of the unexpected events of the times in which we are. It is war oyer every part of the continent that can alone ensure their prosperity. I wish for nothing that is not in the treaties I have concluded. I will never sacrifice the blood of my people to interests that are not immediately the interests of my empire. I flatter myself that the peace of the continent will not be disturbed. avenge Europe and Asia by finish. ing this second Punic war. Gentlemen deputies of departments to the legislative body, I have ordered my minister to lay before you the accounts of 1809 and 1810. It is the object for which I have called you together. You will see in them the prosperous state of my finances. Though I have placed, within three months, 100 millions extraordinary at the disposal of my ministers of war, to defray the expenses of new armaments which then appeared necessary, I find myself in the fortunate situation of not having any new taxes to impose upon my people The sitting being terminated, his majesty rose and retired amidst acclamations. PROTEST. The king of Spain is come to assist at this last solemnity. I have given him all that was necessary and proper to unite the interests and hearts of the different people of his provinces, Since 1809, the greater part of the strong places in Spain have been taken after me--I shall not increase any tax-I morable sieges. The insurgents have no want of any augmentation have been beat in a great number in the imposts. of pitched battles. England had felt this war was approaching its termination, and that intrigues and gold were no longer sufficient to nourish it. She found herself, therefore, obliged to change the nature of it; and from an auxiliary she is become a principal. All she has of troops of the line have been sent into the peninsula. England, Scotland, and Ireland are drained. English blood has at length flowed in torrents, in several actions glorious to the French arms.-This conflict against Carthage, which seemed as if it would be decided in fields of battle on the ocean, or beyond the seas, will henceforth be decided in the plains of Spain ! When England shall be exhausted, when she shall at last have felt the evils which for twenty years she has with so much cruelty poured upon the continent, when half of her families shall be in mourning, then shall a peal of thunder put an end to the affair of the peninsula, the destinies of her armies, and The following protest was on Thursday night entered on the journals of the house of lords, against the bill for fixing the value of the current coin and bank-notes at their actual denomination—that is, for fixing a guinca at twenty-one shillings, and no more, and a bank. note at twenty shillings, and no less. Die Martis, 2 Julii, 1811. DISSENTIENT, Because we think it the duty of this house to mark in the first instance with the most decided reprobation, a bill which in our judgement manifestly leads to the introduction of laws imposing upon the country the compulsory cir culation of a paper currency; measure fraught with injustice, destructive of ail confidence in the a legal Lansdowne Cowper King Lauderdale. legal security of contracts, and, as invariable experience has shown, necessarily productive of the most fatal calamities: Grenville Essex Jersey Grey For the reason assigned on the other side, and because the repeal of the law for suspending bank payments in cash is in my judgement the only measure which can cure the inconveniences already felt, and avert the yet greater calamities which are impending from the present state of the circulation of the country, VASSAL HOLLAND. HIS MAJESTY'S HEALTH. The following is the official report of the state' of his majesty's health on Saturday the 6th of July, as presented to the privy council by the queen's council. Windsor, July 6. We the under-written, members of the council appointed to assist her majesty in the execution of the trusts committed to her majesty, by virtue of the statute, passed in the 51st year of his majesty's reign, entitled "An act to provide for the administration of the royal authority, and for the care of his majesty's royal person, during the continuance of his majesty's illness, and for the resumption of the exercise of the royal authority by his majesty," having duly met together, on the 6th day of July 1811, at the Queen's Lodge, near to Windsor Castle, and having called before us, and examined upon oath, the physicians and other persons attendant upon his majesty, and having ascertained the state of his majesty's health by all such other ways and means as appeared to us to be necessary for that purpose, do hereby declare and certify, that the state of his majesty's health, at the time of this our meeting, is not such as to enable his majesty to resume the personal exercise of his royal functions. That his majesty's bodily health is but little disordered. That, in consequence of an accession of mental disorder, subsequent to our report of the 6th April last, a change took place in the system of management which had been previously adopted for his majesty's cure. His majesty's mental health is represented to us by all the physicians as certainly improved since the 