and Commons addressing his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to take upon himself the civil, military, and financial administration of the Government, until the proposed Regency Bill shall have acquired the form and authority of an Act of Parliament. WOODTHORPE. highly dangerous and unconstitutional, establishing a new Estate in the_realm, to controul and counteract the Executive Government, and tending to render it feeble and inefficient, at a time when the state of the nation peculiarly requires its full energies.-6. Resolved, That we, therefore, view with concern and indigna LONDON.— Resolutions of the Livery, 9th Jan. tion the attempts which are made to de 1811. 1 SMITH, MAYOR.-In a Meeting or Assembly of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Liverymen of the several Companies of the City of London, in Common Hall assembled, at the Guildhall of the said City, on Wednesday, the 9th day of January, 1811. grade the Kingly Office, and to render it dependent upon those Ministers, who have so long abused the confidence of the Sovereign, who have uniformly shewn a marked contempt for public opinion, whose whole career has been a series of incapacity, misconduct, and violation of the Constitution: who have added to the catalogue of their crimes by usurping the Royal Authority, and who, not content with having engrossed patronage and emolument, and secured to themselves and ad Resolved unanimously, That the end and design of all Government is, or ought to be, the good of the people-that the Prerogatives of the Crown are vested in the King, as a sacred trust for their bene-herents a profusion of pensions and sinefit.-2. Resolved unanimously, That it is, therefore, equally their duty to guard, by every Constitutional means, against all encroachments and innovations upon the just and necessary Powers and Prerogatives of the Crown, as to oppose those encroachments and innovations which have so notoriously been made upon the Representative Branch of our Constitution.-3. Resolved unanimously, That, anxious as we are, to remove from the Government every species of unjust influence, equally injurious to King and People, and to promote a system of general reform, especially in that Branch of the Legislature, the corrupt state of which has been the great source of all our national calamities, the Commons House of Parliament; we, nevertheless, feel equally anxious to maintain the real splendour and dignity of the Crown, and all its just and necessary Powers and Prerogatives.-4. Resolved unanimously, That, deeply lamenting the afflicting incapacity of our most gracious Sovereign, by which the functions of the Executive Government have been suspended, we derive a cheering consolation in contemplating the many amiable qualities of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the attachment he bas invariably evinced for the Rights and Liberties of the People, affording the Nation the best grounds of confidence of seeing the Royal Functions wisely and ably exercised.-5. That, impressed with these considerations, we cannot but view all attempts to abridge the Royal Authority, and impose Restrictions upon the Regent. in the person of his Royal Highness, as cures, are now endeavouring to retain an unconstitutional power and influence, which would enable them to embarrass and impede the Executive Government in all its operations, and render it subject to their controul.-7. Resolved unanimously, That the command over his Majesty's Seals, assumed and exercised by the two Houses of Parliament in the late instance of ordering an issue of treasure from his Majesty's Exchequer, appears to us subversive of the independence, and dangerous to the existence of the regal part of our Government, and that to prevent the necessity of having again recourse to such perilous expedients, and of thereby confirming and extending still further this alarming precedent, it is the opinion of this Meeting that in the present suspension of the exercise of the Royal Authority, the most constitutional mode of proceeding would be to imitate the glorious example of our ancestors in 1688, by the two Houses of Parliament addressing his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to take upon himself the civil, military, and financial Administrations of the Government.-8. Resolved unanimously, That this Common Hall do petition the Right Honourable the House of Lords, and the Hon. the House of Commons, agreeably to the foregoing Resolutions.-[The Drafts of the Petitions being read, were unanimously agreed to.]-9. Resolved unanimously, That the said Petition be signed by the Lord Mayor, four Aldermen, and ten Liverymen.-10. Resolved unanimously, That the Sheriff's do wait upon, and request some Lord in Par longer. any thing but a single corner, where it is still able to fan the flame of discord and of civil dissentions.-England blockades the ports of Europe; she pa liament to present the said Petition to the mistake its true interests,' you know, GenRight Hon. the House of Lords.-11. Re- tlemen, that the cause must be sought for solved unanimously, That Mr. Alderman in the perfidious machinations of that GoCombe, one of the Representatives of this vernment, the enemy of Europe, which, City in Parliament, be requested to pre-repelled and menaced on all sides, has no sent the said Petition to the Hon. the House of Commons.