RESOLUTION, &c.

Die Jovis, 10° Januarij 1811.

RESOLVED, That the Refolution agreed to by the Lords and Commons refpecting the Care of His Majesty's Royal Perfon, and the Direction of fuch Part of His Majefty's Household as fhall be deemed requifite for the due Attendance on His Majefty's Sacred Perfon, and the Maintenance of His Royal Dignity, be laid before Her Majefty, with an humble Addrefs, expreffing the Hope which the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, entertain, that Her Majefty will be graciously pleased to undertake the important Trust proposed to be invested in Her Majesty, as foon as an Act of Parliament shall have been paffed, for carrying the faid Refolution into Effect:

The faid Refolution is as follows:

RESOLVED, That the Care of His Majesty's Royal Perfon, during the Continuance of His Majesty's Illness, should be committed to the Queen's moft Excellent Majefty; together with the fole Direction of fuch Portion of His Majefty's Household as fhall be deemed requifite and fuitable for the

due

due Attendance on His Majefty's Sacred Perfon, and the Maintenance of His Royal Dignity; and that, for the better enabling Her Majesty to dif charge this important Trust, it is also expedient that a Council fhould be appointed to advise and affift Her Majefty in the feveral Matters aforefaid, and with Power from Time to Time as they may fee Cause, to examine upon Oath the Physicians and others attending His Majesty's Perfon, touching the State of His Majefty's Health, and all Matters relative thereto.

ORDERED, That the Earl Harcourt, and the Lord Douglas of Lochleven, do attend Her Majefty with the Refolution and Addrefs agreed to by both Houses of Parliament, refpecting the Care of His Majesty's Royal Perfon, and the Direction of fuch Part of His Majefty's Household as fhall be deemed requifite for the due Attendance on His Majesty's Sacred Perfon and the Maintenance of His Royal Dignity, on the Part of the Lords; with Lord John Thynne, Lord Viscount Palmerston, Lord Viscount Clive, and Mr. Difbrowe, appointed to attend Her Majesty on the Part of the Commons.

THE

Die Veneris, 11° Januarij 1811.

HE Earl Harcourt reported, That he and the Lord Douglas of Lochleven had (according to Order) waited on Her Majefty with the Refolution and Addrefs of both Houfes of Parliament, and that Her Majefty was pleafed to return the following Anfwer:

My

My Lords and Gentlemen,

THAT

HAT Sense of Duty and Gratitude to the King, and of Obligation to this Country, which induced me, in the Year 1789, readily to promife my moft earnest Attention to the anxious and momentous Truft at that Time intended to be repofed in me by Parliament, is ftrengthened, if poffible, by the uninterrupted Enjoyment of those Bleffings which I have continued to experience, under the Protection of His Majesty since that Period; and I fhould be wanting to all my Duties, if I hesitated to accept the Sacred Truft which is now offered

to me.

THE Affiftance, in point of Council and Advice, which the Wisdom of Parliament proposes to provide for me, will make me undertake the Charge with greater Hopes that I may be able fatisfactorily to fulfil the important Duties which it must impofe

upon me.

Of the Nature and Importance of that Charge I cannot but be duly fenfible, involving as it does every Thing which is valuable to myself, as well as the highest Interests of a People, endeared to me by fo many Ties and Confiderations, but by nothing so strongly as by their steady, loyal, and affectionate Attachment to the beft of Kings.

CAB