"to the utmost of my power and ability con"sult and maintain the safety, honour, and "dignity of his Majesty, and the welfare of "his people. So help me God."

And the Prince subscribed the two oaths. The Lord President then presented to his Royal Highness the Declaration mentioned in an Act made in the 30th year of Charles II. intitled "An Act for the more effectually preserving the King's Person and Government, by disabling Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament," and which Declaration his Royal Highness audibly made, repeated, and subscribed.-The Lord President signed first, and every one of the Privy Councillors in succession signed these instruments as witnesses-and the same was delivered into the bands of the Keeper of the Records.

The Prince then delivered to the President of the Council certificate of his having received the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper at the Chapel Royal of St. James, on Sunday, the 27th January ult. which was also countersigned and delivered to the Keeper of the Records, who deposited all these instruments in a box at the bottom of the table.

The Lord President then approached the Regent, bent the knee, and had the honour to kiss his hand. The Royal Dukes followed, and afterwards the Archbishop of Canterbury, and all the rest, according to the order in which they sat at the long table, advancing to the chair on both sides. During the whole of this ceremony, his Royal Highness maintained the most dignified and graceful deportment, and there was not the slightest indication of partiality of behaviour to one set of men more than another.

The ceremony being closed, a short Levee took place in the Drawing-room, when his Royal Highness addressed himself to the circle; and afterwards he gave an audience of one minute to Mr. Perceval, who had the honour again of kissing his hand, as First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer.

His Royal Highness gave private audiences also to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, Earls Camden, Westmorland, Liverpool, Bathurst, and Derby, the Marquis Wellesley, Lords Mulgrave, Palmerston, and Gwydir, Sir David Dundas, Messrs. Ryder, and M. Sutton; the latter laid before his Royal Highness the proceedings of some Courts Martial, and took his Royal Highness's commands on the same.

They were introduced into the presence of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent by the Earl of Moira.

downe, Wellesley, and Douglas.-Earls Moira, Liverpool, Aylesford, Mount Edgecumbe, Derby, Grosvenor, Bathurst, Chatham, Aylesbury, Pembroke, Spencer, Hardwicke, Winchelsea, Buckinghamshire, Chesterfield, Cholmondeley, Lauderdale, Temple, Carysfort, Harrowby, Chi-chester, Grey, and Powis.-Viscounts Cathcart, Morpeth, Sidmouth, and Castlereagh.-Lords Grenville, Holland, Erskine, Ellenborough, C. Somerset, Palmerston, Arden, G. and J. Thynne, Redesdale, Teignmouth, St. John, Walsingham, St. Helen's, and Mulgrave.-The Bishop of London, the Master of the Rolls, General Fitzpatrick, the Chief Baron Macdonald.-Sirs W. Drummond, J. Sinclair, W. Scott, J. Nicholl, D. Dundas, E. Nepean, J. Anstruther.-The Speaker of the House of Commons.-Messrs. Ponsonby, Tierney, Sheridan, Ryder, W. Elliot, M. Sutton, Arbuthnot, Corry, G. Canning, C. Yorke, T. Grenville, G. Rose, Walkace, and Long.

The table was covered with crimson velvet, and there were several silver ink-stands, which are said to have formerly belonged to Queen

Anne.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-Tuesday, Feb. 12, the Lord Chancellor stated to their Lordships, that it not being convenient for his Royal Highness the Prince Regent to be personally present this day in Parliament, he had given directions for the issuing of a Royal Commission. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, Earls Camden and Westmoreland (the Lords President and Privy Seal), and the Duke of Montrose, took their seats before the Throne, as the Royal Commissioners. The Lord Chancellor having directed the Deputy Usher of the Black Rod to acquaint the Commons their presence was required to bear the Commission read, presently the Speaker, with a numerous attendance of Members, appeared at their Lordships' bar, when the Commission, for declaring the further purposes of Parliament being assembled, was read by the Clerk. The Lord Chancellor then addressed both Houses in the following Speech :--

"My Lords and Gentlemen,-In execution of the Commission which has now been read to you, we are commanded by his Royal Highness the Prince Regent to express, in the strongest manner, how deeply he laments, not only in common with all his Majesty's loyal subjects, but with a personal and filial affliction, the great national calamity which has been the occasion of imposing upon his Royal Highness the duty of exercising, in his Majesty's name, the Royal Authority of this Kingdom.

