12 The British Embassies, Ambassadors, [JAN. 



receives 7>000/. a year, with an outfit of 2,500/. ; and for house-rent 

 500/. a year. Attached to this appointment is a Secretary of Legation at 

 700/. a year, and with an allowance of 250/. for outfit. 



The expense of Berlin is about a third of that of London. Entertain- 

 ments among the men of rank are frequent, and (for the country) costly. 

 But the British Envoy is generally some un titled dependent, exempted, by 

 his inferiority in diplomatic rank, from the necessity of giving entertain- 

 ments, and generally extremely willing to avail himself of his lucrative 

 immunity. The only man, during the last thirty years, who made him- 

 self in any degree conspicuous in the Prussian Embassy, was Sir George 

 Rose, a gentleman by habit and accomplishment. His predecessor was 

 a flighty person of the name of Jackson. Who the present Envoy may 

 be, we leave to the research of the Court Calendar. 



The fourth class comprehends Portugal, The Two Sicilies, and 

 America. All with the same allowances. The Envoy at 5,500/. a year, 

 2,000/. for outfit, and 500/. for the rent of a house ; and a Secretary of 

 legation, at 550/. 



Of those, Portugal was the most expensive, the exchange having 

 been sometimes against England ; though, for this, allowance has been 

 claimed. But since the return to cash payments this can seldom occur. 

 At present there is no English Envoy in Portugal ; but Mr. Macken- 

 zie, lately appointed Consul, may be considered as acting minister. 



The fifth class comprehends Sweden, Bavaria, Denmark, and Sar- 

 dinia. The Envoy's salary being, in cash, 4 > 500/., the outfit 2,000/., and 

 the house-rent 400/. ; with a Secretary of Legation at 500/., and for out- 

 fit 200/. 



Envoys Extraordinary. 



The Envoys Extraordinary form the third and lowest order of 

 Foreign Ministers, and are appointed to the sixth and seventh classes of 

 Embassy. 



The sixth class contains Wirtemberg, Tuscany, Switzerland, and 

 Saxony. The Envoy having an allowance of 3,600/. a year, 1,500/. for 

 outfit, and 300/. for a house ; and the Secretary of Legation having an 

 allowance of 500/., and 150/. for an outfit. 



The seventh class is Hamburgh ; where the Envoy's allowance is 

 2,300/., the outfit 1,000/., and 300/. for a house; and the Secretary of 

 Legation has 300/. a year, and 100/. for an outfit. 



On a recapitulation, the whole of this expensive machinery costs the 

 country, in direct salaries to the various classes of Ambassadors, 

 135,850/. 



In house-rent, 9,100/. 



In pensions to retired ministers, 52,000/. 



Making the formidable sum of 196,950/. for our higher Diplomacy. 



But the affair is not done with yet ; for, besides those Envoys and 

 Plenipotentiaries, we have a host of Consuls, whose salaries amounted at 

 the time at which the estimate was made (twelve years ago) to 30 J OOOJ. 

 And since that period, Mr. Canning's poetical determination to balance 

 the East by the West augmented the Consular ranks. The South Ame- 

 rican allowances amounting to about 20,000/., and all those officials 

 becoming successively pensioners upon the country in their retired 

 allowance. 



Nor have we yet exhausted our list; for the South American govern- 

 ments have been, within the last five years, honoured with Envoys, with 



allowances of, we believe, from three to five thousand pounds a year 



but of these we have yet seen no return. 



The whole Diplomatic Expenditure may be, fairly calculated, about 



