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i the Princess, who then declared herself perfectly sa.
tisfied with the provision made for her. He was by
no means disposed to contend that the same pecu-
niary arrangement which was then considered satis-
factory, ought pow to give complete satisfaction. If,
on account of the increased expellees of living, or
from other considerations, there should appear to be
a disposition in Parliament to peat the establishment
of her Royal Highness on a more liberal footing, he
did not hesitate to say that tie believed there would
be found no obstacle. Whatever might be the feelings''
of his Royal Highness towards her in other respects,
besets perfectly sure that it was never in his inten.
Lion to visit them upon her in what repected her pe.
enniary situation. He was perfectly convinced that
there never was a feeling in his royal mind to make
money a question between them. If his circumstances
had allowed him out of his own means to have made
her a still larger provision, he was sure that it would
be pleasing to his feelings to have done so. As he was
sot prepared to expect the precise motion thatthe Hon.
Gentleman now appeared to confine his intentions to,
he was not authorised formally to declare the sanction
Of the Crown ; but he did not hesitate to say, that he
apprehended no obstacle on the part of the Crmien to
any farther provision which Parliament might think
proper to Snake for her Royal Highness, within the
bounds of proper economy. He should Dove state,
that by the arrangement in 1809; the income of the
Princess was 417,000 per annum. The Prime,
however, finding that she was considerably in debt,
and not wishing at that time to throw an additional
pressure on the country by bringiog thorieeleinehe-
fore the consideration of Parliament, resolved to takt
those debts, amounting to 449,000. upon himself,
and also give to her an additional 45000 a year, out
of his own incoine, to prevent the necessity of her
contracting any more debts. All he required was,
an assurance that he should not be called on for any
future debts of her's ; and that if she contracted any
more which she was unable to pay, they should be
brought before the consideration of Parliament. All
this ,arrangement we; founded on the idea of al ex.
!sting separation. He should now state what was the
• income of his Royal Highness at that time. :Ir.._
meat had settled on him 4120,000 per ammo. ,
was subject to the Property-tax that reduced it to
4108,000. Front• his regard to the chnge /of his
creditors, he had. devoted £40,600 per annum of his
Income to discharge his debts. It was therefore out
of an income less than £70,000 a year that be had
agreed to make to the Princess an allowance of
417.000 per annum, which reduced his income as
'Prince of Wales to about 453,000. When he after-
wards took upon himself the payment of her debts,
be, gave up 410,000 a year more of his income
foe this purpose, leaving to himself an income of
but 443,000 yearly as Prince of Wales, and about
419,00 u from the Duchy of Cornwall.—(Near.)
—He believed that the House would consider that,
. in these circumstances, the allowing 827,000 a-year
for the Princess was a very liberal provision, and a
urger. one than almost any other husband in the
-country would have consented to. Notwithstanding
'all the calumnious reports that had been so-industn-
. .eniisliy. spread, he was perfectly convinced that his
. Royal Highness harboured no feeling of a vindictive
share,. and had no wish to disturb the enjoyment of
her social feelings.- The arrmgnent which, he had
dues-made for her minion WariDare hberaL than al-
moot any other husband would consent to niakerand
( , ...7,essetainly assigned.a greater portion of his income than
: . *would be awarded by the Corot of Chancery, or any
Court, in the case of a separation between bus-
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d and wife. He most firmly believed, that if his
Eor
al Highness had been able, out of his own means,
to increase. her allowance, without Coining to ParliA-
=tent tor the purpose, or without appearing to con.
pros** his honour, and to truckle to the clamours
. .raised against him by a cabal, that called themselves
. the friends of the Princess, it would have given him
.the greatest pleasure to have extinguished at least all
complaints oar want out of his own means It was true
• ,• that the Princess was now out of debt, as the 410,000
per annum that the Prince had assigned for the
.payment of those debts had now discharged them.
0 whee those debts, however, had been discharged,
Ibis Royal Highness thought that it was but justice to
Lis own creditors, that this £lO,OOO a-year should be
applied in aid of the fund for discharging their de-
mands. He did not see any moment of time in which
his Royal Highness could have come forward to have
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given her a larger.provision out or his own means.
If be bid so sn the midst of the clamour Which
was ' ' j Mind by those who called themselves
the friends and advocates of the Princess, his cha.
- would have been humiliated by so doing ; and
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:his.ginisters would have disgraced, if it were
-supposed that they advised him to do so. Were they
to have advised him to give money, when such an
!attack was made upon his honour ? He, for his part,
.always felt .convinced, that in Greatßritain, a country
of truth and justice, a time would arrive .when cha-
racter would triumph over all these attacks; and he
-would now say, that as far as money was concerned,
:he believed there would be no difficulty, no obstacle on,
-the riart.of the Crown, to any further provision for her
•Royal Highness that Parliament in its liberality and-
• 'its discretion should think proper. He should conjure
-the House by all the regard which they felt for that
family which had brought peace and liberty into this
country, and by all the respect which thty felt fur
shim GOT0111134:11t that had. secured to them those bles-
sings, not to be made the instruments of degrading
the royal authority, by allowing. the names of that
illustrious family to be bandied about, and dragged
before the House, in the manner it appeared to be the
.latention and wish of some persons to do. As to the
precise motion of the Honourable Gentleman, he must
object to it, as be taw no use in taking into their eon-
.sideration that letter wllicfi unfortunately bore the
• name and signature of the Princess of Woks. He did
not see any thing that could grow out of such a dis-
k:fission, except the seeds of fresh division and bitter
Hess. It was impossible for him so tar to have fore-
siva the object of the present motion, as to have come
,dawri.with sufficient authority to give theformal con-
sent of the crown : hut he had no hesitation in saying,
that it it was the feeling of the House that the situa-
tion of the Princess of Wales ought to be imprc,ved
in a pecuniary way, he had no doubt that he should
revive authority to consent to it. He was sure
that the feelings of his Royal Highness were most
liberal—and ONTO could be no- greater proof of
hthAn that in 1809, when his irritation might be
this,
the strongest, he voluntarily undutook to

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