The Virginia Gazette

From LLOYD's EVENING POST.

To the Printer.

A CORRESPONDENT, in your paper of May 30, produces a list of reversions and pensions, the greater part of which were granted seven years ago, and only two within these twelve months, namely, Mr. Bradshaw's and Mr. Dyson's. These Gentlemen are old and meritorious servants of the public, who have spent their days and worn out their constitutions in the most incessant and laborious duty. As to the reversions that were granted seven years ago; Mr. Martyn, after being Secretary of the Treasury during the whole war, (a period in which a less scrupulous person might have taken more care of himself than he has done) retired with a reversion granted not to the challenger of Mr. Wilkes, as it is maliciously insinuated, for he had not then challenged Mr. Wilkes, but to a most diligent faithful servant of the state. As to Mr. Jenkinson’s reversion, this wretched informer is wrong in every respect, both as to the office and the person who has the reversion, for it is Sir Bankes Jenkinson, and not Mr. Charles Jenkinson. With regard to Lord Mountstewart, who stands first in the list, and for whose sake the others are introduced, the truth of that transaction is too honourable for the Earl of Bute to be concealed. When the Earl of Bute became Minister, he had eleven children; his paternal estate is not a large one, and his second son is sole heir of the estate at Wortley: Yet the Earl of Bute gave no reversions, places, or pensions to any of his younger children. If he had done so, who could have blamed their families? How many places are still enjoyed by the med him? Did not his predecessors take very good care of relations of the Walpole and Pelham families? Has not Mr. Grenville secured a good many reversions and places to his lic pensioners, they and their offspring? But Lord Mountstewart has a reversion too; so he has; and I wish it was as considerable as your informers says it is: He calls it as the descendant of a Minister, calls it only 1500l. But 7000l. a year. Mr. Allibie, who at present has the place the history of that reversion is this: When Lord Bute's intimate friends knew that he intended to resign, one of them very earnestly entreated his Lordship to do something for his eldest son. Lord Bute replied, with a harshness not usual to him when he spoke to his friends, and insisted that the person who spoke to him should never mention that subject again. Notwithstanding which it was again mentioned. Another and another friend returned to the charge, and, after an interval of some weeks, the reversion to his own son was extorted from Lord Bute, by stronger importunity, and given with more reluctance than all the reversions which he ever granted.