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I stated by Dr. Robert Willis. upon oath, to have oc. their own grounds and n i trit e o n e nut to attach to I cannot call it a claim, lon it was a similar opines& ees Hasse met this day about four o'clock. and • carted in the begin n i ng o f Nove m b er , and th a t them topics ehich , however important they way advanced sue speedily withdrawn .- 1,, short, lily - . i g ee there was a numerous assembly of Peers. not one word to that eitect shoo have escaped be, are not necessurily co 111 l retro' with, hut oily Lords, I will venture to say, that uo exomples are ROYAL SULLETINe. I their lips on the 15th, when even they expressed reader the great question befor e u s mor e ambign. to be fouud upon the Rolls of Psrliainstit. where Th e Earl of Caat.tuat rose and addressed the confident expectations, founded upon the informs, one When it first appeased to us that this great any Regent was ever appoint, dus dos country, ex. .: Sorts tbe following parporte-- o ' . ' My Lordse am lion of His Majesty's Physicians-(Hess, hear.)- question should be brought before Parliament, a ith (Apt by Parliatnetit.-The fourth priacipl, I wish : i . ... to riot at t particular time. fo r r the pur- that His Majesty would recover; mid your Lord- a view to fill up the deficiency in the Executive to enforce upon your Lordship.' muds is. that 1 pie d calling your . Lordships' attentien o a !nib- ships were persuaded to agree to a further process. Government, we easily imagined, from the many in- there is no instance of auy Regent (except Richard 1.1 ... o f ei msiderable importance, sot only as it af- tinatiou . 3 We now find teat we h a v e omitt e d our dividuals iu both Houses of Parliement who for- 111. and Protector Somerset), even when appoiuted e , ear owa deliberations, hot as it regards the duty in delaying to this period what we ought to wetly took a part in similar discussion', that there by Parliament , unless restrained and restricted by * r atio° of the public.. From the paper which, have proceeded with in the stage of its commence- were some 11015513 to *Web there would be COMO. Parliament previous to tiring so appointed. Thews taw bold it 1337. r hand, and which contains the, ment. By this time the structure ought to have derable opposition ;I, however, thought we should, theu. my Lords, are the great and fuodaturthal tithe Cetelm 4 teesl 3 l 3 ° l6 ,r ted t° exami ne t he' been raised far above the geode& and we should after what had already pa s sed, b e a ll agrees! to pria.cipl:ll opt% which our proceedinge must be a. • . teschi°ll the state ''" His Majesty ', have beau ready to apply • finishing hand. by cover- look back to the precedent of me. as that which founded. Even in those itimauces where the iii. " I" . I peoprised with surprise, that the evidence ing the fabric with a roof. g a s, m y L o rd s , it might be denominated a rule of cooduct in respect Airlifted who hits been uppeuted Regent has a teem lbws° Cbselbs _.___see. w., •Istsw wth stiles torus out that we have bee n layin g idle upon our to the form of our proceediogs: but from what has claim to the Throue. as in the cake of the Duke of e g- dace leoll/Pese 3 ° gw's,_ s °mttiww... swe, first active labours, and that the le i el e ti ns have n u t passed bore stud elsewhere , 1 undeuriand it is ill - Yolk in the reign ut Ilene, VI. with all that power • hell of own elstris this Ho 'I the given us menet informetion , hut have misled both tended to objec t to any measures Ministers might and influence &crustily attending such a clew , yet c . - sod Learned 'who presides on the your Lordships sod the public. Its calling rear propose with a view to . till up the vacancy, upon Parliament looked to the Regency as • 'Meted and .7, leolseks wits Iteleeeeded by 41 IsstsPiftwi 6 ss an ad• attention to this subject. it is not my intention to tile gentrel principles and cour s e of pruceedinos in restricted Regency. These theft beingthe teamed@ , t, ea the ground of en expectation that submit any motion to the House. and your Lord- the year 17S18. As I conceive dist those p ro em/ m - 4s upon