Kentucky Gazette

Installment of the Regent.

Summonses were issued on Tuesday to the members of the privy council indiscriminately, commanding their attendance at Carlton House yesterday at two o'clock, to hear the regency oath administered to the prince.

Between one and two o'clock the members of the privy council proceeded to Carlton House in obedience to the summons. The magnificent suit of state apartments had been previously prepared for the occasion. At the extremity of the largest apartment a canopy had been raised, under which the prince regent sat. The servants were all in state liveries, lining the hall and passages. His royal highness was attended by the princes, and by all the great officers of the household.

Pall Mall, and the adjoining streets and houses were crowded with spectators. About two o'clock the prince entered the grand council room, the members standing up to receive his royal highness—the lord president being at the head of the council table, the lord chancellor at his right hand—the lord president, as we understand, upon his royal highness's taking his seat, addressed him shortly, stating, that by virtue of an act which had received the royal assent, the privy council were required and empowered to administer an oath to his royal highness, and enter the same in the books of the said privy council, before his royal highness should act or enter upon his said office as regent.

This oath the privy council were now assembled to administer. His royal highness making an obeisance in sign of his readiness to take the oath, immediately advanced to the council table, and standing between the lord president and the lord chancellor, the following oath was administered:

"I do solemnly promise and swear, that I will truly and faithfully execute the office of regent of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, according to an act of parliament passed in the 51st year of his majesty king George the III entitled 'an act to provide for the care of his majesty's royal person, and for the administration of the royal authority, during the continuance of his majesty's illness,' and that I will administer according to law, the power and authority vested in me by virtue of the said act, and will in all things, to the utmost of my power and ability, consult and maintain the safety, honor and dignity of his majesty and the welfare of his people. So help me God."

His royal highness took the oath in a most impressive manner; the whole council standing. As soon as his royal highness had taken it, and thus been installed as regent, he returned to his seat, and in a short time the members separated.