The Sun.
London, England, 1821-06-09 00:00:00

I-MORNING CHRONI CLE.]

The proceedings in the House of Commons last
night on the subject of the. Grant to the Duke of
Clarence, are highly deserving of attention. • We

imagined, in common we dare say with most of
our readeri; when Lord Londonderry gave
notice of his intention to propose this Grant, that
he meant to propose it only for the time to
come. It. is true, when the House three years ago
added 6,000/. to the incomes of the Dukes of Kent
and Cambridge, they were ready to make a si-
milar addition to the income of the Duke 'of
Clarence ; but his Royal Highness, for reasons
best known to himself and his advisers, thought
proper to decline this bounty of the House.
We were, therefore, not a little surprised to hear
Lord Londonderry claim the provision which was
formerly declined, not merely for the time to
come, but for the interval which has elapsed from
the refusal to the present day. We do not mean
to say that his Royal Highness should not be
allowed to change any rash determination which
he may have come to on the subject. If his
Royal Highness had even announced such a
change of determination immediately after his
refusal, it would no doubt have betrayed great
irresolution ; but we are not prepared to say that
the House should not have been ready to accede
to his wishes. But till he announced this change
of determination we do not see how he could con-
sider himself as having a claim on the country.
But it is really too much, having thus refused
to accept of the bounty of the House, without
ever giving the least sign of any alteration in his
sentiments, to come now forward with a claim for
the arrears since 1818. We are equally asto-
nished that Ministers should think of supporting
such a claim. If his Royal Highness had chosen
to hold out for 20 or 30 years, the nation might
on this principle have owed him a heavy bill,
without once suspectin it.

[THE TIMES.]
Our Journal of yesterday presented a counter
affidavit by Mr. King, to that of the boy Orton,
published the day before, on the sale of 64 The
Political Diaionary," -- a work that cannot
have done •great mischief in Society, whatever
may be its opinions, as we whose duty it is to live
in the vortex of politics never heard of it till it
has now been called into notice, and of course stu-
pidly offered to more general attention. Mr.
Orton—if we are to honour that youth with the
appellation cf Mister; as we observe that Mini-
sters always speak of persons engaged in the same
respectable calling in which he is bringing np in that
respectful manner—Mr. Oliver, Mr. Edwards ;
some of them have got aliases also to their
names, as Mr. Franklin, alias Mr. Fletcher ; and
perhaps-it would have been as well if the Man
chester gentleman, who is said to have been Ga-
zetted oftener than once, had somewhat altered
his designation;—Mr. Orton then, swears, that
he did not press Mr. King to procure him the
other parts of the Dictionary, but that King him-
self officiously pressed himself forward to under-
take the office, Orton only wishing to know the
publisher's name. This Mr. King flatly de-
nies ; and we have oath against oath ; but, as is
justly observed by an Evening Paper, the impro-
bability of Orton's story at once convicts its author;
for why should he call for the publisher's name,
when he had it already upon the first part of the
work purchased the day before And further, it
is very singular, not to say incredible, that King
should be so zealous in undertaking to procure
the work for Orton, and so remiss in the execu-
tion" of the undertaking ; for it appears that
when Orton went at the time appointed to get
the work, it was not forthcoming, nor did he ob-
tain it at last till the evening.

Sittings appointed iu 'Middlesex and London,
before the Right Hon. Sir ROESEPT DALLAS; Kra., Lord
Chief Justice of his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, at
Westminster, in and after Trinity Term, 1821 :—•

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