1830.] and their Salaries. 11 



we pay for the services of the Duke of Wellington's brother, at Vienna. 

 His services ought to be extraordinary ! Vienna is the favourite loca- 

 tion of ministers' brothers, and no wonder. 



The next in the list is Madrid, where the same allowances are made, 

 though Spain is proverbially a country of excessive cheapness, the 

 dollar, in Madrid, actually purchasing as much as the English pound in 

 London ; the habits of the court being remarkably secluded ; those of the 

 population, even in the higher classes, singularly frugal; the chief 

 luxuries of life, being sleep, fresh air, and cold water ; and the chief ex- 

 pense of entertainments, consisting of cigars for the gentlemen, and 

 lemonade for the ladies. 



The Netherlands' Embassy has the 12,000/. a year and the same outfit, 

 Sac. The Netherlands being also proverbially cheap, as our men of 

 broken fortunes know, and fly to them ; the court being as Dutch in 

 its habits as in its origin, and the value of English gold being as highly 

 appreciated in Brussels, as on the counter of any usurer in Europe. At 

 this quiet court, for ten years, resided the Earl of Clancarty, transacting 

 satisfactorily all that was necessary to be done ; receiving his 12,000/. a 

 year, and doing his duty as well as any of his contemporaries. He was 

 no diplomatist, and was too honest a man to pretend to any thing of the 

 kind. But no diplomatist is necessary to play whist with the king of 

 the Netherlands, and send his compliments, on every Sunday morning, 

 to ask after the health of the queen. He was a much better thing ; an 

 Irish gentleman, without a particle of exaggerated passion, or restless 

 ability in his composition ; an excellent silent member of the Peers, and 

 a Ballinasloe sheep-feeder on the soundest principles. 



St. Petersburg is expensive ; yet the chief expense is in show, &c., which 

 however is chiefly left to the court and the noblesse of the highest rank. 

 From these the Ambassador is exempted ; the principal drain on the in- 

 come of the nobles being from the multitude of servants, with whom an 

 idle national custom, and a barbarian pride, induce them to crowd their 

 establishments, to the amount of hundreds. But with those a stranger 

 is, of course, unburthened ; and the British Ambassador's contribution 

 to the pomps and glories of Russian life, is generally limited to a few 

 balls, and dressing himself and his suit in muffs and tippets, on the sight 

 of the first snow. Nothing could exceed the courteous manners, or the 

 moderate hospitality of Sir Charles Bagot, during his sojourn in the 

 capital of the Czar. 



The second class of the Embassies contains but Constantinople, where 

 the salary is 8,000/., and the outfit 3,000/., with two secretaries the 

 Secretary of Embassy, with 1,000/. a year, and 300/. for an outfit, and 

 an Oriental Secretary at 1,000/. A palace having been given by the 

 Sultan, after the battle of Aboukir, no allowance for house-rent is made. 

 But, from the rate of exchange and the cheapness of Pera, the salary 

 may be calculated on an average of 16,000/. a year. But the Ambassa- 

 dor has other profits. The sole privilege of licensing merchant vessels, 

 under his ambassadorial protection, is of high value ; and used to pro- 

 duce large sums. Whether the Russian conquests and the opening of 

 the Dardanelles will change the direction of those profits, in some de- 

 gree, is a question j but, while the Porte stands, the situation of Ambas- 

 sador will be commercially lucrative. 



Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary. 



The second order of Foreign Diplomacy are the Envoys Extraordi- 

 nary and Ministers Plenipotentiary. Their mission comprehends the 

 third, fourth, and fifth Classes. 



Prussia forms the third class of embassies. The Envoy to Prussia 



