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a 3 stun from time Droits amounting to 4342,-000,
As 'IOW atthe disposal of the Crown. He had
~,e I that his Majesty's Ministers would have
ted him the trouble of this motion, by recom-
.ei;:oig to the Crown to appropriate from the
wits a sum equal to the annuity granted to the
lake of Brunswick. He was particularly led to
:5 hope, from the recollection of the small majo-
ity
which the Minister had on the last occasion
in which he had brought this subject before the
House. Wlien entering upon this question, on
which he intended to be as brief as possible, he must
urticularly guard himself against any disrespect to
le Duke of Brunswick, whose rank and misfortunes
id entitle him to some provision from this country.
This provision no one in the House was inclined to
!fuse. The only question was, whether his Majesty
possessed the means to make this provision, without
*piling to Parliament ? Those means, he contend-
3, were to be found in the Droits of Admiralty.
Vits be even to say they were to be found in the
:ivil List itself, perhaps he could not be contradic-
.j. He was the more inclined to this, supposition
tom contemplating the great increase which had
Bern made to that fund within the last six years—an
increase amounting to no less a sum than JE200,000.
There was, however, no occasion to apply to this fund
then there remained so much (lithe Admiralty droits
unvoied. A better application could not be made
of them than that which he now proposed. They had
yeen applied- similarlrbefore, as in grants to
he Duke of Cumberland and others ; and surely a
rant from them to so near a relation to his Majesty
the Duke of Brunswick could not be with propriety
•leseti. His motion went to have- the sum of
:70.000 paid into the Consolidated Fund, in order to
lake up for the annuity zhargeable to the Duke of
linswick. He concluded by moving
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That an humble Address should be presented to his Majesty,
,resenting that that House bad complied with his gracious tiles-
;e to unite a provision for his Royal Highness the Duke of
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,unswick, and had granted 'CUM'S per annum, chargeable on
r consolidated fund, for that purpose. That it appeared to that
ouse, that so large a sum as ,81142,000 now remained at the
trosal of his Majesty, and that they could not avoid expressing
At surprise and regret that his Majesty should have been ad-
;ed to make any application to Parliament when such a fund
rained a: the disposal of the Crown ; that they begged to call
INfajesty's paternal attention to the heavy and unprecedented
-dens imposed upon the pecr:leiu Consequence of the war with

ance ; and to declare, that while they were ever anxious to
;ppurt the splendour and sectulty of the Throne, they also con-
dered a duty not unnecessarily to increase the burdens of the
:ultry. They, therefore, prayed his Majesty to pay into the
'ousslidated Fund, from the Droits of tke Admiralty, a sum
;nal to the annuity granted to his Royal Highness the Duke of

Brunswick."
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
-As of opinion, that even if the fund alluded to
c)tild be considered adequatotO-the *sent demand,

et that Still such demand ought not in au address to

is Majesty to be connected with any grant made to
he alke of Brunswick. •He hopekl that an inspec-
t.in of the application of that fund would serve to
';era the House, that there was no reason whatever
/or, in terms of reproach, insinuating to his Majesty,
that he had been unmindful of the burthens of his
people. When the House examined how that fund
had been employed during the war, be was confident
there would be found no ground for any such re-
proach, and that the House would not now, when
for the first time they had the account before them,
condemn its application. There was no reason for
the Right Hon. Gentleman to conclude from the
small majority on a former occasion, that Ministers
should by any concession have obviated the necessity
of the present motion. The House came to the
question now under very different feelings; the ac-
count was nnw before them. They bad formerly
only loose, floating report.% that a fund to the amount
of some m;llions was in the possession of the Crown,
and that it became the house to view this fund with
2 jealous eye, and carefully abridge it. The case
vu now quite reversed : they could examine and be-
hold the provident application of this money, and all
cause for jealousy would vanish in consequence. The'
Right Hon. Gentleman here went into a distinct
enumeration of every item of a very voluminous ac-
count, together with a description of every appropri-
ition which had been made from this fond during
various preceding Administrations, and justified his
:onduct by their example ; an example, however, in
his respect, which he meant to quote rather as laud-
tole than with a view to recriminate. It had been
aid that this annuity might have even been made
chargeable en the civil list. He was very sorry to
obliged to refute this assertion. So far from that
and being now in a flourishing state, it was abso-
Aitely unable to defray its incidental eapentes. When
the last Administration came into office' they.found
debt on the civil list, and had applied from one fund
£190,000, and from another fund, the Scotch revenue,
£30,000, in order to liquidate it, and relieve any
other pressure on it accruable in their Govern-
ment. There was no blame to be attached to them
for this. Whether it was from some original defici.
acy in the amount, or from the increase of eipences
%ice that time, the Civil'List was not only in debt
now to the amount of €170,000, but was incurring
4 quarterly expenditure of £30,000 above its receipts I
It was manifest from this that this fund could not
answer any demand of annuity. With respect to the
Droits of Admiralty there were varions•expences to
*hich much of it must now be appropriated ; he in-
stanced the rebuilding of St. James's Palace, and the
Payment of a sum of money in consequence of a case
,;f peculiar hardship of improper capture. It was
frr,rn these considerations his full opinion that no ap-
Pl,mtitin of any part of this fund to the public service
could be made at present, and that to agree in the
Proposed address would be cluing a reproach to his
Majesty.
Mr. FREEMANTLE was of opinion, that the
greatest objections existed to the grant of any annuity•
hOM the Consolidated Fund. During the last 'Ad-
ministration preparations were made to limit the ex-
penditure of the Civil List to its receipts ; and he
!as therefore now by no means disposed. to agree with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the supposition of
any original deficiency in that Fend. It might be
said the Civil List was increasing in its expenditure,
as also were the Droits of Admiralty increasing in
"or receipts ; and he could not see why a portion of
dose Droits could not even be applied to the pay-
ment of the annuity till they were' wanted for the pur-
rhises which had been described. This would ease
e Consolidated Fund, without. in any degree •dimi.
'tithing the Drohs.
Mr. ROSE said that with respect to any suspicions
as to the expenses of the Civil List,, nothing iii the