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With Mr. Wortley, and her Daughter, the late Conti tees of Bute, during her resiiience is France and Maly, be tween the years 1799 and 1762. lattervirtmed with inunerous Letters hitherto unpublished, front Port, YOUNG, Fl11.1)1$0, and tither distinguished Cha ncey,. They will alxs include waecteret. Poems sun Fitts's, in French 3 . nd Engflets, 4y bar Ladyship; and to the whole will be prefixed, anthentie Memoirs of her Life. Printed for Iticoaan 'stud's, No. 71, St. Paul's Church yard. Y, MARCH 5, )803. HOUSE OF LORDS. ratnag, stAactt 4. Mr. RoMILLY and Mr. ALEX ANDF.R. were heard in the Appeal Cause, the Marquis of Bute and his eldest son (the Hon. Herbert Windsor Stuart, com monly called Lord Herbert Windsor Stuart,) and the Hon. James Stuart i Wortley, (second son of John, late Earl of Bute,) for the Appellant ; and the A TTOnNEV-GENEA AL and Mr. ADAM, for the Respondent; and after a reply from Mr. A:Al a:wag, the Loan Caaacw.on gave judgment, ' and affirmed the Interlocutor of the Court of Session. The Report from the Committee of Privileges, re lative to the return of Writs issued to summon the Temporal Peers of Ireland to Parliament, was pre sented 'by Lord Walsingham, and agreed to. It confirms the mode by which the Irish Temporal Peers were summoned to take their seats in the pre sent Parliament, and declares that they were sum moned in conformity to the letter ami spirit of the Act of Union. The Militia-training Bill passed through a Com mittee of the whole House. A Petition was presented against the Woollen Manufacture Bill. The Bill for disqualifying the Revenue officers in Ireland from 'Votes as i;.lectors to Parliament, and the Mutiny Bill, sere brought up from the Com mons by Mr. ALLXANDLa and others, and pro. seated ; and also, the St. Giles's Burying-Ground Bill, by Sir William Anderson and others.—They were severally read a first time. Adjourned to Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY, MARC!! 4. Sir M. W. R IDLEY reported from the Com mittee appointed to try the merits of the Petition, coniplaining of an undue eletaion from Great Grims by, that one of its Members would be obliged to be absent upon material business on Monday next ; that the Committee had already been sitting for three weeks, and that they requested the permission of the House to have leave to adjourn from to-mor row till Tuesday next. On the Motion to this etre& having been made, leave was given accordingly. A Petition was ?resented from the Ship-Owners of the town and port of Newcastle, praying for the repeal of the Freightage Duty. Ordered to lie on the table. The Hon. D. it YEIER reported from the Pen ryn Committee, that they decided the sitting Mem bers to have been duly eletied, and that the Petition against them was not frivolous nor voirations.— (This determination was the quickest =as yet occurred, perhaps in any Session, as the Uttees was only appointed yesterday.) A number of Members obtained leave of absence for different periods. :inn AFI AIRS. Mr. CORRY brought in the Bill for regulating the Drawbacks and Duties on Exportation and Im portation in that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland, together with the Irish Stamp Duty, Hat Duty, Game Duty, Port and Packets Duty, and an other Bill of a private nature, which were severally read a first, and ordered to be read a second time on ?Monday. Mr.WICKITANI moved for leave to bring in a Bill for preventing litigious and vexatious Actions in Iron land. In explanation of his object he stated, that it was a pradice too prevalent in that country, to bring trifling suits arid :glions before the superior Courts, whereas others of an inferior description were competent to decide upon them, where the proceedings would be attended with infinitely less trouble and expence. The provisions of the Bill would be to authorise the Judges in the superior tribunals to annex to the aftions brought before them a declaration, that they were such :is the infe rior Courts could not take cognizance of, with power in the opposite case to refer them to such in ferior Courts. Leave was given to bring in the Bill. THE PRINCE OF WALES'i ESTABLISHMENT. Mr. CALCRAFT, before he entered upon the main subject of his motion, wished to advert to and renew a declaration which lie made on a former evening, in consequence of a suggestion from an Hon. Gentleman (Nlr. Erskine) whom he saw now in his place. He was desirous that the I louse should be fully apprised of the motives by which he was actuated, and to assure them, that the present pro ceeding originated entirely, and personally from himself. Upon this subject he had no conversation, concert, nor correspondence, with any .person, nor did he communicate it to any une before he gave the notice ; therefore, he could have had no con currence or encouragement for doing so, from the Royal Personage to whom the motion personally re lated, The subject in which he was engaged, was evidently of a very delicate nature ; but he trusted that the manner he meant to adopt, would b' found such, as could not prove offensive to any o. the parties. In the Bill still before them, the HOuse had gone the full length of what his illajes ty's Ministers proposed to them ; but it was not so certain their late grant went fully to the extent of his Majesty's most gracious message, and in his mind something of great importance remained still to be accomplished. The mode he meant' to take was, to submit to them a motion for a committee to enquire into the extent of the claims on the honour and justice of the Prince of Wales, which must still, notwithstanding the late liberality of Parliament, retard the resump tion of that state and dignity befitting . the Heir Apparent of these realms. To any enquiries which might be made by a Committee in Parliament, he could not conceive that any of those objections could apply, which might -be urged with effect against any other mode of investigation. In refer. ring to the gracious message of his Majesty, c e en. tlemen would there see, that it expressesisierelienee ou their zeal and attac hment, for whit ars be 110• - ..-..