ber of his majesty's most honourable privy council, to be a member of the said council, to advise and assist her majesty as aforesaid, in the room and place of each and every of the said counsellors so departing this life, or declining to act as aforesaid; which nomination and appointment shall be forthwith certified by an instrument in writing, signed and sealed by her majesty, to the lords of his majesty's most honourable privy council, and shall be entered in the books of the said privy council.

15. And be it further enacted, that each and every member of her majesty's council shall, within the space of

after his appointment by virtue of this Act, or by virtue of her majesty's nomination and appointment, in manner aforesaid, take the following oath, before the lord high chancellor or keeper of the great seal, or commissioners for keeping the great seal of Great Britain, or the lord president of his majesty's privy council, or the chief justice of the court of King's Bench for the time being, respectly, or either of them, who are hereby severally and respectively required, and empowered to administer the same, when required so to do by any person so appointed a member of her majesty's council as aforesaid; and the person administering such oath, shall give to the member taking the same, a certificate of the same having been so taken, signed with his hand; which certificate shall be forthwith transmitted to his majesty's privy council, and entered in the books of the said privy council :

"I, A. B. do solemnly promise and swear, that I will truly and faithfully counsel and advise the Queen's most excellent majesty, according to the best of my judgment, in all matters and things relating to the trusts committed to her majesty, touching the care of his majesty's royal person."

16. The council to meet, and to declare the state of his majesty's health; and transmit a copy to the president of the privy council, who shall publish a copy in the London Gazette.

17. Her majesty's council may examine the physicians, and others in attendance, upon oath.

18. Her majesty and council are to notify his majesty's restoration to health, by instrument sent to the privy council: privy council then to be assembled, and the instrument entered.

19. After such instrument, his majesty may, by sign manual, require the privy council to assemble.

20. If his majesty signify his pleasure to require proclamation to issue, notification is to be sent to the lord mayor; and powers of Act to cease.

21. In case of the death of the regent or her majesty, or of the resumption of the royal authority by his majesty, parliament, if then adjourned or prorogued, shall meet and sit, or if parliament is dissolved, the members of last parliament shall meet and sit.

22. The members of the two houses so meeting, to be deemed the two houses of parliament, but not to continue to sit longer than months.

23. Unless provision be made by parliament, in case of the death of the Queen, the care of his majesty's person shall be vested in her majesty's council; officers and persons of his majesty's household, appointed by his majesty, not to be removed by the regent, until provision relating thereto be made by parliament.

24. The election of members void by the appointment to office by the regent or her majesty.

25. Letters patent and of privy seal, and other lawful authorities for issues from the civil list, to her majesty and branches of the royal family, to continue in full force during the regency, and warrants to be issued accordingly.

26. And be it further enacted, that the lord high treasurer, or lords commissioners of his majesty's treasury, shall direct, and they are hereby required annually to direct, on or before the

in the

the sum of sixty thousand pounds to be issued out of the monies of the civil list revenues, to the keeper of his majesty's privy purse for the time being; and that the said keeper of his majesty's privy purse shall, and he is hereby authorized and directed, during the continuance of the regency by this Act established, to issue and apply the sum of year, in such half-yearly or quarterly payments, to such persons, and in such manner, as he has issued and applied the same by the authority and direction of his majesty; and that he shall pay, and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay the sum of at the expiration of each and every quarter, to such person as her most excellent majesty the Queen shall, by any instrument signed and sealed by her majesty, authorize and direct to receive the same, to be by her majesty's direction applied in such gifts, charities, and allowances, as to her majesty may judge the same would have been applied to by his majesty; and that the remainder of the aforesaid sum should be invested by the said keeper of his majesty's privy purse, in some of the public funds or government securities, in the name of the keeper of his majesty's privy purse for the time being, in trast for his majesty; and that the nett surplus of the revenues of the duchy and county palatine of Lancaster, shall be from time

to

to time paid, under the order of the chancellor and council of the said duchy, into the hands of the keeper of his majesty's privy purse, whose receipt shall be a sufficient discharge for the same, and shall by him be invested in some of the public funds or government securities, in manner aforesaid.

27. The keeper of the privy purse to take an oath before the barons of the exchequer.

28. Provides for the care of his majesty's real and personal estate and property, under act 39 and 40 Geo. III. c. 88. The new clauses introduced in the committee were two, viz.

