The Statesman. — London, England, 1819-07-03 00:00:00

public works, but he should show, if those were the gr,•onda, that the Duke only asked for the Lottery to enable him to pay off the debts which were COIN tractor! on the public service—debts contracted cadet circumstances which he could neither direct nitres,. trout, circumstances of which he bad been the eke. tim. Ile was confident the history of the Duke's dillicuttiet were not known., or they would in teence Gentlemen to think differently of the course n..* adopted by that illustrious indivi -4041.—11e bad suffered great losses io the pub lic service, Is he should ,hew, and he had set re. calved any Parliamentary allowance until 32 years of op.— a period several years later thee my of his Royal Brothers. Ms elder Brother had received 12,0001. a year at the age of 21 and M. whilst be bad not received any until be was 39 years of age, and be bad applied in vain to be pet on a footing with his younger brother, the Doke of Serves, oho bad received it at 99 years.— He should, es shortly es possible, put the House in possessliin eV the facts, and be entreated their Wel setter whilst kedid so. The Duke, in 1785, at the age of 18 years', left England for Ilinever, where he joined the Girard', and served with them for two year, ; he then wont to Geneve, • IWO be studied for twos ears. There he met with his toentrymen, whose society he suturally courted, and whew habits be naturally followed.---Whilst, is general, even ions of Commoners, who can afford to travel, mere well supplied •Ith mousy to pry all their es. Fences. and the indulgences of youth, the Doke was allowed. during thew. four years only to• pistol's a week. Iletdid not intend in any way to reflect en the parental conduct of the King In keeping the Doke at this time of life an short of money ; bet the fact was so, and the consequences that followed say be easily anticipated by every Gentleman. At the ay of 23. he had contracted debts to the amount of 20.0001. which he eapected to pay off from the first parliamentary allowsnce, which he espected, as his elder brother bad received one, at the age of twenty fur. In 1790, the Doke was appointed to the QoPeo s a regiment at Gibraltar, and joined sc. stordinqty, wi.knet rsieriving any allowance whatever as lir. malt to rumble him to appear at the head of his regimens with the requielte equipments. In 1791, he embarked with his regiment for North Awe. Tice, where he remained viola his corps until 1794, Irlieri is Jaosery he received the commands of his Majesty to j in the forces then under Sir Charles Grey, in the West Indies Ile did not delay, as mists) would have done, ender all the difficulties ..f she 'engem and she reentry to travel, bet proceeded by land across to Boston, sod embarked with consi derable hassrd for Martinique. Is this journey all his baggage was lost in one of the lakes, and be was put to very great espence to re-equip himself for the service he was on The services of the illustrious Duke were recorded in the General Orders of the Commander-In-Chief, and were too well known to esquire any farther observations from him, than shortly to state, thee at his post as second in come ~and ender Sir C. Grey, at the capture of St. Lucia and Gsadaloupe, mod third la command at idartiniqee, be received the thanks of the Com. statideiain.Chief, as he bad deserved the appro. bailee of all oho served with him. After the tearniostion of that campaign, espousal.* as it was ho. pourable to him as a gabber, he returned to lislifas, and being appointed a Major-Geoerel on the Staff, served there till October, 1798, wheel a fall frem his horse obliged him to return to England for his health. Those who have bees ender each circlet. sleocea, were aware of the great @emcee he most have incurred; and on an allowance of 50001. a year ("Lich he ',timed, and of which he was paying 10001. or 15001 a year as interest of his former debts, it was ▪ i• couceive the rapid immolation of his pecuniary difficulties. In 1799. he returned to Dallies as Com.. wander in Chief, Loving then first obtained his Par. liamoiniary allowance of 12,0001. Ills Majesty, as be (Mr. 11.) was assured, bad promised to pay the debts of the Doke computed from .1785 to 1790; bet owing to his absence on the service of his coos. try, and various oufatoureble cireemetsoces et the time, that was