The Sun.
London, England, 1811-02-06 00:00:00

REGENCY BILL.

Mr. LUSIIINOTON informed the House, that the
Lords had agreed to hold the conference request-
ed by the Commons, in the painted chamber nu-
m, d a tely. •
itin of Mr.' R. Dundas it was ordered,
that the Lords be informed the Comu,ons had
ccnsented 'to their Resolution, and tilled up the blank
[be words, "aid Commons."
The Managers Of the last Conference, will the
add lion 61 the Lord advocate of Scotland and Sir J.
Niehols,' were Ordered to mat age the conference,
then, to be held. ,
On the return of the persons appointed to hold
the confert nee,
Mr. R. LhJNUAS informed the House, that the
conference' had been held, and the assent of the
Commons to the Resolution cotnmunieated, in °bo-
o.
aifence to th 6 Older of the House.

Tire Deputy Usher of the BIM( Rod summoned
the Nitinset!) the House of Peers, to hear the Royal
As•ent given to the Regency Bill.
The Seitik,KElt;Oti his return, informed the House
that the 'House had been in the Howie of Peels,
wi,r•re the Com Mission tar atiiiing the Great Seal
fad been 'read, and the Royal A:isent given to the
Regeocyr

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THE whole of tlie STATE LOTTERY will he
drawn on: IttDAY, the I oh. . Forty.tim
twig ki.oool. and 4,0u0 other Trite

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VUIS c A I,SUM AVOLAT ?

LUND() IV,

WLDNUSDAY, riBRUARY &, 1811.

" Windbor Castle., Feb. 6, ISI t.
" JiiS MAJESTY is quite as well as. he was yes-

terday:'

Signed as usual.

We this morning .received, by the Lishou Mail,
Portuguese Papers to the 20th ult. We have ex-
traaed their priliciril cat)teutS, WhiCl:l will be 'Omni
in our subscqueni columns.

. .
The Royal Asseut was )estetday given, by Com-
mission to the Regency Bill. His Royal Highoess.t he
Pa t Nee of W.it.:Es' is therefore now in vested with, the
Office of Regent, and will this day take the, Oaths.
before the Privy Coruicil. The Oppositicin Papers
still continue to reprobate the mode dfproceeding
by Bill, and by wav of comphinent, We Presume,
to Lord Ott lINVILLE,: ;to designate it a 'Phantom,
-ft ha-, always been admitted by thcie who StippOrt-
cd the mode of 'proceeding by Bill, that it Could
only be justified by the necessity of the case, because
it was impossible to extricate the country train the
unfortunate situation in which it was placed by
,his
Ma.arssri's indisposition, without deviating from the
stria and regular course, which, in ordinary cases,
is preieribed by the Constitution. When, therefore;
we are triumphantly told, by. the Opposition Writers
,and Speskers, that the two Houses of Parliament
cannot, according to the Constitiation, legislate, and
, that the Royal Assent is necessary to convert a 1141
into an ACtof Parliament ; they tell that which any
schoolboy knowe, and which has
,never been.
pied. But ist the case which has occurred, it was
necessary either to depart, in a certain degree, from
the forms of the Constitution, or to suffer the whole
Government of the Country to Stand sti:l. It has
been contended, however, that the difficulty would
have been quite obviated it' Parliament had addrtss.
so 'the Prince of WALES, requesting him to take.
upon hinnell the office of Regent,
.instead of
passing an .A to. inVest him with that office.
But this is really a distinction in terms, and
oat in substance. Thee two ROOM of Parliariient
love no more right, we conceive, speaking in stria-
ores, to create an Executive Power by Address, than,
they have by Bill ; that is to say, the Cotisstitution
Ws pointed outinO such mode of proceeding. We
ithwt mean to say that the Regent could nut have
been appointed by Address, but we contend that
that mode would have been liable to the very lame
objections which the Opposition now urge against
the proceeding by Bill, because in that case the two
Hooses would, Its tired, be performing a substan-
tial Act of Legislation, though under another name.
If then both modes of proceeding are liable to the
rune objections in point of forge,-but that the pacu-

liar nature of the case renders the adoption of one of
them necessary, then the question to be considered
is, whether there are any peculiar advantages that
belong to either?' And,here we contend that pro-
ceeding by Bill hai decidedly the preference, be-
cause, it limitations and restrictions upon:the power
of the Regent be, under all circums4nces of the
Case, necessary, it enables Parliament in impose those
limitations and restrictions at the very moment that
:t conveys the power whereas, by the other mc,de
of proceeding, Parliament would convey aa the
power in the first instance, and then proceed to settle
the conditions and impose the restrictions.

