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\it was divided into eight clafles. The 
firt appertained to the perfonal con- 
venience of the fovereign and the dignity 
of the crown. He next adverted to the 
provifion made for the judges, Lord 
Chamberlain, the mafter of the horfe, the 
fteward of the houfehold, the expences of 
mefiengers, minifters, &c. With reipeét 
to the houfehold eftablifhment of the 
crown he affirted there was a faving, which 
muft be an objeét not only of applaute, 
but furprife to parliament. 
He next adverted to the falarics of 
foreign minifters in which from the fitua- 
tien of affairs there was a de- 
y NOECANE ORT) fe ek ee £27,000 
In the lord ftewards’ bills there 
wasanincreafecf - - - 36,000 
‘The a€tual expenditure was 
from 80 to _- = - - g0,0c0 
Under the head of occafional 
payments there was an ex- 
Gels Obs te oa se ee ego 
‘this excefs was occafioned by the pre- 
fent ftate of foreign affairs and the num- 
ber of meflengers neceflarily employed. 
He then fisted the law charges which 
encreafed in proportion to the number of 
{tate crimes, by which the civil lit incur- 
red an expence of 10,000]. per annum. 
‘The next head of expence was the police 
which was naturally connected with the 
Jatter and this amounted to the {um of 
25,000]. . 
It appeared from thefe fatements, he 
faid, that the expences of the civil lft 
‘could not be augmented; he therefore’ 
moved * that it was the opinion of the com- 
mittee that a fum not exceeding 12,000). 
per annum be granted out of the confoli- 
dated fund as a provifion for Prince Erneft. 
Mr. TIiERNEY faid he withed to fee 
every branch of the royal family to be put 
upon an happy and comfortable eftablifh- 
ment, but he at the fame time thought 
that the civil lit ought to bear every ex. 
pence attending fuch eftablifhments. ~He 
exprefied hts furprife that the charge for 
foreign metlen gers fhould_be greater now 
than when we had ambafiadors at all the 
foreign courts, and contended that the 
“items ought to be rurnifhed. ‘The pre- 
fent meafure he declared was'calculated to 
caft odium where no good fubjeét would 
with it to attach, and was iufficient, in 
fpite of all the anti-jacobin {fpeechesmade 
in that houfe by the right honourable 
gentleman, to procure for him the thanks 
of every jacobin in the kingdom. 
"Mr. Pitt in reply {aid that the ho- 
nourable gentleman had charged him with 
uétering anti-jacobin {peeches in the houle 
State of Publu Affairs. 
[April 
of commons, but he was forry that he 
could not return him (Mr. Tierney) the 
compliment. His laft fpeech he contend- 
ed, to havea quite different tendency, 
or he mifreprefented public fa&ts, merely 
for the purpofe of cafting public odium in 
that quarter to which the honourable 
gentleman juft adverted. Mr. Pitt 
then recapitulated his former ftatements 5 
he afferted that.the civil lift did not 
amount to more now than it did twenty 
years ago, though in the houfehold ex- 
pences there was a confiderable increafe. 
The houfe divided on the motion, when 
there appeared ayes 33, noes 4, . 
On the 12th, the bills for granting an 
annuity of 12,000]. perannum to Prince 
Edward and Erneft Auguf®as, and for 
eftablifhing his Majefty to provide equal- 
ly fer the Princeffes Elizabeth Sophia, 
and Amelia out. of the hereditary 
fund of 30,000l. 
ment fer the maintenance of his Majelty’s 
daughters, were read a firfttime. In the 
courfe of difcuffing thele bills it appeared 
that the civil litt notwithftanding the 
utmoft economy had fallen 40 or 50,0001. 
in arrears and therefore wholly incom- 
petent to fupport the propofed and necef- 
fary eftablifhment for the twe princes.” 
-Italfo appeared, that befides the permanent 
100,000i. a year granted to the-civil lift, 
between two and 300,000l. arifing from 
the Dutchy of Cornwall, during the 
minority of the Prince of Wales, had not 
been refunded to his Royal Highnefs. 
Mr. WiLBERFORCE on the firft of 
March, addrefled the houfe and faid, he 
had fo frequently brought the queftion of 
the flave trade before them, that he did 
not think it neceffary to goto any great 
length into that bufinefS. Since the firft 
time he had addreffed parliament on this 
fubjeét he obferved that events had occur- 
ed which had a material effect on the 
habits and temper of his mind. T'welve 
years had clapted fince he firft moved for 
the abolition of the African flave trade: 
the queftion then excited a confiderable 
fhare of intereft both within and without 
the walls of that houfe; but he was 
forry to remark from what had fince 
occured that he was inclined to believe 
that much of that intereft was created by 
the novelty of thequeltion. Days, weeks, 
and years he had given up to the invefti- 
gation of the flave trade and waited 
patiently fince the year 1791, in the hope 
that his exertions would be followed up 
by the abandonment of, that abommable 
and iniquitous fyitem. 
Mr. Purr fupported the motion.” 
| . Mr, 
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granted by parlia=— 