Dever done, and ell the ea. ertiona of the Dyke could not discharge the debt. ill health compelled his fe , olll in the following year to England, having had tbe misfortune to lose bag gage and military ecripmeets to the amount of 23,0001. as his Majesty's Ministers knew were certi fied by Mr. Greeownod, the Duke's Agent. Some nonoerable Members were, he feared, ender a mis take oat that subject, and he would assure them that for the lees of his berme on his route to join the army is the West Indies, the Duke bad received COUOI. when Lord Henry Petty was Chancellor of the Eacbequer, being 13 years after the loss, the in terest of which in that time would have amounted to mach more, and for the losses (23,0001.) of stores Nat to Ilalifaa he had never received one lo a th.ond. In 1802, his Majesty appointed the Doke command, of Gibraltar, as a reward for his mili tary services, and be joined the garrison accord• ingly. He begged to observe, that much bad been said about the Doke of Kent's receiving, as Go vernor of Gibraltar, more than his Royal 13rothets ; ' but he would salt, bad any of his Brothers served I their country for 11 years in different climates, and In arduous services, to give them the isms claims ? The Government of Gibraltar was a reward for mili tary services which had i beeu given to General O'llera, Fox, and other Officers, sod mild sot is fairness I a talon as soy part of the sllowsoce as respects the Royal Doke. It had been, and will spits be, held by Officers as a reward for services, and the income from it can never be brought iuto account, to balance the loss be suffered. Tbe Doke of Kent was wet out to Gibraltar, with special instructions, and be had a difficult duty to perform, to reclaim the troops to habits of sobriety sad discipline ; the causes of his fecal, from not being properly understood. had coo. vitiated a chirp against the Illastrions Duke; bet he (Mr. Home) entreated the attention of the House b it fir one moment to this fact.—(No! hear I)—The satiny which led to the vetd of the Doke of Kent— Mr. CANNING here interposed, and observed, that he was sorry to Interrupt! the Hoonerable Mem ber in his career ; bat he would pat it to him asa mat. ter of discretion, whether the question before the Hesse neutrally led to 'consideration of the facts of the mutiny at Gibraltar ; or whether it were possible to stir such topics without getting a wide Avid of i!isceision. THE STATESMAN Mr. HUME said, that had the Right Honourable Gentlemen bees aware of the mode is which he (Mr. Hume) should have concluded his sentence, he world not have complained that it was irrelevant to ailed* to the events at Gibraltar. Mr. CANNING added, that be objected tea se. fereoce to she mutiny. Mr. HUME Continued. He had only mentioned the mutiny with a view to remove an resting pre judice. He was elution. to assure the Hoses that • very erroneous+ impression bad been made on the public Wed, as to the nature sad Mut of that trammed°. ; sad be was union to Teresa the che wier of the Duke from the most undeserved censer, which had been cast upon it by that transaction.— The mutiny did take Oro in December, 1801, bet was instantanenesly quelled ; and the garrison in es. cense order when be left it, la May following. The state of drunkenness of that garrison was so noto rious, and so mischievos' to the health and disci. Mine of the troops, that the most particular orders were gives to the Duke of Kent to correct both, which he did in • most remarkable degree, as was manifested le the state of the sick and the number of deaths, which were less by ene.half than for the same period before or after his Government. And let the House only observe, that by the suppressing' of the peblic.hoesrs, to repress the drunkenness, he reduced the fees of she Governor from 60001. to 20001. alter. Ha bad been promised by the No. ble Lord at the bead of the Government. before he left England, that any sacrifice of emotement that the Duke might make, to accomplish she di.cipline and sobriety of the garrison, should be made up to him. Bat that bad the recal of the Duke from Gibraltar was injerines to him, oa such alleged grounds, he had reason to complain, and he had not been willingly absent from that Government.