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4 . 1 1 1 of Kent liFoi received a ston iniOiso,- from t Droits of Admiralty. This was !ruv, but ot it had gone to his cre ditor?. At Martinique, Guarialoupe, and St. Luti., he had distinguished himself, and after ,,eards winning to Canada, he served there till huaith compelled !Jim to leave Amei - ica for It was not, however, till ill heilth m ofe it absolutely necessary that be shoal(' re- Iwo, that his Royal Highness quitted Canada, riste.ql of Irving it as other officers do, without ttly such reason to off - cr. He returned to England, at last, at the age of 32. he received his Par- It.l , nentary allowance of 12,0001. per annum. He Wl' 4"w-ri loaded kvith a large &lit, the interest hien up in that time he hail rego.!arly toai(l, and whi-b he had attempted to reduce by a ruokin s , fund ) clan, which, however, as in anotip.r ca,.e, had not prevented the increase of the debt. he house would remark the great distinction wade between the Duke of Kent and his R o y a l B r oth e rs. The Duke of York received his Par liamentary allowance at the age of 21, and a large allowance it was; the Duke of Clarence, ~yho was only two years older than the Duke of Kent, had his Parliamentary allowance when he was 24 years old ; the Duke of Kent, as he had already stated, did not receive his till he had at ta.wed the age of 32. Why was this difference made between the Royal Brothers ? It was the withholding of the allowance of his Royal High• taess so long that was the cause of his getting in debt. It was not by debauchery that he. bad be come involved. Not a shilling bad he wasted, un l ess i n deed it were in oCtS of charity, Some had supposed that, because he was in debt, it 'followed of course that this must be the result of divstpation and needless profusion. lie denied that this was the fact. Economy and propriety had marked the Duke's conduct, and the system which lie had adopted was not surpassed by that erf any private Gentlemen in that House. In 'fairness and in justice he would say, that his Royal Highness was entitled to receive his Par- Namentary allowance of 12,0001. per annum for the years which had passed from his being twenty four years old to his attaining the age of thirty two. This would he but 96,0001. and this grant ed t“ him, his Royal Highness would not be one chilling in debt. The Duke of Kent bad not re ceived fie Parliamentary allowance when his Bro thers did, and had therefore been unable to pay his creditors ; but from the moment of his obtaining his preset income he had begun to make large vain itices to get out of debt, hut this he bad never been able to accomplish. It had been his misfor tune at Canada to lose 23,0001. at three different times. The burden this had thrown or, him claim ed every shilling advanced to him from the Droits of Admiralty, and unable to satisfy his creditors with his present means, he now carne forward to ask no more than any other subject might ask, to he, allowed to dispose of his own property by a Lot tery., After a service of eleven years, his Majesty was pleased to promise his Royal Highness the first vacant Government. Gibraltar fell vacant in 1802. He was removed to it, not because he was the son of the King, but because he was entitled so it by his military services. It was well known on what grounds be had been recalled, by many who did not know the circumstances : it was thought a charge against hint that the mutiny had broken out.--(Cries of Order.) Mr. CANNING spoke to order. He called upon the Hon. Getoleman, as a matter of discretion, to eouiider if the present motion tiecessarily led to the discussion of the mutiny at Gibraltar, and he put it to him if it would be well to disturb such topics at that moment. Mr. Hume said, if the Right Hon. Gentleman had known what was to follow, be would not have objected to his speaking of what bad taken place at Gibraltar. Mr. CANNING had only spoken of the mutiny, as that which ought not to he touched upon. Mr. Hors: E knew charges were abroad against his Royal Highness on account of the mutiny.— (Cries of Order !)—One cause of the embarrass ment of the Duke of Kent arose from the allow ances which be was entitled to as Governor of Gibraltar being stopped from him. They were trensmitted to England, but never brought to pub fle account. That which his Royal Highness ought to receive went to some fund or other in England, on which fund he bad a fair claim to the amount of such remittances. If these were given to him, and the sumo which be had before shown his Royal Highness to be entitled to, he would pay off the whole of his debts, and have an excess eemaining in his hands of not less than 50,0001 i The 'Honourable Gentleman referred to the man ner its which Ministers had acted by Sir James Cockburn, fortuetly Governor of Curagoa, and contended, that it was not too much