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 Letter to Charles Grey on his 
 
 Parliamentary Conduct 
 
 respecting his Royal Highness, 
 
 the Prince of Wales
 
 THE LIBRARY 
 OF 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY 
 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 LOS ANGELES
 
 A 
 
 LETTER 
 
 TO 
 
 CHARLES GREY, ESQ. 
 
 ON HIS 
 
 PARLIAMENTARY CONDUCT, 
 
 RESPECTING 
 
 HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS 
 
 THE 
 
 PRINCE OF WALES. 
 
 IN WHICH ARE SOME REMARKS ON 
 
 A LETTER TO THE PRINCE OF WALES, ON A 
 SECOND APPLICATION TO PARLIAMENT." 
 
 AND LIKEWISE ON THE 
 
 OBSERVATIONS." 
 
 May the Marriage of his Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales, 
 " afford the Comfort of feeing the Royal Family numerous, as, 
 " I thank God, it is, ftill rifing up in a third [and now we 
 " hope in a fifth] Generation? A Family which I moft fin- 
 ' cercly wifh may be as immortal as thofe Liberties and that 
 " Constitution which it came to maintain !" 
 lr. Pitt's {the late Earl of Chatham's] Maiden Speech, April, 1736. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 PRJNTED FOR B. CROSBY, NO. 4, STATIONER'S COURT, 
 LUDGATE STREET, NEAR STATIONER'S HALL.
 
 on 
 
 LETTER, &c. 
 
 SIR, 
 
 A O a reforming difpofition, there can- 
 not be a greater luxury of infernal gratification, than 
 attacking, in parliament, any one of the Royal Fa- 
 mily. Every wound thus given to monarchy, may, 
 perhaps, contribute more to the caufe of reform, if 
 artfully expofed, than a fcore of infurrections, or the 
 diftribution of fifty thoufand Jacobin pamphlets 
 among the lower orders throughout the three king- 
 doms. 
 
 All the numerous counter-balancing virtues of the 
 character fo flandered, ferve for nothing in the fcale, 
 when his amiable foibles, only, are to be magnified 
 and diftorted ; in order to excite invenomed animad- 
 vcrfion, and tinge his reputation with an illiberal 
 obloquy, originating, folely, in the moft vindictive, 
 and the moft factious motives. 
 
 B As
 
 As fome look at the fun's eclipfe through the me- 
 .dlum of fmoaked glafs, fo do the reformers view, 
 with a jaundiced eye, the juvenile fpecks that dim, 
 for a moment, the luftre of his Royal Highnefs the 
 Prince of Wales. In the midft of this malignant 
 and defigning group, we defcry you, Sir, as one of 
 the unmanly chiefs ; and the hollow fympathy which 
 you lately and are ftill difplaying in parliament, for 
 the embarralTments of an amiable and generous Prince, 
 will not foon be forgotten. 
 
 Had you been a ftaunch and inflexible patriot, ad- 
 vanced in years, in whom all the paflions, but thofe 
 of an over- rigorous avarice for the public welfare 
 ,had fublided : had you been what is. (tiled a country 
 gentleman; that is, a confcientious member of par- 
 liament, whofe chief bufinefs, independent of all 
 party, is, he conceives, to guard the public purfe 
 from plunder, and the conftitudon of Great Britain 
 from innovation : 
 
 Had you been a Heady fupporter of the indif- 
 pcnfable prerogatives of the crown, and of the peo- 
 ple's real and moft beneficial privileges: Had you 
 been the avowed enemy of all that intriguing pha- 
 lanx of difappointed and artful men, falfely felf- 
 named Friends of the People : Had you been the de- 
 termined foe of Gallic Reform, and of all its profligate 
 and low imitators in this country: Had you been 
 only one oif the members for Northumberland, in- 
 
 ftead
 
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 ftead of one of thofe at Broakes's, and the Crowft 
 and Anchor, for certain purpofes: 
 
 Had you never known what it was to be a hufband, 
 or what it was to commit a venial error: Had you 
 never tafted the lufcious fvveets of plenty, and enjoy- 
 ed the ftation of rank and fplendour : in any of thofe 
 cafes, Sir, your petulant and unbecoming fpeeches 
 againft his Royal Highnefs might have been fome- 
 what palliated by good intention becaufe fpringing 
 from flrong conftitutional motives, although they 
 would be found both illiberal and impolitic. 
 
 But who are you, Sir, that could not help feeling 
 the mod unpleafant fenfations at his Royal tjigh- 
 nefs's dilemma ; yet would.not, becaufe the talk was 
 difagreeable, fhrink from doing your duty ? Are you 
 not a young man, taken fome years ago into the bank- 
 rupt firm of opposition for your tiny loquacity, and 
 your pert prefumption? Are you not a tripling, 
 that, from your family connexions and your own 
 voluble effrontery, were appointed to ftand behind 
 the oppofition counter in the Commons, and fell off 
 their rotten wares, with lefs fufpicion than any of 
 the old partners, whofe tricks had been fo often de- 
 tected, that the public could place no confidence in 
 their aflertions? 
 
 Yet with no other talent than plodding; with no 
 other genius than a prompt and overbearing loqua- 
 city ; and from whofe fapient tongue, neither bril- 
 B 2 liancy
 
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 iiancy of thought, nor novelty of argument ever yet 
 condefcended to emanate ; ftill, with only thefe (haU 
 low requifites, fpurred on by the adulation of facVion, 
 do you, Sir, contrive to make a flippant noife in the 
 grand fenate of the nation ! 
 
 With nothing of the all-powerful Pitt's refifllefs 
 ftream of eloquence, which, like the Mifliflippi, 
 bears down, with increaling force, every thing that 
 would oppofe its overpowering rapidity ! With no- 
 thing of Dundas's equal tide of eloquence, which, 
 like the moft loved of all the ocean's fons, that flows 
 by St. Stephen's walls, is, 
 
 *' Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull ; 
 * Strong, without rage, without o'erflowing, full!" 
 
 With not one drop of the declamatory torrent of 
 Fox, that, like the deep and rapid falls of Niagara, 
 overwhelms every unfufpicious bark that is drawn 
 too near its vortex ! With not one fpark of the elo- 
 quent dramatized intemperance of Sheridan, that, 
 like the claflic cafcade of Tivoli, facinates all be- 
 holders with its fublime burfts, and its beautiful me- 
 anders ; leading us into the moft romantic labyrinth ! 
 You, Sir, have nothing of the foam of their elo- 
 quence to boaft, but only fome of the little gurgling 
 noife that is made in their eddy. But (hould fome 
 of your friends flatter you, that yours refemblcs a 
 , it can only be like the artificial one at Vaux- 
 
 hall,
 
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 hall, formed of Cornifti ore; that certainly makes a 
 very great noife, and a very ftrong impreffion on 
 many of the learned fpectators, who view it with 
 the eye of admiration and rapture. 
 
 Indeed you have very few, if any, of the efiemials 
 that compofe a good orator, or a (hrewd flatefman. 
 You have all Lord Lauderdale's buftle, and all his 
 pertnefs, without being equally (killed in his moft 
 amazing knowledge of the pens and ink of office, 
 and the topography of French territory. In fomc 
 points, however, you are equal ; in a true know- 
 ledge of the French mind, and of the real imerefts 
 of the Britifti empire. 
 
 And, Sir, however you may flatter yourfelf that 
 you can bias the public, as the young partner in the 
 old firm, that was formerly the trencher friends, and 
 now the ungrateful opponents, nay perfecutors, of 
 the Royal Timon ; there is both loyalty and good-fenfe 
 in the generous mind of the people at large, to 
 fpurn the infidious fchemes of certain reformers, that 
 would make his philanthropic embarrafTments a fac- 
 tious vehicle for royal defamation. 
 
 Inftead of meanly and cruelly endeavouring to 
 render his Royal Highnefs unpopular, when the torch 
 of Hymen had fcarce lighted him to the altar ; what, 
 Sir, ought to have been your conducl, as a youth 
 lately married yourfelf, on this folemn occafion ? No 
 difference of fentiment on political topics ought to 
 
 have
 
 have drawn you into fuch an indecorous ftep, as, 
 firft to join the general voice of approbation at the. 
 royal marriage, and not at the fame time have 
 enabled his Royal Highnefs, by adminiftering a 
 fweet oblivious antidote, to wipe off all incum- 
 brance, and all retrofpecl:; that he might enjoy all 
 the felicity of his new ftate, pure and unalloyed 
 by the rancour of hollow friendlhip and commifer- 
 ating malignity ! 
 
 Had his Royal Highnefs patronized your wretched 
 Reform plan ! Had he, by that means, convulfed 
 the public mind! Had he made the crown fit uneafy 
 on his father's brow ! Had he deprived the friends 
 of the conftitution of every hope, and himfelf of 
 every future profpecl, to fway the fceptre of his an- 
 ceftors, in the courfe of nature, with the fame 
 falutary prerogatives as they poffefled, for the ge- 
 neral welfare! Had he done all this, his Royal 
 Highnefs, perhaps, would have met with no oppo- 
 fition, in the payment of his debts, from your fide 
 of the Houfe; but, on the contrary, eulogiums 
 would have been poured forth on the laudable 
 foibles of his generous nature, and his innate 
 goodnefs of heart ! He, who could neither view 
 diftrefs without fympathy, nor permit the ingenious 
 artift to go unencouraged and unrewarded ! 
 
