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London, England, 1820-05-31 00:00:00

CIVIL LIST BILL.

The Earl of Liveaeooe moved the third read=
ing of the Civil List 13111.
Lord Werra, in pOrsuance of his notice, rose
to move an amendment in the Bill, in order to
prevent the application of any part. of the amount
of the Droits to the' purposes of the Civil List,
&c. without the consent: of Parlia-
ment having voted a specific sum for the prposes
of the Civil List, and which Bill proceeding upon
the agreement that such specific sum was the
whale amount that was necessary; he thought it
utterly inconsistent with that declared object that
the disposal of the Droits should be subject to
the discretion of the Crown. He confined his
object to this, it being his opinion that in other
respects, viz. the claims of captors of neutrals,
&c. the disposal of the Droits were best left to
the Crown, instead of being subject to the vote
of.Parliamenr. His Lord,hip concluded by mov=
ing to leave out "certain words, in order to intro-
duce others to give effect to his'arnendment.
The,Earl of Livaupooe deprecated the intro-
duction of any amendment tending to throw a
suspicion on the Crown. After the fair use that
had been made of the Droits (aiibout any per-
sonal feeling or poli.ical partiality), and after a
clause hid bten, for the firs! tiale, introduced for
the purpose of laying the accounts of these funds
aueually before Parliament, and more especially
when it was recollected that no. al ipsdation had
been made respecting these Droits in any preced-
ing reign, though the stitject must have been un-
der the cognizance of Parliament. As to the
Droits of Admit Pity, they were now nothing;
but in time of War it was of the most essential
trripertalt7e..th,c the-'I ival of them should he
e,sted being many cases of
allowances to neutrals, or even belligerents, which
it vso ud be utterly impossible to brief; before Par-
liement, but which, in some instances, might
serve to prre‘'ent a war. No case whatever had
been made out to skew that the slightest neees-
'itthrowing any Suspicion upon die
Crows, existedotii%vi forthr Suspicionegard to the distribution of these
fonds ; and as the annual account directed to he
laid before Parliament was, in fact, &complete
cheek upon any misapplication, he should there-
fore oppose the amendment.

Lord ELLRNBottOpGFI regretted that they were
not then'employed in•passing a vote of thanks for
giving up these Droits to the contruul of Parlia-
ment. He said ttLis because he wished the King
'to be the most popular man in his dominions,
convinced os he was 'that a British So'vereign
could 'only be happy in being popular. The D oits
of.Admitalty producing now little or nothing, nor
being likely to produce any thing for some years
to Come, the sacrifices would be trivial, whilst the
effect would be great upon popular opinion ; but
even were. the produce as considerable as it had
been, it would be highly desirahle to give it up,,
to. entture the good opinion of the people. He wait
aware that the allowances to eaptors, &c. ola of
this fund, wele much better left to the disposal
of the Crown, Ott to be voted by Parliament ;
all his object was, as it was that of the Amend-
ment moved by the Noble Lord, that the surplus
should on!y be applied under the cOofrout of Par-
liament. It was, in tact, quite contrary to the
principles of the Constitution, that such a sum
as might be, and had been produced by these
Droits, 'should be at the disposal of the Crown
and he must consider it a great over,ight of :he
Parliament at the commencement of the late reign
that they had so lett it. Constitutionally speak-
ing, indeed, of what tile was the controul of
Parliament over the supplies with regard to mak-
ing war, if the Sovereign had an interest in,going
to war, like a ;:irate, for the producing .a large
sum in Droits ? He should, therefore, support toe
Amendment .

The House divided on the question, that. the
words proposed to he left out stand part of the
Bill.

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Contents
Nua-Contents Piesent, IS ; Proxies, 3-21

Majority 6O
The amendment was therefore negatived.

On our re-admission, we found Lord ELLEN-
BOROUGH ,in his legs propOsing a clause similar in
effect to the amendment of Lord Datre, purport-
ing that the I)ruits should nut be applied without
the consent of Parliament, except to allowances
to captors, 4e. &c'.—Tbe clause was negatived.
An amendment was agreed to, moved by the
Eall of LimPoot., for correcting a miscalcula-
tion made in one (If the. Schechiles.

The 1;111 svaa passed, and ordered back to the
Commons for ;heir concurrence in amend-
ment.

COMMITTEE ON TRADE, &c.

On the infflion of the Marquess Or LatvinnwN,
by diccetion of the,Cominittee on Trade, tko.'se-