The National Register. — London, England, 1811-01-20 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Family. Besides all these, the precedent of 1789 would be violated by such a measure, for at that period a proposition of a similar nature had been made and rejected. Mr. PoNsoNBY supported the amendment. Mr. W. WYNNE made a few observations in favour of the amendment. • Gentlemen had objected to the proposal upon the ground of the necessity f9r disinteredness. How was it known by that House whether the Groom of the Stole might not be come First Lord of the Treasury, and the Master of the Horse one of the Secretaries of State. In such case those Gentlemen surely could not be considered quite disinterested. The natural affections of his own family would surely be a very strong pro tection to his Majesty against any motives of a paltry interest edness.—The amendment that the Duke of York should be named in the Council was then negatived. Mr. Su ERIDAN objected, in the same clause, to the appoint ment of the Master of the Rolls to be of the Council. He thought that there was in that Council a superabundance of law; and of all things in the world law, upon such an occasion, appeared to him to be the most unnecessary. It surely would have been a !motion more consonant to the wishes of the House, and more respectful to the Committee, that the Speaker had been appointed to fill the situation to which the Lord Chamber lain, if he was alive, would be, by what the Right Hon. Gen tleman called , precedent, entitled. He contended that the whole of the precedent of 17:9 was an application to persons, and not to principles. The restrictions were levelled against the Prince, and not against a Prince. He would ask why the Right Hon. Gentleman wished to designate the Council by placing before the title of each Member of it his name. Was not the Right Hon. Gentleman aware that, by such a conduct, he threw the most foul suspicions upon the Prince. If any of those persons should die, why should not those appointed to fill their offices succeed them in their capacity as Council? No; the Right Hon. Gen tleman determined that rich should not be the case, because he knew that the Prince would have the power of making those appointments, and consequently could supply any vacancy ac cording to his own desire. lie then moved an amendment, " "Ishat the names of the persons appointed to be Council to her Majesty should be left nut, and that the offices in this form, viz. the Archbishop of Canterbury, &c. &c. should alone re main in the blank." The CHANCELLOR of the ExcirEQUER defended himself from the charge of having wished to throw any blame upon the Prince, whose conduct he felt so much pleasure in applauding. After a few words from Mr. Sheridan, and Mr. Whitbread, the amendment was negatived. The other clauses were then read, and several amendments proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which were agreed to. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER brought in a new clause to enable the Prince Regent to dispose of the Droits of Admiralty in the same manner as the King bad done, by the advice of the Treasury.—Agreed to. The House then resumed, and reported progress, and Mr. Lusnibro - rorr brought up the report of the Committee, which was read pro forma, and ordered to be taken into further con• sideratiou on Monday.—Adjourned. ROAIIAV CATHOLIC SOLDIERS. DUBLIN, JAN. 15. GENERAL ORDER. " Adjutant-general's Office, Dublin, Jan. ISli. 41 Reports having been circulated, that Catholic Soldiers have been prevented from attending Divine Worship according to the tenets of their religion, and obliged, in certain instances, to be present at that of the Established Church, the CO MMANDING OFFICERS of the several Regiments are to be attentive TO THE raKvENTioN or soul Pk AC ncEs, if they have in any instance existed in the Troops under their command, as they are in violation of the Orders contained in the CIRCULAR LETTER of eiu 14th of May, 1806, AND SINCE REPEATED TO 'I*IIE ARMY; and the CATliouc SOLDIERS, as well as those of other Sects, are to be allowed, IN ALL CASES, to attend the Divine Worship of tile A LMIGEITY according to their several persuasions, when duty does not interfere, in the sane manner, and under the mime regulations, AS 'I HOSE OF 'I'IIE ESTABLISHED CHURCH. (Signed) " RAYMOND, Dep. Ad -Gen. " N. RAMSAY, Maj. Assist. Adj.-Gen." So late as Friday morning last, some of the artillery, privates and drivers, quartered in Enniskillen, continued to do duty with turned couth. for having attended, according to law, to the wor ship of their Church ; but on the evening of that day the scene was somewhat changed—the General Order arrived ; and on the Sunday the Catholic soldiers of the garrison were marched . to the .Roma Chapel, accompanied by WO Officers y . that religjv n. REGENCY BILL. The Regency Bill has been printed. The . following are the principal heads of the Bill : Prince of Wales to exercise the Royal Authority, subject to Restrictions.