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attempts to restore this illustrious 

 person to the favour of the House, 

 he ventured to move, " That his 

 Majesty be enabled to grant an 

 additional sum of money out of 

 the consolidated fund of Great 

 Britain and Ireland, not exceed- 

 ing 6,000/. to commence from the 

 Sth of April last, towards pro- 

 viding for the establishment of 

 the duke and duchess of Cumber- 

 land." 



Lord Folkestone expressed his 

 hope that parliament would assign 

 dower to the duchess of Cumber- 

 berland, with regard to whose 

 character he could say of his own 

 knowledge, many of the pre- 

 vailing prejudices were ground- 

 less. 



Lord Castlereagh said, that he 

 held in his hand a motion for that 

 purpose, and when the resolution 

 then before the House was dis- 

 posed of, should propose it. 



After some warm discussions, 

 the committee divided : 



For the Grant 136 



Against it 143 



Majority 7 



Lord Castlereagh then moved, 

 " That a sum of 6,000/. per annum 

 be settled upon her royal highness 

 the duchess of Cumberland, in 

 case her royal highness should 

 survive his royal highness the 

 duke of Cumberland, to be issued 

 and pa)'able out of the consoli- 

 dated fund of the United King- 

 dom of Great Britain and Ireland," 



The resolution was agreed to. 



On the bringing up of the 

 report of the grant to the duke 

 of Clarence, Lord Castlereagh ob- 

 served, tliat as his royal highness 

 had declined accepting the sum 

 wliicli had been voted to him, it 

 would be better to withdraw it 



altogether. Mr. Tiernei/ wished 

 that the reasons for it should at 

 least be entered upon the Journals, 

 otherwise it would not be dealing 

 fairly with the House or the royal 

 duke. Lord Castlereagh sug- 

 gested that all inconvenience 

 would be avoided by agreeing to 

 the resolution, upon an under- 

 standing that no bill should be 

 brought in upon it. 



This suggestion was adopted. 



On the 20th of April there was 

 presented to the House of Com- 

 mons a Return of all Income 

 received by their royal highnesses 

 the dukes of Clarence, Kent, 

 Cumberland, Sussex and Cam- 

 bridge, arising from Military, 

 Naval, or Civil Appointments, 

 Pensions, or other Emoluments, 

 as well as all grants out of the 

 Admiralty Droits made to them 

 since the year 1800. 



On May 13th Lord Castlereagh 

 presented to the House of Com- 

 mons the following message from 

 the Prince Regent: 

 " George P. R. 



" The Prince Regent, acting 

 in the name and on the behalf of 

 his Majesty, thinks it right to 

 acquaint the House of Commons, 

 that he has given the royal con- 

 sent to a marriage between his 

 royal highness the duke of Kent, 

 and her serene highness Mary 

 Louisa Victoria, widow of the 

 late prince of Leiningen, and 

 sister of the reigning duke of 

 Saxe Cobourg of Saalfeld, and 

 of his royal highness Leopold 

 George Frederick, prince of Co- 

 bourg of Saalfeld. His Royal 

 Highness is persuaded that this 

 alliance cannot but be acceptable 

 to his majesty's faithful subjects ; 

 and he has the fullest reliance on 



the 



