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London, England, 1810-12-19 00:00:00

• HIS ALIJEsTrS ILLNESS.

lIEIhiRT.

ON COMMITTER •I.PANTED To EIASIINI Tilt
MUSICIANS WWI MATZ ATTENDED His MAJES-
TY DU4INO ND ILLNESS. Touculsu THE.
KATE 011 NIl II AJESTy'S PSALM, Asp To Ng-
TORT MCP LIAMINATIoN TO THE MOUSE.
Harr, pursuaut to th. Or•ler of the Mose, pro-
needed to 'asinine the foist Physicians; which ex-
amination is as follows.

Ifosorts Is ells iimembris is
Dr. HENRY RETELL REYNOLDS called is sod ex-
amined.
Q. Is the state of His Majesty's health such so
to reader him incapable of coining in person to his
Parliament. or of atteoding to any kind of public
besisess t—A. Certainly he is incapable.
Q. What an the hopes you entertaio of his
Majesty's recovery still entertain very coo&
dent hopes of His Majastv's recover.
Q. Do you found the opinion, given in your
steelier to the previous question, upon the particu-
lar symptoms el? Hi: Majesty's d ,order; or upon
petrol experience in other ow. of the same na-
ture; or upon both ?—A. Upou both; and for
this reason : with respect to the particular synth-
teens of the Majesty, they are favourable, from
the circuinsances of the soundness of his constitu-
tion, pre ##### d by simple and temp-rate diet, and
th. regular halii-s of Ins life ; and also because his
memory is as strong and es correct as ever it was,
his perception.; as acute (his juilg•neut is pervert.
8,44 he h;,,, brit hie di.er..tion at present? ; and
also because I have seen His Alujoaty rerover from
three attacks of the sem.: diaeate, in some parts of
whic:i I think be has been even worse than he is

at present.
Q. tVhe air in that particular species of the
absurder His ijesty h des I' ~11.11 into, it his been
found, frn,n experielice. that the greater iniseber
of persons so affected have been cured 1
believe much the greater number.
Q. Can yoo form any iiidgment or probable con-
j!ctiare of theduration of His :11 ojesty's illness
riu.l cannot: our 'tapes •nd ex pertatinna of *speedy
recovery have fluctueted with the fluctuations of
His Majesty's complaint ; but uothiog has hitherto
prevented in- from thinking favourably of the ulti-
ViatO termination of the disease.
14* As far es experieure enables you to judge,
do yea thick it more probable that His Majesty
will Of will not recover, so 114 to render him cape-
ble of *wending to pillohc business ?—A. Yes,
have no doubt; there is such an integrity of mind
&Mkt Hts M ajestv. that when once tits aberrations
are gale, lie will recover perfectly ; how soon, it is
lespowible for me to .ay. lau ',pow smte vestiges
o'4 complaint may remom the principal part of
the disease shall be removed ; but I have no d'mlit
of his being able to thschaig his functions just us
well se ever.
Q. What degree of expelience have you had
yourself iii this potieitiar hp, Clrl, of disorder?—.l.
lo the coarse of upwards of forty years' Keener.
have stela several in4tittle.a of ;
Q. Has any amendment alreelly taken place in
the purse of HIS Majesty's ihaoriler, Gild does the
appearance or such amendment continue at pre-
sent There have been fluctuations ; Ilis
Majesty his sometimes been better, and sometimes
*pin he his been worse ; there Lave been pa-
roxyam-; there have been times wilt,' he has teen
apiewently going on well. and then something sud-
denly 644 1 Ibrown hi n h.,ek ; amendment hj.4
tabily take'. place, but theta it has been transient,
and he has been a little worse again, and then lie
has been better again. Ile is much better now than
he "as at svveral periods of the cliara-a.
Q. What is the state of His Majesty's disorder
et present. as compared with what it was whet. you
were ..earnierd before the Privy Clamed ?—.t. I
pereeive but very little difference fret* what it was
at that time.
Q. Can you ascribe His Majesty's disorder to
soy particular cause?—A. I understand that it
came on from the anxiety of his mind upon the ill-
ness of his daughter, the Princess Am lia; I believe
these can be no doubt of that : those Gentlemen
who were in atten.lance Diem her, I believe, will
satisfy the Commi tee swot' that subject ; hut, trent
their report. I haws tin doubt it originated from that
cause.

Q. \\'h-n were you first called in ?—A. Uu
the aa OF NOV. Miler.
Q. Who were the Physicians in attendance at
the time yon we.. rolled in ?—A. Dr. Heberdcit,
Sir Henry Milford, and Di.
Q. Were they the only Physicians in attend-
'nee f—A. They were.
Q. Was there any other confidential Nledical
person in a tendance at the same time?—A. Nio
at the time 1 went.
Q. Who are the I/hygienist* in attendance now ?
In toldition to those Gentlemen and myself,
Dr. Robert Willis.
9. mien ray Dr. Robert Willis called in ?
A. To the best of my recollection, on Tuesday
the huh of Novera!ter, in the evening.
Q. I. there any other confidential Medical per.
SOO now n. tittentlanee. besides the Physicians
A. Mr. Deludes has attended Ilia Majesty : Mr.
Bettiscoinli is his Apothecary, and, or course, is
there occasionally ; but there is no other Medical
person.
W. Have you hid opportanities of seeing the
King from time to finis to ',me, since your attend.
slice upon 114 Maesty in the year t7eu T—A.
Yes ; I saw lil4 Majesty in h.. illness in the year
I lot and els.. in His dine.. in the year Ilso4.
Q. line pin hr.ns s:.alktl in to Alen(' His Ma.
j.tsty, or hove sio hoti any opportunities of seeing
tli • M sjsist, in the intervals between those illuemes
of 1711, 19111, and 1404, up to the time of your
called ill.llll tin. present illness?—A. I have
had few opportunities of seeing Mu hlsiesty, ex-
cept in those illnesses. I have had occasion to .55
hills two or three times on say own business. when
he did me the honour of appusisting me Isis Plty.i •
tarn Cetroordinary, "nil then his Physician in Or-
dinary ; but nit medically.
Id. You have stated, that the greater niimlser of
patients. labouring under this same sort of milt-
mop as Ilia Majeoy. who hive come undo, yaw
elasertation, have recovered ; do you in the
greater num:. er, to include patients of the ade et