 How would you have then declaimed, Sir, about 
 the policy and the abfolute necefiity of liquidating 
 
 every
 
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 every demand that had occurred before his nup- 
 tials ; and have appealed to the feelings of all, 
 whether, when a youth that had been indifcreet, 
 from the overflowings of a feeling heart, on his 
 entering into a ftate of wedlock with an object that 
 all approved, mould not have every impediment 
 to his conjugal happinefs removed, and every former 
 difagreeable idea erafed from his memory, on fuch 
 a joyful event ! An event that, on the falutary 
 conduct of Parliament, now depend, perhaps, not 
 only the coming felicity of the Prince, but the 
 fafety and the credit of the monarchy itfelf, in a 
 future reign. 
 
 But becaufe his Royal Highnefs, like the Duke 
 of Portland, and other real patriots, detached him- 
 felf from your party, when it became a reforming 
 faction ; the Britifh Timon, with the beft of hearts, 
 is to be goaded by every reformer within and 
 without the doors of Parliament, as if he had 
 committed one of the moft enormous actions againft 
 the liberties of his country ! He is to be hunted 
 down in every Jacobin print, and by every re- 
 forming projector that can write or fpeak; for no 
 other reafon, whatever may be the pretext, than 
 that he refufed to league with a band of men, who 
 Aviih to get into power, like Orleans, Fayette, and 
 Mirabeau, by convulfing the conftitution of their 
 country ! 
 
 Oh,
 
 Oh, ye who fmcerely love the monarchy of 
 Britain, watch with a moft jealous eye the defigns 
 of thofe who are now tearing, by piece meal the 
 character of your future Sovereign ! A Prince, 
 whofe only foible has been the generous difpofi- 
 tion of his nature ! A Prince, Sir, of whom many 
 of your friends ufed to exclaim, at the doors of 
 Carlton Houfe : 
 
 *' Come, fhall we in, and tafte Lord Timon's bounty ? 
 
 He, fure, outgoes the very heart of kindnefs: 
 
 * He pours it out. Plutus, the god of gold, 
 
 *' Is but his (reward. No meed but he repays 
 
 * Seven-fold above itfelf. No gift to him 
 
 e But breeds the giver a return exceeding 
 
 " All ufe of quittance. The nobltjl mind be carrlet 
 
 " That ever govern V man /" 
 
 It is impofllble, indeed, to view your conduct, 
 and that of feveral of your confederates, in regard 
 to his Royal Highnefs's incumbrances, without 
 feeling the utmoft indignation. Becaufe he will 
 not come into your political wake, you would wifh 
 to drift htm upon the bleak mores of Cornwall or 
 Wales, in an ignoble exile! You would wilh to 
 drive him, and his royal confort, from the capital, 
 for feveral years, to liquidate certain demands, 
 which the majority of the creditors, I can venture 
 to affirm, would not wilh to be liquidated by any 
 fuch harm or rigorous fteps, as to fee his Royal 
 
 Highnefs
 
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 Highnefs, morn of his beams, a reclufe in any of 
 the diftant counties; for how could he retain his 
 fplendour upon 60,000 1. per annum in the vici- 
 nity of the metropolis ? 
 
 It was well remarked by Mr. Fox, that the duty 
 of Parliament to the Prince of Wales, and to the 
 Public, was the fame; for, in confulting his digni- 
 ty, they confulted the public intereft. Pity it is, 
 however, that he did not at the fame time really 
 confult the dignity of his Royal Highnefs, when he 
 recommended that he iliould, with his lovely bride, 
 retire upon 60,000 1. per annum for feveral years ! 
 How can Mr. Fox, who owned that it was neceflary 
 to fupport the fplendour of royalty, as an eflential 
 part of the conftitution, reconcile the curtailment of 
 more than half of his Royal Highnefs 's income, as 
 contributing to the maintenance of that neceflary 
 fplendour ? 
 
 We are yet to learn, Sir, if ever Mr. Fox regu- 
 larly devoted any part of his own income to the ftricl 
 and rapid liquidation of his debts ; much lefs the 
 greateft portion of it. And therefore the flory of the 
 frail lady, which he told, that hoped to atone for her 
 own faults, by her marked difapprobation of them 
 in others, and which he applied to his Royal High- 
 nefs, can never be admired, when coming from his 
 lips, either for its candour or liberal aptitude. 
 
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 Ail that fpeech of Mr. Fox, indeed, was more like 
 the trimming orations of Lord Lanfdovvne, teeming 
 fo much with the inconfiftency of affirmation and 
 negation, than the clear and manly fentiments of 
 one who \vas truly grateful, as he faid, for the per- 
 fonal notice and kindnefs with which his Royal 
 Highnefs had fometimes honoured him. How he, 
 who was never very urgent about paying any debt, 
 could have the front to affirm, that the people would 
 fee no atonement for palt imprudence in his Royal 
 Highnefs's paying 25,000!. per annum towards the 
 reduction of his debts, is really pad all the compre- 
 henfion of every plain-thinking man! 
 
 Can this be believed from the mouth of Mr. Fox ? 
 He, who for many, many years was reported to pay 
 no creditors at all, although often wallowing in the 
 fpoils of Newmarket and Brookes's 1 And yet he, of 
 all men living, will not allow, that nearly one-fifth 
 of the Prince's income being regularly appropriated 
 to his creditors, that the public could fee no atone- 
 ment forpaft imprudence, by fuch a facrificel The 
 infmuation was as unjuft as it was fplenetic, illi- 
 beral, and ungenerous. 
 
 I have no doubt, Sir, but the creditors of the 
 oppofuion at large would deem themfelves very 
 happy, were they to receive all their demands, by a 
 gradual difcharge, from one-fifth of all their incomes 
 being ftridly and conftantly appropriated to that 
 
 purpofe,
 
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 purpofe. And the public, as well as their creditors, 
 would, in that cafe, confefs that they had made 
 every honourable atonement for any pail impruden- 
 cies of which they had been guilty. 
 
 But is it not fomewhat aftonifhing, Sir, that moft 
 of you gentlemen of the oppofition feel more for 
 the creditors of the Heir Apparent, than either they 
 do themfelves, or than your party do for their own 
 creditors! I am confident, that if your friends flnewed 
 but half that folicitude for the quick difcharge of 
 their own debts, which they have lately (hewn for 
 thofe of his Royal Highnefs, they would make a 
 very numerous, and a very patient body of men, 
 very happy indeed ! 
 
 But there was a time, Sir, when your friends, like 
 Timon's trencher-friends, were not by any means fo 
 anxious : 
 
 " Then they would fmile, and fawn upon his DEBTS, 
 " And take down ib' intereft in their glutinous MAWS!'* 
 
 Mr. Fox admitted, that the fplendour of royalty 
 was not only neceflary to monarchy, but to all dates, 
 even to a republic ; and that it mould extend beyond 
 the monarch to thofe around him, and brighten the 
 circle within which he ftood. Such being granted, 
 he endeavours however to do this axiom away, in the 
 pure ftile of Lord Lanfdowne, by admitting it only 
 as a general propofition, fubjed to all the modifica- 
 C 2 tions
 
 tions, or reforms, of times and circumftances. And 
 of fuch modifications, owing to certain politic, and 
 not public, reafons, he and his friends, Sir, arrogate 
 to themfelves the fitnefs, both as to the period, as 
 well as to the occafion ! 
 
 Were the revenue of the Heir Apparent not 
 founded upon precedent, nor the neceflity of the 
 fplendour of royalty admitted : Had the fettlement 
 of 113,000!. per annum, which his royal grand- 
 father enjoyed fifty years ago, been ever objected 
 to as too large : Did the annual revenue of his 
 Royal Highnefs rife or fall with times and circum- 
 ftances, like lands or flocks: Then, indeed, Mr. 
 Fox might have talked of modifications - 9 and you, 
 Sir, fpeak as you did, of reducing the Prince's fplen- 
 dour to a fcale with the general means. 
 
 But as this is not the cafe, your comparifon of him 
 to a pcrfon in private life, curtailing his expences to 
 his means, is no ways applicable to his Royal High- 
 nefs ; who, however flourishing the country, obtains 
 not a guinea more than his fettled revenue ; where- 
 as, a private gentleman, if his eftate increafe in 
 value, enjoys every milling of the additional in- 
 come. 
 
 Now mod of the eftates in Britain have increafed 
 their rent-roll to treble, or at lead double to what 
 they were half a century ago, when Frederick Prince 
 of Wales enjoyed 113,000!. per annum by univerfal 
 
 confent t i
 
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 content; while you would attempt to fix the indif- 
 penfable fplendour of the Heir Apparent to that for- 
 mer pittance, without any increafe whatever! 
 
 Is this fair? Is this loyal ? Is this either honour- 
 able or juft ? It can only be folved, however, by 
 what you faid in another part of your fpeech, Sir, 
 that " you wifhed to reduce thofe trappings of 
 ftate," the fplendour of royalty. As this ia,; cer- 
 tainly, therefore, a branch of your plan of reform, 
 every one can perceive whether you are any thing 
 more than the mouth advocate of monarchy, and whe- 
 ther or not democracy is not fomewhat rooted in 
 youi breaft. 
 
 .Surely, if the dignity and fplendour of the fta- 
 tion of the Heir Apparent is to be kept up in a 
 iimilar ftile to what it was fifty years fince, which 
 all but two or three reformers in parliament agree 
 to, his income ought to be at leaft doubled, if we 
 are to judge by the comparative value of money, 
 or even by that ftaple which regulates every other 
 article of life, the price of wheat, in the two differ- 
 ent aeras. 
 
