HC Deb 09 May 1808 vol 11 cc130-1
Mr. Rose,

in rising to move for certain papers relative to the hereditary revenue of the crown, stated his object to be the correction of a number of errors into which an hon. gent. who proposed to make this revenue the subject of a financial arrangement for the year (Mr. Biddulph) had fallen. That hon. gent, had stated, that the crown lands were let for only 50,000l. a year, whereas they would appear to produce much more. The hon. gent, had stated also, that the abuses mentioned in the reports of the old finance committee on the hereditary revenue, were never corrected. The fact was, that an act of parliament had been passed to rectify these abuses, in the very next session after the report, which act had been strictly carried into execution. But a number of pensions and other charges fell upon this revenue, which otherwise should be defrayed out of the Civil List, leaving only a balance of 1,900l. which was regularly paid into the exchequer. The right honourable gent. concluded with moving for an Account of the land revenue of the crown in England and Wales, with the pensions and other payments defrayed out of it, the sums appropriated to the improvement of woods and forests, and the sums paid into the exchequer.—Ordered.