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004 . w hen }is Majesty's life halt **toed in itnnte- I an y such i • c law* existing now ?—I think t h e re , ris not when I left Winditir on,Ehribrday ;lot if ir ; - son to think that w ithin the last'fonr and hours the King has not been sa well. • 7;4 a ny fresh accession of disorder taken place y o u left Windsor on Saturday , or had y ou rea• aPP re I end that it was f o ming on ?—His Ma: sole frig was under ci rcusnEatte.es to make one rather r • t h at i t was coming on, than that it had estab acitselore° if • 7ild you ascribe the aggravat ion of the quip. *at rims co ming on to any partieular y° l * rwabjesty's ho d' sly health mere impaired iitYW it s six months ago ?—I do not think it is. hi s Majesty in a worse state of bodily health than kris s hen you were last examined ?—No. H av e eon obscived any signs of amendment in his *sty since the beginning of December —There 1 ., bon several occasions on which the violerice of 1 7 6 - gi e ety's disorder appeared to be so far abated,t , a bi s mind so cleared up , as to aimit of his detail. - anot ioess of past times accurately, but not to ex asoand judgment on present circumstances. god the beginning of December, has his Majesty ly more disposition to conversation ? i rig r y al has frequently shewn himself rather stable of conversation. sob Majesty, in any of those conversations to c isd i pa have refer red, adverted to the circum cises Otis own shuation ?—Yes : by watching the see of his Majesty's thought, and the remarkable agg y of his expressions, it is obvious that his - Mit - id ku b e enateeply sirikeil by the supprse t ion of his an. a or ky. 1 thip.k it is important to state this, because itlasi a greater weight in determining the opinion v lrirb I.have formed as to the great improbability ff f t biesty'S recover y,.than the particular symptoMs co nislaint. • [Withdrew.] ~ his Dr. JOKY Witt US Called in a.nd examined. li the state of his fitajtsty's health such as to Ten. .ishim incapable of-coming in person to his. Parlez., o nt, or of attending to any kind of public business ? fris Majesty is incapable 4 , f doing either. What is the pit:sent state of his Majesty's bodily wi t h ?.-His Majesty's bodily health I have thought i searhat improved since I saw his Majesty first, sia was the sth of October, but not within the last tat is the present state of his Majesty's mental h?—'!'here is a very great degree of derange lent, and particularly borderieg on insanity, having trey much the symptoms of insanity ; at the same mber unnsually and occasionally v. ith delirious acters. Adretting to the state of his Majesty's mental and telly health during his present indisposition, as far *Shims come under your observation, are you of opi tilos that his Majesty's recovery is probable or impro table i—Very improbable. Are Pa of opinion that his Majesty's recovery is certainly not hopeless. . 71. 0 n what do you found your opinion, that his Ma 114's recovery is not hopeless ?—I think it has not Deed at that fixed point, at which cases are gene hopeless ; it has not so decidedly that fixed cha- 1 of insanity to render it hopeless. you expect that his Majesty will recover ?-moo; tipett that his Majesty will ' did you leave Winasortas-This morning. 74 What was his Majesty's state at the time you left Windsoil—A very indifferent state. Is it Worse than it was last week ?—Yes ; I think its certainly worse than it was last week. Has there, been any aggravation of symptoms ttithin the last thr ee days ?—I think there has ; they have bordered more on the symptoms of delirium, perhaps not to a greater degree than I have seen since the 9th of October last, but, as compared. with ten days or a fortnight before, there was then a better ap pmance. From the 9th of October to the-23d of November, I saw his Majesty only three days. 'How ellen do you visit his Majesty now f—l have tett resident at Windsor ever since the 18th of No. 