College 



Ditto Military Asylum 



Resident Surveyor 



King's Stationer, Ireland 1 



Clerks of Privy Seal 4 



Commissioners of Victualling 2 



Ditto Navy 2 



Superintendent of Transport 1 



Paymaster of Marines 1 



Officers of Dock- Yards 78 



Husband of 4^ per Cent. Duties 1 



Inspector of Stamps, Manchester 1 



Receiver-General, Scotland 1 



Receivers-General, England 40 



Commissioners of Sufferer's Claims at St. Domingo 1 



Paymaster of American, &c. Officers 1 



Unenumerated 126 



273 



All those reductions are good. Every burthen removed is so much 

 gained to the nation. But it must be observed, that none of the great 

 offices, of which the strongest complaint is made, are touched, that the 

 Sinecures are as safe as ever, and that the majority of these abolished 

 places were held by poor officials, whom the public would most 

 regret to see deprived of their pittance. We have thus 78 officers of 

 dockyards, and 126, whose offices are too obscure to have a name. The 

 abolition of the 46 " Receivers-General" of England is, however, a 

 public good, and to this extent we give credit to Lord Althorp's pruning- 

 knife. 



We next come to a still more anxious topic, the taxes to be levied or 

 extinguished. The taxes to be reduced originally were 



" Tobacco, reduction of fifty per cent. 

 Newspapers, stamp-paper duty reduced to 2d. 



Ditto advertisement-duty reduced to Is. for advertisements of less 



than ten lines, and 2s. 6d. for such as are of more than ten lines. 

 Coals and slates, taxes abolished. 

 Candles, tax abolished. 

 Printed cottons, tax abolished. 

 Glass, tax abolished. 



Sales of land by auction, and miscellaneous, in all 263 articles, taxes 

 abolished." 



This is doing good so far as it goes. The abolition of the tax on 

 coals is capable of giving great relief, provided it be not counteracted 

 by the knaveries of the coal-owners. The tax on candles was a heavy 

 burthen, and its abolition will be gladly received ; but the tallow- 

 dealers and the manufacturers will do all that they can to put the first 

 profits of the abolition into their own pockets, by the usual arts of 

 monopoly. However, even they must give way at last, and share their 

 profits with the people. The tax on glass we are sorry to see is again laid 

 on, but no one can fairly regret that the noble Lord's second thoughts have 

 restored the tax on tobacco. The attempt to lighten this impost was 



