The Sun.
London, England, 1811-01-18 00:00:00

REGENCY BILL.

The CHANCELLOybitbe EXCII grt hiving mov-.
ed, the Order of the bay, 'tor the House resolving
ilia into ti•CrimmitteL? on 'the Regeny Sill, •
expressed his wish to offer. A (CV/ C!)4
:seivations before the Speaker left the Cttair, AttLF
tonsiderable.deliberation upon his part; and areal.;
tentive cansideration of the areinients adduced upon:
the former: occasion by two illustrious Gentlemen:
now nu more, it was with the grafts' difficulty he.
could make up his mind on' this siibjed. As to the,
existence of any right in the Heir Apparent in tl4
Officeor Regent, it w-as,.o propd7ition to whic.i I:dcould not accede ;' for ti case might be cont7eiii L in
which the Heir Appareo Vcield he the fuoit unfit
person la the world for the. situation. In the reie-A
of Henry 11. his owteson, the then Heir Apparent;
i,vas in iietual rebellion egaiiiSesthe 'GovernMent ;
would any one contend Oat in that case the appliea-i
teen of such a doctrine would not prodtice‘the tir'&sll
of consequences 3 As to the 't wo tuodes'Of
ing by adOress or by bill, he was induce& 'aftetAueli
doubt and refleetioh, to'prefer the latter trrid4 all the
circumstances of the ease.. If the :Prince' of Wales
were an only see, iind if the Queen Wert nor living,,
then. have prrferred the address; t,ut 5i
toiled as things are at prewar, be thought that
.
the proceeding by bill was the least objeetionable.
With respect to' the liatitetions upon the:power of
the Regent,- he approved' Of all those which went to
provide for the Mil and, immediate return of his Ma-,
jesty to,the throne, as soon as his health was re-
-1):: should be in a sitealien'tetibtleriake
the personal exercise of his ioyal funetiods; hut at a
moment otrtitich impoitanco pis 'the preent,' when
every thitig seemed
le
require that the power et the
Executive shouldie as complete as possible, he
would not:roil:l2ot' to lay further limnatiensueeti
the prerogative of the Crown. :He weis the more
dined to grant these preloglitiVeg in this instance,
from p istconduel olthe Prince of Wales, who
had never been known to assume a power 14) which he
was not entitled, but, On tt►e contrary, had ond-wt.
ed hiroSelt with the greatest humility. It .was a no::,
torionS eiet,., that he was now only a Coldnel'in the
army, and that at a former period his' application for
greater rank had been rents, d. Why it shoeLl have
. been refused ‘4l3‘ to him wiaccoontable. He,' knew
of no ease, fi:oni the days of Henry 111. in 'which arty Prince of. Wols. was prohibited :from great rink- in
the ailuiy. Hetry the Filth, whee Priticeof Wales,
had high command ; Henry the Sixth,,when Prince
of Wales, had high command ; and CharleB the Se-
cond, though eery yoUng at the time,. was Mt rusted
with high comneioci in thet'situetion also: From file
view. winch he had taken of thethinacter of his Royal
figitiless the present Prince •• Of -Willey, it appeared
to him, that the funairmsrind attributes` bt Itoyalq
might with
.te:rfeet security be trusted' in. los hands,
subject,ot'lly to •stieh provisions as might be del nieii
expedieet te-provide for the resumptlbn by hiS
jesty, when capable-Of the'litigoes of Gwent ril•:l.t.
He concluded with expreg4ing agreeineet in the
principle of the bill. •• •
Mr. WiIITBREAD wheeherlt was the in-'
tention of the.ltigtit licni'.-Genifernan (the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer) to refer the Reaolutions'npi4l
which the Bill tvas founded, in the- eViittilitte
apl;eitred 10.411 m, that the Bill in some instances dif-
fered from those Resolutions, and lie theoght it Of
importaece that the' Committee "should-have an
rippoitonity of cotnpiring. them, and aseertaleing
that fa& ' With this view, he should move, if. the
Right Honourable Gentleman: hint' no obje6tioe,
that the' CoMMittee should be 'einpowered to take.
into its conSideration' the joint Resolutions •ol\. tte
two Houses of Parliament, Ilion the subjet of iii-
11.egeticy.' •
The Motion was agreed to. • '
CGMMITTEE ON TUC REG.NCAP-BILI.,

The House liavingTesolvecl itself into a Committee
.ou tint Ittenty Bill, Mr. Los lIINCiTOI.4 ill the Chair,,
the'two tirst clauses were immediately agreed to,—
The third clause, prescribins the 'feral ot ,I;natute,to
the Regeot, tteit,g read, - , •
The CitAfic.c.u.or. of the ExOtiFtwisa begged
leapt to call the attentiett ot the Committre to thd:
`point, and to state the reasoqs why he:. ihont;ht it
necessary to introduce such a provision.. He wag
nut anxious as to. what ihe particular sig,natnre
should.be, and therefore should 'nor pertinaciously
adhere Ice the ohe clecribea in the Bill, if tint, oti!er
was mo-errej. In 17,89 it left doubtful to what
r'
signature the Ptince of should sign ; whether
iti Iris tiwilor in the
,Kitse, s, or in Ins own and the
Aing's to4ether. Eery one must -know how ntul
. tilarions the instruments were to which his Roy.al
Hightte..s would immediately have to affix his
,ignattirt,t, awl of how necessary it was that
the ciglimure itself shortl4 trot be very long. It wits
upQr, this aecotkat that
.1n: proposed the one con-