Monday, Feb. 4.-There has been little variation in the King's state since yesterday.

Tuesday, Feb. 5.-His Majesty continues to go on favourably.

Wednesday, Feb. 6. His Majesty is quite as well as he was yesterday.

Thursday, Feb. 7.-His Majesty seems to be making gradual progress towards recovery. Friday, Feb. 8-His Majesty seems to be making gradual progress towards recovery.

Saturday, Feb. 9.-His Majesty is in all respects as well to-day as he has been during the last two days.

Sunday, Feb. 10-His Majesty continues to advance towards recovery.

Monday, Feb. 11.-His Majesty remains, in all respects, as well as for the last few days.

Tuesday, Feb. 12.-His Majesty contiuues in a state of a:endment.

Wednesday, Feb. 13.-His Majesty goes on very favourably.

Thursday, Feb. 14.-His Majesty remains as well to-day as he was yesterday.

Friday, Feb. 15-There is little difference in his Majesty's state since yesterday.

Saturday, Feb. 16.-His Majesty continues still in the same state.

Sunday, Feb. 17.-His Majesty's progress is gradual and satisfactory. (Signed)

R. H. REYNOLDS,
W. HEBERDEN,

R. HENRY HALFORD,
R. WILLIS.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE.

In drawing a fish-pond at Ely last month, the tail of a fish was observed in the mouth of a large pike, and on bringing the net to land, the latter disgorged a pike weighing upwards of four pounds, which was immediately put into another pond, where he swam well, and is supposed to be still living. The pike who had swallowed the other weighed about eighteen pounds.

HAMPSHIRE.

A servant girl of Lieutenant-Colonel Kent's, at the Army Depot, Isle of Wight, lately poisoned herself by taking arsenic: it appeared in evidence she was five months with child, and it is thought she only meant to destroy the child. She told the surgeon who attended her, she took it on purpose to destroy herself. The Jury, after a few minutes consideration, returned a verdict of "felo de se,” and she was buried in the high road, near the barracks. She was a very fine young woman, about twenty years of age.

As a dragoon was on his return from duty to his quarters, at a small public-house, called Darndean Hut, in the Forest, near Petersfield, his attention was arrested by the cries of some person in distress, which induced him to ride up to the spot from whence they proceeded, where his humanity was shocked on beholding a woman tied to a tree, with the tears which her situation and suffering had produced actually frozen to her cheeks, and, horrid to relate, quite naked, having been stripped of every article of dress by two villains, who afterwards left her in that deplorable condition. The dragoon instantly cut the cords that bound her hands and feet to the tree, and having in some measure restored her to the use of her limbs by rubbing them, wrapped

her up in his cloak, placed her on his horse, and proceeded on to his quarters, where he soon after arrived; and as he was conducting the shivering object of his care into the house, she looked through the window that commanded a view of the kitchen, suddenly shrunk back, and in a faint voice exclaimed, "there are the two men that robbed me of my all, and used me so cruelly!.' The soldier, in consequence, entered the kitchen, and secured the men, who were the next day taken before a Magistrate, and after the necessary examination, fully committed to Winchester jail, for trial at

the next Azizes.

LINCOLNSHIRE.

An inquest has been held at Merton, on the bodies of Hannah Taylor and her infant daughter, whom she had tied to her side with a bandkerchief, and in a paroxysm of insanity had precipitated it, with herself, into a well at Harmthorpe, in which they were both drowned.-Verdict, Lu. nacy.

MIDDLESEX.

Lately, a poor woman, who resided at Bayswater, was brought to-bed of a boy, and not having money sufficient to supply a nurse, a neighbour of her's tendered her services, but the husband coming home from his work in the evening, declined the offer, adding, at the same time, that he could attend on her himself. The next morning some acquaintance called to see them, and knocking at the door several times, but no one answering, the doors were broke open, when the man and his wife were both found dead, and a little infant sucking at the breast of the woman. The cause is attributed to their having burnt some charcoal to air the room, which suffocated them. They have left three young children,,

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.

