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London, England, 1816-05-07 00:00:00

.were none, for the Cottage in Windsor Park In,
a regular residences and Brighton was his ptil
property. As to the Board of Works he felt
jealousy, as it was under the contrail of Pattie%
He trusted he had shewn, that were a full invees,
tion to take place, something of considerable imp,
tance might be saved. Why should there be at peat
two establishments—one for his Majesty and nne
the Prince Regent ? There were too many Public 01
cers. Were not the Lords of the Bed-chamber tail
Majesty Lolders of mere sinecures, and rh,seaf 6
Royal Highness the Prince Regent ne:irly the vane,
As to the regulation!: of the expenses of the Civil 4
in the Report of the Committee of last year, hey;
a warrant in which hi; Royal Highness r commit,
ded, or rather ordered the three Commissionevii
ready flamed to lay before the Lords of the Treaseri
at the beginning of each quarter, accounts of they
panes to be incurred, and at the end of the samt
quarter accounts of those which had really been
=red. This had taken place for a time. But from,
October toliouary 1816 no Ruh estimate had beat
given. Some proposal was understood to have beat
made to the Treasury, of which they did not approve,
and in consequence Lord Hertford bad refuted to
give in Ins estunate. The Treasury were going is
appoint a person with power to examine Lord Rem

ford and others on path ; but why should such a per,
son be wortity of more confidence than any other,
since
.he would be like the rest, a servant of the Cron:
A Minute of the Treasury, dated the 23j ot Febru.
ary, revealed the subject .4 that dispute, and the real
nature of Lord Hertford's application. He seethed
to have asked, that Brighton having been Atka 10
in point of building, land, and furniture, the 4
pease should be detrayed out of the Civil List".
The Treasury had refused, but at last came to thu
compromise, to apply, or rather to lainpply, tae
Droits of Admiralty to that purpose. He theii real
the Minute, directing that the deficiency ot Cita
List be paid out of the Droits of Admiralty. when
£534,000 had been paid last year, at that very slo.j
meat there were £493,000 in Droits of the Admit

ralty in the hands of the Crown Why not app;
them at the time, or at,,leest M them against the d
ficiency of £277,000 this year P The Earl of Live
pool and the Chancellor of the Exchequer had it
'presented to the Board, that the Prince Regu
having made great additions to his residence a
Brighton, which Was private property, they emcee
opinion, that an aid of twenty thousand poundsshon:l
be granted him, towards coveting those expenses,l4
of the Droits of the Admiralty. The vane states
man had t.commended a grant of fifty thousand
pounds out of the sante fund, to pay for tl:e ford
ture of the r...idence AL Brighton, which they stip..
lated should be-furniture of the Crown —(Heer,hter4
1870,000 came to light, as the result of that's
timate, which was wanting. The Droits of Atli*
Iralty were public money—(Nent, heer)—tor thong!
the Crown had the first disposal of them, yet tit
Crown must live an account to the Country (if 6
'manner in which they were employed. C'&d sw
one suppose that fifty thousand pounds worth of Is
niture could be wanted at Brighton? Out of the
£e4.93,000 : Droits of the Admiralty, a balance si
Icnly £207,U •• I remained. If the fifty theusend pounds
and tweray Oic es sod were deducted from it, then
would Le only .ut £140,000; and it wouldleo
trebly be urgzd that a considerable sum must be kit
to guard against the claims of captors. Thee, how
ever, must 'diminish every day. He once more urged
the propriety of 4ppiiir.tiLg 4 ;tree. and givingit
power to examine pers:ms and send for ..ocumeets,and
he trusted that the votes ce his siJe would be numerous.
The Right l'l nourable Gentleman contended, that
the bringing forward of ,the question its this way was
the means of bringing the Crown into disrespect..
They asserted that nothing was so insulting to the
,public as any discussion on the Civil List, and there.
tore they stopped the expenditure from being knows.
There could be no objection to a Committee Was
appointed to examine into all those details; he did net
ish to have the Crown degraded in the eyes of Jet.
rope ; but the way of paying tradesmen's debts cm
like sliewing to all Europe that the Prince Repot
was a person not fit to be trusted with the disburse.
ment of his owls money, from the indiscretions he had
connaitted. If he (Mr. Tierney) had moved to
such a Committee, he would be held up es a Jacohis,
labouring to vilify the person and character of the
Prince. It could not but be remembered that
Royal Highness felt extremely sore at the conducts
Mr. Pitt, for holding him up, when a young man,
as a person net fit to be trusted with money, and
the same feeling might well be supposed to indurate
him now,. under similar circumstances. (ilear,hear.)
On the whole he could only rejoice that steps were
likely to be taken for keeping the expenses of the
Civil List within bounds; for it had always hip.
posed, that whenever Parliament had made liberal
advances for this. branch of expenditure, this very
liberality had been made a pretence for asking for
.something more. But at this moment the county
had every claim on the House for putting iii practice
all possible economy, `and no means should be left
untried to shew the people th it it deserved their con.
fidence. lie concluded with declaring that he should
not have thought he had discharged his dety, it he
had refrained front saying all that had fallen from
hint on this subject; and moved o That a • Sprit
Committee be appointed to take into consideration the
several accounts relating to the Civil List, with pow
to send for and examine persons and pipers theme
Lord CASTLEREAGH assured the Right lizr.
Gentleman who had just made so many personal ar
peals to him, that he was not inclined to draw atif
favouraVe conclusion from the statements he had
made to the House ; for he never beard a more Mi.
beral statement, nor ever perceived a snore uafait
and illiberal view taken on any subject. It appeared
as if the Right Honourable Gentleman had tonned
'.design to turn every attempt on the pan of Mieie
ters to regulate the Civil List, into an act of extrava-
gance ; and to lower the dignity of the Crown br
perverting and misrepresenting the motives and the
conduct of Government. He contended, that It
tairt)ey eenxepmensyesot
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dMinognarocuhry
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compare them with the expenses incurred by the
Monarchy of other countries, he would find that our
expenses were comparatively small, and that they
were no more than were absolutely neceesary to main.
rain she dignity and splendour of the Crowe, There
' teas certainly an increase of expenditure auendast
oat the Monarchy which could nut be aw ided. 11