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Itd him to perform before. Would he be required
-to pay more on the score of liberality than Vl',3!
usitaily paid before out of the Royal purse ? The
situation of CustoS was Ct:lltd a public office, and
one of great respoosibil,ty. He would deny both.
I\!ajesty held no public office, and could not
hold one of Was the Queen
Consort capable or filing a public office) If they
said so, would it he asserted that she was respon-
sible ? It could not be asserted ; the office was not
a responsible one. It was dele2atel! by Pallb"nent
to )er '‘:lajesty for the guardianship of the King.
Gov,rnmeot provided expressly that the Costos
shonld not be responsible, for they gave him a
Council, who were to be accountable for whatever
was done. The next thing to be considered was
the. event of the duties attached to the situation.
The Custos had a Groom of the Stole wi!h 20001
a year for superintending the whole establish-
ment, who was obliged to be resident at 'Windsor.
This Officer had a Deputy equally capable with
of managing the whole concern, and of
course matteis %%ere conducted without any trouble
t;,e Custos. What then had he ro (to 3 No-
[Ho,: but to take care that the Physicians attend-
ed to their important ttust, and, if his Majesty
should recover, to cmpmunirate the event to

the • Public, to see that it should nor be coo-
t-v:11(d. He must deny that the pet formance
of tt•ese t!uties required such a autr as 10,0001.
W ell.er the office was measured by lahour
respotisibili!y, it was not worth 10,001)1. a year.
T!,t Council received no salary ; the grooms who
were dismissed begged to be retained, and offered
to pertimn their ditties witloott sal-4.y, merely
front «free:ion for the Royal Person to whom they
%vete devoted The Trustees also got no salary
W'as theft his Royal Highness the favourite son of
Isis Majos,y—was he, as Custos, tie only per•on
who vt ould not art without a salary ?—This ap-
peared a VlirltZe piece of business. It should be
sited to the boftOtn. Was it a situation ht which
his Royal IliOutess ought to he placed—sending
into that House, as it were, a hill for contingent
penees ? His Royal Highness filed another
public office that tequired all his time. lie would
beg to ask the question, w hich of them was he to
rte:ziect—vitat of Commander-in-Chief or Custos ?
lie was Hie servant of the public in a department
tl.at demanded the most unremitting attenti-n,
anti yet 10,0001. a year was now required. to draw
Litt away from he Hoist Guards, where his du.
ti-s lay. Tie Right Hon. Gentleman pressed
these points lit various ways, and concluded by
decl.ting, ft:at he should give his vote for the
amendment.

