THE 



ANNUAL REGISTER, 



For the Year 1818. 



GENERAL HISTORY. 



CHAPTER I. 



The Prince Regent's Speech, passed by Commission.— Bill proposed hU 

 the earl of Liverpool, and Lord Holland's remarks.— Address to tlfe 

 prince Regent from the House of Commons.— Speeches—Sir S 

 KomiUys remarks on particular Trials.— The Solicitor-General's 

 o6servations.-Bill presented by Viscount Sidmouth.—Lord Hoi- 

 lands remarks, and Lord Sidmouth's reply. 



ON January 27, the Prince 

 Regent's Speech was made 

 public to both Houses by com- 

 mission, the persons entrusted 

 with the office being the Lord 

 Chancellor, the Archbishop of 

 Canterbury, the earl of Harrowby, 

 the earl of Westmorland, and 

 the duke of Montrose, The 

 ispeech was read by the Lord 

 Chancellor, and was to the fol- 

 lowing effect : 



" My Lords and Gentlemen; 



" We are commanded by his 

 royal highness the Prince Regent 

 to mform you, that it is with 

 great concern that he is obliged 



Vol. LX. 



to announce to you the continu- 

 ance of his Majesty's lamented 

 indisposition. 



" The Prince Regent is per- 

 suaded that you will deeply par- 

 ticipate in the affliction with which 

 his Royal Highnes has been 

 visited, by the calamitous and 

 untimely death of his beloved and 

 only child the Princess Charlotte. 



" Under this awful dispensation 

 of Providence, it has been a 

 soothing consolation to the Prince 

 Regent's heart, to receive from 

 all descriptions of his majesty's 

 subjects the most cordial assur- 

 ances both of their just sense of 



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