which I think we should proceed in this Lime. (logy would recover. In the coarse of • ships will excuse the liberty L have now taken of were important for inaititaining the acknowledged nee, I way previously einem, that most of the • t soother adjoarameat was proposed, after expressing my sentiments; hut Ido think that an Constitution of the country, and reudered more ma- precedents we have to look to are drawn Irons limes rs. ''. Noble and Learned lewd had , again informed the explanation is due how the s e Bulletins have, not terisl from a kuowl e d ge o f th ou alto introduced of anarchy and violeme-tiums that are not the of the state of His Neje./ a bealth.arid It hope correspooded with the evidence afterwards deliver- them, they undoubtedly dught to lie taken as an hest calculated to afford the tome approved rules of . a ' elf exPremeed that Hie MaialatfaindiaPo- ed. I certainly shall coifed..r it my ditty to re. authority upon this occasion. Upon the 'thole. Government; yet 1 am ready to admit you are to • tread be of 6 ° long deretw're Hi. hiel•etY's etenteend that another Committee be (seined, and my Lord,:. I feel the subject to be of that great un- I look to these alonc, if no later and better authority is • at that time certainly meant it to be that there be another examination of His Majesty's por(ance that I cannot propo s e to you to agree tot can he procured. Veen the tour of Henry the I toed by your Lordships that the disorder Physicians, in order that the lenience between the the Resolutions, without stating the general pnn. I Third, or rather the Great Charter, down to the a 'eery prospect of terminating, sod therefore Bulletios and the Evidence he reconciled. Its re- espies upon which they were founded. and upon time of Henry the VII., we are to look for the ai tensed doh on the ground of there being no commenteag this measure, lam far from shelving which 1 conceive it to he your Lordships' duty I the foondatioos of our Consti•uti 111 l .We tied in. Ile i .',. •.. that we should be under the necessity of any alert-sport to those Gentlemen, but I c on s id er t o resent to them.-The flee principle upon stances to o fr om th e hi stor y o f t h e H ouse o f S tuart , ~ is . eii gto foe measures the (lo to supply the pressu this t d efect it • dusty which we owe to them, t o o u rse l ves . so d which these Resolutions' are conceived to titans', where the greatest lawy e rs a s serted the p r i nc i p l es 'sere ofyal P ow er. At p. the public. I shall, therefore . my Lord° , et down is that which was the found at i on o f t h e pro . o f l i b erty up w hi c h was r 4 1111 l tiril the Revolution vi ,gb your Lordships were called upon 10 tits- satisfied at /ardent with having- directed your I reeding. of 178 a ; namely, that the Throne is con- iof Ifidll. The great prim:jot-4 drawn by Lord Coke, great public duties superior to every other attent i on to a sub j ect connected with our proceed- Indere(' as alw a ys f u ll. an d th at t h e po h, tea l cars- (A torment and (Ante lawyers, steel practically upset .. i • - non, yet ouch were your feelings of re. Moe ; and shall if neeesury, take another oppor- city at the Eels is always entire, except i n c ases o f the period within which 1 look, which although times - far the Sovereign. that they pleaded miss ex- tuuity of oinking • motio u f or th e Impose of realm- forfeiture, o r wh ere th e persona l exercise o f the of violence, are yet the times to which Engli s h me n r teethe tees-perferusenee of duty ; nay, your citing these two accuuuts of His Neer -stye illness, I Executive Authority may be interrupted. It is roust look for the principles 01 Liberty i rind theree o were se doubt anxious to lay holt, of an at the saute time entertaining a high .opinion of I what I conceive to be • political distsuction of the I fore lam by no means prepared to centred. th it ' far stet proceeding to other useteures, when those Geritlemen, equal to the great esteem in greatest possible importance. and aecrosary to the those principles, some of which were a Js-grace to o• eviretation was presented that His Majesty's w hi c h t h ey are held as