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pi ineiple of that. law; therefore. I hope, if it &odd
be thought proper to make any declaratory law
upon this fubjelt, it will have no reference to the
claims which form the fubjett of this day's debate."
Under all the circumflances of the cafe, be recom-
mended the Houle to negative the motion for the
Order of the Day, and adopt that for the appoint-
ment of a Committee, after making any neceffary
alterations in the dietion of it ; mad upon the Re-
port of that Committee the Houle would be bet-
itr able to judge what meafures the nature of the
sueftion calltd for. _

The CHANCELLOR of the Exc loyal, in expla-
nation. Ilated, that the 9c,,c001. of the revenue of
the Duchy of Cornwall, applied to the ufe of the
Civil Lift, and which had been alluded to by the
Hon. Gentleman, he, in his obfervations at the
commencement of the debate, only remarked, that
it was impoflible to afcertain precifely to what
purpofe that fum was applied, from the manner in
which the accounts of the Civil Lift were then
drawn np—a manner which had been correeted by
Mr. Burke's Bill.

The ATTORNEY Gamut raid, if the Prince of
Wales was placed in circutnftancei in which he
could not maintain the dignity of his rankhe Should
be willing to linen to an application for relief.—
But the quefiion now before the Houfe was a dry
queftion of right. He expreffed great aftonifh-
ment that it had not occurred to the Hon. Gentle-
man (Mr. Fox) and his colleagues in office. He
knew the extenfivenefs of their information and the
grafp of their underflanding, and he was Pure that
if the claim had been fuflainable, they would have
advanced it. But it had never Struck them that the
Prince of Wales, after having been maintained for
one and twenty years in all the fplendour becom-
ing his elevated rank, could at lalt call the King to
an account for all the money received for that par-
rote during his minority. The learned Gentleman
was glad that the queftion had been brought to its
true bearing, viz. whether the revenues of the
Duchy of Cornwall, granted for the fupport of
the Heir Apparent during his minority, Should
not be applied for this purpofe ? Edward 111. could
never mean that lie Should feel no exoneration by
the rich grant which he made, but that it Should
be a dry, accumulating fund. The provident in-
tentions of Edward 111. and his Parliament, for-
foods, were now to be frultrated. and the money
was to be locked up in a banker's cheSt. He did
not ant the opinion of a lawyer upon the charter,
but that of any man of common fence. InStead of
occafional fupplies the Prince had received this roy-
al appenage. From the 33d of Henry VI. he con-
tended that the contemporaneous expofition of the
Legiflature (always of great force in the law)
clearly appeared to have been that which be fup-
ported. By that it was enaaed that the Prince
Should fojourn and be at diets in the King's palace,
and that the King Should receive an account of all
the revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall. [Mr.
Erfkine called out that that As was immediately
repealed.] The Learned Gentleman maintained
that this made no difference whatever. The
Yorkifts hall gained great advantages at that tittle,
and every one at all acquainted with hiStory knew
that every thing was in the utmoSt confufion. The
repeal of the law was of no confequence whatever.
(Mord kettet from the Ottoetios Bosch.) Gentlemen
might laugh, but Purely_ no great fires could be
laid upon the repeal of a law at a time when a
nobleman walked up to the throne, and infolently
laying his hand upon it, being Wiled why he did
not pay his refpeiffs to the King? raid he did not
know who was king. There Gentlemen, he ex-
peaed, would have been peculiarly verfed in the',
hiStory of this and other troublous times. Of kw&
e 7 of Order.) As troublous times were the
molt intereSting, he did not apprehend that there
could be any thing improper in fuppofing that the
Rudy of them afforded peculiar pleafure. After
confidering the point of harry at confiderable
length, the Learned Gentleman proceeded to de-
precate the idea of the Houfe mixing with the de-
te-mination of a matter of right. This would be a
thing of the worSt omen. It had no fantion in the
pall, and would be a moll mifchievons precedent for
the future. Particularly it would lay open a wide
field for canvas and cabal, which could not poffibly
enter into the Courts of Law. The wifdom of our
anceftors had made a feparation which we would do
well not to confound. He by no means Paid that the
Prince had any comptilfory means of enforcing his
rights, fuppofing them to call. The King was
not under any controul, and could not be called
to account. When a petition of right was prefented
to the Chancellor, although be decreed for the pe-
titioner, if jultice was Still raided him, he had no
remedy. This was on account oldie peculiar fitua-
tion of the Sovereign, in whom great confidence
was placed, and whom it might be dangerous to
fubjea to any legal procefs. Although the Honk
were to go beyond their conStitutional competence,
and entertain this queStion, they would do fo to no
purpofe. It bad been thewn clearly that the mo-
ney advanced to the Prince of Wales during his
minority, exceeded all his revenues, and that no
balance was due to him. The Houfe had declared
general warrants to be illegal, but that was a mere
abitraa queStion, and bore no refemblance to a
queStion of civil right, touching the property of
individuals. He thought it would be highly un-
becoming in the Houle to obtrude its mediation
between the father and the fon. It would be irre-
verent to the Sovereign, and detrimental to the
State. It was not pretended that thefe revenues
had been in any degree mifapplied or mifmanaged.
The elegant accompliffiments and fplendid endow-
ments of the Prince, (hewed that he had expe-
rienced the higheSt degree Of parental care, libe-
rality, and attention. This was a delicate ground,
but he had been thruft upon it. After a few more
obfervations,the Learned Gentleman concluded by
giving his hearty vote for the Order of the Day.
Mr. Fox explained.
Mr. Theatre raid this was not a queflion be-
tween the Prince and the King, but between the
Prince .nd the Public t and the money part of thz
tranfattion came to this, that in confecoience of
the revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall having
come to the Civil Lift, the public had fo much lea
to pay for the debt of the Civil Lift. 'this was
very far from being a judicial proceeding; it