'rather, with the interval of last week ; I returned on Wednksday. There appears, in a Report presented to the House t? Commons from her Majesty's Council, to have been the correction of au opinion given by one-of the Physicians in his first examination ; were you the Physician who so corrected your opinion ?—I 'Were thee any grounds upon tvhlch you could him a different opinion from that which you gave-in your first examination, befott tht second took place ? -I do not know, with regard to my own feelings, _that I formed a di ff erent opinion ,• but I found that 'had not used a word with its proper import, being Perhaps in the habit of using the word despair in a there light manner than I ought to have been I did wit mean that I did despair totally ; but one is per hips apt, when speaking to the friends of a person wet ask whether they shall remain longer or not, or whether you despair, to say, I conceive a person may %cover, but I cannot be without despair, of I cannot help despairing : but on hearing read the words ',had beds " I cannot help despairing, " with an emphasis laid upon t h em , I was struck with them as conveyine, *meaning tnuch stronger than I intended. I had not hem in the habit of attending the Queen's Council. . Did you mean more by saying you despaired of the recovery, than that you did nut expect a reco ?—No, I did not. You attended the King on former illness ?—Yes. Is his mental state worse now than occurred at any time daring those previous illnesses when you etew his Myest l— --tsiderably worse than I had seen his Male- you were called in on the 9th of Itendance upon his Majesty been that time ? From the 9‘ll of ing oily to the 12th of October, ';in on the 18th of November — mended his M iesty regularly. lance became pretty constant have my cling approaching toa )ucid sty's case ?—I have seen several King could hold conversatioo ex short time, but his Majesty, was discrder pressing upon the mind The King has held certainly ,font appear to you tobi of a fa •Ccreainly onecannothelphaving , • a hope from hearing those coitieriitions, but it reituires ro get to a further advanced point tobe ahle to SAY that it is really an amendthent ; it is often what takes place when derangement is gradually ceasing. Then thedera ngement of the King's mind is not such as to leave you without hope at any momente=lt had yesterday much of a feverish tendency : it was more difficulftO 'interrupt the King from the influence of dis order on his mine I but there is generally a capacity in the King to answer any sort of qaestions. Since your attendance upon his Majesty; has there, in your judgment, been any appearance of progressive improvement ?---I can hardly so well call it progres sive improvement, as occasional: there Were many days on which there was a great degree of qu:et: that has taken place several times since the `23cl of No vember. Is your opinion upon the probability of his Majesty's recovery as strong now as it was on the 9th of Octo ber ?--It is. Do you consider his Majesty's disorder, in general, nearest allied to delirium or insanity ?—For the most part, during the greatest part c f the time I have seen his Majesty in his present indisposition, it has been i nearest allied to insanity. [Withdrew.] 1 Dr. ItosEwr DARLING WI um called in and examined. Is the state of his Majesty's health such as to ren der him incapable of coming in person to his Parlia ment, or of attending to any kind of public business? ,—His Majesty's state is not such as to enable him to come to his Parliament, or to attend to any kind of public business. What is the present state of his Majesty's bodily health ?— , The present state of his Majesty's bodily :health is by no means good, though it may be emisi dered, generally speaking, better than under the cir cumstances of want of air and exercise might have been expected. This morning, his Majesty is in an extremely agitated and nervous state, which has been increasing for some time past. What is the present state of his Majesty's mental health p —The state of his Majesty's health is worse at present than it has been at any time since his attack. Adterting to the state of his Majesty's mental health since your last examination before a Commivee ' of the House of Commons, are you now of opinion that his Majesty's recovery is probable or improba ble ? Extremely improbable. Are you of opinion that his Majesty's recovery is hopeless ?