LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
THE PROPOSED GRANT TO PRINCE EDWARD.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—Mr. Fuller's letter on this question boldly states that the incomes assigned to the Sovereign and the Prince were granted with a clear and distinct understanding that separate main- tenance should be provided for their children when grown up. How he arrives at such a conclusion I am at a loss to under- stand. Before he again writes upon such a subject, I would ask him, if he has not done so already, to read carefully through the official reports of the debates on the Civil List at the begin- ning of the reign, and also to coneult the files of the newspapers of the day. Some thirteen years ago, when the question of Royal dowries and grants first came to the surface, I read all that careful search at the British Museum and elsewhere could find of a contemporary date, and arrived at a conclusion exactly opposite to Mr. Faller,—namely, that the bestowal of annuities by the nation was not contemplated by the framers of the present lavishly-estimated Civil List. Each fresh Royal annuity seems to me to be a departure from the principle on which the Civil List was voted.—I am, Sir, &c., J. CHARLES Cox.
Enville Rectory, Stour bridge, December 1st.
Previous page
