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CO:NTMITTEE OF SUPPLY.

The- House then went into a Committee of
Supply, fir. 13116.6bEN in the Chair:

ALLOWANCE TO THE QUEEN.

Lord CAsTrctiv:AGir said, - the lonc, attention
•
paid' by 'the riouse to the subject last under dis-
cussion, denied him the opportunity of giving.ex-
planations The topics introduced' while the
Speaker was in the Chair, he should not discuss
in the Committee. He had merely to. state to
the House, that .the question this Committee
had to deliberate upon, was independent' of the
Queen's conduct. They 'had to decide what
was the prudent quantum- of allowance
,whiCh
ought to be made to the Queen. It was not
his intention to advert to any other question: He
considered the House was desirous of voting
some quantum of provisibn. Fifty thousand
pounds per annum had been mentioned, but
that sum was not to be taken as the most liberal
allowance Parliament would make.' Looking
at her Majesty as' Queen consort, she- would
be. entitled to a more liberal allowance, but
she-was in the situation
,of a Queen separated
from her husband. The separation • had been
recorded, and recognized by his late Ma-
jesty. ; land looking at the situation in which
the. Queen stood, separated from her husband,
the provision she Was to receive was not that
which a Queen -Consort, living with her has.;
band and children, would have. The Queen in
her present' state required a provision suitable
to her illustrious rank and station. She re-
quire& the same allowance as a Queen Dowager.
The Queen, surviving his Majesty, would
be entitled. to a dower of fifty thousand pounds
a :year ; and it Was reasonable to conclude
that.,the Queen living separate should receive
the same amount of income- that she would
if her husband were dead. In 1814 the Queen,
being then Princess of Wales; and separate froM
her husband, and there being no reasonable pre-
sumption that the separation .would terthinate,!
Parliament was resolved to make that provision
which she would have received standing in the
situation of Dowager Princess of Wales. Fifty
thousand pounds were voted, and if that grant
was not for life, it was'because the Princess de7.
.dared she'would not receive more than 35,0001.
Nothing had-occurred io alter that arrangement,
and it appeared to the Noble Lord that that sum
was a proper allowance. When the proposition
was made to her Majesty. at St. Omer's, it was
stated 'that the 50,0001. a year, which she was
entitled to, would be continued. It was felt that
a liberal, not an extravagant allowance, ought
to be made for a person of her Majesty's rank
and station. On those grounds, 50,0001. were
.offered at St. Omer's, which was the sum her
Majesty would be entitled to as Queen Dowa-
ger. -The Noble Lord concluded by moving—
" That it is the opinion of this ComMittee that
his Majesty be enabled to grant annually the
sum of 5G,0001. out of the Consolidated Fund
for the sole and separate use of her Majesty,
during-her Majesty's life."'
Mr. STUART WORTLY said, ha did not rise to
allude to any thing which passed with respect to
the. Queen's conduct before she came to this
Country, but circumstances had occurred since
her return, to make him hesitate in placing so
large a sum of money in her hands. Let her
guilt or innocence-be as it might, there could be
no defence for some of the language her Majesty
held in her Answers to the Addresses. Her letter
to the King also contained language which could
not be too much deprecated. It was the chity of
Parliament. not to vote money which might be
applied to effect the destruction of every institu-
tion in the country. He defied any•man to read
those answers without saying they were not cal-
culated to overturn the Constitution of the
Country. Parliament had before refused to vote
sums of money to persons.in the Royal Family,
for reasons less than those the Queen's conduct
presented. The Hon. Member wished that peace
might be restored, and on that ground only lie
abstained from proposing an amendment.
Lori] Jolts Itu-sstr.r.. rose to say a few words
upon the language used towards her Majesty.
No person with the common .feeling of genero-
sity, ought to have come at this time to express
reproach for any words contained in a letter sent
at the time she was under trial, 'on charges which
had not been supported. The Noble Lord ad-
verted to the accusation of Queen Catherine, the
wife .ofllenry VIII., and the words of Wolsey,
who declared the Queen guilty of a crime for
showing herself to the people. , The Queen was
now placed- in a similar situation, and her actions
misrepresented; The misfortunes of her family;

and the death of her brother, and father fighting
for this country, entitle her to protection. .
Alderman C. SMITH deprecated the language
of the answers which the Queen returned to the
AddresSes..

