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upon so extravagant a aoctrine. When the Hip'.
clans who attendqd his Majesty were examined be-
fore the Privy. Council; previous to the mceting of
Parliament on the 4th December, 1783, the follow-
ing question was put to 'hem—

" Whether his Majesty's indisposition rendered him Inca'
'Ol5l-&-Of meeting his Parliament, and of attending to any sort
of public business ?"

In. answer to this questi•)n the Physicians all re-
plied, that His MAJESTY was inctpable ; and when
.they were afterwards examined before 'Parliament,
they gave the same answer. Here the faa was esta-
blished; and according to the do trine of the Morn-
ing Chronicle, the two Houses of Parliament had only
to'go through the form of finding the fact, upon the
eviden Zeof the Physicians,wit II out giving anyopinion ;
and that then the Veir Apparent roust bec,nne at
right the precise,Representative of the KING, with,
of course, all his powers" and prerogatives. Did Mr.
Fox think so 1788 certainly not ;he even
comp)ij.ned, in the House, of misrepresentation, be-
cause he• had been reported to have said, that. the
Heir Apparent had a right to ass 7171 le the Royal
Authority, upon the interruption of its ex-
ercise, in consequence of the ' RING's illness
or incapacity. He believed, he said, that he
had .Meter used 'the word assumed ; whaF he
undoubtedly meant, and what he was still ready to
maintain ,was, that the claim, as of right, was in the
Prince, but that the adjudication of the possession
was in the two Houses of Parliament.

We shall not now stop to discuss Mr. Fox's
doctrine; it is sufficient for us that—it oloei not
go the length of the proposition of the Morn-
ing Chronicle, against which we entered our pro-
test. We beg leave, here in order to guard ourselves
against misrepresentation, to state,.that we are not
giving any opinion upon what course ought to be
pursued 'in case of the unfortunate continuance of
his Majesty's indisposition—we are merely discussing
the abstract question of right, as laid down in the
paper to which we have alluded. In considering
that question, it is important to look eir the iolemn
opinion expressed by Parliament in December 1788,
after a very ample discussiote uptie this point.—
Three Resolutions were then agreed to : the first
stated His MAJESTY'S inability from indispoisition
to exercise the P.eyal Authority ; the second
eleclared that it was. " the right and .duty of the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons
of Great Britain, now assembled, and lawfully, fully,
and freely representing all the estates of the people
of this'realm, to provide the means of supplying the
defect of 'the personal exercise of the Royal Aritho-
rity, arising from His MAJE 'S said indisposition,
in such? Manner as the exigency of the case may ap-
pear to require." The third resolution stated, that
it was necessary that the Lords and Commona
should determine on the means- whereby the Royal
Assent might be given in Parliament to such Bill as
might be passed by the two Houses of Parliament,
respecting the exercise of the Powers and Authori-
ties of the Crown, on the behalf of the KING,
during the continuance of his Miseere's indisposi-
tion. Such was the opinion at that time expressed,
and by some of the most able Lawyers this country
has produced ; by Lord CAMDEN, by Lord THUR-
LOW, by Lord KENYON, &c. The Morning Chro-
nicle must admit, that there is not a single prece-
dent to be found in the English history to jus-
tify the proposition it has advanced, and. that
the only precedent which is exactly in point
upon this question is elireCtly in opposition to it.
Upon what principle, then is it founded ? The office
of Regent is certainly known to the Constitution of
this Country, but it is known as an office of crea-
tion, not of succession. .11,it were an office of abso-
lute hereditary succession, its powers must always
be the same; they could not be altered according to
the circumstances and exigency of the case. Par-
liament would have no more right talimit the funce
tions and powers of a Regefit, than it has those-of a
King, because the funalions and pOwers of the 'one
would have been as clearly defined by the Consti-
tution as those of the other. But we know, that
whenever the office of Regent, has existed in' this
Country, it has existed by appointment, and not by
succession; and we know also,. that the powers
vested in the Regents have been different at diffe-
rent times.

We have not room to pursue this subject any far-
ther at present, but we shall make some ob,ttrva-
tions to-morrow upon the authorities .which the
Morning :Chronicle has quoted in support of the pro-
position which it has advanced.

Although his MAJESTY has been indisposed so
long, his appetite does not fail him, and, he is not
thinner than he was previous to his indisposition.
A most extraordinary instance of the clemency of
the late season appears in the following, which may
be relied on as a positive faa :—There was, on
Wednesday last, at a place called the Great How,
in Legburthwaite, near Keswick, h .green linnet's
nest, with lour young ones, fully fledged, and ap-
parently in a state of maturity for flying.