-12. Resolved unanimously, That the Representatives of this City in Parliament, be instructed to sup. port the said Petition in the House of Com-rades upon the seas her ships, every where mons, and to oppose all attempts to abridge and fetter the Regent with restrictions. 13. Resolved unanimously, That the Thanks of this Common Hall be given to Thomas Smith, Esq. Alderman, our late worthy Chief Magistrate, for his very able, upright, and independent conduct, during the time the ardent and important duties of that Office were confided to him, wherein he evinced the most kind and friendly attention to his fellow-citizens, a dignified and unostentatious hospitality, a strict impartiality on all occasions, and a constant regard for the rights, liberties, and franchises of this City.-14. Resolved unanimously, That the Thanks of this Common Hall be given to Robert Waithman, Esq. who moved, and Samuel Faveil, Esq. who seconded the several Resolutions which have been agreed to this day.-15. Re-tlemen, at the voice of his Majesty, marisolved unanimously, That the Thanks of this Common Hall be given to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, for his readiness in calling this Meeting, and his impartial conduct in the Chair this day. the objects of reprobation; she seeks openings for the produce of her manufactures, piled up in the, warehouses of her dismayed inhabitants. Her criminal system is recognized; her snares have lost their effect; the nations at last know how to appreciate both her fatal alliance and her disastrous services.-Amidst the calm which his Majesty has re-established in the empire and in Europe, he is occupied with the amelioration of his marine; and his genius suggests to him efficaciousmeans for opposing to his enemies upon the seas, numerous fleets, animated, like his veteran and formidable phalanxes, with a desire at last to conquer an universal peace. The will of his Majesty shall be always that of destiny; for power and genius never will in vain.-Already, Gen time establishments are created; our coasts the extent of which is augmented, are every where defended by courage and fortified by art; the arsenals are provided with necessary materials! ships are rising in our ports, and our fleets will one day FRANCE.-Report to the Senate by the Country their strength with those of the ene sellor of State, Count Cuffarelli, relative to a Marine Conscription, 15th December, 1810. SENATORS; We are commissioned by his Majesty to present to you the projet of a Senatus Consultum, in which you will take pleasure in remarking the character of public utility, of energy, and of foresight, which belongs to the vast conceptions of his Majesty.The empire enjoys the most profound peace; the nations which surround it, deeply convinced that the surest pledge of their repose will constantly be found in their alliance with the French people, every day draw closer the ties which unite them to it, and appear to constitute only one and the same great family, by their sentiments towards the august chief of France.-And if the horrors of war still desolate the extremities of Europe, if the misled portion of a neighbouring nation, agitated by factions, still my, and reign upon the seas.-But to arm has felt that he stood in need of seamen. these vessels, to equip them, his Majesty Those who at present man his squadrons, would not be sufficient for the greatness of his plans; new means are necessary for new views.-Commerce and the fisheries, which were wont to furnish seamen for the State, are at present too inconsiderable, and a new system must be forthwith resorted to for supplying the wants of the country.-At the voice of his Majesty there issues from the maritime. departments, a crowd of young men, who, being at once sailors andsoldiers, will shew themselves worthy rivals of those who have raised so high the glory of the arms of the Empire. We shall now unfold to you Gentlemen, the basis of that Institution, from which his Majesty expects the most advantageous resuits.-The Emperor has perceived that the mode of conscription can alone procure for the marine those re the experience which they will acquire in the navigation of the coasts and in the roads, will not be so great as that communicated by distant expeditions; but they they will see and will vanquish its difficulties; they will acquire a taste for it, even in this way, that it will present to them obstacles which they will have to surmount; and in a few years they will be fit to serve in a more useful manner on same time that his Majesty projected means for training to himself seamen, he has ordered the necessary measures for forming the officers who are to command Every thing is connected in his conceptions; their whole always bears the impression of the genius who presides over the prosperity of the Empire. Projet of the Senatus Consultum. Art. I. The coast-districts of the thirty departments hereafter named shall cease to contribute to the conscription for the land army, and shall be reserved for the conscription for the sea-service. sources in men which it requires; but he has felt that this mode could not be extended through the whole of our territory, for the inclinations of men are generally the fruit of their habits. Thus, the inha-will thus be familiarised with their state, bitant of the towns of the interior never sees the sea or seamen; a stranger to that "element, to that mode of life, he forms to himself only a monstrous idea of it: he prefers the land-service, for which the innumerable victories of our armies have already excited his early enthusiasm.-board the ships of his Majesty.