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been conceived that the ainonnt of the revenues of the
Dutchy of Cornwall had been applied either to the
ptivate uses of the Sovereign, or to the purposes of
the Civil List, but had been :tawny applied to the
public exigencies of the State. Had it been a ques-
tion between the Sovereign and tile Prince of Wales,
he could assure the House, that neither their Lord-
ships, nor the other House of Parliament, would
have heard one word upon the subjed. His Royal
.Highness knew his duty too well, and had too high
a sense of honour, to trouble Parliament with mat-
ters concerning his individual interests, which would
in the smallest degree affect the quiet and repose,
u: even the wishes of the illustrious Family to
which he had the honour to belong. With respo.B
to his haring consented to drop the further pro-
ceeding in his salt, for the recovery of the revenue;
of the Duchy of Cornwal, so far from its bearing
tlie slightest appearance of a c -.mpromise, it ought
o', ho regarded in a more dignified point of view, as
ti:e spontaneous at tithe Prince himself, who never
wished to obtain his claim, but with a view to acqnit
himself of those demands upon him,which he felt him-
self bound in honourand in justice to discharge. Find-
ing himself enabled, by the sum ohnoney about to
he granted to him tr.- the present, bill, to provide a
fund that would el:dually answer the same pur-
pose, his Royal Highness, prompted by no motives
but the natural magnanimity of his own mind, and
his anxious wish to shew the utmost resped and
gratitude to his Majesty and to Parliament, gave di..
redions to his Law-Officers to drop his suit. Ile
would only add, that his Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales felt the most warm and affeelionate
feelings to Parliament, for their liberal cantina. ; and
that his gratitude would have been equally warm
and lively, had Parliament only granted him a third
of the annuity stated in the bill now under conside-
ration. _ _

The Earl of SUFFOLK rose to make a single
observation. His Royal Highness's grandfather
had 12.3,0001. per annum allowed him, and he had
but 1:3!3,0001. Now, as money had doubled in
valtiv since that time (his Lordship must have meant
direily the reverse, for money has depreciated to
half its value, not increased within this century),
his 110-yal Highness, the present Prince of Wales,
met to have an annuity of 250,0001. to be put
upon a footing with his graodfather, when Prince
of Wales.

Lord HOBART' rose to observe, that if the
Nohle E.trl pppoLite to him (Earl of Carnarvon)
would have given himself the trouble to have read
his INlajokty's Nlessage attentively, he would have
seen that the Bill was cnrrealy consonant to it.
The question was At length put, and the Bill was
read a second time.

Aijounard at tea s past six o'cleck.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

MONDAY, MARCH 14.

Lord EUSTON', after a short preface, moved,
That the tier cant at Arms be called upon to state
what he had done in pursuance of Coe Speaker's
Warrant for taking JAMES Ts GTTER into custody,
for not attending pursuant to summons, in order to
give evidence in the Committee appointed to try and
determine the merits of the Petitions complaining of
an nadue cledion for Dunfermline.
The Sciusan't being called upon, said, that he
had sent one of the Messengers of the House to take
:qr. Trotter into custody.
Mr. Huhn, the Messenger, was then called, and
stated, that he had, in execution of the Speaker's
warrant, gone to Newton, near Edinburgh,where Mr.
Trotter usually resided. Being told that he was not
tat home, he asked for his wife, who acknowledged
receiving the order for her husband's appearance,
but said, that she did not know where her husband
was, nor ha.t she seen him this months past. He then
required her to give this declaration in writing ; but
Inc answered, that the had neither pen, ink, or pa-
per. He then produced a pencil himself, with which
he wrote down what she said, and which she, after
some hesitation, agreed to sign.
On the Motion (,f Lord ECSTON, the Scrjeant at
Arms was ordered to pursue further steps for taking
Mr. Trotter into custody.
A Bill was brought in for continuing Allowance
to Foreigners, in respell to travelling Expenees, &c.
An account was presented of the quanti.y and
quality of the Cotton and Cotton Twist imported
from January 1790, to January IGO2.