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

ftie refrooled, Cum alie -only lEgat way iii *Lich
-such grives tizri teen made 'eves under the au-
thority of the 'Great or Privy Seal ; the grant
watch been made he considered extraordinary
tiro; ; And (saki he) if you, Lord Ashley,
-depend on as eieeption by receiving a grant
tinder the sign manual, you may live to repent
that you did so " Ile had stated thus much to.,
shov% th,at. the Cr.own
.lrad ,no property nide-
per;deot ttf -fiatliaintnt- by thd aucivut law of
Eneland, and could make no issue but in the
way which he had described. The first en-
crreiehment made on the ancient law of the hind
Was by 1111 r Pitt, io the thirty-ninth of the
ring in 1790. The King was then authorised
to drat with the property of the Crown as any in•
divi,lual would deal with his own private property.
'11,2 old ey3:.ero was completely upset by this pro-
reeding, and while Ministers talked of supporting
the (14:tiny of the Sovereign, they took a course
:tvltcli would tiat'e been regarded by Lord Claren-
don, awl by th, Lawyers and Statesmen of other
days, as little s tint of plotanation of his name.
What wonld they have said to bilk that weal to
tionottise the King not only to dispose of the
Crown Lands, but to will away all the money
coigne :imas., or all the lands he could
putt:hose wit!: it. lie was co:shied to devise, to
give. Lo enciiruhrr. to alienate, to grant to fa-
vont-ices, cvt n to enemies, and to defeat the true
policy w chi state, and pro twitu. to set the IT.ticti
of the I-louse of Commons at defiloce. This was
in a Mantic! '0 enable the ping to set Parliament
at defiance; but what would !hose to whotu he
had 'alluded have said when Ministers %.vent- a step
farther, by actually giving -nowt rs to the 'Cron n
to hold copvuolds. Ttst King tvas en ,bled
to hold an estate as a copyhold of.one of hi. fy.vo
tobjecrs. After this would they talk of maintain-
ing the dignity of he S-vereign, .nd urge this as
a reason for not going into the enqeiry which he
had suggested at the commencement of a new
rcie,n %Vitt, respect to the food in tricetion, he
did not propose to take ally thiog from it without
making the.Crowu an acteariate compensation. lu
ancient times, it was known that the revenues
at from the Crown Lands ant) other. lands,
were given to the Crown not only to provide for
the splendour of the Monarch, but to cover all
the (Weer services of the State. It was only when
circumstances made it necessary fur the Sovereign
to conic to P.lrliameot for the means of Betraying.
expetiees which the foods placed at his disposal
were not adtcplate to Meet, that this encieot
system was departed from ; he knew it had been
most useful the conntry and on these inces-
santly root niog wants on the part of the Crown,he
cot ieered all our liberties to depend. That system
of leaving the Clowo to provide for all the exi-
gences of the Suite had been gradually alien-.
dotted. The tiered 4ry revenues ~ad been merged
in the provision ronstitutionally made by Parlia•
mew, end the rev, one of the Crown was fixed
on a ditlet Mt too' lug. Jo those times to
whirls he had alluded, the provision made for
the Monarch had ow been granted for his
personal enjoymeat, but to c;,,,!fle I stn to de-
fray the expellee of certain services • eecessary to
.be perfoi riled for the benefit and secotity of the
S!ate. L-01l Coke, speaking on the subject ut
wrecks, said, the reason why that species of ro-

perry was vested in the Crown was this—that
the King was bound to keep the . tow ow seas
ckar of pirates, arid deterul lire coast.. Th!s was
also the re.ason why •the King was ell itied to
cro,vo fishes and other spccies of property known
as Droits. Mr. Justice. Crav% ley had said of
crow!, fishes, that be considered them to be too
small to belong to the King as CoNtos o! the nar•
Tow seas: What would Mr. Joo
said had he lived in our times when nothing- was
tiorught too smoll tor the Crown—when eery
thing was regarded as a Droit.from the enormous
whale down to the tail of a sturgeon ; and when
from such sources the sum of nine midions seven
hundred thousand pounds bad been gained in one
reign 2 Great changes had taken place: The
Crown tVA,_,nu logger required to clear the seas of
pj,,:tes, or defend the Cu(t,s out of its own fonds.
o.re aver another, all the :services of this sort
which the Crown had once been fleeted io
lser-
fQrrrr, had been taken tr.,l ay from it, and placed on
the shoulders of the people; and yet it bad so
happened, that when the defence of the coasts,
and the keeping the narrow sea clear orpirates,
were no knger lett to the Crown, the sum of,
Oil teen millions seven hundred thousand pounds
Lad been received as Droits in the course of a
single riign ; and this he begged to state was the
hegioniug, the middle, and end of his argument.
Aware that " great injustice often resulted from
a too rigorous pursuance of the line of :Justice,"
he did not wish to deal too severely fay the present
system. Prudence required that when a certain
state of things had been balanced in a particular
Way for ages, the system should not be overturn-
ed because the principles on wiach it had been
formed were not those which ought to have been
originally adopted. He wished nothi:ig to be
token from the Crown without making a suit-
able compensation. He wished for an ar-
rangement to take place somewhat similar to
that which had been made between the people
and a great public body, its what he regarded
as a parallel .case. It he showed that such
a course as he wished to see taken .between
the King and the People had already. been taken,
where the People and the Chalet, of England ,vele
concerned, he draught it must be admitted that
there was some solidity in his argument. It was
well known that Tithes were not originally the
pronerty of the Chinch—that they were not ap-
propriated to its own use. The Parson, or who-
ever received them, was burdened with the charge
of maintaining the poor. By degrees the Funds
taised as Tithes became insufficient to cover the
wxpence, and this was especially felt atter the
dissolution of the Monasteries in the reign of
Ilenty the• Eightlr, it was itt consequence not
tivroght right to burden the Clergy with the
maintenance of the poor acc,rding to the letter of
the law, and, the claim 011 the tithes for that pur-
pose was tacitly (anti essay tacitly), abandoned.—
iiere then was a case in point. Tire Church had
been burdened nit!) the maintenance of the poor
out of die tithes ; the Crown had been charged
will, the defence of the State, in consideration of
the hinds placed under its controtil. In both eases;
step by step, the burdens that the Church and