Both the King and Queen were enraged at the reply, and the former commenced at once to abuse rather roughly Sir Robert Walpole for persuading him to send it, but the minister sagely answered that he expected the good result of it not that day but on the morrow--the day of the Motion in the House of Commons. He was not wrong for he made the utmost use of it himself on that occasion in his speech. So the agreement between father and son having fallen through, and everybody being worked up to the required pitch of excitement, the matter went forward, and on the next day, February 22nd, Pulteney made his motion before the House of Commons, for an address to be presented to the King, humbly asking for a settlement of £100,000 a year on the Prince of Wales and the same jointure on the Princess, as the Queen had when she was Princess of Wales, giving the King the assurance that the House would support him in this measure. The strong points of Pulteney’s speech were, the claim the Prince had to the increase of income, which he said was founded on equity and good policy, and a legal right founded on law and precedent. He contended that the revenue of the Civil List had been granted to George the First, and afterwards added to in the case of George the Second, on the express--or at any rate implied condition--that out of the revenue a sum of £100,000 a year should be set aside for the Prince of Wales. Pulteney is said to have spoken on the subject with great ability for an hour and a half, Lord Hervey adding in his account that in the speech there was “a great deal of matter and a great deal of knowledge, as well as art and wit, and yet I cannot but say I have often heard him speak infinitely better than he did that day. There was a languor in it, that one almost always perceives in the speeches that have been so long preparing and compiling.” Sir Robert Walpole at once answered and, as might have been expected almost at the commencement of his speech, conveyed to the House the orders he had received from His Majesty to communicate to them the message he had sent his son on the previous day. This of course was the reason of his advising the King to send the message at all. Sir Robert read aloud the whole of the King’s message to his son, this magnanimous offer of something he could not get out of giving, and after it the Minister made all he could of the Prince’s answer: “Indeed, my Lords, it is in other hands; I am sorry for it.” Walpole’s speech was an able one, and for the most part went to show that the King could really not afford--out of an income of nearly a million--to give his son the extra £50,000 per annum, and if he could, he was not bound to give it by the Settlement made by Parliament of his Civil List. But of all the speeches that were made that evening, by far the most telling was one by a supporter of the Prince, of which the following is a summary: