the House had such a residence, as the one now takeri for her Royal Highness, in contemplation, when they had so readily agreed to the establishment of 60,000/ a-year for her. They considered, that such an establishment would enable her to maintain a great degree of state; but the House now fixed on for her residence was not equal to such a purpose, and was only fit for a private gentleman. If her Royal Highness was to maintain only such a degree of state as this house was fit for, 60,000l. a-year was too much. It was entirely impossible that she should spend such a sum as 60,000l. a-year in such a house: It was with an expectation that she should maintain such a degree of state as was due to the nation over which she was one day to rule, that such an establishment had been unanimously consented to. But, for the same reason that he was liberal where it was necessary, and due to the dignity of the nation and its rulers, he would be economical where liberality was not necessary. He would at once ask, Whether it was, or was not intended, that the Princess should hold drawing-rooms after her marriage?

No answer was given to this question.

By the noble lord's silence, Mr. Tierney continued, he saw what a situation they were reduced to. Was it fit that the future Queen of England should live in such a state of privacy, as she would be obliged to live in, if Camelford-House were to be her residence? If her Royal Highness was to be immured, as she must be in Camelford-House, 60,000l. a-year would be much too large an establishment for her.

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Lord Castlereagh for himself was satisfied with shewing his attachment to her Royal Highness, by a liberal establishment. His right honorable friend was not authorized to propose any more for her establishment than 60,000l. a-year, and the town-house was to be provided for out of this, with a view that the liberality of the House might provide a country resi dence for her Royal Highness.

Mr. Tierney would not consent that the liberality of the House should be imposed on, to provide a country residence for her Royal Highness, while there were so many royal palaces unoccupied. As for a country house, besides all the palaces, where was CranbourneLodge, and where was the fanciful cottage that had cost so much? 60,000l. a-year was too much for her, if she was to lead a life of privacy. He considered it an indecent proposition to provide a country-house for her at the public expense, when she had such an establishment, and was to lead such a life.

Mr. Abercromby said, that though her Royal Highness was only presumptive heiress to the throne in point of law, she was, in point of fact and of substance, heiress apparent; and it was very unbecoming, that after her marriage, with such an establishment as 60,0001. a-year, she should lead a life of privacy. If she was to lead such a life, why was she allowed more than the Duchess of Cumberland?

Lord Castlereagh was not her Royal Highness's adviser as to her future regulations.

Mr. Brougham contended, that the Princess Charlotte should not be allowed 60,000l. a-year for a life.

of privacy, when the King's own daughters were allowed only 20,000l. a-year..

This discussion was protracted to a considerable length, but the blank in the bill was finally filled up with 60,000l. a-year, the report was received and the bill read a third time and passed.

It is evident, that the objection manifested by. opposition to the grant of 60,000l. a-year for the Princess Charlotte's establishment, arose not so much. from the magnitude of the grant, as from the manner of its application. But setting aside the wishes of her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte and of Prince Leopold for a life of privacy, and which certainly ought to carry with them no trifling weight in the consideration of the subject; there were positive objections existing at the time against her Royal Highness assuming that degree of state to which her birth might be supposed to entitle her. As to her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte holding a drawing-room after her marriage, as suggested by Mr. Tierney, it is perfectly inexplicable, in what manner such a preposterous idea could have intruded itself into the head of an individual, who with the most shining talents, combines a most accurate knowledge of the constitutional forms of the country. Mr. Tierney never could be suspected, notwithstanding his ardent love of royalty, of a desire to place two queens on the throne of England; or, in other words, to erect two thrones, one for the Queen that is, and the other for the Queen that is to be. Perhaps the formation of a court for the Princess Charlotte, and without which she could not hold her drawing-rooms,

would not have been displeasing to the right honorable gentleman; for, there being no place vacant for him at the old established court, some chance might exist of his creeping into one in the junior court; and then there is little doubt but that the dimensions of Camelford-House would have been found amply sufficient for the establishment of the Princess Charlotte's court. From the very ceremonious manner in which the right honorable gentleman always speaks of royalty, he might, with great propriety, and without placing him in the mortifying dilemma of being obliged to blush at such honors being conferred undeservedly, be appointed to the office of master of the ceremonies, and then, with the proudest emotion of royalty, he would introduce her Majesty the Queen of England at the court of her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales and of Saxe-Coburg Saalfeld. But if it be regarded in another point of view, and in one much more consistent with the feelings of the right honorable gentleman, it may be fairly suggested, that the idea of the Princess Charlotte holding a drawing-room, to be conducted with all the pomp of royalty, could not have arisen from any other motive, than that of the most genuine sympathy, arising from the very acute pain which he always felt in the description of the great fatigue which her Majesty the Queen necessarily experienced at her advanced age, in performing the ceremonious duties of a drawing-room; and, therefore, as the Lord Chancellor had a vice appointed, as a relief to his arduous duties, he, actuated by the most humane and philanthropic spirit, saw no

possible objection to the establishment of a vice to her Majesty, in addition to the many vices which he, in the plenitude of his generosity, had already conferred upon her Majesty. A vice regal court became, therefore, a great desideratum; and, as the Princess Charlotte had, in his opinion, manifested such a vicious tendency to retirement, incompatible with the dignity of royalty, in which, to quote his own words, she could not possibly expend 60,000l. a year; having, in his calculations, entirely forgotten acts of charity, the clothing of the poor, the maintenance of the orphan and the widow, the establishment of schools; which actions, being of such an opaque nature, that not a ray of splendor could ever emanate from them, it became a natural suggestion, that the Princess Charlotte should be obliged to expend her 60,000l. a year, not according to her own wishes, but in a manner to be prescribed to her by others; and to be accompanied with an exuberant display of splendor, which was to consist in the continual rattling of the wheels of her carriage-in the preposterous disguise of her beautiful person in a hoop-in continually knocking at the doors of others, and having her own knocked at continually in return-in metamorphosing nightinto day, and day into night: and, lastly, in the holding of a drawing-room, the splendor of which was to be exalted by the presence of the right honorable gentleman himself. As to the manner in which the Princess Charlotte was to live after her marriage, there was no law of the land which could dictate to her any positive line of conduct, or which could oblige her to