The Sun.
London, England, 1812-01-16 00:00:00

REPORT

From the Committee appointed tOlxamine the Physicians
who have attended His Majesty", during his 4ltness;
.touching the State of His Majesty's Health. Ordered,
by the House of Commons, to be printed, I,3tb lanuars,
igto.

The.Selea Committee appointed to examine the
Physicians
.who have attc.;nded lus Majesty, touch-
ing the state of his Majesty's health, since the ex-
amination of his Majesty's Physicians before a Corn
tnittee of this House in the last Session of Pothameut,
and to report such examination to the Houle, have,
Ourspant to the Order of the House, examined the
Physicians accordingly : which examination is a,
follows :

Peneris 10° die fanuarii, 1812.-

The Right HOOOMbIe CHARLES LONG, in the
Chair. - -

Dr. MATTHEW BatwEi-called in, and examined.
_Q. Is the state of His Majesty's health suds as to
render, him incapable of coming to his Parliament
in person, or of Ttending to any kind of publip
business The state -of his Majesty's health is
such as to render him incapable-,of coining to Parlia-
ment, or of at'ending to public business. - •
Q. What is the, •state of his Majesty's bodily.
health ?—A. His Majesty's, bodily health, when I
left tumors Monday last, and generally of tate, has
been but little disordered.

'CI What is the ,present stale of• his Majesty's
mental healik?—A.•The. errors of his Majesty)*
mind seem. to be as strongly impressed upon it, as
during any part of his illness; but his Majesty has
within the last few weeks Bien able to relate anet-
dotes more distin&ly, than for two or three months
before 'that period. - •

Q. Adverting to the slate of his Majesty's bodily
and mental health since you was last examined- be-
fore, a Committee of this House,
.are yod now of
opinion that his Majesty's tecovery is probable, or
improbable,?—A. I think that hi 3 Majesty's recUi,ery.
is highly improbable.
Q. Ate you of opinion that his Majesty's recovery.
is hopeless ?—A-. rcannot state that his Majesty's
recovery is altogether without hope, but I think it
still extremely improbable.
.Q. On what do you ground yoUr opinion, that
his Majesty's r,!Covery is highly improbable ?—A. I
think ins Majesty's recovery is highly improbable,
because his illness has continued fur many months;
and his mental health is in a Considerably wei se. state
than it was eight or tta mouths ago, because his
Majtsty is, considerably advanced in lite, ancrbe-
cause his Majesty's piesent indiSposition has assumed
a more determined form that in any of his former
illnesses.

Q.. Has' his Majesty's pres'ent degree of mental in-
firmity taken place gradualJy, or suddenly ?—A.
The present degree of hiS Majesty's mental'infirrni-
ty may be'said to have taken place rather suddenly :
he was in a much better state of mental health to-
wards the end of June ; early in July, his mind
wai impressed with all the errors which have con-
tinued since.

Q. Hare' you ever knoWn an instance of any
-person exadly circumstanced as his Majesty now is,
in point of mental health, recovering ?—A.: My-ex-
perience in complaint's of this general Class is very
limited :• I have not known any case resembling
very exa&ly, in all its features, that. of his Majvs y.
The only person that I have known about his Mr-
jesty's time of life, whose mental health was • de-
ranged, did not recover.

Q. At the time of the sudden change from bettc
to wet se, in his Majesiy's: mental health, in the
month of July, was his bodily health much r-
ed, was nis life danger
.?—A. I cannot recol-
lea the minute circumstances attending the derange-
mentof his bodily health, at that exact pb.riod ; but
the general impression -which remains on my mind
is, that his bodily health was not worse at that time,
than it, has been through the genera: cOurne of his
indisposition..
Q. Were the . paroxysms of mental disorder at.
that time such and so violent, or" are they so' now,

as during tbeir continuanceto bring his MA jes(y's
into danger from their effect ?--A. In some of the
most violent paroxysms of his Majesty's cornpl 'int, he
• may;''perlidps; be, said to have been in mime Lazard,
but it never appeared to me to be considerable : with
regard to the preSent • state of his disorder, I believe_
..,that his life is in no hazard whatever.
Q. Can you, state how, long ago it is since you
formed an opinion that his Majesty's recovery was
improbable ?—A.- I began to be less confident about
his Majesty's recovery, at the time of the Report of
July : in the beginning of 03ober I thought his
Majesty's recovery very improbable ; and now my
opinion with resped to the improbability of his
Maj-_,sty's recovery is rather, strengthened than
weakened. . .
Q. In your opinion, are his 'Majesty's faculties
of perception and meMory impdired in any material
degree ?—A. His Majesty's perception and appre-
hension seem' o me to beras acute at present as dur-
ing any ,period .of his indisposition ; his memory
seems to be impaired, but in a very inconsiderable
degree. _ [Withdrew.