The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-04-18 00:00:00

meets Made use of by the Right Honourable Gentles
man were wholly inapplicable to the question then
immetlistely before the House. The greater part of
the speech they had just heard *as to points which '
had alt gone by, and which the House had al•
ready decitl.ll upon. With respect to the suggestiort
of tae propriety of crewing a new fund by the aboli.
tion of the King's Household, he put it to the House,
si !tether, if the King's state of health was wholly ir.
recoperable, they would hear of any proposition to
abolish during his life those provisions they hadal.
ready made fur his comfort and splendour, as far as
either could be consulted [hear!] 2 But even if the
reduction did take place he depied that the saving
resulting therefrom would do more than provide for
two of the Princesses. As to the fund upon which
it was charged, the objection could have scarcely
b en meant in seriousnesst because it was notorious
that the hereditary revenues had merged in the Con-
solidated Fund. He certainly could- not consent to
the change proposed, as to the time at which the Bill
was to take effect. There was a great difference be-
tween the Princesses setting up a separate establish-
ment (of which he believed they had no intention)
and being compelled to confine their residence to
Windsor for the remainder gf their lives. Under
any circurtances whatever, as to their dependance
on the Prince Regent, he contended,, that though
the annuities were nominally during pleasure, they
were to all intents and purpolee effectually during
life.
Mr. WHITBREAD said, that the speech of the
Right Honourable Gentleman was much more re-
markable for what it hat omitted to say, than for
any thing it tted mid. The two most important
points in the speech of his Right Honourable Friend
(Mr. Tierney) had been -passed over without
the slightest allusion to either. Ile did not cen-
sure Abe Right Honourable Gentleman for net at-
tempting to do what he might have found it very dif-
ficult to do well—in certain cases where no ingenuity
can defend, perhaps silence was at once the most
prudent and the most candid extenuation. Be the
motive what it might, it was certain that the Right'
Hon:Gentleman did not say one word respecting I
either the Princess of Wales or the Princess Charlotte
of Wales. Why the Minister thought it prudent to
say nothirts upon a subject of such general import-
ance, he should not pretend to explain 1 but he ques.
tioned much if the country in general would be dis.
posed to put the lest construction upon a silence that
was at bent so suspicious.-r[Hectr, Isoar!]-_—With
respect to those topics, upon which the Right Hon.
Gentleman was not afraid to speak out, he (Mr.
Whitbtead) did not think him much more successful
than those upon which he had been silent. He had
net explained why he did not, in the first instance, on
the memorable 18th of Feb., state at once the whole
system of this encrease of the household establishment.
He had said, that the hereditary revenue merged !
in the Consolidated Fund, and that therefore it was
immaterial upon which Fund those annuities were
charged; never was there such a fallacy in point of
nrgument ; because, though it had so merged, was
there a doubt that open the demise of the King, the-
herticlitary revenues only would be answerable to the
claims of the annuitants, provided those annuities !
had boo *bawd arm that food I He had told them

that tie Prinsiessas approved of this increase. Of
that thewe could be no doubt ; but did the Right
Hon. Gent. when he consulted those Royal Person- i
ages On the propriety of enlarging their annual'
draughts upon the public parse, did he then submit!
to them a faithful representation of the present state !
of the Civil List, and the present miseries of the ma- i
nufactoring part Of their Royal Father's subjects? If he
had not done so, he had nut done his duty. With re- !
smelts the establishment of his Majesty, neither he nor
any of his friends wished to detract from, whatever
tnight be necessary, to the King's comfort or splen.
dour. But why pay four Grooms of the Chamber,
for instance, when, of those four, there was but one
could do the duty—three of them, General Legge,
Sir Harry Neale, and General Campbell, being now
abroad on foreign service. Did not these appoiut-
molts show that Ministers themselves did net think
so many necessary—for his part. he thought some
of those Officers.might as well be paid out of the Civil
List—ou the same principle that he had thought
that the Prince Regent ought to have paid his own
tvhrivite Secretary out of his• own privy purse.-..
IL ar, hear, hour!]--" I have heard," said Me. '
itbread, 64 that the Queen is about to hold a
drawing-rootn, of course no hopes can now exist of
his Majesty's recovery, because if there were any,
such a step, I. preseme, would not be resorted to;
bet in case thet dravring room is held, I would wish
to know, is there to be any public appearance of the I
Princess of Wales?--this is tto private Cbncern—the I
public have a right to demand vrh the ackbotrledged
consbrt of their Regent does not appear in public as .!
such—no affectation of delicacy can be permitted to .
stand in the *ay of a nation'tran3riety upon a question
of such national importance—if any man,can satisfy '
the public upon this topic, it is the Right lion. Gent.
'rho know him to have been at one time the aealonoadvieer and
devOted adherent to the Princess of Wales. They believe him
to have coascientiously tusdertaken her defence, to have written
her *indication, to have ponied that vindication, to have pub-
li,hcd it-that vindication is said to have involVed in it an at.
tack upon her kayo! Commrt-Ilene,Roar hear!]-lt was'
known to have been an attack upon his Royafillighoess, and the
Regent's Hest Ministeris known to have been the author of it,
anti after he bad published it, after it had been read by oneand by
one hundred, it was bought up at an enormous expend, bought
op by the Ovate Ileeveuay of die Right Hon. 4ientaion•- f,
O'er, Rear 4)-I ask him now, does be retain his former opi- i
moos of the unexceptionable conduct of the Princess of Wales?
I ask him If be did not lately in this Nouse, solemnly record his '
confirmation of that opinion, and if it is now, what it was the
other night. ,1 call upon him to explain, If be can, his apparent
desertion of her just &aims, to that respect,
. antic*, provision,
end cousidenstion due of the undoubled Prawns Regent of these '
realms 1-these are questions, which, at be values his own con-
sistent', as be values the charactor and claims of the; Princess;
bad as he respect s the Prince his masterthe is bound to answer." Mr. I'IMA SMITH. lea very aaltpated manner, oppesed the
Hill. -He iniemoly detlanrd, that from his soul he pitied_the,
Right lloweerable Gentleman, when he reflected upon the
could
feel-
ings be ( Mr. Preeval) mast have experienced be. he e
haveasade up Ma vali4to cone down at such a tins with such a
proposition to slatilleule.
Mr. Secreamor IfDRR am surprised that now, for top
put
time, the Hanontalia Gonlimmut Metal have found an oppor-
tunity of girlie mat to. LIR ieeilam scr, so late a lOW as the
third reading oT the Blil-Near, him
Mr. whs.-1111TH begged pardon fee interraplithie Right
Honourable tioadetsan,-Wat.bo had (oleo into a sit mistake.
Ins'ead of this brit the Ilm dam that he (Mr. th) bad
voka wise the Bill, It so Itai.mod, that it was ..140 the
dearth-LI laugh.]
' Mr. Secrenn RYDER bad no Imitation I. 'Am
the error he Iself falleitinto I. mpoolog that the speectillitai:l
jurt iwerst wa, the first mpde by .e Honourable GeodenSfss-4114
however mistaken he be as to him, he believed be was se-
tilride ill /a) ii* Oillibill Cstillainell4tlMlllßd • t Sbe Sane,

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