HER MAJESTY'S MESSAGE. (Hansard, 31 July 1871)

§ EARL GRANVILLE
My Lords, it has been my agreeable duty on several previous occasions to ask your Lordships to concur in providing for sons and daughters of Her Majesty that competent—and certainly not extravagant—provision which is necessary to enable them to maintain that position to which they are born. It is, indeed, only a part of the contract which was entered into between Parliament and the Sovereign on Her Majesty's accession to the Throne; but the cheerful concurrence which your Lordships have always given to this proposition, on exactly similar precedents, makes me feel it unnecessary to dwell upon that part of the case. With regard to the young Prince for whom this provision is proposed, I feel that, as many of your Lordships are doubtless well aware, there are few young men in any class who have obtained more generally than His Royal Highness the respect and the good-will of those with whom he has associated; whether in his own family; whether in the society of this Metropolis, with which 454 he has as yet only sparingly mixed; whether amongst those with whom he has been professionally associated; or, whether in that great colony, where by his manner and his demeanour he not only maintained, but strengthened the friendly and loyal attachment of the colonists to the House to which he belongs. The noble Earl concluded by proposing an Address, thanking Her Majesty for her gracious Message, and assuring her that that House, always desirous of availing itself of every opportunity to manifest its dutiful attachment to Her Majesty's Royal Person and Family, would cheerfully concur in all such measures as should be necessary and proper for giving effect to the object of the Message.

§ THE DUKE OF RICHMOND
My Lords, it is my pleasing task to concur most cordially in what has fallen from my noble Friend (Earl Granville). I am sure I represent the feelings which exist on both sides of the House, when I say that there will be but one unanimous feeling of satisfaction at the proposal he has made. There is no member of the Royal Family who is more regarded, respected, or liked than the Prince who is the subject of the noble Earl's remarks. I have, therefore, the greatest possible satisfaction in seconding the proposal of the noble Earl.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR
then read the reply, stating that their Lordships assured Her Majesty that their House, always desirous to avail itself of every opportunity to manifest its dutiful attachment to Her Majesty's Person and Family, would cheerfully concur in all such measures as should be necessary and proper for giving effect to the object of Her Majesty's Message.