It has been very erroneously stated, that Mr
WELLESLKY departure fur Ireland was pcca-
sinned by accounts received by, Ministers, of riots in
different parts of the Kingdom, and of massacres in
the streets of Dublin. The simple ha is, that Mr-
Pot.r. was suddenly obliged to come to England in
consequence of the unexpected meeting of Parlia-
ment itt November, and of course could 'Hot have
completed all-the arrangements for the business of the
ensuing Session, and that he is now gone over for
that purpose. With respet to the story of the

maysacres in Dublin, if no other foundation than
that an outrage was committed in the streets of that
City upon an individual', but the circumstance was
considered to be of so little importance that it has
not found its way into the Irish Papers.

Yesterday his Royal Highness the'Th ince of WAT,us
lett town for Windsor, and went by the way of
Oatlands, where hi 4 Royal- -Highness took sumo re-
freshment, and in the evening his Royal Highness
ret Lulled to town.

Yesterday, at. three o'clock, a Cabinet Co' ncil
was held at the Foreign Oitice, The LOtto CHAN*
CELLOR and the Earl of LIVERPOOL arrived in Down-

ing-sireet abou► halt past three o'cloCk from Wind-
sor, and attended the same. The Council broke
up in a shun time afterwards. All the C.tbinet

isters were present.

Yeiteiday morning, about. half ow nine o'clock,
Mr. PERCBVAL received a letter from the Prince of
WALLS.

On Mr. PERCEVAL and Mr. Yoe itte's arrival from
Windsor, on Monday afternoon, ie Downing-street,
they immediately attended a Cabinet Council, which
was then sitting at the Foreign Office.
At length the Spaniards have consented to raise
a force like the Portuguese artily under Marshal Be 7
BUFORD, Officered by British Officers, the only way
in which we are convinced the Spaniards can be
officered, and brought on all occasions to n eet the
French'. in the field, or with the same credit to them-
selves as they have on so many occasions acquired
within• walls or when besieged. Colonel FentiaN-
`naz, formerly an officer in the 44th British regi-
tnent,; has just sailed to Cadiz, with arms and
clothing fur a regiment which- be is to raise. Majors
GREEN and CAMPBELL will soon proceed to Spain
to raise their regiments, and several others •of our
'enterprising and Olive officers, who have attained
a knowledge of the Spanish language, will receive
kite's of service* to raise Spanish regiments. In
tbe Spaeiard arc all the materials that form a good
soldier ; tiny only require officers. Minorca has
freer} dlentiOtled as a' depot for training, clothing,
and perfeding in discipline 20,000 Spaniards, to re-
main, there till complete as an effective army ; and
then to be embaiked and landed where they may
Aa with most ads enrage; to the public good of their
Count 4.
Letters were yesterday received from France con-
taining the folloWing communication, which is' of
great importance to all pemons in this country, con-
neded with the trade to the Continent :
PARIS, JAN. TB.—At ten in the evening, his Ma-
jesty learned that the Merchants had been informed.
that the English Government had sequestrated in
the pops of Great Britain, French ships and vet.
sels belonging to the heretofere Hans Towns and
l)antzig, having Imperial licences,' and which con-
isequen-ly had also licenses furnished to them in Lone
dun. His Majesty has therefore directed that the
sailing of all ships, furnished with licenses, now
boned to British ports, shall be suspended until far.
titer orders.
The moment the above Order reached the French
coast, a vessel was sent tiff express by the merchants
to theireotrespondents here, with information that
Buonaparte would returns:the embargo upon its being
ascertained that the ships.' having licenses in our
ports would be permitted to sail.
The subsequent intelligence from Heligoland
came. to our hands yesterday.
Heligoland, Jan. sit, rata.
" At a General Meeting held yesterday at the
EXchange Room, it vote of thanks was unanimously
passed to the Hon. Lord George Stuart, for his tuts
remitted exertions at all times to promote and sup.
port the trade of this island.
" It was further voted, as a testimony of respea
and approbation by the Merchants, that be' be pre-
sented with an elegant vase, and that a subsCription
be entered into for that purpose."