things, to the utmost of my power and bility consult and maintain the safety, honour, and dignity of his or her (as the case shall require) majesty, and the welfare of his or her (as the case shall require) people. "So help me God."

I do faithfully promsie and swear that I will inviolably maintain and preserve the settlement of the true Protestant religion, with the government, discipline, rights, and privileges of the church of Scotland, as established by law.

"So help me God."

Which oaths shall be taken before the privy council then in being, who are hereby empowered and required to administer the same, and to enter the same in the council-books.

Clause 4. That it shall not be lawful for the king or queen of this realm, for whom a regent is hereby appointed, to intermarry before his or her age of eighteen years, with any person whomsoever, without the consent, in writing, of the regent, and the assent of both houses of parliament previously obtained; and every marriage without such consent and such assent of the two houses of parliament shall be null and void to all intents and purposes; and every person who shall be acting, aiding, abetting, or concerned in obtaining, procuring, or bringing about any such marriage, and the person who shall be so married to such king or queen under the age of eighteen years, shall be guilty of high treason, and suffer and forfeit as in case of high treason.

Clause 5. That the regent shall

not give or have power to give the royal assent to any bill or bills in parliament for repealing, changing, or in any respect varying from the order and course of succession to the crown of this realm, as the same stands now established by the act of the 12th year of the reign of king William III., entitled, An act for the further limitation of the crown, and better securing the rights and liberties of the subject," or to any act for repealing or altering the act made in the 13th year of the reign of king Charles II., intituled An act for the uniformity of public prayers and administration of sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies, and for establishing the form of making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons, in the church of England," or an act of the fifth year of the reign of queen Anne, made in Scotland, intituled "An act for securing the Protestant religion and Presbyterian government."

Clause 6. Provided always, and be it further enacted, that if his said royal highness prince Albert shall, at any time after becoming such guardian and regent, marry a person professing the Roman Catholic religion, or shall cease to reside in or absent himself from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, then and in either of such cases his said royal highness shall no longer be guardian and regent, and all the powers and authorities which he may have derived under and by virtue of this act shall henceforth cease and determine.

JOHN ERNEST, seventh son of Ernest the Pious, was the founder of this house, originally called Saxe Saalfeld, till, upon obtaining the principality of Coburg, it assumed the above title.

September 23, 1781, married, in 1796, to the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, when she assumed the name of Anna Feodorowna.

She was divorced from him March 20th, 1820, and resides at Elfenau, near Berne, in Switzerland.

FRANCIS FREDERICK ANTHONY, married, firstly, in 1776, Ernestina Frederica Sophia, daughter of Duke Ernest Frederick Charles, of Saxe Hildburghausen, who died in the same year; and secondly, in 1777, Augusta Carolina Sophia, daughter of Count Henry XXIV. Rouss of Ebersdorf, by whom he had issue:

ERNEST ANTHONY CHARLES LEWIS, the reigning duke, born January 2, 1784, succeeded his father December 3, 1806. He married firstly, on the 31st of July, 1817, Louisa Dorothea, Princess of Saxe Gotha, from whom he was separated in 1826, and who died in 1831; and secondly, on the 23rd of December, 1832, Mary, daughter of the late Duke Alexander of Wurtemberg, uncle of the king. By the first marriage he has two

sons:

Ernest Augustus Charles, here ditary prince, born June 21st, 1818.

Albert Francis Augustus Charles Emanuel, born August 26th, 1819. The duke's brothers and sisters

are:

Juliana Henrietta Ulrica, born

Ferdinand George Augustus, born March 28, 1785, Lieutenant Field-Marshal in the Austrian service, married, January 2nd,

Princess of Kohary, by whom he has issue:

Ferdinand Augustus Francis Anthony, born October 29th, 1816, married April 9th, 1836, to Donna Maria II., Queen of Portugal, and constitutionally invested with the royal dignity on the 16th of September, 1837, on which day the queen gave birth to an heir to the crown, Peter Ferdinand, Duke of Porto.

Augustus Lewis Victor, born June 13th, 1818.

Victoire Auguste Antonie, born February 14th, 1822, betrothed to the Duke de Nemours, second son of the king of the French.

Leopold Francis, born January 31st, 1824.

Maria Louisa Victoria, born August 17th, 1796, married firstly, December 21st, 1803, to Emich Charles, Prince of Leiningen, who died in 1814, and by whom she has issue:

Charles Frederick, present Prince of Leiningen, born September 15th, 1804,married February 13th, 1829, to Maria, daughter of the late Count Maximilian of Knebelsberg.

Anna Feodorowna, born De

cember 7th, 1807, married, February 8th, 1828, to Ernest Christian Charles, the present Prince of Hohenloe Langenburg.

The Princess married, secondly, July 11th, 1818, his royal highness the Duke of Kent, who died January 23, 1823, and by whom she became mother of her Majesty Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, born May 24th, 1819.

Leopold George Christian Frederick, born December 16th, 1790. married, May 2, 1816, to her royal highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales, who died November 6th, 1817. After refusing the crown of Greece, he was elected King of Belgium, June 4th, 1831, and married, secondly, on the 9th of August, 1832, Louise Marie The rese, eldest daughter of Louis Philippe, King of the French, born at Palermo, April 3, 1812, by whom she had issue::

Louis Philippe Leopold Victor Ernest, born July 24, 1833, died May 16, 1834.

Leopold Louis Philippe, born April 9, 1835, hereditary prince.

Philippe Eugene Ferdinand, born March 24th, 1837.

