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

allow, out of his own income, a much larger sum
than had been agreed upon at the arrangement of the
act of separation. If an increased allowance had not
been made at an earlier period, it was because the
conduct of those who called themselves the friends
and advocates of the Princess had made it impossible
that he should propose it ; but now, if Parliament
should think it proper that she should have an in-
creased allowance, he believed that when that tines.
tion should come on, he would be prepared to con-
sent to such an arrangement.
Mr. METHUEN, in explanation, said, that the
Noble Lord had entirely mistaken his meaning,.if be
supposed that he had intended entirely to give up the
claims of the Princess as to her right of being received
at the Drawing-room. After what had fallen, how-
ever, from the Noble Lord, he'should at present feel
inclined to withdraw his motion. •
Mr. WHITBREAD said, that before be could
COM* to the motion being withdrawn, he found it
impossible •to avoid making some reply to many of
the observations which had fallen from the Noble
Lord. He thoUght that the Noble Lord had not
done justice to the Prince Regent, to the Parliament,
or to the people of this country, when he was pleased
to describe the general feeling which- was every where
displayed, as merely the effect of a cabal (Hear, hear.)
When Imbed spoken of the friends and advisers of
her Royal flightless, he had pretty plainly charged
them with entertaining views and objects which they
did not think proper to bring forward; and that all
their machinations bniae for the real purpose of ob-
baistiag money. For his own part. he utterly dis-
Ataitned having ever had seth.. an ofiect. On they
part of the Princess of Wales, he could also, in ,the
most pointed manner, repeat the same disavowal.—
With the motion now before the House' he had no
previous concurrence; but he presumed k sprung
from the same motives which actuated himself and
ethers in the progress of those painful events, namely,
an eager and open desire to vindicate the honour and
the innocence of an illustrious female from mean and
unmanly persecution— (Hear, hear.) The Princess of
'Moles. required justice, not money—(Loral crier of
Aker, hear.) She" would not barter for rights, or
reeespmise her character for any income the Noble
could
Los d could propose—(Load cries of Hear, heart )
Here-he could 'nut refrain from expressing his asto-'
nishment et the doctrine laid down by the Noble
Lord, that the Sovereign, uncontrolled by his Minis-,
ten, could use the public drawing-room as his pre.
vate chamber, and there either receive or not receive,
and in whatever manner he pleased, such persons as
thought fit to notify their approach: Against such a
doctrine be (Mr. Whitbread) would enter his protest.
He knew of no public situation in which the Sove-
reign stood without a responsible adviser. He was
the more surprised at this opinion having been broadly
stated to the Howie, when he neolleettd that the
Noble Lord (Castlereagh), in conjunction with the
other Members of the Cabinet, had fors sally made a
minute of Council, recording tbe innocence of the
Princess of Wales, and had offiemlla advised the King
to receive her Royal Highness again in public life.—
(Hear, those same advisers now mean to
renounce, in the concerns of the Prince, that line of
proceeding which they felt it their duty to adopt
.in
the Cabinet of the King ?—(Hear).—There was ano-
ther part of the Noble Lord's speech to which it was
At he should advert, he alluded to the questions oi'
this subject which had more than once paseedta_tbe_,
-House, and which were characterised in Rims of
great asperity. Did not the Noble Lord recollect how
these questions were imposed from the necessity of
the case ? Did lie forget how he himself, from inky;
oration arising out of this mode of inter-communica-
-tiOn in that House, bad rescued the Princess of Wales
from the grasp of a cabal formed against her honour
and life ?—(Hear, hear.)—Did he forget, or was the
country deceived as to the fact which redounded so
much to the honour of the Noble Lord—that he had
felt it his duty to tender his resignation to his Sove-
reign if those dark proceedings were not discontinued,
and if a conspiracy then pending against her Royal
Highness was not instantly relinquished ? (Hear,
hear.) And when the Noble Lord also talked of the
licence of the press, did he forget the manifold at.
tacks which that engine was made to level upon the
character of the. Pi incess of Wales in her-moments of
calumny and rrii• fortune, at those moments when his
(Lord Castlereagh's) interposition had the merit of
rescuing her from the hidden machinations which
Were then unauthentitally contemplated ? At that
period of her Royal Highness's afflictiOns, whea de-
serted by.her old It lends who slimed themselves un-
worthy of that name, it was not surprising, in
her secluded state, if she was approached by persons
who also proved unworthy of her acquantance.
was, however, unfair and cruel to visit upon her the
misdeeds of others, and to do that in her case. which
the justice of the country forbade in that of aay other
iodividualinthe realm. (Hear.) Her Royal Highness
prospectlia3 10 uF a termination of indirant priva-
tions ; her rights in every quarter were withdrawn or
denied ; she was not, it appeared, cobs present at the
marriage of an only child. Her Royal Highness
sVal then the only person in the kingdom who stood
open to persecutioo, and who was to remain wholly
without a protector. Amid these scenes it was gra.
tifying to contetnpl.ite the various blessings which at•
tend that public discussion which the Noble Lord now.
decries. To it alone' the safety and existence of the
Princess of Wales was attributable.—(Hear, hear).—
To himself it was ever a matter of proud satisfaction,
that by an open communication in his place, he had•
put the Noble Lied in possession of the existence of
the cabal to which he bad already and folly alluded.
Was it fair or pi oper, therefore, that he, (Mr. Whit.
thread) should be told, in a plain and unqualified
sense, that the object of the Princess of Wales, as;
-well as of her friends, was to extort money under thu
repeated statements. not one of which had been io
any way disproved.—(Hear, hear). —The fact was
'the reverse—money was never their object. Money
What sum, he would ask, could be tendered as n
compensation for her Royal Highness's endurance
during the last tea days ? Pecuniary recompence
under such circumstance was worthless. When the
Noble Lord talked of a vindictive spirit being afloat
'in this country, and being actively and factiously
directed against a particular Personage, 'how would
designate that tacit interference which prevented
the nearest and oldest of the illustrious acquaintances
Ad her Royal Highness from the intercourse which it
was but natural she should have held with them in
their visit to this country ?—(Hear, hear.)—Haw