§ On the next vote, of 2,000l. for salaries and allowances to certain Professors of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge being put,
§ Mr. Tookesaid, that he should certainly oppose any grant of the kind until the University of London had the privileges accorded to it which it had so long and so justly demanded.
Mr. Goulburnsaid, that the Members of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge paid three times more to the public in the shape of taxes than they received as grants.
The Chancellor of the Exchequersaid, the question of the claims of the Dissenters to University privileges, to which he was decidedly favourable, was in his opinion too large and important a Question to be decided incidentally by a vote of this nature.
Mr. Pease supported the grant.
§ Mr. Tookesaid, that it was not because the Universities refused admission to the Dissenters, but because they endeavoured to prevent the London University from having a charter, that he proposed that the grant should, for the present, be suspended, but not altogether abolished. He would divide the Committee on the Question, that the Grant be for the present suspended.
§ The Committee divided—Ayes 86; Noes 3; Majority 83.
§ The House resumed.