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PARLMMEIV7WRr PROCEEDINGS. '

HOUSE OF LORDS, DEC. ie.
About a quarter before four, the Loan CHANCBL.
Lon took his seat on the woolsack, and several Peers
on both sides attended in their places.
After prayers were read,
The Earl of LIVERPOOL moved, that the House
do to-p- -,ut resolve into a Committee, to take into

consideration the State of the Nation; and that the

Resolutions communicated to the House by the Com-
mons, in a conference with their Lordships last Sa-
turday, be referred to the consideration of the said
Committee, which was ordered accordingly.
Earl STANHOPE took the opportunity, as he ob-
served, he said, some Noble Lords in their places,
whom he did not see the last time he attended, of
giving notice that he proposed to move an amend-
ment to the first of these Resolutions.

The Earl of LIVERPOOL farther moved, that
the Report of their Lordship? Committee, appointed
to examine the Physicians attending his Majesty, be
referred to the consideration of the Committee of the
whole House on the State of the Nation to-morrow.
Also, that all the Lords be summoned to attend the
service of the House to-morrow, which being ordered,
all adjournment immediately took place.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27.
Jr. Joure.--Hedidei at the Bank and Exchequer.

THE KING.
The abatement which has taken place since the late
severe relapse of his MAJESTY. we are happy to state
has been considerable. In the course of Tuesday
morning the pulse fell from 120 to 80, and in the
evening it was still lower, being only 75. Since the
above relapse, a Bulletin every evening, has been sent
from Windsor to Mr. PERCEVAL. It is written by
the Physician who is in close attendance upon his
MAJESTY, and is in general an enlarged statement of
his state during the day.
The high state of fever in which his MAJESTY had
been, was accompanied with symptoms of an inflam-
mation in the bowels, which were at first of a very
alarming nature. They, however, yielded to the re-
medies which were administered, but we are sorry to
add, that the severity of the attack has left the gene-
ral system in a state of increased debility.

41 WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. 2G.
44 His MAJESTY, since the abatement of his fever,
has continued nearly in the same state.
(Signed as usual.)
44 WINDSOR CASTLE, DECEEIBEE 27.
44 His MAJESTY has passed an indifferent night,
and is me:h the same as he was yesterday."
(Signed as usual.)

We have this clay inserted some farther extracts
from Portuguese and Spanish papers and letters, some
of which are interesting. Our Readers would ob-
serve in the dispatches from Lord WELLINGTON, in-
serted yesterday, that GARDANNE, who commanded
the vanguard of General DROUET, had retreated into
Spain. What became of DROUET with the main body

was not distinctly stated ; but if we may credit ac.
counts from Corunna of the 15th, DROUET'S division
has -not joined MASSENA. " He has been stopped
(says the letter alluded to) by the Portuguese militia
and peasantry, who have killed a number of his men,
and he retreated again with his main body into Estre-
madura. What the design is tee cannot tell, but we
begin to look to ourselves."—We have so often found
the accounts from Corunna incorrect, that we cannot,
without better authority, give credit to this statement.
In addition to the preceding particulars, after a
long suspension of intelligence, we have some accounts
by a private ship from one of the ports of Valencia,
by which it appears that General BLAKE, in an attack
upon Basso, had been repulsed, and that the French
in an attempt upon Teniel, had been successful.
A store ship is arrived which left the Tagus on the i
13th ult. at which time no intelligence of any moment

had reached Lisbon. Several American vessels had

arrived in that river with cargoes of flour, which
fetched very liberal prices. The works erecting on
the south-side of the Tagus were proceeding rapidly.
They are on a more extensivescale than we supposed.
According to a private letter, " a chain of fortifica-
tions is to be thrown up from Palmela Castle to the
river, and the country intersected by a kind of ravine
or canal ; so that should the enemy think proper to
make an irruption into the Alentejo, they rright be
prevented from entering Estremadura, and molesting
either Lisbon or the entrance of the harbour. After
the works ..re erected, there will or no necessity for
keeping a large force on the left b-rk of the Tagus ;
for should the enemy endeavour to cross, with the fa-
cilities we have, we could put any number of troops
on the other side, before they could erect any thing.
Besides, the transports and men of war wenld furnish
five Or sin thouslad sailors ; as good troops as any to
man works with."

Englm.d, it would appear, is not the only quarter
in which bullion is a scarce commodity. King Josun
:utimated to his loyal subjects of Madrid," that
in consequence of its scarcity at Madrid, payments in
fu,ture are to be made in paper.
A law is about to be passed by the Cortes, that in
future the Kings uf Spain, or the Heir Apparent, shall
not marry without the consent of the nation. This is
_literally nipping the projects of NAPor.zox in the bud.