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London, England, 1814-07-09 00:00:00

peared from the enemy's own account, almost as severe a toss
as they might have sustained in a regular action. While en-
trusted we a large force, on a distant station, and obliged to
draw all h's stores from England or from Malta, he had made
Lis arra gemeuts with so mach economy and skill, that the
country had never had the service of so large a fleet, at such a
distance from England, at so little cost in stores, or, in what
was more valuable, men. It was highly gratifying to bins to
be able to state, that the five three-deckers that came home
the other day, were in• such perfect condition, that had the
war coninued, they were fit for any service on which it might
have been thought desirable to employ them. It was due to the
Officers serving under him to say, that in them he had found
most able substitutes, whenever he could not he present him.
self. He mentiined, in terms of the highest praise, the exer-
tions of Voce-Admiral Sir Sydney Smith, and those of Admiral
Freementle. and addei, that there was not an Officer, or a man,
iu thao fleet, who had nqt entitled himself to the gratitude of
his county.
Aft, r a trw words from Mr. FREEMANTLE and another I-Ton.
hltini.:r, the report was agreed to, and a Bill ordered to be
brought in.
e N ed Wine Bill went through a Committee, the report of
which was ordered to be received on Monday.
CITY JAILS.
Mr. HOI FORD moved that the Report of the London Jail
Bill build he postponed to Monday.
Sir W. CUR wished another day to be named, as he
cold' not attend the House on Monday, and moved as an
ansenknent, that it should be taken into further consideration
on Fuesday.
Mr. I-RiI.FORD objected to the discussion being taken on
Tuesday. If it srited the convenience of the House to put it off
irons Monday, he hoped it would be postponed to Wednesday.
Mr. Alderman C. SMITH, Mr. BATHUSST, Mr.WHITI3II LAD,
and sir J uAss tiered a few observations, after which the
galley was cleared for a division, but we understand the House
nit divide, and that the further consideration of the report
was five.l for Monday.
'the Jail Nees Abolition Bill was read a third time and passed.
PRINCESS OF WALES.
Mr. BROGDEN brought up the Report of the
Committee of the whole House on the Message of his
Royal Highness the Prince Regent, recommending
a. grant of ie50,000 per annum to her Royal Highness
the Princess of Wales.
Lord CAST LEREAQH rose to call the attention
of the House to the Letter to the Chair from her
Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, in which she
arils pleased to intimate to the House, that it would
by more satisfactory to her if the vote of the Commit-
• tee of rES i,OOO should be reduced to £35,000 a-yesr.
It was certainly his duty_ to conform to whatever was
most acceptable to her Royal Highness. He merely
wised at present to state what were the considera-
tions- which had influenced his conduct on this occa-
sio,i. He should not have thoup,ht of submitting the
preposition w!ach he made to the House, if he had
not prcviausly apprized her Royal Highness of the
measure which he had in contemplation. On the
ewet'Uoa Of the day on which he had laid the papers
connes.ted wish this subject before the House, he made
a commisiacatipn !o her Royal Highness of these
Papers, and of the cousse of proceedings which he
meant to follow. He was honoured with a reply
tru is her Royal Highness, s.a:ing her Issillingness to
:accept Site go int offered her, b:catise it was not clog-
gi..t with any inuilitications derogatory to her rights
er her iii.ntittr, aod was not an act of grace or favour
the.pirt of die Crawl), but me of mete right and
j..si ice. 'riots he lint every reason to consider this
ray sion ar having been accepted by her Royal High-
S,, bting, as she was pleased to state it, not an act
.t.,•..see or favour, but of justice. On the eveniag
aio el. sit vote took islace, he informed her that in a
clay, or two he hoped to be able to Lay the Bill before
(Ls, and unit no regulations should b: ins.Jted in it
01' a d (feting in any degree from she regula-
tons in the Resolusion cf the C .nimittee, and that as
. ,
sse was possessed of these se'Bu:ations, she could
5\ idge wile Vier they were not In every respect con-
torts) rule to lier wishes. He afterwards transmitted
io her Roy it Highness a Copy Of the Bill, framed in
coniot mitt' with the actual vote which had taken place.