On the 17th ult. the passengers by the Highflyer coach from the North, dined at Newark. A bottle of wine was ordered, on tasting which, a gentleman, one of the passengers, observed that it had an unpleasant flavour, and begged that it might be changed. In compliance with this wish the waiter took away the bottle; but thought he had met with one of those travellers who are more nice than wise, and whom nothing can please at an inn; he therefore poured into a fresh decanter half the wine which had been objected to, and added sufficient from another bottle to make up the usual quantity. This he took into the room, and the greatest part of it was drank by the passengers. But when the coach proceeded on to Grantley, the passengers who had partaken of the wine experienced a loathing and disagreeable sickness, which, with one gentleman in particular, who had taken more of the wine than the others, increased to an alarming degree. The more melancholy part of the story remains to be told. The half of the bottle of wine which the waiter kept in the decanter was put aside, for the purpose of making negus. In the evening Mr. Bland, an attorney, of Newark, and a man much respected, went into the same house, and drank a glass or two of wine and water. He returned home at the usual hour and went to bed, he was taken so ill in the night, that Mrs. Bland sent for his brother, an apothecary in the town; before he arrived, however, the sufferer was dead.

SHROPSHIRE.

Several travellers have lately taken Ludlow in their way to see Lucien Bonaparte, and he knowing the circumstance, generally walks round the Castle for an hour about mid-day to gratify their curiosity-One day lately, the weather being indifferent, he did not take his usual walk; a Gentleman who had come a considerable distance and who could not stop was disappointed, but being very anxious to see Lucien, sent his compliments, and requested to look at him for a few seconds. Lucien, with much good humour, desired that the Gentleman might be introduced, and when he entered, politely begged him to be seated, and handed him several different kinds of wine, concluding with a half-pint bumper of Champagne; after which,

the curious traveller departed top-heavy to the Crown Inn. Mr. Anderson, sen. is his French, and Mr. Wellings, the Italian Interpreter: several of his suite are Italians. The Drawing Master who accompanied Lucien, has some finely executed drawings of antique Statues, Vases, &c. which Lucien got dug out of the ruins of Tusculam, during the six years of his retirement in Italy; the originals have been left at Rome.-He frequently gives dinners to select parties.

SURREY.

In the church-yard of Woking, in this county, as long as there is any thing left of a corpse that is interred there, besides the bones, there grows

up from it a kind of plant, about the thickness of a bulrush, with a top like the head of asparagus, which comes near the surface, but never above it; the outside is black, but the inside red; and when the corpse is quite consumed, the plant withers away. Some naturalists account for this

by the soil being entirely of light red sand. SUSSEX.

A few months since, a great part of Ashdown Forest, in this county, was inclosed by a set of men called Foresters, and also the Rev. Robert Bingham, the Curate of the parish of Mayersfield; which being deemed to be the right of the Duchess of Dorset, the same was thrown down by order of her Grace, Lord Whitworth, and Lord Sheffield, the acting Magistrates for that county. This act irritated all those who had made inclosures, and some of them were heard to make use of threatening language, which caused some little alarm among those concerned in destroying the inclosures; but no particular notice was taken, nor any act done, except swearing in a number of respectable inhabitants as special constables, to be ready in case of an emergency. On Sunday, the 16th of December, a letter was found on the road, near Mayersfield, by the sons of Mr. Richard Jenner, a respectable farmer, directed to their father. The boys took it home, but their father being absent, they gave it to their mother, who, on opening it, discovered that it was headed in large letters," Fire! Murder! and Revenge!" and the contents threatened destruction to the Parson, Churchwardens, and Farmers' houses, barns, and stacks. The boys told their mother, that after Mr. Bingham performed the morning service at Mayersfield church, he got on horseback to ride to a neighbouring parish to do duty there in the afternoon; he passed them, and when he was at a short distance from them, they saw a paper drop from his pocket, which they were positive was the letter they picked up. The letter so much alarmed Mrs. Jenner, that she sent off one of her sons after her husband, who was in London. The circumstance caused considerable alarm in that part of the country. Lords Whitworth and Sheffield published an advertisement offering a reward of £200 for the discovery of the writer of the letter. A number of men were em

ployed to watch Mr. Jenner's premises, and to patrole in different parts. On the 10th of January last, Mr. Bingham's house was discovered to be on fire, and although timely assistance was given, great part of the premises were destroyed. It was ascertained that the fire broke out in the school-room, where there were several faggots laid. Mr. Bingham reported that he had no doubt it was one of the Foresters who had set fire to his premises. The account he gave of the fire and his conduct, was, that his family went to bed about ten o'clock-he was the last up. About half-past ten o'clock he heard the noise of footsteps; he looked out of his window, but could not see or hear any person. About