—I do not think it imposstbl ; but I really hardly know how to apply the word hopeless in a me dical sense ; it is only applicable to a state somewhere between extreme improbability and impossibility, but that is a state which is so extremely difficult to ascer tain, an in the greater number of instances will be as transient, that I hardly know how to apply the words I do not think it impossible, but it is in my opinion all but impossible. When did you first form your opinion that his Ma ! jesty's recovery was extremely improbable? I began to have a wry indifferent opinion of his Majesty's state, soon a'ter the beginning of the paroxysm in July ; and as the symptoms have never given way in zany respect, my hopes have cintinually decreased. Is there arty thing peculiar in the aggravated symp- Arms which have shewn themselves within the last three days ?—Nothing peculiar; nothing that we have not seen in several aggravated states before. Are the symptoms themselves more aggravated Alan they have been at any previous time ?—No ; I have seen his Majesty in the same state several limes. Are the symptoms which have appeared widtia the last three days, such as to endanger his Majesty's life ?,—ln any other individual I think they would ; bat I have so repeatedly seen the King in the same state, and have seen them give way afterwards, that I can hardly say that I consider his Majesty's life as in danger from those symptoms. Referring to the answer given to the third ques tion, respecting the state of his Majesty's mental health, did you mean to convey to the Committee, that his Majesty's mental health is now worse than it was after the paroxysm came on in July ?—I think it is. Do you mean to confine your answer to that ques tion merely to appearances within the last three days? —No : nothing has taken place within the last few days to increase the mental symptoms. The mental symptoms have regularly increased since July—they have never diminished. ifis there been no abatement of symptoms, at times, since the beginning of December?—No abate ment of the essential symptoms. [Withdrew.] THE EY EN IN G STAR. LONDON. ' THURSDAY, JANYARY 18. PRICE OF STOCKS DAY AT ONE o'CLOCK S per Ct. Cogs. for money 6211 ex. div.—Do. for acc.6Bll 3 per Ct. RI duced 6211 -4 per Cent. 781* 5 per Ct. 94i; ex. div.—Bondsl7s.lBs. pr.—Omnfunt t di*. Exch. Bills (3d.) 3s. 4s. pre.—Ditto (id.) 4s. tis. pre. An Anholt Mail has just arrived ; it brings an ac count of the Sri Gronoe and DEFENCE having been lost off the Coast of Jutland on the 24th ultimo. We have not heard what has become of the crews. Peace between the Russians and Turks is said to have been proclaimed at St. Petersbuigh on the 26th ultimo. than the F':ench•o4 e iai icetvinti, *Mei are ciateci the tithe *him month ; they ire; Ibireier, of a more satisfaosse charattis; The falositing is one of these letters: _ _ • • " ALM:ANT; DECEMBER 5. " We know thit the reinforcement which was supposed to come from Madrid, and had arrived at Requena, has beon obli ged to retreat, notwithstanding the marching out of £OOO of the enemy to facilitate its junction with Sachet's army; ant that-the divisions of Senors Zayas and Bassecourt have placed It between two fires, so as to rends? its escape difficult. We now learn that the above reinforcement Is the same which Sachet detached Wont Valencia to Atragon, with the object, it is believed, to re strain the rapid progress of the Vmpecinado and Duran; and the new route assigned to It was only to induce a belief that rein forcements were on the march to him. " Upon the whole, affairs seem to present an encouraging as pcct. General Freyre, with fit,oo men, has advanced to the vi cinity of the Valencian army, and is acting with profound skill in accomplishing he orders of the Commander hi Ckief. Suchet must feel considerable alarm; for it will be difficult for him, with 12,000 men, of which his army is composed, to resist effec tually more than 90,600 combatants. - " The numerous deserters who come over to us, say, his troop! are dying of hunger ; and that the little bread which they have is of bad quality, and as black as pitch. It is said that Mina has repuised a column of 6000 of the enemy who had marched from Pampelona to reinforce Suchet; and it is added, that the greater part of them were raw troops of the last conscription." 