The Sun.
London, England, 1814-03-02 00:00:00

•? 4' That,," for the purpose of inserting the fol-
lowing t
" An humble Address be presented to his Royal Highness
the Prince Regent, to express to his Itoyal Highness thegrate,
ful acknowledgments Of this House for the communication
which Ws Royal Highness has been pleased to send to this,
House, in t he name and on behalf of his :Majesty.
" To assure his Royal Highness, that notwithstanding the
recent Adjournment. of this noose, at a season when so many
matters of the gravest importance
.pressed themselves upon
its consideration, and for a period or very unusual length, this
, House will cheerfollomply with the pleasure of his Royal.
Highness, signified lw the ehaticellor orthe Exchequer, and
adjourn itself to the it st d;y of March instant, trusting that
the unekimpled stateof public affairs upon the ContinAit of
Europe will afford a justificationnf-their emidnet to their con 7
stituents- and to posterity, prevent its being
.drawn into per,
vicious precedent,.and preclude the piissibility of • its being
attributed to inattention to the great concerns which call for
the increased vigilance and activity of the House of Commons,
or any derelictiontof itslacred duties."
The CHANCELLOR Of tilC EXCHEQUER stated the
reason for his moViOg the postponement of the
Committees, before- thkt motion which the. Ho-
nourable, Getitleulan (Mr. Whitbread) had con-
ceived ought td have had the precedence. }lre li ad
done so, in conformity to the precedents in a si-
• Milarease. Ile was aware, that the Motion which
• he had now submitted to the House wi“ liable to
'such . obsiervations as bad been . made by the
Honourable Gentleman ; but he thought that
when the House considered the nature of the.
.
proceedings,• they would not conceive them
rfilyy to lead to any pernicious preeedenti.—
[ l6was considered that : a delicate attention to
the feaings of the Members of that House,
made it advisable that the decision of the que-
tion.of adjourning should be left to them ; but if
the House should think' proper to adopt-the sug- .
gestion of the Hon. Gentleinan, lie feared that it
would tend to establish the more dangerous pre-
cedent of the-Crown
_being induced to exercise its
prerogative of proroguing Parliament, rather than •
recommending to. them an adjintrnmeEt. This
adjournment ‘vis,;as the Hon.-Gentleman Imd ob-
served, sanctioned by usage:and hy-precedent. As
to the recommendation of "his Royal Highne;s, for
that recommendation, like every-other act of:the•
Prerogative of the Crown, his Majesty's AdVisers
were responsible; and when the proper season
for explanation should arrive, they would he pre-'
pared to give their reasons. • He had only found
two instances where any debate bad taken place
Upon an adjournment so recommended. In one
of those instances only was there a division ; and
in that instance, the whole body of the llonse di-
Vided-against the two, who ware the Tellers ei,n' Hid
other side. He should abstain at present' fr'ditt"
assigning any reasons for the recommendatiSn,
and would confine himself to stating, that- it Was
an act advised by his Majesty's Ministers, for
which they were responsible. A time would pos-
sibly come when, further explanations might be
required, and when the proper season should ar-
rive, he wouldthen be- ready to assign hiS reasons.
Lord Aucn. HAmturoN, when he considered
the adva :Iced period of the Session, and the length
of the A -]ournment • which had already taken
place, felt himself compelled to resist the motion
of the Right Hon. Gentleman. He would ask the
House, if they had foreseen, when they agreed to

he late Adjo-urument, that at the end of two

months a still farther delay would be asked,. they
would haVe consented so readily as they Wen did ?
He wished to throw no embarrassment in the way
of his Majesty's Ministers 3 but he really' could
not see in what way the sitting of the Honse
would 'embarrass them. - The quantity of papers
exhibited that day in the House was a strong rea-
son for opposing the Adjournment..
Mr. PoNsoNtmsaid, no man . could feel more
forcibly than himself the inconvenience to the
public' with which an Adjournment would at pre-
sent be attended ; but every man must also feel
the very important and delicate situation of at'.
fairs at this crisis ; and when his Majesty's
Mi-
nisters, on theirresponsibility, carne, forward to
the House and asked an Adjournment for three
weeks, be felt- himself unable to resist the appli-
cation. He could not conjecture what the affairs
were which rendered such a measure necessary ;
but when the time arrived, at which a disclosure
should be made to the House, he would :then
be prepared to enter on the consicteratiOn of
them. He should feel. a difficulty, if his lion.
Friend pressed- his Amendment, of Supporting-it ;
for Ile knew so instance of the House, when it
agrted to any measure like the present on the re-
commendation of the Crown, having entered a
reason for that compliance on their Jot:mats ; as
the House had always considered the recomtnen-
dation as a sufficient reason for. its compliance.—
To act otherwise, woald be to bring on a pre-
mature discussion of that which it wits the object
of the measure to avoid bringing under discus-
sion. Ile would therefore confide entirely, in -
this instance, to Ministers, on that constitutional
responsibility which attached to their situations,.
and which at no rime 'they could be more called
on to exercise.

The motion for Adjournment was then put and
agreed to.
On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER, the time for re.Tiving private Bills was
extended. No private Bill to be read a first time

after Monday, the 28th of March, and no teport
to be received after the 23d of May.

Mr. HO.RNER moved that there be laid before
the House an account of the amount of Bank
notes in circulation, from the 4th December 1812,
to Ist March 1814: also for an account of the

proceeds of the Droits of Adluiralty, and thii pay-
ments out of that fund, since the tiny op to
which accounts had been laid before the House.—
Agreed to. ,

A short conversation then took place respecting
the sitting of Committees Oil private,Bilis durhig
the adjournment ,after which the 'House ad-
journed.

BRIGHTON, Fail 25.—As the 'coachman' of the
Rev. Dr. RtcP. was proceeding Up, the Marine Pa-
rade, r;ding one of his master's horses and leading
another, on Tuesday last, the led horse became
restive from some cause or other, and, in the tut.-
bulance of his spirit and action, plssed, over the .
rail fence . and the cliff. near AVEsi•S'
Establishment, to the rock and stony-soil below,
and was killed on the spot.
On Monday the 30th Regiment of Foot march-
ed from Winchester Barracks for Chelmsford ;
and next day the 23d, or iVelcb. Fusileers, came
into them.