THE PRINCE'S INCOME.

Considerable mistakes have been fallen into by some of our contemporaries

on this important subject. What may be the present wishes of His Royal

Highness it is impossible for any one to ascertain, for he is able to

articulate nothing on this point with his little pipe; but the piper, we

know, must be eventually paid. He becomes immediately entitled to all the

loose halfpence in his mother's reticule, and sixpence a-week will be at

once payable out of his father's estates at Saxe Gotha. The whole of the

revenues attached to the Duchy of Cornwall are also his by the mere fact

of his birth: but there is a difficulty as to his giving a receipt for the

money, if it should be paid to him. It is believed, that on the meeting of

Parliament a Bill will pass for granting peg-top money to His Royal

Highness, and a lollipop allowance will be among the earliest estimates.

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