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ANSWER OF 'IIIE QUEEN.

" MY LORD'S AND GENTLEMEN)

Kati aware of die diiiicultieg or the sitnatiun its
w0,,•1, I shall be placed; but I shall rely with con.
fidence upon the conb'tiiotineal advice of an eidight.
ened Parliament, and the zealous RUppurt of a gene,
rous and loyal people. I will use all the means kit
to me to wed. both.
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" My Loam AND GENTLEMEN,

Y will COIMIUMitate Ibis my answer to the
two Houses, accompanied by in% most fervent
wishes and prayers, that the Divine Will may ex-
it-it:ate us and the :nat.ion from the grievous embar-
rassments of' our pi'eseiit condition, by the speedy te-
him-Atkin of his Majcsiy's
he Answer being 'read,
The Earl of La vettPoot, moved that the said Re-
tolution4, together with his Royal Highness's An-
Lr, be primed.—Ordered.
The Earl of HARCoVRT then made a similar re-
port with reepeti to the Commissioners 'waiting on
her ALjesty the Cimen, as ordered bygthe House,
and that ht:r Majesty was graciously pleased to makr
the following Answer :

"That sense of duty mid gratitude to the King,
and of obligation to this Countty, which induced
toe, in the year 1789, readily to promise my most
earnest 4itention to the anxious and momentous trust'
at that t,rne intended to be repos.d in me by Par-
Lament, is strengthened; Ili possible, by the twin-
terrupted enjoyment of these blessings, which. I
have 4‘ontimpcd to experience, under the protettion
of.his Majesty, since that period and I should hi.
wanting to ail my duties, it I hasitated to accept the
tacred trust which is now offered to me.

The assistance, in point of counsel awl advice,
which the wisdom of Parliament proposes to provide
for me, will make me undertake the charge with
greater hopes that l may be able satisla:q.o4 to
fulfil the important duties which it mu,t impose
upon. me.
" 0 the nature and importance of that charge I
cannot but be duly sensible, mvolvinq, as it does,
every thing which is valuable to myself, a; well as
the highest interests cal a,peolle endeared, to 'me by
an many ties awl cotAideraituns ; but by nothing so
ttrol,giy, as by ibeir steamy, 101.,11, and afictionate
attaclmient to the hest 411 Kings."
The Resolution ut Parliament as applying to her
Majcsfif, and the answer, was 11140, nit the Mtijou
of igghle`SEctiETAity of STAflit, 611.1eNCI i 0 130
primed.

OPENING OF PARLIAMENT 13Y COMMISSION.
The Earl of Ltvamot. then moved the Order
of Vie Day ‘s hen, that !or sUannonrng th,fir Lord-
sbips being rod, lie moved, that the House do re—
soh iutu a Conunitiee dn'the State of the
Natio6.

