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Highness had not arrived in tins country tilreeiy
lately, and the trustees had done every thing in
their power to sell the property. Ile cons'- ;
dered some circumstances important to the cha- ;
racter of his Royal Ilighnese, and he therefore
hoped the House would allow him to enter into
a short detail. At the age of eighteen his Royal
Highness left this country for Hanover, and
joined the Hanoverian Guards. He afterwards was
appointed at another place, and for five yearns that
he spent in the army, Gentlemen would be stir- '
prised to hear, that his Royal I lighness did not re-
ceive more than two pisioles a-day. The House
could not but feel. that this was a very wretched
allowance. As a Prince of the Blood, he was, of
course, obliged to keel) up the dignity of his high I
rank, and was driven to hie alternative of borrow.
ing money, and at the age of thirty he found him.
self its debt to the anemia of thirty thnusand pounds.
That debt was not incurred in extravagance, it was
unavoidable, because the same conduct was not
Served towards his Royal I ligliness Os was pursued ;
towards his brother•. They received a Peril*.
mentor,. allowance. Ilis Rile! Highness was soh-
eequently appointed to the command of a regiment
in Canada ; here lie remained for four years, des I
pending no his regimental allowance and a small
sum for daily expensea. From tlw year 1790 to
1799. his Royal Highness !mid a sum of five thois-
sand smut/die the interest of his debts,. During
this tun►, he was obliged to keep up the ex- 1
penes of his rank, an expensive table, and the I
• numerous censor charity which are dirt (oral to per-
sena its exalted stations ; of course, from 1790 to •
1799, the debts of his !loyal Highness increased. llu
1793, hr wasordered from Canada to Martinique,and
lies Royal Highness passed from Canada through she
Coifed States in the month of December. In this
journey his Royal Higlinees suffered great losses—
his whole eqiiipment was lost. In 13 years after thi..
his Royal Highness received an allowance of 2,000/.
is year, when Lord Ilimry Petty was Chancellor of
the Exchequer, and et a time when the interest of
his debts alone amounted to e,OOO/.. He also re-
ceived a sum out of the Omits of the Admiralty.
At Martiiiiqne and et Goadaloupe he served and
distinguished himself under Sir Charles Grey.
Instead of retiring from the service of his country,
to look for that Parliamentary allowance to which,
on a fair principle of impartiality, he was entitled.
and which his brothers had received, his Royal
Highness remained in the service until he was
obliged to return horn. from ill health, brought on
by an unfortunate accident. At the age of 3i, a
Parliamentary allowance was granted to his Royal
Highness of twelve thousand pounds. a-year—
loaded as he was with debts, and charged ass he
was with a homey sum for interest. The House
would bear in mind how differently were the
other members of the Royal Family treated.—
At the age of twenty-one his Royal Highness
the Duke of York received a large allowance ; his
Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, at the age
of twenty-four, received a large allowance ; but the
Duke of Kent, though absent from his country
upon the public service for ten or twelve year*,
received no Parliamentary allowance sallower, ;
denied that allowance, his Royal Highness was
obliged to run in-debt—that debt was not incurred
by debauchery or any wanton expense, his eco-
nomy and prudence equalled any Member who
now heard him—the true rause of his minutes.-
(rents was, that lie did not receive those allowance• to
which lie was fairly entitled. Had he received those
allowances, which at least would an ))))) lit to
soon of 96,0001. his Royal Highness would not new
owe a single shilling. But lie was not put
same situation with his elder brothers—injustice
had been done him; the same allowance which his
brothers received hail been denied to him, and in hits
early youth he was obliged to contract those debts
which have since kept his affairs in embarrassment.
At the time that his Royal Highness received the
Parliamentary grant, he made a sacrifice to get the
better of his debt.. lint lie was unable to get the
better of them ; and why ? because at the tone of
his removal from Canada, his Itilyel Highness lost
property to the tonount of :23,000/. These losses
plunged him into difficulties, from whence lie lies
not been since tilde to emerge. He will exerted
himself to get free of his delos. The tweety
thousand pounds from the Droits of the Ad-
miralty went to the payment of his debts. After
• service in foreign commies of eleven years, lie
returned home, and his Majesty, in consideration
of his public services, sent him a message that he
should he appointed so the next vacancy. In 1802,
lie Was appointed Governor of Gibraltar; not be-
cause lie was the son of the King, but as a mass
who had long and faithfully served his country.
The grounds of his removal from Gibraltar
were not well understood by the panne--a
charge was certainly brought against his Royal
(highness; the mutiny at Gibraltar led toil* removel
of the Duke of Kent.—(Cries of " hear !"
~ Order, order ."')
Mr. CANNING ruse to order. Surely, said he,
the discretion of the Hon. Member will smuggest to
Min that the mutiny at Gibraltar can I►ave sniffling
to do with she present subject, and can only lead to
unpleaeinit retrospection.
Mr. lIUME said, that if the Right Hon. erole-
man understood whet lie meant, he would i ♦t Say
that a reference to Gibraltar was irrelevant.
Mr. CANNING—" I alluded to the mutiny at
Gibraltar,"

Ali-. Minx resumed. Ile said, that on the re-
turn of his Royal flightless from Gibraltar his al-
lowance as Governor i%.is stopt from him. though
those allowances were ceitJitily remitted to England,
but never appeared in any public necount.—
The whole revenue which lie ought to have
received went to some fund or other, lint did not
appear on the face of any public account. Had
that revenue, to which, by the practice of the army,
he was entitled—had that allowance, to which, by
the Fraetice of Parliament, lie was equally entitled,
been paid to lily Royal Highness, far from being
in debt, all his debts would have been dis-
charged, and lie would now have clear properly
exceeding .50,000/. His Royal Ilighness had rea-
son to expect different treatment. Mr. l'itt promised
to bring the question of his debts under the conside-
ration of the House, and the death of that
nist.r alone prevented him from doing so. In
1815 his Royal Highness came to the determina-
tion of reducing his establishment to the lowest
point —so touch so, indeed, that lie directed a
bum of seventeen thousind pounds, to be up-