The National Register.
London, England, 1814-07-17 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

.TUIAY 17.

9.'5,0001. to 12ie000 In presents to foreign M.nistcrs there mid he, a
an addition of tO,eool. There bad also been a suns 100,0001. :to-
propiiated to the due and mignificent entertainment of the hat ign
Sov,reitins. The whole alaamat of the Civil List in the List sfqr
had been 1,500.00.31. and in the p! esent year 1,319,0011. The
cedor of ow Exchequer concluded with silludieg to a Royal
which was at present only in remote contemplation, bat %bleb, if
erected, would cost 500,0001. On the Reselution for the grant of
180,000 e being read by the Chairman,
Mr. TiERNEY roe and said, the Right Hon. Gentleman had dis-
posed easily of the question, by Unsling his back on every thing.
but the two last years. He held in his hauds a caleolatiou or the
expellees of the five last Years, beginuing with 1310. Upon tho,,e,
five yearn, contiourd the Right Hon. (hullo-in::,,, the total amount
of excess was 114,000., an amount that yet remained to be accounkel
for, and which had arisen entirely in the outlay !rout the pt ivy
purse, and in what were called occasional expense:,. Thu:, he
tinuttl one item of 624,6001. as the annoint high vitt by Sir Climbs
Stuart while at Lisbon ; hot fur his own part he was really at a
to conceive how such a sum could have been reasonably inclined by
our resident there. Ile Ito donid that Sir C. Steart did actually
expend it: but there woe no statements before the House which
could at all inform them how it had been expended. Nor was Le
texare of any return that could be moved for %illicit would crusty
the necessary information. The House, perhaps, was oot waive
that since the estimate of the Civil List. which was propaned ut
1804, the expenses of it had so far gradually increased that the pe-
seta excess of that List amonnted to '2.10,0c01, per ammo, V. ac
not this a sehject lit for Parliament to imptire into r Did it nct
show that .6 something was. rotten in the state of Denmark Ile
did not expect that any thing coehl be done now upon the subject,
but he hoped it would not be forgotten by the Conn uittie nhen
next they met. The total aolount paid to the Royal Family, in-
chiding what they received from the Consolidated Fund, oas not
hen. tint,' 1,700,0001. He hoped he should not be accused of stating
this invidiously. He could not help also, again adverting to the
etrirmily of the Windsor establishment. lien had done so on a for.
met occasion, when that establishmeut was lira formed, but at no
time lie was met by an appeal to the feelings of the Haase and the
country : the pouibnity of the King's recovery. His Majesty was
allowed 1813,0001. per annum ; her Majesty 66,0001. ; which, toge-
ther with the allowance of the four Pen!evsses, made a total of
290,0G01. for the mere maintenance of his the Queen, and
the Princesses. Was there one man in that iloese who VI Wild not
say, that under the present circumstances, teat NUM was enormous
fur the Windsor establishment? His Royal I had a Privy
Purse of of) 0, 01 a year, and besides that au additioitallo,oool.yrr
annum. lie did not know any reason lot this 10,0001. Mom his
Majesty had the Privy Purse. it amounted oti!y to the n 0,0001;
knew flout what source this 10,0001. proceeded ; but when he smug
to the Throne (for so strictly speaking, lie had ), why did be oat
give it up ? The proceeds of the Duchy of Cornwall were c•
mate•l to average amnia)? about 13,0001. per annum ; though he
suspected that was an old avet age, and that for matey year. it had
exceeded it. Including what his Royal Highness received from the
Consolidate:l Fund, and deducting what was set apart for tI e pa)-
' mem of his debts, there remaiiied 76 0901. per annum at his Royal
Highness's free and necontrouled dispoial. Was not that too much,
however, it' they were still to be called upon to vote Ifete;ol. out of
the Cons didated Fund, for the support of her Royal Highness thy
Princess of Wales? With such a Civil List, none ef the branches
of the Royal Family should be cast upon the Consolidated Feint,
but ought to be maintained out of it, as the practice had always
been in tinnier times. He t Mr. Tierney) now ..tine to the
deration of the present mast extraordinary quarter, in the expeoses
of which he thoindit the Right Hon. Gentleman and his colleaanes
to office had incurred a most heavy re ponsibiiity, by not havoig
required estimates to he laid before the Ti easury, agreeably to
what had been distinctly recommeuded by the Coinnottee of 181 i.
—.Die excess in the present quarter was 177.0004 besides the 13,000:.
to be expended in Ow approaching let,. No doubt' it was necessary
and proper that those illustrious personages should be received acd
treated with all due splendour ; but the Hon. Gent. seewed to think that
the whole cause of this excess arose from our not having palaces tit for
the reception of such great people. That was a very comfortable hear-
ing. for he supposed, by and by, there would be some pujects ler
building a Versailles, or a Tionlleries ; tut he hoped the lion. Gent.
would pause before he gas e his sanction to certain palaces mluch
knetV- were in contempkttion. some very great. ideas, .fie understood.
• ere floating
in a certain person's !lead upon this subj( ct, but he nnslcd
Gent. would not belied awil by the beauty of any drasvoloi
or the costly taste of any architt ct who might Sawa plans. He nish‘d