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i'lem it otherwise would he inclined to
var.' T,pe, he submitted; could a..crue in '0n-
f1.•,..t 0, Iho House sitting from dayetedaye-ciher:
that he had described. .It eras oniy by pro.:
ding in a more summary manner .tltb Might
•i-ecise be .theught expedient; that ally 6nse-.,
elee'Conld'result from the proposition df the Ho-
reurable and Learned C;eniternan. He cotild not:.
iescing r., the :sentiment'-of the fiight
Gentleman (Mr. Sheridan), •that
itifyieg 'he course id their iptocceding doold 'be to
tfie wird and feellues of his M:rjesiye the more
gtv.tified omit the House itself fed. Though
i• was a painful deity which the Home IrAd to fulfil,
in seeing that the public suffcreit no mote injury
tfian Must naturally result frofn so great -a calamity
visite! on the Sovereign, still it -was their duty
-e.itay to see that their anxiety to protea ale public
did not induce ,ireui to do any thing Wiliich could
u.l-m:Tei-oally do violence to the feelings of the So-
‘ee ien. He-saw no reason, therefore, why the pro-
poe-d,ad:lournment sho'uld riot bc4 agreed to. It could
do no harm for at p,resent-the House was not in a
condition, if it were inclined to de se, to take up
the question in a parliamentary manner.
Mr. &ewe' said he could not give his vote on the
present occasion without assigning his reason for the
vote he meant to give. ik muse critical, awful, and
interesting event has occurred to this country. We
lee' • en deprived of the plenitude of tilt Executive
Authority at 'a -moment when we were placed in a
siteatioe unparalleled in oar history. At such a mo-
rt'ient, and in such peculiar cifcumstances, was it to
lie deman :rd of that House to adjourn ter a fort-
night, and to leave the country not only without the
piotie ion of the Executive, but without that ad-.
vice and assistance which it might receite, and bad
a. riel r to expect, from the other two branches of
the Gevernment ? He objeaed, not to the period
of t'i adjournment alone, tee !-e conceived the im-
mediate assembling of that Hot: , at such a- period,
TensaUlt.... The House should use every means
in its power, of-gaining, the -ko9.svledge of the real
state of the fatt—And. the question was, if they were
here a House u. a Conveutiou ? He had no doubt
of ihe word of the Chaticellor:of the Exchequo• ;
but the eoint here to be considered was he,
ther they, iai such a step as that now recetniiieth;ed
kr their adoption, were to be satisfied with such
evi,.:..nce, as would net prove .=atisfactory to an ie-
ferior tribunal ?
Mr. YVltarsaFoi!Cß cotice'ved that the House must
either agi,:ee to the 0:otion of adjkiuratueut, or. pro -
ceed to clap. •.into the recolle&ion of the
painful effeet of which on a former n': asion, was
still ;xesent to his mind. Excel the Hon..Parovor,
tl.-vri! was not a single,Hall. Member of all those
who had spoken on this occasion, who seemed to
this •k that na,-asures should be taken at once .to ero-
vid
for the deficiency which at present unfortunately
existed : all the other who had delivered their sen.
timents, suggested the propriety -of adjourning from
day to dej. sod inculcating the necessity of Gentle_.
men being on their posts, to meet any emergency
which might occur. He (Mr. Wilberforce) objected
to this, from a consideration of the variety of views
irrwhich such a subject might be conceived, and the
variety of feelings which from day to-day might be
produced. Surely, Gentlemen would not wish that
so delicate a subject should be coesidered everyday,
or from day to day.; and if not, of what use could
the meeting from day to day possibly be conceived
to be ? He confessed, for his own,part, as it was
not stated that any material injury could arise-from
the a(inurntnent for a fortnight now proposed—and
as,, on the other hand, he could not itgure any ad-
vantage that could result from the House sitting from
day to day, he was inchtied to support the Motion-
He was, moreover, persuaded that the House would
come
.better prepared, at the-end of a fortnight, to
consider of the evidence which might then be laid
before them, than they could, after having,sat from
day to day. He thought the assurance of his Ma-
jee.)- 's confidential Sallatit was entitled to some cre-
dit, and he was ieclined' the `:pore to respea it, on
the present occasion, from, creiside mg that if Mi-
nisters had intended to take the House by surprise,
they might on the fortner night have adjourned the
House till the 29th of November.
The House then divided, when the. numbers
were,

114111,Ni)!e

For the Motion
Agains -

Ikt-jority in favour of the adjournment. to the 29th 28j
Adjourned a. cordindy.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1810.

D:spatches from Lord WELLINGTON, dated the

3,1 inst. were received this day. These dis; arches,

we understand, refer to others which have not been

received. We are assured that they are of a rery

favourkble nature, though no itlion had taken place.

