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    adapted with very little alteration , und many hours were consumed on the bill , which was formed with all the minutiae and tech . iricality so unfortunately pre - vailing in our acts of parliament .

    The regent ' s powers were abridged as much as possible , and every thing that could be thrown into the scale of the queen was passed , even as low * & giving to her the mastership of the buck hounds . In fact the quantity of influence , thatch this measure throws into

    her hands , might if she had not ft real affection to her son , and a great regard for his interests and those of the . nation , b £ extremely detrimental to public concerns * Our limits vrMi not permit us to

    go into the long and tedious debates upon the bill . It was car . yied to the l < rfd % aad * as usual , * ead at Rtst time , and /*; debate was expected ? on the second read *

    ing , but this at ot& present time © f writing has < not t&ken place * From the delays that may be expected , it is probable that the regent will not take hjs seat m the House of Lord * before the pub *

    lication of this paper . In the city of I * onclon were gome animated d § b $ tes both in the Common ( povncii and the Common Hall , and in both the

    resolutions proposed for vesting die regency in the prince without restrictions , were passed with great success , and petitions founded on them were presented to botk

    hou-« es . Preparations are also making in some towns find counties for taking the sense of the country on the important proceedings 06 the two houses , but these

    should have been made sooner , n * nothing can now change the determined meaavfres . Xbis i $

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    assuredly not a time for impair - ing the executive government , and the regent will be placed in not an enviable situation . He

    must have persons in whom he can confide to ' act with him , and the press of business and the probable opposition to the wisest measures will shew the difference

    between the powers allowed to him and those that belong to a king . Abroad , some- great events have taken place . One which makes

    at present little impression in Europe shews the nature of despotic governments , and the miserable tenure of a sovereign * Mivho reigns by terror . Constantinople has been a scene of most dreadful

    disorder . Ai * insurrectioii ; bspke out among the Janissaries , the standing army of tii ^ t gpuntfy , which was not quelled ; bu £ ] by an immense slaughter . The procla *

    raation states ten thousand to have fallen in battle in the streets , and t ^ i ree thousand to have perished by the ^ artds ... of ^^ the Executioner . This could not have been done

    but with loss on the part of the conquerors , and the dismay was evidently p'eat ^ as the Grand Seignior wag compelled to quit his seraglio , , and to take refuge on board his ships . His superb

    palace was pillaged , and of course great atrocities must . have fbeen committed ini other parts of the city . How far order is restored no one here can tell , for intelligence in that quarter is

    veryimperfect , and the apparent calm occasioned by immense slaughter may be followed by a terrible stormy again to scatter horror and dismay over thi $ devoted capital * The Grand Seigoior , after the horrid sacrifice offered : up to msr

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    $ 6 Stilte of Public Affi&r * .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1811, page 56, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2412/page/56/