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

TIE NATIONAL REGISTER.

••• The CUANCELLOR of the EXCHEVEY., in the name of the
Committee appointed to wait on his Royal Highness:the Prince
OT Wales, brought up the Report of the said Committee on the
huh df the audience they had obtained that day from his Royal
flightless, The Committee had met there the Lord President,
-yid the Lord Privy Seal, and had received the following corn-
li•itinicarion from his Royal Highness t—
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"All, LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
'4l.reeeive the communicatios.which the two Houses have
directed Ton to maketto me cf their joint ResOlutions on the
hject or providing for ' the exercise of the Royal Authority
during. his Majesty's illness; with those sentiments of regard
which I must ever entertain for the united desires of the two
HoUsCs.-
•• " With the same sentiments I receive the expressed hopes
Of the Lords and Commons, that from my regard for the inte-
rest of his Majesty and the nation, I should be ready to under-
i.he the weiztity and important trust proposed to he invested in
. .snc," under the restrictions and limitations stated in those Re-
-solutions:
" Conscious that every fee7ing of My heart would have
prompted me, from dutiful affection to my beloved Father and
:..overe:gn, to have shown all the reverential delicacy towards
hint inculcated in these Resolutions, I_ cannot refrain from ex-
pressing my regret that I should not have been allowed the op-
portunity of manifesting to his afflicted and loyal subjects, that
such would have been my conduct.
" Deeply -impressed with the necessity of tranquilizing the
public mind, and determined to submit to every perwnal sacri-
fice consistent with the regard I owe to the security of my Pa-
llier's Crown, and the equal regard I owe to the welfare of his
people, I do not hesitate to accept the office and situation pro-
posed to me, restricted as they are, still retaining every opi-
nion expressed by me upon a former and similar distressing oc-
casion.

In undertaking the tryst proposed to me, lam well „are
of the difficulties of the situation in which I shall he placed ; but I
shall rely with confidence upon the Constitutional advice of an
enlightened Parliament, and ht zealous support of a generous
And loyal people; I w:11 use ali the mewls left me IQ merit
Poth.

" My Loapz Axil GEN TT.EM EN,
" You will communicate this my answer to the two Houses,
accompanied by my most fervent NVOIICS and prayers that the
Divine W;11 may e-,:tticate us and the nation from the grievous
embarrassmentc of our precut condition by the speedy restora-
tion of his Maje4ty's
Lord Curt: bron:.Aht op t 1 Rep3rt- of the Committee appoint-
ed wait on tho Queen, and communicated her Maj,..ety's an-
swer in the following. words :

"Ivly 1.,41ps AND G:t.N.ri.r.mnN,

"-That sense of duty and gratitude to the King, and of obli-
ption to this Country, which induced inc in the year 1;89
readily to promise my moat earnest attention to the anxious
•
and motnem:ous trust 3, at that time intended to be reposed in
erie hy Parliameut, is strengthened, if possible, by the uninter-
rupted enjoyment of those blessi;igs I have continued to
experience, under the protection of his Majesty, since that pe-
riod : and I shnuid he wantinp, to all tn 7 duties, if I he;,itated to
accept the sacred trusts which is now ti&red to me.
" The a§sistance ill pc4nt of counsel and advice,wLich the wis-
il.un of Parliament propmei to provide for me, will make me
undertake the charge, with greater hopes that I may he able
eatiJ:ictorily to ft,ltii thFimpprmpt dutip which it mu :t impose
ppun me.
Of the nature and iinp4,rtanee.of that charge I cannot but he
duly it does, every thing which is valu-
&Ole to tn7seff, as well ag the lek,ltest interests of a people, cri-
fieackil,te by ho many ties and coni4itrations, but by pp-
thing. so .sscongly, as by Akeit steady, loyal, and affectionate
attachment to the best :i.inzz."

