The Sun.
London, England, 1802-02-16 00:00:00

MESSAGE FROM THE KING.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
presented a Message from His Majesty, which was,
nearly as fbllow:i

G. R.

" His MAJEsry feels great concern in acquainting the
House of Commons, that the provision made by Parliament
for defraying the Expenses of his Household and Cival Esta-
blishment, has been found inadequate for their support, and
that a considerable Debt has been unavoidably incurred, an
Account of which His MAJESTY has given..direaians to be
laid before Parliament. His MAJESTY relics with confi-
dence on the zeal and affeaion of his Faithful Commons, to
.take the same into their early consideration, and to adopt
such measures as the same may appear to them to require."

The CHANCELLOR of • the EXCHEQUER
said, he should do nantore at present than what had
been uniformly done ilpon similar occasions, namely,
to move, that His Majesty's Message should be re-
ferred to thc Committee of Supply. He took, how-
ever, this opportunity of stating that he should to-
morrow• have the honour of laying before the House
several Papers relative to the'Dcbts of the Civil
List, and that he should on Wednesday move for a
Selea Committee to take the same into their con-
sideration, and report the same, with their observa-
tions thereon, to 'the House.

His Majesty's Message was then ordered to be
referred to the Committee of Supply nem. con.

PRIVILEGE.

Lord FOLKESTONE said, he would trespass
upon the indulgence of the House for a few mo-
ments, to recall to their attention a subject which,
it would be recolleEted, he had thought it his duty
to bring forward on Friday last. He had then
stated what appeared to him to be a gross breach
of their Privileges, but he had not then thought
proper to proseL-i.tc r,t,j,ct, and for• two rea-
sons : the one was, that he hoped some Gentleman
better qualified than himself would have under-
taken it ; the other was, the hopes he entertained that
the persons conneded with this kind of publication,
would have taken the hint from the observations
which he then made. In both these hopes he had
been disappointed. With regard to the first, he
found that there was a degree of delicacy
which
prevented other Gentlemen better qualified than
himself from bringing forward the subjeCt. In the
second hope he had been disappointed, but in a
different way, and it was with great surprize that
le found in the same Paper of the next day, in-
stead of an apology, a justification of their con-
ha, on grounds in which they claimed the right
of doing it as the right Alf Englishmen. The Pri-
vileges of the House were now come to an issue,
and the question
.now stood on a different ground.
He conceived that if no notice had been taken of
it, people' might have supposed, that the House
had overlooked their conclude but now that notice
had been taken of and these persons had at-
tetnptato justify their condud, 'he thought it was
necessary.; in defence of the Privilege which. the
House had always claimed and maintained, to pro-
ceed farther. He therefore proposed to move a
resolution upon the subjed, and he believed the
regular wny upon such occasions was to give in the
Paper to be read at the Table, after which he should
make a motion upon the subjcd.

Lord SHEFFIELD moved that the Gallery should
be cleared,

Strangers then withdrew, and we understand that
Mr. SPlrx DAN moved the Order of the Day, which
was proceeded to by the House.
Adjourned at five o'clock till to-morrow.

THE SUN.

SOLI M QUIS DICERE'FALSUM AUDEAT ?

LONDON, PEBRUARY 16, 1802.

Tx is morning a Dutch Mail arrived in •course,
with Letters and Papers from Amsterdam of the
t th, 'and Rotterdam and Leyden of the t 2th inst.
The Articles which it brings, of no very great in-
terest, will be found under the Head of the Dutch
Mail.

HIS MAJESTY'S arrangements for residing in
Town during the winter season are as follow :
TheRgYAL FAMILY will come to town every Tues-
day, and remain at the Queen's House till Friday..
Every fortnight the QUEEN will have a Drawing_
Room ; and on the alternate Thursday TkrEIR
/I,•.tEs-rt ES will honour• one of the Theatres with
';leir presence.