men who kora the science very exist race of all the advantages we can expect I those times. ere 1401 to receive • complete cotafit eta- wry would speedily prevent the necessity of of medicine. to derive from the Constitution of the couutry. If lion, even at the rigid at which I ant speaking. dieing three proceedings. If. my Lords, there Lord LIV/011.001, thanked the Noble Lord for this doctrine were not true-if the seccession to the Ido not merely ,mink of tette, but Imy , vet item an omission en your part in not proceedieg the aocceattutta he haul thetwo oat; ho,. as b e Thro n e were not to devolve upon any person speci- since the House of Henry was upon the Thrstee. &discharge of your duties to the reentry, it tied by law. see to what a situation it would we have ample proof of what the *termiteu of the ceneeived that greet delay heil already taken place , earn from the best intentions, from the imbued r . an -I ample evidence was already behire their Lord- lead you. Look to the eases of infancy . the in. country has bet is, even in respect to the erincieles 5 '• s which an assail the human breast-from a ships fy the adoption o f - the Re so l ut i ons h e &unties of sickness awl the infirmity of old •gr, up which a Iteuncy ought to be estatiniii,d.-I and /1421 o Lkit commiseration for the Royal woo t i t a to pro ,he hoped he shield be ex- and taut that you might be liable to all the Moon. sa wnot to enter i sto • consideratiou of • sie ty tie of • .on roof have alighted afflictions end )f- . end for immediately proceeding to them. He . veuienceof • disputed succession, undercircuinsuo. George 11. with reference to a Regency, nor PM the 1 ••cengsmygreater than any almost ever known. should only old. that he trusted lie should Ire able, ces the most embarrassing ; mid even after the most Sth of George 111. after His Majesty * succesem, eu this oseerleration, fontidel upon illlfOrlllll. 1 tip,w s future occasion, to support soy thing he vexatious contrite. the disputed point stii remains but merely mean to irbee,ve that (toy were Me 1 that His Majesty would recover in a rewon • I had Formerly stated, and to answer any of those lee di ffi cult to be suertaitied how it utigh• tis be deter. traduced sunder the sanction of the slew lawyer% ; don period of time, that prevent ed united. The great object tnerefore opisii this mat- and iu that view, the principles apes which fee l which h ad been urgedt h e I your , jections - ,ships fives laying the foundatime-stone of thin. .to be received as authorities ter is security and certiomy ; and to oppose a sta y were founded are lmps t ' we now God it necessary to construct.- luded to :in the mean time, he thought i t would opium the ambition of every. ► iudivislual, renders it such co °elusion as the present. It may be &oersted, be most proper that the Home should, in puree- . ker. flew the 0 1 1 Peekte" side.)-in t he and of the notice already given, go i n t o a Com- secesaary thst you snould adopt means to avoid any that whatever is so be adopted es the roma! low stage of your proceedine it was thought ne- niters uptiois, and to uphold. as long as you can, as se Regency. it is °till to the Mists of the Legs t Means epee the State of the Nation. . leSselearact evidence given io another place: _ __ _ the political (-weeny of thy Kink; upon the Throng, Lords. sod Comm..., te make say alteration they nest teem that telecom& takes' of making THE RDOIIOIC.7. The next pow 'treacly mitablished is, that the law may with t and that if theme be soy claim of ma it. ha todence the ground of the proceedings of Lord Igraine's'', after a very short interval, knows nn such offi ce as that o f &Ne at ; t h at i s , a resistible na,ure. it is hardly to he soppored ehet • &eau of Lords, ought not hereafter to be re- @gaits rose and moved- creation utol-r special circumstances, to meet • it would be overlooked by those who had the ;over Pelee a precedent, for if it should ever be cs• k.