Mr.HumE rose amidst some expressions of im-
patience, and defended the answers of her Ma-
jesty to the Addresses. They were Constitu-
tional trtiths, and he did . not expect some Ho-
nourable Members to admire them. They ex-
pressed sound morality, and. were consistent with
the Christian Religion. .

Mr. STuArt-r WORTJ.EY observed that so far
from being Constitutional truths, he considered
them seditious libels, and he said he should give
notice, when the House resumed, of his int4tion
to address the King, to lay the Queen's letter
before the House.

Mr. MARTIN (of Galway), said the;Answers
made by the Queen to Addresses had been gene-
rally
reprobated:in England and Ireland. He
did not attribute .fhem to the Queen, but her bad
advisers, who had on every occasion injured her
in the eyes of the public. Their evil council had
invariably been 'mischievous. The circumstance
of advising her Majesty to intercede with the
King, to save the life of an unfortunate female,
had no other tendency than to excite odium
against the constituted authorities.
Lord MILLON, with a view to alleviate, rather
than increase the. pain felt:l)y the parties, im-
plored his "Hon. Friend. (Mr. Wortley) not to
persist in the motion which he had intimated his
intention to make.. The opposing sentiments of
any two members were. not. sufficient ground for
the I-louse to call Upon.the King—for the produc,
tion of a letter.

Me: STUART WORTLEY. oNpressed himself wil-
ling to forego his intention.

Lord STAN LEY said the grant of 50,0001. was
not connected with a Palace, which the late
Queen enjoyed.
Lord CMTLEREAGII said, the mtrriage treaty
signed by the Queen, when Princess of Wales,
gave her for dower 50,0001. There was no Palace.
The Palate settled on her late 'Majesty was
given by letters patent from the Crown.
Mr: H. SUMNER opposed- the amount of the
grant, as being too much. He had been inform-
ed that the Queen, since She had been in this
country., had paid no tradesmen's bills. It was
necessary that a motion should bepade for an
account of the sums drawn by the Queen since
She had been in this Country. It was reasonable
to." conclude, &the Queen had not paid her hills,
that the money had been employed for the worst
purposes. Apart of.it had
,been applied perhaps
to enable the seditiOns press to circulate daily
poison into the public mind. Fifty thousand
pounds was more than the Queen was entitled
to, after having been separated twenty years'
from her husband. The Hon. Member then pro-
posed an Amendment, viz. to leave out 50,000/.
and insert 30,0001.
Dr. LitiSHINGTON remarked,-hr terms of vehe-
ment reprehension, on the conduct of the lion.
Member for Surrey, who had dared to say that
the 'Queen, had been' proved guilty of adultery.
When he heard opinions of this kind Pronounced
he declaredi.on his conscience, that he thought
the'Queen would have more justice if she .were
tried by twelve convicted felons, provided tmu
a Judge presided who wat not conspicuous for
legal 'tergiversation, than by those who would
pronounce sentence upon her without hearing a
Syllable of her defence. He should like to know
how the*Hon. Gentleman Could know that the
Queen's adVisers did not reserve some evidence
of the Queen's innocence to produce at the
bar of the House of Commons, for reasons
best known to themselves, and which would
have overthrown all imputation against her.
He was surprized to hear it asserted in that
House, that it was incumbent on her Majesty
to prove her innocence, instead of her ene-
mies being obliged to prove her guilt. Much jtad
been said about the sums of money lavished upon
the Queen. Why, it so happened that the Queen,
since her late arrival in this Country, had spent
not a farthing more than at the rate of 35,0001.
per annum. It happened to 'him, within one
month after her Majesty's arrival, to apply by,
letter to. his Majesty's Government for the small
sum of 5,0001., which small sum was refused.—
But this charitable, honest, upright Judge, for-1
south, said that be had heard; but who told him
God only knew, that her Majesty did not pay
her bills. Doubtless, as 'was insinuated, that she
expended her money in'paying Newspapers and'
other scribes. Stich insinuations were equally
unworthy any Member of that House to make,
and of any other to answer.

