GENERAL HISTORY. 



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The committee having divided, 

 there appeared, Ayes (for lord 

 Castlereagh'sniotion),205; Noes, 

 51 ; Majority, 154-. 



Lord Castlcreagh next moved 

 " That the sum of 6,000/. per 

 annum be settled upon her 

 serene highness Mary Louisa 

 Victoria, princess of Leiningen, 

 when she shall become duchess 

 of Kent, in case her highness 

 should survive his roj^al highness 

 the duke of Kent, to be issuing 

 and payable out of the consoli- 

 dated fund of the united kingdom 

 of Great Britain and Ireland." 



This was agreed to. 



In the House of Lords, on 

 April 14th, the Earl of Liverpool 

 stated that he wished, from pecu- 

 liar circumstances, to postpone 

 the consideration of the message 

 of the Prince Regent on the 

 subject of the marriages of the 

 dukes of Clarence and Cambridge 

 till to-morrow ; and in the mean- 

 time he moved, That the said 

 order be discharged. 



The Marquis of Lansdoicne 

 felt that it was impossible not to 

 be sensible of the singular situa- 

 tion which the House was placed 

 in by the message which the 

 noble earl had brought down, and 

 the very extraordinary conduct 

 which had been adopted upon it. 

 He hoped that whatever might 

 appear disi-espectful to the Crown 

 on the occasion, would not be 

 imputed to the House, but that 

 the blame would fall upon the 

 advisers. 



The Earl of Liverpool was 

 willing to take the blame on him- 

 self. But he thought it improper 

 to move an address until their 

 lordships were in possession of 

 the nieasuie which was to be 



recommended ; and felt that he 

 should not be doing his duty if 

 he called upon them to give an 

 opinion before they were made 

 fully acquainted with the senti- 

 ments of the Prince Regent's 

 government on the subject. 



Lord Holland followed up the 

 observations of the marquis of 

 Lansdowne, and moved an address 

 to the Pi-ince Regent, in lieu of 

 the discharge of the order pro- 

 posed by the earl of Liverpool. 



Other remarks were made on 

 the occasion, when the Address 

 was negatived. 



The question was then put, 

 That the order be discharged ; 

 upon which the House divided ; 

 Contents, 51 : Not Contents, 12: 

 Majority, 39. 



On the 15th of April, the 

 order of the day for taking the 

 Prince Regent's message into 

 consideration being moved, it 

 was again read, v.hen the Earl of 

 Liverpool rose for the purpose of 

 proposing an answer of the 

 House to the Prince Regent. 

 The circumstances of this reply 

 being exactly similar to that in- 

 troduced to the House of Com- 

 mons by lord Castlereagh ; it 

 cannot be necessary to repeat it 

 in this place. It was answered 

 by Lord King, who proposed the 

 introduction of the following 

 sentence : " But this House must 

 at the same time express its con- 

 fident hope, that such provisions 

 as are necessary may be made 

 without creating the necessity of 

 laying any additional burthens 

 upon the people.'* 



Several members spoke on this 

 occasion, and at length the 

 amendment was negatived with- 

 out a division. "The original 



motion 