 Fifty years ago, Sir, the beft wheats were from 
 28 s. to 295. now they are from 68s. to 705. 
 This is more than double. Another article of life, 
 coals, was then from 248. to 26s. per chaldron 
 now they are, on the yearly average, double. Butcher's 
 meat was then from 2d.to3d. per Ib. now it is 
 
 from
 
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 from 6d. to pd. Thus the three great effentials of 
 coals, wheat, and butcher's meat, are raifed in fifty 
 years to double the price. And all liquors, whether 
 manufactured by fermentation or diftillation, whe- 
 ther home or foreign made, bear fully as great a pro- 
 portion of increafe. Befides all this, workmen' and 
 iervants' wages too, and many forts of apparel, fur- 
 niture, and conveniencies of life, have had at leaft a 
 fimilar rife ; while you, Sir, in the wonderful ebul- 
 lition of your reforming loyalty, would tie his 
 Royal Highnefs down to the old annual fum of 
 ioo,oool. which could, by no means, go a greater 
 length in 1795, than 40,000!. did in 1745! 
 
 After having proved, Sir, that all the articles of 
 life are at leaft doubled during the two different pe- 
 riods; the next thing to be confidered is, the ability 
 of the people to pay a much greater fum now, to 
 maintain the fplendour of royalty, than they were 
 enabled to do half a century ago. If the national 
 debt be increafed to quintuple its former amounr, 
 the means are not only likewife increafed in a much 
 greater proportion, to pay the intereft, but to defray 
 ihe vaft additional expence of Goverment: While 
 the great body of the people, at the fame time, are 
 much better cloathed, much better fed, much better 
 lodged, and can afford to indulge themfelves in much 
 greater luxuries of every kind than their anceilors 
 could in thofe days; when they, not only without 
 
 murmur,
 
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 murmur, but with all the liberality that belonged to 
 the old Engliih loyal chara&cr, allowed his Royal 
 Highnefs's grandfather ioo,oool. per annum, be- 
 fides the revenues arifing from the duchy of Cornwall. 
 
 The people, Sir, are now much better able, even in 
 the midlt of an expentive, but indifpenfable war, 
 to contribute 200,000!. per annum to the fupport of 
 their Royal Highnelfes, than they were fifty years 
 ago to pay one-third of the fum to a fimilar pur- 
 pofe. 
 
 As every candid perfon, upon the lead reflection, 
 muft admit this to be true, what can we think of 
 your paltry extenfion of generofity, when you faid, 
 that it was firft -your intention to have propofed, 
 that the whole of the Prince's income fhould amount 
 only to 100,000 1. but as his grandfather had been 
 fiated to have enjoyed that fum, in addition to the 
 revenue of the duchy of Cornwall, you were willing, 
 in the prefent inftance, to go all the length of the 
 liberality of former times. You, Sir, were willing ! 
 Willing to do what ? To grant 13,000!. per annum 
 more! Oh, what a ftretch of liberality for a narrow 
 mind, and a cold heart ! Oh, what a triumph for a 
 vindictive fpirit, in condefcending to allow fuch a 
 princely addition ! Oh, what an exultation for a 
 reformer, to get thus the future Sovereign of Great 
 Britain fo far within his fangs, as to afford the uf- 
 niolt gratification to every republican within the 
 
 three
 
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 three kingdoms ; foiling his reputation, and wound- 
 ing our future hopes, in colouring a noble foible as a 
 grofs crime ! 
 
 In ftaining the foible of too great a liberality, with 
 all the odium that can be attached to guilt ; and fo 
 blinding the public eye from viewing the fair ftate 
 of the queftion with impartiality, by railing the hue 
 and cry of Jacobin papers, Jacobin pamphlets, and 
 Jacobin tongues, againft thefe juvenile profufions of 
 an excellent Prince, whofe only error, if any other 
 than an amiable venial error it can be called, has 
 been, in not living, during the hey-day of the blood, 
 ftrictly within the too narrow income hitherto al- 
 lowed him by Parliament, for maintaining the necef- 
 fary fplendour, as Mr. Fox faid, in which all delight! 
 
 How different was the conduct of his Royal High- 
 nefs to many of your political friends! Has he not, 
 when they have been oppreffed, and their name flur- 
 red by inability to keep their credits, faid of feveral 
 of them, in the utmoft perplexity of their embar- 
 raffments, as Timondid? 
 
 * I am not of that feather tojhalte off 
 *' My friend, when he moft needs me! I do know him 
 ( " A gentleman that vvrell deferves a help, 
 Which he (hall have. I'll pay the debt, and free kirn ! 
 " Being then enfranchis'd, bid him come to me, 
 ' 'TV's not enough to help the feeble uj>, 
 But tofupport him after!" 
 
 Yet,
 
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 Yet, Sir, how is his Royal Highnefs now requited? 
 By almoft every one of you advifing in Parliament, 
 that it Ihould be recommended to him to retire from 
 that fplendour, which Mr. Fox acknowledged was fo 
 necelTary to monarchy and the national dignity; and 
 feclude himfelf from elegant fociety, in fome remote 
 province, where he might exift in ruftic comfort, if 
 he could not live in that princely grandeur, in which 
 all delight, and which is fo eflential to the true dig- 
 nity of the empire. Yet, Sir, you would all now 
 drive him, like Timon, beyond the walls of Athens; 
 to make him, who was born to govern millions, a 
 royal mifanthrope ! You would force him, to ex- 
 claim of you and others, with Timon: 
 
 Who dares, who dares, 
 
 " In purity of manhood, (land upright, 
 
 " And fay this man's a flatterer? If one be 
 
 " So are they all. For each degree of fortune 
 
 " Is fmooth'd by that below. All is oblique ; 
 
 " There's nothing level in our curfed natures 
 
 " But direft villany. Then be abhorr'd 
 
 *' All feafts, focieties, and throngs of men !" 
 
 It is very impolitic, and even dangerous to mo- 
 narchy in future, thus to endeavour to convert the 
 milk of human kindnefs into the bitter gall of dif- 
 guft ! To wound the feelings of a generous Prince, 
 fo far as to impel him to fequefter himfelf from the 
 elegant haunts of man, for actions that difplayed 
 D only
 
 only the extremes of a moft beneficent heart ! To 
 blight all the excellent, but, perhaps, over-luxuriant 
 bloflbm of his nature; when the philanthropic fruit 
 was juft beginning to fet ! If there be one error that 
 is more excufable, in a youthful Prince, than any 
 other, Sir, it is a munificent profufion. The heart 
 that expanded to relieve the wants of the circles that 
 hovered around Catleton Houfe, will never be con- 
 traded in promoting the eafe and affluence of a great 
 people, whenever that moment arrives, in the due 
 courfe of time, in which he is called upon to afiume 
 the imperial fceptre. 
 
 Every unprejudiced man of fenfe acknowledges, 
 that there is not a more accomplished gentleman 
 than his Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales; whe- 
 ther we coniider the talents, the virtues, or the 
 graces, that he poflefles. Your political friends have 
 formerly given fuch ample teftimonies to thefe 
 truths, that it would be needlefs here to recapitulate 
 what is fo generally known, from their own numerous 
 reports. Although fome of them, indeed, feem now 
 like the painter that daubed a beautiful picture, by 
 Health, when out of employ; in order that he might 
 be fent for by the owner, to clean that which he 
 himfelf had fo recently befpattered and disfigured. 
 
 As too great a liberality, therefore, has been his 
 only foible, Sir, or rather too expenfive an ornament 
 for even his Royal Highnefs any longer to wear, 
 
 without
 
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 without Tome flight alteration ; you ihould not, even 
 in the irafcible eagernefs of placing your ladder of 
 reform againft his bofom, attempt to make every 
 jewel from his perfon ; and endeavour to perfuade 
 him, and the country, that pafte will be as valuable, 
 and as becoming for him to wear, as thofe bril- 
 liants in which, as Mr. Fox fays, all delight, and which 
 ufed to adorn every former Prince of Wales with fo 
 radiant and attractive a luftre. 
 
 Although, Sir, you might, perhaps, in your re- 
 forming mood, give the preference to Dovey's arti- 
 ficial diamonds for the crown ornaments, in place 
 of thofe ancient real brilliants in which almoft all 
 others delight : And though you and fome of your 
 friends may unfortunately miilead the public mind 
 for a moment, as to his Royal Highnefs's venial 
 irregularities ; I can venture to affirm, that every 
 human being, of common fenfe, and of a liberal 
 mind, who has either part the hey-day of the bloody 
 or is nearly approaching to itj for I do not mean to 
 appeal to thofe partial and interested judges that 
 are now within its vortex however I might (ingle 
 you out, Sir, as an aftonilhing exception Any one, 
 and almoft every one of thefe will overlook the foi- 
 ble; and fome will even admire it, as the harbinger 
 of every excellent principle that royalty can poficfs, 
 when the fermentation of the paflions has fubfided, 
 D 2 and
 
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 and the heart becomes ratified and exalted by the 
 generous ebullition. 
 
 How then muft every loyal and penetrating mind 
 fpurn at the bafe attempts of fome, through the ran- 
 cour of defign, and others through the falle policy of 
 national prudence, that would recommend, perhaps, a 
 twelve years exile from the capital to the royal pair; 
 and the annihilation of that fplendour, which is fo 
 efTentially neceflary to monarchy, and in which all 
 people fo much delight ! 
 
