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for, the prince altered the arrangement tinder which the 
princefs had been accuttomed to lee her, from once a-week 
to once a-fortnight, that lefs interruption of her ftudies 
might happen by frequent journeys to London 5 and it 
was not intended to require the alteration to continue 
longer than during the princefs’s refidence at Windfor. 
This was the whole of what was magnified into a great 
infliction of punilhment and inference of guilt, by the 
princefs. 
Mr. Brand thought the country expofed to difficulty and 
danger in regard to the fucceffion. It was not enough to 
lay that the regent had the foie prerogative of educating 
his daughter: Itatements had been handed about, in which 
it was faid, the princefs wasaccufed by fuborned witnefles; 
and to fuffer the matter to reft here was a denial of juftice 
to the princefs. 
Mr. Wortley, as a man of honour and a gentleman, 
felt warmly,and exprefled himfelf warmly. On this occs- 
fion he ufed the expreflions which we have quoted in 
our article Liberty of the Press, vol. xii. p. 605. and 
which therefore we need not repeat. He concluded by 
faying, that no man was more attached to the lioufe of 
Brunfwick than himfelf; but, if he had a filter in the fame 
lituation, lie fliould fay Ihe was exceedingly ill-treated. 
Mr. W. Smith fully participated in this fentiment : if 
liis filler had been treated as the princefs had been, he 
lliculd feel extremely fore. 
The Attorney-general (fir T. Plomer) faid, that he gave 
his profefllonal advice to the princefs in 1806. He would 
not difclofe its purport; but he would fay that he never 
difcovered any juft foundation for the charges againfl: 
her. 
Mr. Whitbread faid that the noble lord and his col • 
leagues had not dared to anfwer the defiance of the 
princefs. They could inquire into her condud—nay, 
fearch her very heart—and they had declared her guilt- 
!efs. So completely did (lie now appear acquitted of all 
poflible imputation of blame, even by the perfons from 
whom the afperfions were by the world fuppofed in the 
halt report to have been thrown 'upon her, that it was in 
his mind unneceffary to prefs the matter to a divifion. 
Her innocence was acknowledged entire—complete. To 
fucli reftridions as the prince-regent, in his capacity of 
father to the princefs Charlotte, or by the advice of his 
minilters, might think proper to irnpofe upon her inter- 
courfe with her daughter, ihe mutt fubmit; it was her lot. 
But (he had the fatisfadion of knowing, that her reputa¬ 
tion henceforward was, by the confeffion of all, without 
imputation or reproach. 
Air. Canning complimented the laft member on his can¬ 
dour. The innocence of the princefs had been efta-' 
blifhed by repeated acquittals, and the declaration of lord 
Caltlereagh. There was no neceffity for any further pro¬ 
ceedings. As a father, his royal highnefs had a right to 
controul his own family; and, as a iovereign, to educate 
the heir to the throne. 
Here the matter ended, as the refolution and amend¬ 
ment were not prefled to a divifion. Addrefles were pre- 
fented to the princefs, from.the city of London, and from 
a great number of other places, congratulating her H. R. 
on the full and entire clearing of her charader and fame. 
—Sir John Douglas is Cnee dead ; lady D. lives, in no 
very enviable ftate. 
The bulinefs of the lord high chancellor of England 
having lb much increafed, chiefly in confequence of the 
vaft number of bankrupt-cafes, and of appeals from the 
law-courts to the fupreme and final decifion of the houfe 
of lords;—it was thought neceflary to introduce a bill for 
the purpofe of appointing a vice-chancellor, to afiilt his 
lordihip in the court of chancery.—Lord Caltlereagh, in 
moving the fecond reading of this bill, on the nth of Fe¬ 
bruary, dwelt upon the neceiiity of fuch an appointment ; 
and Hated, that it had received the approbation of the law- 
lords. The falary to be granted to the vice chancellor 
■would be 4000I.—one halt of which it was propof.d to 
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take from the fund formed by the profits accruing to the 
court of chancery, and the other half from the interelt 
upon unclaimed property in that court, of which, after 
paying the mailers in chancery (each 200I. a-year) and 
other officers, 9000I. a-year remained unappropriated. 
