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FRIDAY, FEB. 25..
Mr. M'Ci oc um was heard on behalf of the
.Appellant, and Mr. Nowlan on the part of the
Respondent, in the Appeal CaUse 'Roderick Fin-
layson v. Hugh Lines and John M'Kenzie ; after
which the further hearing was adjourned to a fu-
ture day.
The Bank Restrietion Bill was read a third time,
and passed, and the usual Message ordered to be
sent to the Commons.
All the Routine Business of reading, Petitions,
&c. &e. was gone through.
HIS F.
NO
MAJITSI'Y'S MESS F.T.NTIVE TO THE
PRINCE OF
Lard PELTIA.M rose, and maned the Order of
the Day, and also that his Majeaty's Message he
read.
It was read accordingly.
His Lordship then prefaced his Motion in a few
words, explaining that nothing appeared to him
necessary for the House to du in the present stage
of the business, but to join in an Address to his
Majesty, thanking his Majesty for his gracious Mes-
sage, and assuring him that their Lordships would
pay it the utmost attention, and that he might rely
on their cordial concurrrence in such measures as
should be found to be the best calculated to effect
the objeit of affording proper relief to so distin-
guished and so illustrious a Member of his Majes-
ty's family, as his Royal Highness /he Prince of
Wales. His Lordship added, that there could be
but one opinion upon this subjecct among their
Lordships, and that, therefore, it would be en-
necessary for him to say a word more upon the
subjelt at that moment, and, therefore, he wdtild
proceed otnmove the address ; which he read to the
Mouse.
The Earl of C ARLISLE immiCately rose and
said, he did not wish to throw out the least objec-
tion to the Motion for the Address just read, on the
contrary no one Noble Lord could snore heartily
concur in it, than he did. He was perfectly aware
that the present was not the fit moment for the en-
tering upon the discussion of those important to•
pics, which must necssarily on a future day come
under their Lordships' consideration ; he begged
the House would not imagine that he had any de-
sign prematurely to touch upon them; he rose
merely because he thought it was his duty to
seggest, that, as a preliminary proceeding, it ap-
peared to him absolutely necessary, as a matter
likely to L
enable their ordship; fully to un-
derstand the whole c:tent of the preceding and
all its relative bearings, to have before them, in the
interval that would unavoidably take place before
they were called upon tittnately to decide upon the
subjeft, a copy of the judicial sentence on the right
of the claim of his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales upon the Revenues of the Duchy of Corn-
grill that had accrued during his minority. It was
a question highly important to be ascertained, on
what ground that claim was legally adjudged to
stand, because it ought to be understood, that it I
was not a question, as had been ceroneously sup-
osed, between the illustrious Prince and his Royal
Father, but purely a question betsneen his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales and the public. 14e
bad heard with satisfaction, in another place, and he
hoped he 'night without irregularity allude to it, as
iz had appeared in all the Papers, that a very high
authority, for whom he could not bat entertain every
possible resped, had explicitly declared that the
prornition which lie was about to bring forward,
was not to be consideted as at all interfering with
or casting ail: prejudice upon his Royal Iligaess's
claim in respett to the Revenues of the Duchy
of Cornwall, which, it was necessary to be recot-
ielted, had been carried to the public account,
and not made List of by any individual however
exalted. The motives which had governed his
Royal Highness. ins the prosecution of his claim,
had, in every instance, he well knew, been founded
in the highest honour, the most exalted dignity,
and the moo dutiful and respeetful feelings for
that quarter towards which the manifesting of du-
ty and profound respect were mast amiable and be-
coming. With reaped to the last occasion, when
the establishment of his Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales came' wider the consideration of that
House, he would not say more, than that he regret-
ted that such a restriEtion should be iuipoeed upon
him, and that he thought the proceeding an ex-
tremely harsh one. At this time, however, the sub-
jeEt would come under their Lordships considera-
tion in a very different point of view, and the judi-
cial sentence that he had taken the liberty to allude
to, wonld not only enable the House to see clearly
how to treat and discuss the subjeEt, but they might
then hope to derive great information, and much
useful knowledge, from the Noble and Learned
Lord on the Woolsack, which could not but mate-
rially assist their Lordships' judgments.—The
question, as he had before stated, lay solely be-
tween his Royal Highness on the one part,
and the public on the other. It ought, there-
fore, to be examined and decided upon impar-
tially, and on the stria grounds of justice. F(.s.liis
own part (the Earl said,) he should feel it his duty
when it came under discussion, to direct himself,
and the obiervations he might think it necessary to
make, solely by those princtples. '1 he known con-
descension of his Royal Highness, the winning affa-
bility of his manners, and the iniany amiable virtues
which endeared him to every man who had the
La
nour to be hi the slighest degree acquainted with
him, be should on the present occasion endeavour to
shake from his mind, and to act merely as a con-
scientious juror ought to, and undoubtedly would
at in an ordinary cause between two individuals.
