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profess to cmbrafee them with greater purity * Thei ? tfm € e was expected to go down in great state to the parlia . ment , to open it in the usual man * ner , but he wisely forebore every species of ostentation ,, and the
parliament was opened by commissioners , who delivered tbe usual speech in his name . It contained the unfeigned sorrow of the Regent for the cause which called them
together in this : unusual manner , his confidence in their support , and his * determination to aGt as he could for the benefit of the country , with- the powers with which he was invested * The successes
in the last defence of Sicily , affairs in ^ Spain and Portugal , discussions with the United-, States were touched upon ; The Comfnons were informed , that the accpunts of the year would be laid
before them , in which some diminution- of revenue would appear from 4 he difficulties in commerce and their liberality in supplies was hoped foi * . The speech closed with the anxious wish of
the v Regent to restore as soon as possible his delegated power to the sovereign , whose calamity was so sensibly felt by the nation , bat by none more than himself . An address was moved in the
House of Lords , which as usual was only an echo to the speech . Lord jGrenville expressed his surprise , that no allusion was piade to the state of bullion in the
country , and Lord Radnor complained of the coldness of its language towards the Regent . In the Commons little more passed , as there seemed to be little disposition to enter upon any points that might excite discussion : Sir Francis Biirdett indeed pointed out the
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impropriety of laying aside fhe custom € > f ' reading the speech on the preceding night to members , that they might have an opportunity of making up their minds on the principal topics , and on the
Regent ' s not meeting his parliament , he made an apt allusion to Sir John Falstaff ' s ragged , regiment of xecruits , comparing them to the ministry , of whom the
Regent must be as much ashamed as the knjght was of his troops , whert he refused to march through Coventry with them . On that day also Mr . Whitbread gave' notice of his intention to take the
subject of the royal indisposition in 1804 , into consideration , and Sir J ^ rancisBurdett questioned the ministers on the case of a foreigner confined between one . and two
years in the Cold Bath Fields prison , having been inveigled on board our ships and brought to England , after a detention of some time irv a dungeon at Heligoland . The ministers professed
ignorance of the subject , but on a subsequent day , the first Lord of the Admiralty acknowledged , that a man had been brought to England by Lord Stuart , and some time after , on the motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer , a
committee was appointed , of which Sir Francis is one , to inquire into the circumstances attending this extraordinary transaction . Till thei whola is developed , we must suspend our judgment : but we cannot conceive how . it is , that a man can have been confined for
so long a time in England , unknown to the public , and the matter deserves the most serious investigation ; for what security has any individual in this over any other country , if he may be taken
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1811, page 117, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2413/page/53/
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