14tt At* In consesinenee of tte death df• Cieisidel tibia . Caasch - vritich hAppetisht es ifitutdavkst; ibt Tilde Reginient is become , esetint: Sir JAsiOi *Ala Knight of the Bath. and Ociveinor of Blaeliisdss Castle, . It is understood that Sir SAMUEL ACtlbitait it to haws the 75th Regiment, and 'bat the non. hiEjiir-deneral , CoLa is to have Sir &usual's present .Regirnen the 103 J. '11•411 The 2d battglioa of the 40th Retimedi, *Main, been id Inland for ioitte years, is among those .01.•• dowa for Portugal. NAVAL IN 17f:I.LIGEArCE. bliCialtP—Very cousil his Majesty before. You stated that yoi October ; has your att • Pretty constant since t October I saw the Kir and was called in ag since which I have att Since your attentian you ever witnessed an interval in his Wiest: timesin which the Ki tremely well for a sl always liable to the again at any moment. good conversations. Do those conversati 'Pourable tendency ?—I LOSS OP THE MEDEA. Z.II lontagtle, 1 s., IMontague, by whom he has issue, Charles William, now Duke of Buccletigh and Quensberry , and Henry James, Lord Montagu, and four daughter* viz. the Countess of Courtown, Countess of Home , Marchio - We yesterday stated that the harbour of Oven- i ness of Queensberry, And -Countess of Antra m t—all hagen was filled with French privateers, and we now lof whom have families. His Grace is succeeded in learn, that they have the audacity to issue forth and 1 his titles and estates by his eldest son, Charles Wit recapture such American or neutral vessels, as have j rum. Earl cf Dalkeith ; oho married Harriet , daugb . ter of the late Viscount Sidney, and has several chil been set at liberty by the Danish Pr i ze -Courts, after d eers . is Grace succeeded at an ear . ly age to a bripg captured by Danish privateers. Mr. IRVING I princely fortune, w hi ch gave him the means of in hail been able to procure no positive determination dulging his natural disposition to public spirit and 1 as to the great mass of Aterican property under pro. private liberality, to which purposes, accordingly,' a considerable part of his immense funds were known cess iu the Danish Court of Admiralty, and but a , to be applied. He was exceechngly affable in his man. few ships tinder the flag of the United States had been ners ; and what deserves to be recorded of a person set at liberty. . . so greatly exalted both in rank and fortune, was ge .--. tlerally acceptable to the poor. As a landlord, his A ship has arrived from Alma, near Alkant, which : liberality vlnle well known ; he was easy of access, and port she left on the sth ult. consequently the advices: always ready to take an active part in any lithe= Pf 'from Valencia, by this opportuAity, cassia be tite r benevolence 'ea.! humanity. - • - -•. . Charleston Papers arrived this morning to the 23d November, but they bring no news that is not already known to our Readers. .* s' . . The follosVing Esttact of a lettLi from Captaid MURRAY of tl:e Medea, date.' South Uist, Dec: 47, states the melancholy particulars of the loss of that vessel : ig I am sorry to inform you that the Medea is total wreck. We sailed from Quebec on the 12th of October t during our voyage we lost several of our masts, sails, &c: owing tothe most tempestuous weather. " On the morning of the 22c1 we saw the land of this Island ;as the vessel WAS nearly ungovernable, ea dearoused to clear the land to ran through sow of the many passages here—but not baying sails or masts Ise quisite, the sea dente her to leeward, in spite of all onr efforts. When I saw my fate, and the breakers hi *ll diroatibnc, Erin td the ilerwest part II could see,- and ietito my best bower, and wore away the most of the cable in ten fathoms water; I f o und the bottom rocky ; and at four a. m. • •the rocks cut the ca ble nigh the anchor, and I cut' what remainei on board, to make bey wear bean the wind kir the clearest part c f the Sound. We have this morning received Dublin Papers of Monday last, but they are barren of intelligence.