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PROTES P Against agreeing to the Resolution to, pet the Great Seal to a Commission (o pussy the feegency Bull, Tissentient, is). Because having disapproved of the state of anarchy in which this country has been kept for three months, and which might have been prevented by following the precedent “of 1688, [cannot agree to this measure for terminating it, which I consider to be unconstitutional ail legal; as by ordering this Conmmission to be passed, the two Houses of Parlia ment assunelell thiir newer ‘into their own hands to make a lat, which it is expressly declared, they have not to statute the 13th of Charles II; and in order to suit the emergency, the usual and im portant words are left out ‘of this Commission. ‘« having seen and understood the Clauses of the Bill.” Qdly. Because I disapprove of the Bill which tie Commission is to pass in this war pieces te Mana as thinking it, politic , and inexpedient ‘and it as pears to me to de very ungracious for the two Houses of Parliament to be taking advantage of the defenceless state of the Third Branch of the Legis lature, to attack its Prerogatives ; and its this prin ciple he admitted, of only allotting such portion of the Royal Authority as we think fit to the person executing the Royal Functions, upon the sane principle still further Limitations might have been added, and the Regent rendered merely a cypher, and the Monarchy itself degraded in the eyes of the public. PoNSoNnsy. Yesterday the Whig Club held their fret meeting for the season, at the Crown and Anchor ‘Tavern, the Duke of Norfolk in the chair. The day was spent with that high constitutional spirit, and con vivial exhilaration, which ever prevail where his Grace presides. A singular circumstance occurred yesterday. Just as the Lord Chancellor retired to put on his robes, to give the censenit to the Regency Bill, back cat started from under the woolsack, and run about under the benches. A burst of laughter took place—and by an instantaneous consent—it was call ed the phantom. During the present contest for Gloucestershire, a freeholder polled for Mr. Dutton of the age of 105, and another voted for Sir Wm. Guise who was 102 years of age.
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London St James Chronicle and Evening Post
London, Middlesex, GB
Tue, Feb 05, 1811
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