The Sun.
London, England, 1830-05-24 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION
SUN OFFICE, SEVEN o'CLOCK.

IM PERIAL PARLIAMENT

THIS EVENING.

HOUSE OF LORDS.
MESSAGE FROM HIS MAJESTY.

The Duke of WELLINGTON said that he rose in
consequence of a Message he had received from his
Majesty, stating that his Majesty was labouring under
severe indisposition—so much so—that it had be-
come painful for him to sign with his own hand
those public instruments requiring the Sign Manual,
and that his Majesty relied on Parliament to adopt
some mode to prevent the temporary inconvenience arising
from the suspension of this important function of the
Crown, without detriment to the public service. His Grace
continued, considering that it would be the anxious wish
of your Lordships to take the very earliest opportunity
of answering this Message is the cause of my bringing
it now before you. I feel, no doubt, as well as
your Lordships feel, the greatest grief and sorrow
at the lamentable indisposition under which his Majesty is
and has been for some time labouring, and I trust and
hope that his Majesty's health, through Divine Provi-
dence, will soon be re-established. My Lords, I
will not take this opportunity of entering into a
discussion of the means by which his Majesty's Govern-
ment propose to carry into execution the objects which the
message has stated ;—that will be done by my Noble
Friend upon the Woolsack to-morrow. But I shall only
now propose to your Lordships that an humble Address
be presented to his Majesty, to assure his Majesty that this
House deeply laments that his Majesty is labouring under
severe indisposition, and to assure his Majesty that this
House earnestly hopes, by the favour of Divine Provi-
dence, that his Majesty's health will be re-established
at an early period ; and that this House will proceed to
consider, without delay, of the means to be adopted to re-
lieve his Majesty from this temporary inconvenience, with-
out detriment to the public service.
Earl GREY did not rise for the purpose of opposing
the Address ; he concurred entirely in every word of it.
Ile also felt equal sorrow with the Noble Duke at the
situation in which his Majesty was placed. He most
cordially joined with him too in the hopes that his
Majesty's recovery—if that hope was still to be en-
tertained, and he was sure that the House and the
country would join with him in such a hope. He
concurred in the propriety of the course pursued by
the Noble Duke on the present occasion. He
was sure that the House would feel deep regret for his
Majesty's sufferings, and that it had every wish to relieve
him ; but the House must, at the same time, consider that
it had a most important duty to render to the public. He
should not question the Noble Duke as to the mode he intended
to adopt, as he understood that was to be pointed cut to-
morrow evening. The House must enter into this ques-
tion with great caution, because what they were now
about to do was nothing more nor less than
this—to delegate the Royal Prerogative. The
House must take care that it did not establish
a dangerous precedent. He had thought it his duty
to throw out this much—and he begged to say that
this would be the ground on which he should act here-
after. The Noble Earl then sat down, cordially concur-
ring in the Address proposed by the Noble Duke.
The Address was then read from the Woolsack by the
LORD CHANCELLOR, and unanimously agreed to.
(LEFT SITTING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
MESSAGE FROM HIS MAJESTY.
(SEE LORDS.)

Sir ROBERT PEEL rose to move that an humble
Address be presented to his Majesty, expressive of the deep
regret of his Majesty's faithful Commons, at his Majesty's
severe illness, and of their earnest prayer that it might
please Providence to restore him, and assure his Majesty
that they would with the least possible delay adopt such
measures as would relieve his Majesty from the inconve-
nience under which he was labouring.
Mr. BROUGHAM said,that although no one could more
deeply regret than himself the painful illness under which his
Majesty was at present suffering, or more entirely concur in
the propriety of the main features of the address which had
been moved, be thought that the latter clause was objection-
able, inasmuch as the carrying into effect of such measures
as was there proposed could not fail ofintiolucing a procedent
which must prove dangerous. He thought that unless in
cases of the utmost emergency in case of such absolute ne-
cessity as admitted of no other alternative, any interference
with the prerogative oflthe Crown was to be most religiously
avoided. Ile therefore begged to warn the House against
adopting any rash measure.
Sir R. PEEL said, that as a Bill to effect the objects of
the Address would be immediately introduced, he should
refrain from offering any remarks upon what had fallen
from the Hon. Member opposite for the present.

The Address was then agreed to.
An extraordinary sensation was produced in the House
on this melancholy occasion ; the Members, without a
single exception, rose and remained uncovered during the
whole time the subject was before the House.
(LEFT SITTING.)