The National Register. — London, England, 1812-01-19 00:00:00

ages,VMM I'l f:; • JAN. 19. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. to is- , v-st me:, were meritorious men ; but what were those belong in g to Shadwell Office, and how had they conducted themselves ? Such was their zeal, that they seized and put into confinement all persons who.were rumoured to have either a dirty shirt or a torn coat ! .Was all this justifiable—was it not indeed an enormous evil ? After instancing the tre . atment of seven poor Irishmen who were kept 48 hours without food in the parlour of a public house, and then discharged, the Right Hon. Gentleman proceeded to make some remarks on the conduct of the Msigistrates of •Shadwell, with regard to Williams in particular. — Ile knew he was treading on tender ground, hilt he would not observe in silence an outrage against the law, eve: though it were offered by Magis trates. Neither panic nor necessity could justify in them departure-from the law; and no departure from the law ought to he countenanced on any ,consideration whatever. What law justified the exposure of Wil liams's hotly in the Nvay in which it had been exposed ? Did it answer any moral or political end ? Did it not rather set a barbarous example to the people which might induce them at some future period to wrest from the Lands of the executioner the carcase of some being who may have excited popular indignation, to have the pleasurable revenge of roumbhng his hones and lacerating hi s remains. fie blamed the Ma : -fistrates march for their conduct on that occasion. There was neither • Justice alor merit in what they did; but it was an effort to sink into ob -1 eion•the effect of their own scandalous neglect ! The Hon. Gentle . 'MAN COM:hided with some further ceusuratne remarks on the Magis trates of • Mr. STEPHEN. said he did not know one of the Magistrates of Shad well, nor had he ever seen one of them ; but this he knew, that they were placed in a very unpleasant and arduous situation, and were justly entitled to the candnur and compassion of the Public, rather than to censure and conJemnatton. The Motion, with the Amendment, was then agreed to, and a Se lect Committee appointed, composed of Mr. Ryder, the several .Mem b_trii for London, Westminster, Middlesex, and Surrey, Mr. Sheridan, Ti...rney, Sir Robert Peel, Mr. Hawkius Browne, Colonel Wood, and others. The Sugar Export Bill was read a third time and passel—Adjourned. . . which cases generally are hopeless; it has not so decidedly that fixed character of insanity to render it hopeless. Q. Do you expect that his Majesty will recover?—A. No; Ido not expect that his Majesty will recover. • Q. When did you leave Windsor ?—A. This morning. Q. What was his Majesty's state at the time you left Windsor ?—A. A very indifferent state. Q. Is it worse than it was last week ?—A. Yes ; I think it is certainly worse than it was last week. Q. Has there been any aggravation of symptoms within the last three days ?—A. 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, but, as compared with ten days or a fortnight before, there was then abetter appearance. From the 9th of October to the 23J of November, I saw his Majesty only three days. Q. How often do you visit his Majesty now ?—A. I have been resi dent at Windsor ever since the lath of November, with the interval of the last week ; I returned on Saturday. Q. There appears, in a Report presented to the House of Commons from her Majesty's Council, to have been the correction of an opinion given by one of your Physicians in his first examination; were you the Physician who so corrected your opinion ? A. I was. Q. Were there any grounds upon which you could form a different opinion from that which you gave in your first examination before the second took piece ?—A. I do not know, with regard to my - own feelings, that I formed a different opinion ; but I found that I had not used a word with its proper import, being perhaps in the hahit of using the word despair in a more light manner than I ought to have been : I did not mean that I did despair totally ; but one is perhaps apt, when speaking to the friends of a person who ask whether they shall remain longer or not, or whether you despair, to say, I conceive a person may recover, but I cannot be without despair, or I cannot help despairing ; but on hearing read the words had used , " 1 cannot help despairing," with an emphasis laid upon the m, I was struck with them as conveying a me:m ing much stronger than I intended. I had nut been in the habit of attend ing the Queen's Council. Q. Did yeti mean more by sayiur you despaired of the recovery, than that you did not expect a recovery ?—A. No, I did not. 9. You attended the King on a former illness ?—A. Yes. Q. Is his mental state worse now than occurred at any time during three previeus illnesses when yen saw his Majesty?--A. Very considerably worse than I had seen his Majesty before. Q. Do you consider his Majesty's di.order, in general, nearest allied to deli him or insanity ?—A. For the most part, during the greatest part o' the time 1 have seen his Majesty in his present indisposition, it has been nearest allied to insanity. Dr. RUDER e DARLING WILLIS called in, and eramined. Q. Ts the state of his'Majesty's health such as to render him incapable of corning in person to his Parliament, or of attending to any kind of public business?