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set 'Lve, lie slid grid the iint,ressi.-:: he
brought nits the Haute, iseurely, that ••r liar as the
einewlatient .propneed regerele the tenure of teftl•
petty, it was a most onwerrentable viol& ; reel
should that violaiirot take place, it would, in his
eipiniais, hr poorly compensated fur by the earrliil
edveittage iii corieentoletion. As to ihe urge-
ments of the Right H tttttt urshle Geseileman, they
were fousoled on en erroneous stutemetit Cl
facts. The Right lion. Geminate'', hail meted, third
the Act of the 39th and 40th of the K toe was the
first Act that mentioned the Priv% Purse, lent
tins was not the fact. It, 1782, there. was a direct
recognition of the Privy Purse. At the period of the
Regency, a ljill passed through the Howie to make
provisions for the exercise of the Roseel Authority,
which recognised the Privy Pure—[ilere the Right
Ilene. Gentleman cent into an liesioricul detail of
facto, to prove that the Privy Purse was recognised
by Parliament before the Act of the 39th and 4011 i
of the King.]—The lion. Gentleman) had asked
why the claim for physicians should have been
merle on the Privy Purse ? To this there uppeured
to him (Mr. Peel) a plain answer—because the
payment of physicians was an item of expense
which his Majesty ought properly to pay. In
111 1, when the late Mr. Perceval moved fur a
Secret Committee to inquire into the stele of the
Privy Purse, it was opposed by Mr. Adams rad
Mr. Sheridan, on this ground, that it was an sot
of indelicavy ; and the authority of Mr. Sheridan,
-nue of the most elegant ornaments that the Semite
I ever had, was coddled to some cenaideration from
Gentlemen at the other side. By the Act of the
39th and 40th of the King, his Majesty was
assigned the stun of 60,0001. a-year ; and to
say 'hat Ire was not to have the power of be-
queathing his private properly as a cennitson indivi-
dual, mould be most disrespectful and most unjust.
As to the revenue of the Duchy of Lancaster, he
would only remind the Right Hon. Gentlemen, that
those have been the fiereditary_property of the
Crown since the reign of Henry IY.—that they are
held by the Crown by as good o title as arty indi-
vidual anoniget them holds hi. estates by prirwrip.
nem, and by Act of Perfume'''. The Right
Honourable Gentlemare had made many ob.
servatione, he said, on the different Acts of Par-
It:linen.. He would hug the attention of the
House whilst he read the preamble of one. It
wes the first Act of his Majesty" reign, provid-
ing for his Majesty's Household—it recited that
his Majesty was the guardian of the laws, the
Werner'. amid the relig. of the country, and that
his faithful Commons erre anxious to provide
for his Household. Perhaps, said he, the we-
st-mit Act anal he the last of his reign, mid God
(oohed that it should afford so strong and so me.
laucholy a contrast with thy first !—God forbid
elm' we should now recite, diet. ,1 whereas your Ma-
jesty has been the faithful protector of our 11\04.
our liberties, and our religion and now, in the 59111
year of your reign, we invade your private rights
by an wi of gross indelicacy and injustice!"
Mr.•Bmtass objected strongly to the expressions
used to the latter part of the Noble Lord's (Castle.
'ugh%) skeeh, respecting the " infamy" that
would attach to the circumstance of paying the
Coshs of the King's Person out of the Privy
Purse ; be denied that there was airy thing of a se.
creel character appertaining to the property belong-
ing to the King, nod riticaled the absurdity of
supposing that airy thing that once entered the
King's purse, could never be touched by Perlis.
tweet.—(Loud cheering.)—lle alluded to the re-
gulations of the King" property on former occa-
sions, to strew that the present Ministers did nut in
former times entertaiis the same ideas of the sa-
credness of the Kiirg's property, as to suppose that to
touch a single shilling edit was to create an alarm is'
the country for the security of private property. Was
the House to suppose, that on that former occasion
the Noble Lord and Isis colleagues did not ere
ao infristgement of the rights of property and a 'po-
llution of the Privy Purse, when it was determined to
draw from the Privy Purse the same Krauts as it was
. supposed the Kiirg himself would have made had
he refereed the use of iris understanding?—(Hear.)
--Moth had been thought to depend upon the Cu-
cuin.tarice of a Wind of 10,0001. a-year having been
given to the late ()tweet fur the same purpose as
was et present emote:ll,lord ; but indeed he never
could see wish what propriety that grant hail been
made. The high respect, however, which was Uhl.
venally esitertoined for her Majesty, as a pats
teru of high domestic virtues mid of coejugal fide.
lity, had induced many persons not to look eith
strict severity upon such a grant, who would
otherwise have thought it trot perfectly consis-
tent with right' and justice ; besides, on that
occasion it was well argued, that by her Meiji sty's
not then obtaining her dower, us it was supposed
of right she ought to have dune, and that dower
sonousiting to 100,00111. a year, the country was
supposed to he a gainer. He !Lunged that the rote
of this "eight would mark the difference of circum-
stances. Ile sow ire it no violetioto of the King" pro-
perty, no vpulistion of private right; whaleou the
oilier hind it wren to rescue the country from an
additional burden of coosidershle amount, for which
reasons lie trusted the House would negative the
Noble Lord's proposition.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. PISL explained.
Mr. WiLsenT said he was desirous rather of con-
sidering tire question as one strict law, their
of economy. If et-money were alone to be taken
*nitro account, he doubted not the House might he
enabled to keep their Kim: by cow ruct at is cheapen
rate then that at which they 11,1%, 'teethed vaillttig to
support him. —( leur, Incur, from the Alinisiat int
Genchcs.f—plc felt etateuticet) that by the 39th and
4000 of the King an ill1•01Illie property was grinded
ti/ hisjes'y 'or the Piivy Purse, and if the House
were to entrench itglit it would be u viola-
nun of 'onside property. &or ttttt ry was inideubt-
edly touch to be desired, but the House weir to
decide between relief to the country upon one bend,
and the sanctity oh peivate properly upon the
oilier.—(tater )
Mr. 31ARTIN nail It way 1$1:4 Inlrntlou tit vote
siebvantial Plllll to,ooo/. a year—(Larrehrer)
tit the Doke I,l' Yu' k, but he thought, shunt by citing
it iu tire rimester proposed by the Gentlemen oppo-
site, he should nut 110 so. Their 'opportune" to the
Aliiiisters was 114.1iiitA less 00111 tills, " Do you n I,
'WM/14 end 10.1,1-i you." - (I aughiet)
that was ni. 01/1101011, and he felt ciorvinced, 11141 lit
voting are jut dill, he should receive the thltuks at
every true of his coustttuents. Lifted, he wit prig