6th of April. We are unable, however, to ascertain what would be the effects of an immediate recurrence to any system of management, which should admit of as free an approach to his majesty's presence as was allowed in a former period of his majesty's indisposition. Some of his majesty's physicians do not-entertain hopes of his majesty's recovery quite so confident as those which they had expressed on the 6th of April. The persuasion of others of his majesty's physicians, that his majesty will completely recover, is not diminished-and they all appear to agree, that there is a considerable probability of his majesty's final recovery; and that neither his majesty's bodily health, nor his present symptoms, nor the effect which the disease has yet produced upon his majesty's faculties, afford any reason for thinking that his majes.y will not ultimately recover. (Signed) C. Cantuar W. Grant Montrose Winchilsea Ellenborough. Aylesford. PRO PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. The deputy usher of the black rod having summoned the house of commons to attend in their lordships' house, to hear the royal assent, by commission, given to the gold coin bill, and the militia interchange amendment bill: this being done, the lords commissioners, authorized by the letters patent of the prince regent, in the name of his majesty, proceeded to read the regent's speech on the oc casion. The commissioners were the archbishop of Canterbury, the lord chancellor, earl Camden, the earl of Westmorland, and the earl of Aylesford. The lord chancellor read the speech as follows: My lords, and gentlemen, His royal highness the prince regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of his majesty, has commanded us to signify to you the satisfaction with which he finds himself enabled to relieve you from your attendance in parliament, after the long and laborious duties of the session. We are particularly directed to express his approbation of the wisdom and firmness which you have manifested, in enabling his royal highness to continue the exertions of this country in the cause of our allies, and to prosecute the war with increased activity and vigour. Your determined perseverance in a system of liberal aid to the brave and loyal nations of the peninsula has progressively augmented their means and spirit of resistance; while the humane attention which you have paid to the sufferings of the inhabitants of Portugal, under the unexampled cruelty of the enemy, has confirmed the alliance by new ties of affection, and cannot fail to inspire additional zeal and animation in the maintenance of the common cause. His royal highness especially commands us to declare his cordial concurrence in the measures which you have adopted, for improving the internal security and military resources of the united kingdom. For these important purposes you have wisely provided, by establishing a system for the annual supply of the regular army, and for the interchange of the militias of Great Britain and Ireland; and his royal highness has the satisfaction of informing you, that the voluntary zeal which has already been manifested upon this occasion has ena bled him to give immediate operation to an arrangement by which the union and mutual interests of Great Britain and Ireland may be more effectually cemented and improved. Gentlemen of the house of com mons, His royal highness commands us to thank you, in the name and on behalf of his majesty, for the libe ral supplies which you have furnished for every branch of the public service. His royal highness has seen with pleasure the readiness with which you have applied the separate means of Great Britain to the financial relief of Ireland at the present moment; and derives much satisfaction from perceiving that you have been able to accomplish this object with so little additional burthen upon the resources of this part of the united kingdom. The manner in which you have taken into consideration the condition of the Irish revenue has met with his royal highness's approbation; and his royal highness commands us to add, that he looks with confi denc dence to the advantage which may be derived from the attention of parliament having been given to this important subject. My lords and gentlemen, His royal highness commands us to congratulate you upon the reduction of the island of Mauritius. This last and most important colony of France has been obtained with inconsiderable loss, and its acquisition must materially contribute to the security of the British commerce and possessions in that quarter of the world. The successes which have crowned his majesty's arms, during the present campaign, under the distinguished command of lieutenantgeneral lord viscount Wellington, are most important to the interests and glorious to the character of the country. His royal highness warmly participates in all the sentiments which have been excited by those successes, and concurs in the just applause which you have bestowed upon the skill, prudence, and intrepidity so conspicuously displayed obtaining them. in It affords the greatest satisfaction to his royal highness to reflect, that, should it please divine providence to restore