"And be it further enacted, that the said regent shall, at the time of his taking such oaths as aforesaid, and before the members of the privy council administering the same, make, subscribe, and audibly repeat the declaration mentioned in an Act made in the 30th year of king Charles the Second, intituled, "An Act for the more effectual preserving the king's person and government, by disabling papists from sitting in either house of parliament ;" and shall produce a certificate of his having received the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper in any of the royal chapels, signed by the person administering the same.

The other clause gives power to the prince to dispose in the usual regular way of the droits of the crown and droits of the Admiralty.

The following is the manner in which the principal blanks have been filled up:

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Restrictions on the regent to continue until after the 1st day of February 1812, if parliament shall be then assembled, and shall have been sitting for six weeks im'mediately previous to the said 1st day of February 1812; or if parliament shall be then assembled, but shall not have been so sitting for six weeks, then until the expiration of six weeks after parliament shall have been so assembled and been sitting; or if parliament shall not then be assembled, then until the expiration of six weeks after parliament shall have been assembled and sitting, next after the said 1st day of February.

"Her majesty to nominate and appoint, in case of any vacancies arising by resignation or death, all the officers and persons belonging to his majesty's household, in tire respective departments thereof, whose appointment, nomination, or removal, have heretofore been made by his majesty; except the lord chamberlain of his majesty's household, and the gentlemen and grooms of his majesty's bedchamber, his majesty's equerries, the captain of the yeomen of his majesty's guard, and the captain of the honourable band of gentlemen pensioners; and the nomination and appointment by her majesty, in

manner and form aforesaid, shall be valid and effectual to all intents and purposes as if the same bad been made or done by his majesty in the accustomed manner; and the several persons so appointed shall be entitled to the like precedence, privileges, salaries, wages, profits, and all other emoluments, as the several persons now holding and enjoying the same offices are respectively entitled to: provided always, that the power and authority given by this Act to her majesty, to nominate and appoint such persons of his majesty's household as are not herein before excepted, shall continue in force until the 1st day of Febru ary, or the expiration of six weeks as aforesaid, and no longer: provided also, that her said majesty shall not have any power or authority to remove any officer in any department of his majesty's household, by this Act made subject to the nomination or appointment of her majesty, who shall have been nominated and appointed by his majesty: provided also, that until the expiration of such period as aforesaid, no appointment shall be made to the office of lord chamberlain of his majesty's household, now vacant, but that all the duties of the said office shall be performed by the vice-chamberlain; and that during such period as aforesaid, no person holding the office of gentleman of his majesty's bedchamber, or being one of his majesty's equerries, or groom, shall be subject to be removed; and no vacancy which shall arise by death or resignation of any of the grooms or gentlemen of his majesty's bedchamber, shall be supplied or filled up, or any appointment or nomination made to supply any such vacancy."

Her majesty's council to consist of Charles, lord archbishop of Canterbury; Edward, lord archbishop of York; James, duke of Montrose; George, earl of Winchelsea and Nottingham; Heneage, eart of Aylesford; John, lord Eldon; Edward, lord Ellenborough; and the right hon, Sir William Grant; and, in the event of the death of all or any of these, or of all or any of them declining to act, her majesty to have power to appoint a successor or successors from the list of privy counsellors.

In the House of Lords, on Tuesday, Jan. 15, the lord chancellor stated, that as for certain causes his majesty could not be present, for the purpose of opening the session of parliament, a commission under the great seal had been issued for that purpose. He therefore had, in the first instance, to move, that the house do adjourn during pleasure, to afford their lordships an opportunity to robe. Accordingly the proceeding took place.

On the resuming of the house, the archbishop of Canterbury, the lord chancel

ler,

lor, the lord president (earl Camden), the lord privy seal (earl of Westmoreland), and the master of the horse (duke of Montrose), took their seats on the woolsack, as commissioners for declaring the causes of the opening of the session of parliament, under the authority of the above mentioned commission. Their lordships, as well as most of the peers present, were in their robes of state.

