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 uppreed, by which the Treaury lot the appointment of four hundred and fifty-nine offices of different orts; but two hundred were added to perform the new duty under the Excie. In this cae alo as the diminution and addition of officers will be included in the general tatement of revenue officers, no further notice of it will be taken here, except to oberve that the Treaury lot a patronage equal to the extent of the whole Salt etablihment, the new officers being all in the gift of the Commiioners of Excie, with whoe appointments the Treaury have very little interference.

The offices of the Auditors of the Land Revenue for England and Wales next attracted the attention of Mr. Pitt. The duties of thee, it appeared to him, were of a nature which would very well admit of their being performed by the Commiioners for auditing the Public Accompts: one was held by two gentlemen for their joint lives, the two others during pleaure. Thee were abolihed by law in 1799, at which time the reverion of the mot valuable, worth more than 3000l. a-year, was open.