—Present Appointments to remain until the. Regent declare to the coutrary.—Upon his Majesty's recovery, and declaration of his pleasure to resume his Authority, this Act to cease, and no Act done under it afterwards to be valid.--Any Acts, Orders, Appointments, &c. previously made or done under it, to remain until countermanded by his Majesty.—No Act of the Regent to be valid, unless done in the name of his Majesty, and according to the provisions of the Act.—Regent to take oath to administer the law according to the Act —Regent to be deemed a person holding an office in trust, and to take the oath and make the decleration relating to such persons, before the Privy Council.—Regent to be restrained from granting Peerages, or tantmoninL.7 Heirs-Apparent, or appointing to Titles in abey ance, until after a lit~ n tinze.—Regent to be restrained from granting Offices in it version, or fur hanger period than durii pleasure, except those which are by law granted for life, or dui ing good behaviour; and except pensions to Chancellor, Judges, &c.—Regent not to be empowered to give the Royal Assent to any Bill, or to repeal any Bill for varying the order and course of succession to the Crown. The Regent .to reside in the United Kingdom, and not to marry a Papist.—Care of his Majesty's person, and appointment of a suitable part of his Household to be vested in her Majesty. Her Majesty to be assisted by a Council.—Her Majesty's Council to meet some day in April next, and on the first day of every third month after, and de clare the state of- his Majesty's health, a copy of which shall be transmitted to the President of the Privy Council, and published in the London Gazette.—Her Nlajesty's Council may examine the Physicians in attendance on oath. —Her Majesty and Coun cil to notify his Majesty's recovery by instrument sent to de Privy Council.—The Privy Council to assemble and enter said Instrument—After such Instrument his Majesty may, by Sign Manual, require the Privy Council to assemble.-11 his Majesty, by the advice of such Privy Council, so assembled, shad signify his pleasure to resume the pet sonal exercise of his Royal Autho rity, a Proclamation shall be issued accordingly.—Such Procla mation, countersigned by the said or the said Privy Council, together with the other proceedings, to be sent to the Lord Mayor, and the present Act to cease.—hi the case of the death of the Regent, or of her Majesty, or of the resuni i .tion by the King, Parliament, if prorogued or aojoerned, to meet and sit, or if dissolved, the Members of the late Parliament to meet and sit again.—Parliament so met, not to sit longer than months—ln the case of the death of her IV...,jesty, the care of his Majesty's person to be vested in her Council. PROVINCLILS. In the parish of West Twyford, near Harrow, Middlesex, there is only one house, and the farmer who occupies n is pek petual churchwarden, and churchwarden of a church which has no incumbent, and hi which no duty is performed • overseer al the poor is nut necessary. The parish has b e e n in this state since the time of Oueen Elizabeth. Monday, at the Colchester Quarter Sessions, Charles John sn a l, for using seditious and inflammatory words, was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment. Last week, a female child, seven years old, travelling with its mother in a Plymouth stage, in jumping towards the door on the off side, forced it open, and before its mother cou ld catch hold of its clothes, fell on the kirb stone, and her skuli was literally dashed to pieces. She was the only child of an officer on foreign service. Early on Thursday morning, a std accident happened in Cle ment's cow-yard, at Kingsland, °whit to one of the bulls getting among the cows white the peeple were milking. A woman who was far advanced in her pregnancy, not being able to get out of the way in time, was gored in a dreadful manner, and one of the horns of the furious animal penetrating the abdomen, she was literally ripped oi,en. The poor creature was instantly con veyed to the hospital, where she now lies in: most deplorable stattr i :..and little hope is entertained of her rec... very. At the General t-a-ssions of the peace for Canterbury, held on Monday, J. Newsom, for feloniously uttering a false and forged check, purporting to be drawn by J. Browat, with intent to de fraud Messrs. Payler and Co. of the Canterbury Bank, of the sum of ten guineas, was found guilty, and the Mayor passed on him the awful sentence of death. The prisoner immediately sunk down, and was taken from the bar in a state of.insensi bility. He was a non-commissioned officer in the Royal Wag gon Train, and an excellent character was given him by several of his officers, and by two other re spectable persons with whet* he had lived as a servant. A