-- The)' furnish fiiriisli us with no additional particulars on the :Attirjee , t ttf the Anti-Protestant Plot A Dublin Paper states, that the celebrated Mrs. CLARKE is expected in that City. A Petition from the Protest ants of Dublin, in fa. Tour of the Catholics, is now sigming.--The Catholic Meetings still continue. In addition to taose of Cf rk and Limerick, the Catholics of Clare and Kerry have assembled. The measure of the new arrangement of the KING's household, is expected us he brought forward this day in the !loose of Commons. The household is now to be limited to ten Officer:, in the appoint ment of her MAJESTY : viz. four Lords of the Bed chambes ; four Giooms of the Stele, a Master of the Robes, and a Keeper of the Privy Purse ; over these anew Officer r f superior rank is to he placed, to superintend and controut the whole ; that Officer, we understand, will be the Earl of WiNetteLsr.A. - It was currently reported yesterday on 'Change, tar Russia and Sweden have entered- into a treaty alarmed ueutrali' y, and that a number of ptivateers FALMOUTH, JANUARY IL were fitting nut in the different oils of Sweden to i Arrived the EARL Seexcate cutter, front a miss i.Lvat itiNg of sloop w ar, of fr om wa r tha act against the French small waft which at present ; PORTSMOUTH, JAN. is. infest the Sound. 1 o A wa rri ss "d' Sai led the the CAo ,% x v ius sloop Recent intelligence has been received at a French D pert-of the successes of the Dantzic privateer in the• *oa • West Indies,'"Which is stated to have taken, up to the . a crui ze.—Wind N.W. middle of October, about 35 valuable ships. In a PLYMOUTH, JANUARY 14. - s orders very short time the Captain was expected to return to The Gaucune ketch is gone out of Ha r bou r to t h e France, and resign his command to some other Sound, in readiness for sea—she is uiar to equally enterprising Officer. This privateer has made take dispatches to the West I n d i e s .—S a il e d i n t h e night, the Foga esti, 38 guns, fur the Lough:v:llly prizes amply su ffi cient to enrich her owners. Many . if the ships captured were Spanish, with banks on board, to a vast amount. British vessels have been station; and the Lome, 33, to cruize off Brest.— long in pursuit, and have frequently gained sight of Arrived the HeLecon, to guns : the sailed hence os Friday last, on a cruise ; but, in a squall, she carried her, but have hitherto endeavoured to come up with asvay her main boom, by which accident the stet her in vain. I The great M‘Cr.fiS of Cie French privateers in the .„ _ Baltic, the West Indies, and the Channel, are men- vallaViescaied witTi his life . —part of the tinned as the ground of much exultation to the Freneh having fallen on his head, and knocked of part of his i cheek.—Also arrived the Mamma, 36 guns, from ouch. The SCYLLA, 18 guns, is gone out aft to In consequence of the unparalleled success of the Captain of the Dantzie,•it was supposed .ipartsm to be the intention of 1 13osarattre to confer on him harbour to the Sound, hiving been refitted. some titulary distinction. Yesterdtry a Court of Directors was heldat the YARMOUTH, JANUARY IS. , East India House, when Captain CoNsrastz; of the Sailed this morning for the Downs, the link*" ship Chapman, took leave of the Co Lieutenant Lowe ; and the Unour Lieut. RKA T urt pfevious to i Arrived from Leith, and remain with the Sot departing for Bombay and Bengal. Captain V'Es. TERRE was sworn into the command of the ship Fairlie; I FRAY, consigned to Bengal direct.