Mr. Davies Gilbertpresented the first report from the Select Committee on Finance. The report was read, and began by stating, that the subject was not new to the House as in 1812 and 1813, measures had been adopted respecting it. The committee had inquired first, what reductions it was possible to make; secondly, what compensation should be given to persons holding high and effective offices; and thirdly, what offices might be reduced as were considered in the nature of sinecures, and that all such offices should be as soon as possible abolished after the deaths of their respective holders. The committee recommended the abolition of the chief justice-ship in Eyre, north and south of the Trent, of the auditorship of the exchequer, of the clerk of the pells, the four tellerships of the exchequer, the lord warden of the Cinque Ports, the governor of the Isle of Wight, and the commissary general of musters. The committee considered such offices ought to be abolished. In presenting this report the committee stated that they had lost no time in considering the matters referred to them, and had made their report as early as possible; and had not omitted to attend to every measure of real and practical economy. The clerk was proceeding to read the remainder of the report, but Mr. Gilbert suggested that it was unnecessary to go farther. Enough had been read to satisfy the House of the spirit of the report, and of the feelings by which the committee had been actuated.
§ The report was ordered to be printed.