Star.
London, England, 1810-12-29 00:00:00

7HE PROTEST OF THE RorAL DUKES,

AGAINST THE PROPOSITION SUBMITTED TO THE PRINCE OF
WALES, FOR LIMITING AND RESTRAINING HIS ROYAL
HIGHNESS IN THE EXERCISE OF THE PREROGATIVE,
WHILE CALLED UPON TO DISCHARGE AS REGENT THE
ROYAL AUTHORITY.

66 Wednesday night, IS o'clock, Dec. 19, 1810.
46 SlR,—The PRINCE of WALES having assembled
the whole of the male branches of the Royal Family,
and having communicated to us the plan intended to
be proposed by his Majesty's Confidential Servants,
to the Lords and Commons, for the establishment of
a restricted Regency, should the continuance of his
MAJESTY'S ever-to-be-deplored illness render it neces-
sary ; we feel it a duty we owe to his MAJESTY, to
our Country, and to ourselves, to enter our solemn
Protest against measures we consider as perfectly un-
constitutional, as they are contrary to, and subversive
of the principles which seated our Family upon the
Throne of this Realm. (Signed)
FREDERICK, AUOUSTUs FREDERICK,
WILLIAM, ADOLPHUS FREDERICK,
EDWARD, WILLIAM FREDERICK,
ERN EST,
" R. H. Spencer Perceval, Sec. hc. &c.

(COPY)

" Downing-street, Dec. !O, 1510

Mr. PERCEVAL has the honour of acknowledging
the receipt of a solemn Protest, in the name of all the
male branches of the Royal Family, against the mea-
sures which his Majesty's confidential servants have
thought it their duty to communicate to his Royal
Highness the PRINCE of WALES, as intended to be
proposed to the two Houses of Parliament, for the es-
tablishment of a restricted Regency during the conti-
nuance of his MAJESTY'S ever-to-be-lamented indispo-
sition ; and stating that their Royal Highnesses con-
sider these measures as perfectly unconstitutional, and
contrary to, and subversive of the principles which
seated his MAJEs-rv's Royal Family upon the Throne
of this Realm.

" Mr. PERCEVAL has felt it to be his duty to submit
this communication without loss of time to his MA-
JESTY'S servants ; and deeply as they lament, that the
measure which they have thought themselves bound
to propose, shall appear to their Royal Highnesses to
deserve a character so directly contrary io that which
it has been their anxious endeavour should belong to
it, they must still, however, have the consolation of
reflecting, that thi principles upon which they have
acted obtained the express and concurrent support of
the two Houses of Parliament in the years 1788 and
1789; that those Houses of Parliament had the high
satisfaction of receiving, by the command of his MA.
JEST''', after his MAJESTY'S recovery, his warmest ac-
knowledgments for the additional proofs they had
given of their affectionate attachment to his Person,
and of their zealous concern for the honour and in-
terests
of his Crown, and the security and good go-
vernment of his dominions; and that the uninter-
rupted confidence which his MAJESTY was pleased to
repose, for a long series of years, in the persons who
proposed the measures which were grounded on those
principles, entitles his Majesty's servants, in their
judgment, still further to conclude, that those prin-
ciples and measures had the sanction of his Royal
approbation."
16 kiis Royal Highness the Doke of York, &c. &c. &c.