 Thofe men would treat the Heir Apparent as is done 
 the royal fucceflbr in Turkey, and other places, 
 by confining him until a demife. They would exile 
 him from all thofe elegant circles of life with which 
 he ought to hold a conftant communication ; inftead 
 of him and his royal confort becoming the glafs of 
 fafhion, the patrons of the arts, and the encouragers 
 of manufactures ! 
 
 Were the Prince of Wales even a Duke of Bed- 
 ford, he might exift in a garret, like Andrew Mar- 
 veil ; or live in all the penury of old Elwes, if he 
 pleafed, without any attendants. Were he not of 
 the blood-royal, no houfehold eftablilhment, upon 
 any fcale, would be abfolutely and indifpenfably ne- 
 ceflary. But the royal revenue is given him for the 
 purpofes of national fplendour; as he is that auguft 
 perfonage who is fuppofed to keep up the honours 
 and hofphality of the land. Befidesthis, another rea- 
 
 fon
 
 fon that he is allowed more than any other branches 
 of the royal family, excepting his auguft fovereign, 
 is, that as he is the neareft allied in birth, fo he 
 ought to be the neareft in fplendour to the monarch 
 whom he is to fucceed ; that, by thus being habitu- 
 ated to princely magnificence, the regal fplendour 
 might not, all at once.burft upon his underftanding; 
 and fo far dazzle him, when he came to the crown, 
 as to make him forget, for a moment, the exalted 
 rank of his new fituation. This the dignity as well 
 as policy of the country requires; and the fplendour 
 of the country will fupport that dignity. But if he 
 is to be (horn of his beams by the reformers and 
 diffenters in parliament, who fay to him, as Goneril 
 and Regan did to Lear, about the number of his at- 
 tendants; 
 
 " What need you five and twenty, ten, or five ' 
 Nay, what needs one ?" 
 
 All the true friends of the conftitution, as well as his 
 Royal Highnefs, may exclaim with Lear; 
 
 " Oh, reafonnot the need I our baled beggars 
 
 " Are in the pooreft things fuperfluous : 
 
 " Allow not nature more than nature needs, 
 
 " Man's life is cheap as beads!" : 
 
 If once this dodlrine is inculcated among the 
 million, that the royal family ought to be diminifhed 
 
 in
 
 in its fplendour, and live like private gentlemen, 
 you, ariftocratic democrats, Sir, are not aware of 
 the ruin you might ultimately bring upon your 
 own heads. The mafs will reafon, in that cafe, 
 thus: That if their fuperiors admit that the royal 
 family mould live like common gentlemen, they 
 fee no reafon why they iliould not live like com- 
 mon gentlemen thernfelves ; and, confequently, all 
 ranks would become equally miferable, famifhed, and 
 enflaved as they are now in France ! 
 
 take but degree away, 
 
 " And hark, what difcord follows!" 
 
 It is not more unwife, therefore, than unjuft, 
 Sir, in you, as well as it is infuking, to fay, that 
 after his income, and almoft all his fplendour was 
 given up, that there would ftill be a fufficienr pro- 
 vifion for the eafe and comfort of two perfins in 
 retirement, who had other refources, to which they 
 might look, than rank and revenue! If, Sir, in 
 fuch a retirement, he could qualify himfelf by re- 
 flection, for the duties of his future ftation, as you 
 had the effrontery to alfert, it would, probably, be 
 by making him a mifanthrope, at the ingratitud , 
 illiberality, and calloufnefs of man ! And, whenever 
 he came to the throne from fuch an exile, he muft 
 be more than man, indeed, if all his milk of hu- 
 man kindnefs, were not curdled by his indignant 
 
 gail,
 
 gall. No, Sir, he muft not lofe his magnificence 
 for a moment, unlefs we would wifh to hazard che- 
 fecurity of the crown in a future reign, arid even 
 degrade it now. For mould the fplendour of his 
 Royal Highnefs be eclipfed, the radiance of majefty 
 will perhaps be, in part, obfcured; as each, in 
 their due orbit, reflects a luftre on the other. 
 
 That fuch a man as Mr. Curwen, Sir, mould 
 talk of the prince " retiring to regain public con- 
 fidence," which he has never loft, but among the 
 reformers, and by their arts, does not furprizc 
 me. For this Carlifle reprefentative difcourfed 
 about cheap governments like cheap clothes, 
 when he alledged that monarchy was not the 
 cheapeft government. It is true that he did not 
 feel himfelf difpofed to compare ours with the Rag 
 Fair government of France; but he triumphantly 
 extolled the Monmouth-dreet government of Ame- 
 rica ; (almoft all the laws and constitutions of 
 which, however, were given her by Great Britain,) 
 as cheaper by far than ours. I thpught that the 
 fatal and dear-bought experience of France had, 
 by this time, iickened every man of common fenfe, 
 from running after cheap governments. And when 
 America branches out into various ftates like 
 Europe, which fooner or later (he will undoubt- 
 edly do: or when we fee her cheap government, 
 
 even
 
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 even twenty years after Waftiington's death, then 
 We may fomewhat judge of it, but not till then. 
 But of all the cheap, ftrong, durable, eafy, and be- 
 coming conftitutional habits that ever was falhioned 
 to fit mankind, and fhield his perfon from every 
 tempeft of adverfity and oppreffion; there has been 
 none ever yet (haped, like the admirable one of 
 Great Britain ; however much, Sir, you, Mr. 
 Curwen, and others would wi(h to fhorten its 
 waift, and lengthen its pockets; to cabbage all that 
 which you had cut out, as comfortable remnants 
 for your own wear. 
 
 I am not aftonifhed, therefore, that fuch as Mr. 
 Curwen, and you, are eager for the princely fun 
 of royalty to fet for a few years. But that Mr. 
 Fox ihould recommend fuch a fevere and impolitic 
 mode, as if he had ever retired himfelf, although he 
 had often the opportunity to do it with much 
 greater propriety, is what hurts me much, as his 
 fympathy is ftifled by his policy. 
 
 Allowing that he had talked, as he faid, of the 
 prince as an abftract and hypothetical perfon for 
 notices, and kindneffes perfonally beftowed ; this 
 was a ftrange way of repaying perfonal kindnefs, 
 however, by infinuating abftracl: calumny ! It was 
 not unlike Timon's ingrate, Lucullus, who, when 
 his munificent patron was embarrafled, remarked; 
 
 " Alas,
 
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 " Alas, a good lord ! a noble gentleman 'tis, if he would not 
 " keep fo good a houfe. Many a time and often I have dined with 
 " him, and told him on't; and come again to fupper to him, on 
 " purpofe to have him fpend lefs, and yet he would embrace no 
 " counfel, take no warning by my coming! Every man has bis 
 " fault, and bvnefty is his." 
 
 Mr. Fox mod abfurdly advanced, that his Royal 
 Highnefs would be degraded, by paying only 
 25,000!. towards the liquidation of his debts ! Is 
 this degrading ? To fecure the payment of the 
 whole fum, under the faith of an Act of Parliament, 
 and to appropriate nearly one-fifth of his income 
 to their gradual liquidation? By thus difcharging 
 the debts, yet flill retaining four-fifths of his 
 fplendour, in which all delight, not only for the 
 benefit of trade, but the honour of the Royal Fa- 
 mily, and the dignity of a great and flourifhing em- 
 pire ! Yet this, Sir, in Mr. Fox's idea, is degrading ? 
 I fuppofe you would both be happy at feeing him 
 living only upon the revenues of his Cornim eftate, 
 becaufe he does not approve, perhaps, of your plan 
 of reform. There may lie the rub. 
 
 But were you fuffered to begin your demU 
 Gallic plan, Sir, with the Prince of Wales ; perhaps 
 you not aware, that in reforming the palace, fome 
 of the low reformers might think that the Manfion- 
 houfe was too large - 3 St. Paul's too high ; Guild- 
 hall, and the Bank, ufelefs; the Courts of juftice 
 E deteftible;
 
 deteftible ; the Parim Churches, eye-fores to the new 
 morality ; and Wharfs, Ware-houfes, and Counting- 
 houfes, entirely ufelefs ! 
 
 While this opinion was gaining a rapid foot- 
 ing in the metropolis, every city, town, borough, 
 and village in the kingdom, would follow the 
 laudable example j and crown the whole work, by 
 a general divifion of property, and a confequent 
 reduction of the expenditure of all men of rank ; 
 among which you, Sir, would not be fpared, be- 
 caufe you began with reforming Royalty, by a bafe 
 diminution of His Royal Highnefs's income. 
 
 But as this will not probably happen, fo long 
 as the country at large enjoy their prefent liberty 
 and property, under the gentle dominion of the 
 illuftrious Houfe of Brunfwicki how muft you 
 have bluflied, Sir, at the liberal conduft and pointed 
 retorts of your friend Mr. Lambton, in allufion to 
 your wifti for his Royal Highnefs condefcending 
 to gratify your levelling pride, by exiling him- 
 felf from the metropolis. 
 
 That gentleman behaved loyal, generous, fpi- 
 rited, and proper. He faid, like a man, that he 
 was not fo weak, when a great occafion called on 
 him, as to fhrink at breaking through the en- 
 chantment of party and connection; and there- 
 fore he would own, that Mr. Pitt's proportion 
 met his ideas, as fully adequate to the dignity and 
 
 character
 
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 character of the Prince, and the interefts of the 
 people. While, at the fame time, he remarked, Sir, 
 that, to keep up your confiftency, you mould have 
 followed up your motion, by propofing to exik 
 his Royal Higbnefs from his palace , at once, and diveft 
 him of every dignity ! 
 