Mr. Alderman Woon had hitherto-refrainel
from taking any part in this debate, but he could
no longer remain silent when he heard such un-
grounded assertions made as thos which had
been advanced by the Hon. Member for Surrey
(Mr. 11. Sumner.) As that Hon. Gentleman had
stated that many of her Majesty's bills were not
paid, lie called upon Whim in his plaS in that
House, to state anyone bill which her-Majesty
owed. He bad made his assertion roundly, and
her Majesty and the House bad aright to expect
this satisfaction of him. He could assure the
House that her Majesty had paid the whole
amount of the expenses she had incurred since
her last arrival in this Country, ,regularly dis-
charging her debts at the, end of every month.—
At the end of each month her Majesty called for
her accounts, which the Steward presented to her,
and received the money in full: He trusted the
Hon. Gentleman would either state some fact in
confirmation of what he had advanced, or make a
full recantation of it.
Mr. 11. SUMNER could not answer the call of
the Worthy Alderman, as he had already stated,
that what he knew of the matter was from ru-
mour. One or two persons, whom he thought
likely to knot-, had informed him on the subject,
but he had also heard it generally rumoured.—
As he Who had last addressed the Committee was
not the accredited agent of her Majesty in that
House, he was not bound to receive his state-
ments ; he should therefore retain his former
opinion.

Mr. Bitouonim declared, be had never heard
any of-the reports alluded to, by the llon. Gen-
tleman; though, if such a fact existed, he thotight

he was in a situation in which he must have known
of it. With respect to her Majesty's expendi-
ture, she had received, in addition to her 35,0001.
a year, 50,0001. for law expences. I f the Hon.
Gentleman considered this as" too large a sum, he
could only say her Majesty and her Legal Ad-
visers equally, regretted that the Country should
have been put to this expense but the Queen
had not been the' cause of it ; and large as. the
sum, might appear, he could assure the Hon.
Gentleman it .would, not near cover the Queen's
expences.

Mr. 11. SumsEn observed, that what had fallen
from the worthy Alderman he was not obliged
to give credit to, because he did not know the
facts himself. If the Learned Gentleman' oppo-
site would to-morrow state that he believed it lo
be correct from his. own knowledge, he would be
satisfied. ~
. 11 Ir. Alderman WOOD said he did not want the
credit -of the Honourable Member. • He stated
what he knew, not as an accredited -agent,'-but
as an individual in his place in that 'House. lie
had seen the books of the Steward, and hb•-knew
that all her Majesty's bills to tradesmen and
others•were paid monthly. -'Perhaps- to=i-noroNir
thellonourable Member with his rum Onr,-'wOnld
bring down some bill-which was not paid. ' If lie
-
did so, he begged to assure-the lion. Member
that he would tale care it should be paid.
Lord'iNUGENT thought that thellon.:Mernber
for Surrey,: ought to apologize to. the Coamiiitee;
or the Hon. Alderman, for su.ch:llat'''co:ttradic-
tiott as he had made use of. • •

Mr. H. SUMNER.OtiId 110 t apologize till the
Committee directed him to do so. lie me-ant to
have stated, to allay any 'irritation that blight
o have.arisen iu,the.worthy Alderman's mindat
if he had made a statement upon his ors n-know-
ledge of any thing which concerned himself,• he
should give implicit confidenCe to' it'. Since;
however, the worthy Alden-hail had stated_ the
foundation of his knowledge, lie was not ft bit the
more inclined to give credit to him. It appeared
that he saw by- the Steward's books what he
paid, but did he see by them• what were not paid ?
Mr. BaouonAm observed, in reply to what had
been thrown out by the Hon. Member for Surrey,
that it was not in his 'province, and would be ex-
tremely impertinent in him to go to her Majesty's
house, and make inquiries into her private con-
cerns. The utmost he could do would be to in-
quire of the Steward, as the worthy Alderman
had done.

• Mr. I3ROGDEN was sorry to say that contradic-
tion was too much the practice of that 'House..
The-conversation,- however, had gone already too-
far, and he trusted it would be dropped.
Mr. S. WORTLEY,kIid not mean, by his allusions
-to the conduct of the Queeu to make any raference
to the income she was to receive. It was Ids in-
tention to vote for. the larger sum ----(hear.)
After a conversation,-rendered inaudible •by
the departure of. Members ,from the House,
between Mr. -WESTERN, the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER, Mr. W. SMITJL, and Mr.
litrmx, the questions were put by the Chairman
in the usual way, and it was'decided that it was
the opinion of that Committee, that means shOuld
be provided for his Majesty, to be enabled to
grant the annual sum of 50,000!. to her Majesty,
during her life. The House .resumed, mat the
Report having been received, adjourned at HALF-
PAST TWO, O'CLOCK.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KIN-CT'i.;7IENCH, JAN. al.