Mr. Quarme, acting usher of the black rod, was then dispatched to desire the attendance of the Commons, in order to hear the commission read for the opening of parliament accordingly. Shortly after, a very considerable number of members appeared at the bar, with the speaker at their head; when the lord chancellor, as organ of the commissioners, addressed the assembly as follows:

"My Lords and Gentlemen, "Forasmuch as his majesty, for certain reasons and canses, cannot be present here this day in his royal person, in order to open and hold this parliament, a commission has been issued under the great seal for that purpose, authorizing certain lords therein named to act as commissioners, to declare and signify the causes of

opening and holding this parliament in his majesty's name and behalf, which commission you will now hear read."

The commission, as adverted to by the lord chancellor, was then read. The lord chancellor again addressed the assembly;

"My Lords and Gentlemen, "Acting by virtue, and under the authority given to us and the other lords in his majesty's commission now read, amongst other things, we are authorized to notify and declare the reasons and causes for the opening and holding the session of parliament; and we have only in the present instance to discharge our duty, by calling your earnest and immediate attention to the afflicting circumstance of his majesty's present indisposition, in order that you may provide, as far as may be possible, for the care and preservation of the sacred person of his majesty, for the due maintenance of his royal dignity, and for the personal exercise of his royal authority, in such manner, and to such extent, as the exigencies of the case may appear to require."

The Commons then withdrew from the bar, and returned to their own House.

We have about 105 sail of the line in actual service, beside seven serving as guard-ships and store-ships, and five effective 50-gun ships.-We have likewise about 103 sail of the line in ordinary.

The Russian fleet in the Baltic consists of thirteen sail of the line with several heavy frigates.-The Danes have one ship of the line; and the Swedes have eleven sail.-The Dutch have agreed, by a recent treaty, to furnish nine sail of the line to France. These are all the ships they have, and they will find great difficulty in fitting and manning them for active service.-France has, in the Scheldt, ten sail of the line, whose crews, though not nearly complete, are composed of various nations. She has also two sail at Cherburgh, and in the ports on the Bay of Biscay about twelve sail of the line, most of which are at Rochefort. France has also, in the Mediterranean, thirteen effective ships.

Upon a recapitulation, it therefore appears that the Russian, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, and French force, amounts collectively to only seventy-one sail of the line, while there are one hundred and five sail of the British line now in actual service.

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.

The Spaniards continue to maintain an insurrectional contest with the French armies, attended by a melancholy waste of human life, and it may be feared, without eventual benefit.

Lord WELLINGTON maintains his ground and the honours of the British army in Portugal, as appears by the following letter:

Since I addressed you on the 22d inst. I have received reports that the enemy's troops, which had retired from Lower Beira, in the end of last and the beginning of this month, had crossed the Coa at Almeida on the 15th and 16th inst. and had moved into Upper Beira, by the roads of Pinhel and Trancoso, and of Alverca and Celerico.

I have not been able to ascertain exactly the strength of the body of troops which have entered by this frontier, but it is stated to be 16,000 or 17,000 men,

and consists, I should imagine, not on 1 of Gardanne's division, but of some, not the whole of the troops of the 9t corps.

By the last accounts I have of thes troops, the advanced guard had arrive at Merceira, in the valley of the Monde go, on the 22d, and their progress ha not been rapid; but if they have con tinued their march, they ought by thi time to be in communication with th enemy's post in the neighbourhood o Thomar.

General Silviera had retired with hi division of troops to Moimento de Beira but he and General Miller and Colone Wilson were prepared to act across th Mondego upon the flanks and rear of the enemy's troops, the whole of which it ap pears were marching on the left of tha river.

No alteration has been made in the po sition of the enemy's troops in front o this army, excepting that a detachment of between two and three thousand cavalry and infantry had moved into Lower Bei ra, across the Zezere towards Castello Branco, probably with a view to gain intelligence.

By accounts from Estremadura, it appears that Generals Mendizabal and Ballalasteros have had some success in their operations against a French division belonging to Mortier's corps, which had been stationed in Llevena. They have obliged this division to retire from. Guadalcanal, with some loss.

AMERICA.

New York Papers to the 16th ult. have arrived,andthe most important article they contain is a letter from Mr. Smith to Mr. Pinkney, provisionally suspending the latter as minister plenipotentiary at the British court, in case a successor of equal rank should not be appointed to the United States in the place of Mr. Jack

son.

WEST INDIES.

A Jamaica Mail has brought accounts from that island to the 25th of November. The differences between the Governor and the House of Assembly are satisfactorily terminated.

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