If it were decided that the Prince's claim wawa right-
ful one, and that he was legally entitled to recover
it, he had no scruplf to declare, that notwith-
standing the present proposed accommodation, he
should think very differently of-ehe public, from the
sentiments which he had hitfierto entertained of
them ; he should no longer consider them, as a
uohle, generous, and just public, but as a mean,
creaking, unjast public, ready to take advantage
of any casual occurrence that might have arisen, to
urge a colourable pretence for shifting off the pay-
ment of an equitable debt, if they did not come for-
ward with a ptornpt alacrity, and in an honourable,
open, and manly way, discharge tie whole that re-
mained due of his Royal Highness's claim. His
Lordship enlarged on these topics with great elo-
quence and energy, and declared, that he trusted
nothing that had falleu from him, in the course of

what he had tail,4sr that should be thrown ont in
subsequent debate, would have the !east tendency
to create any thing like hostility, unpleasantness, or
painful f-vlings in that Illustrious Family, whose re-
sidence it must be the anxious wish of their Lord-
ships and every British 'abject to see the seat of
lasting tranquillity, harmony, and concord. The
Earl concluded with declaring, that he should sit
down without offering arty Motion to the House,
but that he should not have thought he acted in a
becoming manner as a Peer of Parliament, and an
honest man, if he had not thrown out the sugges-
tion, (and stated the grounds on which he had been
induced to offer it,) with which he had'troubled the
I louse.
Lord RAWDON ("Earl of Moira) said, he was
sorry to feel it necessary to rise and declare, that, in
his humble judgment, the suggestion of the noble
Earl behind him had not been brought forward at
the fit moment. In the first place, desireable as it
would undoubtedly be, to have the assistance of
such information as the Learned and Noble Lord on
the Woolsack could furnish, as • to the legality of
the claim of his Royal Highness, the House was
completely barred dfrotn • the advantage of that as-
sistance, becaitte a moment's recolleEtion would
terve to convince their Lordships, that they could
not with any sort of propriety call upon the No-
ble Lord to say one word upon what might
ultimately come before him in a legal form, and
require his impartial and 'unprejudiced judicial
opnion. His Lordship raid, he was convinced
that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, in per-
mitting ails claim to be brought forward in the man-
ner in svtiiCh it had been done in the present in-
'stance, relied with the utmost confidence on the
generosity and the justice of Parliament. He felt.
and no man could doubt but that he felt strongly,
the necessity of convincing-the Public, that he had
not been the cause of loading them with that
weight of erpence, which it was the prevailing
idea had originated in his Royal Highness's con-
du& • That although the sincere Wish of his heart
was'te turidua.himself with most profound respea
and hiimHt compliance-with the wishes and feelings
of his beloved and revered father, yet surely it was
not to he wondered 'at, that he was aniitrus to rescue
his own charades from unmerited ceneure, and unde-
served reproach. Togo into a discussion of the sub-
jea, and the probable considerations that might offer
themselves to their Lordships' minds, when any given
measure, gronnded upon his Majesty's gracious Mes-
sage, should tome before them in due form, would,
in his conception, his Lordship said, at the present "
moment, be at once premature and disorderly.
Their present business was, as he hoped they were
all ready to do, to expeet their ready concurrence
in the Address moved by the Noble Secretary of
State. He would, therefore, trouble their Lord-
ship no further, than to assure them that his Royal
Highness the Prince of \Vales was aituated by the
dignified motives which the Noble Earl had so
justly ascribed to him, not only on this occasion,
but that he had been so in every other part of his
conduct, and that he so thoroughly felt the utmost
respea for Parliament, and was so fully satisfied of •
its candour and justice, that, even should it decide
against the proposition that he had allowed to be
brought forward, his respea and confidence would
not he in the smallest degree diminished.
The question was then put upon the resolution
for an Address, and agreed to waist dissentiente.
A Committee was instantly appointed td form the
resolution into the shape of an Address, who pre-
sently returned with a report of it; when it was read
and 27 (ed ; and Lords with white staves or-
dered- to wait on his Majesty, to know when he
would be pleased tobe waited on with it.

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