Commissaries and other Persons indebted to the Public,
WITH A COMPLETS YEEW OF THE

Finance and Debt of Great Britain;

Magna Charta, Bill of Rights, Act of Settlement, and
Habeas Corpus Act ;

With a Variety of Official Documents never before published:

AMONG WHICH IS

An Account of the Application of ADMIRALTY DROITS,
from 1793 to February, 1818;

TOGETHER WITH

A Correct List of the New Parliament,

The Names of the Counties, Towns, and Boroughs from whence returned,
the Number of Voters in each, by whom influenced, &c.

THE WHOLE COMPRISING

The strongest Body of Evidence to prove the Necessity of Retrenchment
that can possibly be laid before the Nation.

BY A COMMONER.

LONDON:

Published by J. JOHNSTON, Cheapside, and W. CLARKE, 92, Royal
Exchange, (successor to J. BLACKLOCK) and sold by all Booksellers.

MOY WO

W. Flint, Printer, Old Bailey, London.

PREFACE

TO THE

THIRD EDITION.

THE numerous changes that have taken place in official situations since the last publication of the Extraordinary Red Book, and the alterations in the frame of parliament from the re-election of the Members of the House of Commons, together with the extraordinary demand for this work, (a proof of the laudable desire in the public mind to become acquainted with the real causes of many of its diffi culties and distresses, the misapplication of the public money) render a THIRD EDITION necessary; and it is here presented to the public carefully re-arranged, and revised with as much accuracy as it is possible to give it. The difficulty of obtaining statements upon such subjects, which it is so much the interest of many to conceal, accurate in every item, must be evident to every individual who is willing to consider the casualties and changes which daily occur. In this respect works of this nature cannot always keep pace with time, for the best will be found imperfect; but that the Editor has taken unusual pains to correct the matter of the THIRD EDITION, and bring the details up to the latest moment, he hopes will be apparent from the view of the whole. The work has been considerably enlarged, many additions being made to the list of places, pensions, &c. circumstances which forcibly suggest the unpleasing observation, that the principal causes of public poverty and unhappiness are not diminishing-the funds that should enrich and invigorate the state being still lavished upon noble paupers and useless dependents of government.

Some of the sinecures and places are variable in their re→ turus, according to the fluctuating nature of the circumstances from which they proceed, or the dispositions and the management of the proprietors; but the values are, in general, taken from the official statements, the patents and the date of the grants being expressly mentioned. In many cases the emoluments will, no doubt, be found under-rated, but the Edi tor has invariably endeavoured to abide by the best authority. Among the additions made to the alphabetical list, is a correct specification of the salaries of the governors of British Colonies, and of the principal officers and sinecures under them, of the gentlemen pensioners at home, the police officers and magistrates, the Scotch pensions, retired secretaries of state, superannuated admirals, the increase in the royal revenues, and many new particulars in the royal establishments. Besides also, the various payments charged on the Civil List, there is added, in the Appendix, an Account from the official papers presented to the House of Commons, shewing how the sum of Five Hundred Thousand Pounds, voted to enable his Majesty to provide for such expences of a Civil nature as do not form a part of the ordinary charges of the Civil List-has been applied; as likewise an Official Account of the application of the Droits of Admiralty from 1793 to February, 1818,-since the commencement of the

war.

It is most necessary that the public should see how the money of the nation is applied, and no less requisite that they should be aware of the expences of the crown, the nobility, the church, and the present system of ministerial support and administration.

The crown, so far back as 1810, received of droits, 7,344,000/.; it received also, as far back as 1812, of 41 per cent. Leeward island duties, 1,600,000l. The Prince Regent received also, the revenues of the duchies of Cornwalt and Lancaster, which revenues would of themselves support four or five hundred working families. The debts of the