The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1811-02-15 00:00:00

THE•. It/WE:YTS COURT.

Yesterday hieing the tiny appointed by Ins Royal
Highness the Prime Regent for receiving the A.l-
- of the Corporation of the City of Lood•in,
upon his being appointed Regent of the U:.itetl
Kingdom; together with its being his Royal High-
ness's intention of holding a Privy Council ; a party
of the tit Regiment of Foot Guards. with the regi-
mental colours and the full band, the 01Dcers and
the whole in white g liters, touched into Ciirletou
How Court-yard shout twelve o'clock; and a
party of the Life Guards took their stition in Pall-
Mill. to trgittate the carri.ige9.
/Meant one o'clock, Mr. Secretary Ryder had an.
audience of In. Royal Highness. in a short time
after the Right Hon. Gentleman was obliged to
leave Carleton-House in Lord NI olgraive's carri,ge,

oq account of indisposition.
The Earl ofCmartown Ind Lora George
the Treatarer sad Comptroller of Ills May-..ty'.
Household, with their albite wand, of Aces hid
audiences of his Royal ►lighness ; the former hid
before Inos the Address of the Hoak of Peer... and
the tatter liar Address of the flOtnor of

A fere minutes before one o'el.ielt, the Carlow '-
tint) of the City of Loudon armed at Carleton-
WIMP in the folloniiig order:—

The tuu Matelots oa hut ..ebarL, is their superb imetfuna.

The Lurd Mayor's Gewilrret
The Mgr twol Slate.
The Mace.
The Chepleie.
The Lord Nen or
Aldtrome

T. Saran, Earl 'Wit late Lord Maser), and Altirrnsao Glottis.
The Recorder and Mr. Vailant, one of the Cdy Cottrell.
Aleittoteo Wood, Dcoville, Srholley, sad Mornay
The Shertlfs.
Aldermen S. W. nurser and Goodlacistre.
Remendorsuetr.
The Cimaberlsto.
The Common Secjeaot.
The Town Clerk.
Counsellors bollaori, Reyoulds, Arab,u, and Wanes.
The Couiptrolltr.
Mr. Leigh Moe Under Sheriff).
The Sohmor.
Mews ‘taillinisa, Quin, and Mortar.

Drpot, Loaley, •nd about 130 other Geoikarn of t►e

C•taalea

The whole snit of elegant rooms were thrown
*pea upon title memorable occasion. for the grafi-
Ileotion cud eatertaininent of the citizens to walk

cousiattig of in ■uti.nam. the dmiarroour.
ball-room. •od drawing-room.

A number of Yeomen of the Guard. end his
MIA Highness's servants in their state liveries.
hoed the grand hall, frets respect to the Corpses-
tiers of thlrity of London.
Matt of the Ministers arrived sheet the same
sad were *hewn into 111 roam us the left siJir
of the house till slier hi* Royal Highness had given
the above ',Wieners ; wises they. together with the
Citizens, were shrew into the Throne Roma. where
his Royel Highness wee 'Wed epee the throw. as
ky—

normthe (Me. Ahre) h N. Milk ell bill a bob
easel threes Lena Keith, Destlak end Ilesibleld •
Genteel* Heise, hem!, Tweet, hell lienspehd I Seel
; the Careate elf the Tomes ef the CAM 4
FAO Melee FilFcw4 ; 554 • party d Geedellee he.
SWIM,

The Lerd Maley alba Carr:teatime thew approach-
ssi h,s itilet themes ; end the Recorder mad the
Aditress, es follows :

" TO MI ROTAII. MNNMI WNW POWS OW
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or 1111.4 r SRI f 4111 AID 1111OLVID.
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ray .1 Leadlos. Is Ciemare Cousti Mid, sonellasse.
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!Olt upou the 1 lame- of dire Realm, folly coneiteed
that those priutiples afford the best eccasit) to the Latour
and dignity of the Suvereign, owl the rights and interests of
the People.
44 Whilst we offer to your Royal Highness out sincere con.
dolence upon the severe visitation with which it hes pled std
Divine Providence to afflict our most gracious Sovereign,
o Lich has uccabioned a auspenetua of the Royal "snows,
it is with heuitfelt cumulus iou that, in common with all fdults
of our fellow esobjecte, we behold in the person of ydur
Royal Ilighitees a Prince, Light, endowed, and eminently
qualified to maven* the Royal duties—a Prince who has so
greatly eudeared himself In the people, by hie moderation
and forbearsnee on various trying occasion!, and the attach-
ment be has so uniformly she's to their rights and liberties.
" Had ladeed the desire and expectation of the Unit- d
Kingdom been realised, by testier in yunr Royal Highness
the full powem of the Executive Authority, we should have
bad just cattle for toagratulation ; confident as we feel, that
those powers would have been wisely and beneficially exer-
cised, to enable us to meet the eatraurdinary exigences of so
perilous a crisis.
44 Deeply impressed with a sense of the tunny and great
difficulties which, with powers so limited, your Royal High•
nesa must have to encounter in the discharge of duties so
arduous, and feeling towards your Royal Highness the ten-
ets/ of that loyal affection which, in deeds as well as iii
words, we have so lung demonstexted towards your Royal
Esther and Family, we would feria have forlowne to cloud
the dawn of our intercourse with your Royal Highness by
even a glance at our griermices, manifold and vs eiichty as
they are; but ditty to our Sovereign, duty to our Country,
the example of our Forefathers, justice to posterity, the fame
and safety of the Kingdom—all with voice imperious for-
bid ns to disguise our thoughts, or to smother our feeling%
" Far be it from us, insulted as the Coeporation of this '
ancient (and at all former times respected) City has recently
been by the Servants of the far be it from us to in-
dulge in complaints of grievances peculiar to ourselves.,
ready and • Mill as we are to share in all the necessary bur•
Jens and all the dangers of our country ; it ix of genera:
grieve'', us, e.ievances sorely felt in all rooks of fife—of at—
cuaintated and cvermccumulatiag taxation, rendered dumbly
grievous by the oppressive mode of exaction, and of the in-
creased mad intseaviiig distress and misery therefrom arising
—of the nap mildest expenditure of the immense sums thus
writes from industry and labour—of the "mete of life and
of tor:mate to ill-contrived and ill.eunelotted Expeditioas—s
of the attempts which fur many yeast past, and espeeintly
whim' tilt:last three yearn, have been made (ail with but too
much success) to crush Kibbe liberty w all its twanclies, and
nevem u the litre. ty of fully discussing the conduct of pota-
to swot, soot the nature and tendency of public tneastree.
" Can we efram from humbly expressing oar complaints,
shell we her. those Ministers who have so bog usurped
the Royal Authority (and who, its now discovered, have,
by pruchtaq the must criminal deception upon the Parha-
mem awl Vie People, carried on the Government during His
3laiettt's Meitner inraparittl, exerting their innuontX to de.,
grade tit, Kiiigly hem, or hate aces measures adopt-
ed oriarieg the most unfounded jealousy wed mistreat artier
Royal H11041411,11-•••%1 hell we have seen the Prerogatives of the
Gown curtailed and oitlibeld—when we have seen a stew Ea-

