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William Curtis, triumphed in the most 
pitiable forms. The Scotch, however, 
are a discreet people, and, ridiculous 
as the newspapers describe their cu- 
riosity, and the booing propensities of 
too many of them, we have no doubt 
the virtue of loyalty has been more so- 
berly' practised by them than by the 
warm-hearted Irish during the King’s 
visit to Dublin in 1821. The royal 
yacht, towed by a steam-packet, reach- 
ed Leith, afier a tedious voyage, 
on the 14th; and the King’s departure 
is fixed for the 28th. Such visits of 
sovereigns to the distant portions of 
their dominions cannot be too much 
extolled, as they enable them to en- 
quire on the spot into abuses and mal- 
versations of power; but these are of 
course state secrets, which have not yet 
been divulged, in regard either to Ire- 
land or Scotland. George the Fourth 
would be the most illustrious of his 
race, if he visited all parts of his do- 
minions with such laudable designs. 
As the newspapers are filled only with 
accounts of the pomp of royalty and 
loyalty, we shall feel greatly obliged if 
some nearer observers than the gen- 
jlemen of the press will favour us with 
accounts, from Dublin and Edinburgh, 
of the petitions received, the enquiries 
instituted, and the redress afforded, 
during either of these gracious dispen- 
sations of power. 
But an event, which utterly destroy- 
ed the public effect of this royal visit, 
by absorbing every other public feel- 
ing, was the self-destruction of the 
Marquess of Londonderry, a chief mi- 
nister of the crown, on the Monday 
morning after the King’s departure, 
We have detailed the particulars of 
this event in some account of the Mar- 
quess in our Obituary, but the true 
cause or causes of so sudden an alie- 
nation of mind, after the interview 
with the King on the previous Friday, 
have not yet transpired. His lordship 
was then deemed sane enough to be 
entrusted with the important interests 
of this country at the approaching 
Congress of the legitimates at Vienna, 
to which he was to have set out in a 
few days ; and the caution of Welling- 
ton, addressed to his physician, ap- 
pears to have been in consequence of 
something which transpired at that 
parting interview. Whatever be the 
secret causes, and whether they trans- 
pire in this age or the next, it is cer- 
tain that this minister fell the victim ~ 
of his ambition, either of acting in his 
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official employments beyond human 
powers, or of governing the world to. 
the last through the favour of his royal 
friend. No domestic event has. for 
many years created a greater interest; 
but we live too much amid the passions 
which the career of the Marquis has 
engendered, to entrust even our dis- 
ciplined pen with all the observations 
which might be made on his fate. 
Before this Number appears, the 
appointment of his successor to the 
Congress will be known, and it is 
therefore unnecessary to quote the 
rumours on the subject; but, whoever 
he be, we hope that, for the honour of 
his country, he will not allow it to be 
made a party in any crusade against 
the Greeks and the Spaniards, on the 
insulting pretence that these brave 
people have, by necessary violence, 
extricated themselves from legitimate 
authosity, in defiance of the threats of 
the Holy Alliance. 
The select committee appointed to exa- 
mine the returns made by the members of 
the house, in pursuance of orders of the 
House of Commons, of tlie 8th day of June, 
1821, have reported to the house, that it 
appears that 57 members hold offices under 
the crown, at the pleasure of the crown or 
otherwise, the net emoluments of which are 
108,565]. ; that 13 members hold offices at 
the pleasure of public officers, for 28,1071. ; 
that 7 members hold offices or pensions 
for life under grants from the crown, for 
9,6581.; that 4 members hold offices for life, 
under appointment from the chiefs in the 
courts of justice, or from other public 
officers, for 10,0301. ; that 5 members hold 
pensions, or sinecures, or offices chiefly 
executed by deputy, for 7,478]; that 2 
members of parliament hold the reversion 
of offices under the crown, for 6,489]. ; that 
79 members hold naval and military com- 
missions ; 59 of them holding other offices, 
and included in the preceding classes ; 
and, that it therefore appears to the com- 
mittee, that 89 members of parliament 
hold offices or pensions either in possession 
or reversion, rot including those who have 
naval or military commissions, to the an- 
nual amount of 170,343). 
No. 1,—Members holding Offices at the 
Pleasure of the Crown. 
Antrobus, Gibbs Crawfurd, secre- 
tary of legation to the United 
States 
Archdall, Mervyn, governor of 
the Isle of Wight, and a lient.- 
eneral in the army -++*:--- 346 
Bagwell, Right Hon. W., joint 
muster master-general in Ire- 
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