 You, and your friends have on all occafions, 
 this feffions, lugged in the words, ftarving poor, by 
 head and moulders, and croaked about their wants, 
 without making, however, any one motion in 
 parliament for their relief, or doing any one 
 generous act of publicity towards alleviating their 
 diftrefies! And, as to your private donations, I 
 fuppofe they are of fo very private a nature, that 
 they can never be divulged by any one diftrefied 
 family in the kingdom. The poor may fay with 
 Timon, of you and all fuch croakers, that you 
 would 
 
 let the famiOiM flefh flide from the bone, 
 
 " Ere thou relieve a beggar !" 
 
 The reafon, therefore, of your mouth pity, with* 
 out really fympathifing for the cravings of that 
 aperture of the poor, is very difcernable. You 
 want to irritate the lower clafles againft govern- 
 ment, by perfuading them that adminiftration was 
 the fole caufe of the long and fevere froft, which 
 2 has
 
 has given fome foundation for monopoly to grind 
 and opprefs them. 
 
 His Royal Highnefs could not expedr. therefore, 
 an increafe of fettlement on his marriage, without 
 another oppofition profe elegy on the poor, from 
 a fet of men that really feel as little for their 
 diftrefles, as they do for the embarraflments of the 
 worthy Heir Apparent. 
 
 But if ever any one ftep could obliterate the 
 liberal foible of His Royal Highnefs, in every 
 generous bofom, it was the truly refpeclful and 
 refigned exprefllons contained in his meflage to 
 the houfe of commons ! When all the neft of plun- 
 dering equality is difpelled, and liberty and pro- 
 perty (hall again enjoy their rights, in perfect fe- 
 curity, the following fpeech will be, as it is indeed 
 now, univerfally extolled ! 
 
 " His Royal Highnefs," Mr. Anftruther was au- 
 thorized by him to fay, " was defirous to acquiefce 
 in whatever might be the fentiments of the Houfe, 
 both with refpecl to the future regulation of his 
 expenditure, and the appropriation of any part of 
 the income they might think fit to grant him, 
 for the difcharge of the debt. 
 
 " His wifli, on the occafion, was intirely to 
 confult the wifdom of parliament. 
 
 7< He was perfectly difpofed to acquiefce in what- 
 ever
 
 ever abatement of fplendour they might judge to 
 be neceflary, from a view of his fituation. 
 
 <e He defired nothing but what the country 
 might cordially be induced to think he ought to 
 to have. 
 
 " His Royal Highnefs, in fine, lefc all matters 
 relative to the regulation of his eftablilhment, and 
 the payment of his debts, to the wifdom and 
 difcretion of parliament : 
 
 " With this alTurance, that whatever meafures 
 they adopt, would meet with his hearty concur- 
 rence !" 
 
 After fuch a declaration, I wonder how you, 
 Sir, and fome of your friends, had the unbecoming 
 rancour ftill to infift, that the meffage mould meet 
 with a pofitive denial ! And that becaufe his Royal 
 Highnefs declared he would concur with the mea- 
 fures of parliament, you would perfuade the houfe 
 to make him a Royal Wanderer from the metro- 
 polis, with his fplendour extinguimed, and his 
 dignity intirely funk into that of a plain noble, 
 man, for ten or twelve long years, as Duke of Corn- 
 wall, or Earl of Carrick ! 
 
 Mr. Fox too, that old frail lady, faid, that 
 the fplendour of the prince was better fupported 
 by dignity of mind, than magnificence and pro- 
 fufion of expence ! Would he had Ihewed a candid 
 dignity of mind on the prefent bufinefs, by way 
 
 of
 
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 of illuflrating, even in words, what he himfelf could 
 never exemplify in actions ! For the too bountiful 
 Heir Apparent has often looked, as if he faid to that 
 gentleman and his friends, with Timon, 
 
 " Methinks I could deal kingdoms to my friends, 
 ; And ne'er be weary !" 
 
 How liberal, on the contrary, have the warm fup- 
 porters of the Monarchy behaved on this occafion ? 
 And how loyally, liberally, and properly, have his 
 Majefty's Minifters likewife acted to this amiable but 
 perfecuted character ! 
 
 Mr. Pitt and Mr. Dundas have fo peculiarly dif- 
 tinguifhed themfelves in their attachment to the true 
 interefts of his Royal Highnefs, and thofe of the 
 country, which Mr. Fox, while he owns that they are 
 infeparable, wi flies, however, in a great degree to 
 feparate; that every friend to the conflitution ap- 
 plauds their conduct. 
 
 But, as to the demeanour of you, Sir, and others, 
 it may be fitly compared, indeed, to that of Timon's 
 friends ! 
 
 ' Whofe thanklefs natures oh, abhorred fpirits ! 
 " Not all the whips of heaven are large enough- 
 ' What ! to him ! 
 
 ' Whofe ftar-like noblenefs gave life and influence 
 ' To their whole being ? I am rapt, and cannot 
 ' Cover the monftrous bulk of their ingratitude 
 With any fize of words!" 
 
 Before
 
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 Before I touch upon the Chancellor of the Exche- 
 quer's dutiful and patriotic behaviour to the Prince 
 of Wales on his marriage, it will reflect hereditary 
 credit on him to obferve, that by fuch a conftituti- 
 onal demeanour, he is but following the footfteps of 
 his immortal father; whofe MAIDEN SPEECH, on the 
 29th of April 1736, was ajuft eulogy on his prefent 
 Majefty's father, the then Prince of Wales, on his 
 recent marriage. As it is by no means inapplicable 
 now to his Royal Highnefs, as well as to his Auguft 
 Father, if it pleafe not you, Sir, it furely will be highly 
 gratifying to the public at large: 
 
 " I am really affected, faid Mr. Pitt, with the prof- 
 peel: of the bleflings to be derived to my country, 
 from this fo defirable and long defired meafure, the 
 marriage of his Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales. 
 
 " How great foever the joy of the public may be, 
 and very great it certainly is, in receiving this benefit 
 from his Majefty, it mud be inferior to that high fa- 
 tisfaftion which he himfelf enjoys in bellowing it ! 
 
 *' The marriage of a Prince of Wales, Sir, has at 
 all times been a matter of the higheft importance to 
 the public welfare, to prefent, and to future, genera- 
 tions! But at no time has it been a more important,, 
 a more dear consideration, than at this day; if a cha- 
 racter at once amiable and refpedtable, can embellifh 
 and even dignify the elevated rank of a Prince ot 
 
 Wales. 
 
 "His
 
 ( 3* ) 
 
 <c His Royal Highnefs's marriage, is a meafure 
 which the nation thought could never come too foon ; 
 becaufe it brings with it the promife of an additional 
 ftrength to the Proteftant Succeffion in his Majefty's 
 illuftrious and royal houfe. 
 
 " The fpirit of liberty dictated that fucceffion. 
 The fame fpirit now rejoices in the profpecl: of its 
 being perpetuated to the lateft pofterity. 
 
 " It rejoices in the wife and happy choice which 
 his Majefty has been pleafed to make, of a Princefs fo 
 amiably diftinguiihed in herfelf, fo illuftrious in the 
 merit of her family. 
 
 " Such, Sir, is the marriage for which our moft 
 humble acknowledgements are due to his Majefty. 
 
 " And may it afford the comfort of feeing the Royal 
 Family, numerous as I thank God it is, ftill growing 
 and riling up in a third [and now, we hope, in a 
 fifth j generation ! 
 
 " A Family, Sir, which I moft fincerely wifh may 
 be as immortal as thofe liberties and that conftitu- 
 tion it came to maintain!" 
 
 This being the opinion of one of the greateft and 
 beft of men who ever lived, that the marriage of a 
 Prince of Wales has at all times been a matter of the 
 higheft importance to the public welfare, to prefent, 
 and to future generations ! I (hall no longer dwell upon 
 the unjuftifiable and ungrateful conduct of you and 
 your reforming connections to his Royal Highnefs 
 
 on
 
 t 33 ) 
 
 on fuch an event; but point out the liberality of Mr. 
 Pitt, and likewife of Mr. Dundas, to that illuftrious 
 Prince whom you would exult in driving into exile! 
 A Prince whofe fteady friends cannot help pointing 
 to many of you this applicable fpeech: 
 
 ' Who can call him friend 
 
 " That dips i n the fame diih ? For to my knowing^ 
 " Ti.moH has been to this man as a father, 
 " And kept his credit with his bounteous purfe : 
 " Supported his eftate. Nay, Timon's money 
 * ' Has paid his men their wages. He ne'er drinks, 
 " But Timon's filver treads upon his lip! 
 " And yet, Oh fee thf monftroufnefs of man, 
 " When he looks out in an ungrateful fhape !" 
 
 How different has Mr. Pitt behaved to his Royal 
 Highnefs from what the republican herd of reformers 
 have done! Inftead of degrading and ruinous re- 
 trenchments, Mr. Pitt properly propofed to grant, as 
 well as referve, fuch a fplendid and magnificent 
 income, as became the dignity of a great:, powerful, 
 and wealthy empire to allow to the Heir Apparent of 
 the Crown. 
 