„ " ,„‘ T h el their i Looldripu l trold go i f e r:t . o „i s assaitte ls e i of ' special exi;rocy :at must always be grolindel upon of appointment. By the nth of George IL we t lees precedent, it noted be "snore honoured "` i rr the Its preor jibe Seim C lua nottee a u :rhited to exl the necessity of the case itself, and maven not to be find time, in default of issue of Fredersek,lPtihe- of inst lomat than in the otrervance." A further simile ,he Phis:eines. tostekieg the mats of /11apatty's extended beyond what the exigency of the case it- Wales, the Duke of Cumlo thud was Heir to the Paled was thus presented for tile expectation of health." self may require. I strongly belie re, if the wese Throne. a personage exceediegly popular in the ... sowerl, whereby your Lordship. and the peblic 1 his motion was agreed to, and the Ileum re- not the ferhugs of our ancestors, they would ha v e country, and althou g h a f avouri t e sun o f Ki og his been deladed.--Ifieer, hear.) -111 is thus. solved itself solo 4 Committee accordingly. 'n ide "me general Proaisioiss upon time subject of George the Second, yet, under al! those c. ' WIIII. In* the periods of time I hive alluded to, that Lord Liveiteuos. then addrased the Committee Itegeticy ; but they evidently held, that it was dam- stauces • Parliament gave the Regency to the P -i u . I and procrastination have prevent e d our die , ;to the fullomeg e ff ect :-" In rising, My Lords, genius t o me ddl e or interfere wit h it prospectively ; eras D owager of Welu, 'object to such mom. ing shat we owe to the country end ourselves, to move that your Committee de agree with the Be- an d th a t whatever inconveniency mi g ht mi t e from tines and linemen*, as they thought proper.- • thes we have c o n te nte d w i t h out • G overnment , so l ut i ons o f w hi ch I have prev i ously given notice, I any introits' occurrim:, they close to rest upon . the These, and the like instaucee, establish this n euci. e suds, a Government biereesei reply eerai n tieitile I beg leave to call your attention to • few preemie 1 broad basis of the presumed general capacity of pie, which i , mostimportant In these proceedings.-- 4 , Meer, bar.) -n e npaturneat el uporptoioto !- nary observations Upon the tit ' st of these Rein -1 King. In such a deficiency its she present, nor so. I thatehe whole arrangement was 4 owidered 140111i2 I , ter, hear hear, frees the Uppositson sided- lotions them ed to can at this moment unfortunately be I Ermine seem trust entirely to Parliament to the province of Part, . mot, to act according to ti l e vs illy LOW", whorl' more imusedistely ...Wilt ino difference °Commun. My Lords, in discharg. provide for the personal reel cise of that authority circumstances of the (*.lV' + and to i-ii pose lissit.o. ' bring under your utteetion anicthe diadem's ing the painful fluty which devolve, upon me in X7l ! w hi c h 'Mooed to the King-not by the adoptiou lions and restrictions, if thought expedient awl t , - have been from the deal issumllam &he public. consequence of His Majesty's indispositioo, I sin arse) , geueral measures • but by the special enema convenient fur the good of the counts ; a mode 4 f the porpoise of declaringttlipsoloto ref His Ma.. persuaded it is impossible to do justice to those feel- stances of the case . oll!ch might thereby furnish conduct which is not therefore to be deemed con . s al. • t health. At the .sore •lieseefeis not nt i n . logs which every one id your Lordships, and ever the strongest harrier when opposed to individuals teary to the Constitution. We most bear in tuned , •to fix any improper enotivoespou the Nook one of the s onistinity,iii common with utyseletoust "spine% to the office. and also afford the strongest that the first great pnuciple is, that the political ' , I , ' ' Opposite but I will suppose that they were feel upoo this to coaion. After the blessings we secur i ty to the Crown itself. 1 know that th e re a r e capacity of the King is always t o b e considered ;. • elle deluded with the public. and the rest of have enjoyed tor more than 50 years wider the pa- some ideas amongst certain indivelu a l s that it as entire ; that the Regency is to be regul a t e d and .