The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-07-06 00:00:00

IMPERIAL. P.
HOUSE OF LORDS.—"revasswr, JULY 8.

The House sat for some time in a Committee of Pri-
vileges on the Claims of the Earl of Lisburne and the
'-'arquess of Donegal to vote for the Election of Irish
Represemative Peers, when those claims were declared
to have been established.

The Ord:•r for the attendance of the Judges to-mor-
rnw at noon, In the cue of the " King v. Wolfe," was
oircharged till Monday.
Mr. Mums, from the Directors of the East India
calmly presented accounts of the Salaries, Pensions,
ind tiratuities granted by that Company.—Laid on
tte table•

Ihe Irish Silk Bounties Bill, the Hop Exportation
Drawbacks Bill, the Isle of Man Trade Bill, as(' the
Irish Collectors of Customs Bills, were read a third
tins* and passed.
The Assessed Taxes Composition Bill, the Audit of
Account Bill, and the Husbandry Horses Duty Repeal
Bill went respectively through Committees and were
reported.
Lord CALTHOPE presented a Petition from the
Inhabitants of Hull, in favour of the Bill for prevent-
ing Cruelty to Horses.—Laid on the table.
DUKE Me CUMBERLAND.
A conversation ■rose on fixing the Order for the
committing of the Duke of Claresee's Provision Bill,
in the coarse of which,
The Earl of LAUDERDALE said that he thought
the other House of Parliament had done itself honour
Pt granting, not only 6,0001. a year to the Duke of
Clarence, bat by the arrear for the last three years. It
showed that the Coinsnons acted on a settled principle,
and held to the *pinion with which they bad set out,
that it was proper to add 6,0601. a year to the younger
branches of the Royal Family. But his principal ob-
ject in rising was to remind the House of the situation
of one Member of the Royal Family, his.-Royal High-
be,s the Duke of Cumberland, whom he considered to
have been most unfairly treated. He disapproved of
those decisions which were founded either on favour
or prejudice. Ile contended that when their Lordships,
after the judgment passed, and the examination taken
before that House last year, had granted 50,000/. a
year to the Queen, they must have acted on the prin-
ciple that it was necessary to support the dignity of
cialted rank. How much more disposed ought they
not to be, to do justice to an illustrious individual,
against whom nothing prevailed but the meanest and
sutra slanderous insinuations. Ae knew that nothing
would give that Royal Personage more pleasure than
to find those insinuations reduced into tangible charges
on which he could obtain the justice of a trial. The
manner in which that Royal Duke sod his Duchess had
lived whilst in this country, ought to have excited ad-
mit...thin. He treated that his Majesty's Government
would ogee with Wm in principle, and would take an
early opportunity of recommending a similar grant to
the Duke of Cumberland as to his Royal Brothers. If
they did not recommend such a grant, he should pro-
pose an Address to his Majesty on the subject, and
-hould at least feel conscious that lie had done his
eaty.
The Earl of LIMERICK participated in the sen-
timents of the Noble Earl, and pledged himself to
support his Address, whenever be should think fit
to move it —The Bill was then ordered to be corn-
witted