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			No. of Offices.		Value.
Brought over	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	Reduced		416		275,748
		Added	9		25,500
Board of Control			4		6,500
Committee of Privy Council for Trade					1,000
Barrack Department			184		44,000
			184— — —	197	44,000— — —	77,000
				0000— — —		000,000— — —
Making in the whole of official eſtabliſhments, unconnected with the management of the Revenue, a reduction of				219		£198,748
				0000— — —		000,000— — —

It would, however, certainly be unjuſt to conſider this part of the ſubject drily on a compariſon of the number and value of the offices: it ſhould in fairneſs be adverted to, that a very conſiderable part of thoſe aboliſhed were abſolute ſinecures, many of them for life, and that ſome of the moſt valuable were open to grants in reverſion^[1]; ſome, as already obſerved, miſchievous from the nature of the appointments; and moſt of the remainder uſeful only to the parties, and as ſources of influence to the miniſter: whereas the employments created have all been, poſitively required by the neceſſities of the public ſervice, and demand conſtant and laborious attendance. Of courſe, the

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1. One Auditorſhip of the Impreſt, the moſt valuable office of the whole, ſoon became vacant; an Auditorſhp of the Lani Revenue, and the King's Remembrancerſhip were grantable in reverſion.

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