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gust than many which we have gen not long since. The dialogue was spirited, and, in parts, even elegant -It had not much of that terceness which stage dialogue requires, but it was not deficient in point.-Upon the whole, this play met with deserved success.

WORKS IN THE PRESS.

Dr Aikin has in the press, in an ectavo voJume, Critical Essays on various subjects.

Mr. Winch has nearly ready for the press, the Flora of the counties of Northumberland and Durham. It will contain about 2000 indigenous plants, and be illustrated by some coloured engravings from drawings made by Mr. Sowerby,

Mr. Belsham will shortly publish, in an octavo volume, Lectures on the Pre-existence of Christ.

Mr. Hamilton Bruce is preparing an elaborate work, from authentic sources, giving a detailed account of all the Scottish families of note, from the peopling of Scotland by the Scythians to the present era; also a copious account of the different Scottish monarchs, and their existing posterity.

A report of the late Mr. Fox's Speeches in the House of Commons, from his entrance into Parliament, in 1768, to the close of the ses-sion in 1896, is preparing for the press.

Mr. Guy will shortly publish the British Reader, or Sequel to his Eritish Spellingbook, adapted to the junior classes of schools.

Dr. Millar, lecturer on Materia Medica in the University of Glasgow, has in the press, Disquisitions in the History of Medicine, exhibiting a View of Physic as observed to exist

Mr. Trotter, of Montalta near Wicklow, hasduring remote periods, and among nations in the press, an Account of the Travels of the not for advanced in refinement. late Mr. Fox, Lord St. John, and himself, in Flanders and France, during the late short peace; with a variety of letters of Mr. Fox, and circumstantial particulars of the last four years of his life.

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Dr. Joseph Reade, of Cork, has in the press, Critical and Practical Observations on the Diseases of the Inner Corner of the Human Eyes, with a new arrangement and method of Cure.

PENAL CODE OF CHINA.—If any physician inadvertently prepares and mixes the me dicines destined for the use of his Imperial Majesty, in any manner that is not sanctioned by the establishsd practice, or does not accompany them with a proper description and directions, he shall be punished with one huo. dred blows. If the ingredients are not ge nuine, and well-chosen, as well as carefulty compounded, the physician shall be punished

The Rev. Johnson Grant will shortly pub- || with sixty blows. Jish the first volume of a Summary of the History of the English Church, and of the Sects which have separated from it, from the earliest periods to the reign of James I.

Sir John Carr bas in forwardness for publication, Descriptive Sketches of the South-east parts of Spain, and the Islands of Majorca, || Minorca, Sardinia, Sicily, and Malta, during a tour in those countries in 1809 and 1810, accompanied by engravings of views taken on the spot.

Mr. Pratt purposes to bring forward early in April, the Poetical Remmins of Joseph Blackett, with appropriate engravings, and a portrait and memoirs of the author.

The Rev T. F. Dibdin has in the press, in an octavo volume, the English Gentleman's Library Companion, being a guide to the knowledge of rare, curions, and useful books an the English language, appertaining to British literature and antiquities.

If the cook employed in preparing the Im perial repasts, introduce any prohibited ingredients into the dishes inadvertently, he shall be punished with one hundred blows.

If any of the articles of liquid or solid food are not clean, he shall be punished with eighty blows. If they are not genuine and properly selected, with sixty blows; and lastly, if the cook does not ascertain the quality of the dishes by tasting, he shall be punished with fifty blows.

The superintending and dispensing officers shall in each case, respectively be punished two degrees less severely than the cook and the physician.

If either the superintending or dispensing officer, or the cook, introduces into his Majesty's kitchen any unusual drug or article of food, he shall be punished with one hundred blows and be compelled to swallow the same.

INCIDENTS

OCCURRING IN AND NEAR LONDON, INTERESTING MARRIAGES, &c.