 It was Mr. Pitt's wifli to have no bafe niggardly 
 retrofpeft, when his Royal Highnefs had entered into 
 the facred bond of marriage, on the happy iflue of 
 which the prefent and the future generation were fo 
 deeply interefted. He propofed to grant his Royal 
 Highnef?, though confeffedly not an equivalent in- 
 F deed
 
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 deed, to what his Royal Grandfather enjoyed, at leaft 
 a greater fum. He wifhed to fet apart a certain por- 
 tion of that fum which the liberality of parliament 
 might grant, to liquidate gradually his debts, without 
 fuffering any great diminution of his fplendour, and 
 none of his dignity. He did not wilh to make retire- 
 ment an involuntrary conftraint, to brood over the 
 ingratitude and bafenefs of man! but to make it a 
 voluntary and elegant pleafure : That a fufceptible 
 mind might reflect in the bofom of his family, with a 
 calm and benignant freedom, and not with a compul- 
 fory morofenefs, ending in a rooted mifanthropy ! 
 
 He knew too well how to fet a juft national value 
 on the future felicity of the Prince, in which that of 
 the People was fo deeply interwoven ! He aimed at 
 enabling him to remove all clogs and embarraffments 
 from his mind, in his new and laudable ftate. And 
 he owned that it could not be effectually done, either 
 to the fatisfaftion of the creditors, or to the eafe and 
 comfort of their Royal Highnefles, or with any view 
 to certainty, except by enabling him, through the 
 fan&ion of Parliament, to allot out of the income fo 
 granted, a certain part; fo that the remainder would 
 ftill fupport the fplendour of the Heir Apparent to 
 the throne of Great Britain ! 
 
 The Conftitution, Sir, will never permit that a 
 Prince of Wales mould be living in this country 
 incog, whatever you may hope. Nor will we fuf- 
 
 fer
 
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 fer him to be driven to any cheap country in Eu- 
 rope for ten years, or one year, to gratify the ma- 
 levolence of any republican faction on earth ! 
 
 While the difcerning part of the kingdom ap- 
 plaud the minifter's conducl, the people at large are 
 beginning to open their eyes to the true and real 
 views of certain political characters, as to their 
 unmanly and illiberal treatment of their future 
 Sovereign. Certain men would wifh to make the 
 Crown, as Junius once faid, not fit for a gentleman 
 to wear. But as their arts are detected, it would 
 be treafon to the conflitution, not to expofe them 
 naked to the indignation of a much infulted Prince, 
 and a much abufed Public! 
 
 Would fuch a retrenchment as you propofed, 
 faid Mr. Pitt, prepare him for the throne of thefe 
 realms, to which, in the fulnefs of time, he may be 
 one day called ? Shall we, by taking no notice of 
 his Royal Highnefs's incumbrances, deprive him 
 of future dignity, credit, and happinefs ? What- 
 ever had happened, continued he, they had a com- 
 mon intereft in looking forward ! They had an in- 
 tereft in maintaining the character and the dignity 
 of the Prince of Wales, as a branch of that houfe ! 
 
 Befides, they would like wife do well to reflect, 
 that in the iffue of this dccifion, were involved the 
 credit of the hereditary monarchy, and confequently 
 the fafety of the country ! 
 
 F 2 In
 
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 In making future provifion, continued Mr. Pitt, 
 let us not prefent mifery and difcredit, which 
 would deftroy fplendour ; and leave the Prince 
 fubject to daily mortifications. Let us, he added, 
 nobly heal the misfortune; and however we may 
 lament the paft, let us, with the loyalty of patri- 
 otifm, and the patriotifm of loyalty, look forward 
 with hope and confidence to the future! 
 
 As a folid and permanent eftabli fitment, accord- 
 ing to Mr, Pitt, and every man of impartial fen- 
 libility, was a fecurity to the peace and tranquility 
 of the kingdom, Parliament will neither neglect 
 that bufmefs, nor will they diminifh any other 
 fplendour than that of the little, dirty malignity of 
 your own vindictive eye; which, if not fo wafp- 
 iflily ruddy as Robefpierre's, is certainly far lefs 
 ignoble than Fayette's. 
 
 The truth is, that having no talents to diftin- 
 guiQh yourfelf as a reforming merchant, that had 
 many mips in the Seine ; or a wholefale dealer in 
 this country upon your own bottom ; you are con- 
 tent to retail in the Commons, or fell by commif- 
 fion, all thofe damaged goods that no other pedlar 
 in politics has the effrontery to bring to market! 
 
 Having touched upon Mr. Pitt's conduct, Sir, 
 let us flightly add to it fome of the manly and clear 
 remarks of Mr. Dundas, on the fubject of the 
 Prince's affairs. 
 
 There
 
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 There is \vhat we call fuch a common fenfe view 
 of the objections in that gentleman's firft fpeech, 
 that it muft not be paffed over. He, on the ift 
 of June, among other matters, remarked, that if 
 Parliament mould vote the larger fum, without any 
 notice of the debts, they would vote a large fum 
 for the eafe and comfort of his Royal Highnefs, 
 lut which eafe and comfort he never would obtain ! For, 
 if Parliament did not come to his aid, by appro- 
 priating a large lhare of the eftablifhment to the 
 payment of his debts; it muft be evident, that from 
 the natural bent there is in mankind to take care 
 of their own interefts, his Royal Highneis's cre- 
 ditors would apply to the law for redrefs; and he 
 would be plunged into a fcene of the molt dreadful 
 and continual diftrefs and infult! It was therefore 
 abfolutely neceflary that provifion mould be made 
 for paying the- debts out of the fum allotted for 
 the eftablifhment. 
 
 Befides, it was impoflible for the Houfe to re- 
 fufe to comply with the requeft of the Prince of 
 Wales, to apply his income in fuch a manner, by 
 Jegiflative regulations, as would be moft conducive 
 to the dignity of his ftation, his perfonal comfort, 
 and the fecurity of his creditors. 
 
 Mr. Dundas, in giving this complete, though 
 brief view of the chief point at iffue, faid more to 
 the purpofe, in a few minutes, than you could do 
 
 in
 
 irTas many hours. Firmnefs, depth, perfpicuity, 
 and candour, appear to be that gentleman's' forte. 
 Spleen, prefumption, and tritenefs, aided by a pert 
 and verbofe confufion, is yours. You clothe com- 
 mon place in a tinfelled novelty; while your page, 
 Reform, walks by your fide, as a convenient drab. 
 Sometimes you turn the poor devil off, and fome- 
 times you are all flattery and fondnefs. During 
 this feflion, the craving jade has been fent adrift; 
 and now you are going to take her into high keep 
 in the country, during the recefs, that me may be 
 plump, attractive, faucy, and vociferous in town 
 next winter, mould it fuit your conveniency then, 
 Sir, to fport her figure again in St. Stephen's cha- 
 pel. 
 
 Mr. Anftruther, too, was very happy and pointed 
 on the oecaiion. In what related to the fplendour 
 and dignity of the Heir Apparent, refpe&ing the 
 kingdom, he faid, the public were much interefted 
 
 HIS DIGNITY AND IMPORTANCE WERE PART OF 
 
 THEIR CHARACTER, AND CONSEQUENTLY A PART 
 
 OF THEIR RIGHTS 
 
 I never heard any point, Sir, more neatly and 
 ilrongly given than this. You might twift, ramify, 
 or (hiver your fragile ideas about the Poor and Re- 
 form, or rather the poor reformers, for a twelve- 
 month, without indulging us with a combination 
 fo nervous or fo juft. 
 
 It
 
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 It is not without real regret, however, that I 
 have all this winter perceived a fixed plan among 
 the reformers, to fully the reputation of his Royal 
 Highnefs the Prince of Wales. This afTaiTmation 
 of his fame commenced, whenever a certain fepa- 
 rarion took place, and the idea of his marriage was 
 divulged. Slander walked abroad, at the very mo- 
 ment that fhe ihould have fkulked into her den. A 
 Jacobin prefs was let loofe upon that illuftrious 
 name in every diverfified form. At length pamph- 
 lets appeared ; and the common more of the di- 
 urnal prints was carefully raked for a dozen years 
 back, to collect all the filth which had been thrown 
 in during that period, and expofe it in one heap to 
 the public view. 
 
 In the front of this mafs of malevolence, Sir, it 
 is reported that another was thrown up by an old 
 pioneer, who had run many miles throughout the 
 rancour of his brain, to gather all the flander that 
 .has been heaped up by malice againft imprudent 
 youth. It is rank and bitter, like the grofs foil 
 on which it was gleaned ; and has certainly ferved 
 to manure fome reformers minds, in railing up 
 every additional noxious weed that can over-run 
 Royalty. 
 
 And that this common-place invective, Sir, might 
 be put in a greater ftate of requifition, among thofe 
 who exult at any obloquy which is levelled at the 
 
 Royal
 
 ( 40 } 
 
 Royal Family, the author is faid to have fdt down, 
 with much ftoic tranquility, and given himfelf a 
 very friendly drefling, by Obfervations on his own 
 Letter! Thus Mr. Blackball writes a Grub Street 
 epifUe againft his Royal Highnefs ; and, Proteus- 
 like, changing himfelf to Mr. Whitewafh, he if- 
 fues a Stone-cutter Street or Long Lane anathema 
 againft his own work ! That thus, between his 
 two battle-door pamphlets, he may the more fkil- 
 fully keep up and bandy about the fhuttle cock of 
 difaffeclcd abufe. 
 
 But, Sir, neither your oratorical fpieen, nor any 
 fuch fcribbling malevolence, can ever wound the 
 illuftrious Heir Apparent, for a foible, that is ge- 
 nerally more the effecls of an over-generous heart, 
 than Tpringlrig from any vicious propenfity. 
 
