The Sun.
London, England, 1820-02-19 00:00:00

SATUIiDAY, FEBRUARY 19', IF_2O

GENERAL ELECTION

TO THE LIVERY OF LONDON. -
CENTLEmEN,
LAVING qccepted the flattering invitation of
a numerous and most respectable holy of the Livery.
to become a Candidate fur the honour of Representing the
City of London at the ensuing Eluction, founded upou a mani-
festation of their approbation of my public conduct in six sue-
cessivel'arliaments, I take the liberty of solicitin,, the favour of
your vote and interest to replace me in that distinguished
and responsible situation, the anxious and arduous du-
ties of which (should I have the gratification of be-
ing elected,) I pledge myself to discharge with the
same faithful zeal, industry, and independence which ac-
quired and retained-the confidence of my Fellow-Citizens
during twenty-seven years of the most-eventful period of the
hi4ory of my Country. The considerate indulgence of iny
Friends, having induced them to request me not to under.:
take the duty of a personal Canvass, will I trust, he ac-
cepted as a sufficient apology for that omission; should,
however, the time permit, some of my Family will have the
satisfaction of waiting upon you, to offer that testimonial of -
respect on my behalf.
I remain, Gentlemen,
Your obedient and faithful Servant,
London Tavern, Feb. 17, 182 G. W..GUIITIS.
The Committee for conducting the Election, meet daily at
the 4bore place, where all communications respecting it are
requested to lie -addressed.

PA RLI

HOUSE' OF LORDS, Fell 18.
The LORD CHANcELLou being detained on of-
ficial business at Carlton Pal ice, did not come
down to the House till nearly five o'clock.
After prayers were read, the Marquess of
CIioLMONDELRY (as Lord Steward) rose And pre-
sented

HIS MAJESTY'S ANSWER.
to the Address of Condolence and Congratulation
voted yesterday by their Lordships, which was
iirnnediately read from the IVoolsack, and appear-
ed to the following effect :
" That his Majesty received with cordial satisfaction their
Lordships' dutiful and loyal Address on the melancholy event
Of the demise of his revered Father, the late King; that his
Majesty was deeply convinced, that by following the illus-
trious example afforded by the late King, he should best con-
sult the honour and the dignity of tlie Crown, and the inte-
rests and happiness of his Majesty's Subjects, and to ensure
the •blessipg of Almighty God upon his Majesty's reign,"
On the Motion of the Earl of LivenPom., their
Lordships' Address to the King, and his Majesty's
most gracious Answer to the same, were ordered
to be entered upon the Journals.
Mr. Higham, from the Commissioners for the
Reduction of the National Debt, presented the
Accounts of the Board for the last year.
On the motion of the Earl of LaunsanaLtt, a
variety of Financial Accounts were ordered to be
laid before the house.
THE LATE DUKE OF KENT.
The Earl of Ltveeemm, pursuant to his mo-
tion of yesterday, rose to move an Address of
Condolence to his Majesty on the melancholy
occasion of the unexpected and untimely death of
his Illustrious Brother, the late Duke of Kent. As
he had stated yesterday, his Lordship observed,
that it was unusual to -blend the subject matter of
such all Address as he was now about to move
wink that voted yesterday by their Lordships. He
felt it unnecessary to trespass upon their Lord.
ships' time, conscious and impressed a-s they all
must be with a due sense of the virtues .and en-
dowments of the illustrious Prince, whose demise
they all lamented.
The Noble Minister then mooed an Address of
Condolence., couched in the usual terms, to his
Majesty, on the death of his Royal Brother, the
late Duke of Kent, which was forthwith voted
by the House, nem, disc.
The Earl of LtveRPOOL then moved an Address
of Condolence to her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent, upon the severe loss and afilietion, in the
death !of her Illustrious Consort. His Lordship
touched upon the exemplary conduct and conju-
gal virtues uniformly manifested by her Royal
Highness, especially on the melancholy cccasion
of the death of her late Illustrious. Consort.
Lord ROLLS took the opportunity to express
his strong sense of the conjugal virtues and ex-
emplary conduct of the Flusitions Lady in ques-
tion, and adverted to some consideration, within
the scope of his Lordship's own knowledge, of
her Royal Highness's great teuderness and atten-
tion to her late Consort throughout the whole of
his severe illness, which had so fatal a tertnina-

The Address was voted also nem. dins. and or.
,ered tube presented to her
_ftoyal Highness, by
he Marquess Cornwallis and lite-T.Bd of Roslyn.
. • 111,,SSAGE. FROM
,THE KING.
The Order for taking into consideration his
Majesty's most gracious Message of yesterday be-
ing-moved, the Royal Document was read by the
Clrrk.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL rose to move an Ad-
dress to his Majesty, on the occasion of his roost
gracious Alessage. The, particular occasion which
gave rise,to the proceeding under their fordships'
consideration was in some respects certainly _of
an unprecedented nature.- Tlie situation in which
Palliatnent and, the Country were now placed, in
consequence of the lamented demise of their late
Sovereign, teas different horn that in which it
"stood upon former occasions of the kind. In the
present case, the Crown had formally descended to
the Illustrious Individual, who had fur a number
of years administered the Royal FOnctions on be-
half of his. revered Predecessor, and the change
wrought by the demise, with respect to him, was,
that the Illustrious Person was now, called upon
to administer these powers on his own behalf.—
He was aware this did not go to change the na-
ture anal,effeat of the existing law upon the sub.
ject ; that still remained as in former instances.
By the ancient law of 04 lurid, as well as by
the common law, the Tarliatneof was held
to expire with the demise of the reign-
ing Sovereign. The principle on which the
regulating Act proceeded arose out of the
difficulties which may be apprehended to re-
sult froM a disputed succession. Under the
Act the prerogative of the Sovereign was no
way affected ; it remained in full force, and it
continued as. in :IN cases to be in the discretion of
the Sovereign to dissolve it, even at the moment
of his accession ; as the Act only provided that in
no case ii should continue more than six months
after •the demise of the late reigning Sovereign.—
He had no difficulty in admitting that it was not
usual to order a dissolution before certain points
in the great business of the nation, and Rarticida 15-
a settlement of the Cis il List, were disposed of ; but
at the same time it must be admitted that these were
points in the discretion of the reigning Sovereign's
Government ; and he strongly telt that in cases
where the public safety or the great business of
the nation could not be endangered, but on the
contrary, benefited and convenienced, there could
be no serious or well founded objection why the
course proposed in the present instance should not
be adopted. The only difference was, that in
the course proposed ample tints for consideration