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Show A ROYAL SPENDTHRIFT. Xew York, S. A I-ondon letter says: "The report has suddenly (gained currency that tho long-expected crisis has occurred iu the linancial a Hairs of the Prince of Wales, and that the ministry havo made up their minds to propose to the House of Commons, at the next session of Parliament, Par-liament, to pay his debts. The sum naintd is X !0,iA0 sterling, four times" the sum voted in 17S7 to appease the creditors of that pattern of royalty, who afterwards became George IV. About paying the biUs there aro certain cer-tain to bo two powerful contradictory j sentiments ; one, that the honor of the nation is concerned in providing for tho debts of its future king; and the other, that these debts aro of a character which ought to be paid out of tho accumulated fortune of tho j'Juccu. Tho latter view is based on I tho well-known fact that the Queen 1 has been receiving, ever since the death rf Prince Albert, the whole of ! the income calculated at her accession 1 to support tho expenses of the Court ! iu the usual degree of splendor ; tliat ( Her Majesty has, iiowever, lived, during du-ring this period, for the most part, in retirement, and that the cost of the drawing-room levees and other royal ! pageantry has, in fact, fallen upon the Prince and Princess of Wales, i whose income has been unequal 10 Isuch a burden. The cxistiDg debts, or a considerable part of them, have, 'according to this theory, been incurred I in the discharge of these duties; I hence, it is urged that the Queen, I who has bad and kepi tho money given her by the State lor such purposes, purpo-ses, ought to pay them. The Prince of Wides has .ie.000 a year, plus the rivenue 0.' the Duchy of Cornwall,1 . which amounts to over U00,'"00 per 'annum." |