• Lordship s . I cannot possibly conceive that, terns! government of His Majesty. a degree of Is- m i g h t h e w i se to exteild the principles o f sue. appointed according to the circumstances of the Moe. ~ • they been acquainted with what was drawn berty and comparative tranquillity hitherto enen- cession to the Throne to a succession to the Re- that no person con have any right except according • a the Physicians. upon with. in thew CX111. 0 ..0. jnyed by any other nation in the world, lam sure gency-t hat, however, has not been the prineiple to the will of Parliament; sod lastly, that there is no. thing contrary to theCoi st it u tion el tumor" og metric. -- Wore your Lord.hipe Co mm itt e e. they could we must all look with On anxious hope to the town which our ancestors have acted. n or h a s it •, • advised the procrastmanou which betoc:teirri-d, i restoration o f H i , my riey e i h ea l t h. I ts the la. b e en the acknowledged priticiple in the govern- lions and Imitations . Taking these as established 4 t they would have represented His Mijestv's ill- tuition, however, in which we find ourselves at pre. meats o f any oilier conotri, s, to which rept'''. principles. we are th eu to atten d tu the mode in likely to endure but fur • short period. Ido not sent placed, it no doubt must be acknowledged li ons s i m i lar to t h ose of our own might - hare which we are to proceed. Two modes have already el th ey spoke of • preci s e time when His Majesty that we are in great dif fi culty ; and it is to that si. app li e d. T here i s i ndeed hardly any country b een suggested-the one by a ddressing the 'velum , recover. but they had academie of Isis recovery Weep') that lam theme to call your Lorilskire at - where that poiut has gained ground ; but so far of Wales, requesting him to take upon hi m s e lf t h e " a nailed time'` Indeed such were the expressions I nation this night. From what I have heard this from it, the Heir Apparent, or Heir Prestimp. Government of th e Countsy. under au, h mine. stale of th ose N o bl e L or d s . a . 1 IVO i n f orme d, night. and former nights, I can hike net blame live, is positively considered as thin lost parson liana am limitations a• to the Parliament shall seem Pr linguthre of an unwarrantable tendency was to myself hot to my colleagues on accouut of the that should be appointed Regent ; a n d we know. meet-and the other mode is, by an Act of the Le. ei ee -el, such ea to operate open the conduct of delay that has taken place, as it was solely founded t h at i n countr i es where even the Salique Law has !isolator,. I wish thee to call ,oar bade :rips' era Haase; when N o ble L o rd s w e re t o ld th a t if upon the hope that the seessines we are about to re- prevailed. still the succession to the Throne h as teetion to the difference - between these two modes e did not amen to the delay of a fortnigut .ir sort to might beevoided. It is impossible. however. not been cousidered as the same with the succeos of proceeding ; the one. I conceive, may be deem , P• eon to the Regency. We have not such so here- mended an informal appointment; and the other a "token would be thrusting the King from the to delay longer in adopting some mestere to so F I Now, my Lords, writes. I examine the pa- ply the defieieoey in the Executive Government. dairy principle recorded mesas oar statute books or more formal one. These ere, epos your own *Leg. le. la my hand. whi c h c ontain s the e v idenc e of when we consider the state in which • country like l aw M e d ia ; nor is t h ere to tie f oun d any legal i ne e equally an appointment by Parliament : but l' l '' . • th*ty's Physicians. I find the ItStialt.o7 of this must necessarily be involved iu•juncture such authority in this country that has considered such notwithstanding . that circumstance. I conce i ve ' • Rome Willis, eeno b esite e b y t h at o f U r. as the pre s ent + after a lapse of two centuries and a • doctrin e a s a nervissitry principle of M onarc hy. the mode by Dill to he net only the best, b ut CI -. '' declaring the state of His Majesty to belf shims sim il ar meas u r e, were nee e s s a r ity and On the contrary. it appears to have been uniformly the only mode thee ought to be adopted. I coo. e 4 b ees of a