MefiVs. Stephen, Weathersll, Belt, and the Solicitor Ge¬ 
neral, fpoke in fupport of the biil ; which was warmly op- 
pofed by Meffrs. Banks, Macdonald, Smith, Courtenay, 
Canning, Taylor, Ponfonby, and fir S. Romiiiy. The 
principal arguments urged were—That the arrear of bufi- 
nef's in the houfe of lords had been accumulating eleven 
years, without any attempt having been made to difeharge 
it—that the adoption of a procefs to compel the members 
of that houfe to attend to hear appeals, would be a more 
effectual mode of lightening it than what was propofed 
by the prefent bill, which merely fuggefted as a remedy 
to relieve another perfon in another court—that thefe ap¬ 
peals might be heard in the abfence of the lord-chancellor, 
for which purpofe a temporary fpeaker of'the houfe of 
lords might be appointed—that the creation of a vice- 
chancellor would multiply the number of appeals, fo that 
the time of the chancellor would ultimately be con fumed 
in re-hearings and appeals from his deputy and the maf- 
ter of the rolls—that it would be a temptation for minif- 
ters to make a perfon chancellor, not the firit lawyer of 
his day, unlike the great men who had of late filled the 
office, but the firit politician, the ableft debater, of his 
day—and that it would be in fad introducing a new, per¬ 
haps an unconflitutional, judicial officer into our judica¬ 
ture.—Mr. Bankes’s amendment, that the bill be confi- 
dered this day fix months, was negatived by 201 to 122. 
On the 3 5th of February, on the quefiion for going into 
a committee on the bill, Mr. Leach obferved, that there 
could be no poflible reafon for creating a new and per¬ 
manent office for a temporary object; and proceeded to 
fhovv the neceffity of preventing the creation of an office 
at once fo expeniive and fo ufelefs.—Sir Samuel Romilly 
fpoke to the fame purpofe. After feveral able fpeeches 
for and againfl: the meafure, the bill palled through the 
committee. 1 
On the 22d of the fame month, the debate was refumed. 
—Mr. Taylor laid, that the whole of the lord-chancellor’s 
emoluments did not amount to more than from 18 to 
2o,oool. a-year. The fees from bankrupts were about 
5000I.a-year, and lie bad feen them exaggerated to 17,000!. 
Mr. Canning fuggefted, that, as the evil was temporary, 
it was but fitting that the remedy fliould alfo be of a. li¬ 
mited nature.—Sir S. Romilly, Meflrs. Ponfonby and 
Gordon, fpoke Ihortly againfl: the bill; as did Melirs. Ste¬ 
phen, Bragge, Bathurft, and Abercromby, in its favour. 
The amendments were then agreed to 
On the third reading, Mr. M. A. Taylor, after urging 
various objections againfl the creation or a vice-chancellor, 
moved for the appointment of a committee, to confider 
the propriety of relieving the lord-chancellor from the 
cognizance of bankruptcy-cafes.—Mr. Leach faid, that 
thefe cafes did not occupy more than thirty-fix days in a 
year; and it would not be right to go to the expenfe of a 
l'eparate eftablifiiment for this purpofe.—After fome dif- 
enffion, the motion was negatived without a divifion. The 
bill was read the third time after a divifion, when the 
numbers were 127 to 89.—Mr. Canning’s claufe, that the 
office fnould laft but 1'even years, was negatived by 145 to 
114- 
The royal allent was given to this bill on the 23d of 
March ; and on the 5th of May, being the firit day of 
term, the vice-chancellor made his firit formed appearance 
in the court, accompanied by the chancellor and tk-e 
mailer of the rolls. He merely took his feat for a few 
minutes on the right hand ol. the chancellor, on the fide 
of the court next the bench-door, the matter of the- rolls 
being on the left of the chancellor.' 
On the 3d of February, feveral petitions were prefented 
to the houfe of lords, from both laity and clergy, againfl: 
the catholic claims.—The bilhop of Norwich lamented the 
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