 When we confider the time too, as well as the 
 manner of thefe attacks, it is almoft unaccount- 
 able to imagine how the mofl refined malignity 
 can find a pretext for their unjuftifiable flander! 
 
 The immediate fucceflbr to the throne, after a 
 courfe of gaiety, which is common to almoft all 
 youth, invites an accomplimed Princefs over to 
 become his confort, by the unanimous confent of 
 the King, the Parliament, and the country. Both 
 Houfes, as well as the whole kingdom, fland 
 pledged, by their Addrefles, to make a fuitable 
 proviiion for the youthful couple. The embar- 
 
 ratfments
 
 ( 41 ) 
 
 raffments of his Royal Highnefs were univerfally 
 known, previous to their nuptials; but their mag- 
 nitude trebled, by the breath of flanderous ru- 
 mour. It is beyond the logic of any man,, there- 
 fore, but a reformer, to point out how Parliament 
 could make a fuitable provifion for the royal pair, 
 and, at the fame time, deny taking any notice of 
 the debts of his Royal Highnefs ! 
 
 Not to comply with its aid, therefore, in liqui- 
 dating thefe, would be, in facl, inveigling an ac- 
 complimedPrincefs to leave her Father's Court, that 
 me might rufticate here in fome fequeftered fpot, 
 as the wife of a private nobleman, inftead of being 
 the Royal Confort of the Heir Apparent of Great- 
 Britain! 
 
 Did the fenate of a great empire fend for a young 
 and lovely Princefs, only to have her ears ftunned 
 by creditors, and her eyes difmayed by want and 
 bankruptcy ? Were they united only for mutual 
 mifery, by {tripping them of that dignity and 
 fplendour which their rank demands, and which 
 would be making the beft jewels from the Crown, 
 not to allow? If they were not to free him from 
 all incumbrances at marriage, it would not only 
 ftain the character of the country, but be the 
 means, perhaps, of deftroying the monarchy I 
 
 It was very properly obferved by Mr. Pitt, Sir, 
 
 that all were interefted in fupporting the ftrength 
 
 G and
 
 ( 42 ) 
 
 and fplendour of the throne, and eonfequently all 
 the branches of the Royal Family. Much more, 
 that of the Heir Apparent on his marriage, to con- 
 tinue that Royal Family ! Such aprovifan, he wifely 
 added, was not a wajie, but a wife application of the public 
 msney for the public advantage ! 
 
 Mr. Fox, however, in order to induce the Houfe 
 to exile his Royal Highnefs upon 6o,oocl. per an- 
 num, advanced a very ftrange pofition ; that mar- 
 riage, in the lower ranks, makes a great difference 
 in the expence, but not in any thing like the fame 
 proportion among the higher ranks! 
 
 The contrary is well known to be the fact. The 
 wives as well as the children of the lower, and even 
 middle daffes of life, often aid the hulband ; and, there 
 fore, marriage is generally an acquifition among 
 ihofe daffes. But it is feldom or never any other 
 acquifition, in the higher ranks, than to continue 
 the fpecies ; and to give an air of gaiety and fafhion 
 to the circles of polifhed life, at a great expence, 
 which, while it civilizes the manners, is often very 
 beneficial to trade. 
 
 I appeal to you, Sir, (as Mr. Fox is a bachelor) for 
 {he truth of this; in looking over, fince your marriage, 
 your additional expences in drefs, equipage, attend- 
 ants, card-money, &c. But your friend certainly, 
 with more prudence, enjoys the intercourfe between 
 the fexes now a{ a much cheaper rate. 
 
 In
 
 ( 43 ) 
 
 In fpeaking of the Royal Family, Mn Pitt pro- 
 perly obferved, that in our conftitution the centre was 
 Monarchy; but this Mr. Fox denied. Is not the 
 Crown the centre about which all men rally ? In 
 France, indeed, the anarchy turns round in a circle* 
 without any central point to fix its motion ; which 
 will be the caufe of revolution following revolution, 
 and maflacre following maflacre, until fome fuch 
 central point is fettled, acknowledged, and vigoroufly 
 fupported. But if in England the Crown be not the 
 iiandard or central fixed point round which the Lords, 
 the Commons, and the People move, watch, and rally j 
 what other centre can Mr. Fox or you give to the 
 conftitution ; vmlefs, indeed, by making the Reform- 
 ers the centre ! But as the planets would fall into 
 conf ulion and chaos, were it not for their common 
 centre the fun ; fo would the different conilitutional 
 bodies fall, without the fun of Majefty, which 
 keeps all in their due orbits ; and fo admirably fup- 
 ports the harmony of our political fpheres, in defiance 
 of the threatening afpeds of all the fiery and erratic 
 comets of Reform! 
 
 If the Heir- Apparent and his Royal Confort, Sir, 
 were not to be exonerated from all incumbrances on 
 their marriage, I do not know a more cruel ad that 
 could be committed, not to thofe perfonages alone, 
 but to the conftitution. If once the reformers were 
 to be permitted to fend Princes and Princeffes of 
 G i Wales
 
 ( 44 ) 
 
 Wales incog, to the interior, they might (hatch at 
 every opportunity to fend likewife Kings and Queens 
 of England ! Nay, in their rage for royal incog, for 
 falfe titles, forfalfe eflablifhments, andfalfe fplendour, 
 they might not overlook, perhaps, the two Houfes of 
 Parliament, and even the Property of the country ! 
 Therefore, one or two of the people of Property that 
 have joined in a hue and cry for a temporary exile, 
 do not confider that they fanction an eternal pre- 
 cedent ! 
 
 It is no excufe to alledge, in vindication of fome, 
 that as the general election is not far off, they wifh by 
 fuch means to pleafe conftituents of a certain defcrip- 
 tion. For, as Mr. Young juftly obferved, that the exam- 
 ple of France ought to be a warning to Great-Britain, 
 it is hoped, that as the great and immenfe majority of 
 the electors are on the fide of conftitutional freedom ; 
 they will not fuffer themfelves, on any account, to be 
 thus far duped, as to become the fupporters of thofe, 
 whenever the general election happens, who trim be- 
 tween anarchy and monarchy ! For, if ever the 
 conftitution is to be deftroyed, it is by thefe parlia- 
 mentary trimmers, giving the hint, and trimming to 
 the difafTected without doors; as there is not fo great 
 a politico-lunatic underftanding between Halhed 
 and Brothers, as between fome of thofe two forts of 
 people of fueh oppofite defcriptions ! 
 
 I do
 
 ( 45 ) 
 
 I do not aflert, Sir, that you know it. But I only 
 mention it, that you may enquire into it. 
 
 You and your abettors, indeed, prove that you are 
 not only hollow friends to his Royal Highnefs, by 
 prefling to pay his debts fo fpeedily as to extinguifh 
 his fplendour but that you ad in a fimilar manner to 
 thofe very creditors themfelves, for whom you pretend 
 fo unaccountably to feel ! For you would not fecure 
 their payment by votes for the motion that went to 
 bind parliament to guarantee their liquidation, in cafe 
 of a demife ! Thus you would neither fecure the 
 comfort of the Prince, nor allow a proper fatisfaction 
 to the creditors ! Like pettyfogging attornies, that 
 prevent all fettlement between client and defendant, 
 becaufe their fordid intereft directs that no reconci- 
 liation ihould ever take place, but to the fatisfaftion 
 of themfelves \ 
 
 I have now, Sir, not only difpaflionately traced 
 and expofed your rancorous behaviour on the 
 affairs of his Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales ; 
 but have, J hope, confributed a little towards 
 (lemming the tide of reforming prejudice that has 
 been attempted to deluge the kingdom, owing 
 to the juvenile indifcretions of a very amiable 
 Prince being made a vehicle for the acrimony of 
 the difaffedled. No fpeeches in parliament have 
 been fo tinged with illiberally towards Royalty, 
 iince the debates on the exclufion bill refpefting 
 
 James
 
 ( 4.6 ) 
 
 James II. when Duke of York. This is a very 
 lamentable truth. 
 
 It affords not altogether a pleafing profpecl, when 
 the princely foible of too great a liberality, mould 
 "\meet with fuch illiberal animadveriion. When there 
 Jihould be fuch a clamour raifed, in an age of the 
 mod grofs libertinifm, againft his Royal Highnefs> 
 for only being miftaken in the magnitude of his 
 purfe through the extreme capacioufnefs of his ge- 
 nerous heart! When he (hould undergo nearly as 
 great a parliamentary cenfure, for a too-bountiful 
 difpofition only, as James Duke of York experien- 
 ced, for his violent bigotry to the catholic faith, and 
 his rooted enmiiy to the liberties of Britain! Is 
 this either wife, candid, politic or juft, in thofe 
 w.ho really love the monarchiai constitution? I 
 never was before fo fully convinced, that French 
 principles have given a flight (hock to certain 
 understandings. Although, thank Heaven, the coun- 
 try at large, as well as the great body of par- 
 liament, are as free from the deftructive poifon, 
 as they loathe the peftilent inoculators. 
 
 There can be no excufe, Sir, for a youth being 
 fteeled againft all becoming fympathy for the 
 liberal foible of a juvenile Prince ? It indicates a 
 narrow mind, an irafcible difpofition, and a very 
 .fufpicious heart. As for thofe fenatorial gentle- 
 men that are ftricken in years, who have been 
 
 hoftile
 
 ( 47 ) 
 
 hoftile to the emancipation of his Royal Hignnef* 
 from his embarrafTments ; he may excufe them thus, 
 as Timon did his Athenian fenators: 
 
 " Their blood is cak'd, 'tis cold, it feldom flows; 
 " 'Tis lack of kindly warmth they are not kind : 
 " And nature, as it grows again tow'rd earth, 
 " Is falhion'd for the journey, dull and heavy !" 
 