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according to the Law thereof, subject to such limitations and restrictions as shall be provi

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THE REGENCY BILL having passed both Houses of Parliament, on Friday, January 11, at two o'clock precisely, the deputation from the two Houses went up to Carleton House to pre- "Resolved, That for a time to be limited, the sent to His Royal Highness the Resolutions to power so to be given to his Royal Highness the which the two Houses, after a long discussion, Prince of Wales, shall not extend to the granting had agreed. The Lords and Gentlemen, all in of any rank or dignity of the Peerage of the full dress, were ushered through the superb suit Realm to any person whatever, except such perof rooms to the Drawing-room, where his Royal son or persons as may perform some singular naHighness stood. His Chancellor, William Adam, val or military achievement.-That for a time to Esq. and Earl Moira on his right hand; the be limited, the said power shall not extend to the Duke of Cumberland and Mr. Sheridan on his granting of any office whatever in reversion, or left; behind him four Officers of his household, to the granting of any office, salary, or premium, Mr. Tyrwhitt, Colonel Macmahon, Colonel for any other term than during his Majesty's Bloomfield, and General Turner. The deputa-pleasure, except such offices as are by law retion advanced according to their order of presi- || quired to be granted for life or during good bedency. The Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Secretary Ryder, the President of the Board of Controul, and the Master of the Rolls; and they made the usual reverences.

The Lord President then read from a paper in his band:

"That they were a Committee appointed to attend his Royal Highness with the Resolutious which had been agreed to by the Lords and Commons, for the purpose of supplying the defect of the personal exercise of the Royal Authority, du-|| ring his Majesty's illness, by empowering his Royal Highness to exercise that anthority in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, subject to such limitations and restrictions as shall be provided.

"And that they were directed to express the hope which the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons entertain, that his Royal Highness, from his regard to the interests of his Majesty, will be ready to undertake the weighty and important trust proposed to be invested in his Royal Highness, as soon as an Act of Parliament shall have been passed for carrying the said Resolutions into effect."

The Lord President then read and delivered to his Royal Highness the following Resolutions: "Resolved, That for the purpose of providing for the exercise of the Royal Authority during the continuance of his Majesty's illness, in such manner, and to such extent, as the present circumstances and the urgent concerns of the nation appear to require, it is expedient that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, being resident within the Realm, shall be empowered to exercise and administer the Royal Authority, according to the Laws and Constitution of Great Britain, in the name, and on behalf of his Majesty, and under the style and title of Regent of the Kingdom; and to use, execute, examine, and perform, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, all Authorities, Prerogatives, Acts of Government, and Administration of the same, that belong to the King of this Realm to use, execute, and perform, No. XV. Vol. II.-N. 3.

haviour.

"Resolved, That such parts of his Majesty's private property as are not vested in trustees, shall be vested in trustees for the benefit of his Majesty.

"Resolved, That the said power shall not extend to the granting of any part of his Majesty's real or personal estate, except as far as relates to the renewal of leases.

"Resolved, That the care of his Majesty's Royal Person, during the continuance of his Majesty's illness, shall be committed to the Queen's most excellent Majesty; together with the sole direction of such portion of his Majesty's Household as shall be deemed requisite and suitable for the due attendance on his Majesty's sacred Person, and the maintenance of his Royal Dignity; and that for the better enabling her Majesty to discharge this important trust, it is also expedient that a Council shall be appointed to advise and assist her Majesty in the several matters aforesaid; and with power, from time to time, as they may see cause, to examine, upon oath, the Physicians and others attending his Majesty's Person, touching the state of his Majesty's health, and all matters relative thereto."

ANSWER OF THE PRINCE.-My Lords and Gentlemen, I receive the communication which the two Houses have directed you to make to ine, of their joint Resolutions on the subject of providing for "the exercise of the Royal Authority, during his Majesty's illness," with those sentiments of regard which I must ever entertain for the united desires of the two Houses.

With the same sentiments I receive the expressed "hopes of the Lords and Commons, that from my regard for the interest of his Majesty, and the nation, I should be ready to undertake the weighty and important trust proposed to be in vested in me," under the restrictions and limitations stated in those Resolutions.

Conscious that every feeling of my heart would have prompted me, from dutiful affection to my beloved Father and Sovereign, to have shewn all the reverential delicacy towards him, inculca

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ted 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 teen my aduct.

to cease, and no act done under it afterwards to be valid.

Any Acts, Orders, Appointments, &c. previously made or done under it, to be in force until countermanded by his Majesty.

No Act of the Regent to be valid, unless done in the name of his Majesty, and according to the provisions of the Act.

Regent to take an oath to administer the law according to the Act.

