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expressions of loyalty and zeal, the Noble Lord op.
pomite (Lord Liverpool) had turned round on them,
and said, n you are under a mistake, it is not in-
tended that this grant of 100,000/. should he de-
voted solely in the interest and to 'support the dig-
nity of the King, a considerable portion of it iv
meant for the support of the Queen's dignity ?"
Yet such, it was now asserted, was the nature of the
Establishment formed in 1812. That this, however,
was not the object of the Legislature, he sheered by
Itferring. to the preamble mid the enacting disuses
of the Bill, and :Mewed that the grant of 100,000/.
Fear was to be pied for the use of the King only,
'slid- a further ruin of 10,0001. was granted to her
Majesty. He was ashamed to argue this point at
sue length, but if there were any proof wanted to
shew that the grant to the King was quite exclusive
of any consideration of the Queen's situation, it
would be found in the present Bill, which effected
the reduction of one huff of the Establishment, by
taking away officers connected exclusively with his
Majesty'', permit ; such as the Vice-Chamberlain,
four Gentlemen of the Bedchamber, four Grooms
of the Bedchamber, the Master of the Robes, unit
seversl menial servant* and attendants, whose
united salaries amounted to 5,000/. Were allele
necessary for the support of the Queen's situation,
or were they net rather exclusively attached to the
Hilig'a 'permit, ? If the Queen's situation therefore
were omitted from the coeisiderution of the question,
it was evident that these reductions might hirer been
made ut any time. Tin.. Late excia4e was not re-
spectful to the memory of her late Majesty—
Hearf—and was melt le 1.110-a tip as a tell to
'coyer the errors of the blittisters. At last, how -
'ever, the propriety of these reduction., whieli had
bent so often stigmatised, when proposed by lam-
a& or any of his Noble Friends, was ecknoss ledger!
by the Noble Lords opposite, and he was happy
that so mach might now be saved to the country
without *objecting those who approved of the mea-
sure to the imputation of disloyalty.—(/-/ear./--
When he first found that a sum of 50,0u0/. was
set apart for the support of the Windeor Establish-
ment, he thought it too large ; but when lie subse.
queasily discovered that heady one-third of this
sum was necessary for maintaining Windsor Castle
as a royal residence, lie did not think what re-
mained tun extrevagont au allowance. Ile hoped it
would, however, be expleined, why the repairs of
Windsor Castle should be charged upon this fund.
He understood that Windsor Casette, like Hamp-
ton-Court, or St. James's or Kensington Palace,
wee charged ;00011X the other places of royal petit..
desire ma the Civil List. If Witidsortartle, there-
fore, were to be maintained out of any other fund,
it would lie a relief to the same extent mended
to the Civil List. The Noble Lord then adverted
to the proymed grant of 10,000/. a year to the
Duke I/1 1 ork, which he represented as wholly 119.
necesaney. I', his view of the question, the pro-
pond to charge this sum on any other fund did not
remove his objections, to it; hot still, if charged on
any, be argued it id.ould be charged on the Privy
Purse. What. he malted, were the expenses required
by the Duke of Yotk ? He incurred none in
%Vim! )))) , for there s tumble was provided for him.
mod the notion of travelling expenses, considering
the distance betweeu Windsor and °lolanda or
Landon, was absurd. particularly when they ft.
membered that the Royal Duke held a sitaationoot
-ritual in this country during a period of peace, in
which hornet and travelling expenses were provided.
He then coneidertd the grant (nigh:ally made to
the Queen, and said he bad thought it unnecessary,
although on the occasion of its being granted it
posted the House without opposition ; rod remark-
ing nu the severe duties perforated by other itati-
viekaals, particularly the three Commissioners ap-
pointed to take charge of his 1114jesty's private
property, without fee or salary, he lamented that
a Prince of the Blood was thought incapable of
eictlertaknig any duty, even that of attending on
his father iti his adverstty, without a large and im-
provident salary. The Noble Lord concluded by
stating, that when the House came in the clause for
granting this salary to the Duke of Yoe k, he should
object to it.
The Ertl of LIVERPOOL retWo'ke ti, that the on-
gins! Eetalilishinent of tt'ittilsor had passed both
Houses of Parliament without oppessition, lie had
therefore a right to couclude that it had met with
general approbation. He had since that period
heard of nu specific proposition for a diminution of
that Establishment, and hut for a few passing
remarks made on it in the course of the last Ses-
sion, nothing hid as yet occurred to hieirk the si-
lence with which it had been viewt d. The eireum-
stosices, however, of the Queen's health, which was
then thought to totter on the verge of dissolution,
pievented the possibility of taking the subject into
the consideratiott of Parliament ; for who, of the
slightest feedlot; of delicacy, could, under such
Cif CllM.tillet a, investigate the subject ?—(Hear.)-
I'lle arrangeitietit of 1812, was founded on the
statement ut the Physicians, that the recovery of
the King was not impossible, Had although if
Lrought to the bar now and examined they would
certainly make tile bailie statement, yet the lapse
of eight }cars must tordoubtedly diminish the pro-
bability an event. The Noble Lord then
contended, a hist entertaining a due regard to economy
and to the rank of the Queen, as Queen Consort,
living under the King's roof, it wits impossible to
reduce the lestabh,lintent to the mere point of offind-
teg his Nlsiesty food, raiment, and attendance,
and had Pat li.iritent so acted, they could not have
refused the Qiis en a 101111 equivalent to her dower.
4DO her Mejest)'s demise it was left open to them
to consider wheat reductions might be effected in
the Establislimerit, which it would have been im-
possible fur them to look at daring her life. Ile
defended the grant for the support of Windsor
Castle, on ii.t. ground that it would have been un-
fair to throw nn the Prince Regent the expense
au palace not m his own occupancy. Ile then re-
ferred to the grant 10 the Duke of York, and argued
that this cioild not have been charged on the Privy
Purse, which was the King's private property, and
which was charged by Parliament only with medi-
cal attendance and pensions, such as the King him-
self, while t•i the exercise of his understanding,
had I oil that fund. Toe grant to the Queen of
10.00 e/. wits too .1 saving of so much to her Ma-
jesty. The os Loodships well knew the attempts that
had heel) fuse ly and maliciously made out of doors,
to mislead the public upon this point; but the
veil had since been removed, and it appeared that
her Alsjesty at her death was fur from beitig rich.