Star.
London, England, 1811-02-04 00:00:00

THE REGENCY.

It is now understood that his Royal Highness the
PRINCE of IVALEs means to make no change what-
ever in the Administration. The motives which have
led to ;ilk determination do great honour to his
E,,.•.1 Highness, and to those Noble Personages who
have °Len admitted to his confidence. In the first
inwancti, his Royal Highness had thought it his
dot', in the contemplation of having the affairs of
the Realm committed to his charge for a length of
time, and in a way which might have enabled him to
exercise his judgment in the administration of the
Royal Authority for the honour of his MAJITYY'S
Crown, and the best interests of the people, to lay
tis commands on Lord Gazaritux and Lord GREY,
to make an arrangement for a Council that should
possess his entire confidence ; and it is known that ,
these Noble Lords undertook the task ; fully sensible
of the arduous duties they had to fulfil, but with a con-
fident expectation that their exertions, under the re-
straint which had been imposed on the Regent, would
be duly appreciated by the country ; and at the same
time with an earnest hope, that the prospect of a
speedy return of his MAJESTY to the personal exer-
cie of his royal functions :would make their services
unnecessary.

It had accordingly been their tin:form advice to his
Ito) al Highness (and in which he mcst cute. I,lv con-
curred) that when the time should come for his being
called en to take upon himself the duties of the Regal
Office, in the name of the KING, he should examine
the Physicians to satisfy his own mind, and be go.
verned accordingly, in the full conviction that there
might be more detriment to the public interests in a
temporary change of system, than even in the conti-
nuance for a short time, of what they deem an erro-
neous system. This examination has actually taken
place at Carlton House. The Physicians have been
severally and successively examined by the Prince's
Chancellor, in the presence of his Royal Highness;
and we understand that the result of that enquiry is,
that though they cannot speak with any greater degree
of certainty than at their examinat ons before the two
Houses, as to the precise time when it may be ex-
pected that his MAJESTY could safely return to the
exercise of his Royal Functions—whether it is proba-
ble that he should be able to return at the end of two
months or of three months—yet they all concur in ex-
pressing their confident belief in his ultimate recovery.
In consequence of this opinion, we understand the
PRINCE sent a message to Lord GRENVILLE and Lord
GREY, at a late hour on Friday night, announcing to
them his determination not to make any change of
Ministers at this time. The message was conveyed
by Mr. Aroma and Lord HUTCHINSON, and was ex-
pressed in the most handsome terms of approbation
of their conduct, and of thanks for the readiness with
winch they had yielded to his rarest to form an ar-
rangement, if circumstances should Make it proper
for him to interpose his own judgment, on the mea-
sures proper to be pursued at the present crisis ; and
concluding with a declaration of his unabated confi-
aenee in their wisdom and ability, to conduct the
A dminiAration upon principles the most advantageous
to the Crov.,a and People.
The whole nation, we are confident, will conenr
in respecting add applauding the filial and affectionate
motives of reverence to his Royal Father, which have
in.luenced his Royal Highness to take this step.—
Vac Noble Lords, we understand, received the inti-
mation in a way corresponding with their high cha-
:acter and their just sense of the public interests--
They had the honour cf a long audience of the PRINCE
st Carlton House yesterday, when he was graciously
r:Lased personally to renew the assurances of his per-
r-ct esteem and confidence.

After the audience of Lord Gitzwvitze and Lord
GREY, his Royal Highness gave an audience to the
Duke of YORK, and to Lord HOLLAND and Mr. PON-.
`f):.BY. The PRINCE had also a long examination of
Dr. BAILLIE and Dr. REYNOLDS, on the state of his
MAJES7 Y'S indisposition.

We understand tbdt the PRINCE has transmitted a
later to the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, an•
wonting his define to make few or rather no changes
is the present Administration. Of course we may
h9pe, whatever arrangements they may have made in
the contemplation of retiring from office, that they
till now meet the wishes of the Regent, and heartily
£./e his Royal Highness and the country the benefit
GI kit most zealous exertions for the servies of the
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4 The proceedings which NM& to be pursued on
the Regency Bill are few. The Resolution for put-
ting the Groat Seal to the Bill, though unwarroated
by any precedent, or by any analogy in the books,
will pass the two Houses this day ; and the Regent
may be sworn in before the Privy Council to-morrow.
It will be then for Mr. PERCIVAL and his friends to
submit to his Royal Highness their further plan of
proceedings ; but whether they will propose to him a
short prorogation, or only an adjournment for a day
or two, we shall not, from obvious motives of delicacy,
presume to anticipate.

• A letter from the army in Portugal, dated the 16th
ultimo, received this morning, via Plymouth, states
that to that date no new engagement had taken place;
but that the probability of a dreadful conflict seemed
every day to increase. In the mean time, the corps
under ROMANA had received a considerable reinforce-

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ment of Spaniards, but by what route they had come
is not stated. The British and Portuguese had all
retired within their lines, except a division to the right.
This morning we received a Cadiz Mail ; but the
accounts by it arc not of the first importance. The,
Cortes has published a Decree, declaring null all the
acts done or to be done by FERDINAND, since he was
kidnapped by the French. The Spanish Papers are,'
Its usual, filled with details of skirmishes, in which•
they seem to have been partially successful.