—Bet in the pecuniary allowances from Gibraltar also, she Duke bed been used more amiably, may, he meat add, more unjustly treated by his Majesty's Ministers than any other Gramme of any foreign garrison, and that formed a strong claim en the pert of the Duke for remuneration. — As the Government had themselves laid down a rale for the division of fees of absent Go 00000 rs, why have they acted differently with the Duke of Keel ? In the instance of Sir James Cockhern, Govereer of Carnes, who was absent from his command, where General Lylyard was his Deputy, his Majesty's Ministers determined that the ab. sent Governor should receive • 11.1 f, and the Deputy on she spot the other half of the fees end emoluments of office. During the trine years previous to, end in. cledieg the year the Duke of Kent commanded at Gibraltar, the avenge fees received were 7,0001. • year, sad tee Duke, whilst absent, was fairly .nsi. tied to nee half, or 3,5001. a year for sistron years pest. Bet he had not got one pound, although his share amounted (taking the terse proportims) to 56,0001. He would ask, wh.t had become of that money—of those fees since the Duke's dewier, ? Let his Majesty's Ministers inform the [loose. The Deputy Governor had received his half, or 3,5001. a year, mid the other half, with additions. bad been regularly remitted, perhaps to the Pal) Peru, or to another high Peesonage.—lie avoid only inform the House, that be had ex amined very narrowly all the items and brads of pub. tic revenue, and could assure them that so credit ap. peered to be given any where for that sew. Was it i sereatesable for the DA. of Kent to ask from this fend, be had almost said his ewe fend, to be pieced on the same fooling as other Governors had been, lead were placed? It is not an easy work to reduce a heavy debt, and his Royal Highness, although from the year 1807 be bad set said. a considerable portion of his allowance, yet having always the hopes that justice would be done to him, and :hat both the ar rears of his Parliamentary allowance sod his allow. ease from Gibraltar would be paid, he continued to ergo his claims to Government, bat without success. —Up to the year 1806, every one of the Royal Dukes bad a table for them in St. James's Pa. late, which was equivalent to sic thousand pounds a year ; but she Duke of Kent, from his absence, never received one year of such table, as his other Royal Brothers did. Nothing was more distant from his intention, then to make invidious compari• sons of the Duke of Kent's situation with any other of his Boys! Brothers, bat be could not captain the Duke's claims, or tire motives which bad induced him to cure before this Hasse without mentioning them. The late Mr. Pitt bad promised, and, if he had lived, be bad little doubt would have taken the claims of the Deke iota consideration, bet his death and the indisposition of his Majesty prevented any thing being done. In 1813, the Duke surd his claims for the arrears of his Parliamentary allowance and fees from Gibraltar to his Majesty's Ministers, bat without success ; and seeir.g no lopes of any aid bet from his owe resources, did then nobly, and be should always contend most honourably end 0111411. plery, resolved by economy to pay off his debts... — Of the allowances of every kind which he received, as shown by the returns ea the sable of the Hoes., he gave 17,0001. a year so pay his debts. and lived on 70001. a year for the three years that followed and on. 01 his marriage, which altered his establishment. The aeliety the Doke felt to discharge his debts, iodat ed him to submit to privations, and to make es. *diens which few men of his rank, or of any rank, are ready to do ; and he melt always do credit to his head and his heart for so doing. If the Duke of Kent now were placed on the same fooling as to Parliamentary allowance es his brother the Duke of Clarence, elder only by two years, he would have to receive 96,0001. or 12,0001. for eight years, from the age of 24 to 32, when 'redid not receive any. If he were placed on a footing with the Doke of Sasses, the least turreted as to allowasee of any of the Royal Family, who received his Parliamentary al. lowaore at twenty-nine years of ego, he would re ceive 29,0001. ; and in his repeated applications to Governmeat the Duke of Kent requested be might have either on* or other, bet neither was granted. As all these had failed, his own retrench. meet had extinguished half of his debt ; but beiag maeried he