Star.
London, England, 1811-01-03 00:00:00

r USE OF LORDS, JANUARY S.
At Ater o'clock a number of Peers attended in their ple:es, and
the Lord Chancellor took his seat on the Woolsack.
After prayers were read, the
The Earl of Dartmouth (late Lord Lewisham) was sworn, and
took his seat in the room of his father, the late Earl.
No business being betore the House, and no communication
being made Irons the Commons, an adjournment (till to-morrow;
teak place.
Their Lordships stand summoned for Friday.

i HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Mr. LUSHINGTON presented himself at the bar
!of the House with the Report of the Committee on
the State of the Nation.
f The SPEAKER put the question " that the v
Re-
port be brought up."
Mr. MORRIS thought that a proper opportunity
for expressing his sentiments. After the very lumi-
nous exposition of all the precedents on the subject
which had been made by an Hon. Friend of his, be
felt not only that he was relieved from the necessity
of going into a detail on that bead, but that it would
' be presumption in him to take up the time of the
House. He should only observe, that in no former
Ilik. instance had restrictions been imposed of the nature
14 those now submitted to their approbation. He
'thought it proper to notice ,;Le statement that bad
• been made of a supposed Peerage having been created
by Parliament, It such was really the fact, it should
appear that restrictions of a similat nature had been
imposed on a former Regent. On looking closely
into the subject, it would be found that the Peerage
alluded to had been created in presence of Parliament, •On
of by Parliament, but by the authority of the Regent
and his Council. From the circumstances of the
times. to which such ft equent reference had been made,
the precedents brought forward had less influence on
his mind-than those of a more recent date, such as
the Succession Act, passed in the reign of Queen
Anne, and the Regency Acts, as modemthe reign of
^Second, and in that of the present King.
provision was made for a Regency in
Ince, there was a probability that the
Regent would expire in one month—
t, as its duration was but to occupy
I igh? elapse, before the King could
,ver ; yet the power of creating peers
In the acts of the late and present
fictive provisions bad been thought
;hose precedents with him outweighed
r 1788. The distinction made wee,
Imes a provision had been made for.
.egency, but that be contended bad no
niestion before them ; what he main-
there should be no irititatlon of the
the mode in which it should be ex-
question. In the present instance,
all hands, that the'Prince of Wales
:egent. It was admitted that he
(ought to have power to dissolve a factious I-louse of
aCommons, and on the same constitutional principle
that gave him that power the Constitution gave him
the right of creating Peers to prevent undue influence.
-against the measures in the Howie of Lords. 'They
were not justified in legislating on individual charac.
ter, that ought on both sides to be left entirely out of
the question. This, however, had not been done ;-a
as while they Were told they ought not to suffer them-
selves to be influenced by any consideration of the
' virtues of the Prince, Ministers brought forward per
tonal considerations on their own side of the question.
Be could not but think the restrictions proposed were
insulting to his Royal Highness, without answering
any one good purpose, as while they betrayed a sus.
picion that theerust confided to him would be abused,:
1 they did not effectually guard against the abuse. He
had no difficulty in giving his assent to the amended
resolution as it stood ; but if it went to girt the Coun-
' eil a right of deciating the restoration of the King to
competence independent of Parliament, he should
think his duty called upon him. to give it all the oppo-
sition in his power.
Mr. P. MOORE, after duly considering the sub-
ject, rose, authorised by iris constituents, who had
' ed lresaed him on the subject, to protest in the strong-
est manner against the proceedings of Ministers. The
point to which their attention ought to be directed
t'ac. to the. restoration of the esecutave power without
delay. He had voted in his place for two of the ad-
journments, and in doing so he had been sorry to find
lie differed from many of his Honourable Friends,
Ind in particular he regretted that he differed from
his Hen. friend the Member for Bedford, far whose
strong understanding, and accurate judgment, he brad
always felt the greatest deference, while his unsullied
integrity, in public and private life, entitled himeo
admiration In that instance, however, he had thought
him wrong, but on looking. more closely into the re.
ports of the Physicips, he had found that he himself
head been wrong, aa that his Hon. ft iend was right.
Ministers had imposed on the Public, and, from the
reports, he- now found that advantages had been,
taken of the infirmities of his Majesty, and that every
one had been allowed to put his hand in the public.
parse .without controul, and phice it to the account of
the Royal Prerogative. This system had been carried
on so far, that a poor man in Ireland, who had been
long imprisoned without cause, was stopped short
when alanit to disclose some such tranaacttons, and
tall, " You will nut be allowed to speak ateainst
Lord Hardwicke's Administration." lie wished the
/louse to see how many petitions had been granted—
tow many warrants h:td been issued within the period
ia which he alluded : no less a sum than £iCat,4B,ooo '
lied been so disposed of, and acquittances givento the
,parties. This fraud had been committed on the pub-
lic ; he could prove it, and if called upon, he would
'read the proofs (which were in his possession) to the
}louse. The Hon. Gentleman here expressed his
grief on account of the cal unity which had fallen on
The Kirr,, and proceeded to observe, that great pains
had been taken to represent his subjects as disaffected
mohrebellious, at.a time when their conduct was dis-
tiaguislied by the most patient sufferance and by the
si:cerest affection. This too had been done at a time
when their petitions could not reach the Monarch,
when it was impossible for them to get beyond the
desk in the Secretary of State's Office. In the
year Ir'2, a message had'been# sent to the- House,
which represented the country- to be in a state of
insurrection ; since which ,period he could peon a
continual system. of fraud ou the public roitid had •
been acted upon. 1.4 this solirce, and to the 4is.

PARLIAMENTARY PitOCEEDIkGS.

.ttnne, anu ule ixegc
George the Second,
At the time a provi
be former instance,
thority of the Reg
n one week in short,
e period which mi
mite from Hannvc
as not withheld.
ign no such restric
ecessary, and those
he preceden.s of
that in those instant
Council of Regen<
aring on the quest
fined was, that the
Royal Authority ;
rcised was another
it was agreed. on al
should be sole Reg