The CHANCELLOR of the Exeittoute moved, that the Order
of the Day for the House to form itself into a Committee on the
State of the Nation he now read. He observed, afterwards,
that as the House were to wait for a communication from the
House of Peers, on the subject of their Resolution, to affix the
Great Seal to a commission for opening Parliament, previous to
the bringing up of the Regency Bill ; and as it was likely that the
Bill would occasion much discussion. in order to avoid a pro-
tracted debate on Saturday, he would move that the Committee
should have leave to sit on Monday, and that the House should.
adjourn en the same day, unless the Gentlemen opposite saw
some objections to that mode of proceeding; in that case, he
would, as he originally intended, introduce the Bill on the day
following.
Mr. WHIT EREAD, wished to know whether in the intended
Bill the Right Hon. Gentleman meant to make any provision for
the recurrence of the same calamity. He declared at the same
time, that if th.s was neglected, he would feel it his duty, as he
had announced, to move at a future period for some provision to
that effect. •
Mr. Avitta thought, that in the present mutilated state of
Parliament, such an important measure of legislation could not
be legally or properly introduced.
Mr. WaITEKEAD disclaimed any idea of introducing the
measure in the present mutilated state of Parliament, and
merely wanted to know the Right Hon. Gentleman's
tendons.
Mr. Sit inn N conceived that many Members like himself
would enter their most solemn protest against the measures the
Right Hon. Gentleman meant to introduce, as unconstitutional
and fundamentally wrong; but he did not think that such .3
consideration could justify the Right Hon. Gen...eman in wish-
in7; to adjourn the House to Monday. .
The CHANCELLOR of the Ex e ItE Qv eit said,. it .never entered
his mind to introduce in a Bill imperiously required by - the
painful necessity of the times, any thing more than what was
absolutely necessary to meet the present exigency. He saw
a sulcieut, reason to avoid what might be naturally expected,;
protracted debate on Saturday, which would be attended with
much inconvenience to the House.
Mr. Sit KRID AN protested against the construction thus put on
his words by the Right Hon. Gentleman.
The (Question for the Adjournment was then put, and .cartied
witlmit a division.

CITY BUSINESS.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

This Court assembled on Tuesday, for the first time since the
general election of its members.
The usual ocilis having been adininiqer?cl to the representa-
tives of the several wards, and some other preliminary forms
having been gone through,
The LORD MAvoa stated, that he had convened the Court
on that day, in consequence of a requisition which had been
sent to him on the 2. 7th of December, signed by several Mem-
bers of the Court, requesting that he would appoint an early day
for the purpose of taking into consideration the present state of
affairs, &c.
Mr. Alderman Worm then rose. He adverted to the expe-
diency of that Court's expressing its opinion on-the present state
of the nation, and lamented the calamity that had befallen his
Majesty. He contendet, that the Prince of Wales ought to be
appoiree.. the unrestricted and unlimited 'Regent, to "wield
the energies of the State," during his Majesty's incapacity to
exercise the Royal Functions. a censured the conduct of
iniaters on the present erneik.ency, arid maintained, that so
soon as his Majesty's incapacity had been proved,. the two
Houses ought to have addressed the ?rince,of Vales, soliciting
his Royal Highness to take upon himself
.the exercise of the
Regal Functions. That was the mode of proceeding pointed
out by the Constitution. The Worthy Alderman. concluded
with an appeal to -the feelings of the Court, 'calling upobn theca
to adopt the Resolutions which be then reiid. They wer6to the
following effect :
" That while they view with the deepest rezi'ef tils-I.4lt)estles
unrortunate illness, they. would pot approve of the nifilik about
to he adopted for supplying the suspension of the R. 974 •AlAt!-.•
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rity by a Regent with limited powers.'
" That the Royal Prerogatives had been given in.tittOf and
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were in part held far the benefit of, thepc:ople, •:3
44 That they would not have been gfven-unless .the Vere
cessary for the ciiie administration of the Kingl7' ce-:.and
must be no less wanting - for the government of 4 legebt ef-
pressly appointed, than for that of a Icing. -12'
' That -the proposed: Restrictions would necesiarip dastm
the equipoise Winch should ..-übsht 'aetween . the three'brandies
of the Conitivatiob -, and by violating the integrity' Orthe tone
stitution, would strike at the liberties of the people.