was delivered by commission. It dwelt chiefly on the
events which had happened in the Peninsula, and on the differences which
existed between England and America. The addresses were carried in both
houses without a division, though not without debate and censure. In
the lords, Grenville and Grey denounced the measures of government in no
very soft language as regarded their war and foreign policy, and uttered
some predictions of calamities which must follow any new rupture with
America. In the commons Sir Francis Burdett proposed instead of an
address a strong remonstrance to the regent, containing an elaborate
statement of grievances, among which the constitution of the house
was one of the most conspicuous. In making this proposal, the right
honourable baronet declared that Englishmen for the last eighteen
years had been daily losing their liberty; that a detestation of French
liberty had produced the present war; that nothing had been done for
Spain, and that if its cause was now taken up by the British government
it had become hopeless; that the victories won by our armies were
useless; and that parliament should be reformed.

AUGMENTATION OF THE CIVIL LIST.

At this time no change had taken place in the indisposition of the king.
The general impression on the minds of the people, indeed, was that his
recovery was hopeless, that the remainder of his days would be spent in
mental debility. This impression was heightened when, in the house
of commons, in a committee to consider the question of the king's
household, Mr. Perceval stated that, according to the physicians,
the expectation of his majesty's recovery was diminished. Under these
circumstances he laid before the house the measures proposed to be
adopted. Several objections were taken to his plan; but the following
resolutions were finally agreed to:--"1. That, for making provision for
the due arrangement of his majesty's household, and for the exercise
of the royal authority during the continuance of his majesty's
indisposition, and for the purpose of enabling the queen to meet the
increased expenses to which, in consequence of such indisposition, her
majesty may be exposed, there be granted out of the consolidated fund
of Great Britain the yearly sum of L70,000. 2. That it is expedient that
provision be made for defraying the expenses incident to the assumption
of the personal exercise of the royal authority by his royal highness
the prince regent, in