This bein ordered, Lord WALSitiGHAM accord-
ingly took the Chair. •
The Earl of kvattroot rose, and briefly oh.
served, they were now arrived at Iltal stage. of the
prixeedino, when, agreeably to the cours,. adopt-
e s cut i f,e ((inner occSston, as he had given mai) e
,este.rday, it becairte necessary for that Howie to
adopt a Resolution with teipt:ct to the Opening' of
Patrintinoto by Commksion, With reirretiee 'to the
necessary: ulteiior proceeding. The Resolution
which he tihould Move wa <isO tar to that ,itdopt,4l
ott _ the ,forth tl occasiOn, a I,ic h wits, that it was
necessary and expedient that Letters Patent be is.
bred under the Great. Seal of the United Kingdom
of Great Uri and Ireland, of the tenor,and form
exptessed in the Resolution alluded lb, .for the
por, ostt +it cipubing the l'arliametit of the
United KinOotn, "fhintesolnilon, -,which in sub-
-5,,,nee Was precisely simdsr to that adopted in
1789, bein!„ on the occoion of its original intro.:
duction, dtscus4ed, thAt he did not,
in the present insniok.e, see any necessity for tron7
Ming their Lordships with any observations on the
fl nos and necettSily for Its a;lopt 011. Should any
thing, .however, be suggested in the Conimittee,
that may regone expl ination, he wt:; ready to at:.
ford it, Iu ittbqatteei be repeated the main ReSo-
Itnion ; and the corresponding ones, required by
the necessary forms on such an occasion, were pre.
eisely similar to those voted by the HoUSe on the a lit
of January, 1789. Whatever variatien there way
be from the form of the subordinate arrangement
itt I7BD, it occurred principally from the differetio,
from the desire expressed by certain Royal
Person !ges, with respeol, to the insertion of their
names in the CommissiOn. .Should any explanation
be icquired by any Noble Lord u ith respeti to a
detail of the proceedings, he was most willing to
afford it. The Noble Secretary Of State then for—
ty-,apy ii oved the falt litlolution, the silbstance and
etlecl ef which he stated in his introductory 01>m-
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On the question being put,
l ail GituY said, that after the very full discus.
eons which had already I..ken place on the sub.
J, 0, of which the Resolution now before the Com.
mittoe formed n inn, he certainly felt it super tlooos
to detain then Lordships With any detailed tib.trea-
tiotts, His f dings, however, on the occasion,
were so strong, that he could not avoid taking this
trst opportunity his power to express, in gr:areral
and decided win's, his ,trong objection to the whole
line of proceeding adopto by Itlin'sters on this
,00,,t momentous quesft n, Unwilling as he was
to add in the smallest degree to theSe most Ulliteces.
nary and dangerous delays which ILO already taken
/dace, he aould• not rcinam silent when a prnposi..
I ton was brought forward, _calling upon that lioue,
on its patt, to tt.i%ottle one of the most imrottant
yiwers Of the Crown, namely, the rasing the
Great Seal to an AM of Parliament, [le had anxi-
od*ly wished for Anopporttlpity of expressing his most
firm concurrence in the opposition ascot:civil; and the
rentiments expressed by Noble Lords on his side of
t;!‘.- House, to the whole tissur.‘ of proceeding urged
;11“.1 Aopted by Ministers course of proceeding,
ronteoded, ace. ruling to 101 the geutin e
and analogivi of the eonstitution„as well as'
prviices of their antes!ors, as could he colle6led
-orn autneotic precedents, it hich was hostile to the
v fun&itnental principles of that Constitution;
rending to estabish a precedent of the most
croui tendency. consequence aad charac.
of the line of conduct they had adopted was,
under the form of law, they had violated all

the principles of tho ; under pretence of lesiva
for the Constitution, they hall violated the funda.,
mental principle 4 of Ihe ; and, under a
pretence bf a bernpulous regard tor the rights ot the
Monarchy and the Regal ritrogatkies, had sapped
the very fou4ations of that S,..iveiTtgoty. These
great concluSious,.he 'contended, hal been establisn-
ed as resulting twin the conduct of Minister', by
those with w horn he had the honour to act, with a

wisdom, with an eloquence, with a display or

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learning and knowledge. I ilia Constitution of Ott:lt
country, unrivalled ill the annals of Parliamentary
dismission, With this gr,,ntral dechtration, he would,
wider the circumstances, cont,:tot himself; but he
coal no! le:t the inun,-Idiate que,t too belore the Com-
mittee pass wit hOut observinio hat if it were cletermiti'
ed to assume those powers e x pressed in t heßesolut ion,
and to pass an Att as abotu to be proposed for reme-
dying the personal dt feet in the exercise of the
Royal authority, he Must contend, it would be
far less objectionable, even according to the ptinci-
ples insisted on by Ministers, if they thought Omit-
, selves authorized to cause the Great e.it to be athx-
ed to an instrument for the optning of Parliament,
and paSsing, a Bill: It would be far less objection-
able, he repealed; to come to Resoltilious 161- ap-
pointing his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
Commissionei for &,pening the Parliament,..lar the
specific purpose of en:toting a Bill to supply the ex-
isting defect to the t.;:oustitusiou of
Then would the thtril,tratich of the.l.4.igishiture be
regularly toi'med, and they Could tielittO the iM
poriam questions at issue in a full • Parlidment the
sunject could, iii such a ca ,e, be discu3sed not only
.underlie requisite forms, but accoiding to the snb
siential reality. But, as it :was, he could not avoid
repeating his firm conviction; that the hoe of pro-
ceeding chalked out by Ministers on this must ardu-
ous occasion, was fatally dangerous to the Coust:.
ttition, clashing with its best ,principles end snalo-
gies, and finally tending to' establish a preced.•nt
under the authority of which, in Inane OWL'S, 3
stlies of attempts may be matte so as e1,%1n to
ualiv
Undermine all that was good or valtiable iu the Con-
stitution,

Lard \l/ LSINGIIAM then !Jut the gneSt
. hen Earl STAN HuPE said, ":Nol content," m Con-
St qut:nce of which a divistun took I,lace, when there
appeared•-.

