The Sun.
London, England, 1804-02-16 00:00:00

lading-house. He was there for t, ast time on
last Saturday se'nnight. HIS MAJESTY then com-
plained much of an impending bilious attack, which
we understand was one of the symptoms upon the two
former occasions. On Friday, Saturday, and Sun.
day night last, Hts MAJESTY had no sleep, but felt
a high degree of irritation and growing (ever, and
on Monday it was judged advisable to remove him
to a room on the lower floor of Buckingham-House.
HER MAJESTY and the PRINCESSES, it may be
easily conceived, were in the deepest afilielion.
They have the sympathy of a Nation who know
the virtues and the value of their beloved Monarch,
and who cannot,but consider his illness as a great
national calamity'. The'srnbere and fervent prayers
of Fifteen Millions of People will be daily and
hourly offered up at the Throne of Grace for His
MAJESTY'S speedy recovery !
His MAJESTY'S Constitution has lately under.
gone a considerable change, and those whose duty
and happiness it was to be near the Royal Person
have for some time observed with concern and
alarm the great and rapid change. The Physicians,
we understand, however, have not positively de-
termined, -as has been generally reported, that the
disease which has been hanging about HIS MAJESTY
for the last month or more, is of a decidedly dropsi.
cal nature, though there is, we believe, a tendency
that way.

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, As may be naturally supposed, His Majesty's
Ministers are in a state of great alarm and conster-
nation. Cabinet Councils have been held 14r the
last two nights at Mr. ADDINGTON'S house in
Downing-street, which' have sat both nights till
four in the. morning. What has been resolved upon
we cannot presume to state, but the general expec-
tation and belief yesterday and this morning were,
that a Message would this. day be brought down to
both Houses of ParliaMent respeAing His Majesty's
indisposition. The peculiar circumstances of the -
Cotintry call for some immediate measure for sup.
plying the suspension of the Executive Authority,.
which the King's illness creates. The Proceedings
of Parliament will be most important and inte..
resting from the present day.
The ROYAL DUKES have been constant in their
attendance at Buckingham House, and the PRINCE,
unable from the weakness consequent upon his late
severe illness, to make his personal inquiries, has
not ceased to express his anxiety respecting His
Royal Father by repeated messages. The anxious
and deep concern, indeed, depided on every counte-
nance, from the highest to the lowest, is such as
becomes the affeaion of a thinking people for an
excellent and beloved. KING.

On Monday Mr. AIMINGTON waited upon • the
PRINCE of WALES, to acquaint His Royal High-
ness with the.KlNG's indisposition. He staid with
the PRINCE about an hour. We are well in-
formed. when we say that Mr. ADDINGTON wrote
a note to the PRINCE on Tuesday, requesting
permission to wait upon him again, which visit
His Royal Highness declined. We state this cir.
cumstance, because it has been industriously re-
ported that the Minister has been with the PRINCE
every day.

The Cabinet Councils have been attended by all
the Ministers, with the exception of Lord Sr.

VINCENT.

We are happy to say that the Fame East India-
man, about whose fate very serious apprehensions
were yesterday entertained at Uoyos, was off the
Isle of Wight yesterday, and had a Pilot on board.

Yesterday about one thousand.Persons.of Distinc-
tion left their names, and made inquiries after Hi
MAJESTY'S health.

Yesterday the PRINC e of WALES took an airing
for a short time in his carriage.
Yesterday 0 iicial Notice was given, that inqui-
ries after His MAJESTY'S health were not to be
made at the Queen's House this day,. but they are
to be made between the hours of twelve and three,
at St. James's Palace.

'Yesterday the answer to the inquiries after the
PRINCE of WALEs's health, was, " His Royal
Highness is better, but very wQak."
It was y.24terday very industriously reported by
the friends of the Minister, that Mr. PITT had been
in Downing. Street, but this report was unfounded.
Yesterday being Ash Wednesday the Bishop of
LONDON preached before a numerous congregation
of the Nubility and Gentry at the Chapel Royal,
St. James's.

Yesterday a Court of Dire Tors was held at the
East India House, when Capt. THOMAS BUNTON
PE IRC E was sworn into the command of The Taun_
ton Castle, destined to China ; the Court adjourned
at six o'clock till to-morrow.

The Right Hon. Lord DYNE_ 9R,; is appointed
Lord Lieutenant and (ustos Rutulorurn of .the
County of Carmarthen, in the room of the late Mr.
VAUGHAN'.

We understand it to be an undoubted fact that
an order has been issued by .a certain Board to open
all the letters of a certain Naval o.fficcr, frtri a
suspicion that that Officer, in private letters to his
friends, expresses his true feelings and sentiments
on the conduit of the Department in which •he
serves. This affair, we understand, is likely itti
make seine noise hereafter.