Deeply impressed, however, with the necessity eftranquillizing the public mind, and determined to submit to every personal sacrifice, consistent with the regard I owe to the security of my Father's Crown, and the equal regard I owe to the welfare of his people, I do not hesitate to ac- Regent to be deemed a person holding an office cept the office and situation proposed to me, re- in trust, and to take the oath, and make the destricted as they are; still retaining every opini-claration relating to such persons as hold places on expressed by me upon a former, and similarly distressing occasion.

of trust, before the Privy Council.

Regent to be restrained from granting Peerages, or summoning Heir Apparent, or appointing to Titles in abeyance, until after a given time. Regent to be restrained from granting offices in

In undertaking the trust proposed to me, I am well aware of the difficulties of the situation in which shall be placed; but I shall rely with confi. dence upon the constitutional advice of an en-reversion, or for a longer period than during plealightened Parliament, and the zealous support of a generous and loyal people. I will use all the means left to me to meet both..

My Lords and Gentlenen,-You will communicate this my Answer to the two Houses, accompanied by my most fervent wishes and prayers, that the Divine Will may extricate us and the uation from the grievous embarrassments of our present condition, by the speedy restoration of his Majesty's health.

ANSWER OF THE QUEEN.My Lords and Gentlemen, the sense of duty and gratitude to the King, and of obligation to this country, which induced me, in the year 1789, readily to promise my most earnest attention to the anxions and momentous trust at that time intended to be reposed in me by Parliament, is strengthened, if possible, by the uninterrupted enjoyment of those blessings which I have continued to experience, under the protection of his Majesty, since that period; and I should be wanting to all my duties if I hesitated to accept the sacred trust which is now offered to

⚫me.

The assistance in point of counsel and advice, which the wisdom of Parliament proposes to provide for me, will make me undertake the charge with greater hopes that I may be able satisfactorily to fulfil the important duties which it must impose upon me.

Of the nature and importance of that charge I cannot but be duly sensible, involving, as it does, -every thing which is valuable to myself, as well as the highest interests of a people endeared to me by so many ties and considerations; but by no-thing so strongly as by their steady, loyal, and affectionate attachment to the best of Kings.

The following are the heads of the principal -clauses in the Regency Bill:

Prince of Wales to exercise the Royal Anthority subject to restrictions.

Present Appointments to remain until the Regent declare to the contrary.

Upon his Majesty's recovery, and declaration of his pleasure to resume his Authority, this Act

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sure, except those which are by law granted for life, or during good behaviour; and except pensions to Chancellor, Judges, &c.

Regent not to be empowered to give the Royal Assent to any Bill to repeal auy Bill for varying the order and course of succession to the Crown. The Regent to reside in Great Britain, and not to marry a Papist.

Care of his Majesty's person, and appointment of a suitable part of his Household, to be vested in her Majesty. Her Majesty to be assisted by a Council.

Her Majesty's Council to meet some day in April next, and on the 1st day of every third month after, and declare the state of his Majesty's health; a copy of which shall be transmitted to the President of the Privy Council, and published in the London Gazette.

Her Majesty's Council may examine the Phy sicians in attendance on oath.

Her Majesty and Council to notify his Majesty's recovery by instrument sent to the Privy Council.

The Privy Council to assemble and enter said instrument.

After such instrument his Majesty may, by Sign Manual, require the Privy Council to assemble.

If his Majesty, by the advice of such Privy Council, so assembled, shall signify his pleasure to resume the personal exercise of his royal authority, a Proclamation shall be issued accordingly.

Such Proclamation, countersigned by the said of the said Privy Council, together with the other proceedings, to be sent to the Lord Mayor, and the present Act to cease.

In the case of the death of the Regent, or of her Majesty, or of the resumption by the King, Parliament, if prorogued, or adjourned, to meet and sit, or if dissolved, the Members of the last Parliament to meet and sit again.

Parliament so met, not to sit longer than months.

In the case of the death of her Majesty, the

care of his Majesty's person to be vested in her ment to his person, and of their zealous concern Council, &c.

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for the honour and interests of his Crown, and ́ the security and good government of his dominious; and that the uninterrupted confidence whichs bis Majesty was pleased to repose, for a long series of years, in the persons who proposed the measures which were grounded on those principles, entitled his Majesty's servants, in their judgment, still further to conclude, that those principles and measures had the sanction of his

"Downing-street, Dec. 20, 1810."