For the Resolution %.
Against it Mb AO

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Nlajority in favour of tile lineof proceed-
ing recommended by Ministers - zo

The doors continued shut for some time, and the
adjournment' took glace 17#.1Ure strangers Were ad-
milted—bat we understat,tl the subordinate Resolu-
tion (that referring' to points of fortn) was passed
without: any division. Their Lordships adjourined
till 11,1oliday.
The necessary proceedings are expeOed to be in
that state of tar,%ardltesi, that Parliament will be
regularly opened by Cotimiission (as in the case of
17.8)) on 'Filetiday next. 'the Commissioners will,
consist of ;rhos.great Officers of SatesendHigh
Dignitaries of the Chtireb,.. who, after withdrawing
of the, Princes' naturs,,.pu ti a oce,sinns alluded to,
were constituted the. Lords cominissiouers. •

HOUSE OF COMMONS,

VIIIDAY, JAN. 11.

The Sheriffs presented a Petition from the Lord
Mayor,'AVlelmep, a!'d, CoMmons of the City of
London, a4ainst the 111C41511113 of -a testrided Re-
vnev, which was read,
,and ordered to he on the
table.

The cfrANCELLOIt of the EXCHECIUgiI informed
the Nouse, that purSuaut to its order, the Com-
mittee ,had waited upon his Royal Highness-the
Prince of Wales, with -an Address, recitt, sting that
he wou:,l take upon him the alike: 01 Regent, ac-
t:circling to the Resolutions, of both Houses of Par,
liarnent ; to which his ~Royal Hithrichs had bean
plea%ed to return the following answer.
[For his Ruyal Highness's Answer, see the Pro
ceediogs of the House of Lords.) •
Lord cLive eta.tcd, that the Committeeappoint•
ed to wait upon the (ueen and present the Addieist
had done so, and that -her IVl:ljesty had been pleased
to return the following answer :
[For her Majesty's, answer, see the Proceedings'
of the House of Lords.]
• Th'e CHANCIILI,OR Of the Excnetwart then mov-
ed the order of the day for the House resolving it.
self into a Committee on the State of the Nation,
He wizihed, 'before be decided whether he should
postpone the Couunitee to to-morrow or Monday,
to know wfitth::r any debate was-likely to take
place. The next business of the Hou•e, he appre7
hended, would. be to ,agree to the Resolution cif
the other House, for enao.l% the Chancellur to affix
the Great Seal for tlie,pnrposo of opening the Par-
liament. If the Gentleman opposite-had resolved
upon discussing that subjc6t, Inn thought it would
be more expedient to adjourn to Monday next.
Mr. WurrengAD said, that it- watt not his. inter •
6011 to trouble the House With any debate, as he
should be satisfied with recording his opinion by his
vote., He .wished, as he was on his legs, to ask the
Right lion, G4lttlemun whether it was' his intentieu
to make any provi,ion in the 13th, -which would
citable the country to meet the recurrence of such
a'calamity as the present, in a state of greater pre-
paration
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Mr. AnAm hoped, that a Bill, the foundation of
which way to give the Royal Assent, by an authority
of iti (Ali appointment, would not contain—Ouch
prat igloo. He thought it would be highly improper
to adopt any such proceeding in the present mutilated
state of the ;Parliament whatever was to.be done,
should be done when their powet and funations are
complete.
Mr,VinviiittinD said, that bit 'Honourable
e
Friend had misunderstood him ; h did not mean
to say that the provision 'should be introduced into
that Bill, but merely akcertain the ititentiom
of the Right IJonodrable Gentleman upon that.sub-
jee.

Mr, SHERIDAN said, in answer to the Right
Gentleman (the Ci,ancellor of the Exchequer) that
he could not answer for the intentions of other
Gentlemen, hut he thought it likely that some
would wish to enter their protest against the mea-
sure. Far his part, he should feel himself bound in

4", Windsor Castle, lan. 12,,J811.
" His MAJESTY is not qui►e so well this morn-
ing as for sunie days past.

