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manner, and then it would have been grauled as
the former ones had been, in •a liberal, generous,
and elegaut manner.—(,! laugLl
Mr. CALE:RAY? said he should give his vote to-
night different front those he had given on former
occolowa. which were uniformly in favour of eco-
nomy. The sum of 4,8001. had not escaped his
attention ; and the reason Why it did not ope-
rate as an objection against the grant was, that
the Duke of Clarence did not enjoy any professional
emoluments as his Royal Brothers the Dukes
of Rent and Cambridge did. When the
grant was originally rejected it was the inten-
tion of the Duke of Clarence to live upon the
continent, and having made a different arrange-
ment, which must be satisfactory to all parties, he
saw no reason Why the House should not now make
good the original gent. He would Leili any man
who mcollected the station in society which that
Royal Duke, as a Prince of the Blood, 'oust sus-
tain, and the persons with whore lie Moat Drees..
Strlly mix, whether be could conscientiously say
the grant should be refiteed.—(Hear, /rear.)
Mr. CRIIEVEY perfectly concurred with hits Hon.
Friend (Mr. Huine) that the Consolidated Fund
airs already too heavily laden, and that as the Duke
of Clarence enjoyed an income of 2,500/. more
than his Royal Brushers, the grant should stand as
proposed by his Honourable Friend. There were
man? lather Nall from which an udilition might be
anode; the 4j per cents. and various others, from
',nch additions might be made without increasing
the burdens of the people. The sum lie hurl men-
notteil of /,5001. was an excess, and he thought
his Ilan. Friend hail made out en unanswered, an
unanswerable case, and should therefore support it.
Mr. Dereman was of opinion that no arrears
should be granted, but that the Duke of Clarence
should placed " in future" on a level with his
other brothers. Buteven this, he thought, could tint
be done without a message from the Crown. He
had examined the Journals, and he found that in
1818 u 'new; ige hail been received by the House
from the Prince Regent, to make a 'provision for
his three brothers suitable to their situations. The
Douse came to a resolution to provide for the other
Iwo Incolierm but not for the Duke of Clarence.
Whatever occurred then on this subject must have
been in a Committee, and he thought the House
could not proceed except upon something that op-
peered upon the Juuripals.--(Hear, hear.)--It
was a breach of the privileges of the House to
proceed in that manner, and upon constitutional
grounds he thought the House were not in a condi-
tion to proceed further.
The Sex&xert thought the Ilon..aud Learned
Gentleman must have made some mistake with re.
specs to the Journals, for a Report was actually
made to the Duke of Clarence, and wares he was
deceived, not mail after some discussion had Wien
place. He wished to set himself right with the
House as to the propriety of the proceeding, as
some doubts seemed to be entertained respecting
its regularity. • message had come from the
'Throne recommending& provision, upon which a re-
solution was carried, but no Bill was brought in, and
then in a subsequent Session a mutton was made,
accompanied by a recommendetiou from the Crown
to reconsider the question; and it was undoebtedly
.eompetent for any Honourable Member to move
the remnsideration of the question with the re-
vomuteudation of the Crown. In 1814, when
.0.0001. a year was voted for the Princess of
Wales, no Message was received, but merely a
recommendation from the Crown. In 1815. when
a Message from the Crown was received to
provide for the Duke of Cumberland, the motion
was lost, and at a subsequent period. when provi-
sion was making for the other branches of the Royal
Family, a Resolution passed to provide for the
Duchess of Cumberland, merely on the recom-
mendation of the Crown. He hoped he had made
iliouself understood to the House. *lf he had, they
most see that no•forms of the House could interfere
with the present proceeding.
Mr. MAXWELL said, he should oppose the grant
of the arrears, but should also oppose the reduc-
tion of the grant.
Mr. Hume observed, that his motion was not
against the Duke of Clarence ; all he wished the
House to do was, to take care that no addition
should be made to the Civil List, already too great.
The gallery was then cleared for a division 00
Mr. "'vase's amendment to reduce the grant
to 3,500/. The numbers were—
Fur the A ineudineut..... 36
Against it

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Ou our re-admission to the gallery we found
Per. licaNAL on his legs. lie snored as an
amendment that the groat should commence from
1821 in•tea.l of 1818.

'rile Marquis of LONDONDERRY observed that
the commencement of the Ilon. Clentleman's ob-
tervatiosis pleased hint very much, but he feared
the genere,ity of his sentiments had been restrained
by the society in which he set.-1 Loighter,j—
lt had been said that he came down to move for
the arrears of a grant for which ❑o contract had
heed entered into; but all hecontended for was, that
the Royal Family should be allowed to exercise
their own discretion as to the period to receive the
-lsoisly of Parliament, vial he might appeal to •
late occasion, when her Nl...jetty had declined to
receive the grunt of Parliasseitt—yet it was in the
contemplation of the House that it 'Wield remain
for her to accept it whenever she chose, and had
Ate declined it for tweet/ years, she would have
been entitled to thr arrears. He demanded nothing
rhea than what hiul been dew ou former occasions.
The** defog for the Haase to consider was, the
periotnit which thisfgrmet should commence, and
he thought the precise period was that at which the
Doke of Claresce lied actually, by an act of self-
declined accepting the grant.. At that time
his K.oyel Highness proposed retiring to the conti-
nent, and reducing his aerie of expenses, end lie
was sure thst ibe least eXtravagaues or irregular
conduct mild not be imputed to Isitn.— (Hear.)

Lord klaboos mid that he had no doubt that
an appeal to the feelings tattier than the enderL.
9hunitngs of the Howse would here its effect";
indeed he hod no doubt that a mach less ingenious
argument would produce its effect upon the House
of Commons. But ulthough the House of Coin-
mows had granted that soot in 1818, non mule.
that they should now gruel it. Ile knew that in
the case of grants to Officers for meritorious ser-
vices, the grant commenced from the period of the

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