His R. H. the Duke of York, &c. &c. &c. .

STATE OF HIS MAJESTY'S HEALTH.

"Sir,―The Prince of Wales having assembled the whole of the male branches of the Royal Fa-Royal approbation. mily, and having communicated to us the plan intended to be proposed by his Majesty's confidential Servants, to the Lords and Commons, for the establishment of a restricted Regency, should the continuation of his Majesty's ever-tobe-deplored illness render it necessary, we feel it a duty we owe to his Majesty, to our country, and to ourselves, to enter our solemn protest against measures we consider as perfectly unconstitutional, as they are contrary to, and subversire of, the principles which seated our family upon the throne of this realm.

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ERNEST,

AUGUSTUS-FREDERICK,

ADOLPHUS FREDERICK,
WILLIAM FREDERICK

"Wednesday night, Dec. 19, 1810.” R. H. Spencer Perceval, &c. &c. &c.

"Mr. Perceval has the honour of acknowledging the receipt of a solemn Protest, in the name of all the male branches of the Royal Family, against the measures which his Majesty's confidential Servants have thought it to be their duty to communicate to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, as intended to be proposed to the two Houses of Parliament, for the establishment of a restricted Regency during the conti- || nuance of his Majesty's ever-to-be-iamented indisposition and stating that their Royal Highnesses.consider these measures as perfectly unconstitutional, and contrary to, and subversive of, the principles which seated his Majesty's Royal Family upon the throne of this realm.

"Mr. Perceval has felt it to be his duty to submit this communication without loss of time to his Majesty's Servants; and deeply as they lament, that the measure which they have thought themselves bound to propose, shall appear to their Royal Hignesses to deserve a character so directly contrary to that which it has been their anxious endeavour should belong to it, they must still, however, have the consolation of reflecting, that the principles upon which they have acted obtained the express and concurrent support of the two Houses of Parliament, in the years 1788 and 1789: that those Houses of Parliament had the high satisfaction of receiving, by the command of his Majesty, after his Majesty's recovery, his warmest acknowledgements for the additional proofs they had given of their affectionate attach

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The following are the daily bulletins issued from Windsor Castle, of his Majesty's health,. since our last :

Sunday, Nov. 25-His Majesty is not quite so well this evening as he was in the morning..

Monday, Nov. 26.-His Majesty has had very little sleep in the night, but is not worse this morning.

Tuesday, Nov. 27-His Majesty has had be tween two and three hours sleep in the night, and is this morning much the same as yesterday.

Wednesday, Nov. 28-His Majesty is not quite so well this evening as he was in the morning.

Thursday, Nov. 29.His Majesty has passed a quiet night, and appears rather better this morning.

Friday, Nov. 30.-His Majesty continues much the same to-day as he was yesterday.

Saturday, Dec. 1-His Majesty has not passed a very good night, but is much the same as he was yesterday.

Sunday, Dec. 2.-His Majesty has passed a good night, and appears a little better this morning.

Monday, Dec. 3.-The state of amendment. which has been observed in his Majesty for the last three days still continues.

Tuesday, Dec. 4.-His Majesty has passed another good night, and is fully as well as he was yesterday.

Wednesday, Dec. 5.-His Majesty has passed another good night, and is still a little better this morning.

Thursday, Dec. 6.—His Majesty has had huť an indifferent night, and is not quite so well this. morning

Friday, Dec. 7.—His Majesty's indisposition increased through the day, yesterday, but he has had some hours sleep in the night, and is better this morning.

Saturday, Dec. 8.-His Majesty has passed a sleepless night, and is not quite so well as he was yesterday.

Sunday, Dec. 9.-His Majesty has had several hours sleep, and appears better than he was any part of yesterday.

Monday, Dec. 10-His Majesty is quite as

well as he was yesterday, though he has passed the night with little sleep.

Tuesday, Dec. 11-The King has had a very good night, and is better this morning.

Wednesday, Dec. 12.-His Majesty has passed a good night, and appears much the same as he was yesterday.

Thursday, Dec. 13-His Majesty has had but little sleep, and is much the same as he was yesterday.

