majorities, through both houses of parliament. In the House of Peers the resolutions were debated with as much acrimony as in the House of Commons; and when they were finally carried, by a majority of 99 against 66, a spirited protest was entered on the lord's journals, signed by two princes of the blood (the Dukes of

3000l. a year?-Is not his brother-in-law, Mr. Elliot, made by him clerk of the pells, a place of 1800l. a year for life?-Was not his cousin, Lord Camelford, made a peer; and Lord Elliot, whose son had married his sister, a peer likcwise? -Do you know to what length he would have gone, unless stopped by the king's malady?— and are you resolved he shall never be stopped?

"Do not those who compose the faction you support in both houses consist of Pitt, Thurlow, Dundas, John Robinson, and a corrupt and degenerate confederacy of placemen, pensioners, jobbers, and old hacks of the court and the rest of the supporters and betrayers of all parties for twenty-eight years; and are they not directly aiming to hold to themselves, by force, their places, pecuniary profits, power, and influence, at the risque of the destruction of the crown, and the ruin of the kingdom."

York and Cumberland) and forty-six peers of the realm.

The object of Mr. Pitt, which was to secure to his own party the lucrative places they held in the royal household, and thereby perpetuate his influence in the two houses of parliament, being now completely obtained, on the 30th of December he addressed the following letter to the Prince of Wales, containing the outlines of his plan of the proposed regency.

"SIR,

"The proceedings in parliament being now brought to a point, which will render it necessary to propose to the House of Commons the particular measures to be taken for supplying the defect of the personal exercise of the royal authority during the present interval, and your royal

highness having some time since signified your pleasure, that any communication on this subject should be in writing, I take the liberty of respectfully intreating your royal highness's permission to submit to your consideration the outlines of the plan, which his majesty's confidential servants humbly conceive (according to the best judgment which they are able to form) to be proper to be proposed in the present circumstances.

"It is their humble opinion, that your royal highness should be empowered to exercise the royal authority in the name and on the behalf of his majesty, during his majesty's illness, and to do all acts, which might legally be done by his majesty; with provisions nevertheless, that the care of his majesty's royal person, and the management of the royal household,

and the direction and appointment of the offices and servants therein, should be in the queen, under such regulations as may be thought necessary.

"That the power to be exercised by your royal highness should not extend to the granting the real or personal property of the King (except as far as relates to the renewal of leases), to the granting of any office in reversion, or to the granting, for any other term than during his majesty's pleasure, any pension, or any other office whatever except such as must by law be granted for life, or during good behaviour; nor to the granting any rank or dignity of the peerage of this realm to any person except his majesty's issue, who shall have attained the age of twenty-one years.

"These are the chief points which have occurred to his majesty's servants.

I beg leave to add, that their ideas are formed on the supposition that his majesty's illness is only temporary, and may be of no long duration. It may be difficult to fix beforehand the precise period for which these provisions ought to last; but if unfortunately his majesty's recovery should be protracted to a more distant period than there is reason at present to imagine, it will be open hereafter to the wisdom of parliament, to reconsider these provisions, whenever the circumstances appear to call for it.

"If your royal highness should be pleased to require any further explanation on the subject, and should condescend to signify your orders, that I should have the honour of attending your royal highness for that purpose, or to intimate any other mode in which your royal highness may wish