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open. The reduction then effected was to take place upon the death of the poſſeſors.
Theſe three offices were of the annual value of 5500l., which, added to thoſe in the Civil Liſt and Exchequer, and the patent ſinecure employments in the Cuſtoms, abſolutely unconnected with the collection of the duties except in two or three caſes, make the reduction as under:
| Offices. | Annual Value. | |
| In the Civil Liſt and Exchequer | 217 | 228,248 |
| In the Cuſtoms | 196 | 42,000 |
| In the Land Revenue | 3 | 5,500 |
| Making a total of ſaving on official eſtabliſhments | 416 | £275,748 |
To theſe reductions of expence and influence, ariſing from what was done with reſpect to offices, ſhould however be oppoſed the new eſtabliſhments which have been made, and the new offices created within the fame period, from the neceſſities of the public ſervice.
The buſineſs of taking up tranſports and conducting the whole of the ſervice (which during the American war had been principally managed by the Navy Board, but in ſome inſtances had been
