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

HOUSE OF LORDS.

MONDAY, DEC. 31, 1810.
Their Lordships met, and appointed Commissioners to hold a
conterence with the Commons, fur the purpose of conununi-
eating to them that their Lordships had concurred in their
Resolutions sent up on the 22d instant. The conference being
had accordingly, their Lordships adjourned.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 1811.
Their Lordships met at the a:;ual hour, but no business v.-as
transacted, in consequence of no nu•ssa,j;e coming fro;:i the Com-
mons, and after Earl Dartmouth had taken the oaths and his
scat, their Lordships adjourned.

THURSDAY, JAN. 3.
A messr,e from the Commons requested a conference with
their Lord hips, for the purpose of communicatiug to them their
amended Resolutions on the Regency, and requesting their
Lordships' concurrence.—A Committee was accordingly zip- •
pointed, who returned with the said Resolutions, which were
ordered to be taken into consideration to-inorrow.

On the motion of Lord Liverpool, copi,:s of the correspon-
dence between the Lords of the Treasury and the great Officers
of the Exchequer, relative to the issue of the public motley,
were ordered to be laid before the house.—Adjourned.

FRIDAY, JAN. 4.
STATE OF THE NATION.

The Order of the Day being moved, for entering on the State
of the N. tion,
I..c)RD LIVERPOOL, after the Resolutions brought up from the
I ismtnons, had been read, disclaimed the slightest or most dis-
tant imputation of being actuated by any thing like personal dis-
respect towards the Personage to whom the Resolutions most
materially referred. That Personage indeed stood high in the
public estimation, and was eminently distinguished for his many
shining and exalted qualities. But the present question rested
upon public principles, and upon those principles it was that his
Majesty's Ministers had carefully and scrupulously acted. High
and exemplary as the virtues of that Personage were acknow-
ledged to be, it could not be denied that he was liable to the bias
and impressions of wrong advice—( Hear, hear j—care should
be taken that he should be made incapable of doing wrong.
Having stated thus much, his lordship said, all who had at-
tended to the history of the Constitution, and of the Country,
must be aware, that except aome cases of gross and flagrant usur -
pation, there were but two instances of the regular establishment
of a Regency. It must also he manifest on every occasion of
providing for the interruption or suspension of the Royal autho-
rity, whether in case of infancy or otherwise, that there was a
general principle pervading our whole history; that a clear dis-
tinction was made between powers assigned to the Regeut, Pro-
tector, or Deputy, and those which were inherent in t:ie Sove-
reign himself. The powers with which the latter was invested,
were always less than those which belonged to the former ; and
for that distinction there was a clear and obvious reason :—The
ititerests of the former were always permanent ; those of the
latter temporary. Temporary interest naturally held out a
temptation to abuse, and was always more or less a subject of
jealousy. Those considerations our ancestors were duly awake
to, and took the lit precautions against the apnreheuded evil.
In the early periods of our history, a Council was assigned to the
Regent, by which his acts were regulated or checked. In the
instance of the first of Philip and Mary, when the former Prince
was invested with Regal paver, that power was carefully re-
stricted ; as it was also in the instance which afterwards occur-
red in the 24th of George the Second. With respect to the
powers with which the Regent should be invested, the right of
making peace or war should always be comprehended ; because
Parliament was always ready to correct any abuse of that
power.—The distribution of all the great offices should also be-
lsng to the Regent ; because at the return of restoration or ma-
turity of the King, whose authority was assumed, those offices
were revocable. But the granting titles, which were nor revo-
cable, could not with propriety he invested with one whose
power was only temporary. Having stated those general prin-
ciples, his Lordship proceeded to observe, that the precedent of
1788, formed the ground by which his Majesty's Ministers had
regulated their conduct on the present occasion ; arid he pro-
nounced a warm and clequent eulogy on the great Minister who
had furnished that precedent, glancing a censure on some oblo-
quies which had, of late, most strangely been uttered against the
fame of that distinguished character. hi passing to the Fifth
Resolution, his Lordship could not agree to it in the shape in
which it had been sent up to that House. In all cases of that
nature, the regelations of the Householo, and the care of the per-

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