The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-02-24 00:00:00

surrta, AND WAT AND ME oce,

The Earl of LAi'DERHALE, after reading the Re-
solutions of the House of 011111110na respecting the Sup-
ply. and Ways and Means, during the iuterval between
the dissolutionn of the present Parliament and the calling
of a new one, said, he felt it his duty to call the etas-
thin of the House to this step on the part of the Ceer-
nintns, whirl' had a direct tendency In pet Wile the
.Power of their Lordships over all grants of the public,
NastFialtiiii it was well known came op ;seder easel
coarse for their approbation in an Appropriation Bill.
lie did not wish to I-Hobart:lse the measures of the Noble
Inv* opposite, by interposing delay, loot lie felt it his
'lnt, to bring forward some motion which should at
least go this length, that the proceeding of which hr
complained should not be drawn into a precedent. This
tion he proposed to bring forward too-morrow. 11
was in every point of view most important that the at-
tention of the House should be called to the subject.
Under the Civil List Act certain annuities were to be
paid, which absolutely reamed on the death of the late
King, and yet the (louse of Con 000000 us had taken upon
them to suspend the law upon this point, by n hit+ these
annuities were extinguished, and to declare that, not-
withstanding they had thus ceased, they should continue
to lw paid as before. Were sech an assumpe on the
part of the I 'ono tttttt s to pass nosnotieed, it must he evi-
dent that the power of their Lonlships over the grants
of public money might, upon such isreerdents, be alto-
gether set aside.
The Karl of LIVERPOOL observed, that the objec-
tion taken'be the Noble Lord might have been entitled
to some weight, hail it not been for the Message of his
Majesty to that and the other I tense, respecting the in-
tended dissolution of Parliament, to which that Honor
hail rettword an *plower, pledging themselves to rOllrtir
in any ineassire for getting through the lousiness with t
delay, that wrs n to hr shine to prosier for the
public as nice, in the intervrl between the dissolution of
the present Parliament and the calling of a new one.
This took away the force of the objection urged by the
Noble Earl ; and besides this, it was well knows, that
in former instances of dissolution in the midst of a Ses-
sion, before the Appropriation Bill was brought in, the
Supplies voted rested in ; 'wisely the same manner as
at present, upon Resolutions of the House of Coin-
:nous, without any concurrence upon the part of that
House. . . .

The Marquis of LANSIKAVN rwiteli.lrd that the ar-
gument urged by the Noble Earl made against the
'luse that had been plumd, rather than in favonr of
it. as in the instances alluded to, dissolution had rumor
suddenly upon the Parliament, whilst in the present
ease, rontrary to all former precedent, the Crown had
rommlted the respecting the propriety of the
Parliament's own dissolution, and therefore surely rare
might have been taken to avoid the dilrunna into which.
they had (Allen. It served, however, to show the danger
of departing, f the established precedents, his Ma-
jesty's Ministers having thus hecoine arties to a pro-
cording which tended to deprive that house of all run.
trout over the grants of public money. This was
no-
Jwthtedly 4 question which was highly deserving the
eonsideratiuti of their Lordships.
The Purl of LACDEROALE observed, that it was
of nit use whatregit'ealling for the roneoirrence of that
[louse in the measures to be adopted, if the measures
required could be carried into effect withoutits concur-
rence.
The Earl of DONOUtitIMORE contended, that the'
Message from his Majesty could never he rioutrued into.
a call open that House to depart from all their sect's-
tamed forms.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL nioureeds that he had
never intended to say that the 3lessage from his 311'-
1 jests was in itself a sufficient authority (sir any de-
partnee from the asages of the Flange. It was perfectly
competent for their Lordships, if they_ had thought
proper to retorts an Answer to the King‘s Message pro-
testing against a dissolution ; but they haring, by their
Albinos in answer to that illesssge, pledged theMselves
to couenr in any measore that ought be necessary fur
expediting the requisite public business, he contended
that that Address formed the 'unification of the pro-
reviling' that were now objevied to. •
The. Earl of DONollilDlOßE•paintairied, that the
House' by their Address only pledged themselves to