London, July 13. The following is the official Report of the state of his Majesty's health on Saturday the 6th inst. as presented to the Privy Council by the Queen's Council: (Copy.) Windsor, July 6. We the underwritten, menbers 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, intituled, 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 tat 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 resume the personal exercise of his royal functions. That his Majesty's bodily health is but little disordered. Tat, 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 approach to his Majesty's presence, as was always allowed in a former period of his Majesty's indispo sition. '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, or the effect which the disease has yet produced upon his Majesty's faculties, afford any reason for thinking that his Majesty will not ultimately (Signed) Recover. July 23. C. CANTUAR. AYLESFORD. This day, in the House of Lords, the Lord Chancellor stated, that two commissions had been issued under the Great Seal, the one for giving the Royal Assent to certain bills, and the other for the prorogation of Parliaent, and the House adjourned to robe. A few minutes afterwards the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Camden, the Earl of Westmoreland, and the Earl of Aylesford, took their seats in their robes as Lords Commissioners. The Deputy Usher of the Black Rod, was sent to require the attendance of the Commons. After After a short interval the Speaker and several members of the House of Commons came to the bar. The Lord Chancellor stated, that it not being convenient for his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Regent, to be personally present, a Commission had been issued under the great seal, for giving the Royal Assent to certain bills. The commission, signed by the Prince Regent, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, was read by the clerk at the table. The Royal Assent was declared and notified in the usual form to the Bank Notes Bill, and the Militia Intercourse amendment Bill, after which the Lord Chancellor delivered the following speech: 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 enabled him to give immediate ope ration 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 Commons, His Royal Highness commands us to thank you in the name and on behalf of his Majesty, for the liberal 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 confidence to the advantage which may be derived from the attention of Parliament having been given to this important subject.' 64 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 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 Lieutenant-General 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 in obtaining them. '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 Royal Highness and 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 successfully maintained while his Royal Highness has conducted the Government of the United Kingdom.' Then a Commission for proroguing the Parliament was read. After which the Lord Chancellor said, My Lords, and Gentlemen, By virtue of the Commission under the Great Seal, to us and other Lands 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 Parliament is accordingly prorogned to Thursday the twenty-second day of August next.' The Commons withdrew from the Bar, and the Lords Commissioners retred from the House. 31. Sir James Craig, late governor of Quebec, has come home in the Amelia frigate. Gen. Prevost, late Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick, succeeds to the Government of Lower Canada, as the age and infirmi ties of Sir James, after long service, unfit him for the active duties, which, Eader the new circumstances with respect to the United Stat es, hemight be called on to perform. An account of the Reduction of the National Debt, from the 1st August, 1786, to the 1st May, 1811: Redeemed by the Sinking Fund On Account of Great Britain Ditto of Ireland £. 175,542,305 23,782,945 1,380,562 200,705,812 8,054,000 Ditto of Imperial Loan Ditto of Loan to Portugal 1,162,116 Total 209,989,133 The sum to be expended in the ensuing quarter is 3,276,230l. 4s. 1ld. [See Gen. Chron. vol. 1, p. 555.] An account of the reduction of the National Debt, from the 1st of August, 1786, to the 1st of August, 1811:- Redeemed by the Sinking Fund Transferred by Land-tax redeemed Ditto by Life Annuities purchased GEN. CHRON. VOL, III, NO. XI. 180,345,602 23,833,476 1,449,990 Оп The sum to be expended in the ensuing quarter is 2,880,1497. 16s. 4d. An account laid before the House of Commons states the total amount of gold monies coined from the Revolution up to the commencement of his Majesty's reign, at 26,959,7251. [For an account of the money coined from the Restoration to the year 1809, see the table facing page 300.] Amount of the Income of, and Charge on, the Consolidated Fund for Corresponding quarters of 1810 and 1811: Income. Produce of Permanent and War Taxes, and Sugar, Malt, Tobacco, &c. annually granted: Year ending 5th April 1810 Do. Do.. 1811 62,264,842 15 2 61,763,981 17 34 The amount of Notes of the Bank of England in circulation on the 6th of July, 1811, as laid before Parliament, was as follows: Bank Notes of 51. and upwards. Bank Post Bills Bank Notes under 51. 2.13,988,710 938,060 7,396,770 Total 7.22,323,540 The amount in circulation on the 13th of July, a week after, was as follows: A return laid before the House of Commons, of the number of Commit. ments for trial in the years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808, and 1809; distinguishing the crimes, the convictions, and the sentences.' In London and Middlesex there were→ 1805 Committed. Indicted. Convicted. 558 750 The increase of crimes consists chiefly in larcenies. Number of commitments, trials and convictions for all England, for the year 1809:Committed. Indicted. Convicted. Executed. Home Circuit Midland ditto Norfolk ditto The number of persons transported as criminals to New South Wales, since the month of August 1809, is, males 140, females 15, for life; males 33, females 9, for 14 years; and males 26, females 98, for 7 years. From a return just presented to the House of Commons, it appears that there was imported last year, 1,387,020 Quarters of Wheat, 533,613 Quarters of Oats, and Of this quantity the imports were— From France, 334,806 Quarters of Wheat, and 202,922 Cwt. of Flour. From Holland, 189,016 Quarters of Wheat. From Germany, 145,186 ditto-and From Poland and Prussia, 296,756. From Denmark and Norway, 110,235 Quarters. From the United States, 34,829 Quarterns of Wheat, and 210,209 Cwt. of Flour. Hence more than one-third of the Wheat, and nearly one-half of the Flour, came from France and Holland; while from the United States we imported not more Flour than we did from the countries with which we are at war; and the quantity of Wheat from the United States did not exceed one. fortieth part of the whole quantity imported. POPULATION RETURNS FOR 1811. The following lists have been returned of the city and liberties of Westminster, the Borough, and the principal parishes contiguous, conformable to the acts passed in the present Session of Parliament. Since the census of 1801, Westminster has had an increase of more than 22,000 inhabitants; St. George's, Blackfriars, 5000; Rotherhithe, 2200; and every other parish in proportion. The disparity of males to the females is strikingly conspicuous in most of the parishes. G 2 WEST. |