—The Court adjourned I (Vice-Admiral MURRAY ' ) VIXEN, DM. WRIGHT j at six o'clock till to-morrow. f dad Bit:sets, Lieut. SMITIL—No iutelligence of t h e The chips of the line at Spithead are to be put into ! Sr. GEORGE or Davuce. an immediate state of equipment, for some sudden • DP -At., JANUARY is. service. • The report is, they are to take a reinforce . Arrived his Majesty's sh;p hcoNsTANT from Ports. meet of troops_ to liortugal. , . A new regulation is tilting place at the Navy Office,: mouth. Sailed the Cuffnells, Woot BANK. fur Ports whichh will render future depredations in that depart- mouth ; his Majesty's ships AQUILON, on a et - nice off mint more difficult, by some pew and more immedi , Texel ; and Maas and FISGA no, to Portsmo u th. ate facilities of' detection. Sailed the G N Iet t A ar V y ES A L :n D :R i i , i: H •i C u: s i t. o y r G I s ibraltar • and The Duke of Wanton and the Earl of Lives- POOL had a conference with the PaINC.II REGENT yes. Margaret, CROALL, for Oeorto. • terday, but of a short duration. His Royal High-; ness went out through the back entrance, as his noble 1 GREENOCK, JANUARY I& visitors departed through the front. Arrived here this morning ' thib William and H '- DEATH OF His GRACE vie DUKE OF BUCCLEITGIL. ' BENTHAM, from Charleston, in 40 day s ; l e f t —On the 11th inst. at Dalkeith Palace, 11; s Grace , for .this port, the flindostau, Coueus, to sail in 1 HENRY SCOTT, Mike of Buccleugh and Que or '2O clays-i-Saw a ship and brig, off T or y laud, supposed to be bound up the Clyde.ensberry, • Marquis of Dumfries-shire, Earl of Dalkeith , Sanqu - liar, and Drumlanrig, Viscountllith, Tortisocwala LEITH, DECEMBEtt 30. .. and Ross, Lord Scott of Eskdale, Douglas of Kin- The GALLANT gon.lstig went out ef the harbour on' mount; Middlebie, and Domock :—Also Earl of , Saturday, after being repairrd.—Satuiday the CUE- Doncaster and L; . .rd Tyndale in England, Knight of i KOKEE, and yesterday morning the Mourne:um' 'loop the Garter, Lord Lieutenant of the Countiesof Edna-otwar, arrived in the Roads front fr a irttiee.*.--The burgh and Roxburgisehite, Governor of the 'Royal ahne Cholotte, DRYSDALE, Ann.' South America, • Bank of Scotland, ate. His Grace was born in 1746,. i wide. timber; passed Leith yesterday, f or Alloe.—. and succeeded his grandfather in 17.52. He was the , A ship. under Swedish colours arrived fil the roa d s only son of Francis, Earl of Dalkeitli , by Lady Ca.. I from .Gottenburgh yesterday morning ; and in the roline Campbell, eldest daughter of Jan, the Great I forenoon the Lady Forbes and Sir Simon Clark sail. Duke of Argyle. In 1 7 6 7, his Grace married Eli: ed Irons Leide f roads 'for Jamaica. They are going teth MI ~ague, only daughter of the last Duke of l Noth-zbOut. . " The seamen claimed the boat, and could not be prevailed upon to stop with me till day-light, and their importunity prevailed on me to take :ny chance with them. I threw my papers into the boa, wrapped up in A handkerchief, and only waited a ‘hance to get in, when. a boisterous sea broke over the vessel, and buried them ail in a watery gr.ive, I alone es caping, and an oldinan that w.is belay► sickly:" ~'~ Some more French prisoliers lased from the ZaA. Lots yesterday, The Providence, AIIRANIF, from Oporto to Leith, w i t h a cargn of win', put into Scarborough on the Bth inst. having sprung her bnitsprit near St. Abb' lleand not I • ins able to take Tynetnouth Bar. The ia smack Sprightly, St: fIiZRLAND, WAS well in Harwich ciu. the Uth inst. having put in there in a off the Newarp S an d, gale of wind. The sloop William and Thomas, o f L e i t h , he n w wi c h th o b u o t tt a l t e s l , pt hi s .:so be n e ori n p bo ick d e rd d . up and has been put inn the Admiralty Court till chimed by the owners. Letters from Newfoindland state, that the MI. NEW/A frigate had been struck by lipha t in, whi c h shattered • the fore-tnir-ruast, top-gallant, dna 'roy a l masts, Snuck a man overboartrfrons thtmain•toppail yard, upset the °tEeer of the watch and two and killed a ihoep oo desk. •