"6 ANNUAL REGISTER, © 1803. 
CHAP. Vi. 
King’s Message respecting the Affairs of the Prince of Wales, taken inta 
consideration in the House of Commons.—Committce of the whole House. 
—Debate—Mr. Addington — Solicitor General—Sir R. Milbank— 
Mr. Harrison—Lord Castlereagh—Mr. Sheridan—and Mr. Fox.— 
The Minister’s Resolution for allowing £60,000 to the Prince of 
Wales, from the consolidated Fund, unanimously agreed to by the Com- 
mittee.—Message taken into consideration in the Lords.—Address of 
Thanks moved and carried.—Message from the Prince of Wales to the 
House of Commons.—Bill for increasing the period of Annual Exercise 
of the Militia, passes both Houses without opposition —Interesting 
Debate on Mr. Calcraft’s Motion respecting the Prince's Establishment— 
Lost by a small Majority.—Original Proposition jinally agreed to.— 
Abrupt relinquishment of the Prince’s further claims.—Considerations 
and Remarks thereon, 
N the 23d of February, the 
; chancellor of the exchequer 
having moved, that the house should 
resolve itself into a committee of 
the whole house, on his majesty’s 
message, with respect to the prince 
of Wales, 
Colonel Stanley asked, whether 
it was intended to raise money for 
the purpose of relieving the em- 
barassments of the prince ; or whe- 
ther this measure was not a com- 
promise for certain claimsof money, 
which had not been appropriated to 
his use? If it was a compromise on 
account of claims on the revenues 
of Cornwall; he must say that the 
house could not know whether he 
had any legal claim or not; and 
lawyers were very much divided 
in opinion upon that subject. In 
any other light, his duty to his 
constituents, would not allow him 
to lay any additional burdens upon 
them, on this account. 
Mr. Addington denied, that the 
present motion was founded at all 
upon a. compromise of claims; 
neither was it for the purpose of 
paying the prince’s debts, as they 
had been already provided for, by 
a former arrangement ; it was mere- 
ly for the view of re-establishing 
his royal highness in that splendor 
which belonged to his rank in the 
state. 
The house having then resolved 
itself into a committee of the whole 
house, 
Mr. Addington said, he should 
submit to them a proposition, 
which, notwithstanding what had 
been said by the hon, member, he 
trusted would have the general ac- 
quiescence of the committee. He 
was sure that every member of it 
would 