Previously to the treaty of Congress signed at Vienna in 1815, the possessions of the Duke of Saxe Coburg Saalfeld comprised 17 German, or about 375 English square miles, with a population, according to the census taken in 1812, of 57,26€ souls. The revenues of the prince amounted, in 1807, to 425,000 florins.

From the territories since added, as well by the treaty of congress, as by inheritance, the ducal dominions now comprise 37 geographical, or 795 English square miles, and 130,000 inhabitants. The revenues amount to 1,100,000 guilders, besides which the duke receives from Prussia an annuity of 80,000 rixdollars for the principality of Lichtenberg, which he ceded to that power. The debts of the state are estimated at three millions of guilders. contingent to the army of the Germanic confederation is 1,116

men.

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Whereas, it is essential to the due and effectual exercise and discharge of the functions and duties of parliament, and to the promotion of wise legislation, that no obstructions or impediments should exist to the publication of such of its reports, votes, and proceedings, as either house of parliament may deem fit and necessary to be published:

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arisen, and hereafter may arise, by means of civil or criminal proceedings being taken against persons employed or acting by the authority of the houses of parliament, or one of them, in making or causing such publications: by reason and for remedy whereof, it is expedient that more speedy protection should be afforded to all persons acting under the authority aforesaid, and that all such civil or criminal proceedings should be summarily put 2 C

an end to and determined in manner hereinafter mentioned:

Be it therefore enacted by the queen's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that it shall and may be lawful for any defendant or defendants heretofore, now, or hereafter sued or prosecuted, civilly or criminally, in any manner howsoever, for or on account, or in respect of the publication of any such reports, votes, or proceedings by or under the authority of either house of parliament, to deliver or cause to be delivered and left at the office of the court, or jurisdiction wherein any such suit, prose cution, or proceeding may be commenced, depending, or prosecuted, in which the judgment in such matters is signed or entered, or with the officer, clerk, or person whose duty it may be to sign or to enter such judgment, or to make up, prepare, or receive, or file the rolls or records of such judgment, with an affidavit verifying the same, a certificate under the hand of the lord high chancellor of Great Britain, or the lord keeper, or the speaker of the house of lords for the time being, or the clerk of the parliament, or of the speaker of the house of commons, or of the chief clerk of the same house, stating that such civil or criminal proceeding is commenced and prosecuted for and in respect of the publication of reports, votes, or proceedings, as the case may be, by authority of the house of lords, or of the house of commons, as the case may be; and from and after the delivery of such certificate and affidavit no proceeding, writ, or process whatever shall be had,

taken, executed, or prosecuted in such civil or criminal proceeding; but the same civil or criminal proceeding, writ, and process, whether heretofore commenced, prosecuted, or issued, or hereafter to be commenced, prosecuted, or issued, shall thenceforth be and shall be deemed and taken to be finally concluded, put an end to, determined, and superseded by authority of this act.

And whereas during the present session of parliament certain warrants have been granted by the speaker of the house of commons, under the authority of the said. house, in relation to the matters aforesaid; and a certain action or actions have been, or may be, brought for certain alleged trespasses in the execution of the said warrants; and it is expedient that such action or actions should be put an end to, and finally determined, discharged, and made void by virtue of this act be it enacted, that all and every action or actions heretofore brought or prosecuted, or which may hereafter be brought or prosecuted, by any person or persons for or in respect of any alleged trespass or trespasses under or in execution of any warrant or warrants granted by the speaker of the house of commons, by authority of the said house, since the commencement of the present session of parliament, shall be put an end to, and finally determined, discharged, and made void by virtue of this act.

Provided always, and it is hereby expressly declared and enacted, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed or taken, or held or construed, directly or indirectly, by implication or otherwise, to affect the privileges of parliament in any manner whatsoever.

Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives,

I regret that I cannot on this occasion congratulate you that the past year has been one of unalloyed prosperity. The ravages of fire and disease have painfully afflicted otherwise flourishing portions of our country, and serious embarrassments yet derange the trade of many of our cities. But, notwithstanding these adverse circumstances, that general prosperity which has been heretofore so bountifully bestowed upon us by the Author of all good, still continues to call for our warmest gratitude. Especially have we reason to rejoice in the exuberant harvests which have lavishly recompensed well-directed industry, and given to it that sure reward which is vainly sought in visionary speculations. I cannot indeed view with out peculiar satisfaction the evidences afforded by the past season of the benefits that spring from the steady devotion of the husbandman to his honourable pursuit. No means of individual comfort is more certain, and no source of national prosperity is so sure. Nothing can compensate a people for a dependence upon others for the bread they eat; and that cheerful abundance on which the happiness of every one so much de,

pends, is to be looked for nowhere with such sure reliance as in the industry of the agriculturist and the bounties of the earth.

With foreign countries our rela tions exhibit the same favourable aspect which was presented in my last annual message, and afford continued proof of the wisdom of the pacific, just, and forbearing policy adopted by the first administration of the federal government, and pursued by its successors. The extraordinary powers vested in me by an Act of Congress, for the defence of the country in an emergency, considered so far probable as to require that the executive should possess ample means to meet it, have not been exerted. They have, therefore, been attended with no other result than to increase, by the confidence thus reposed in me, my obligations to maintain, with religious exactness, the cardi nal principles that govern our intercourse with other nations. Happily in our pending questions with Great Britain, out of which this unusual grant of authority arose, nothing has occurred to require its exertion; and as it is about to return to the legislature, I trust that no future necessity may call for its exercise by them, or its delegation to another department of the government.