Author: LORD COMMISSIONERS
Title: The Speech of the Lords Commissioners to Both Houses of Parliament, on Tuesday, February 12, 1811.
Description: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1811. Folio. pp. 4. The Lords Commissioners who were appointed in the name of the King signified the granting of the royal assent to a bill that became the Care of King During his Illness, etc. Act 1811 (51 Geo. 3. c. 1). Under the Act, the King was suspended from the personal discharge of the royal functions, and George, Prince of Wales discharged those functions in the name and on behalf of the King from 1811 to 1820, when the King died and the Prince of Wales succeeded to the throne. The Lords Commissioners made this declaration to Parliament which in addition documented the progress of the war against the French, recording the capture of the islands of Bourbon and Amboya, the repulsion of the attack on Sicily and the developments in Portugal and Cadiz under Wellington.

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