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and without reward ? Would any of the Noble
Lords who had heard him have treated old re rvalits
in tl►at way ?—would they, as it warn, I►ave turn.
ed them out of doors, passing over their lung e'er-
vireo, unrewarded ? None of them would do so.
Why, then, in the case of the Sovereign, were
these persona treated so harshly. ■ud lie might mild,
so unjustly—for it was notorious. that with very
limited wages they had ren►uined in the Royal se!.
vice, naturally in expectation of the accustomed
bounty which had been in most eases bestowed on
persons in their situation. The Noble Lord, after
a few other observations, concluded by expressing
his assent to the Hill. _ _

The Marquis of LANSDOWN said. that the able
and convinctrig speech of his Noble Friend who
opened the debate, left little for him to say. lie
felt, however, on a personal ground, that he was
called upon to state what he had said in that House
in the course of the last Session, on the subject of
the Windsor Establishment. It was not, as had
been stated, when the illness of her late !Majesty had
been announced as likely to terrnioart _e in a inaimer
that they sit deplored, that he had alluded, for
the first time, to the ‘Virolsor Estsblishooraot ;
it was at un earlier Wirt of the Session, when a
message hail been brought up on the subject of
the Royal Marriages; lie had then state,l, though
he did not make any snectlic propostlions
that, in opinicou, the time load %%ratted when
economical irtltictiot.s might be made in that
Establislinitait ; this proposition was the', received
with di- strumaest marks of indigicotion, particularly
by two Noble Loi ilsor hose silence on the present oc.
casion Le construed into a change of the ‘t Holz opi-
Mons they then entertained on this subject. 1/f their
cotoloct lie by no memos meant to speak lightly; he
WA!. satisfied that their generous loyalty, strong as
it was ;to dent. was not the less sincere, because they
might have siticessitsfied themselves that the reditc-
Innis -Ann It he then recommended were such ea
might to be made. Those reductions ware not '
meant to lessen the comforts of the King, to de-
tract from Isis dignity or lois personal enjoynsents
(if any rojuuyinerots could visit his afflicted state).
neither Here they intended to interfere with
the provisions made fur her Majesty ; they
went to another point. At the commencement
of his Majesty's lainented illness, his afflicted
'objects indulged in the fond hopes of seeing
hint speedily restored to his health, and ar-
rangements were made of a temporary moiler,
in the expectation of his Majesty's f frOVrly.—
Years of affliction, of sorrow, and of disappotiot-
went passed away, and at length all reasonable
hopes of that recovery were given up by those who
most fondly entertained them—and lie (Lind Laos.
down) felt, that for a considerable time before he
had hinted the matter in that House, the time had
arrived to propose some more permanent and
less expensive arrangement no the Windsor Es- •
tsblishireeit. To that object lie coi.fitied
him-
self on the occasion to %Leh lie had already
alluded, seal he had now the satisfaction (if see-
ing that what he had then recoonueorled, was
supported now by those who reprolaited it then,
He had stow the satisfaction of feeling that arrange-
meta' might be proposed ;N*14.131,1,-41 to lighten
the burdens of the people, by removing twist un-
necessary expenses, wit hoot those so proim.log them
ruiniing the danger of being stiginat;seil u• the
enemy to the throne, anxious to pres upon their
Sovereign's afflictions. Towards that Sovtreign,
endeared as lie was to his people by malty u tender
and a grateful recollection, lie would yield to no
man in sentiments of offruthm. 11'1111,10y wAuld
he contribute to his comforts—willingly would he
extend his hand to console, if he could console
him, in his misfortunes; but he mutat alai ti duty
net less uttered to his country, stool lie would
not perform that duty if he dill not resist every
' attempt to add to the burritos of the people
at a moment like the present. As to what had
been said by the Noble Lord ll' ar him on the
subject of the Privy Purse, he (Ole Martois of
Lansdrown) differed altogether with his Nolo i i 0000 .
He did nut see that this was oi food over which
the Parliament had no morel. The Podia-
ment over this fund had exercised dominion ou
many occasions ; they had done so by matey Acts ;
they had done so even in the Hill noWunder dos-
ciossion, fur io that Bill the King's Physicians were
directed to he paid cut of the Privy Purse, and
the House was axone that the expenses of these
Physicians were ',rely consideroilde. Thus, in
this instance, the I'm lianietit loud directly exer-
cised a power over this food. They exercised
it in another instance by the present Bill. His
Royal Highness the Doke of York was empowered
to grant perosions out of the Privy Purer to those
servants who might appear to him ilermiag of the
Royal bounty : rat that really, if it be hue that this
food it the private property of his Majesty. nut to
be meddled with, the Parliament ou various sees.
%ikons, and evens by the present Bill, have invaded
his rights. As to the grant of 10,000/. a year to his
Royal Highness, if that grant were to be made as
nook of pubLe approbation for his service., he
would lie glad, Olt ally occasion, to beer his introit.
loon of the public services of his Royel Highness.
Of his ;tribunal and truly illustrious qualities, it tea,
unnecessary for loin to enlarge; but he could not
but regret that the name of his Royal flightless was
• connected with the piesent grant. lLs could not
• help thinking that ins advisers had stied unwisely
in putting him forward in any ungracious/and utts
popular manner. As lie could nut see on what
giouird the grant was intended to be given—as he
could not see how the dignity of the office could lie
increased by attaching a salary to it—as he did not
understand what the expenses attendant on that
Office were, viol as he believed them, it any, to he
very trifling, lie should vote for the proposition of
his Noble Friend. He would observe, that some of
the first and the most responsible offices in the
i State were held without salary—he thought to the.
present oilier, filled by his Royal no salary
should he attached. Ile hurl hoped that his Ititynt
Highness would have come down to the Iloose Istill
iticettil the offer—if he had thaw so, he would
have coasiolti d his best interests, and hate
added to u reputation dear no less to the coun-
try moon to himself'. Ai he hail Ma 11.11.1! en, 1,0
(Lord Losoisdown) would vote rogaile•t the gt:n.t,
at the same time that lie was oiling to admit
that inn one iii ht. Alajeoly 'I, 4! ttttt 'mien* Wll5 litter to
be u.trusitd with the cure of los !Mojest)'s pet scot.
It wife au 1111110!1,1111. trust, 111111 would he pro 11/1111, it
I.y his !top! fliglourss bah fidelity— lie haul 1a,./