The Sun.
London, England, 1820-05-06 00:00:00

Crotr-o Led tei elialaila heti been reit:woe4. the
Church had alt tonsetpieece made an erreugement
with the nntiiiti; by *fah for a just compensation
it gave up what /,t had Used to claim ; and what he
would now .propose was, that' a similar course
shieuld be taken with respect to the Crown. Heel
would propose such a compensation for any thing •
Aitken from the Crown, as should be fair and res.:
imitable towards the Monarcheand consistent with
the means, and with the existing burdens of the
people. 1-low this was Co be done, or to what
amount, or in what way the details of the plan
should he arranged, were questions on which he
would not now trouble the House ; as at present
his only object was prevail upon them to cons
sent to some general arrangement, like. that which
he had suggested. He perhaps unlit to state,
what he thought every one acquainted with the
Civil List most admit, •hat a worse arrangerftent
than the present, and one more difficult to be un-
derstood, could hardly be devised ; and the mode
in which he world propose that it should be ad-
justed for the time to come would add to the real !
comfort and dignity of the Crown. Soppose any
man, not versed in these matters, should inquire
whet annual sum was set apart for the King of Eng-
feed ) A person, not a Member of that Ijiusse, ur
a financier, could hardly answer that (pest ioe
in half en home It could at once be toll
what was the revenue of the King of France,
what the provision snaule for the Preetdeet of the
United States Of America, and what eves formerly
the income of the Dutch Sted:holder ; but wilat
was leeched by the British i\lotterch for tl,e sap-
purr of his Crown and dignity, no man who was
not an adept in finance conid tell. Fatal, at
least very iejerioustesults, had occurred in coe-
seqeence of rhii complexity, and mistakes and
mismanagement 'still more fatal could be traced to
the saute source. Ise w‘eild give an instance of
both, and "it would then be for the Mouse 0► de-
termine how far it would he expedient to adhere
'o the old confesed and Gothic arrangenont
11Then Vine wrote hie book, he described the
King of England to be the mast expeesive ()dicer
io Europe, as hue received eight or nine hundred
thousetid pounds per annum fur doing what lie
(Paine) would engage to fi,el an able-hodied man
to do for 5001. a-year. The evil of this tees, that
though many might disapprove of Peiee's cor•
reel nesse and • charge him with overstating the
facts, yet it was not easy '0 prove, wilco he
stated the incotne of the Sovereign to be from
500,0001. to 1 ,000,00 W. per :minim, that lie ad.
vanced that which was not true. Suppose some
one to Say " How Pelee misrepresents things!"
what would be Ole answer ) It would be replied
that the Red-Book showed such sums to be an•
totally voted foe the Civil List. " Oh!" the first
might say " hut there sire other things included
in that besides the maintenance of the Sovereign.
anti the Royal family." " Whitt are they his
antagenito would ask, and there the other would
he stooped, for 130 one but the Chancellor of the
Exchequer (who was not likely to be engaged in
any such dialogue). could give a proper. answer.
He did not even know that the Right Honour-
able Gentleman could answer it. some mie,ht
he able to do so, hitt it was cot one in a !hots-
sand—not one in nee hundred thonsatol„ that
could, so as to prove the falsehood of the at at etneut
in a satisfactory manner. The wording of the Ci-
vil List Act he thooglit very exceptionable, 'lt was
intided " An Art for the better supeorting his
Majesty's hoesehold, and the honour anti dignity
of the Crown." This made against this party
who might be disposed to ansoer Paine ; and
looking at this, it was ndt ease to deny on the
instant what he had advanced. tie, as one of the.
Ministers of the Crown—of the friends to the dig.
nity, and of the advocates for the tights of the
Sovereign, wetild ask was this giving him fair
play, when the little he received (for it was but
little compared with the aggregate of the sums
connected with it) teas thus mixed up with the
salaries given to his Judges, his Secretaries, his
Chancellor of the Exchequer, his Foreign Minis-
ters, and many other Officers, together with con-
tingent expences, and charges which it wroth! be
beneath the dignity of the sithject to name—he
put it to them if they dish not shake the dimity of
their Sovereign, by Otos connecting him with
such an arrangeMent But, perhaps, he should
be told that it was necessary that the old myste-
' riont course should. go on. He would, however,
ask them, it they would tint prefer knowing the
charges'-el--their baker, their buieher, Bte.,. the
'profits-ov tosses of their farms—in a word, if they
would not prefer being enabled to see dietinctly
what they gained or lust, to having the whole
tidied fogether she ildvice of the Chancel-
her of the Exchequer real, not to separate the
parts of the Civilthat List, so the whole might
be easily understood ; but to jemble the whole
together, so that it should require an able finan-
cier to tell what was paid for one till-rot, anti what
for another. But then it was said, that the dig-
nity of the Crown required that the Severeign
should not he paid like any other Officer in the
State. He,. however, was ofopinion, that, the popu-
larity of a new arrangement ought to be set against
its want tat dignity ; and this reflection, he hoped,
would induce them to give up the Gothic system
at present established. Bust what dignity would
be compromised by the course which he lied pro-
pwed / \Vas it a greater insult to the King that
he should be paid largely, haedsomely, and cheer-
fully by his people, in the conviction that their
destiny was u inseparably bound op with his, by a
grant from the Consolidated Fund, than that he
should be mixed up with his officers, as he was at
present, in the Civil List The Chancellor oJ the
Exchequer seemed to think that in obscurity there
must be something sublime; but its a prying age
like this it would be thought that the 1140.fialetes
dignity was (rite as mut it constilted by making
him a grant from the Consolidated Fund, as by
giving him a peony on » gallon of tile, or a half-
penny on a gallon of whiskey. Yet by this our
ancestors had not meant to iosult their Monarchs,
nor had he felt himself degraded. lie slow came
to consider the mismanagement of the Civil List.
The Princes of the ltoyel received their
allowance's partly from one fund apd pertly front
another. The Sovereigns himself had been re-
commended by a Committee of that flohse, in-
stead of goiug to other tends for it, to take a
whole 100,0001, out of the Consolidated Fund.
They had thuugh.t it oo degradation to their 6u•