The National Register. — London, England, 1811-01-13 00:00:00

41, f e• •,... ~.,. •., TIE NATIONAL REGISTER. ••• The CUANCELLOR of the EXCHEVEY., in the name of the Committee appointed to wait on his Royal Highness : the Prince OT Wales, brought up the Report of the said Committee on the huh df the audience they had obtained that day from his Royal flightless, The Committee had met there the Lord President, - yid the Lord Privy Seal, and had received the following corn li•itinicarion from his Royal Highness t— • • "All , LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, ' 4 l.reeeive the communicatios.which the two Houses have directed Ton to maketto me cf their joint ResOlutions on the hject or providing for ' the exercise of the Royal Authority during. his Majesty's illness; with those sentiments of regard which I must ever entertain for the united desires of the two HoUsCs. - •• " With the same sentiments I receive the expressed hopes Of the Lords and Commons, that from my regard for the inte rest of his Majesty and the nation, I should be ready to under i.he the weiztity and important trust proposed to he inves ted in . .snc," under the restrictions and limitations stated in those Re -solutions: " Conscious that every fee7ing of My heart would have prompted me, from dutiful affection to my beloved Father and :..overe:gn, to have shown all the reverential delicacy towards hint inculcated in these Resolutions, I_ cannot refrain from ex pressing my regret that I should not have been allowed the op portunity of manifesting to his afflicted and loyal subjects, that such would have been my conduct. " Deeply - impressed with the necessity of tranquilizing the public mind, and determined to submit to every perwnal sacri fice consistent with the regard I owe to the security of my Pa llier's Crown, and the equal regard I owe to the welfare of his people, I do not hesitate to accept the office and situation pro posed to me, restricted as they are, still retaining every opi nion expressed by me upon a former and similar distressing oc casion. In undertaking the tryst proposed to me, lam well „are of the difficulties of the situation in which I shall he placed ; but I shall rely with confidence upon the Constitutional advice of an enlightened Parliament, and ht zealous support of a generous And loyal people; I w:11 use ali the mewls left me IQ merit Poth. " My Loapz Axil GEN TT.EM EN, " You will communicate this my answer to the two Houses, accompanied by my most fervent NVOIICS and prayers that the Divine W;11 may e - ,:tticate us and the nation from the grievous embarrassmentc of our precut condition by the speedy restora tion of his Maje4ty's Lord Curt: bron:.Aht op t 1 Rep3rt - of the Committee appoint ed wait on tho Queen, and communicated her Maj , ..ety's an swer in the following. words : "Ivly 1. , 41ps AND G:t.N.ri.r.mnN, "-That sense of duty and gratitude to the King, and of obli ption to this Country, which induced inc in the year 1;89 readily to promise my moat earnest attention to the anxious • and motnem:ous trust 3, at that time intended to be reposed in erie hy Parliameut, is strengthened, if possible, by the uninter rupted enjoyment of those blessi;igs I have continued to experience, under the protection of his Majesty, since that pe riod : and I shnuid he wantinp, to all tn 7 duties, if I he;,itated to accept the sacred trusts which is now ti&red to me. " The a§sistance ill pc4nt of counsel and advice,wLich the wis il.un of Parliament propmei to provide for me, will make me undertake the charge, with greater hopes that I may he able eatiJ:ictorily to ft,ltii thFimpprmpt dutip which it mu :t impose ppun me. Of the nature and iinp4,rtanee.of that charge I cannot but he duly it does, every thing which is valu &Ole to tn7seff, as well ag the l e k,ltest interests of a people, cri fieackil,te by ho many ties and coni4itrations, but by pp thing. so .sscongly, as by Akeit steady, loyal, and affectionate attachment to the best :i.inzz." The CHANCELLOR of the Exeittoute moved, that the Order of the Day for the House to form itself into a Committee on the State of the Nation he now read. He observed, afterwards, that as the House were to wait for a communication from the House of Peers, on the subject of their Resolution, to affix the Great Seal to a commission for opening Parliament, previous to the bringing up of the