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 Fins'r Lonn or rm; AnMinALrv.—Lord Auckland (George
Frederick Elliot Eden), who has just succeeded Sir James

, Graham, was born in 1784. He was, till his recent elevation,

, President of the Board of Trade and Master of the Mint. His
father (Mr. Eden) was a Barrister, and the author of the ” Prin-

, ciples of Penal law,” a work of considerable merit. Till 1771
Mr. Eden attended the Northern Circuit, when he was appointed
Auditor of Greenwich Hospital. Soon afterwards he gave up the
law for politics, and before the close of the above year he was
appointed Secretary of State for the Northern Department. After
that period he filled various offices; in 1789 he went as Ambas-
sador to Madrid, and in 1789 as Plenipotentiary to Holland; and
from 1798 to 1801 he filled the Horne-Office of Joint Postmaster—
General. In consequence of these services. he was created Lord
Auckland, with a pension of £2,300 a year, and a conditional
pension of £796 was settled on his Lady, the daughter of Sir
Gilbert Elliott. “ Nor,” says Mr. Buckingham, “ (lid the Royal
bounty stop here. for while yet a very young man, his eldest born,
the present (Lord Auckland) First Lord of the Admiralty, was ,
appointed one of the Four Tellers of the Exchequer, with the
diminished allowance of four thousand pounds per anuum! This
reward must certainly have been for merits and services of the
father~for although the son had been returned to Parliament in
1806, he had never made himself heard within St. Stephen’s up
to the date of this appointment, which took place on the death of
Lord Thurlow in 1808. What has Lord Auckland done since
which entitles him to the reward of a. seat in the Cabinet? The '
answer is plain. Since the 215t of July, 1814. he has conde-
scended to receive £300 75. 3d. on the Pension List. in addition to
his salary as Teller of the Exchequer. 3* * * Has his voice
ever been heard in the Lords”! On the contrary, he has pre— ‘

, served a mute inglorious silence." ”Lord Auckland,” says The =

. Times, “is — Lord Auckland.” Thus, in the place of Sir J. ‘

' Graham, a man of great talent, great industry, and, as his retire-

‘ ment shows, of integrity, we have in his place a pensioner and
the son of a pensioner. In another place we see he is described -

, as having a pension out of the 4"; per cent. fund from 1820 of

‘ £400 a year. Waiving this, however, it seems that he has been in
the receipt of £4,000 a year from 1808, or 26 years, so that he has
received since that time out of the pockets of the people one
hundred and four thousand pounds! For what? What has he
done for it”! Where are his services”! His merits? Is it not
a gross absurdity to expect Reforms, retrenchment, from the
hands of such men "! Can such men he expected to abate abuses?
With what face could he consent to the abolition of sinecures, or
useless places, or pensions '1 Is he to have £4,500 a year in addi-
tion to his £4,000 as Teller of the Exchequer? LOrd Auckland
now appears to be in possession of——

As Teller of the Exchequer ...... ......... . 4,000
As First Lord of the Admirality ...... ...... 4,500
On the Civil Pension List...... . .. . 300
On the 4% percent.fund.................... 400

Total (per annum) . . .. £9,200
Received since 1808 as Teller . .. .. .. .. . ..104,000
Pension on the Civil List ... ....... ...... 6,000
On 4; per cent.fund .................... 5,600

7 £115,600!