according to the ftatement o f I ’chou-ta-gin, with their ialaries
and allowances reduced into filver, will be feen from the following
table, which, with that o f the military eftabliihment, is
publifhed in the appendix to the authentic account o f the em-
baffy by Sir George Staunton ; and as they differ,very little from
the court calendar publifhed in 1801, and as I have occafion
to make a few remarks on them, as well as on that o f the population,
which will be given in a fubfequent chapter, 1 have not
hefitated to introduce them into the prefent work.
Q u a lity .
Viceroys over one or rnore provinces ' -
Governors o f provinces - -
CoUeitors o f revenue - -
Prefidents o f criminal tribunals
Governors o f more than one city o f the firft order
Governors o f one city only o f the firft order
Governors o f a city o f the fecond order
Governors o f a city of the third order
Prefidents of literature and examinations
Infpedlors general -
(Salaries
Number, [in ounces
lo f filver.
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19
18
86 v
184
149
3 °5
m i
117 s
20.000
16.000
9?ooo
6,oco
3,o g o
2,000,
1,000:
boo
3,oco
, Total.
22Ç,000
240,000
171.000
1 0 8 , ¿Ó O
258.000
.368,000
i49,oòo[
,044,000
402.0001
Total oz. 2,960,000
The inferior officers a â in g immediately under the orders
o f thefe, and amounting to many thoufands, together with
the falaries and expences o f the different boards in the capital,
all o f which are paid out o f the public treafury, mull: require
a fum at leaft equal to the above ; fo that on a moderate
calculation, the ordinary expences o f the civil eftabliihment
will amount to thé fum o f 5,920,000 ounces, or 1 >973>333l-
fterling.
Some
Some idea may be formed o f the numerous appointments,
and the frequent changes in adminiftration, from the circum-
ftance o f the Court Calendar, or red book, being publifhed
every three months making four tolerable large volumes, or
fixteen volumes every year.
T h e fatherly attention, the wife precautions, and the extreme
jealoufy o f the government, have not been confidered as alone
fufficient for the internal and external protection o f the empire,
without the affiftance o f an immenfe ftanding army. This
army, in the midft o f a profound peace, was ftatéd by Van-ta-
gin to confift o f eighteen hundred thoufand men, one million
o f which were faid to be infantry, and eight hundred thoufand
cavalry. As this government, however, is fuppofed to
be much given to' exaggeration in all matters relating to the
aggrandifement o f the coufatry, and to deal liberally in hyperboles,
wherever numbers are concerned, the authenticity o f
the above ftatement o f their military force may perhaps be
called in queftion. The fum o f money, that would be required
to keep in pay and furnifh the extraordinaries o f fo immenfe
an army, is fo immoderate that the revenues would appear to
be unable to bear it. I f the pay and the appointments o f each'
foldier, infantry and cavalry one with another, be fuppofed
to amount to a ihilling a dáy,- the fum required for the pay
alone would amount to 33,000,000!. fterling a year!
T o come nearer the truth, let us take the calculation drawn
up by Lord Macartney from the information o f Van-ta-gin.
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