hid lama honoured v ith a reply, in which her
':;oval Highness still intimated that she accepsed of
toe provision, and again stated that she considered k
not in the l4f,ht of an act of 'grace or favonr, but an
act of justice. Now what he wattle,' at present was
to be assured of what her Royal Highness's wishes
really were— (!kar, sear, .ear,) —because if this re-
nunciation of past of the safe voted to her were the
spontaneous wish of her Royal Highness, he would
led himself precluded on a principle of public duty
from voting any part of the public money to a sub-
ject who was not inclined to receive it. He must con-
ceive that the Letter to the Chair was more conch:-
live go that subject than the one to himself, because,'
while the Letter he had received was couched in ge-
neral terms, the other was special. In following his
present intention, therefore, he conceived himself to
be acting in the spirit of her Royal Highness's wishes
on the subject. If Parliament, howcirer, thought
proper, on this occasion to relax, and to agree to the
clinsinution of what it had voted as an act of justice,
he ho,.ed that no persons would be allowed, on that
account, at any future period, to revive in that House
discussions connected with the Royal Family, discus-
sions which were painful to every person in the cour.-
ss y v. ho felt a proper respect for the Royal dignit:.,
could not be sufficiently deplored by every pet-
ioss in the House. It they now receded from what
they were pleas:'d to vote to her Royal Highness as
an act of justice, he hoped they would not again hear
the questton of nn act of justice revived. He hoped
it would now be considered that every disposition bad
been s:Aten to make every arrangement in this case
consisanit with her comfort; and that Parliament
inight be relieved from all future appl cation on her
behalf. If there were any individual in the House
who could give the House more full information of
her It syal Higshness's sentiments, he could wish him
to ;ay such intormation before them. He understood
the Letter to the Chair came by the hands of an Ho.
ninrable Gtialernaii opposite. Both Letters, that to
himself, and the one ti. the Chair, were of the same
date, the sth instai.t, but the former being more ge-
nevi, he should tielnis hesitation, if he received the
assuiance os the Honourable Gentleman, opposite, that
-in so ding he was ftiltillin; the wishes of her Royal
Highness, in moving that the vote of £50,000 a-year
to tile Princess if Wales be reduced to '1235,000.
gr. WHITBREAD. had to complain of the Noble
Lord for putting an interpretatioo an the conduct of
' himself and his friends, at if the y had been the agita-
tors ctf• questions in that' House Teetcling* the
-.llsincess of W 414. • 11;116 was a Consittregon, the just
'would al-

any communication of these papers, and of his inten-
tions, the Noble Lord answered that measures had
been taken tor making that communication. The
Noble Lord did communicate the papers, and in the
Letter to her Royal Highness, he informed her that
he had made a communication of them to the House,
and that it was his intention on a future day to move
an augmentation of her allowance. To this Letter
her Royal Highness returned an answer without any
advice from himself, or any person with whom he
was in the habit of acting.
[At this time Lord CASTLEREAGH appeared to be
communicating some observations to one of' his friends
near him.]
He begged his Lordship's pardon : he did not
know whether he could flatter himself with the hope
of drawing his Lordship's attention to the statement
he was making. He would repeat part of the con-
tents of his Lordship's first letter. After stating that
he had made that evening to the House a communi-
cation of the document relating to the separation in
1809, he acquainted her that these Papers had been
referred to a Committee of the whole House, in
which it was his intention to move that her allow.
ance should be augmented to £50,000. He thought
he was correct then in his statement, that the Noble
Lord had not made any communication to her Royal
Highness, till alter the statement in that House.—
The Noble Lord had communicated correctly the
substance of her Royal Highness's first letter : the
consent and acceptance in that letter were expressed
in very general terms. When the Noble Lord sent
the Bill, a written answer was then also returned to
him. intimating also a general acquiescence in the
measure. This letter was also written by her Royal
Highness without any adviser. After that, lie had
no hesitation in saying, that when he was consulted
on the subject by her Royal Highness, he stated to
her, that the sum was disapproved of by him, as
bring larger than circumstances required—larger
than what he could consent to vote for—and larger
than what he thought the Noble Lord ought to have
proposed. Her Royal Highness did then say, that
she approved of the proposition of the Noble Lord—
but the amount of the sum had never entered into
her consideration ; she then wrote the letter to the
Chair in her own hand. He thought that too sum

