The National Register.
London, England, 1818-02-02 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS.

TUESDAY, JAN. 27.
This day, shortly after three o'clock-, tne3.orel Chancellor,
%%lib the Lord Archbishop of .Cau.trbnry, the F.Ail of liar_
USA Earl of Westmorland, and the Doke of Montrose,
as Lords Commissioimos,•entso,ed the Hung; and as soon as

the House of Cainuiviss, attended by their :Speaker, in conse-
quence or the 'bawl stimmons, appeared at the bar, his Lord-
ship read this Speech as follows:

" MY LORDS, and f;s: wr tern%
" We are commanded by his Royal highness the Prince Regent to
inform you, that it is with great concern that he is obliged to an-
nounce to you the continuance of his Majesty's lamented inthspo-
siiion.
The Prince Regent is pLrsuaded that you will deeply participate
in the affliction with which his Royal Highness has been signed, by
the calamitous and untimely death of his beloved and only child the
Princess Charlotte.
".Under this awful dispensation Elf :Providence, it has beena sooth-
ing eansolatien to the Prime Regent's heart, to receive from hit dc-
►criptions of his Majesty's subjects the most cordial assurances, both
of their just sense of the loss which they have sustained, and of
their sympathy with his pannual sorrow ; and amidst his own suffer-
ings, his Royal Ilighners has not been unmindful of the effect which
this sad event must have on the interests and future.prospccts of the

kingdom.
We arcvsmmanded to acquaint you, that the Prince Regent
continues to receive from Foreign Powers the strongest asotranres of
their friendly disposition towarde.this country, and of their ((Loire to
maintain the general tranquillity.
•• Ills Royal Highness hzis•thr.rati,filetion of bvir.g able to assure
you, that the confidence which lit has invariably fat in the stability
of the great SOUreed ef our national prosperity has nut been disap-
pointed.
'f itrimprovement which has taken place in the course of the last
year drialmost everyibranch of our domestic industry, and the ire
sent atate.of public credit, atFord abundant proof that the difficulties
under which the country was labouring were chiefly to lie ascribed to

temporary causes.
"'So important a change could noefail to withdraw frem the dis
affected the principal means of which they bad availed themselves for
the purpose of fomenting a spirit of discontent, whisk unhappily led
to acts of insurrection and treason ; and his Royal fligline-s enter-
tains thetaest confident expectation.dud•the state of pence and tran-
quility to which the country is now restored, will be maintained
against all attempts to disturb h, by the persevering vigilante of the
Magistracy, and by thcloyalty and good sense of the pcopk.
GINTLEMEN OF THE HOOSk: OF COWNION4.
'‘• The Prince Reneut has directed the estimates-for the current year
to i.e laid betnee you.
" His Royal Higlinessrecommends to your continued smarm the
state of the public income and expenditure Ithe country; and lie i 4
most happy miming able to acquaint you, that since you were last
as . embled Parliament, the revenue has been in a state of progres-
else illip_rovemnet in its must important branches.
sty Loans, AND GENTLEMEN,
" Wcare commiusded by the Prince Regent-to inform you, that
helias concluded treaties wit:a the Courts of Spain and Portugal, on
the important subject of she abolition of -the slavegrade.
-" His Royal I I ighness has directed that a copyof theforiner treaty
shall be immediaoily laid .before you, and he will order a similar
communication to hp made of thclatter treaty, as soon Lithe ratifica-
tion of it shall have been exchanged. •
" In these negeeiations, it has been his Royal. Highnesses endea-
vour, as far as eireuenutanem would permit, to give .effect to the re-
commendations contained in the joint Aeldressesof the two Houses of
Farlimnent, and his Royal Highness hese full reliance on your rm.
to adopt sueh measures as may be necessary for fulfilling the
engagements into which helm entered for that porpom.
" The Prime Regt has commanded us to direct your particular
attention to the deficiency which has long existed in the number •
of places of public worship belonging to the listeiblished Church.
when compared with theincreesed and Licreartingipsipulation of she
COOT-Wt.
" His Royal Highness most earnestly recommends this important
subject to your early consideration, deeply impressed, as he has no
doubt year are, with a just sense of the massy blessings which this
country,by the. favour of Divine Providence, has enjoyed; and with
the convictian,that the Ire)' ctias and moral habits of the people are
the most sure turd firm foundation of national prosperity."
Earl WHITWORTH took the oaths and his seat. Their
Lordship then adjourned till five o'clock. When they again
assembled,
Lord HOLLAND rose to say a few words on the act passed
last session of ilarliarrient for the suspension of the act of
Habras<Cormis. He did treat and hope, that the Noble ,Lord
or-some of his Majesty's Ministers, intended to move the re-
peal of that Act, as a kind of act of grace, after they sad so
wantonly end so unnecessarily suspended co great a puttee-
. tion of the freedom of the subject. The leading topic of the
speech which their Lordships had heard, WAS one eu which
no man in that House could hold any but one opinion ; and
every man, he was sure, would concur with him in lamenting
the occasion of that topic's having been introduced.
The Earl of l.resieroot said, that if the Noble Lord had
waited till the due course of business, he would have heard
what.would certainly take place during the evening. .If lie
had waited till that subject was more immediately tinder con-
sidecation,'he would have heard his Noble Friend make a
proposition exaetly•sueh as the Noble Lord himself wished.