more serious tend- , cv Ono soy absolutely resorted to. Our Governoseut, such se' considered as nate of the realest objects to be attain. ceive that the mode by Address is a mode by r* 4we apprehended t oa the time more serious it is, Lavine 'teeter" without any material 'lterates* ed as far eats cousiitent with the safety and credit which the Comm of L aw cansint be regulntcd, .It ~w 7 thing contained s the representation of during that petted, the difficuleee that must arise of the country. to he most scrupulous in avoiding nor can they take any notice of it. An Ad. e . ' majesties Ministers. or in the Bulletins of the us discussing principles which may be brought for- mi di provision, as the means of protecting the iii- drew may call forth legal powers already in exist. ;whom It apnea that abetat the sth, 6th, ward in every view of this qemtion, cannot leave a Wrests of the monarchy. There does nett eresi ex- tenet., and cannot therefore be deemed most pro. ts• " 7th of N ev e f ro w t h e " a t e iee o f Dr. doubt that it would hare been the duty el Minis' ist in our own history any example of a Regent not per to call forth tiny powers not alre a dy ex i st i ng , an aa Weis, Ilia M e n nl jest r e . 's life was its imminent den- tern to avoid it. F er b e r o f p eriwig , delimit', appointed by Parliament, sod therefore it is on. that our prneeedinga in Parliament cannot be acted i ild Dr. Heberden expr d him seelf to the assist have had great weight in a question of this doubted that that has not been the course which we upon its a Court of Law . Such are the objections 41' l a uewt.-(Here the Noble Earl read that nature ; but I also say, that upon many grounds oorsehres have ever edoptcd. Claims have in Some IprownenedAidadg b r•!uy,Bowlitii.chh.dowhoicoht trisseecuarrieoatthseeanisodiseeof.f • 1:' .if the ev id ence from the printed Report of and Jiffereot considerations that necessarily grew ; no w", b een nu e,. by individuals aspiring to the el• out of it, year Lurdships must conceive that it was office of Regent ; but those claims lute . upnn full faxed, foe by that the Courts of tow would be La tlishios' Commit tee) -If than. mi. Lon's. if oh m the Balk • .. • l 1 • He t „ ei w i t h t h e Nat West caution. My consideration. been uniformly rejected. In th e bound to obey it. The Great Seal may be infixed se tins 01 thew sins, we stial .1. vim la tech informatio re e intelligence con lao.sis. at t o pretient naoment. being desirous to reign of Henry VI. a claim was made by the next improperly, hut still there can be no question con. e s drain) from them by intev-ses-e..... nor did, they .0,8 e nivel( to the subject matter of the Restitu- King to exercise the Royal Authority during the terming it in the Courts of Low- den, any eff,,,,, sit „ etir • • upo n the push. ions slow before you. I certainly wish to avoid the infancy of the Soverei g n, It was considered in [Here Earl Stgohooe rose tospeak to ireifer,ae he V. tread i" The Nellie Earl then ceded to r t ead •liarasnial o f eetreneous prints; anal 41h10 dorm p a rliament, and precedents were searched upon the conceived the Noble Lord who ss as speaking was in Bulletins of that peeled, which eiy „, te d : oto t. whi c h, although to sense degree, ere yet not occasion, the authority of all the greatest men a :awake as to the Lev el' the Nogg-- Hat Majesty had pr.ed a better or • wet"' “" c "" liallal Y remwee sert with it . If IJo of enter was taken upon the soteect. and the answer to that •" 1 maintain." (contetuerl Lord Liveremol) et that L s ; ' m ix that heetremained mach the same a , sapon those tomes yet I wish it to be uuderstood chino was, that the Duke of Gloucester, the person the Greek Seal may be put to a Commiesion or Act 1- , IT•rwitheciamse,Oe se ..e r e ar t h e oppoefien hot to Grim from say motive of Miro° of .lie, claiming, could hate no such dais, either by will of Parliament ; and if i: be improperly applied. it , 1".." I tbigkeme , Lade, * will be equally 46 1160 .• WA from their arineesser etleteeesst7 or by kindred, but that the power of appointment con be questioned in Parliament, but it causes& be .-11. • •