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wilful perjurers. The Hon. Member then motel that the
debate on the question should be adjourned till to-morrow.
The question on the intendment having been pus,
Mr. BATHURST said, that from ell be had heard from Hun.
Members, and from the Chair, the amendment did sot ap-
pear to him to be a breach of privilege, but intended as au
additional protection to the parties; be should tbsiefore
oppose the amendment. •
. After • few worth front Lord Carrot:lMAM 111111$r•
'Wynn the proposition for adjouromeut mem •Iped Mad
negatived.
DVXMAN then propose) to add the foneedigieleriaelo
'he Lords' entendnients !.. and that if any perms-AA be con-
victed of giving such information falsely, belied) hereby be
subjected to such penalties as if be were fossid guilty of
wilful and corrupt perjury." The amendments, will) the
above clause, were then agreed to.
DUKE OF KENT'S LOTTERY.
Alderman WOOD brought up the Report of the
Committee to which was referred the Ntition of
'the Doke of Kent, praying for leave to dispose of
part of his property by lottery for the payment of
his debta. It stated the facts net forth in the l'etis
viol], that his Royal Highness'', when employed in
.he service of his country many years op
in
'Canada, had by some accident lost his all,. his bag-
gage, arms, and equipitienta, its consequent-eel which
be had been reduced to great embarrassments in his
'lei ten mstancts, and involved in large debts ever since
that he had for a length of time submitted to great
'privations, and lived nu a very limited income, for
the purpose of enabling him to discharge such
'tlebts—that notwithstanding having made every
Pr3CliCaltle reottietinii in his establishment, he was
still liable to debts to the ;amount of seventy thou-
sand pounds, and that lie therefore felt himself
her an obligation to dispose of his property•iu
order to liquidate it—that the only property re.
maining in his hands was his mansian at Cost lebars
with the fixtures and furnitnrr, which lie was
willing to sell, rather than strhmit to any further
delay in meeting the demands of his creditors, sub-
ject his Royal Consort to privations incondirteut
with her birth or rank, or leave this try and
reside its s foreign hind, by which means his daugh-
ter would he deprived of an education at home,
and be necessarily brought up in ignorance of the
maimera and cnstoms of Rimbaud, Ile therefore
hoped the House would enable him to carry hit
twialits into effect. and added, he could produce
witwesstos of high respeetability to corroborate his
etatements.

Alderman Wools said, that perhaps it would be
expected of him to say a few-words. lie had heard
the property was not worth morsetloan t&,0001. He was
a gre.ot enemy to lotteries, hut before having prep:surd
The Petition. he had consulted an Hon. Friend (for
whose opinion he had a high respect), and he wilt
himself thought that this proposed lottery would
sold soothing to the vices with which such things
were attended, because this was to be managed by
the lottery already in existence, and he trusted it
sinnlil citable his Rnyal Highness to liquidate his
debts. lie had been informed that the property cost
one hundred and twenty thousnoul pounds. It
might he supposed that the tickets would not he
sold, but he could assure Honourable Gentle-
men opposite, that such was the popularity of
the Duke of Kent in the City of London, that if
she proposition had been assented to, they would
have been all bought now ; and he knew one friend
who hail offered to advance the whole sum wanted,
seven?, thousand pounds. And why should it not be
sn ? 11'hat other individual in the country 'hewed
himself so active and zealous in originating and
promoting designs of benevolence and charity ?
Ilad lie not raised many new, and revived all the
dormant charitable institutions in London ? Scarce
a day passed ask he was not attending dinners and
charity rmons.-14 lough.)—An Hon. Gentle-
man
_might sneer, but he would say to lam, " GIP
thou and do likewise;' for he knew that if his Royal
-11ighne.s's example were more frequently imitated,
the (smutty would be the hence fur
Ile now came to the question of precedent, for it
sn;gtit be said there was no precedent of such ti
tro•rsore being countimmoced by the House ; but he
sonnid adduce several, and these where no purpose
cf public improvement was aided by the lottery.
'rite worthy Alderman then cited the instances of
the Adelphi lottery, to enable Ilw !injectors of
the buildings there to proceed with their plan;
shot of the Pig,ret diamond ; of the houses in Pic.
icett-street ; of Tomkins's pictures (which he tins
sierstood to have been granted through the ins
fluence of a great personage, though the pictures
were mete rubbish) ; and that relating to Sunder-
land Bridge. No man in England, he proceeded,
load stronger claims on the House. on public grounds,
than the Royal P. titioner. (l's claims had been
ackionwle(lgsd by Mr. Pitt. He came to the (louse
not to benefit himself, but to pay his debts, and
-satisfy (pis creditors; acd he would be glad to see
finch an example imitated. He trusted. therefore,
that no opposition would be given to his bringing
in a Bill to rouble his [toys! Highness to sell, by
lottery, his house at Castlebar-bill, in the parish
of Ealitie, county of Middlesex.
Mr. GRENFELL expressed himself hostile to the
measure, as Irwin% to establish an inconvenient
precedent.
Mr. IlUsiE complained of the course pursued by
the Ilan. Member who spoke Lint on the evening
the Penn tttt was presented ; and said. the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer load not stated on that °mi-
nion all that had passed on the subject. Having
had the honour to be acquainted a ith his Royal
Highness for ten years, he had been required to
submit to the Chancellor of the Exchequer that his
Royal Highness bad been advised to make such a
proposition ; and accordingly he had taken the op-
portunity of doing so on the 10:h of last month.
He replied, that it was necessary to have the sanc-
tion of his Majesty's Ministers. lle (Mr. Hume)
said not, no such consent had ever been given. In
compliance, however, with the suggestion, a solici-
tor was directed to attend at the Treasury to make
isoquiiies, and was informed by Mr. &lank that no
such step was necessary. Notwithstanding his
Royal Highness had thought proper to memorial
the Treasury, and the memorial was referred to his
Majesty's Ministers. They disapproved of the
measure, and in a written answer returned, stated
•• there was no precedent." One of the individuals
who load come to the decision was at the head of

the legal department, therefore it became him to
I.l**lc wish deference of it ; but be thought if
that individual had searched, he would have
fonitd many precedents, which induced him to think
the teamons assigned were not the real ones. 11 is
Roy.' Higlu cos. however, had a second memo-
rial presented. It was well known that his Royal