" H. 11. REYNOLDS.
" M. BM LLIE.
" H. 1-IALroIiD.
" NV. HEIIERDEN.
" R. WILLIS."

The folloWing paragraph
.appeared yesterday in
the Morning 'Citron/de, in a letter, to-the Editor,
defending a previous communication, written by a
pt.rsal styling hmaself !‘ A Military Man," and'
which malice or waggery. has attributed to a certain
General Officer, much distinguiihed in America.
We,,shall ma enter into a' general controversy
with the Military. Man or his defender, but the
paragraph in question contains so gross,a falsehood,
thin we shall render a service to the Public 'by ex-
posing it.

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ti lda " d'
The army under MAsicNn,", says the para•
g:ae
which besieged, mid covered the siege of
Ciudad
Rodrigo, did 716 i erceed3B,opo men. The
second corps, which formed one of the three that
composed the army of Portugal,• being still be-
yowl Badajoz, and 200( dragoons haying been
a detached from the Bth ,mirps to General KaLLEtt-
,,,
MANN infantry,' cavalry, and arid-
" lery, being employed in preserving the commit-
" nications with VallAdolid and Aitorga. In 13ha-
"‘ TniEti's letter to AssitiA; dated Havre, Hth
" May, this distribution is otdered ; and the letter
" concludes, observing, fife these detachments are
" made, the army of Pnrtitgal, including
2418 n's Corps, will fiIIIOUCIL to 50;009 men,;"
This paragraph we distinctly pronounce to be a
gross mis-statetnent, and in order to prove our as-
sertion, we give the letter itself, which the writer
in the 114-toning Chronicle proftsse.i to copy, in the,
L riginal.French

• "Ilavre, le atMai,
"M. I.l,,MARickinck,

11 paralt par, l'etat de la force, de l'arruee
Anglaise, tire des journaux Angfait, q'elle coll•
sista en 23,000 An toil & Alletuandi, and 22,000
Portagais. Li:Ernpereur ru'orcienne en consequence
quo. vous devez avoit plus de troupes n'en Taut
pour battre l'arin4e Anglaiie, dans le cas on elle ten-
tefarit de fair lever le) siege de Ciudad Rodrigo. S.
M. desire (iPe vows y prQcediez avec iu Gale & sme

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'corm Iniisalit an Ceueral kELLEIIMANN 2ie4o

goes de Bme & attssi on corps d'etiviro
10,000 hommes, tivalerie, 31'
sulfisant pour tenir it communiolica °"'
ouverte-; & vows, Prince, avec le Owe corps, 6 le are
reste du time, formant ensemble environ
lira
&fumes, vous devez prendre Ciudad linfiTig°'
tam A e les ngluiS; s'rls avancent. 3e viens d'ecrir°
au Rot d'EirApNi: au Duc de UALMIATZA, , pecl
fur
ire le General REGNz ca. sons stos ordres, avec le
cond corps d'arit.,6e ctnntnandait. J' oi cairoll
a Li:
,
ordrc au General fircitsllEti de Y'OpprOCher ri'llo9
.r
tara, avec son corps pour suf le droll e
(Sigue) ", Le Prince DE WAGR'+'f, b°
" NEUFCHATEL."
By this Letter it appears that the armyufgls.
„t
SENA, which was to hesitge and cover the siege fro,
Cuidad Rodrigo; amouttted 'not to 38,000, bit"'
atec
nearly 50,000 men, and that this force was excaa-
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of REGNIER'S corps, being composed of the Oti"-an-d ) to
part of rthe Bth Corps d'Atm6o. Oar Reader' tilt
observe that the letter of Biqurnteit does not tiui
chide as represented in the Morning Chronicle.
This is not the only falsehood which disgrat.eith°
derenCe cf the " Military Man but, wi'h cal
specimen before them, our Readers will be 'l)4 (lib
to appreciate the general charaaer of the

The CohissaJ hifs arrived franc Czaz,' which
she left 00 the 18th ult. Nusiiit:g hopol
ha,d occurred prelicus to he' sailing..

