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be executed with greater advantage to the public. Subordinationis necessary to the very existence of civil society, and whateverhas a tendency to preserve it, in a due degree, is a public good.For the same reason that the state is at the expense of adorningthe person and situation of the Monarch by a splendid house-hold, it ought to adorn the person and situation of the Regent.It is not to swell the vanity of either the King or the Regentthat this is done, but to render the chief magistrate respectable inthe contemplation of those over whom his magistracy extends.

“ As to the influence which attends the household, it oughtnot, perhaps, to be permitted to exist at all; but whilst it does infact exist, it certainly ought not to be dissevered from the execu-tive government. It is a great doubt with me whether the influ-ence of the Crown be not too great ; but I have no doubt insaying, that the influence ought not to subsist any where but inthe Crown. But I will not dwell upon this, for I agree with thenoble Lord who opened the debate, that we ought not to refer tothe characters of the great personages to whom we have occasionto allude; if this were allowable I would say, that I think so wellof the Queen, as to be under no manner of apprehension that shewill ever put herself at the head of a party in opposition to thegovernment of her son.

“ My Lords, I have delivered the real sentiments of myheart, without any respect to party; I am not a party man; thisis not a question of party, nor ought it to be considered as such.The question is not whether this or that man shall be the mi-nister of the country. If that had been the question, I wouldhave said to every independent member of this House, (and there-fore, for the credit of human nature, and for the dignity of the

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