Star.
London, England, 1811-02-15 00:00:00

THE REGENT'S COURT.

Yesterday being the day appointed by his Royal
Highness the Paint REGENT tor receiving the Ad-
dress of the Corporation of the City of -London upon
his being appointed Regent of the United Kingdom,
and for holdingg a Privy Council, a party of the Ist
Regiment of Foot Guards, with the Regimental co-
:lours and the full band, the whole in white gaiters,
marched into Carlton House Court-yard, about 12
o'clock, and a party of the Lite Guards took their
station in Pall Mall to regulate the carriages.
About one o'clock, Mr. Secretary RYBilt had an
audience of his Royal Highness. In a short time
afterwards, the Right Hon. Gentleman was obliged
to leave Carlton House in Lord Mulgrave's carriage,
on account of indisposition.

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The Earl of Coy wrowtr and j,.ord GEORGE TRYNNE.
the Treasurer and Comptroller of his Majesty's
Household, with their white wands of office, also
htd audiences of his Royal Highness I the farmer
laid before him the Address of the House of Lords,
and the latter that of the House of Commons.
A few minutes before one, the Corporation of the
City of London arrived at Carlton House in the ki..
lowing order :
The two Afarthnt• hor3ebaek, in their Fourth uniform.
The Lord Mayor's Gentleuen in Walthq.
The tiworj of State,
• The Mace.

The Chaplain.
The Lord Mayor.
Mr. Alderman Condor.
T. Smith, Isq. (the late Lord Mayor), and Mr. Alderman
Curtis.
The Recorder, and Mr. Valliant, one of the City Counsels
Aldermen Wood, Domedle, :Icholey, and Magnay.
The Sherif*, Aldermen Sir W. Plainer and Goodbehere.
1 he Remembrancer.
Che Chamberlain.
The Common Serjeant.
The Town Clurk.
Mann. Bonin& Reynolds, Arabin, and Watson, Counsel.
The Commoner.
Mr. Leigh, Under Sheriff.
Messrs. Watthman, Quin, and Wheble.
Mr. Deputy Loxley.
And about 130 other Gentlemen of the Common Council.

The whole suite of elegant rooms were thrown
open, consisting of an anti-room, the dining-rocs,
ball-room, and drawing room.
A number of Yeomen of the Guard and his Royal
Highness's servants in their state liveries fined tee
grand hail.
Most of the Ministers arrived about the same time,
and were shewn into a room on the left side of the
house till after his Royal Highness had given the
above audiences, when they, together with the Citi-
zens, were shewn into the Throne-room, where his
Royal Highness was seated upon the Throne, atten-
ded by— • .
His Chancellor (Mr. Adam) In hie robes, Colonel M.Maheit,
Lords Keith, Dundas, and reathfield, Generals Hulse, Keppel,
Turner, and Hammond, the Earl of • Macclesfield, the Captain at.
the Yeomen of the Guards, the Pula Mount Edgecuall, a d
a party of the Gentlemen Pensioners. • • -
The Lord Mayor and Corporation then approach-'
ed his Royal Highness, and the Recorder read :he.
following Adciress: •
Cfry ADDRESS TO THE PRINCE R*6PIT.
TO HISNOTALHIGHNEs3THepanccIor WALE,, RLGENT
OF THE UNITF.Q KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN ASD,
IRELAND.
The dutiful and loyal Address of the Loao MAYOR, t',l-
- and COMMONS of the CI zr or Lill?iDON, is
Common Council assembled.
" May it please your Royal Highness,
it We, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Coalman
of the City of London, in Common Council assem-
bled, most humbly approach your Royal Highness
with the warmest assurances of affectionate attach-
ment to your Royal Person, and unshaken adherence
to those sacred prindiples which seated your fimily
upon the Throne of this Realm; folly convinced that
those principles afford the best security to the honour
' and dignity of the Sovereign, and the rights and in-
, terests of the people.
41 Whilst we offer to your Royal Highness our sin-
core condolence upon the severe visitation with which
it has Pleased Divrxx Paovroasine to afflict our
most gracious Sovereign,-which has occasioned a sus-
pension of the Royal Functions, it is with heard-Lit
consolation; that in common with all ranks ci ;au.
fellow-subjects, we behold in the psi son of yoor Royal
Highness a Prince highly endowed, and ernir.,,n;,7
qualified to exercise the Regal duties—a Prince, ,4:,0
has so greatly endeared himself to the people, by
is s
moderation and forbearance on various trying , Ca.
sions, and the attachment he has so uniformly shelve
to their rights and lberties.
"Had indeed the desire andapectation ef theUni:e.:

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Kingdom been realited, by steseng m your Royal
Highness the hill powers of the executive authority,
we should have bad just cause for congratulation,
confident as we feel that those powers would have
beef wisely and beneficially exercisedi to enable us
to meet the extraordinary exigencies of se perilous a
crisis. Deeply impressed with a sense of the many
and great difficulties, which, with powers so limited,
your Royal Highness must have to encounter itothe
discharge of duties so arduous, and feeling towards
your Royal Highness the fullness of that loyal affec-
tion, which, in deeds as well as in words, we have so
long demonstrated towards your Royal Father and
Family, we would fain have forborne to cloud the
dawn of our intercourse with your Royal Highness
by even a glance at our grievances, manifold and
weighty as they are, but duty to our Sovereign, duty
to our Country, the example of our Forefathers, jus-
tice to Posterity, the fame ind the safety of the King-
dom, all, with voice imperious, forbid us to disguise
our thoughts, or to smother our feelings.
" Far be it from us, insulted as the Corporation
of this ancient (and, at all former times, respected)
City has recently been by the Servants of the Crown,
far be it from us to indulge in complaints of grievan-
ces peculiar to ourselves, ready and willing as we are,
to share in all the necessary burdens and all the dan-
gers of our country. It is of general grievances, grie-
vances sorely felt in all ranks of life; of accumulated
and ever.accumulating taxatien, rendered doubly gries
low by the oppressive mode of exaction, and of the in-
creased and increasing distress and misery therefrom
arising; of the improvident expenditure of the im-
mem* sums thus wrung from industry and labour •
of the waste of life, and of treasure, in ill-contrived
and ill-conducted expeditions ; of the attempts which,
fot many years past, and- especially within the last
three years, have been made, and with but tlso much
success, to crush public liberty in all its branches, and
especially the liberty of freely discussing the conduct
of public men, and the nature and tendency of public
measures.
" Can we refrain from humbly expressing our com-
plaints, when we have seen those Ministers who have"
so long usurped the Royal Authority, and who, it is
now discovered, have, by practising the most criminal
deception upon the Parliament and the People, carried
on the Government during his Majesty's former in-
capacity, exerting their influence to degrade the kingly
office ;—when we have seen measures adopted, evinc-.
ing the most unfounded jealousy and mistrust of your
Royal Highness—when we have seen the Prerogatives
of the Crown curtailed and withheld—when we have
seen a new Estate established in the realm, highly
dangerods and unconstitutional—when we have seen
poster, influence, and emolument, thus set apart to
controls! and embarrass the Executive Government,
at a time of such unprecedented difficnlty—when all
the energies of the State are necessary to enable us to,
surmount the dangers with which we are threatened,!
both at home and abroad—we confess that, feeling as
we do the most unbounded gratitude to your Royal
Highness, fot undertaking these arduous duties at a
moment of such peril, and under such circumstances,
we can discover no cause for congratulation ;—on the
contrary, we should be filled with dismay and the
most alarmirg apprehensions, were it not for the
known patriotism and amiable qualities, which your
Royal Highness possesses, and the resources which
we trust your Royal Highness will find, in the zeal,
ardour, affection and loyalty of a free and united
People.
" Numerous other grievances we forbear even to
mention ; but there is one so prominent in the odi-
ousness of its nature, as well as in the magnitude of
its mischievous consequences, that we are unable to
refrain from marking it out as a particular object of
our complaint and of your Royal Highness's virtuous
abhorrence—the present Representation in the Com-
mons
House of Parliament, a ready instrument in the
hands of the Minister for the time being, whether for
the purposes of nullifying the just prerogatives of the
Crown, or of insulting and oppressing. the People,
and a Reform in which. Representation is, therefore,
absolutely necessary for the safety of the Crown, the
happiness of the People, and the peace and indepen-
dence of the country.
" Reposing the fullest confidence in your Royal
Highness's beneficent views and intentions, we can
only deplore the present unfortunate state of things,
fully relying, that under circumstances so novel and
embarrasing,every measure which depends personally
upon your Royal Highness will be adopted towards
extricating us from our present difficulties, and for
promoting the peace, happiness, and security of the
country.
" Thus to mingle our expressions of confidence and
affection with the voice of complaint is grievous to
our hearts ; but, placing as we do, implicit reliance
on the constitutional pnnciples of your Royal High-
ness. we are cheesed with the hope, that such a change
of system will take place, as will henceforward, for
a long series of happy years, prevent your Royal
Highness from being greeted by the faithful and loyal
City of London in any voice, but that of content and
of gratitude.
bit Signed by Order of Court,H.RirwooDTiißre4ED
7O WHICB
ESa Hitt ROYAL HIGHNESS WAS
TO RETURN THE FOLLOWING MOST GRACIOUS ANSWER:
" I thank you for the assurances of your attach-
ment, and of your confidence in the sincerity of my
endeavours to promoteahe welfare and security of his
Majesty's dominions, by the faithful Administration
of those powers with which I am entrusted during the
lamented indisposition of the King.
" In the arduous situation in which I am placed,
I can assure you that it will be the happiest moment
of my life, when, by the blessing of PROVIDENCE, I
shall be called upon to resign the powers now dele-
gated to me into the hands of my beloved and revered
lather and Sovereign.
" My own disposition, no less than the example of
my Royal Father, will make me at all times ready to
listen to the complaints of those who may think them-
selves aggrieved ; and will determine me on all oc-
casions to regulate my conduct upon the established
principles of that antient and excellent Constitution,
under which the people of this country have hitherto
enjoyed a state of unrivalled prosperity and happiness."
The Lord Mayor and Citizens had afterwards the
honour to kiss his Royal Highness's hand.
His Royal Highness afterwards held a Privy Coun-
cil, which was attended by—
The Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Montrose, the Marquis
Wellesley, earls Camden, Westmoreland, Harrowby• Wincladl-