for him to call on them to do by the Duke of Kent as they bad done by others. lie (the Duke of Kent) ;cad applied to the Government repeatedly, but without success. Before Mr. Pitt died, an ar rangement teas in contetnplation which would have enabled his Royal Highness to pay all his 'ruts ; but the death of Mr. Pitt prevented this fro,u being carried into effect, and all sei:seqiient claims preferred to the Treasury had proved iaeffectioil. Front 1816 op to the present time, the Duke of Kcut had regularly set apart ;7,0001. ft oin his income, to liquidate his debts. lie deprecated Lotteries as much as any one, and so lung as lie tegiAllied in the House this feeling would be marked by his vote ; but the present case lie thought a fair exception. The Doke of Kent ,sight to he placed on a footing with the rest of the Place him in the same situation with tie Duke of Sussex, the least favoured of all ,lie Royal tawily. Give him the sums due to him a, Governor of 13ihraltar fruit the fund to which :hey %Tete paid in England, and which, in the years before he. left Gibraltar, amounted to 90)01. Git e him the arrears of his Parliamentary allowance, and he would pay all his debts, and have 50,0001. remaining. Without these lie had Tito meal's of paying his creditors but by the means 11 e h a d now proposed, 811:i this being known, he (Mr. Hume) wtim suprised at the manner in which qoestioo had beep met. Knowing the Duke of ii,ut to ha pure—Loowing the exertions l.e ?. l ad privately made, and the motives by which he way amnia ed, he could not but regard his case as a 'Pry hard one.-a-(Murmurs.)—lf those who now -apresseit ditigatisfaction felt for an individual as lle did for the Diilte of Kent, they would not dis approve of his warmth. He would det3in. the House no longer, but he could not help—for he felt that it was his dots—offering this explana tion of the motives, cundocii.and situation of the Royal Duke. Lord CMTLEREAGht thought the House would see that they ought not to sanction the principle on which it was proposed the intended Bill should he broirg,t in. It the House agreed to th , e pre sent motion, he knew not the case in which they could ever refuse an individual who should apply for a Lottery, es e more advan!ai!eous way of disposing of prOperiy, than carrying it to fte market or ontiiii!, it up to auction. He owned, that art the. applic,ut Was a P..ince of the 810 he cmild not refuse the application without pain ; but at the sriflle tune he must say, this Was the last case in which he could wish to establish a precedent. The lVorthy Altlerman bad alluded to the respect entertained for the Royal Duke in the City He was ready to acknowiege that his Royal llihues. S had done much good; but to suppose that the property he might wish to dis pose of would be readily purchased from the feel ings of esteem created by the individual, was really to give the transaciion such an eleemosy nary character, that every friend to his Royal Highness ought to raise his voice against it. No thing, he wds sure, could more hurt the feel ings and the character of his Royal Hie,liness than such an eleemosynary grant. With this feeling, and not seeing th. , t if this were granted, any application of the same sort could with jus tice be refused, he must oppose the motion. lie legretted that the Hon. Member who spoke last had entered into a statement which seemed to cast a sort of reproach 011 the parent Ai COlldllet of Ihe King..—(licar, hear considered nothing could he more StlOl%lY OPPOSed to the feelings of the country than such hingstage, Find the compa rison between the siTnatiuus of the Royal Brothers which had been invidiously brought for wara.— These were vestions fit to he entertained by that House, but they certainly ought not to be gone into when they Were not regularly brought tinder their consideration. At one period, not veiy remote, during the existence of the. Gren ville Administration, the sitioition of all the branches of the 11oya1 Youily tool been btonght before the House. The case of the Duke of Kent had been brought under its considera ion in the last Session of Parliament, on the occasion of his mar riage, and therefore, as it had been twice discus sed and twice decided upon before, there was no occasion for bringing it forward now. At all events, he thought it was too bad to make that sort of statement which they had just heard, with respect to the conduct of his Majesty towards his eons in their early hfe. Those who knew the former habits of the King, knew that this was a topic on which he would never suffer one of his Ministers to speak to him. With respect to his family, his Majesty was always determined to act for himself. For the Duke of Kant, he had pos sessed an income of 70001. per annum for nine teen years, as Governor of Gibraltar. This, with his military pay and Parliamentary alto Nance, made his total