Star.
London, England, 1814-06-24 00:00:00

mml4 he ( Lord Castlereagh) describe that system,
which in a moment of wide-spreading joy, left her
Mal Highness the only mourner in the country
e was now without a father, who had nobly
fallen in the field, in the early progress of those
achievements which had now so happily termi.
tutted; and though* in'the midst of his companions
in arms, and in the same city with her nearest ?vb.
tins, all the consolations of their intercourse were
withheld, and she alone in the community was con-
signed to solitude and misery.—(Hear, hear.)-
-It was in vain, therefore, to assert that persecution
was all at one side ; the country would not view ir in
that light, nor would they consent that the Princess
of Wales should be deprived of those rights which
legitimately belonged to her. With reference to the
impression which the statement of the Prince Re-
gent's payment of her Royal Highness's debts. was
meant to convey, he ( Mr. Whitbread) meant to say
little, it was far from his wish to impcach the gene-
rosity of his Royal Highness ; but he could not re-
frain from thinking the credit of this transaction
came rather with less grace, when it was consider.
that the Prince of Wales himself had t xiee aulled to
Parliament for pecuniary grants of his o:: a, and
those not for the purposes of encreasinz t!, It splen-
dour so justly the attribute of royalty—during a pe-
riod whilst from year to year the esoence of the civil
list WA!! annually.augmented. The Princess of Wales
received no addition, at a time when the Public
connived at extravagant repetitious which met
the eye in every direction for purposes of general
festivity. Her Royal Highness alone was stinted
in her expenditure.—(Heor, hear.)—lf the Princess
had once, owing to the want of due calculation,'
incurred any extra debts, she profited by experi-
ence, she retrenched her expences, and met the
growing necessity of the times.—(Hear, leaf. )
She was enabled in some degree to accomplish this
creditable purpose by theaffectitinateliberalityof some
of her servants, who had refused to take salaries ;';and,
through a well regulated system, it now appeared her
Royal Highness was not a single farthing in debt or
in .arrear--(Hear, hear.) Can any of the Royal Fa-
mily present a higher or more creditable display ?
The Noble Lord had vehemently deprecated any in-
terference with those august branches of the State ;
he would however tell him, that as their conduct af-
fected all, so it was competent that it should be sub-
ject to the jurisdiction which presided over all. It was
particularly time for Parliament to inquire into a sub-
ject which had been already publicly announced by
she Sovereign Prince of the Netherlands as well as
in the Princess of Wales's Letter to the House ; it
%ins full time to know, whether the circumstance
to which he alluded was so far matured as to be
presented for the consideration of Parliament, even
it the present late period of the Session ?—(Hear.)
,for his own part,-he much feared that this desirable
uegociation was at an end, and it would not do to
tell the pubic with an ambiguous air of authority,
that. the rupture had no connection with the.other cir-
cumstances before the public ; his own firm persua-
sion was, that the match had terminated on account
of the peculiar situation in which the Princess of
Wales was placed in the country ; and from hence
arose the great political importance attendant upon a
matter with which, they were gravely told, the nation
bad no right to interfere.—(Near.) It was impossible
tti separate those persiinages from porsticaVraistenee.;
It was true, no man in private life could be exposed,
to this ordeal ; bnt the Royal Family were the pro-
, peaty of the nation. Private affairs are not thus
obtruded, nor if they were could they have any ope-
ration beyond their own sphere. When speaking of
the Royal Family, he could not avoid adverting to
what had fallen from the Noble Lord, who had de-
scribed the House of Brunswick as the fountain of
British liberties... The liberties of this country were
established before that family had existence ( Hear.)'
—They were called to the throne of these realms
after its constitution had been fenced round and fully
established.—(Hear, hear.)—The Noble Lerd's his-
torical information should have prompted a more cot.-
' rect exposition of the rise and progress of British
rights. If dissatisfaction, as it is said, must ever
follow the agitation of questions like the present, on
the heads of those who provoke such discussions be
the responsibility of their introduction.— (Hear, hear.)
It did not become the Noble Lord, if he remembered
the support and confidence which he received both
within and without doors, during and preceding the
late negociations—if he also felt the applause with
which his opponents united in hailing his first en.
trance into the House after his return—it did n ij
he would say, become the Noble Lord to proclaim
in one moment that to be a manifestation of ca-
bal which, in another, would be imputable to a
more genercius impulse.—(Hear, hear.) Those feel.
ings without doors, which the Noble Lord in the
present instance so loudly assailed, should, as they
were the most indicative as well as the most inno-
cent, bt at least tolerated when they appeared not
quite so cordial as were sometimes to be wished for
by the servants of the public. If the Noble Lord
would recal to iris mind the length of time he conti-
nued colleague of a Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr.
Perceval ) who had taken a decided part and assumed
a peremptory tone-upon the affairs of her Royal High-
,nessi.and also the cordiality which existed, and had
stet Right Hon. Ger.tleman lived might .still have
existed between them, he (I.ord Castlereagh) must
see the inconsistency of arraigning persons who were in
this question merely pursuing the course Which that
Right Hon. Gentleman had vigorously planned.-
-Mr. Whitbread continued-44 I remember that a
Right Honourable Gentleman, whom I lament that I
do not now see in his place,and whose advice we should
'have all been glad to receive (Mr. Canning), on a for-
mer Occasion, when it was said that the time might
.hereafter come, when it would be necessary to make
some Parliamentary provision, reproached the Noble
Lord with not having made an adequate provision for
the Princess of Wales on the establishment of the
Regency. Why, I ask again, did not the Noble
Lord then advise it ? Was not that an opportunity ?
Why did be not avail himself cf it, especially if he
knew that the separation between the Prince and
Princess of Wales was fiaal, conclusive, and irreme-
diable ? The Noble Lord had said a great deal to
prove,the impossibility of these Royal Personeges ever
re-uniting ; that an insuperable barrier is raised : we
cannot but lament the fact, but it is nut what the
country desires or demands: it is not for that pur-
pose that the House of Commons interferes—no ques-
tions of this nature would ever have been brought