The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-06-11 00:00:00

• HOUSE OF COMMONS.
At four o'clock but thirtrsevers Mrobers Wag pre-
seat, the House`was adjourned to this day.

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WEDNESDAY EVENINO, JUNE 11, ISO.

PARLIAMENTARY COMMENTARY.
TILE CORONATION.

The audacity of the Ministry, in the presentation of
the account of the sixpence of the Coronation, is another,
and as strong a proof as can be afforded. of the habitual
profligacy of expenditure which prevails in all the higher
departments of the State ; nod the scorn of public opi-
nion that distinguishes the parties who are supposed en
bear the responsibility of such transactions. The
Chancellor of the Excheoner said the whole cost of the
Coronation would but little exceed die sum of 100,0001.,
for which he Wok a vote of the House. This was quite
enough for such a purpose. Sixteen times as much as the
President of the Ueited States receives for his services
yearly, be-wasted in the pageantry of an hoar, was a suffi-
cient outrage upon the spirit of th e age ; bat, as the remnant
of an old monarchical foible, it would have been toler-
ated without more observation than a smile. if the vote
taken bad in reality covered the expense; or, indeed, if
it hai come within some deeeot approximation to that
'mount. Instead of this, however, under a vote of
100,000 i. the advisers of his Majesty thought proper to'
spend no less the, 233,0001. ; and, two years after this
wanton insult to the distresses of the nation, they bring
in the aecoun'! It is a theoretical principle of the sy,-
tem, that Ministers cannot appropriate any sums
of money without a parliamentary authority; but
this it all a jest. In the midst of the great-
est distress that one part of the community had
ever known ; and at the 'very period when they,
must have been about to recommend. the King to give
up thirty Mourned pounds of his salary, to relieve the
distress of his people ; that they allowe a him to take one
hundred and thirty eight thousand pounds from them, to
throw away on what was little better thaa an idle show,ss
far as the expensive part of the pageantry was emsetweed.
Thus, instead of gaining any thing by, hie Majesty's
donation of 30,000, the people were losers to the amount
of 108,0001. by the extravagance of his Coronation
Counsellors. We bad some donlits at the .itne, that
,the pretended bounty was a juggle; but we did not then
suppose that so daring a trick , was about to be played ;
and if the accounts bad been presented„ at the proper
t i me, the donatio* and the egtrovagaiiiNsight have
formed part of the same pa*. as a debtor and credi-
tor account. But the Ministry bad other funds than'
those under Parliamentary contronl. They hid s stir-
plus, out of the sums paid by France, for the mainte-
nance of 'the fortifications in Flanders, and in aid of the
British Army; and this surplus, instead of being
brdeght to the national account, was made use of '
so ItoysPand Illiaisterial pocket money I and
expended la the parade of a Coronation. It is said to have
been so expended ; bat where we can .get at an item, it is
.o manStf,OUS, that no one Gan believe strtli sums have
been paid ! Look at the charge for the King's robes, for
instance.—Twenty-four thousand seven hundred pounds
for robes for a'sinyle pageant ! Almost as much as.
Kitts contributed to 'the national distress, expended na

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