Regency Bill ; and as it was likely that the Bill would occasion much discussion. in order to avoid a pro tracted debate on Saturday, he would move that the Committee should have leave to sit on Monday, and that the House should. adjourn en the same day, unless the Gentlemen opposite saw some objections to that mode of proceeding; in that case, he would, as he originally intended, introduce the Bill on the day following. Mr. WHIT EREAD, wished to know whether in the intended Bill the Right Hon. Gentleman meant to make any provision for the recurrence of the same calamity. He declared at the same time, that if th.s was neglected, he would feel it his duty, as he had announced, to move at a future period for some provision to that effect. • Mr. Avitta thought, that in the present mutilated state of Parliament, such an important measure of legislation could not be legally or properly introduced. Mr. WaITEKEAD disclaimed any idea of introducing the measure in the present mutilated state of Parliament, and merely wanted to know the Right Hon. Gentleman's tendons. Mr. Sit inn N conceived that many Members like himself would enter their most solemn protest against the measures the Right Hon. Gentleman meant to introduce, as unconstitutional and fundamentally wrong; but he did not think that such .3 consideration could justify the Right Hon. Gen . ..eman in wish in7; to adjourn the House to Monday. . The CHANCELLOR of the Ex e ItE Qv eit said,. it .never entered his mind to introduce in a Bill imperiously required by - the painful necessity of the times, any thing more than what was absolutely necessary to meet the present exigency. He saw a sulcieut, reason to avoid what might be naturally expected,; protracted debate on Saturday, which would be attended with much inconvenience to the House. Mr. Sit KRID AN protested against the construction thus put on his words by the Right Hon. Gentleman. The ( Q uestion for the Adjournment was then put, and .cartied witlmit a division. CITY BUSINESS. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. This Court assembled on Tuesday, for the first time since the general election of its members. The usual ocilis having been adininiqer?cl to the representa tives of the several wards, and some other preliminary forms having been gone through, The LORD MAvoa stated, that he had convened the Court on that day, in consequence of a requisition which had been sent to him on the 2. 7th of December, signed by several Mem bers of the Court, requesting that he would appoint an early day for the purpose of taking into consideration the present state of affairs, &c. Mr. Alderman Worm then rose. He adverted to the expe diency of that Court's expressing its opinion on-the present state of the nation, and lamented the calamity that had befallen his Majesty. He contendet, that the Prince of Wales ought to be appoiree.. the unrestricted and unlimited 'Regent, to "wield the energies of the State," during his Majesty's incapacity to exercise the Royal Functions. a censured the conduct of iniaters on the present erneik.ency, arid maintained, that so soon as his Majesty's incapacity had been proved,. the two Houses ought to have addressed the ?rince,of Vales, soliciting his Royal Highness to take upon himself .the exercise of the Regal Functions. That was the mode of proceeding pointed out by the Constitution. The Worthy Alderman. concluded with an appeal to - the feelings of the Court, 'calling upob n theca to adopt the Resolutions which be then reiid. They wer6to the following effect : " That while they view with the deepest rezi'ef tils-I.4lt)estles unrortunate illness, they . would pot approve of the nifilik about to he adopted for supplying the suspension of the R. 974 •AlAt! - .• . - rity by a Regent with limited powers.' " That the Royal Prerogatives had been given in.tittOf and 4 - were in part held far the benefit of, thepc:ople, •:3 44 That they would not have been gfven - unless . the Vere cessary for the ciiie administration of the Kingl7' ce-:.and must be no less wanting - for the government of 4 legebt ef pressly appointed, than for that of a Icing. -12 ' ' That - the proposed: Restrictions would necesiarip dastm the equipoise Winch should .. - übsht 'aetween . the three'brandies of the Conitivatiob -, and by violating the integrity' Orthe tone stitution, would strike at the liberties of the people. w'M