Sitting of 15 January 1819

Preamble
The Commons being returned from the House of Peers,
The Speakeraddressed the House as follows:
I have to acquaint the House, that this House has been in the House of Peers, where the Lords Commissioners have declared, that his royal highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on behalf of his majesty, has been pleased to approve of the choice which this House has made in electing me to be their

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Speaker;—And I have thereupon in the name and on behalf of the Commons of the united kingdom, laid claim to all their ancient and undoubted rights and privileges: freedom of speech in debate, freedom from arrest and molestation for their persons, their estates and servants; free access to the royal presence whenever occasion shall require, and the most favourable construction of all their proceedings; all which have been confirmed to them in as full and ample manner, as they have been at any time granted or allowed by his majesty, or any of his royal predecessors. I may now once more be permitted to express to the House my unfeigned gratitude far this most distinguished mark of its confidence, in again electing me to the Chair. I implore of the House its constant and steady support, in enabling me to maintain a strict attention to its established rules and orders, which are not more essential to the convenient dispatch of business, than they are to the dignity and independence of the House itself. I have now only farther to submit to the House, that the first proceeding is for each member to take the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, to make and subscribe the Declaration, and also to take and subscribe the Oaths of Abjuration and Qualification, as by law required."
The Speakerthen proceeded, as the first Commoner, to take the oaths. The other members were then called up to the bar in alphabetical order, according to the counties they represented, and took the oaths.

Preamble
The House of Commons having been summoned by the Black Rod, the Speaker elect addressed the Lords Commissioners as follows:—
"My lords; in obedience to the commands of his royal highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of his majesty, his Majesty's faithful Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland have proceeded to the exercise of their actual and undoubted right of electing a Speaker, and it is now my duty to acquaint your lordships that their choice has fallen upon me.—Whatever considerations, my lords, may have weighed with his Majesty's faithful Commons in forming this determination, they are well aware that such election never can be final until it is sanctioned by the royal approbation; and I now, my lords, with all humility, do, on their behalf, present myself in this place, in order that his Majesty's faithful Commons may learn whether it be the royal pleasure that they shall proceed to a re-consideration of the choice which they have made."
The Lord Presidentthen said:—"Mr. Manners Sutton; we have it in command from his royal highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, to inform you, that his Royal Highness, fully confident of your eminent and tried abilities, and fitness to discharge the important duties of Speaker of the House of Commons, to which you have been elected by them, has been pleased to command us to signify to you, that his Royal Highness fully approves of the choice which the Commons have made; and that his Royal Highness therefore, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, doth approve and confirm you to be their Speaker."
The Speakerthen said:—
"My lords; since his royal highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on behalf of his majesty, has been graciously pleased to approve of the choice which his majesty's faithful Commons have made, I submit myself with all
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humility to, the royal will and pleasure. And I do now, my lords, in the name and on behalf of the Commons of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in parliament assembled, lay claim, by humble petition, to all their antient and undoubted rights and privileges; more especially freedom of speech in all their debates; freedom from arrest and molestation for themselves, their estates, and servants; free access to the royal person whenever occasion shall require; and the most favourable construction of all their proceedings.—For myself, my lords, I have most humbly to crave of his Royal Highness, that whatever errors or imperfections in the discharge of my duties may occur, may be attributed to me alone, and not to his majesty's faithful Commons."
The Lord Presidentreplied:—
"Mr. Speaker; We have it farther in command from his royal highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of his majesty, to inform you, that his Royal Highness most freely grants and allows to his majesty's faithful Commons, all those rights and privileges, in the most full and ample manner, which have ever been granted to them by his majesty, or by any of his royal predecessors. With respect to what regards yourself, Mr. Speaker, you may be assured, that his Royal Highness, judging from what has taken place in the last parliament, will at all times be anxiously inclined to put the most favourable construction upon all your words and actions, in the discharge of your highly important duties."
The Commons then withdrew, and the Lords Commissioners retired to unrobe. After which the clerk proceeded to swear in the peers.