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

TILE NATIONAL REGISTER. the tuture. The differences between France and America are adjusted, and America has never repelled English Commerce with more aversion, even when she was fighting for her lode- pendence. " Do Spain and Portugal offer England some consoling points ? When will they be tired of seeing the defeats of the fanatic hands who bear still the name of her Allies? Two English Ex peditions against Malaga and the coasts of Biscay have been as disastrous as the desperate enterprises of a Don JUAN or a MAR CUESILLOS. What will be the effect of the snare laid for the English General who covers Lisbon ? We shall soon learn." — Gazette de L'Empire. The last week produced two city meetings, in which the most serious concerns of the State were eloquently discussed. Linen-drapers and Pastry cooks roared most admirably. Indeed it was im possible that wit, energy, and patriotism should fail, as every City orator had only to select out of the Daily Newspapers the speech that pleased and suited him best, learn it by heart, and repeat in Common Council or Common Hall, the bursts of eloquence which had shaken St. Stephen's walls, or the powerful arguments which had convinced so many minds and altered so very few votes. We are almost tempted to believe that our City poli ticians, so deeply skilled in whatever can serve their country, had discovered this effective mode of their duty when they last assembled ; for unless we could suppoe that Guildhall re-echoed every syllable uttered at Weqminster, we can find no other satisfactory explanation for the similitude of words and arguments which their speeches dis played. They were, it is true, occasionally improved by tl'e more classical taste of the orator, but not withstanding this additional polish, it was easy to perceive that the material was the same. The result of these re-echoed debates has, how ever, proved very different from the original. It consists of a series of Resolutions bravely and ge nerously abusing the conduct of men who seem likely to resign or lose their power ; and in of Ad dress to both Houses of Parliament, protesting against the restrictions to be imposed on the Regent, and showing the necessity of his being invested with Sovereign authority. A mail-coach, heavily laden with baggage and passengers, was slowly ascending a hilly road, a swarm of flies, indignant at the delay occasioned, they thought, by tle indolent inactivity of the horses, fluttered angrily around them, now buz zing in their ears, and now tickling their sides. The coach, at last,"'pac4,ed the top, and the flies returned, extolling their exertions and their ser vice ! There are political as well as aerial flies, and h ide in both produces nearly the same effects. ' ROYAL: ANSWERS. r•• Friday both Houses met, and the Answers returned by the Prince of WALES and her MAJEsry to the Addresses of Parliament were brought up. The QUEEN expresses her readiness to accept the momentous trust offered to be reposed in her, and her gratitude for the appointment of a Council which will assist her in fulfilling her duties. His Royal Highness, conscious that every feel' of his heart would have prompted him, from • - ful action to his beloved Father and Sovere to have shewn all the reverential delicacy towards him inculcated in those Resolutions, could noere frain from expressing his regret that he should not have been allowed the opportunity of manifesting to his afflicted and loyal subjects, that such would have been his conduct. .. • Deeply impressed with the necessity of tranquil lizing the public mind, and. determined to submit to every personal sacrifice consistent with the re. Bard he owed to the security of his Father's Crown, ant) the equal regard he owed to the Wel fare of his people, be did not hesitate to accept the office and situation proposed to him restricted as they were, and still retaining every opinion,,ef pressed by him upon a former and similar dis tressing occasion. The Earl of LIVERPOOL then moved •the same Resolution that passed on the 31st January, 1789. 46 That Letters patent be issued under the Great. Seal for opening Parliament in the name of the KING, by the advice of the Lords Spiritual and Te-nporal, and the ComnsaiS to Parliament assembled—the letters patent running in the usu4.l form." lle at the same time remarked, that, as in. 1789 several Peers withdrew their names from the Reso lutions, he thought those of certain noble Dukes might be omitted. Lord GREY, who arrived in town last Wednesday, replied to his Lordship, cen suring the line of conduct adopted by Ministers, although at this advanced period of the proceedings he would not oppose the motion. A division then took place, when Ministers carried their paint by a majority of 20. In the Commons, after the answers of her MA JESTY and the PRINCE of WALES had been read, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER informed • the House, that in order to avoid a protracted debate on the Regency Bill this evening, he would move that the Committee should be allowed to sit on Monday, and that the House should adjourn the same day. Should any opposition be made to that mode of proceeding,.he would not introduce the Bill until the day following. Mr. SHERIDAN having expressed his belief that many Members with himself would enter a solemn Protest against the measures of the Right Hon. Gentleman, Mr. PERCEV AL renewed his mc tion of adjournment, which was carried without: division. Thus it appears that on Tuesday at the latest the Regency Bill will be brought in, and have received the sanction of the Commons, when it rill be sent up , :o the House at Peers .03'14 ; nest Thursday it. may contidently . be. hoped that thei.sus pended exercise of the Royal Authority .‘iill; . ll"ave been restoredl4, th e 4pp„:4}trtlet‘t of 10. P4no Of WALES as Regents /J-1v I.) a Vt. Vik