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phew in what manner 'ow+ a debt had arisen.
There Wig one Ipinch o.f the Civil List apes which
vioihrti to moy word. Is was that ewswprehewd.
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„barge of their dray was to be 3 • s ren'
the leeetain of the hearers er" - 4 Crane
"'ford the anatitetiettal power of d". ' Oit a
se. .., •
trim review of the** practise... Si Eng re•
nt, he wa sallied the peldie -,.., . newt
tspe heti by; •
'ileitluiven in ;616. &Lir e that period hi r...• i,
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operas voted were illaced as a whole.. , 17
. • • disposal of the Crown; by the,, Id
...Inch he alluded the sums were sepesitely assigned
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. t fat selariee, nod what for allettoutees. sod '
• what fin extraordinary diaborseineota, accordierra
. 7 • properly disposed scale. Thus the. jignagemeat
• 'WWI SO constructed, that the espies,. of eoch de.
nt was acteally aseertaioed. or at least at
so as the mature of the rase admitted. It
" Vie thawed hater also that the extraordinary ex:
pilliiihire .meld -he .kept apart from the regular
and established eergatitet expenditure be* in ita
nature llecteatieg. sea provided for by estimate,
, and thee at the ekes of each year the accifati
were to he laid beano Parliament of the opttire
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amount of the extroordloaries. If the estiss J .
1 for the foreign expenditure were examined 17173
Noble Lord who had lived abroad. he wool
. I list they we,. framed in 8 most eeoneeDieal manage.
He repeated, that is the whole arrangement• the
4,411 c.: ptecantian was taken to prevent any arrest
of dettr, and ft was intended that the accounts of
the extremities should be annually laid before
'carat :mast, so that obi estimates and the result
exould• fully rasa soder their view for examinations
• tiCrutiny ea she responsibility of Gower
alrdheievcr any dimieetiou of expense cal=
0.. labile would hare the fell bandit of it..4et
LAlrnanee. if at any (step ' it should Occur, se
;ford been rlie rase that the foreign ex
„ipielidritore in the fast were diminished
tinere being osi establidlilitt upheld in parties'
tenr/0.4 of the Contimello 0161 04.1•11Oola so appro.
.p7l izeit by the present 'irere to be car-
ried ..if to the Consolid He would out
, Jet.a.sie their liordshipa byeetevieg into any minute
~ llama.. but would confine himself to general heads.
....Pus lett him to notice the casual funds at the die.
raal of the Crown. which were called the droits of
oytbe Crown. Admiralty, &c. lo the arrangetnent
...Of Ivo for the late reign. these funds were not
Aouvited. nor were they in 1816. He could nut see
• tirerefore why a new principle should be now est.-
lt!:,illetl. If, indeed, the Crown castle to Podia.
mei); fur the payment of any linear of debt which
,j: ni hi-en incurred, or for any thing that implied
,ight additional expenditure beyond the usual sum,
,Veri indeed the consideration of the application of
~,,,effst. fonds ought not perhaps to be excluded from
.90r,virw of Parliament in caneidering what ought to
.1,1 dour. But at present no new arrangement was
varied for, •nd Parliament had • security against
debt which bed never before been given, and they
were :.hro to have the additional information whirb
~ would be derived from the annual production of the
accounts respecting these casual revenues. lt *kook'
be cussidered that the amount of theft revenue
mainly depended on a state of war, and that then
tire claims made upon them end litigated. under
every circumstance, made the ultimate amount pre.
curious and uncertain. The Noble Earl. in con-
. elusion, recapitulated the advantages acquired by
the settlement of 1816, which he thought was more
favourable to the public than any preceding ar-
rangement; be trotted, therefore, it would receive
tbe sanetiOn of Parliament, as it was framed as
mesa with a due regad to the honour and dignity
•1 the Crown, as to the convenience and character
7the people,—(Hour.)—lie then moved, that the
1i be read a second time,
lewd KING pawl he did not yield to the Noble
Bad i an anxiety to support the honour and dig-
ger, of the Crown, its well as the proper and neer*.
se.e expenditure of the Civil Government. Hut
what lie objected to the arrangements of 1816 was,
that they will retaiiied the accounts its the same
Noodled ambiguity. and in the issue general per.
virally—arid he thought that what was culled
N daallitieation of the in:counts and specification of
ti.e expenditure, by throwing a pert into the Con.
eL.l:rlated Fend and a port 100 the Civil List, wall
an ~re calculated to leave every tlinig in a date of
u:icertainty. thin clear of any of the obscurities ,
iii *hid' those act:Outdo were heretofore rove.
loped. lie objected to this Bill, because he
41. el not think it founded upon an economical
ranciple, nor that it wan intended to he so
tr.ored. If T., : were intruded. the precedent of
1616, rah ..e thought a moat extravagant one,
would owl !or.ll been .elected. 'flirt :irecedent
imittinsted no lea' than thane or four privy purse.,
ii ~e for the Duchy of Lth...i-ier. one for Cornwall,
lte, whirl' though not nom 3!,l•!lCable to cautioned
. , force, he rtter..ly ineotioct.l to ilto%r, that vet,-
minty Novi not the regulating !principle of the Cum-
writee of 1816, which sanctioned them. He ob-
j•cteri to that precedent also. because is sanctioned
the spirt:onion of the four mid a hall per cents. ep
well as the droits of the Admiralty. l'he great diro
ti-rt in fict. the radical vice of the Guarr bb paa roll,
sirs its prolesouw, was it. want of atl. activei
a•iiNtleilt control over the public expenditure.
That piiltUsloll wilirli so UltrOttlilltiteiS pervaded
the 'poem of the general govertinit:lnt of I
. cou•dry, was flow idiom in be carried into
tel yie branch of the Government.
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, tawnier, all elircittal control was Isoiiisfied.
• 'llie expenditure was ceitmnlv clay...fled, but tit ;
what gw.a ? 'lnc 01411.awce came &Pot) VA fleapit '
eirot and defrauded witutevt", it 111161ine1. 6.4 t '
, sphere of its own department
; leanly*,
nary did the some, Without cheat tit plifier

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