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interests © JLthe ^ country , as ^ ev valued the fenil ^ s ^ ng . in terests pi to ^ . K ^ qg * . to concur hi the ^ rhotion \ of , acijo ^ rftnnerJt . JIarl Stanhope , ^ q repl y * asXexl Sie , dOr ble lord / as a lawyer , whether h £ would in his own court consent to receive a fact without evi 4 £ rrf e ? . He had , he saicV r $ ad niore law than tlie nofcile
baron , and vvowld tejj _ him > that tbere was no law Jn the . l ^ nd to justify the assumption of so important a fact . The Duke of Sussex gave two reasons for resisting the , adjournment ; the first because adtourruce ^ die in diem was nwre agreeable / to our constitution ; the second ^ tliat by the latter proceeding it would ie ; ascertained in whose care his
majesty was to , be . piacecL-Jn the unfortunate event of the continuance of his malady . On , a division , there appeared for jLord Spencer ' s amendment fiftyfive , and against it eighty-eight , and of course the original motion for adjournment : passed . ,
The Houses met again on the 15 th , and the Cornrnons appointed a committee to exaiTiine the pKysicians , and in the Lords it was determined , that a committee should be formed on the next
day for th ~ same purpose . On the i / th the report ' waii brought up and ordered to be printed , and the Chancellor of the Exchequer moved , that the House should be called over " on Thursday , and form itself into a committee on the
state of the nation . " He declared his intension of tften moving , first , that the King / was unable to discharge the duties of the Jungly , office , secondly , that it was the duty of the Hou ^ e to see that that office Wu 8 properly filled ; and thirdly , that it was necessary to provide for the < U : ehar ^ e of the kiugly cflicc by
way of bill to pass through both Houses of Parliament . Air PojisoubyN declared hib iutentioa ; f resistijp g the third motion . . rv . r Sheridan suggested in preference to the third . rocttipn , an address to the Prince of Wales to undertake the oflice of regent ^ under the , cpn fidenc& thai he \ yould sqntsnt to sue h
limitatioris as to the two Hopes should sceij ^ meet- / 1 "he ChanL ^ llor of the Excjjcciuer , stat ^ 4 in rep ^ y ^ tjiat he should on xhc app 9 intqd 4 ay e , nidea , y ; pur to persuade the conimittt ; e ^ U ) at his xnta ^ ure woulu hot prove derogatory j ; q the foy ~ al dl nityf .. jn ^ u iting . ) t j O th ^ 1 rincc " ' ' of Wales .,. or ipepn ^ , ^ ten l vifith tl >^ iutcgrij ^ . Qf JJw ^ W ^^^ ffP ^ " fhc ' ^( oMse a ^ r ^ ^ pli ^
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natiop of the pfey ^ ciwjs yr&k printed atwi brought fprth t ? t ) Jlie extraordinaryfacts relative to fche indisposition , and it was evident &frtn it that a regency niust be established On the Tfcnrsday , Mr : Perceval , agreeably to his » otice ^ proffered his three , rerolutions ^ in . the second a . curious clause appeared , * tp ^ akitig of the two Houses now assembkd , as -. ** iaw ^ -
fu 11 y , fuJ i y and f reely r ^ spreseating all the estates , of the paaplc of thI * realm . ' * This representation will he allowed to be just or not , aycorcUitg as the words are defined ; but if . thf ^ e persons , who have not votes for merubers of Pacliament , farm an estaee i « the kingdom ^ we should be glad to kneyv by whom in
the Houses of . Lords or Commejns , they are represented . The three resolutions were prefaced by a long tirade on the public and private virtues of the sovereign , and the necessity of adhering to the precedent in i ? 8 £ . The Prince . of Wales was acknowledged to b ^ the pFOper person to cxeicise the ofliceof regent , the Queen to have the care of the royal
person , the regency to be continued during the disorder , bet it * powers to be limited for twelve months , in which time the power of granting rank in the state to be suspended ^ and no offices to be given away , but what were absolutely nece s sary aud subject to future revision . The whole to be done by bill * according to the precedent in I 7 ^ B .
On the second resolution b ^ j ng put , Sir F . Burdett declared it impo $ stble for him to gi ^ ye his assent to a pro position , stating that House to be a body o £ representation , legally , fully and frctly , when the fact was notorious of the corruption that prevailed in the representation . He could not for himself see
how the r ^ g ht had devolved to the House of fiUing up the present chasm : at the Revolution & very different form was iuloptt d , and eurcly that precedent ou < iht to be of greater weight than the strange proceedings in 1783 . If the House fully an < J freely represented the people , womM they feel any difficulty i »
appealing to the sense of the people ? He would not say that the Prince of Wa ) $$ had a right , t © th « regency > since there was no law or * the subject to con * fer theN right on any oo < ; but certainly the House of Conurtoiiy had far less prttp « signs ^ o the cf > ^« rnxne * it o £ the country than the jpifioce * ^ FoO « l the cxamitrAtiyjeh ^ Ji |^ 9 p ^ frfiici ^ iflihetobkcrr *
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615 ^ State ofgtiblic Affairs
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1810, page 616, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2411/page/44/
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