§ The MARQUESS of WESTMINSTERwished to know when the noble and learned Lord (Lord Brougham) intended to bring forward his Motion with respect to the Civil List? It had been on the paper some time, and had been frequently postponed. He thought he might be allowed to state that he had the strongest possible objection to the Motion. The Civil List had been settled by Parliament, in consideration of the Crown giving up its revenues. The questions which had been put to him by the noble and learned Lord on former occasions, with respect to the Board of Green Cloth, he had answered out of courtesy to the noble and learned Lord; but he felt it to be his duty to decline giving that more extended information which the noble and learned Lord sought to obtain by his Motion. He regretted the animus with which the noble Lord had brought forward his Motion. In bringing forward his Motion he had alluded to the salaries of the Foreign Ambassadors, while the noble and learned Lord must have well known at the time that they had nothing whatever to do with the Civil List.
LORD BROUGHAMsaid, that he had not yet brought forward his Motion, and thought that the observations of the noble Marquess might well be dispensed with until he had.
§ The MARQUESS of WESTMINSTERsaid, the noble and learned Lord had asked him, upon a recent occasion, whether any reduction had been made in the salaries of the officers of the Board of Green Cloth? He was now in a position to state that no reductions had been made.
LORD BROUGHAMstated that it was not his intention to bring forward his Motion then, but he would do so upon a future occasion.
§ The MARQUESS of LANSDOWNEsaid, the matter was one of very grave importance; and when the noble Lord was disposed to bring it forward, he would take care to have the Lords summoned.