The National Register. — London, England, 1811-01-06 00:00:00

E NATIO will of his own, or according to the best of his judg ment, the will of his Sovereign ?—invested with de leg:tted power, he is to assume with it the views and will ofhis predecessor, and resign his own, in order, that when returning health calls the real King to the exercise of his functions, he should not find that the plans of others have crossed or defeated his own, for the welfare of his subjects and the prosperity of his Crown. To grant unrestricted authority to a Re gent, would be to increase the awful responsibility and difficulties of his situation. It would prove a bait to entice him away from the paths of duty.— His will being thus acknowledged free, what could prevent him from acting in dizect opposition to•that of the afflicted Monarch, as revealed in his former acts, and creating irremediable confusion in the State ? A few restrictions on points only in which a wide departure from the politics or measures of the incapacitated King might prove highly detri mental to the country, seem therefore both wise and proper. Instead of being an insult, they would be a protection to the Regent, because they would re lieve him from a portion of his weighty responsibi lity, and transfer it to both Houses of Parliament. The sentiments of the Opposition ♦aried on this subject. Lord GRENVILLE, in the Peers, support ed the opinion which he expressed in 1788, in fa vour of restrictions. In the Commons Lord Pott• CHESTER moved that they should be entirely swept away, but failed without a division. There the right of raising Naval and Military Officers to the Peerage, after a vain attempt to extend it to indivi duals out of the Navy and Army, was confirmed ; but the appointment or removal of the Officers of His Majesty's Household was transferred from the QUEEN to the PRINCE, by a majority of thirteen in the Committee, and three in the House against Ministers. In a political point of view the triumph of the Opposition on this question seems to have been justly obtained. Had the right of removing and appointing the Officers of his Majesty's House hold, amongst whom, we are informed, are several Members of Parliament, remained with the Queen, the present Ministers, even when driven from the helm of State, would have preserved such a power. ful influence in the House, as to be able to impede, if not totally to obstruct the measures of their suc cessors. It was necessary, therefore, that the Re gent, in order to render his Government effective, should be armed with a large majority, with which the disposal of these offices will contribute to sup ply him. But viewed by the eye of feeling, the triumph of the Opposition forms a blot on the fair character of the nation for gratitude and liberality. The chief Artunicut urged to effect it, was the expellee which Diti•ounts • /40 , 111 • - 4, tf - i • A !" • a c am7 2 * VV. 1111.% • ."'n I EG STER. the formation of a fresh establishment f>r the gent, in case he should not have the appoi , and use of his Father's Household, would occas: Was this worthy of the richest people in the verse ? Would the additional sum of 16,0001. 40001. of which return in taxes into the public have ruined a nation, which Heaven blessed with the whole commerce of the w We boasted of our love for our Monarch gratitude for his paternal cares during fifty years lately blazed forth in brillant illuminations, bu, nished with their light. We loved him ; we noured him ; or rather we made a deceitful of love and honour, because he was in power Years, sorrow, and disease, are now upon " the pangs of paternal affection have torn son from her seat, and with Reason his Royal thority is suspended. In his age, his grief momentary infirmity, we also desert him. tell him, " You were surrounded with house, officers, who for fifty years perhaps had w: ed your wants and increased your comforts. treated them as friends, and they loved you as ther. Their presence would sweeten, perhaps h: your recovery, but in the absence of your power would cost us 16,0001. to keep them around for then we must create a new Household fcc Regent. Rather than bear an additional tax, individual share of which throughout your e: would be so small, that there is no number t, press it, we will deprive you of your most fai servants ; perhaps turn them adrift on the w and when you return to health and authority, fa, your ears with tales of our love, and Heaven expressions of gratitude." In the House of Peers political interest obtai the same triumph over feeling. There, also, sters experienced repeated defeats : the Restricti , were swept away by the Marquis of LANSDORT Amendniew ; and Lord GRENVILLE proved the had become the arbiter of fate in Parliament causing the Ministers to succeed, when he declare himself in their favour on the Amendment w they proposed, and which prevents the creatio any Peers for twelve.months, and defeating whenever he voted against them, as on the tions respecting the Household, and the rig, voting by proxy : both of which they lost. Letters were on Thursday received from Ber dated the Pith ult. adverting to a treaty of riage in contemplation between the King of . s;A. and a very near relation of the Emperor ALEX ANDEII.—On the same authority, it is menti that a coalition bctween the two Crowns w' formed, for the purpose of mutual defence, a (Linger which is seriously apprehended. A he Re- ointing .casion. he uni- -40001. purse a has world ? ; our years, but va- we ho- Ll show wen—. him ; -n rea- -al Au- ief, his I. We rschold watch- . You as a fa- hasten ower it Ld you, for the ax, the empire to ex- faithful world, fatigue m with btained 1, Mini- rictions , owNE's that he ent, by eclared which ition of g them e ques- -ight of Berlin, If Mar- ' Pays- ALEX• ttioned, will be , under