income at Oita moment between 31 and 32,0001. per annum, which was about 11,0001. more than the income of his elder brother. He could not but think that his Royal Highness would regard those as his best friends who voted against the present motion, as he was confident that this, on reflection, was the last mode in which his Royal tiigl►ness would with to be re warded. Air. Hume, in explanation, said, he bad meant to draw no invidious comparisons between the situations of the Royal Dukes, nor to throw any reproach on his Majesty. He understood it to have been the private intention of the King, be. fore his lamented illness, to interfere in behalf of the Duke of Kent. Mr. FOR/3E3 supported the motion. He thought the ease deserted the attention of the House, and hoped, if unsuccessful now, the Mover and Se conder would bring it forward again early in the ensuing Session, by which time be ►hought the pub lic would be prepared to take a very different view of the question. He contended the Doke of Kent had not been treated as the other branches of the Royal Family lind been. He wished him pined on the same footing with them, and be wished also the sante anxiety to get honourably tree of debts unavoidably incurred, which was displayed by his Royal Highness, was more frequently witnessed. Fie contended that his allowances had been in adequate, and reminded the House of the induce ments held out to the Royal Dukes to marry some eighteen months ago, when a general alarm pre• vailcd lest the succession should go out of the direct Brunswick liue. These remembered, they ought now to be liberal, and avoid opposing the prcient motion. Sir C. BurtnELL said, he should not have thought it necessary to trouble the House at all on this occasion, if it were nut for one circum stance mentioned by the Hon. Member who se• conded the motion. That Hon. Member had stated, that his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, having set aside 17,0001. for payment of his debts, had only 7,0301. remaining. This he could not think cmreet, inasmuch as it appeared by returns which were before the Hose, that the amount of he income of his Royal Highness %vas 32,0001. a year. Mr. JIUNE explained, He must maintain the correctness of his statement, because before the t:me op to which the returns before the House were made up, his Royal Highness had only 24,0001. a-yeer. It was true, that since that time, by tlae recent voteof the House, H. R. High. 11e8S . 8inc(ime had been increased to 32,0001. a year. Lord LOwTH ER thought the Hon. iVember should have taken the advice which was given him, to withdraw his motion. He who had so often stood forward as the deprecator of Lmterics ought not to have proposed one on so ungracious a subject. The Duke of Kent had received a grant some years ago, which was understood to he for the loss o f hi s baggage. If this Dill was nllowed to proceed further, he should think it his duty to say something further against it. Air. Alderman %VouD said, though it wrmiti be very inconvenient to many persons who had pre-, pared for entering into the project, yet, it'ter what h a d passed, he must agree to withdraw his motion. • Lord CAITLERSAGH could nut reiraiu frow ex pregsing his satiifaetion at this minion being with drawn, and that his Royal Iligliness was thus ri..scited frinu so unpleAsant a situation. Mr. GSt PELL also expressed Lis satisfaction that t he Worthy Alderman had agreed to withdraw his motion.--The motion wtas. the: withdrawn. 1.‘,1P... H. SW.A:-,:N. Itlr. C. Hzx'EY -presented a petition from this Gentler an, praying that the House would give directions that Mr. Scrjeant Pell, %vim was his confidential counsel upon the Election Committee f.ir Penrvo, should he released from Lis engage ment by the Attorney-General, to conduct the prosecution ftgain3t him for bribery, at the next Assizes far Cornwall. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL observed, that An ap plication to this effect was made to the Attorney (;eneral ; but he thought proper to refuse it, ou the ground that the Learned Serjeant alluded to W:l3 the principal Law Serjeant on the Circuit for conducting the Crown prosecutions ; and also that he had conducted the prosecution some time ago against Sir C. Hawkins, although the Learn ed Serjeant had had the same relation to Sir Christopher on the Committee which gave birth to the prosecution that he had lately held with the petitioner. Besides, the Learned Serjeant having attended the consultation of the Crown Lawyers upon the subject of this prosecution, he could not, with any degree of consistency, he discharged from his engagement for the Crown, so as to become the Advocate of the Petitioner. Mr. WYNN was not aware what kind of relief the Petitioner could receive. The House had in structed the Attorney-General to commence a prosecution against him, and the conduct of that proceeding must, therefore, be left to that Law Ofiicer.