could not live on the same reduced rate. blishateot u he did before, and it was that considers• lion alone which induced him to come before the Howe at pant. Hubei conveyed t• trustees the holm and crusade of Castlebar.hill, valued at a sum equal to all his remaining debts, he was anxious to have that property sold for the balk of kis bro. Atom; esd as the trustees had not beets able to sell It at a fele valuation is the ordinary way of sale, be 4.4 116•• serenely advised to dispose of it by Lot. tin; sever livelong that the Hesse wound refuse to hits abet It had granted to others for like purposes. TM Doke had received '20,0001. from the Dreits of the Admiralty, at the time his Rbyal Brothers received the same sum, and he had devoted it to pay his creditors. He does sot wish to receive one pound of the money himself, and he was sorry to observe the feeling in the Home spina the request. The private charac ter of the Duke of Kent did nut require any thing he could say to make it known—his acts were the best proofs of the goodness of his heart, and these were as generally known us his besevolent exertions were useful. Ile did not approve of Lotteries which pro. meted vice and immorality, and should preys his opinion no that subject by the votes he should give as long as be should have the bottoor of a seat in this House; bet he considered the presto plan, although by Lottery, us free from almost all the mils incum bent on mosey prises. Ile could assure the Home that the strong sense he bad of the peaty of the too. lives of the Doke of Kent On the prevent and other orra-inn', and that his claims were fairly entitled to like favourable consideration of the House, in es far as his debts had been interred by losses in the public service, and by the withholding from him the ellowsores he ought to have received, seethe reales why be had occupied so mach of the time of the Homo. Lord CASTLEREAGH concurred with the lion. Member that he would not refuse so act of justice to a Prince of the Blood; bet if this were en act of jystice, it certainly was one of the last to which he could assent. The lion. Alderman had alled• ed to the general respect esterteitted for the Disko of Kent, in consequence of the many benfits he bad conferred; and no man could more admire the mede in which his Royal Highness had dispensed his charities than he (Lend Castlereagh); but surely this was net precisely the mode its which they ought to he compensated. His Lordship most sincerely lamented that the Hon. Gentleman had gone into the review he bad taken ; nor did he know whence he obtained some of the feels he had advanced, •hich conveyed, chat the Home could not bear without strong emotion. a sort of parental reproach—a sug gestion, than width there was nothing less in unison with the general feeling, that the King had acted to wards his children with sedge partiality.—(Coos• finned ckeers.)—lie pretested against this Bill the mre strongly, beaten?, not in Mr. Pict's Ad mietttretion, bat not even in Lord Grenville's had the Duke of Kent brought forward his tocs inr claims, when the junior branch,' of the Royal Family were before Parliament.--An opportu nity had been twice a ff orded, and twice neglected ; and the last time only lest year. when his marriage was ultder consideration. The Duke of Citruses was the individual placed is centrist ; but if he hod re. ' (rived Perlistnentary aid sootier, the Duke of lost had possessei professionel 6(1,66014es whisk the Duke of Clarence bad never enjoyed. The Duke of Kent had received large emolemeets, stated at 70001. per annum, from Gibraltar ; and at this so. es-at his Royal Highness actually had an income, as 'pistoled by returns on the table, of between 30,0001. end 32,0001., considerably beyond the income of his elder brother. Mr. HUM E explained, and denied that be intend ed to drew any comparison between the Dukes of Kent and Clarence: he had contrasted the Duke of Kent more penitently with the Duke or Sussex.