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was unnecessary, and that ally phantom taught sup-
ply its place•—or, that so many of the prerogatives
of the Crown as were suspended by the two Houses
were not requisite for the well-bring and security
of the country, at a ruoicent when it was most ex-
posed to danger, and that they might with safety
and advantage be lapped off altogether ? Against
4 proceeding so pregnant with danger, all the
rook branches of the Royal Family, without ex-
ception, expressed their solemn protest in the
following words :

" T►e Prince of Wales baying assembled tie whole of the
mak ►rooches of the Royal Family, sod baring conemeni.
cared f 6 tel t►e plea intended to ►e proposed by his Ma.
eseltilsetial Servants to the Lords sad Commute fur
the estahliseaseot of a restricted Regeacy, should the con-
tionance of his Majesty's ever.to.lse.deplored illume render
it necessary; we feel it a duty we owe to his Majesty, to
oar country, sad to ourselves, to ester our schema Protest
against measures which we consider as perfectly unconsti.
lotions!, as they are contrary to, and subversive of, the
principles which seated our Family opus the Throne of this
Realm.
(Signed) " FREDERICK.
M WILLIAM.
" EDWARD.
" ERN EST.
" AUGUSTUS FREDERICK.
" ADOLPHUS FREDERICK.
" WILLIAM FREDERICK."

So soon as this dignified and spirited protest was
communicated to the Ministers and their faction.
their hirelings instantly hurled their most virulent
abuse upon the illustrious individuals who Sigurd it ;
and for this solemn act the Courier had the vulgar
insolence to designate their Royal Highnesses, in

ridicule. as " the College of Princes." the " Booby
boys with corals and bells," " who owed all their
power to the favour of Ministers," charged the
Prince of WALIS with the design of tearinz the
Crown from the brows of his venerable and afflict-
ed Sire, and poured upon the whole Royal Fa-
mily volumes of the grossest insults, which excited
the utmost disgust throughout the country.
The strong feeling •hewn upon this occasion by
the Prince of WALE.% his confidence in the

Members of the Opposition in Parliament. and
the personal friendship with which he honoured
some of them, especially the Earl of MOIRA,
Earl FITZWILLIAII, the Lords GREY and
GRERVILLR, and the lamented Messrs. PONSONEY
and SHERIDAN, elicited a hope in the public
mind that his Royal Highness on accepting the
Regency would immediately take to his councils
those who were most deserving of his confidence ;
doubtless, it was from an appreheasion
of this nature that the Ministers resolved to
impose fetters upon his Royal Highness. The
Panics, however, with a delicacy and tender-
ness of affection that did him infinite honour,
determined to exercise his vicarial trust with refer-
ence to those sentiments which he believed his Royal
Father might entertain, rather than pursue the
"dictates of his own desires. During the progress
of the Regency Bill, the Ministers had more theta
once been left in a minority in both Houses; it
might therefore be presumed that with the deli-
cacy of sentiment which ought to belong to men
of elevated rank, they would have saved his
Royal Highness the pain of dismissing them
from the Cabinet; but they clung to their seats
with the tenacity of men who knew the value
of the '1 loaves and fishes," and suffered his
Royal Highness, even in the debasement of his
rights, to display the native dignity of his mind, and
to enjoy the triumph of his magnanimity. His
sense of filial duty, and '1 the dread that any act of
the REGENT might in the smallest degree have the
effect of interfering with the progress of his So-
vereign's recovery," ♦LONE induced him to retain
the Ministers in their places. What confidence
could his Royal Highness share with men who were
so selfishly careful about their own authority as to
repose no confidence iu him ? Had the recent event
which we all deplore occurred in the year 1811,
and had the crown descended by hereditary right to
his Royal Highness, with all the prerogatives un-
impaired, the declaration of the Ministers that
" they would not resign, and that if they were
driven from office, it should be the Prince's act,
not their's," would have availed them little. They
should have resigned, and have given place to mess
who proved that while their general principles of
government lead them to preserve the privileges of
the people, they alone are capable of appreciatiog
the nine and of asserting the fullness of the Royal
prerogatives.

The Paris Papers of the ist instant arrived last
night. They contain intelligence ,direct from
Cadiz of the 1I th last, and indirect from that
city iria Madrid) of the 13th. At that date the
insurgents remained in possession .of the Isle
of Leon, with the exttption of Cadiz, whicb it
was said no party lad declared in their favour.
A like spirit prevailed in the capital, which it is
tsid enjoyed perfect tranquillity down to the 20th.
Forces were marching in all directions upon the
isle of Leon, which is the focus of the insurrec-
tion ; unless it be fed with congenial fuel from
kindred spirits in the interior, however bril-
liant its first ezertioint, it must ere lung entire.
Phis representation is made upon the faith of the
.11oniteur, which pledgee itself in a particular
ataiiiwr to the veracity of its statements.
The Five per Cent. Consuls on Monday were
73 fr. 40 c..; Batik Actions, 1,432 fr. 30 c.

The German Papers which we hese received
*hound with distressing accounts of the disasters
cellud by the ioundations io the Netherlands.

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