THE KING V. 313.3011 CARTWRIGHT, WOOLEII, &C.
It will not be forgotten that the'defendants in
this case were all of 'them found guilty, at the
last Assizes for the County of Warwick, of a
conspiracy to bring the House of Commons
into contempt, by electing what they termed
a " Legislatorial. Attorney" for the town of
Birmingham, who was to represent them in Par-
liament. The Chief Baron was the Judge who
presided on the occasion, and the conduct of
Lordship at the trial, by refusing to postpone it,
was taken exception to by some of the defen-
dants, who since that time applied to this Court
for a new trial on that ground. In last Term the
cause was gone into, and a rule Nisi was granted,
calling on the. Crown to shew cause why a' new
trial should .not be had for the defendants.

Mr. ATTORNEY-GENERAL now appeared -to
show cause against the rule, and, after stating
the grounds upon which the conditional rule
was obtained, he proceeded to answer each
of them in their order. The exceptions taken
were three, first, that the ~Special Jury • had
been partially struck by the Master of the
Crown Office ; secondly, that the presiding Jtillge
overruled the defendants' challenge, to- -the
array of Jurors, and prevented certain questions
from being asked of them; and lastly, that 'a
Juror of the name of Peach was not regularly
summoned. In answer to these, the ...Learned
Attorney argued, that the Master of the. Crown
Office being the servant of the Court, nesexception
could be taken to his. nomination by the parties.
That officer was expressly empowered by the Act
of George the Second, to " select" and nominate
the Special Jury from amongst the freeholders
of the county. He then put in that officer's
affidavit, in which he. distinctly negatived his
being actuated by prejudice or partiality in his
choice of Jurors on the, present occasion. He
then proceeded to skew, that, by the uniform
practice of 'Westminster Hall, Jurors wereilet
to be asked questions, unless direct partiality was
to be imputed to them. - And lastly, as to Mr.
Peach's'not being summoned, be put in the affida-
vits of the persons who served the summonses ;
and he observed, that Mr. Peach did not say,, if
he had been regularly summoned, he would
have attended at the trial. On all these groUnds
he submitted that the Rule ought not to be made
absolute. -

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, Messrs. CLARKE
and LITTLEWOOD, followed in the same steps.
Mr. DENMAN was heard on the other side, and
all those arguments which he had urged before
to obtain the conditional rule, he now p,.peated
forsupporting it. On, a subject trite from rei)e-
tition, it was hard to add any thing new.
Mr. HILL was- about to follow Mr. DEVITAN,
but it being near four o'clock, the Court declined
giving their opinions till Monday.

PRICE OF STOCKS
THIS 1)A Y. AT TWELVE
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THE SUN•

SOLEN GUIS D.ICER L51.1.31..4111DEiT ?

LONDO,.
TIIUPSDAY, FEB R, 1, 1821.

From a Gentleman ho on
,Tuesday leftYAlris,
and arrived in town this day, we learn that two
hundred of the Royal Guards had been• put uP-
der arrest, on suspicion of having been. roncera-
ed in the atrocious attempt to destroy the Roy-al
Family:

. .
%I re received this- morning Paris Papers 1...r),)fa

the 29th u!t. iactqsive. They .coutailt

formation respecting. the horrible atteTnpt cox.- t.
nutted on .his M.:JESTY's Palace, in addition to
the particulars given hi our Pappr yesterday.
It appears that .the `explosion was produc'ed by ~
tiv.l? or six pound's of gunpomier inclosed in a

small iron-bvand barrel, which was deposit,..d
one of the Janding-places. of the wooden stair
case, whichileads to the exterior gallery oVr"
looking the garden, and communicatin2; to the
apartments of the SIIN.G. and Mvn tmr. Thv
barrel was concealed by a large basket -full of
fire-wood. The Attorney-G eneral,.the Prefect
of Police, and the KING'S Attorney, insiantly
repaired to the spot, and pro,:eedoil to take iii"
formations far the di;scovery of the airthori: or
this daring violence. It was currently IT"
ported on Monday, that three or (our wen.
employed in various works in the intrrior
of the Castle, had been arrest. J, and ,thlit
it was exrtacted their examinatico-s woald
lead to the complete detection of the whole'
Conspiracy. His MAJESTY and all the 'Royal
Family displayed the greatest firmness on 615
alarming occasion.

