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TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER.

REPORT OF THE KING'S PHYSICIANS.

The following is the Quarterly Report made to the Queen's Council
by the Physicians attet dint; his. Majesty :--
6 4 We, the underwritten Members of the Council appointed to assist
her IViaj.•!sty in the execution of the trusts committed to her Majestyl4
virtue of the Statute pas-ed in the 51st ve;.r of his Majesty's reign, it:-
tituled " An Act to provide fur the Administration of the it oyalAu.
thorny, and f.r :he care of his Majesty's Royal Person during the cots.
tinuance of hi% Majesty's illness, alio for the resumption of the exercise
of the Royal Authotity by his Mi.jesty," having duly met together en
the 4t.L d...v of January, 1812, at the Qxeen's Lodge, near to Windsur
Castle, and having beiere us, and examined upon oath the Physicians,
and other persons attending on his IVlajesty, and having ascertaineil the
state of his Majesty's health by all such ways and means as appear to us
1 to be necessary for that purpose, do hereby declare and cern*, that the
state of his Majesty's health at the time el this our meeting, is not such
as to enable his Majesty to resume the personal exercise of his Royal
Auth,,rity.
" That his Majesty's bodily heabh appears to us to be as good as at any
of the periods of our former Repots.
" That his Majesty's mental health appears to us not to be worse th.n
at the period of our last Report.
4* That all the Physicians attending his Majesty agree in stating, tl.at
they think his Majesty's compkte and final recovery improbable; slit-
-1 feting, however, as to the degree of such improbability;-some of them
expressing themselves as not despairing, others as :mot entirely despairing,
and one of them represen ing that he cannot help despairing of such re-
covery. (Signed) C. : entaur. Aylesford.
E. Elam.. Eldon.
•- . Motatrose. Ellenborough.
Witichelsea. W. Grant.
" Shortly after the above Rt-port had been read-in the presence uf :;:t

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the Physicians, and one of the Members of the Council had lett Wind-
sor. the Physician alluded to in the last clause of the Report stated, in
writing, to the other Members of the Council then remaining at Wind-
sor, " that he had unguardedly made me of an expresqlon which he was
apprehensive might carry a meaning far beyond what he intended to ex-
press, and requested to be allowed to correct it, and assured the Coun-
oil. that whil,t he thought the final recovery of his Majesty very impro-
bable, he by no means despaired of it."
The Members of the Council, to whom the above statement was
made, having sworn the Physician alluded to to the truth thereof, af-
terwards communicated the same to the whole of the Council assembled
this sth day of January, who have deemed it right to subjoin this fact to
the above declaration:.

/Signed as above.)
St. JaPnes's-square, Jan. 5, 1812.—(A true Copy.)—Jas. BULLZR.

The length and importance of the Parliamentary Debates, this week,
have prevented the insertion of the Stream of Time till our next.

TnE NATIONAL REGISTER.

7Lontion.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 1812.

THE KING.

The following Bulletin was issued on Sunday last :•-•
44 His MAJESTY continues nearly in the same state."

THE REGENT'S SPEECH, AND SIR FRANCIS BURDETT'S

ADDRESS.

The opening of Parliament on Tuesday last, the nature I
of the REGENT'S Speech, and the declarations of the_great
leaders of the Opposition in the House of Peers, have at
last, we trust, set at rest the late rumours respecting a
change in Administration. The PRINCE REGENT has now 1
publicly declared his approbation cf the system of policy I
adopted by Ministers towards Spain, Portugal, and Ame-
rica. This renunciation of his former sentiments in this
important point, such at least as they had been represented !i
by the adversaries of Government, must have sprung
from a strong conviction of their being erroneous, which
nothing but the most satisfactory evidence can have pro-
duced.
That evidence is to be found in the results at-
tending the line of policy pursued, and must strike every
eye which is not blinded by th-',! prejudices of party. Public
approbation, on the part cf the REGENT, of any paricul;:r
system, is a pledge of its continuance, and of the official sta-
bility of the men with whom it has originated, and under
whose care it has flourished. In the present instance the
leaders of the Opposition seem to have wished to remore
all fear of a
.change from the minds of the Ministers. In
reply to the opinions and intentions expressed by his
Royal Highness, they instantly issued a counter-declara-
tion, explanatoty of their own, in which, in the words,
of Lord GRENVILLE) they stated : " that so entirely and
utterly did they disapprove of the measures and conduct
of Ministers, that nothing, they were convinced, could
save the country
.fronz ruin, but a complete, total, and

radical abandonment of that conduct, and those measures."
After such a caniid acknowledgment on both sides, it is
impossible that a combination should be formed, without
a complete sacrifice of avowed principles either by the one
or the other. As the Speech had been framed with a
view of avoiding discussion, the remainder of its con-

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tents consists of a short review of the principal events of
the year, with a proper tribute of praise to the deserts of
our successful commanders in various quarters of the
world. There is a topic, however, submitted in it to the
future consideration of Parliament, which, although of
the greatest importance, has been unaccountably passed
over in silent neglect, by every politician inside or out•
side the House, except Mr. PERCIVAL, who noticed it
in his reply to Mr. WHITBREAD. We mean the following
passage, respecting the future Government of British
India :

" His Royal Highness thinlis it expedient to recommend to your at-
tendon the propriety of providing such measures for the future Govern-
ment of the British possessions in India, as shall appear from experience,
and upon mature deliberation, to be calculated to secure their internal
prosperity, and to derive from those flourishing dominions the utmost
degree of advantage to the commerce and revenue of the Unita
Kingdom."
The Charter of the East India Company expires, we
believe, in a few months ; and we rejoice to hear, from
the CHANCELLOR of the EXCIIMUETt, 66 that the whole sys-
tem-of their of will come, during the present or the
ensuing Sesion, under the full consideration of the
House—a notice to that effect hai,ing already been given
by his M.l:Nsty's Ministers." The question respecting the
policy of opening our East Indian dominions to the whole
British Nation, is as interesting as it is important ; and we
shall seize the earliest opportunity of considering its va-
rious hearings.
In the House of Lords, the Address in reply to the
Speech passed without any dissentient voices. But in the
House of Commons, Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, who had pri,
vately prepared a list of every grievance which could pos-
sibly afflict a Country, and with mast of which the Nation
was hitherto totally unacquainted, suddenly started up,
before the Mover of the usual Address had time to rise—
and, having obtained possession of the House, descanted
on magnified evils, imaginary dangers, and supposed
ruin, with his wonted eloqUence ; and concluded by
moving, that an Address, embodying all his exagge-
rated statements, unfounded charges, and terrifying
anticipations, be presented to the •PniNcr, RECENT,
in order to obtain a reformation in the representation of
the people. Lord Count \NE supported the motion, and,
as usual, very :ngeniously found means to introduce into
his speech in favour of reform, a fresh account of his
favourite pl in of hostilities agAinst France. But neither
the studied eloquence of the proposer, nor the wanderings
of his second, produced any effect On their degenerate
hearer s. Unawed by the symptoms of general approba-
tion which the House disp'ayed, the Hon. Baronet insisted
on a division, and had the unspeakable satisfaction to find,
that on '238 Members present, his labours and arguments
had produced one conviction. The usual Address was
then moved, in the sh.ipe ol an. Amendment, by Lord
JOci.::LYN, and passed wi hoot a division.

RUMOUI2I.A3 CONSPIRACY.
Informed re] sons begin to consickr the " Trasonahle
Association," bandied to us from Dublin, as (willed only
to ridicule. None of the Duslin Papers ,received yester•

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