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to make such further provision as 

 aforesaid, as may be thought most 

 effectual for the benefit of General 

 the Earl of Wellington, and his 

 family. 



" G. P. R." 



Message from the Prince Regent 

 respecting the Princesses, March 

 20. 



George P. R. 

 His Royal Highness the Prince 

 Regent, in the name and on the 

 behalf of his Majesty, thinks it 

 necessary to acquaint the House of 

 Commons, that, in pursuance of 

 the powers vested in his Majesty 

 by two acts passed in the 18th and 

 39th years of his present Majesty's 

 reign, his Majesty was graciously 

 pleased, by letters patent, bearing 

 date February 2, 1812, to grant to 

 their Royal Highnesses the Prin- 

 cesses Augusta, Elizabeth, Mary, 

 Sophia, and Amelia, an annuity of 

 3,000/. agreeably to the provisions 

 and subject to the limitation of 

 the said acts, which grant was to 

 take effect from the demise of his 

 Majesty ; and his Royal Highness 

 being desirous, in the present situa- 

 tion of the royal family, to be 

 enabled to provide for the establish- 

 ment of their Royal Highnesses the 

 Princesses, by an immediate grant, 

 recommends to the House of Com- 

 mons to take the subject into its 

 consideration, and to enable his 

 Royal Highness to make such pro- 

 vision for their Royal Highnesses 

 the Princesses, as in the liberality 

 of parliament may be thought suit- 

 able to the actual situation of the 

 Princesses, and to the circum- 

 stances of the present time. 



Report on the Nigh tit/ Watch and 

 Police of the Metropolis. 



The report of the committee ap- 

 pointed to examine into the state 

 of the nightly watch in the metro- 

 polis and the parishes adjacent, 

 and further into the state of the 

 police, and who were empowered 

 to report their observations, from 

 time to time, to the house, is 

 printed. 



The committee observe, that 

 they first directed their inquiries to 

 the state of the nightly watch. 

 Had they found the defects in this 

 part of the system of our police to 

 have been such at this moment, 

 as to have demanded the immediate 

 interposition of the legislature, they 

 would have made an early report ; 

 but they had the satisfaction of ob- 

 serving, that the apprehensions 

 which had been excited, had pro- 

 duced such a degree of activity and 

 vigilance in many parishes and dis- 

 tricts, and such a conviction that 

 the former means of security were 

 insufficient, that all immediate 

 alarms on this head had been in a 

 great measure removed. 



In some parishes, indeed, the 

 zeal and energy of the inhabitants 

 appear to have been the most ex- 

 emplary and meritorious ; they 

 have agreed to take upon them- 

 selves, in rotation, the duties of 

 superintendants of the nightly 

 watch, to visit and inspect the 

 watch-houses, the constables, bea- 

 dles, patroies,and stationary watch- 

 men ; and a system of the nightly 

 watch, thus introduced by volun- 

 tary exertions of the householders, 

 has been so effectual, that your 

 committee think it necessary only 

 to recommend such measures to be 



enforced 