. „
Private letters from Naples state, that
_til°
Fsiblic mind in tbat.eapital is exclusively. °era'
pied with the great question of Peace or War..---;
The impatience of the, people is beyond rii'
betinds-;. and the :general opinion thc.re is, -that
nothing.positive respecting the Corr tress v; ill Lt.'
known until after the 20th. -The greatest.eoll"
fidence is placed in the paternal solicitude of t-l°
KINC,, but it is apprehended, that notwithstantl"
ing all, his efforts, the Revolution in the NeaP°l
litan Government will be oppose t 1 by the' Mlle(
Sovereigns, in which case war must beinevitable"
Guerillas are organizing in every part of trte
kingdom, under the direction of. Spanish and 8r..."_
tish Officers ; and a levy en masse will be fc;
sorted to in case of. necessity. geveral.of 1i
Proyinces.bave purchased a considerable nutni)'~
of volunteers, who have been regularly trainee.
Vienna Papers announce the arriva, al I gl,
Bach of . the Neapolitan Ministers, Car , „
it u I'FO and Marquess Rurro ; and 'RN° a
,it.'':-:
.(4'nglislp, French,. Russian, Prussian, and Sad'
nian Ministers. it is asserted that the KiPg °,,,,
iAPLES ordered the Duke de Gar,Lo 'not
proceed to Laybacti. .4.; .
of
Math-id Jour'nals announce the appointment
of.
General O'Deontyr., to be Captain-Generalo..
New Spain, with the prerogatives' and enolor
meats of Viceroy, and also the appointmentse
ISi 0 itrAQ7 MINA , LOPEZ 8.A.N057 ' AGU La°, th
ii ,
,EmectAN'Auo, and SAN JU4“7,
,all of them t;
companions of Generals Rinao and'Quitto(o,
~_
commands ;the most important militarcommandsin tli,-
Kingdom. .
Acconnts from Constantinople mention tlilt
fresh difficulties daily arise ' in the neoCiatiol'
between M. de Si ItAGONO7I) the Russian Musts'
ter, and 'the chief Dragoman of the PonTE• lit
-was first supposed, that the only matter ill diS:
cussion, was the interpretation of some article' :%.
the Treaty of Eucharist, which gives 13,1''''.
a great preponderating influence in the aff3b.,k's
of Moldavia and Walachia ; but it now nPre3rj,
that .several other questions' are agitated, suc L
as the passage of Russian ships of war frOr
the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, and 0411'%-,
pally the mediation offered by Russia in the t,,,
5..
pules between the Po-rte and 'the Servians.

The subjects introduced in l'arliament last
night were so fully discussed, that we have o"l.sit
to refer our Readers to the ample rel'°F
which they will find in our Paper this daP"--
The MESSAGE from THE QC; I-7.EN 11'1:3;
titer of those measures -which must have be;,
suggested by her ill-advisers. Whether,. iu
present state of the-Country,Mr.HoLviE
Amendment, proposing 30,0001. a year for be'r
111"EsTY, instead of 50,0001. ought to .have becie
rejected, we leave to the consideration of thos
Members of Opposition who are always ceos'f:i.
ing Government for extravagant expenditure, "n
..
recommending what all true friends of the o'l'l-,
try ought to support, a system of wise eeonoroJj
to reconcile with consistency and a due reg
to the national welfare.

Sir FitANcts BURDETT appeared in the co rE
of King's Bench this morning, and his case. ti',at
proceeding when our Reporter left the pia"

two o'clock.
•,rt
Miss WILSON was prevented from r,vrfornil. 7
last night, by a severe cold, attended with feV4:l7,
but her Physif;ians have no doubt of her be';;;
able to perform on Saturday.—The Lori llf
Manor was last nightsubstituted for 4rialerx"o,.
WARWICK LAKE, Esq. died yogerday 1114);,,e
ing, rather suddenly. lie had been Wisposed for '"l",te
time, hot not so as to conhne hint wit bin doors, and 0;0'
as Tiiesday afternoon, he- had called. to ply 11.15
to his Royal Highoesi Ike note of Yottut. at hi,
Stable Yard, St. Innes'sPalace.—Wtreiling N. rild

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