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WE 113711TZS OF ,TH . • /, . impossible to reeescile the conduct of the Noble and irrelevant to the discussion e' at present before of a Regent for the Kingdom was with the Estate' —aro-- Lords opposite. hut upon the principle of delusion. us ;it being much more experbeet and proper to lof the Ittalou.-1 need uot allude to 1 similar pc-
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HOUSE 01 LORDS, TUMISDAT. Dee. ty. Is it possible that they should hare known what is discuss the points anyway. connected eitb it, upon l elision, where a similar opinion was advanced. I
stated by Dr. Robert Willis. upon oath, to have oc. their own grounds and nitrite one 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• carted in the beginning of November, and that them topics ehich, however important they way advanced sue speedily withdrawn.-1,, short, lily
- . i gee 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
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their lips on the 15th, when even they expressed reader the great question before us more ambign. to be fouud upon the Rolls of Psrliainstit. where
The 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
rr 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 pied 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 ... of eimsiderable importance, sot only as it af- tinatiou .3 We now find teat we have omitted 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
*ratio° 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 Cetelm4teesl3l3°l6,rted t° examine the' been raised far above the geode& and we should after what had already passed, be all 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. gas, my Lords, 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 been laying 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 leieletins have nut 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 object 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 6ss an ad• attention to this subject. it is not my intention to tile gentrel principles and course 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 proem/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 these Bulletins have, not terisl from a kuowledge of thou 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
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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 propose 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.
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i .',. •.. that we should be under the necessity of any alert-sport to those Gentlemen, but I consider to resent to them.-The flee principle upon stances too from the history of the House of Stuart,
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is . eii gto
foe measures
the (lo to supply the pressu
thist d
efect it • dusty which we owe to them, to ourselves. sod which these Resolutions' are conceived to titans', where the greatest lawyers asserted the principles
'sere ofyal Power. At p. the public. I shall, therefore .my Lord°, et down is that which was the foundation of the pro. of liberty up which 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 attention to a subject connected with our proceed- Indere(' as always full. and that the poh, teal cars- (A torment and (Ante lawyers, steel practically upset
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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 in cases of the period within which 1 look, which although times
- far the Sovereign. that they pleaded miss ex- tuuity of oinking • motiou for the Impose of realm- forfeiture, or where the personal exercise of the of violence, are yet the times to which Englishmen
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 which they 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 be Throne were not to devolve upon any person speci- since the House of Henry was upon the Thrstee.
&discharge of your duties to the reentry, ittied 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 of -the Resolutions he &unties of sickness awl the infirmity of old •gr, up which a Iteuncy ought to be estatiniii,d.-I
and /1421oLkit commiseration for the Royal woo tita to pro ,he hoped he shield be ex- and taut that you might be liable to all the Moon. sawnot 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 difficult to be suertaitied how it utigh• tis be deter. traduced sunder the sanction of the slew lawyer% ;
don period of time, that preventedunited. The great object tnerefore opisii this mat- and iu that view, the principles apes which feel
which had been urgedthe 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 stay were founded are lmps t
' we now God it necessary to construct.- luded to :in the mean time, he thought it 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 011Peekte" side.)-in the and of the notice already given, go into 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 office as that of &Neat ; that is, 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.„",„‘Thel theiri Looldripultrold go
ifer:t.o„is assaittelsei 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 "`
irr the Its preor jibe Seim C luanottee au: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 have country, and although a favourite sun of Kiog
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 -iu.
I and procrastination have prevented our die, ;to the fullomeg effect :-" In rising, My Lords, genius to meddle or interfere with it prospectively ; eras Dowager 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- and that whatever inconveniency might mite from tines and linemen*, as they thought proper.- • thes we have contented without • Government, solutions of which I have previously 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 eeraintieitile 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 itsshe 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 tile
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 ! which '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 .
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al. • t health. At the .sore •lieseefeis not nt in. 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 security to the Crown itself. 1 know that there are capacity of the King is always to be considered
;. • elle deluded with the public. and the rest of have enjoyed tor more than 50 years wider the pa- some ideas amongst certain indiveluals that it as entire ; that the Regency is to be regulated and .• Lordships. I cannot possibly conceive that,terns! government of His Majesty. a degree of Is- might he wise to exteild the principles of 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
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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 Committee. they could we must all look with On anxious hope to the town which our ancestors have acted. nor has it
•, • advised the procrastmanou which betoc:teirri-d, i restoration of Hi, myrieyei health. Its the la. been 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 of any oilier conotri, s, to which rept'''. principles. we are theu to attend tu the mode in
likely to endure but fur • short period. Ido not sent placed, it no doubt must be acknowledged lions similar to those of our own might -hare which we are to proceed. Two modes have already
el they spoke of • precise time when His Majesty that we are in great difficulty ; and it is to that si. applied. There is indeed hardly any country been suggested-the one by addressing
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 himself the
" 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 the Countsy. under au, h mine.
stale of those Noble Lords. a. 1 IVO informed,
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 ; and we know. meet-and the other mode is, by an Act of the Le.
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ee -el, such ea to operate open the conduct of delay that has taken place, as it was solely founded that in countries where even the Salique Law has !isolator,. I wish thee to call ,oar bade :rips' era
Haase; when Noble Lords were told that if upon the hope that the seessines we are about to re- prevailed. still the succession to the Throne has 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. which contains the evidence of when we consider the state in which • country like law Media ; nor is there to tie found any legal inee 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 conceive
' • Rome Willis, eenobesitee by that of Ur. as the present+ after a lapse of two centuries and a • doctrine as a nervissitry principle of Monarchy. the mode by Dill to he net only the best, but
CI -. '' declaring the state of His Majesty to belf shims similar measure, were neeessarity and On the contrary. it appears to have been uniformly the only mode thee ought to be adopted. I coo. e 4 bees 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 Law cansint be regulntcd,
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~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- midi 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 Nev e fro w the "ate iee of 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 already existing, an
aa Weis, Ilia Mennljestre.'s life was its imminent den- tern to avoid it. Ferber of periwig, 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
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lauewt.-(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 evidence from the printed Report of and Jiffereot considerations that necessarily grew ;now", been nue,. 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
Latlishios' Commit tee)-If than. mi. Lon's.
if ohm the Balk •
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Nat West caution. My consideration. been uniformly rejected. In the 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 to 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.
es 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 • • upon the push. ions slow before you. I certainly wish to avoid the infancy of the Sovereign, It was considered in [Here Earl Stgohooe rose tospeak to ireifer,ae he
V. tread i" The Nellie Earl then ceded tort ead •liarasnial of
eetreneous prints; anal
41h10 dorm parliament, and precedents were searched upon the conceived the Noble Lord who ss as speaking was in
Bulletins of that peeled, which eiy „,ted : otot. which, 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""liallalY remweesert with it. If IJo of enter was taken upon the soteect. and the answer to that •" 1 maintain." (contetuerl Lord Liveremol) et that
Ls ; 'mix 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,Oese..erear the 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
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1".." I tbigkeme, Lade, * will be equally 461160.• WA from their arineesser etleteeesst7 or by kindred, but that the power of appointment con be questioned in Parliament, but it causes& be
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