-At the The inhabitant of the coast, on the contrary, from his earliest years is hearing the sea-service talked of; around him every thing presents the image of it; while yet a child he gambols in that ele-them. ment, upon which he will one day brave the storm and the battle. Born on coasts adjacent to those of the enemy, he feels the necessity of defending them, because he has to protect his family and his property. He is actuated more than any other with the feeling of resistance to aggression; he is at once a man and a citizen. It is from the maritime departments, then, that the marine must be recruited; it is from the line of coasts that must be 11. The following are the thirty departmade the selection of men destined to ments in which the maritime districts shall serve on the sea. But the profession of be reserved -Maritime Alps, Appenthe seaman is liable to so many vicissitudes nines, Aude, Mouths of the Rhone, Calvaand dangers, that it is necessary to com- dos, Lower Charente, Coasts of the North, mence it from the most tender ge, when Dyle, the Scheldt, Finisterre, Gard, Gethe organs are docile, the body flexible, noa, Gironde, Herault, Ile and Vilaine, and habits are contracted without difi. Landes, Lower Loire, Lys, Manche,, Monculty. It is necessary that the mariner tencate, Morbiban, Two Nethers, Nord, should be early accustomed to peril, and Far de Calais, Lower Pyrennees, Eastern learn to face it with a smile.--Young Pyrennces, Lewer Seine, Somme, Var, saliers shall therefore be selected at the Veudee.-III. Ten thousand conscripts of age of from 13 to 16; if younger, the State each of the classes of 183, 1814, 1815, would wait too long before it enjoyed and 1816, shall be immediately placed attheir services; if older, the physical con- the disposal of the Minister of Marine." stitution of man could only be bent with IV. The present Senatus Consultum shall difficulty to all the toils of seamanship.be transmitted in a message to his Majesty Here it is our duty to communicate one of those fine thoughts of the Emperorthat of initiating from the present moment, these young conscripts, in the career which they are destined to run.---His Majesty has formed crews for ships, and crews for flotillas. The former, composed of experienced mariners, will man the ships; for the latter, his Majesty is fitting out in his ports small vessels, commanded by skilful officers; on board which will be exercised in manoeuvres, in steering, in the use of arms, those young scamen, whom the Senatus Consultum, which we present, summons to the honour of serving their country. Doubtless, Gentlemen, the Emperor and King. FRANCE.--Address of the Conservative Senate to the Emperor, in answer to his Message, of the 10th of Dee. 1810, relative to the Marine and Military conscription. The Conservative Senate, assembled in the number of members prescribed by Article XC of the Act of the Constitution of 1799, having taken into its considera-. tion the Message of his Majesty the Emperor and King of the 10th of December, and the Report of their Special Commission thereon, decrees that the following Address be presented to his Majesty by the 2 this new tie of nations.-The conscripts of 1911, under the impulse of honour, of affection, and of gratitude, will, with, a proud satisfaction, range themselves around your triumphant eagles, and esteem themselves honoured in paying the glorious tribute which every Frenchman owes to his Sovereign and his country.-It is evident that your Majesty's paternal heart feels regret in demanding this tribute, but you have wherewith to console yourself in the reflection that the prosperous situation of your finances will allow you not to require any sacrifices from your people. homage of their devotedness, love and unshaken fidelity, only express to you sentiments which are felt by all your subjects. FRANCE.-Report of a Committee in the Conservative Senate upon the subject of the annexation of Holland and the Hans Towns to France.-13th Dec. 1810. President and Secretaries;-Sire,-The depth and extent of your plans, the candour and generosity of your policy, and your constant anxiety for the prosperity of your subjects, have never been mauifested more strongly than in your Imperial and Royal Majesty's message to the Senate.-The Orders of the British Council have not only rent in pieces the public law of Europe, but have also violated those natural laws, which are as old and as eternal as the globe. Nature herself has placed the seas beyond the dominion of man. He may pass over, but he cannot maintain possession of them; and to affect-The Senate, Sire, in offering you the to rule an element which surrounds the habitable globe on every side, is nothing less than a daring attempt to hold the old 'and the new world in captivity, and to fix a disgraceful mark of slavery on all mankind. Such is the sacrilegious attempt against which your Majesty unites all the 'efforts in your power. Justly indignant Europe applauds and seconds you.-Already does this restless and turbulent Government, which had excited five succes- Senators, The Committee to whom you sive coalitions against France, destroyed referred the projet of a Senatus Consultum, in a moment by your victorious arms, see relative to the annexation of Holland and all the nations of the Continent leagued the Hans Towns to the French territory, against her, and her vessels repelled from have charged me to lay before you the every port. It can no longer keep up motives which call for the adoption of its internal circulation but by a fictitious measures of so great an interest.