— As to the charge of parental partiality, the Noble Lord had completely misunderstood him. lie would stele, without fear of contradiction, that it was the intention of the King, before bis illness, to make an allowance is the Duke of Kest. Mr. FORBES, with the greatest pleasure, sup ported the motion for bringing ie the Bill. In the feeling the Home had displayed, it bad not evinced a disposition either jest or generous ; and if no the present occasion the lion. Mover were not semen fel, he hoped in the nest Session that the claims of the Royal Duke would be brought forward in some other shape. He maintained that she Duke of Kent bad not been treated like his brothers, and be should bete no objection to rest the fact out the verdict of twelve sworn jurymen. Sir CHARLES BURRELL rase merely to afford the Una. Member of Aberdeen en opportunity of correcting his statement. The Hen. Member bud stated, that the Duke of Kent had set sport 17,0001. a year for the liquidation of his debts, retaining only 70001 a year for his own use. Now as it 'moored that his Roysl highness had 18,0001. a year from the Consolidated Fend, as well as his Royal Brothers, together with little less then 70001. from the Ge. moment of Gibraltar, 60001. en his late marriage, the r f the Coinnelcy of the Scots Royals, with the usual profit on the allowance for clothing that regiment, in all above 31,0001. a year. The Hon. Gentleman's statement appeared lobe incorrect. Mr. HUME said, that his statement referred to lute revenue of the Royal Duke when he set apart 17,0001. a year for the lipuidetiou of his debts, and his tinsel Highness's so was then only shoat 11,0001. a.year. The grant sport his Royal High. wess's marriage was made, it would be recollected, only with the last year. Lord LOW rH ER expressed a wish that the Hon. Member wound consent to withdraw bis motion, as the discussion of such a motion could only serve to cast discredit span the Royal Family. As to the statement of the lion. Member for Aberdeen, re specting the losses of the Doke of Kent, it would be recollected, that in the year 1606, 20,0031 were granted out of the Droits of Admiralty to his Royal Highness, which grunt he understood to be a compass*. lion for these losses.—[No, no! said Mr. Hume, for the same sum was granted to every one of his Royal Brothers.] Mr. Alderman WOOD disclaimed the idea of bringing forward this measure with any sock view as that ,'apposed by the Noble Lord en the T Bench—liamely, that of rewording the Duke of Kent for his maims, in the came of public cherity. FOr these 'unions indeed his Royal Highness was entitled for a higher and more dignified reward. — But his (Loyal Highness himself had in feet no con cern whatever in bringing forward this measure, for it was peened upon him (Alderman W.) by others, namely- by the Trustees for liquidating the Duke's debts.—[Some corghing.)—Tbo Worthy Aldermen hire mooned lbe llosso to farm Mm with a littl! M . • a' • ti of its attention, in order to am time, as be was det twit dleMi,lehetever interreption he 'apost tawoaken he had any thing to say which he felt it dao4ll to War* to the consid eration of that iloose.—t ear, tear!) —The Worthy Alter. mats coocleded with expressing his consent to with. draw the motion. Lord CASTLEREAGH farmed his satisfaction to Bed that the Illustrious Personage 'Untied to wee De petty to a measure of this notate. Mr. GRENFEI.I. declared that in what he had said epee this sobject he was not actuated by soy personal motive whatever. The models was N withdrawn. it. A. SWANN. Mr. C. HARVEY plesented a Petition from this Gentlemen, praying that the noose woeld give di. rectifies that Mr. Serjeant Pall. Rao was his cont. &nth% Cunard spun the Election Committee for Polars, should be released from his engagement by the Atiorney.General, to conduct the protecetion against him fur bribery, at the nest Moises for Core. wall. The SOLICITORZENERAL observed, that en application to this Jed ea. made to the Attorney- G 1; but he thought plopor to Was it, on the ground that the Learned Se.jeant ellutird to lass the porno ip2l Law Serjeaut on the Circuit f condecting Crowe prosecutions; end else that he had conduct ed the prosecution some time ago against Sir C. !law. bins, although the Learned Serjeant had had the same relation to Sir Christopher on the Committee which gave birth to the prolecatien that he had lately held with the Petitioner. Besides, the Learned See. jeant having attended the Indies of the Crean Lawyers upon lb. subject of this prosecution, he coeld not, with any degree of consistency. be dis charged from his enpgement for the Crown, se as to become the advocate for Petitioner. Mr. WYNN es. riot aware what kind of relief the Petitioner could receive. The