The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-07-04 00:00:00

Majesty, with tepee In the mintage, be thnught it
was cif tier) little consequence to that noose; nor
did he thi•ik that Moee who bad entoil.hhe million to
pay the dons of the Empresa Catharine, could rt.
fuse the pres..iit grant upon ally prl•4lple of et*.
"only.
Mr. W. DUNI).IS t.bserverl, in reply to what hal
Adieu frooi aw anti tur ibloGoott M -.Western),
that if the pi npusiii is a • to In h. wit h•lrsi tan because
of the smell majorities iv .1411 had been obtained. it
Noels, he de. taring !list the cninnrily welt 'to Amato
in that Hawn% and that the majority did w.t speak
the amoral Parliament. It should he remembered,
however, that very important qoestiniia had keen de. •
tersoined by tors %lender majorities. As on the pecnt,
whether the alliance was one that ni•iild he *drat,.
tageoes to this conntrs. he apprehended that oas not
a necessary enanaderetion far that Ifrouste to ewer
into; thee• were lint to weigh such allintices merely
by the advantages is hich they produced. • he.
Hewed, indeed, that when our illustrious Sovoreign
married. no peColiet political benefits were to be de.
rived from that c.o.'s'. The Duke of Csimberland
had married with the consent of the erns n, and so
far it was a iegal marriage; and aurel‘ that House
would not suffer that the wife of one ,of, the Royal:
Family should be in *state of destitutin It PlitpnOilig
tier to survive her !unhand: On that ground he .
should certainly support the mo.inn.
Mr. WILBERFORCE confessed that the view in
which he considered the present question hail a re.
ference to the public morals of the country. The
question which had been put by a Right :lonwerahle :
Gentleman (Mr. Tierney) temsiited unansaered, and
they must therefore believe that the connection was
one which a certain great Peraosiage had refitted •
to sanction with, her approbation.—[Hear, hear'.l—
could not think that a alight or an unimportant
circumstance.--[hour, hear!]—lie must say also,
that the various rumours which were afloat, respect-
ing the person with whom that connection was formed,
constituted a strong corroboration of the report
that that person would net be received by the Queen.
He conceived that Parliament was called upon to et.
erase a sound discretion upon the subject before them,
and if in'etpressing its opinion any pain was inflict-
ed, the blame was attributable to those only who had
brought the measure forward.—[Dear, hear!)—He
certainly saw 'no' necessity for the grant upon the
grouids ishiciCatime -Honourable Gentlemen bad
stated, fur he was gibe persuaded that if the lady
shoold ever he in a state of widowhood, that House
would always tie disposed to grant such an allowance
*as would etswiale.her to bye suitably to her lank mod
digaty.'—Eihair*, /warn—lle trusted, therelone, •
tharthe House wined-11*ot be betrayed into &sanction
zEnd epprobatiarsof that marriage under the plea of ,
providing against a iontingeocy whieh might newer
hippen.--(Hene, karlj—lle must say titer. stet of
regard to Wilk mural!, they ought to withhelddhat
sanctinn if the connection was such as the Qesseep ••
shad reteseil to.approvis, which refesaL they were jos- •
tified &inferring:-
Mr. W. BA UltStoontended that the 'Noble'
Lord acted righ,ly in not answering the osestion oft
Hight lionourable'Gentlernan- on a preceding even-
ing. As to precedents,'he apprthended the strongest
precedent waithe'crinittint Stitt undeviating practice of
Parliatniet. which sin aye allowed to every.nratich of
the R•tjt: aelficient to live in proper dignity -
end spli.ildn,tr.
j Mr. W K'EENE'repeated his objections to the
measure. , •

Mr, PRO I'H.EROE explained, that he did not
mean, in what he said on a former occasion, to draw
any comparison whatever, and still Ws an invidious
comparison between the Duke of Cumberland nod the
Duke of Yolk. An he said was, that if the Chad..
cellor of the Exchequer found no overflow in the Ex-
chequer, there were dehts of ;vat [wile which ought to
he satisfied. With respect to the question itself, his
opinions remained unaltered.
Mr. PRESTON said a few worth, which we could
not understand from the !odd cries of question which
continued during the w hole time that the Hon. Mem-
ber spoke. •
Mr. BATIIURST replied, from whichjt appeared
that the observations of the preceding speaker, had
some reference to the children of the Duchess of Cum..
berland by her former husband, and the provision for
them by the King of Prussia.
Colonel ELLISON snid he gave his most deter-
mined opposition to the motion, because he loved and
honoured the King, sad because he honoured that
Home and the people. --[ I leer, hear !] —lie thought '
the House would do more towards injuring the dig-
nity of the,Crown by concurring in the voile, than
by any vote which it had ever passed.—{ Beer, hear!)
Mr. Ir. SUMNER said he should Admits, from
motives of delicacy, from saying any thing of either '
of the parties personally ; hut he wished to remind '
the House, that though the marriage had received the
assent of the Crown, there was nothing in the noti-
fication
to Parliament which insplied the approbtidnit '
of the Prince Regent. Ministers had much to justify •
themselves for, fur having placed the Mouse in the
predicament in which they stood. S:tuated, however,
las they were, the present was the 'inta for giving a
vole which it ass evident would he in unison with the
((white of the people at large.—[(tear, Rear!]
Sir T. ACKLAND would vote agtinst the 1133111,
not because he thought the country had not the means
of meeting every fair demand upon it, not ow the
gr• nun] of his Royal highness's character (of which,
too having the honour to know his Royal Highness,
he eit'uld not speak), but for this deeper reason—his
ohje. tine to the connection which hi, Royal High.
ISM had formed, and which was peculiarly °burp&
ous to the moral dignity of our national sentiment.
It it were said that this opinio.o rested o.nly out re.
mow., he would ask) why that rumour hod malt% ,

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