*t cessary for the purpose of consulting the state and dignity of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. From the general terms, however moderate, it ap peared to him, that infinitely more was included than had yet been done. The I louse had, no doubt, made a very considerable grant, but- the public did not find themselves one jot nearer the accomplish ment of their expectations, that . the Prince would speedily, or rather immediately, renew the splendor and magnificence of his establishment. The Chan cellor of the Exchequer, on a former day, declared, that were the motives of his Royal I lighness's for bearance in this respect known, of made public, they would be found such as to reflect the highest honour on him. But he, as a Member of Par liament, anxious to maintain the dignity of the nation, was bound to institute an inquiry, and nut accept the declaration of the Minister, or even that of the Royal Personage himself. The country was known to look with anxious and ardent expectation to the re-appearance of the Heir to the Crown in all the magnificence belonging to his sta tion ; and if that was not immediately resumed, the 0130 of Parliament was far from being completely fulfilled. It was obviously impossible for the Prince to be restored to the state suited to him, and at the same time make an appropriation for the discharge of his existing debts upon his present income; and therefore he (Mr. C.) esteemed it more advisable and commendable in Parliament to remove, at once and in the fisrt instance, every load and clog which could impede the vaagniticence of his appearance. If there was any obstacle to be found is the finan cial state of the country, that would be a fit subjeet for the consideration of the Committee. The mode he had the honour to recommend was by no means unprecedented, for the powers given to the Commit tee in the year 179.5, went much further, and were infinitely more extensive than what he now proposed. He was well aware that, even after the Committee should be formed, (if the House thought proper to do so,) vet even then his intentions were likely to be frustrated, because there could be no power to com pel that infoxmation to be brought torward which they might think necessary, if there should be any disposition to withhold it. would the latter be the case, the House would at least have the satisfaction to reflect, that they had gone as far as they could in the business, and there the subjeCt must necessarily drop. He declared that he would not have em barked in so delicate an affair, or come forward on this occasion, if he had not perceived an anxious feeling in most parts of the House upon the late dis cussion, that his Royal Highness should be forth with relieved from the embarrassthents under which he laboured. He felt within himself also an anxious disposition to see the Prince in easy circumstances, and he believed similar feelings pervaded every part of his Majesty's dominions. If the country was in other respeas able to support the national splendour and dignity, he could not account for pareinsony be ing confined only to the circumstances of the Heir Apparent, nor why he'should be compelled to reside in a corner of his palace, surrounded by difficulties and embarrassments. After all, however, he did not view this cpiestion as a personal one to his Royal Highness, but as resulting from the natural expecta tions, and wishes of the people that the I leir Appa rent to the Throne should be restored without delay to that splendour and mangnificence which consti tuted so much of the pride and glory of this great and powerful nation. In the proposal he had the honour to submit, he disclaimed the most distant intention of sheaving any kind of disrespeCt to any human individual. If he was mistaken in the calculation be made of the ardent feelings of the House, or had committed any involuntary error in judgment, he could not help it, nor was he to blame. The task he undertook was not to himself a very agree able one, but he had discharged his duty, and con chided by offering his motion, which was to this effect :—" That, anxiously desirous to give full and complete effect to the important objets recommend ed to the House in his Majesty's Message of the 16th of February last, a seleCt committee be ap pointed to enquire into the nature of those claims upon the honour and justice of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales which now impede the de sire expressed in his Majesty's gracious Message, that he might be enabled to resume the rank and dignity suited to the Heir Apparent of these realms." Sir WILLIAM GEAR v seconded the motion. Mr. ERSKINE (Chancellor to the Prince of Wales) said, lie . rose in consequence of the lion. Mover.of this Question having adverted to a decla ration made by him on a former night, on grounds of which it may not be unnecessary for him to state to the House. It was by mere accident thar he hap pened to come in at a time, when one of the Prince's servants was delivering a gracious Message from his Royal Highness, expressive of the grateful sense he entertained (and indeed did always entertain) of the kindness of his Royal Father, in recom mending his situation to their attention, and his acknowledgement for the liberality he expe rienced .from the hands of Parliament. • When he saw the Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Calcraft) get zip immediately afterwards, and announce his intention of making the present Motion on this day,' he instantly felt himself impressed with a sense of delicacy, and was apprehensive it might be thought or suspetted that the Prince of Wales had instigated or considered himself by any means interested in the notice. He said no more than what he knew he should be, and had 2EMany been since confirmed in, by that exalted personage himself, who had authorized him to declare, that he was perfeetly satisfied with the gracious recom mendation of his Majesty, and equally so with the subsequent liberal grant made him by that House. That he felt no personal interest to himself in the issue of the Motion, but would at all events be equally thankful for the attention paid to his cir cumstances by the House. But at the same time that he made this communication, he did not wish to be understood as intending any more than he expressed. He had no intention to discourage or discountenance the Motion, or to have it implied that he consi dered it as one unfit for discussion *in that House. PRICE SIXPENCE. As a servant of the Prince of Wales, in his capacity as Chancellor, he certainly felt no