The National Register. — London, England, 1811-02-17 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. 'CR COI? RESPOADENGZ SE rWrEN THE PRINCE REGENT AND MR. PERCEVAL. Copies of the Letters that passed between his Royal Highness the Prince Regent and Mr. Perceval,on the annunciation of his Royal Highness's determination to retain the prtsent Ministers iu his service. nig PRINCE REGENT'S LETTER. Car'iton-House, February 4, tell. The Prince of Wales considers the moment to he arrived, which calls for his decision with respect to the persons to be emplo.yed by him, in the administration of the Execativc Go vernment of the Country, accordieg to the Powers vested in him by the Bill passed by the two ouses of Parliament, and now on the point of recei H ving the sanction of the Great Seal. The Prince feels it incumbent upon him, at this precise junc ture, to communicate to Mr. Perce‘ al his intention not to re move 'from their stations those whom he finds there, as his Majesty's official servants. At the same time the Prince owes it. to the truth and sincerity of character, which, he trusts, will appear in eve :-y action of his life, in whatever situation placed, ckplicitly to declare, that the irresistible impulse of filial duty sad alit.ction to his beloved and afflicted Father, leads him to dread that any act of the Regent might, in the smallest degree, have the effect of interfering with the pi - ogre:it; of his Sovereign's re.:overy. This ewsideration ALO NE dictates the decision now connimni,ated to Mr. Perceval. lEvi:.g thus performed. an ach of indispensable duty, from a just sense of what is due to his own consistency and honour, the Trim,: has onlx to add, that, ati,ong the many blessings to be del ivi!..l from his Majt:sty's restoration to lieJih, and to the rersonal exercise of his Royal Functions, it will not, in the Ji'rince's eatimatimation, be the least, that that most fortunote event will at once rescue him from a sittia!ion of unexamphed embarrassment, and put an end to a state of affairs, ill calcu lted, lie fears, to sustain the imer...stsof the United Kingdom, in this awful and perilous crisis, and must difficult to the genuine principles of the British Constitution. THE REGENT'S COURT. Thursday being appointed by his Royal Highness the Prince Regent for receiving the Address of the Corporation of the City of London, upon his being appointed Regent of the United Kingdom, and also for holding . a Privy Council, a few minutes before one o'clock the C orporation of the City of London arriv-: ed ; when the whole suite of elegant rooms were thrown open for the inspection of the citizens. A number of yeoman of the guards and his Royal Highness's servants, in their state liveries, lined the grand inel, from respect to the corporation. At a quar ter past two o'clock, his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, being seated on the throne, attended by the .Ministers of State, his Chancellor (Mr. Adapt,) &c. &c. the Lord Mayor and Citi zens were introduced, and having approached his Royal High ness, the Recorder read the following Address MAY IT PLEASE YOUR ROYAL HIGHNESS, We the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London in Common Council assembled, most humbly ap proach your Royal Highness with the warmest assurances of affectionate attachment to your Royal Person, and unshaken adherence to those sacred principles which seated your Family upon the Throne of the Realm, fully convinced that those prin ciples afford the best security to the honour and dignity of the Sovereign, and the rights and interests of the people. Whilst we offer to . yeur Royal Highness our sincere condolence upon the severe visitation with which it has pleased Divine Providence to afflict our Most gracious Sovereign, which has o:casioned a suspension of the Royal Functions, it is with heartfelt consolation, that in canonic - ea with all ranks of our fellow-subjects, we behold in the person of your Royal Highness, a Prince highly endowed anti eminently qualified to exercise the Regal Duties; a Prince who has so greatly endeared himself to the People by his moderation and forbearance on various trying occasions, and the attachment he has so uniformly shewn to their Rights and i .iberties. Had indeed the desire and expectation of the United King dom been reelised, by vesting in your Royal Highness the foil powers of the Executive Authority, we should have had just cause for congratulation, confident as we feel that those powers would have been wisely and beueficiaily exercised to enable us to meet the extraordinary exigencies of so perilous a crisis. Deeply Impressed with a sense of the many tud great difficul ties, which, with powers so timited, your Royal Highness must have to encounter in the discharge of duties so arduous, and feeling towards your Royal Highness the fullness of that loyal affection which in deeds well as in words, we have so lung demonstrated towards your Royal Father and family, we would fain have forborne to cloud the dawn of our intercourse with your Royal Highness, by even a glance at our grievances, math, fold and weighty as they are—but duty to our Sovereign, duty