linage had Instructed the Attorney-General to commence a prosecution against him, awl the cendect of that proceeding must, therefore, be left to that Law &Seer. The Petition was then rejected without a division. CANADA. Mr. F. DOUGLAS, alluding to the disputes be tweets Lord Selkirk and the North West Company, which ishibited • kind of civil war, wished to know whether sny steps had been taken to put an rod to the dissracefol I rantleibins in that gamier ? Mr. GOULUURN repli•d, that when certain pa. pens, which it was his 'mention to produce,shneldle laid on the table, the House ',mold are that Gnaws. sent bad isterfered for the impose alluded to by he Honourably Gentleman. Mr. BENNETT wished to know whether any steps had I.ms takes to punish those who bid ►eee guilty of =order in that country ? Mr. GOULBURN (as we understood the Hon. Gentleman) replied to the afhtmative; and in answer to a gse.tion fro• Mr. Wilberforce, said that the rewords of the 1,1.1 had sat yet reached the Colonist Office. CASIFLFORD ELECTION. On the question for taking in.n f or ,hee voraskleee. lien the Report of the Came!ford Etection Committee, Mr. D. W. HARVEY, after °hawing that soli. chant time had been allowed for the consideration of the Came%ford case !nitwits*. every Honours%)le Mem. bee to make up his mind upon it, meted that the writ fora new electinn for the said 800 Gogh should n. t be leased until the first city of the neat Session of Par liament ; bat, on the seggestios. cf the Spnke , , the 11... Gentleman changed that proposition into a so. don that the Report of the Camalford Election Com. mi.tee be taken into farther c• wtldlration en that dry iii months. Mr. WYNN, adverting to the situation of Wm. Hallett, then in cestody, erad to the circumstaece that no writ had been issued for the election of a seer Member for that Borough, moved as an amendment, that the farther coesideratioe of the Report be ad. journed to Monday neat, when Mr. Hailed should be celled before the House. Mr. M. A. TAYLOR was of opinion that the Hesse might to proceed immediately to the farther consideration of the Raped, and added, that it was his intention to more an amendment to that effect ; ea which Lord CASTLERCAGII rose to eider. He ep pealed to the Chair whether such a proceeding would be regular. The SPEAKER said, that as there were elmdy a motion and an amendment before the Homer, they meat be disposed of before any other prepositiee could be received. Mr. M. A. TAYLOR proceeded to contend that so este bad been made nut against the Borough go. novelly, and yet the Hasse was ceded upon to ne rved the fusing of the writs for the Borough to as Indefinite period. The Committee had node ao Special Report against the Borough, and yet it was proposed is effect to disfranchise it. Ile felt it his duty to ewe, that, in persuance of the Order of the Day to -that effect, the Repoli be now taken loto farther consideration. Mr. D. W. HARVEY observed, that the Hoe. Gentlemen (Mr. yen) seemed not to have comedy understood the object of his (Mr. Harvey's) motion. The lion. Gentleman appeared to think that Mr. Hallett was a Petitioner to the H ouse, praying that he might be admitted to the bar to prove one of the most flagrant instances of corruption and bribery that had ever been disclosed. The Counsel who condected the ciao before the Committee, undertook to prove the esistence of a conspiracy for procuring a corrupt return for the Borough ; and the Report of the Cow mine, showed that that charge had been in a great masers substantiated. The facts were—that there were 99 Electors for Carnelford—that that Borough had been frequently the subject of sale or tiortff— and that it was now the pevperty of a Noble Lord, reborn be would not name, as those who bad read the Report of the Committee must know that his Lordship's name was no secret. Nit foil before the lest Election, a Sl e eti n g of bee of the rectors was held at an Inn ' , ear the Borough. cati.d the ' Aliworthy, which meeting was joined by a Cerra'* Reverend Divine, who expressed to the iorkideals assembled a desire to return two Members to serve in Parliament for the Borough of Calera-Id. To this intimation the Electors did mot object Toe/ annexed 'sly one condition to their comp liance with Ir ; namely, that a large sum of mono) s hould be deposited tot senile purposes which Well tett"