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London, England, 1811-01-29 00:00:00

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[PRICE SIXP •

t~iat all the Royal adthorities and prerogatives should
be preserved inviolate, and that his Majesty shOhld
find theM whole and unimpaired; act they were pre-
vious to his ever--to-be-lamented indisposition. Such
a line of :proceeding would have been the only wise,
vigorous; and effectual steps that Parliament could
adopt, and would ensure a duo performance of
all the duties of the Kingly office. The prerogae'
lives of the Crown footled one of the weights
in the 'Constitutional balance—ifaheSe weights 'were
destroyed, the due and salutary equipoise of the
Colistitiition mist necessarily, fail !--LThese equal
and respective power; were prescribed by the con-
stitution, for the benefit of the ccitintrYi but in
the eye of the law, the 'King is not co.-Sidered as
a servant.; • the servants of the State are placed at his
selealion and under his controuL The law contem.
.plates- the King as Sovereign' Lord ; in a legis-
lative point of view, it was essential that the loyal
Veto !should be regarded: His Royal Highness de-
ptecated ail interference and encroachment, not. only,.
of Parliament, with respat to' the Royal suthni:Ty,"
but upon the respective 'powers and privileges of
each other : any miscondn'al of this kind was el tunas
injurious to the public interests, and often led to vio..
ilence and 'disorder.' The conduct at Ministers
altroughoot. ''since this unhappy occasion, had been
more or le,s culpable, and notwithstanding their
bold essartioni, that no public iueonvenienre would
arise, it aeol known that 'unavarranted issues of the
public money had 'taken .Plec...e This was an as-
sumption of the'financial` powers of the Crown—
they even went furthet--,--they wented to do that
which wes:tantamitunt so a.dispensetioo• with an
oath. For his pert, be never keew•et en of any So-
vereign Prince who nolu.neathe power of diepensieg
with as oath, except it Was .tin, Pwle. This was a •
trend, -which, consideringe he iniirmey of hut-elan.;
nature, was regarded with extreme je Them
was semething ungenenius rheit striking out'.
one• of the Most itnportant -rights of the C:Oein,
while it••was utt,tile. to defend itselF. The conduct
of Ministers, on the present occasion, was uneven.
rented, he inns, repeal, by any thing ever dont by
'our ancestors." They e ere guided ay. the neees,hies
of the case; they had no idea of constitoting ,a Re.
gerit, 014 as ft sort of Comm-aioner, or-Prime Mi-
tney 'regaided t 'at- high office ire very dit-
t. rent point of We should 15,0 the -
person whom the two }louses .ihnot;ht I. to se-
lect (I'm' the office; of Ro:zent was the.ohest seta of
the he 11 rural a:11. proper Po ototi-
to sup:iOrt tho Crown of his h-ittier, which was too
hi'avy for kill to 1t 0- itt >ueit 010111.11'.., o: 1/61',011:11
atthetioll, .111-) stioldd do every 4lrottgthvit•
instead of-impair the, powers of itOpti,y in the hands
of the Reern•,_ who, trout the nature of his tam•
porary tenere mast, otherttise,; the them to M;4111.
diiatlv.intagt-.' None of the Royal prerogatives •
shook! be suspended. If we depot ed the Crown of
the power of dispensing honours, es it tuns preeosed
to suspend it by this Bid, the Conalitution would be
no longer t4e same as that 'which was handed dawn
to US by our ancestors. These prerogatives, he would
repeat, were constituted for the ben fit of the peo-
ple. To separate the powers of the King front the
Monarchy, would' be to destroy She balance of she
Constitution. If •possible, they should instead of
ditnioishing, they should augment these powers 'its
the hands of the Regent constituted, otherwise the
Constitution Was ' substunce departed from.
and the powers su takeo from the-Crown, served to
create a self-constituted oligatchy.• The line of chaa •
racier -athir!:ll Ministers should have adop:•ad on she
psesent occasiiio, was• one at au 'opposite 'ten-
dency and 'character—they 0,0041 "hinv devised
means of support and consolation, instead of 'ember-
raisment and dept ivations. The Regent shoti:d not
be pl iced its state of loyal serVittide, but in a revel
when., there was'roorn for his grateful and honours
able feelings to shew themselves. There Was no
part of the measure now before their Lordships that
lie disapproved of more than the restriction impo,ed
on the Regent with. respect to the greeting of
himonts—this militated against every principle up.'
on which the •Regency•OUght to be t:on*htutvd.,
confessed, like 'fumy others, he edtertainetia
fetence.for a particular set of men—hut .t his ,parti-
alit), was founded on his opinion, that those men
were, ea Ministers, the most likely to be serviceable
to the country. He again censured the mode
adoeted by Mgnisters fur the representation'of the
R„ )al Authority, which his Royal Highness•charac-
tensed as a• phantom in imaginary .pageant, a rite.,-
sure prevant with evil j and vindicated the line of
conduct adopted' by himself and his' Royal
'lttit,ers, Menthe's of that House, on the present
ovcasioe.
The amendments made by the Committee to dif.
(tre.nt parts of the BilLwere thn taken' into eons'•
ceration, some of which were confirmed by the
On the signature clause some conversation again
ensued'. in which Earl Stanhope,' Lord Grenville,
the Lord Chancel* and the Earl of Liverpool wens
the speakers.: The first mentioned Peer rear wed
his objections to the wording of the prosisio-, in
tarlii:.:h he displayed some of his accustomed plii:010-.
&cal &sr:lamination. And the 'Noble Seeretstry of
State areoed for ohe propriety or will-ging she
modes of Royal Signature to remain in thek to uat
way. No alteration, as we could collect, was matte
in the Clause. -