—The Petition was theta tejected without a division. CANADA. Mr F. DOUGLAS, alluding to the disputes be tween Lord Selkirk and the North %Vest Com pany, which exhibited a kind of civil war, wished to know whether any steps had been taken to put an end to the disgraceful transactions in that (parer ? Mr GOULBURN replied, that when certain pa pers, which it was his intention to produce, should he laid on the table, the House would see that Government had interfered for the purpose alluded to by the Hon. Gentleman. Mr. BENNET wished to know, whether any steps had been taken to punish those who had been guilty of murder in that country. Mr. GOULBURN (as the Hon. Gentleman was understood), replied in the affirmative; and in answer to a question from Mr. Wilbertorce, said that the records of the trial had not yet reached the Colonial Office, (For the Remainder of the Proceedings in the House of Counnons, see our Last Page.) LONDON JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. [Morning Post.] The following gallant achievement of a party of British troops is related in a letter received yesterday from Juan Griego, in Margarita, dated the 21st of May " A dispatchis just received from the President Bolivar, stating that 150 British cavalry, belong ing to Colonel I.Ltler's regiment, under General Pam which had gone up the Orinoco, had at tached the defeated Morillo's cavalry, consisting of 1000, and had destroyed 400 of the best of them. By . the command of the President, these men have all received the Order of Libertadores,' the only Order in the country (and which only the President and Admiral Brion bad) for their gallant conduct. The George Canning brought this news from Margarita." The assassin of Kotzebue, lamentable to state, is still the object of a secret respect among the young men of Germany. His portrait, it is added, is publicly sold and universally sought. Accord ing to some accounts, it is not deemed prudent to bring him to trial, as his conviction Would be certain, and it would not be considered safe in the present s tate of the public mind to carry the sell. tence into execution. We pity the Government of a country placed in so truly distressing and alarming a state.—(lbid.) [The Times.) The Portuguese ;cl:ocher Lk:cool:line is arrived at Fahnouth, from Rio Janeiro, bringing papers from thk►t capital down to the 10th of April. In the Rio Janeiro Gazette of the 7th of that month, there is nu account of the rejoicings that took place on the 4th, on birth of a daughter by the Princess Royal of Portugal, Brazil, and the Al garvcs, the Consort of the Prince Royal, and the daughter of the Emperor of Austria.—Lieutenant- Colonel Felditer landed at Falmouth from the above-rneniioned vessel, and proceeds immediately to the Court of Austiia, as bearer of the agreeable intelligence to the family of the Princess. The Commissioners of the Sinking Fund yes terday closed their purchrses on the extended scale, and next week will commence them at the rate to which they will necessarily be reduced by the application of so large a part of it to the sup plies for the year. The Funds, contrary to ex pectation, rose on this occasion. The discount on Omnium, which yesterday morning was 1 at the close of the market was only Consols for the opening were done at 69. In conse quence of the rise in foreign exchanges, one of he first mercantile houses in the city yesterday received remittance in guineas, the first of the 14ind probably that his been made fora long pe riod. Should the present rate of exchange expe rience a slight improvement, the praetiee, with out doubt, will become very general. Gold is failirg in price, and very dull of sale : it is quoted nominally at 31. 19s. ; but it would be difficult to dispose of any large quantity at a higher rate than 31. 18s. which is to Mere trifle Qllly tilbUlrt: the Mint price,—(aid.) VICTUALLING-OFFICE, 2, 1819 ' rr HE COMMISSIONERSfor I'ICI"U4LL II '' His .11-I,IESTY 'S NAVY do hereby give Notice, 1141 qn Frila?!, the liith of .I:sty instant, they will be rea,l!/ to receive renders in writing (scaled up), awl trot for 2 Handred and T , Pealy Mille of CRtaWN D andl Fifty Mille of STETTIN or H AMB URG I - 4 PI PE STAITIO; One-hail r* thereof to be delive by the:3l.l October next , an the other Moiety by the 31st March followiag", iR f9ll , monthly proportions, Into his Majesty's Vieh ta lli ; -1g Stara a ' Deptford ; izi:d to Le paid f or b y 13i11 s, paya b le, w ithost tcrest, siztq nays after date. 7 . 4 e Co7.!diticns of t.'e Contracts may be seen at the S''c le. tary's <Vo regard will be had to any Tender ix which the Frit ( shall not be inserted in words at length, or that shell uot belt' livered to the Board before One o'Clock on the said ROI' the 16M instant; nor unless the Person who niches the Tender, or some Person on his behalf, attends, to ag steer when called for. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Last Night. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.—The Stranger : s e t t l e Stranger, Mr. Young ; Mrs. Haller, Miss O'Neill. which, The Apprentice. To which was added, A Ritd for an Oliver. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET, DRURY-LANE CostrAN C , l l; The Turnpike bate: After which, P a st T en &Clod, a" Rainy Night. To which was added, The Rival Soldiers. s ' THEATRE ROYAL, ENGLIiii OpEnA-Houso.—My ftil, c Principal Characters by Mr. Wr enc h a n d Mi ss K e lly A n te which, The Jovial Crew. To which was a dd e d, H o o for Love. PRICE 0 STOCKS TOlB DAY AT TWELVE o'CLOCB, f. 3 pet Cent. Red 6844 Gi Ex. Bills, '2 ...par, Is. el f , 4 per Cents ..... 854 854 aAkiiiDni... iil l 0/ Bank Long Ann lii 15-16 tbs Cons. for Acct. 694 69i 6 " 0 India Bonds Is. tis. pr. ) MAILS. ate AIigIVID-1 Dublin, 1 Waterford, 1 France, 1 Hamburg DUE-1 Holland, I Guttennurglt, I Hautburgh. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO.NIORRIW;i, 'toenitig, 9 minutes after ti. I Evening, 32, minutes atter THE SUN. /OLEN QUIS PICEKE FALSUSI AUDEAT LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 3, ISI9. We received this morning, the Paris Pope!' Wednesday last. The Chamber of Peels Pl e: on Tuesday, when the BARON LOUIS,Ver Finance, presented the Projet (agreed to 'by W I Deputies) respecting the estimates or SuppiOf which, after being examined in the Bureaux, 'N ils referred to a Special Committee of Seven. i ll the Chamber of Deputies, the discussion was 0) 11 : tinned on the Budget of Ways and Means, i 1 again adjourned till Wednesday.—lle folloA" are extracts : " PARIS, JUNE 30.—Yesterday morning this King gave a private audience to Sir Ou le : Stuart, the English A m b assa d or , w h o d e liver e ' to his Majesty a Letter from the Prince Reg ent ' notifying the birth of a Prince, son of the Doh a a of Cumberland. His Majesty afterwards recei ve ° the Ambassad or s an d F ore i gn Ministers. Tb King subsequently took an airing. " A distinguished chemist of Clermont F er' rand M. Aubergier Bergouhnioux, a pupil of di 0 celehra:ed Vanquelin, has met with an nutortuujce accident. Whilst preparing somelminso): powder, a sudd e n e xpl os i on t oo k pl a ce, wb ic tore off his right hand. " M. de Zuilen„ the Netherland Minister li e Nladrid, has arrived a l at Paris, from wilenc l i f will soon set out for Brussels. It is wort" remark, that the King of the Netherland s vAmmoned to Brussels the greatest part Qf gas 1%! to • i, . 1 )1 PUBLICATIONS. LADY RUSSELL'S LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE . This Day was published,.in 4to. price IL ss. boards , ,c SOME ACCOUNT of the LIFE of RACE-1:1DP WRIOTHESLEY, LADY RUSSELL. 0 By the EDITI)It of « Madam.. du Deffand's Letters. Followed by a Series of L e tt ers f rom L a d y Russell t o h e ,: Husband, William, Lord Ru s s e ll, from 672 to 1682 te4etili . with some Miscellaneous L e tt ers to an d f rom Lady Russ To which are added—Eleven Letters from Dorothy Countess of Sunderland, to George Saville, Marquess of ; ) ,6 lifax, in the Year 1680.—P u bli s h e d f rom the Originals id ' possession of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown i a e J. Ridgway, London. Of whom may be had, also just published, „f The Life of William, Lord R usse ll, w i t h some Acco unt the Times in which he lived. By L or d J o h n Russell. jr, price 11. I Is. fid. boards. This Day was published, pri ce 2 s . 6d. B LACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGA' ZINE, No. XXVII. for JUNE, 1819. CONTENTS. 1, Some Acount of the Gr ea t er Hi s t ory of Matthew parch Monk of St. Alban's. , '2. Rosalind and Helen, a modern Ecl ogue , b y Percyels• ,b 0 Shelly. 3. Bassompierre's Embassy to England in 162 G. 4. A few Thoughts on Fly Fishi ng , suggested by. the Be view of Bainbridge's Complete Angler. 5. Letter from Odoherty, enclosing the Third Pare .f Christabel. 6. Polito. • • Stat e ,7. Note from Mr. Mullion, en c l os i ng an E ssay on t he of the Nation. 8. Bowdich's Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ash air. tee. (Concluded.) W¢11• 9. Dramatic Scenes, and oth er P oems , b y B arry C o rn 10. Notices of the Acted Drama in London. No.*. 11. Night: a Poem.-12. Song.-13. Sonnet. 14. The Fifth Sermon of Sadi, translated from the Perl is° by James Ross, Esq. of the Bengal Medical Establishmee' 15. Letters of an Old Indian Officer. No. 111. 16. The Waggoner : a Poem ;by Mr. Wordsworth. go 17. Thesaurus of Horror; or, the Charnel Hones ploted ! ! &c. 18. Mae Nab on the Universe. 19. 'Third Series of the Tales of My Landlord. 20. Literary and Scientific Intelligence. • 21. Works preparing for publication. 22. Monthly List of New Publications. 23. 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