 But as to you, Sir, and your aflbciates, I doubt 
 his Royal Highnefs may add too, in the language of 
 Timon, 
 
 " , < I perceive 
 
 " Man muft learn now with pity to difpenfe, 
 '* For POLICY fits above CONSCIENCE!" 
 
 Next to your endeavours to deprive the Prince of 
 his fplendour, and of the fame nature, was the plan 
 of Mr. Fox, to difpofe of the duchy of Cornwall. 
 This hike- warm friend of prerogative declared, that 
 he wifhed for the fale of the crown lands, becaufe 
 he did not think revenues ariling from land the moil 
 proper for a fovereign; as they gave him an exten- 
 five influence, which he mould ever guard againft. 
 Why fhould not the fovereign have fome mare of 
 the foil, as well as his fubjects ? And why not have 
 an extenfive influence ? If he has but a fmall influ- 
 ence, he will be able to do but very little good, 
 indeed, to his people. : No, Sir: We are not afraid 
 pf the influence of the crown, but of the influence 
 
 of
 
 ( 48 ) 
 
 of the Reformers, who aim at new-modelling that 
 crown. It is the great and conftitutional influence 
 of the crown, aided by the energy of the people, 
 that has prevented this country from being deftroyed 
 by the Gallic principles of fanguinary reform. For 
 the earth can as well exift without the genial influ- 
 ence of the fun, as the conftitution of Great Bri- 
 tain without the falutary influence of the monarch. 
 But fome of the Reformers, perhaps, would not be 
 very forry to fee our prefent fovereign in a fimilar 
 ftate to that of King John, who was furnamed 
 Lackland. They would wifh a Magna Charta of fuch 
 an indefinite extent, that every liberty might be en- 
 joyed, without any property being fecured. 
 
 I do not, however, charge your plan of reform, 
 Sir, as extending fo far. But I mall only obferve, 
 that as any individual blockhead, incendiary, or 
 lunatic, may congregate a mixed afTembly, though 
 none but a ftrong force can pretend to difperfe it ; 
 fo in like manner every true friend to the con- 
 ftitution, mould be very cautious, at this moment in 
 not encouraging the mind of the mafs, to congregate 
 into any point of irritability or difrefpecl, towards 
 any of the branches of the illuftrious Royal Family 
 upon the throne ; as it tends to endanger, in the 
 next age, if not in this, that indifpenfible bond of 
 loyalty and attachment to a race, who have been the 
 patriot and the vigilant guardians of the liberties of 
 
 Great
 
 ( 49 ) 
 
 Great Britain^ during the greateft part of the pftfent 
 century. 
 
 It was juftly obferved by Mr. Dundas, that the 
 Prince of Wales is the peculiar care of the people. 
 As Heir Apparent he is their property and their 
 care. It is hoped, therefore, that no gentleman 
 within or without the walls of parliament, will per- 
 fift in diminifliing the value of that property, or 
 in dimming its luftre. For a jeweller may as well 
 flaw a diamond, to increafe its radiance and intrinfic 
 worth, as certain perfons pretend, by the breath of 
 calumnious invective, to give an additional brilliancy 
 to his Royal Highnefs's character. 
 
 However dearly purchafed to himfelf may be his 
 knowledge of mankind, there cannot, perhaps, a 
 greater bleflmg befal him, for his future tranquility, 
 and the kingdom's happinefs, than to have a perfect 
 comprehenfion of the views and the arts of thofe po- 
 litical trickfters, that formerly balked in the fun- 
 ihine of his friendfhip ; and who now fo bafely defame 
 him, by faint praife, by hollow fympathy, or by open 
 ilander ! Well may he exclaim, with Timon^ 
 
 But myfelf, 
 
 " Who had the world as my confectionary T 
 
 ** The mouths, the tongues, the eyes, tht hearts of mer* 
 
 " At duty, more than I could frame employments ; 
 
 " That numberlefs upon me ftuck, as leaves 
 
 " Do on the oak ; have with one winter's brufti 
 
 H * Fall's
 
 ( 50 ) 
 
 ' FalFn from their bough?, and left me open, bare 
 ' For ev'ry ftorm that blows. I to bear this, 
 " That xevtr knfui but better, is /time burden !" 
 
 It is, indeed, a burden ! But as his Royal High- 
 nefs, by his meflage, has (hewn a great mind, as 
 well as by his adtions, a liberal difpofition ; he has 
 mental ftrength fufficient to bear up againft all un- 
 juft obloquy, all ungrateful remark! And fpurn at 
 that with contempt, which he cannot eye but with 
 indignation. 
 
 What treatment he may receive from fome per- 
 fons in another Houfe, may not be altogether cal- 
 culated. But it is to be hoped that there, his luke- 
 warm fupporters will be but very few; and his 
 real friends many and zealous. It is hoped, too, that 
 a certain duke, if Junius be fomewhat forgotten, 
 will not appear with fo lowering and threatning an 
 afped as he did on a former day ; when he grumb- 
 led about ministerial incapacity, and of giving his 
 affent or diflent, in exonerating his Royal High- 
 nefs, without confidering whether he gave offence 
 to that Houfe, to the nation, or elfewhere ! Ill- 
 natured, cenforious people might apply, perhaps, 
 the following palfage in Timon to that fpeech of 
 his Grace. I leave it to you, Sir, to judge whether 
 it be the leaft applicable : 
 
 The devil knew not what he did, when he made rnan/e//'//r. 
 ' He crofs'd himfelf by't. And I cannot think but in the end 
 
 "the
 
 ( 5' ) 
 
 *' the villanies of man will fet him clear. How fairly this lord 
 
 " ftrives to appear foul ? Takes virtuous copies to be wicked : 
 
 " like thofe that under hot, ardent zeal, would fct whole realms 
 
 " on fire. Of Aich a nature is bis politic lave!" 
 
 But, to conclude. Nothing could be more ne- 
 ceflary than a Call of the Houfe, on the queftion 
 of his Royal Highnefs's affairs ; as, however it 
 may be a queftion of party among you and your 
 friends ; yet, with the great body of parliament, 
 and with the loyal people at large, it is a queftion 
 of conjiitution f It almoft amounts to this " Whe- 
 ther or not the monarchy is to be continued in 
 that neceffary and indifpenlible fplendour," as 
 Mr. Fox faid, " in which all delight !" It is al- 
 moft as momentous as deciding upon French prin- 
 ciples. For mould the fplendour of royalty be 
 agreed on to be diminifhed, it might come to a 
 queftion in future, whether or not it ought to be 
 entirely extinguifhed ! Therefore, when Mr. Fox 
 wifhed to decide on the debts, by every member 
 giving his vote, it was not altogether improper; 
 were it not that the mode was borrowed from a 
 very horrid precedent of the Convention, in regard 
 to the life of Louis ! 
 
 On fome future day, perhaps, I may touch again 
 
 upon the parliamentary occurrences that may yet 
 
 arife this feflion, upon the fubjecl: of his Royal 
 
 H 2 Highnefs's
 
 Highnefs's affairs. In the mean time, I have no 
 doubt but that Parliament will folemnly, wifely, 
 and loyally weigh thebufmefs; fo as not to permit 
 it to be aqueftion between the creditors and the <<?/?/ 
 tution J For although their credits originated in aid- 
 ing the fplendour of royalty, the policy of the 
 country muft not fuffer their demands only to be 
 fatisfied by its hazardous and inglorious diminu- 
 tion ! 
 
 Trufting that this letter mall work fome reform- 
 ation even upon you, Sir, although you are a re- 
 former; for the prefent I take my leave, with re- 
 commending to your ferious confideration, and to 
 that of the Commons Houfe of Parliament, on 
 the bulinefs of to-morrow, what Mr. Pitt fo point- 
 edly, elegantly, and juftly recommended on Friday 
 laft: His words were: 
 
 " The queftion was, Whether upon a feeling and 
 " candid confideration, the Houfe mould make 
 " that provision for his Royal Highnefs and his 
 i f Illuftrjous Confort, that would be neceflary for 
 " their rank, ftation, and dignity ? Whether they 
 * c mould, under any pretence of a fpecious libe- 
 " rality, deprive their Royal Highnefles of the 
 " comforts and enjoyments of life ; or confer upon 
 
 " them
 
 ( 53 ) 
 
 " them freely, and with the generofity becoming 
 " the character of the Britim nation, an ample, 
 " eafy, and dignified eftablifhment. 
 
 ft This, he believed, was the only wife and pro- 
 cc vident means which could be adopted towards 
 " the accomplifhment of fo beneficial and politic 
 <r an object. Gentlemen would diveft themfelvcs, 
 cc he hoped, of all confiderations which, on too 
 cf narrow a fcale, would but lead to an unjuft, 
 *' however apparently wife, conclufion. 
 
 " They would keep before their eyes that they 
 '' were providing for the Heir Apparent of the 
 c< Crown ; for an eflential and vital part of the 
 " conftitution : And whatever diforders and evils 
 * r were fuggefled by gentlemen, to arife from any 
 ." abufes, which the branches of royal houfes had 
 *. c created, they would the more vigoroufly oppofe 
 *.' thofe abufes, by diverting them from the perfons 
 *' to whom they might have unfortunately attached 
 " themfelves : and, by giving a new direction, a$ 
 
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