his majesty to the ardent prayers and wishes of his majesty's people, his royal highness will be enabled to lay before his majesty, in the history of these great achievements of the British arms, throughout a series of systematic operations, so satisfactory a proof that the national interests and the glory of the British name have been so successfully maintained, while his royal highness has conducted the government of the united kingdom. Then a commission for prorogueing the parliament was read; after which the lord chancellor said: 1811. My lords and gentlemen, By virtue of the commission under the great seal to us and other lords directed, and now read, we do, in obedience to the commands of his royal highness the prince regent, in the name and on behalf of his majesty, prorogue this parliament to Thursday, the twenty-second day of August next, to be then here holden; and this parlia ment is accordingly prorogued to Thursday, the twenty-second day of August next. The house immediately rose till the 22d of August. TWO DECREES OF BONAPARTE. By two decrees, dated the 27th of July, the emperor of France, wishing to make several dispositions useful to his good city of Rome, as he affectedly calls it, has decreed as follows: The imperial court of justice shall be established at the chancery; the academy of the university in the good city of Rome shall be established at the college della Sapienza. Two lyceums shall be established at Rome, one at the Roman college, and the other at that of the Jesuits. The magazines of corn and oil at the Baths of Dioclesian and Coneto, and Civita Vecchia, are ceded to the city of Rome. Every year there shall be provided an extraordinary fund of one million, under the title of The special fund for the embellishments of Rome. This fund shall be raised partly on the city and partly on the revenues of the extraordinary. It shall be applied to the excavations for the discovery of antiquities; to the perfectioning of the naviga tion of the Tiber; to the construc. tion of a new bridge on the site of that of Horatius Cocles; to the (0) finishing finishing of the bridge of Sixtus; to the aggrandisement and embel. lishment of the squares of Trajan and the Pantheon; to the construction of a market and two slaughtering-places; to the opening of a promenade on the side of the Gate of the People, and another on the site of the Forum, of the Coliseum, and of the Mount Palatine, to the establishment of a botanic garden, &c. The fund of one million shall be employed in 1811 in the following manner:-100,000 livres for the wood to complete the navigation of the Tiber, especially in that part of the river which flows through the city of Rome; 50,000 to begin the new bridge of Hora tius Cocles; 50,000 for the bridge of Sixtus; 50,000 for the enlargement and embellishments of the squares of Trajan and the Pantheon; 150,000 for the promenade at the Gate of the People; 100,000 for the promenade at the Capitol; 50,000 for the market; 100,000 for the slaughtering-places; 50,000 for the botanic garden; 300,000 livres for a fund to furnish sup. plementary aid, according to the statements made of the progress of the works, and to commence new ones, according to the proposals which shall be made by the committee. The plans for the perfectioning of the navigation of the Tiber, from Perugia to the sea, and especially of that part of the river which flows through the city of Rome, the new bridge of Horatius Cocles, and the bridge of Sixtus, shall be commenced without delay, and shall be submitted to his majesty in the sittings of bridges. and causeways which shall be held in December. Also shall be commenced, with as little delay as possible, the plans for the enlargement and embellishment of the squares of Trajan and the Pantheon, and for the market and slaughtering-places. In the mean time, till the plans for the square of Trajan shall have received his majesty's approbation, the convents of the Holy Ghost and St. Euphemia shall be pulled down. The plans which have been submitted to his majesty for the promenade on the side of the Gate of the People are approved; and to carry them into effect the convent del Populo, and its dependencies, shall be pulled down. This promenade shall be called the Garden of the Great Cæsar. The promenade projected on the site of the Capitol and the Coliseum shall be called the Garden of the Capitol. The plans of them shall be presented without delay, as well as those of the botanic garden. The houses, palaces, and dependencies, situated on the sites destined for the embellishments of Rome, and which appertain to his majesty, or which appertain to the court of Naples, shall be pulled down. PARIS. Palace of St. Cloud, Aug. 24. Napoleon, emperor of the French, king of Italy, protector of the confederation of the Rhine, mediator of the Swiss confederation, &c. &c. &c. An account having been given of the state of printing and vending of books in the departments of the Hanseatic towns of Tuscany, and the Roman states: Wishing to reconcile the rights which are guarantied by our laws and decrees of the literary property of authors with the interests of our subjects, the booksellers and print ers |