Yesterday Lord CAMD3.II and Lord HAacol
in the House of Locls, anci PeRciAtAL

Lord JOHN THYNNE, the Huse of Culla'

reported the Ansikets.of the Priil& of WAr.ci
her AlAnstr, 10 the Addrei.ses- of Parlizo

and
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His Roy td Highness, rifler expressing his read' ,
to undertake the weighty and important tins' P.' ell
posed to be invested in him, under the restrie"o/• tIN
and limitations stated in hose Resolutions, Pl'.'
at
its
coeds to add, " Conscious that. eiery teeling "tfti
heal t would have prompted me, from dutiful Pit"' It
:ion to my beloved Father and Sovtreign, t° bats xn
sliewn all the reverential delicacy towards hint 11/
culcated hi these ReSoltation,:, a:111130'1614i t 44 hi
expressing, my regret,.that I Should
..not have
,
itlicil,ved the opportunity of manifesting to leas of
fiiMed and loyal subjecitt, that such would I'll 4
been my
,continth,'
From the.,above passage in his Royal
Answer, it ibubvious that he..would have' acted
the spirit of these restritiions,;even if they 113'111::
been proposed by Parliament, and that there(-(4"4'14 dr
Royal -Highness totally. differs in opirtiun frosty tl►sl'l
who have so strenuously contended that I': iv,
OfliCe of Regent could not bes exercised''
4'4
ficially for .the eountty, subject to the pro'''. alt
limitations.' We apprehend that in propwiltqltt'le ii
ci iot
Restrictions, the two Houses of Pailiament ; tiJ
act from any want of confidence in his RoYal '414 41'
nets, but upon the consideration that they`,
esta"iling a great and important precedent, gri'l` rt
would be referred to in future ages, if a similar
should occur, and that they„ were therefore b°ll-' II
to proceed (you general principles, applicable,'' d
pf:
tithes and all persons. If his, Royal fli.gbne'
had . been invested with the Regency
limitations, we know from
actedhisasnsi:uicar:ci (list I'd tlt
14.
would have acted upon the principle
au
the Resolutions; but then a precedent would hisito ei
been established of appointing. a Regent witil°ol"ati
restrictions, which might, in future ago, brgio
in favour of a person wholly undeserving of ;10 11;
confidence of the Country. The principle °I
limitations is now admitted to be right--a is beil4,
pr
therefore that they should be established by 4sl).
aL
than left to the discretionOf any individual.
confidence of the CQUIItiV in the, present irlsh:a, th
would not we know liak7e'been abused, but Part'o
inept was not aging (or the present times ol'IY'li
for posterity.,
a!i
We' have reeeivod a huge cu lee of Span:'
,"i0
Pers, but which do not add ituctoo the liiir
Lott iously received.
,„ifiatt
-Front Ayamonte we learn that the chariot;e'ltits tt,
i.‘lariin, having pushed his advanced- posts to 8t
(\il
iruz de la Zara, near-the ki,,i)tre of the kingdoltic;
tench had deemed it prud -nt to proctid4 inr!
right bank of the Tiebo.- sp
"rait' exlitruely scarce in the fertilo
of Auez de fa Froutera, the m farmers not
ci
ihreoseeettilliceitrioaly. sow the hind' that it mightG, be rail hi
I 0: Juan Pr„rinatelli eras been'acluitte'oll/ la
the charges of abindonitig the cities of Vt'll'atitot • tit
land Avila, in 1808, to theencai it appearing
le had rio force to make any tfejetoal resist-Ace:, • tit
Sll adhere°tits, b.- making Isnaq' Fr' enchluala °' tit
coe ht
1111-,eT•kat.iiitee.d.l'.Cauic :at:rs'iort'al3c.tY:s.l::::titirliael:l:l:lM'in:Yito.::::::ithv,a.r.,:.,;ll:i'N:a:l,lrcji:es:.:ll:Actit;
Vet tes, and eight Enghilt ,
emPi Q.Yed agdinst Point-Ha, S.iuta ClialinaiC"'',),ci;4 'lt
Cadiz, fern which
.110 • is
Allies had been swionst antioy.'d•
On the hills of Roodl the insurreciiii a
ht" spread and rairiely, that to extillrrii•
trench have teen forc!,d to send trouP
flying imillary tram solitte.aud m,lags•