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our business with es little ee►emeor es possible,
This is the only thi►►g of which we are now to be
fold—there is No reference to any other subject. be
to the prospective measures which may be is the
contemplation of his Majesty's Ministers. 1 knee►
that there is a distinction between the present case
and the preceding one. and that on a former oe.
casion Perliemetit was not sitting ; but still. 1 sok,
why should we not have a speech from the throne.
imparting to us the vices of Ins Majesty's Minh.
ters, and the policy they meant to pursue? There
was one point to wlrich it was of constitutional import.
once that some parliamentary steps should he taken.
In all 1'.4.111 of a new accession, h measure was
brought forward to insole good the hereditary rev.'.
hues of the Crown, which of course expire on the
demise of the Sovereign. This would operate in
two ways; first, an►d what was most suiterial,
the interfereoce of Parliament on such ao oc-
casion recogt►iseJ our right to consider the
amount which we deem applicable for the in ain•
tenatice of the Royal Establishment. Here we
are called upon to take these sums for granted
as vested in the Crown, and to admit their tenure
independent of Parliament. I knows there are some
revenues under the absolute control of the Crown.
and not subject to this control ; but 1 also know
there ate others, and a large part, wholly dependent
upon the control of Parliament, and which cannot
legally exist without its sato:toms. How. for
stance, clot the revenues be collected without ■
new Act ? On what authority could they be takun
otherwise than that conferred by Parliament ? My
belief is, that there is something at the bottom of
all this, which we cannot understood, of which it
is not meant we should be inforined.—(Hear.)—
There must he some good reason in the minds of
his Majesty's Ministers why the Civil List is nut to
be voted now as on all former occa.iouv of a simi-
lar stature. The Noble Lo►d our. indeed, that
there would not be time for entering largely into
such considerations with the present Parliament,
liable as it would be to the interruption of its limit-
ed duration. Why is there not time for consider-
ing such a subject ? It is not 1111 l re than four or
five years ego since voltimi ~,, us reports were made
nn Parliament, touching the Civil List, and since ►t
was put upon its present footing, with or without
my approbation, it is unnecessary fur me now to
say. We were then told that fixing it upon such a
scale, would obviate the necessity of soy future die.
cussion upon that branch of the public expeoditure.
Now it seems this question would occupy too much
time to be discussed in the present Parliament.
Is this comistelit with the former declaration of
his Majesty'. Ministers. when the Civil List
was specifically settled out of the aggregate,
now the lidated fund ? What reel objec.
time can there he to the introduction of a Bill
now, specifyitig the amount of the Civil List. as hi
all former cases ? 1 cannot comprehend ■n answer to
this iibiref;Ott. tier Can I figure to myself coy reason
why the amount of the Civil List should be post-
joined. The only reason the Noble Lord gives is.
that it would be inconvenient to do so ; that we are
nu longer wanted, mud may march about our busi-
ness forthwith. On the accession of his late Ms-
je•ty. the Parliament hell only ran one year. and
yet they were called upon at that time to go through
the whole ..f the public business 'interruptedly.
Why not follow that example now ? The only an.
ewer was, liecause it would be inconvenient.
Now I think just the reverse. and that this
is the preferable moment to exercise our lane.
lions upon this branch of public business.—
Instead of biking this, as I think, better course.
when discussion may really be had, the Noble
Lord wants US to postpone our deliberations, and
that too for the purpose of their bring more mature
—to postpooe them until that period of the year
when he knows we cannot have s full attendance.
This. the Noble Lord my,, is a convenient moment
for dissolving Parliament. Good God, on the eve
of the Assizes!—the most inconvenient period
hich could possibly be devised. I verily believe
that there is something bel • I !rend which the
Noble Lord does not wish us to know—something
which lie feels he had better trust to the uprooting of
a new Parliament then to the closing of an old one.
Ido not comprehend die policy of this course. We
ore told we shall not be called upon fur any grant
of money.—(The CNA MCI Ll.Oll of the EICHEQU lR
said, • There will be a grant veiled furl— Ifir is
that is another reason why we should consider with-
out delay the propriety of a vote of credit or a vote

The 11.7 AINCEt.t.ot of the EiCHFUVEit—" 1
(Poly Meal& tip propose a vote to make good the sti-
pulated payrnents up to the 25111 April next."
Mr. TteittitY•" 'rheas, by this calculation,
there must he a certain period when the Crown
will have no legal maintenance, for every body
knows it will be impossible fur a new Parliament
to assemble by the 25111 April. What objection, I
ask, can there be to voting a specific suns for the
Civil List ? It is in vaiti to state that ;Ministers had
not made up their utile& on the subject. Did they
mean to coneider, as they oaght. the propriety of it
decrease of the Civil List on the receipt demise of
the Crown ? Surely they could net contemplate an
increase ; if they did, why not come forward at
once and state their Prest's fur holding ,ucli au
opinion ? I believe there is a mystery overhanging
the policy or Ministerk,Mitl that they have some-
thing to commuoicatt for which they du not
think $ dosing Isarliallrrnl prepised.--(Hear.)--
know they deem this an unpleasant moineist to
Toter upon sack tapirs, because electioneering
'prospects make Gentlemen's heals more in the
country thaw to initgA./—1 know it is
ills uogrile et the time of d new reign
oppu4e the wariiiistreli of Alitiissee., but 1 must
nrei my protest itgatit-t them, as the stew, they
use about to take involve a great constitutional
viinciple. When 1 make this protest, I suit aware
that il we agree to this motion we must sutler Ills-
-IJ-tern to take their own course. The moment we
agree to all immediate dissolution. we cannot 111111.
1.1.111 e any ss e.sure which it world be vain to-pretis
Ai thin the few days allotted to us fur deliberation.
Lost StiblUll we were called upon, in the alleged
44sturbrd state of the country, when it was said no
4..racrable man could lie quietly in his bell. to
*use an addition of 11,000 Amu to the military
Lace of the country. Woo there any f• 11,011
now ler continuing this anarented estatilt•lis
r tit ? Were the people now in this utirpitet state,
HI mere they not, on the contrary, quite ut rest ?