His Lordship had made two detachments of cavalry,

one, under General CoTTotq, had penetrated into the

rear of the enemy's position, and in conjunc-
►iou with the gars icon of Peniche, was harassing the

right wing of the French; the other, u. der Ge-

Deral FA IVE; had crossed the Tagus, to prevent

the enemy from foragin in the Southern Pio-

i'v,cts.s of Portugal.

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lag the teijort 'of this day :-=. " '
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. , " Windsor Castle, Not% t 6.
1t His MAJESTY has had some sleep rn the nights
-and hit fiVer is ?gain a little abated.
Sioht4 as above.

We this motilitig -ic,•eived, Lisbon rapers to the
4th inst. but we have 'torment at present-to rn'aht
any long'.cotntnents upon them. We beg • leave,
howev-n.,to call the attention df Otir Readers to
Lord WEVLINGitiN't Letts', whiCii egOtaillS Morrie
'very iibport ant and gratifying intelEgeme.
The Lisbot Gazette has thtinght it necessary to
contradia a statement- which appeared in Tun SUN
,of the 2d ult. relative to the discovery of a conspi-
racy at Lisbon, and to declare that neither Lord
WELLINGTOrt, the English Plenipotentiary, nor
any Other individual ib the EngliQl nations took any
share it: the measures adopted by the Portugueze
Government upon that occasion:
Upon a reference to our Paper of the td ult.' We
-fitid that this alludes to a Letter Of our Corres.,
pondent at Falmouth upon that subject,' which we
inserted without any comment, and certainly vAth.-,
out any intention of 'misrepresenting the condua of
tie Portuguese Government. The report that a
number of concealed arms had been found at •Lithon,
•-is_positively contradicted.

• The too Houses of Parliament met yesterday
pursuant to their last Adjournment. AbOve two
handl% Veers, and four hundred Members of the
House F)f Commons attended. In the House of
&Ads, the Lord Caitticat.Lott, and in the House of
Commons, the CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEIAUER
moved a further adjournment to the 29th inst., upon
the-grounds-that that A-as the period
,to which Par-
liament was to have been prorogued if it had not
been for his MAJESTY'S indiiposition ; and also. that
MAJESTIrti health was in such a' progressive state
of improvement, as afforded' every reason to hope
for .his speedy and complete recovery. The public,
we are sure, will hear with the most heartfelt satis-
faction that the/Physicians who now attend fits MA-
JESTY, and who attended him upon a former oc-
ca,ion, declare that they see, in the present state of_
MAJESTY, all the symptoms of -approach to-re-
covery., and none of the symptoms which indicate
the delay of recovery. In the House of Lords, the
motion was agreed to without a division .; but in the
Commons, Sir FRANCIS BURDETT took .the, sense
of the House upon the propriety of adjourning from
day to dy, but his motions was lost by a- Majority.
of 285. •

We have hitherto rigidly adhered to the rule
which we precribed to ourselves, of not entering
into specul*tions upon the mode of proceeding
which omit to be adopted in case his MAJESTY'S

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ind:spoAtion should, mast 'Unfortunately for the
;`otintry, continue, because we conceived that until
ihe case actually occurred, it, would be unnecessary,
as well as indelicate, to agitate the question. We
have, however, seen some doctrines advanced in a
Paper of this morning, against which we feel it to
be oq, duty to take the earliest opportunity of en-
taing out strongest protest. After stating, what
every one must admit, that the Kingly power never
c,i.ses, and .;hat upon a King's death, the Heir Ap-
parent is forthwith proclaimed, the Paper in ques-
tion p:oceeJs to add :

" In the event of the KING'S incapacity, it ought
to be the same—and the two Houses of Conven-
t Lion have only to find thefuct. If it be declared
" to them that the KING cannot give his Royal as-
•` sent to a document which is essential to the or-
" der of public business, on that moment the de-
" ficiency should be s,pplied, and the REGENT
" should be the 'precise Representative of the
" KING."

To this, proposition we have no hesitation to give
our most unqualified dissent ; it is not warranted by
law, or by the praaice of the Constitution of England.
The Paper alluded to does not indeed say that the law
:5 so, but that it ought to be so. It would be almost
an insult to our Readers to enlarge upon the conse-
quences of adopting such a doctrine. The two
Houses of Patliament are to be deprived of the func-
tions which belong to them as branches of the Le..
gislature, and in a case of Royal incapacity for a
fortnight or three weeks, they have nothing to
do but tofind the fat.% and on tbAt moment the Heir
Apparent is to become the preciserepresentat ive of the.
King, with, course, all the power pf a King, viz.
to make Peace or War, to create Peers, to dissolve
Parliament, 6:.c. &c. We are very unwilling to pur-
sue this subject itarthet : the arguments that might
be urged against this 4lotarine, and .the cases that
might be put to shew the dangerous consequences
that might result from it, must occur toevery mind.
We shall content out selves, therefore, for the pre-
sent with nibrely calling the public attention to this
.dangerous drittrine, and entering our protest against

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