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(though that would have been a more legal and constitutionalmode than what has been followed,) but the whole legislativeauthority of the King. The legislature being, by this one act ofnecessity , completed, and the constitution restored to its vigour,by the Prince of Wales presiding in parliament as his father’scommissioner, the next step should have been for the parliament,

I mean the complete parliament, to have appointed a Regentwhom they thought fit, and with or without limitations as theythought fit: for though I think it would have been highly im-proper for the legislature to have appointed any other personRegent, except the Prince of Wales, or to have appointed himRegent with any other check or control, except such as the con-stitution has thrown round the King himself in the exercise ofhis power, yet I admit in the fullest extent, that the legislaturewould have had both the power and the right to have doneotherwise.

“ A Regency being settled, not by the authority of the twoHouses of Parliament, but by the whole legislature, the next stepshould have been to have made the best possible provision for theguardianship of the King’s person, for the security of his privateproperty, and for his re-assumption of all his public rights ofsovereignty, as soon as ever it shall please God to put him in acondition to enjoy them.

“ This mode of proceeding would, I humbly think, have beenthe least perplexed, and the most constitutional which could havebeen followed. Another mode has been adopted, and limitationsof the Regent’s power have been proposed, and as I can neitherapprove of the mode in which the limitations are proposed to be