—A. His Majesty's state is not such as to enable hint • to come to his Parliament, or to attend to arks , kind of public business. Q. Wliat is the present state of his Majesty's bodily health ?—A. The present state of his Majesty's bodily health is by no means good, thoueli it may be considered, generally sp aking, better than under the chem. enlaces 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 sonic time past. Q. What is the present state of his Majesty's mental health ?—A. The state of his Majesty's health is worse at present than it has been at any time since his attack. Q. Adverting to the state of his Majesty's mental health since your last examination before a Committee of the House of Commons, are you auw of opinion that his Majesty's recovery is probable, or improba ble ?—A. Extremely improbable. Q. Are you of opinion that his Majesty's recovery is hopeless ?—A. I do not think it impossible; but I really hardly know how to apply the word hopsless in a medical sense, it is only applicable to a state same-. where between eetreme improbability and impossibility, but that is a state whit h is so extremely difficult so ascertain, and in the greater num ber of instances will be as transient, that I hardly know how to apply the words. I io not think it impossible, but is in my opinion all but im pos-tble. Q. When did you first form your opinion, that his Majesty's recovery was extremely improbable ?—A. I began to have a very different opi nion of his Majesty's state, soon after the beginning of the paroxysm, July; in and as the symptoms have never given way in any respect, my hopes have continually decreased. Q. Is there arse thing peculiar in the aggravated symptoms which have shown themselves within the last three days ?—A. Nothing peculiar; nothing that we have not seen in several aggravated states before. Q. Are the symptoms themselves more aegravated than they have been at any previous time ?—A. No; I have seen his Majesty in the same state several times. Q. Are the symptoms which have appeared within the last three clas, such as to endanger his Majesty's life ?—A. In any other individual I think they would; hat I have so repeatedly seen the King in the same state, and !ewe seen them give way afterwards, that I can hardly say that I consider his Majesty's life as in danger from those symptoms. Q. Referring to the answer given to the third question, respecting the state of his .Majesty's mental health, did you mean to convey to the Cum J. - ...... NIB HIS MAJESTY'S ILLNESS. EXAMINATION OF THE KING'S ANS EIiFORE A CO?I• I*IITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. THE RIGH t HON CHARLES LONG IN THE CHAIR. Dr. Si* HENRY HALFORP, Gar.. called in, and rra7n;ned. . QUESTION. Is the state of hi.; 11.Tajqty's health such as to render incapable of corning in persoa t,) his Parliarnen. ; or of attending to any.. kind of public busin•-,ss ?—ANsTvr.g. It is such as to rencLr him incapa ble of comin/ to his parliament, or of attending to any kind of public • business. Q. Is his Nlakity in a worse state of bodily health than he was when you were last examin , d ?—A. No. • 0. I lave ycu obierved any sit of amendment in his Niajesty since the be6innirig of December r—A: There have been several occasions on which the vi,lletu.:e of his Niajeqy's disorder appear*d to be so far abated, and his mind seemed so far cleared up as to admit of his detailitq; anec- • dotes of past times accurately, but not to exercise.a sound judgment on t present circumstances. Q. Since the beginning of necernher, has hi-; Majesty sliewn generally more disposition t o conversation?—A. His Majesty has frequently shewn himself rather more capable of conversation. Q. Has his Majesty, in any of those conversations to which you have referred, adverted to the circumstances of his own show ion ?—A. Yes. By watching the turn of his Majesty's thoughts, and the r;:niarkable e; , ergy of his expressions, it is obvious ti.at his mind has. been deeply stricken by the suptrcession of his authoi - ity. I think it irryortant to state this, because it has a greater weight in deterw.ining the opinion which I have formed as to the great improbability of his Majesty's re dowry, than the particular symptoms of his complaint. Dr. Jour W1L1.15 call 4 in, mid cramined. Q. Itt the state of his Majesty's health such as to render him incapable of corning in person to his l'arliarnew, or of attending to any kind of pub lic bu , iness ?—A. Majesty is incapable of doing either. Q What is the present state of his Majesty's bodily health ?—A. His laje , ty's ly}dily health I have thought sommwhat improved since I saw his MajLry EL:a, whi‘h was the 9:h of October : but nut within the last k. Q. What is the present state of Ms Majesty's mental health ?—A . There I' a very great degree of derangement, and particularly bordering on in having very much the symptoms of insanity; at the same time rather unusually and occasional 4 with deliri , us characters. Q. Advevitig to the state of his Maj,c ry's mental and bodily health prey far ha, c-nne tinder your obscr . v 4 timi, are yo.o s rt,coyery is probable or irri prt.balde ? I nc: n. Arty; 147; c rfithrf Q. 01744:4T% Is hut 14440: J's rec->ve;•y it hopeless , that his 'll,lajesty's recovery aritigtd at that point, at ‘ . 0 4 , 6 :tot inrliapS,xitirn , xi far as it e V sty't t.(4,4444, ; t . 4 II n , - • c A*, t i c . /I ns:p ., ell;• ir S • 4 • •••' a 11° '; . • ; " ' - . 1.•441-4••••!.