to our country, the example of our forefathers, justice to puss terity, the fanie and the safety of the Kingdom, all, with voice imperious, forbid us to disguise our thoughts or to smother our. feelings.. Far he it from us, insulted as the Corporation of this ancient (and, at ail former times, respected) City has recently been, by the Servants of the Crown, far be it trout us to indulge in com- s plaints of grievances peculiar to ourselves, ready and willing as we are to share in all the necessary burdens and all the dan gers of our country. It is of general grievances—grievances sorely felt in all ranks of life, of accumulated and ever aceumu latine taxation, rendered doubly grievous by the oppressive. mode of exaction, and of the increased and increasing distress and misery therefrom, arising out of the improvident expend/• ture of the immerse sums thus wrung front industry and labour —of the waste of life and of treasure, in ill-contrived and ill conducted expeditions—.of the at' empts which for many years past, and especially - within the last three years, have been made, and with but too much success, to crush public liberty in a/I its branches, and especially the liberty of freely discussing the conduct of public men, and the nature and tendency cif' public measui es. Can we refrain from humbly expressing our complaints, when we have seen those Ministers who have so long usurped the Royal Authority; and who, it is now discovered, have by practising the most criminal deception upon the Parliament and' the people carried on the Government during his Majesty's banter incapacit , , exerting their influence to degrade the Kiegly office—when we have seen measures adopted evincing the Most unfounded jealousy and mistrust of your Royal Hlghnesaea when we have seen the Prerogatives of the Crown curtailed and within id—wlisn we have seen a new estate established io the Realm, highly dangerous and unconstitutional—when we have seen power, influence, and emolument, t}rus'set apart to controul and embarrass the Executive Governtnent at ;edit of such unprecedented difficulty, when all the energies el ;he State are necessary to enable us to surmount the dangers wit! Mtt. URCLVAL'S ANSWER. . . Downing-street, Feb. 5, l ell. Mr. Perceval presents his humble fluty to your Royal High it ess, and has;he honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Royal HiginiCs letter of last night, which reached him this :routing. Mr. Percent feels it his duty to express his humble thanks to ilour Royal Highness for the frankne-s with which yonr Royal fi g h t wss has condescended, explicitly, to communicate the mo sixes ~. 'deb have induced your Ruya, Highness to honour his (Gilt agues and him with your commands for the continuance of their :erviccs, in die stations entrusted to them by the King.— And Mr. Perceval begs leave to assure your Royal Highness, tbar, in the expres-ion of your Royal Highness's sentiments of ftlisl and loyal attachment to the King, and of - anxiety for the speedy restoration of his NI aj.. stv's health, Mr. Perceval can see nothing but additional motives fur their most anxious exer tions to give satisfaction to your Royal Highness, in the only Int:loner in which it can be given, by endeavouring to promote your Royal Highness's views, for the security and happiness of tbo country. Mr. Peroeval has never failed to regret the Impression of your P.oyal liizliness, with regard to the previsions c.r the Regency bill, which his Majesty's servants felt it to be their duty to re commend to Parliament. bit, he ventti7es to sub:T:lr to your Royai Highness, that, whatever difficulties the present awful crisis cif the country and the world may create in the adminis tration of the F.,xecutive Governnient, your Royt.l Highness will Licit find them, in any degree increased by the temporary suspen ral it of the exercise of chose branches of the Royal Proror.atlve-, tv h ich, bits been iotrodured by .Pathament, in conformity to what was intended un n former similar occasion: and that what antot .I% l l,inisters year. Royal highness might think proper to ern 6 . 1 r, would find in that full snpnort and countenanc e w hi c h, e as wig as they were honoured ss ith your Royal Highness's com t =lids, they would feel confident they would continue to enjoy, srople . .tud sufficiept means to vital+. .w.lr Royal Highness dec. Eta* to maintain the great and important interest of the United Kingdom. 41:0-.Mr. Perceval, humbly trusts, that, whatever 40'itbts.pur Royal Highness may entertain with respect to the Cototitutf(knal propriety. of flit. measure which have been adopted, your Royal flightless will feel assured, that they could twit have Der n reconunended by his .;vlaje.sty's servants, nor Sarx,tioned by Parliament, but upon the sincere, though possibly erroneons o eptyi ! . .ti;n,that they in no degree, trenched upon the true pr t• tples avil . 4)irit •Ortlie Constitution. ... Mr. l'erceval feels it his duty to add, that he bolls himself in readiness, ar any moment, t;) wait upon your Royal Highness, and to receive any commands, with wnich your Royal Highness 11114 y be graciously pleased to honota him.