interest whatever in the result of this question, but as a Member of Parliament, he vitas sensible that he had a much higher and more important duty to perform, and to state what he actually felt upon the present occa sion. In his Majesty's Message, and the subse qnent proposition of the Minister, the claims of his Royal Highness to the revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall were not at all adverted to. These claims had not yet received any judicial determination, but they were not, on that account, the less just, or thl less solid. Under all the circumstances which had before been so frequently alluded to, his Ma jesty would. perhaps, have been amply justified. • considering the manner in which the revenues were said to be expended, in applying to his Parliament,..: and calling upon them for assistance to enable hint • - to make the necessary restitution. But his Maje , tr! in that was not forgetful of that moderation for which he had been distinguished throughout the' whole of his reign, and left the whole to the wisdom and discretion of Parliament, without making himself any distinct propo.sitien. He ye ray believed that, in the proposition which fol lowed, the Minister had strictly pursued the modes ration of the Message. That Right Hon. Gentle man could then have known the extent of the claims mite' the honour of his Royal H: Hess, but had acknowledged at the time that he had no meson to exile. the Prince would be able for sonic time to resume his state and dignity and it was now evi dent, that what had been granted was not sufficient for that purpose. There was certainly every reasoa to have the fullest reliance on the honour of the Prince, vs provide in the first place for the discharge of every claim upon his jestice e'but it was also very desirable that he should be enabled to give the public the benefit of his proper state and dignity. This Motion, in his view of it, was far from implying the slightest censure on his Majesty's Message, or of the measures which succeeded it. If he could any way consider it even as a comment or eriticisrn upon either, he would be one of the foremost persons in the House to oppose it. When the Minister first stated his proposition, it was to he supposed, that he considered the sum voted as adequate to its objet. That mistake, however, was not to guide the con du& of other independent Members of Parliament. There was no inconsistency whatever in the mea sure now proposed to be adopted. Parliament may, with all respell and deference, approach the Sove reign, and say—" . Your Majesty, desirous to relieve your Royal Son and Heir from the restridioas for some years imposed upon him, recommended that subject to the consideration of your Parliament ; • but in doing so you were observant of the modera tion which your Majesty, in no instance, has lost sight of. We are also desirous of removing these restriStions, and anxious for the support of the Moe narchy, and the maintenance of its splendour and its dignity. But as the sum already voted wasf&small and inadequate to the obje& we had is view, we now wish to amend the proposstiou of your Minister, by giving more than he, at the period alluded to, thought proper to demand.'' He confessed himself better pleased to see the Motion brought forward now, than at an earlier season; for had the Message stated any distils& sum, or the Minister asked for more than he had done in the first instance, the de. mand, no doubt, would have been complied with, but it might have been complied with relndantly. A variety of remarks might have been made upon the subje& ; some Members of Parliament. perhaps , might have talked of the vast ruinous expenses of the late - war; some represented the excessive burthena of the people. and, in fine, the debate branch into a variety of very disagreeable topics. The case would indeed be quite altered if the House should be of opinion it was not desirable for the Prince to re sume his state, and that they would not assent on his account to lay any fresh burthens on the people. As to the Minister himself, he was persuaded, there was no man in that I louse, or in the country, who felt greater attachment, who was impressed with a higher respect or regard to the comforts, the honour, and splendour of the Royal Family. I k was convinced that his disposition towards the Prince of Wales was not limitted to the specific sum he wa.s first induced to propose. As to the Prince himself, he again said, in his name, that he was perfectly satisfied with what had beer done for him already ; and that he would have been satisfied, if less, or no thing had been granted. The Prince, he would further state, would be exceedingly willing to forego his claims to the revenues of arrears of the Duchy of Cornwall, if any such wish had been intimated on the part of his Royal Father, and that he would have been equally ready to do so, if no application whatever had been made to Parliament in his favour. For his own part, Mr. Erskine delared, that whatever might be the issue of the question this evening, whether ad verse or favourable, he could never wish these claims to be agitated in a court of Justice. In regard to the claims themselves and their legality, Ire concurred in what he heard on a former occasion from the King's Solicitor General, that the Prince's right to those Re venues had not been contradi&ed by any law Autho rity. In that House he was sure they never had been called inquestion, by any one who could be supposed conversant and well-informed on the subjeCt. Their validity had the saniflion of Lord Eldon, as well at present as when he was Attorney-General, and had not been disputed by any man of professional enos nence. There could, he believed, be no doubt, that the Prince was entitled to the revenues of the Duchy, from the moment of his birth until he came of age ; and that those who had the management of the estate, and the receipt of the money, were ac countable to him for it. The origin and meaning of the original grant was to secure the independence, at all times, of every Prince of Wales, and rescue him from the caprices of his other, if such caprices should have existence. But satisfied as, he was of the validity and justice of these claimis he never stated, in that Houae. That this or that sum was ow ing to the Prince. 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