01 X 35,000 a-year was amply sufficient for her situa.
tion at this time, till the period should arrive, fixed
by Act of Parliament, at which she would have to
receive £50,000 a-year. Her Royal Highness there-
tote gratefully and thankfully accepted II the thiity-
five thousand pounds a-year, as fully sufficient for
all her purposes on this occasion. However painful
any discussions on the subject of her Royal Highness
or any member of the Royal Family might be—all
he could say was, that whether the allowance should
be £50,000 or £35,000 a-year, things were precisely
in the same situation in every respect. There was
not entertained by the friends of the Princess of
Wales the slightest idea that she was less in need of
the protection of the House by receiving £50,000
A-year, than by receiving only £35,000. Her Royal
Highness had accepted the provision, on the condi-
tion that it was not derogatory to her honour ; and
whether the slim should be £5j,000 or C 35,00“, she
had not the slightest idea that the difference of the
sum made in that respect the slightes: difference in
her situation. He simuld have voted against the
£50,00H, becatee he thought that sum improper, and
he would now vote for tee £3.5,000, bee wise he con-
sidered it what the circumstances of her Royal High-
ness required.
Lord CASTLEREAGH said, that he should not
have proposed the grant of R 50,000, had lie been in-
formed that it was the wish of the Princess of Wales
that the sum should not be so considerable; but feim
the note of her Royal Highness, f.e naturally implied
directly the reverse. It was impo,sible that she
conial think, at the time lie c.imitimt:cated the inten-
ded proposal, that the vote had already beea passed
for a sum, the. whole•of which, he imagined, WAS in
i 11.52-;;;;: due to her. The Honourable Member (Mr.
Arjstbre4cl) had fairly avowed that lie had been the
adviser of her Royal Highness ; but he (L tea C
tstle-
reagh) should be sorry to find hereafter that the
counsel given had induced the Pt iecess of Wales to
adopt a different line of conduct from that which her
real feelings dictated. The design of the House Was
to give a liberal income; but if the Ptincess of Wales'
had now finally receded, on consultation, from what
his Lordship had first understood to be her sponta-
neeus and uncontrouled desire, he should most cheer-
folly accommedate the resolution to her wishes, by
alts ing the vote to R3:5,900. The same amend-
ment must also be made in the Bill. The determi-
nation of Parliament would undoubtedly make a be-
, u!ficial change in the• circumstances of her Royal
Highness; instead of being dependent upon the vo-
linuary provision allowed by Ow Prince Regent, her
income would by right be derived from the Consoli-
dated Fund, and that sum must, pro tank, form a
part of the income she would receive in case of the
' sketch of the illustrious individual now at the head of
public ff
Mr. TIERNEY observed, that an intimation hatd
been given, that a clause was to be introduced tow
the Bill to prevent her Royal Highness from intuit
ring (Hits for which the public might be liable. Alf
circumstances considered, he (Mt. Tierney) hardly
thought it delicate or prudent in the Noble Lord to
make allusions to Royal debts. Such a provision as
that suggested, might render some inquiry upon this
point necessary ; and if a discussion were to be forced
regarding the debts of the Princess of Wales, he
(Mr. Tierney) would not shrink troru his ditty, in
calling the attention of the House to the debts of
other branches of the Royal Family. His principal
object in rising was to prevent the House from run
ning away with the idea first introduced by the Ne.'
ble Lord (Castlereagh) that all the recent discussions
arose from a desire, on the part of the Princess of
Wales, to'obtain money. The truth was, that these
debates arose from circumstances which lie did not
wish to revive ; and the object of the pecuniary al-
biwance was only to recognize the Princess of Wales,
Who had been abandoned by all, as under the pro.
tection of the House of Commons—Wm'. /wail—
in her letter her Royal Highness expressly called it
"4 an extraordinary and unsolicited mark sif munifi.
cence,'' and it was not candid in the Noble Lord to
create the impression that the uniform
Princess of Wales was to extort money ;
lion bad been denied by her Royal
by all her friends. He did not set
to complain of the conduct of the Noble

Mice .•r Leh en he for one 'would always strenuously 1 cence!" ana it
cien.x.. 'Tile N,ble Lord hadaorrectly enough stated', endeivour to a
e cunt
rhuntrAttun which had taken place between.
design of the l'i
L _ . r itoye Vllighitess and himeelf.. When the Noble I such an kntenti
cord, it presenting the papers relating to her Roy'al : Highness and
Ili Mien to the tioOset was rust asked it he had made J much reooll to