Friday, Dec. 14-His Majesty has passed a good night, and is much the same as he was yesterday.

Saturday, Dec. 15.-His Majesty has passed a tolerably good night, and is quite as well as he was yesterday.

Sunday, Dec. 16-The King has passed an indifferent night, but he is as well as he was yesterday.

Monday, Dec. 17.-His Majesty has passed a quiet night, though without much sleep, and has appeared rather better through the last twentyfour hours.

Tuesday, Dec. 18-His Majesty has passed a good night, and is much in the same state as he was yesterday.

Wednesday, Dec. 19-His Majesty has had a tolerably good night, and is much the same this morning as he was yesterday.

Thursday, Dec. 20.-His Majesty has passed a good night, and appears rather better this morning.

Friday, Dec. 21.-His Majesty has had a very good night, and is better to-day.

Saturday, Dec. 22.-His Majesty has passed a pretty quiet night, and is not materially different from his state yesterday.

Sunday, Dec. 23.-His Majesty is not quite so well this morning, although he had several hours sleep yesterday evening.

Monday, Dec. 24.-His Majesty has had a sleepless night, and is not so well to-day.

Tuesday, Dec. 25.-His Majesty had a severe attack of fever yesterday evening, but he got some hours sleep in the night, and the symptoms are very much abated this morning.

Wednesday, Dec. 26.-His Majesty, since the abatement of his fever, has continued nearly in the same state.

Thursday, Dec. 27.-His Majesty has passed an indifferent night, and is much the same as he was yesterday.

Friday, Dec. 28.-His Majesty has been rather better through the last twenty-four hours.

passed a quiet night, without much sleep, and continues the same as he was yesterday.

Wednesday, Jan. 2.-His Majesty continues nearly in the same state as during the last two days.

Thursday, Jan. 3.-His Majesty has not declined from the state in which he has been during the last four days.

Friday, Jan. 4.-His Majesty continues as well as he was yesterday.

Saturday, Jan. 5.-His Majesty has passed another quiet night, and remains very much in the same state as for some days past.

Sunday, Jan. 6.-His Majesty had several hours sleep in the night, and is as well in all respects as he was yesterday.

Monday, Jan. 7.-His Majesty is as well as be has been in any part of the preceding week, the whole of which has passed favourably.

Tuesday, Jan. 8.-His Majesty has passed a good night, and is still rather better.

Wednesday, Jan. 9.-His Majesty has passed a good night, and continues as well as he was yesterday.

Thursday, Jan. 10.-His Majesty continues to go on well.

Friday, Jan. 11-His Majesty appears to be a little improved since yesterday.

Saturday, Jan. 12-His Majesty is not quite so well this morning as for some days past.

Sunday, Jan. 13.-His Majesty has had a good night, and is better to-day.

Monday, Jan. 14.-His Majesty is as well today as he was yesterday.

Tuesday, Jan. 15.-His Majesty has had a good night, and is as well to-day as he was yesterday.

Wednesday, Jan. 16-His Majesty's state is little different from what it has been these last two days.

Thursday, Jan. 17-His Majesty remains as well as he was yesterday.

Friday, Jan. 18.-His Majesty continues very much in the same state in which he has been for the last two or three days.

Saturday, Jan. 19.-His Majesty continues very much the same as he was yesterday. (Signed)

H. REYNOLDS,

W. HEBERDEN,
R. HENRY HALFORD,
R. WILLIS.

THE DUKE OF QUEENSBERRY.-This Nobleman has been more generally known, and for a Saturday, Dec. 29.-His Majesty has passed a much longer period, than any of his contemporagood night, and is as well to-day as he was yes-ries; and though he has not displayed those taterday

Sunday, Dec. 30.-His Majesty has passed a quiet night, and is as well to-day as he was yesterday.

lents which naturally attract the attention of mankind, he has never ceased, from his first appearance in the world to the moment when he left it for ever, to be an object of comparative notoriety. There has been no interregnum in

Monday, Dec. 31-His Majesty has passed a good night, and is as well to-day as he was yes-the public course of his existence. His first disterday. tinction was that of the turf; his knowledge of Tuesday, Jan. 1, 1811.-His Majesty has which, both in theory and practice, was consi

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