1811.] State of Public Affairs in Julyi> 73 
port an increase of taxes to the amount of 
400 millions, in order to meet the interest 
of her debt, she who cannot meet her curi- 
rent expences without borrowing 800 mil¬ 
lions a year? The present financial system 
of England is baseless without a peace. All 
the systems of finance, founded upon loans, 
are in reality pacific in their nature, be¬ 
cause borrov;ing is calling in aid the re¬ 
sources of the future for the relief of pre¬ 
sent wants. Notwithstanding this, the 
existing administration of England has pro¬ 
claimed the principle of perpetual war; 
this is, as if the Chancellor of the Exche¬ 
quer announced that he should propose, in 
a few years, a Bankruptcy Bill. It is, in 
fact, mathematically demonstrable, that to 
provide for expenditure by an annual loan 
of 800 millions is to declare, that in some 
years there will be nO o her resourse but 
bankruptcy. This observation every day 
strikes intelligent men; every campaign it 
will be still more striking to the capital¬ 
ists. 
We are now in the fourth, year of the 
war in Spain; but still,'after sonue cam¬ 
paigns, Spain shall be subdued, and the En¬ 
glish shall be driven out of it. What are 
a few years in order to consolidate the great 
empire, and secure the tranquillity of our 
children ? It is not that the government 
does not wish, for peace; but it cannot take 
place while the affairs of England are di¬ 
rected by men, who all their lives have 
professed perpetual war; and, without a gua¬ 
rantee, what would that peace be to France ? 
At the close of two years, English fleets 
would seize our ships, and would ruin our 
ports of Bordeaux, Nantes, Amsterdam, 
Marseilles, Genoa, Leghorn, Venice, Na¬ 
ples, Trieste, and Hamburgh, as they have 
done heretofore. Such a peace would be 
only a trap laid for our commerce ; it would 
be useful to England alone, who would re¬ 
gain an opening for her commerce, and 
would change the Co^ntinental system. The 
pledge ©f peace is in the existence of our 
fleet and of our maritime power. We 
shall- be able to make peace with safety 
when we shall have J5() ships of the line; 
and, in spite of the obstacles of war, such 
is the state of the Empire that we shall 
have that number of Vessels! Thus, the 
guarantee of our fleet, and that of cn En¬ 
glish Administration founded on principles 
different from those of the existing Cabi¬ 
net, can alone give peace to the URiveise. 
It would be useful to us, no doubt, but it 
would also be desirable in every point of 
view; we shall say more, the Continenb--- 
the whole world demands it: but we have 
one consolation, which is, that it is still 
more desirable for our enemies than for 
ourselves ; and whatever efforts the English 
Ministry may make to stupify the nation, 
by > multitude of pamphlets, and by every 
thing that can keep in action a population 
greedy of news, they canndt con^val ftom 
'MoNTutv Ma«, No. 
the world how much peace becomes every 
day more indispensable to England. 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
The following i-; the official -Ileport ot 
the State of his Majesty’s liealth on Sa¬ 
turday the 6th instant, as presented to 
the Privy Council by the Queen’s Council, 
Wittdior-y July 6. 
<< We the under-written. Members of the 
council appointed to assist bet Majesty in the 
execution of the trusts committed to her Ma¬ 
jesty, by virtue of the statute, passed ia the 
5l8t 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 con¬ 
tinuance of his Majesty’s illness, and for the 
resumption of the exerci.se of the Royal Au¬ 
thority by his Majesty,” having duly met 
together, on the 6ch day of July, 1811, at 
the {Queen’s Lodge, near to Windsor Castle, 
and having called before us, and examined 
upon oath, the |>bysicians and other persons 
attendant upon his Majesty, and having as¬ 
certained 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 h'S Ma¬ 
jesty’s health, at the time of thisour 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 djsorder, subsequent to our report of 
the 6th April last, a change to )k place in 
the system of management, which had been 
previously adopted for his Majesty’s cQre. 
His Majesty’s mental health is represented 
to us by all the physicians as certainly im¬ 
proved since the 6th of April. We are un¬ 
able, however, to ascertain what would be 
th^ efiects of an immediate recurrence to any 
system of management, which should admit 
©f as free an approach to his Majesty’s pre¬ 
sence, 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 persua¬ 
sion 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 efl'ect which the disease 
has yet ptoduced upon his Majesty’s faculties, 
afford any reason for thinking tliat his Ma¬ 
jesty will not ultimately recover. 
(Signed) “C. Cantuar. 
E. Eeor. 
‘»Eldon. • Montrose. 
Ellenborough. “Winchelsea 
“ W. Grant. “ A v m.sfori>.” 
Tbe k ing. has since relapsed, and his life 
has liecn despaired of for. many days. 
