The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-02-23 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN

of the whole Roses, on the Royal Establishment at
Windsor.—Agreed to.
The Message from the Prince Regent to the
Rouse, of the 4th of Febrosty, and the part of the
Lords Commissioners' Speech relating to the demise
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of her Majesty, having been referred to the coed.
derelict* of the Committee, and the Speaker having
left the Choir—
Lord
CASTLEREAGH said, that la bringing the
question of the Royal Establishment at Windsor, and
that of the allowances to be made to the seriants of
her late Majesty, before the Hesse, he conceived
the course he meant to pursue the meet convenient
ender all the drcemstances; be apprehended it to
be perfectly consistent with Parliamentary usage.-
13, reducing the whole gaieties to distinct and sub-
stantive points, he believed he should give the Come
mitts* a better opportunity of forming a correct
judgment on each of its brancher. Ile intended he
'lsbell' the Rtoolutions which had been agreed elute
by the Select Committee of the House, and to let
the Chairman move for leave to bring in a Bill per.
leant thereto, if they, ihoOld be sanctioned by the
epprebatlon of the latter. The Resolutions were sit
In number. The first recommended the reduction of,
the of 100,0001. directed.by the Act 52 Gee. 111.
to be set aside from the Civil List, for the tonsil
sapper, of his Majesty's household, to that of 50,0001.
The second contained an account of the annual pra.,
vision to be made to the ntv of Itesllste Majesty.
The third proposed the payment of a sea of 10,0001.1
a yeer to his Royal Highness the Doke of Yorks byl
1 way of additional allowance, as cedes
persona of his
Mikity, according to the precedent of the grants to
We late Majesty, acting in the same °spicily. The
Ith advised a partial clangs in that pert of the Aet
1'1"
1812, which went to the regulation of the King'sithoeheld. The two last were merely into•ded to
' directions to the 011itIPTIP of the Eachcqtlet to di*
Welsh the dishersemeets en account of the Civil List,
pursuant le the provisions to bounds by Parilament.
With respect to the jest Resolution, which be look.
ed epee 0 the most materiel of it.. whole, he wee
haepappyithoeybad
say thadtesellseribedßepothert earptphreopCorismtimiolinthtam ofd gas
IM nd,
IC a very great degree, diminished his 'sheers, be.
St
1 o
O with the etmest minuteues, and
a series of details which it would be hopeless
Ref idb l• attempt. It sou impossible to bring any'
seedieserslotive to stoney transsctiees more folly
hider the view of the House than the application el
lbe sem of 50,0001. as accounted for by the Com.
adflee. Ile believed he could state that the first Ita.
*Motion had °bulged the very general concerreue
of the Committee. Every Member on it seemed to
..t @pi oion that soy iediSidsal of in private
life might have reams to rejoice If the espenees of
"his owe household wore pet oe as strict a footing of
ispeemy as those of his Sovereign. The only petal
is 'which any difference of opinion arose, was, Mae.
'bite the umber of equities should be foot or ale.—
The termer bad been ultimately resolved on. A Hight
Hos. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Tierney) had goof
Into the Committee holding the epioien thus eo,oooi.
wee too large; but whoa it was shown that ssee-third
of
that should be dedected for keeping up Waukee
as ['Royal Pella, and that one.third more shoed
be devoted to the payment of is, he was pew
fectly satisfied of its reasonableness. When it op.
peered then, that the sem left for the prune! ex-
pellees of his Majesty was little more then siztoen
thooleed pseuds a year, he was sure that the Hoes*
sad the Public would see that De estimate amid hq
formed, with toy regard to the suited station of the
object of it, more moderate than that presented. He
should neat proceed to the wend Resolution, which'
Involved the gentles of the provisioa to be made for
the versants of her late Majesty. In laying that gout ion
before the Committee, he had referred them to difforeot
prosodists. To these they were amorally disposed to
dims their Wattles, because, in the consideration of
so @lair of such great delicacy,it was a relief to thel
mind to find any model for direction In past times.
Precedents, however, had not been strictly folleteed.
gem* of tit* mutants of her late Majesty, the COW
mitt's, from a consideration of toe state of the
country, were compelled to withhold their salaries
,rem. All the rest of these individuals were held
is justice to be entitled to pensions, because they
had mitered into the service of the Queen, not only
ea soonest of their salary, bet also in ezpactatiom
of what bad been granted to people of that dee
ecription, on former peculates. The reputation
was so much the more reasessable, as their salstiim
were not much roster than those given in private
life, sad as when discharged, subjects felt a relent-
ewes to tele them into their service, supposing
their acquired habits to be unsuitable to the sites.
lions they desired. Such considerations medulla-

edly gas; those iodivideals a strong claim on the
justice sod equity, not less than the generosity
of Parliament.—[!fear, kear!)—Tbere were three
precedents to which the Committee hid directed
their 'fturities—that of the demise of Queen
Mary, of Queen Caroline, and of the Princess
Dowsger of Wales; It was thought, however, that
Parliament ought to exercise a discretion of their
own, sod the course takes wee, that as it was just,
eapedieet, and right, to awake a provision equal to
the salary of her Majesty's ttiesestits sod attend.
asts, so a regard to economy required that the pro-
lerdest should net be obligatory respecting the
State servants. The whole allowances therefore,
to her Majesty's servants bad been reduced
from 45,0001. a-year to about 18 or 19,0001.,
making m saving of &beet 80001. a-yeer.—The
seperasueatios was less than sad bees made io
the three instances before utestiosted, sotwithstsod-
iog the greatly iscreased length of service to her late
Majesty, and the dimioutios in the value of money.—
Isser!]—lo orals, the third Resolution, he
thought it better to connect it with the fourth, be.
cause the notice of a preposition gives by the Right
Hoe. Castleman opposite a few eights since' would
Involve the whole qoestioe of the property and right
of the Privy Purse. It had been held right to act
on the precedent established ea the deteroloatioo of
the Regency question is 1811 and 1811—and that
the office of the custody of the King's Person should
undergo no alteration in emolument from that time,
any more than la powers and encumbrances—seri

that the castor persoWs, as an officer of ♦err groat
iniportaaca and respoosibility, shootd rre•ire the
whole of tho income allotted to his predecessor. The
Right lion. Geotlemao bad intimated ao isterstion to