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*thodel he émployed on this occasion, 
(one. worthy of the lectures) was a _re- 
markably fine negro, from whom we un- 
derstand Mr. Dawe has, this summer, 
been engaged in painting a Jarge picture. 
Ps 
State of Public Affairs in Deceniber. 
idan. 14 
Some observations on the trial of Dae 
bost versus Beresford, respecting the cuts 
ting of an intpudent carricature picturéy 
are unavoidably deferred till our next. 
—_ 
STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS IN DECEMBER, 
aitivees eka official Papers and authentic Documenis. 
SWEDEN, | 
HE King issned a proclamation on the 
19th of November, ordering the seizure of 
any English vessel then in the Swedish ports, 
and the prohibition of the entrance into the 
said ports of English ships of war, 'merchant- 
ships, ot vessels coming from Great Britain, 
ber Colonies, and the States under her imme- 
giate Government, or carrying goods being the 
produce or manufacture of, or belonging to, 
the Crown of Great Britain and her subjects. 
It also orders, that English colonial ‘goods 
must not, from any town or place in the 
kingdom, be exported to foreign places on the 
Continent. 
: SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. — 
~ A Council of War was held’on the dst in- 
stant in Lord Wellington’s Army, in conse- 
‘guence of the distressing situation in which 
the Allies now find themselves, with the 
immense crowd of ‘refugees thrown ‘upon 
theiz humanity for subsistence, and without 
having the usual communication ~with the 
north of Portugal, as’ Massena’s' right is ex- 
‘tended to Leiria. A letter ‘from an officer 
states, that the distresses of the Portuguese 
‘were dreadful. He had had the return of 
twenty-three deaths in one day from actual 
want, in one cantonment. — 
The late accounts from Madrid stated the 
frequent interruption given to the couriers, 
in their progress with the mails and dispatches’ 
to Fiance. The'debates in the Coxtes were 
the constant subject of ridicule with the 
French party. A decree had been issued by 
Joseph, ordering that the bones of Cervantes, 
Solis, Cortez, and other distinguished Spa- 
piards, buried in the capital and elsewhere, 
‘should be taken up, and their remains con- 
veyed with great parade and ceremony to the 
royal church of St. Isidore. 
FIOLLAND. 
Letters from. Holland represent thie -dis- 
tresses of the inhabitants of the capital, and 
other popular towns, as being deplorable in 
the extreme, owing to the total stagnation of 
trade. ‘Those who formerly lived in the first 
style, have been reduced to poverty,, or to 
‘avert that extremity, have been compelled, 
to contract their expenditure within the 
narrowest limits. Itis menticned that within. . 
few weeks upwards of 2000 domestic servants. 
had been discharged, Dis. 
en es GREAT BRITAIN. 
‘Phe malady of the’ King has continued 
through the month with slight fluctus 
ations; and at such a period this great 
country has been for two months withs 
Out’ an efiicient head‘ to its Government ! 
Some. unhappy fatality appears to have. 
befallen. it; and we fear that the sun of 
its glory is really sétting, as was said hy 
a great statesman twenty years ago a: 
~ Parliament has had repeated meetings 
to littlé purpose. On the 20th, Mr. Per- 
cival, the Chanéellor of the Exchequer, 
moved the folldwing Resolutions: 
_ That it is the opinion of this Commit- 
tee, that his Majesty is prevented by his pres 
gent indisposition from ¢oming to his Parlia- 
ment, and from attending to the public busi-~ 
ness; and that the personal exercise of the 
Royal Authority is thereby suspended. 
‘© That for this purpose, and for maintains 
ing entire the Constitutional Authority of the 
King, it is necessary that the Lords Spi« 
tual and Temporal, and Commons of Great 
Britain and Ireland, should determine on the 
means whereby the Royal Assent may be 
given in Parliament to such Bills a8 may be 
passed by the two Houses of Parliament, re- 
Specting the exercise of the powers ahd au- 
thorities cf the Crown, in the name and on 
behalf of the King, during the continuance of 
his Majesty’s present indisposition. = 
‘+ That it is the opinion of this Commits 
tee, that it is the right and duty of the 
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons 
of Great Britain and Ireland, now assembieds 
and lawfully, fully, and freely, representing. 
all the Estates of the people of this Realm, 
to provide the mean of supplying the defect 
ia the personal exercise of the Royal Autho- 
rity, arising from his Majesty’s said indispo- 
sition, in such manner as-the exigency of the 
case may appear to require.” 
Sir Francis ‘Burdett denied the coms 
petency of such a Flouse to decide; and 
advised an Appeal to the People: and 
Mr, George Ponsonby, for the Whigs, 
read the following Resolution as an 
Amendment: . 
<¢ That an humble address be presented to 
his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, re+ 
guesting that his Royal. Highness will be 
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