on for an address to the prince
was rejected by two hundred and sixty-nine against one hundred and
fifty-seven. All the original resolutions were therefore carried, and
the same three resolutions were likewise agreed to by the lords. Mr.
Perceval, now, on the 3rd of December, proposed the same limitations and
restrictions on the powers of the regent as were passed in 1788. These
limitations and restrictions were contained in five resolutions. The
first four of these resolutions were agreed to on the same day; but the
fifth, relating to the care of his majesty's person was postponed till
the next day.

{A.D. 1811}

The fifth resolution of the regency bill was not settled for some
days. On the 1st of January an amendment to it, tending to diminish the
expenses of the king's household, and to curtail the authority of the
queen over that household, was carried against ministers by a majority
of thirteen; and this decision was confirmed the next day by the
rejection of an amendment moved by Mr. Perceval, which went to restore
the fifth resolution to its original state. All the resolutions were
then sent up to the lords, who, after some discussion, agreed to them;
inserting an amendment in the second for allowing the regent to bestow
the peerage upon deserving civilians, lawyers, etc. The commons readily
agreed to this alteration in the second clause; and, by an act founded
upon the whole, it was provided that the restrictions upon the royal
authority, as exercised by the regent, should continue till the 1st of
February, 1812, if parliament should be then assembled, and should have
been sitting six weeks previously; otherwise, till the expiration of six
weeks from the assembling of parliament after that day. A deputation
now waited on the prince regent and the queen, to acquaint them with the
resolutions which had been passed, and both accepted the office proposed
to them, though the prince complained that his powers were to be
exercised under so many restrictions and limitations. Their replies were
reported to parliament on the 11th of January, when Lord Liverpool moved
in the lords a resolution for putting the great seal to a commission
for opening the parliament under the regency. This resolution passed the
lords, after some opposition from Earl Grey, by a majority of fifty-one
against thirty-three, and it was afterwards agreed to by the commons;
and then both houses adjourned until the 15th of January, when the
session