Me' CANNING cordially agreed with those Hon.
Gcntlemen who had expressed their regret that
tint- necessary course which most he taken in pre-
patine, this reduced establishment to the House,
would naturally lead to such detaik as in the Report
w inch was lyiug on the !ahle ; for he would have
been much better pleased m;ad there been the
slightes! poshility of time House at once coming
to an agreement to grant a specific sum, by which
the painful disclosure of such details would have
been spared. Rut there was a third plan now
proposed, viz, the dividing. of it into equal propor-
tions. Through the whole evening there had
been the strongest wish expressed to avoid any
general review of the proposed Establishment,
yet not one Honourable Gentleman had spoken
who had me/rained limn entering on it. This
particularly was the case with an Hun. and
Learned Gentleman who had spoken early in the
debate, whose talents and other eminent quaiifi-
cations would render him a valuable Membei' in
the House—(hear, hear !)--,-who had stated his
de•ire that every other point should he avoided,
except the specific one before the House yet
that Honourable and Learned Gentleman went
forthwith into the consideration of every imagin-
able to-pie which could by any possibility be
brought"' muter the review of Parliament during
the present Session, beginning with time distresses
of the country, and ending with the Catholic
question. Whether the spirit with which Mini-
sters had been actuated in bringing forward the
Windsor Establishment on its present reduced
scale—a scale, he must say, grating to the feel-
ings of all, shewed thek iosensibility to the pub-
lic distress, it was for the 1-louse to judge. The
House were called on now not to build, but to
pull down—(hear, bear !)—not to lay new foun-
dations, but to examine bow tar any part of the
present edifice could be taken down, with a pro-
per tegard to the safety of the whole.—lt was not
by the clamour of this town that the general feel-
ing of the country was to be estimated. From
the 100,0001. voted eight years ago by a Pariia-
ment then assembled, they proposed to reduce
50,0001. anti that reduction had been approved of
in ,',he Committee, where even the Right Hon.
Gentleman had confessed he had had Ho idea that
20,0001. a-year was necessary for the repairs of
Windsor Castle. Thus orm:y 30,0001. was left for
his Majesty. With respect to the quest;oo of the
Duke's being responsible,. he confessed he was
not able to give a legal opinion on that, but it
was obvious that the office threw on hint the
performance of some duties which were cer-
taittly responsible. The Right Honourable
Gentleman t hen at great length expatiated on
the Calls which would be made on the COS ros
by those who had shared that liberality ~which
characteiized her late Majesty. The Bill ap-
pointing the Duke to succeed his mother had
vet y properly originated with the Lords, but
though it stated no sum, it was not to be sup-
posed their Lordships intended his Royal High-
ness to hold a mere place without tee or reward.
An Honourable Member had expressed on a
former occasion something like indignation at the
determinatiou of his Royal Highness die Duke of
York riot to take the proposed allowance out of
lime Privy Purse. The delicacy of his Royal
Highness on this subject, evinced in his result'.
tiom, to relinquish all emolument, rather than
plituge his hand into the private purse of his fa-
ther, appeared to him to deserve to be regarded
with a very different feeling. But perhaps the
Honourable Member would rather have advised
his Royal Highne,s to follow 11. e old mmixim

Rem lacias; rem,
Si puss's, trete ; si nun, quocunque wutio real."
The Hight Hon. Gentleman procreded to argue
that the Prity Poise ban become by successive
Acts of Parliament Ole private property of the
litng ; and enumerated those Acts, the last of

which wn.; that of 1612. Patliament. were titere:.
fore especially bound to respect those Acts by
which his Majesty was assured of a certain in-
come in lieu of the hereditary revenue which he
had relinquished. It was nothing to him to say
that his Majesty was insensible and could not
write—that be was blind and could not see—that
he was deaf and could not hear. He (Mr.Cant►ing)
derived from those considerations no consoln.
• tion for the wrong intended hiin. lie could not
forget what his Xing had beet► in svha be was.
He could not forget that his Ila•jesty had reigned
over this country daring the greater part of that
period which was emphatically termed that of
constittrional liberty. He could not forget how
materially the unstained character, the faultless
example of his Majesty had, during a storm of
30 c•ears' duration, contributed to save the
country from exter►►al and internal danl:cr. Ile
conic! not contemplate him in his secladed con-
dition—" wisdom at one entrance quite shut
out," a venerable ruin ; scathed by Heaven's
lightning. but couset rated while blasted by the
blow ; though str!pped of his spreading branches,
still affording, the protectinv, shade of his aged
trunk—without a sentiment, which .vould not
penult him to think for a moment of touching
that f'u&d, which his Majesty's abandoment of his
hereditary revenues, and the repeated sanction of
Pa,liament, had rendered sar`red.

Alr. Si:Attu:Tr and Air. PEEL explained wl►at
tl►ey had nn a late debate.

Mr. 13RouGuAm, who was labo-ring tinder in-
disposi,ion, replied to some of the argot:lb-tits of
Caimilig, and briefly oppo:ed the grant.

'fbe why.' the numbers were--
For tlir originnl Motion 247
For the Amendment
Major in favour of the original Motion .. 110

Adjotantti at Hal;-past ()tie o'Clucis this Morn-

lug.

THEATRICAL REGISTER.
Performed Last Night.
THEATRE linvAL, Dan RY-LASE..—Maebetil : Ilacheth, Mr.
Kean Lady Macbeth, Mrs. W. West. Atter which, Arno-
ro.a. To whicii was added, The Sleeping' Draught.
TII KATRE linvsL, C vENT-GA IIDEN.—(8111 Eradhe :
Principal Characters by Mr. Young and Miss O'Neill. Af-
ter which, The Barber of Seville.