-Durmedium, or its foreign trade but by smug-ing the course of the labours of the Comgling. The only allies which it has on earth are fanaticism and sedition.-Persevere, Sire, in this sacred war, undertaken for the honour of the French name and the independence of nations. The day on which this war ends will be the era of the peace of the world.-The measures proposed by your Majesty will accelerate that period; since your only enemies are to be found on the ocean, it is necessary for you to render yourself master of all the ports by which the ocean has communication with the interior provinces of your empire.-In the midst of these military and political operations, your benevolent solicitude has inspired you with the idea of reviving that northern trade, which has been for so long a time the fruitful source of encouragement and prosperity to French industry. The productions of the South of the Empire will be conveyed by safe and easy routes into the ports of the Baltic, and the knots of the treaty of Tilsit will be drawn closer by mittee, one leading idea principally im- Published by R. BAGSHAW, Brydges-Street, Covent Garden :-Şold also by J. EUDD, Pall-Mall, LONDON :-Printed by T. C. Hantard, Peterborough-Court, Fleet-Street, VOL. XIX. No. 5.] LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1811. [Price 1s. [98 prompted me, from dutiful affection to 66.68 my beloved Father and Sovereign to "have shewn all the reverential delicacy towards him inculcated in these Resolutions, I cannot refrain from expressing my regret that I should not ""have been allowed the opportunity of manifesting to his afflicted and loyal subjects that such would have been my "" conduct." Were his Royal Highness so situated as to have advisers officially responsible for his conduct, I would speak of this passage in very strong "terms of disapprobation, considering it "" as their language. As it is, I shall only "lament he should have any persons about "him, capable of advising the adoption of "such sentiments, the meaning of which "is, that his Royal Highness should be " granted unlimited authority on the faith "of his personal abilities and virtues, " rather than of law and restraint, the unerr" ing marks, the indispensible props of a free "state. All arguments which bring the "conduct of the Government home to the "Prince in person, holding him personally THE REGENCY.In another part of this Number it will be seen, that a Deputation from the Two Houses have waited on the Prince of Wales and the Queen, and presented to them the RESOLUTIONS finally agreed to in the House, relative to the Regency. To the communication, thus made, there is the answer of His Royal Highness, accepting (with a declaration of adherence to his principles" formerly expressed) of the office of Regent, as limited by those resolutions. And, from the Queen, there is an answer, accepting of the portion of power (for power it is) allotted to her. Both are inserted. Upon these answers I should have made no remark at all, had there not appeared, on the part of the MEAN, MERCENARY and MALIGNANT men an article, in the COURIER news-paper of the 14th instant, which calls for animadvertion--The object of this article mani. festly is to add, if possible to the embarrassments, which his Royal Highness will have to encounter. It is as full of poison as the asp-like author could make it.———— It professes to lament the bad advice which the Prince has received; it calls the answer an ungracious answer; and it resorts to the meanest of the sophistry and quirkery, in use amongst the meanest of law-" yers, in order to give a false colour to the conduct of the Prince. But, I must insert the whole article; for, it is right, that the world should see, and that we should have upon record, the means that these MEAN men have resorted to, and are making use of upon this occasion; these MEAN men, who take to themselves the exclusive appellation of " King's friends," who brand us with the names of Jacobins and Levellers, and who would now tear the kingly office to atoms, because they suppose (and, I hope, truly,) that it will not be exercised for their private advantage. -When the reader has gone through this article with attention, he will indulge me while I offer a few remarks upon it. "His Royal Highness, or rather perhaps, his advisers, say, " conscious that "every feeling of my heart would have forward as the prime mover of public "measures, seem to me inconsistent with "the principles of our Constitution. "But the censure of the provisions made by Parliament, while obedience is yield"ed to the main decision, is the most to be, lamented. The King has uniformly "bowed to the wishes of Parliament, never in "language reproving their conduct; and this "has been the secret of the strength of his "Government. Nay the Burdett rabble "seem to have thought that the King acted "improperly in daring to convey an indirect "censure of the designs of the Corporation "of London. A year ago, when the City "addressed the Throne respecting the "Walcheren Expedition, and the King "answered, that he confided in the wisdom "of his Parliament, the streets rung with "invective. But now the Prince may rebuke the united Houses of Parliament, "solemnly delegated before his person, "in very broad terms, without animad" version. To the mob any thing lowering "the Parliament, from whatever quarter it " comes, seems to be agreeable.- The Prince says he still retains every opis F |