taiteemahlishcd is the Realm, highly dangerous and unconste
{utional—w hen we haws:seen power, istfluence,and emolument,
bus set spat. to eisairol nod embarrass the Extent 'se Go-
cersitaciit, at a time of sue!' unpretesfeatcd difficulty, when
all the energies of the State are necessary to enable us to
surmount t►e dangcra with which we are threatened both at
home and abroad--we confess, that, feeling, as we do Ilia
roust unbounded grata l nide to your !loyal llighuess for sin-
ilertakiuz these arduous duties at u moment of such peril,
and under arch circumstances, we can discover no cause for
congratulation; on the (out ary, we should be filled with
dismay assd ilss mist *tainting apprelientious, were it sot
the Looss li:stimulus aid amiable qualities oho h your
Royal Highness possesses, and the resources which we trust
poor Royal Highness will find in the zest, aursiuur, affection,
ara loyalty, of a frac and united People.
" Neon runs oilier grievances we fuebeur even to mention ;
but there is one so isruanioeut in the oiliousnesa of its nature,
aa well as in the magnitude of its mischievous consequence,,

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that we see suable to rennin (ruin walking it out as a pat-
ties/or ebiget of our comlaint, and of your Royal High
nese, Omens ebhorrence-i.thc present Representation in
the Cominens Noose Or eifilanlellhoi ready instrument in
the Imes of Ike )holster fur the time being, whether foe the
porpson sf oullifyieg the just prerogatives of the 0'0%414
M s 1 losulting and uppressiog the prop:E.—a reform in
which Representatio• is there foie strauloirly necessary fee
the softly of the Croon, the happiness of the People, and
the pence and Isidelx ode gee of the Country.
" Reposisig the (tallest easidence to your Royal High
nen% beeelicent steno sad isteetireut., wt r Ili only deplore
the present unfortnerete state of things, folly relying, that,
ender rwrionataacer se novel and embarrassing, every urea
sore shuck &peed, personally epos your Royal Highoess
will he adopted towards ellttstativii as from our present
darn whirs, and fin prointetirg the pearl, happiness, sad
*tensity of the tawdry. Theo to 'meek our espressiews of
eleilidwire sod sertilso with the voice of complaint, is
grimes to um hearts; but placiag, as we do, implicit re-
tiree, so Ceeetitistiemel Principles of year Royal Righ-
tism, we in clereice with the hope that mach a change of
syNesn wiit lake Sago es will henceforward, fir • long series
tif barn ram provost poor Royal Highness from being
soldid by the faithful sod loyal City of Loodoo is say
yam bet that of cosiest mad of gratitude.

" 17 Only of Court,
04%44) " HENRY WOODTHORPE."
To this Address his Royal Highness returned
the following answer :
" I Omsk ).• foe the amorsocee of your attachment, and
of yew eludideum Is the sincerity of my endeavours to peo-
MOM the welfare nod meanly lithe Matinees dosaimons, by
Ms Ittihad etkoblesewlie• of these purees with which 1 fun
leeneolei dorleg dee lestellallil iodlepeeitiee of dot River.
" In dm em•ioeue situation is which I as pima. I "4
ewer yes that it rrdi he the letypteet IOOSIMOI of Of life,
when. by the Wee*, of Protidreee, I shall be called spun
Nm* the pones detsposil to we iota the Moe of my
Mewl sod mend Welber sal leveteigo.
" fly Mw thepeeities. se len thee dee Inserts of or/
logs/ /mbar, via meta eno M a 1 Ueda ready Nada% to &a
teunglaintie of them oho may Will thoomsoless *grieved,
sod oat ossenowee en wan oreosusw• N terfalli =I toe-
s does epos the miedultdald principles of Mel uptiest soh es-
Mlles towstusums;onihr trbieli the people of ehie oessitey
Ism bitten* avenged s sloe of ummatiod peeepeelly sad
gym"
The l"41 Meyer sad Cot;teee had afterwards
the hoesoor to hue his Royal Ifigliessit hand.