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PARLMALENT4Rr PROCEEDIATS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, JAN. 15.

The Commissioners of the Customs presented several Mutual
Accounts a, directed by Act of Parliarnent—Mr. Dawes (rota
the Bank of England the Accounts relative to Bank Notes, or-
dered on Thursday last—Mr. Haworth, from the Exchequer, the
Accounts of the Consolidated Fur.d. &c. ordered by the House—
and Mr. Mitford, from the Treasury, Annual Accounts of the
-Serring Fishery, Northern Lighthouses, &e —ordered to lie on
the table, and the Accounts respecting Bank Notes sad the Con-
solidated Fend to be printed.

HEARING OF APPEALS, &C.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack
before three o'clock, and pursuant to the Order of the Day, their
Lordships proceeded to take into consideration the merits of the
various Petitions from parties, praying for further time to, lay
before the House the necessary papers and documents, in illus-
tration of their respective cases.
A number of the Solicitors and Agents attended, and were
questioned at the bar respecting the truth of the allegations in the
petitions and other points connected with the subject. The
prayers of the petitioners were in general agreed to, and the par-
ties were ordered to have further time, more or less. The ma-
jority of the cases, as usual, were Scots, and on one of these par-
ticuLuly, where the principal object of the proposed delay (a'
rather distant interval being mentioned), was to suit the conve-
nience of certain Scots Counsel to attend. •
The LORD CHANCELLOR took occasion to express strongly
his disapprobation of a practice, respecting which, too much
indulgeuce had hitherto obtained, and which, be trusted, would
IPM be the ease in future.
The decision of the House on this Petition, as well as on a few
est the others, was postponed till to-morrow.
STATE OP HIS MAJESTY'S HEALTH.
Earl CAMDEN (Lord President) presented the
Report of the Lords-Committees, on their examina-
tion of the Royal Physicians respecting the actual
state of his Majesty's health, which was ordered to be
printed for the use of their Lordships,

REPORT PROM THE COMMITTEE
APPOINTED TO EXAMINE THE PHYSICIANS WHO HAVE
AT CENDID HUI MAJESTY DURING HIS ILLNESS, TOUCH-
ING THE STATE OF HIS MAJESTY'S HEALTH.
CRUXES BT TILT NOOSE OF COMMONS TO BE ?MANTIS, 13111
JANUARY, 181!.
The Select Committee appointed to examine the Physkiaos who
have attended his Majesty, touching the state of his Majesty's
Health, since the Examination of his Majesty's Physicians be-
fore a Cittnmittee of this House in the last Session of Parlia-
ment, and to report such examination to the House, have, pur-
suant to the Order of the House, examined the Physicians ac-
cordingly, which Examination is as follows;
Youth,. 10 Die Januarii, 1812.
The Right Hon. CHARLES LONG, in the Chair.
Dr. MATTHEW BAILLIEs called in, and examined.
Is the state of his Majesty's health such as to ren-
der him incapable of coming to his Parliament in
person, or of attending to any kind of public busi-
ness?—The state of his Majesty's health is such as
to render him incapable of coming to Parliament, or
of attending to public business.
What is the state of his Majesty's bodily health ?
....His Majesty's bodily health, when I left him on
Monday last, and generally of late, has been but lit-
tle disordered.

What is the present state of his Majesty's mental
health ?—The errors of his Majesty's 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, been able to relate anecdotes more dis-
tinctly, than for two or three months before that
•period.
• Adverting to the state of his Majesty's bodily and ,I
;mental health since yat was last examined before al
Committee of this House, are you now of opinion, I,
that his Majesty's recovery is probable, or improba-
ble
?—I think that his Majesty's recovery is highly
improbable. -
Are you of opinion that his Majesty's recovery is
hopeless t—l cannot state that his Majesty's recovery
° is altogether without hope, but I think it is still ex-
tremely improbable.
Oa what do you ground your opinion, that his
Majesty's recovery is highly improbable ?—I think
his Majesty's recovery is highly improbable, because
his illness has continued for many months; and his
mental health is in a considerably worse state than it
was eight or ten months ago • because his Majesty
is considerably adtanced in life ; and because his
Majesty's present indisposition has assumed a more
determined form than in any of his former illnesses.
Has his Majesty's present degree of mental infir-
mity taken place gradually, or suddenly ?—The pre-
vent degree of his Majesty's mental infirmity may be
=gill to have taken place rather suddenly : he was in
a much better state of mental health•towards the end
of June ; early in July his mind was impressed with
i - a the errors which have continued since.
Have you ever known an instance of any person
exactly circumstanced as his Majesty now is in point
of mental health, recovering ?—My experience, in
complaints of this general class, is very limited. I
have not known any case resembling very exactly in
•; ,sill its features that of his Majesty. The only person
that I have known, about his Majesty's time of life,
tehose mental health was deranged, did not recover.
At the time of the sudden chavge from better to
Worse in liis Majesty's mental health, in the month
• cf July, was his bodily health much impaired, and
'was his life in danger ?—I cannot recollect the mi-
• mute circumstances attending the derangement of his
• bodily health, at that exact period ; but the general
iinpreseian which remains on my mind is, that his
bodily health was not worse at that time than it has
been through the general course of his indisposition.
Were the paroxysms of mental disorder 4 that
time such and so violent, or are they so now, as dur-
ing their continuance to bring his Majesty's life into
danger from their effect ?—ln some of the most vio-
- lent paroxysms of his Majesty's complaint, he may
perhaps be said to have been in some hazard, but it
never appeared to me to be considerable. With re-
Bari to the present state of his disorder, I believe
that his life is in no haxard whatever.
Can you state how long ago it is since you folineLl
an opinion That his Majesty's recovery was improba.
Isle ?—j began to be less confident about his Majesty's
recovery, at the time of the Report of July ; in chi
begiawns of October I thought his Majesty's reco-
• very very improbalde ; and now my opinion with re-
: spect to the improbability of his Majesty's recover)
- is rather strenkhened than weakened.
Lln yoUr opilion, are his Majesty's faculties of per
t cepti.on and mcmcry impaired in any material degree ?
....lits Majesty's incepuon and aperdcusion seem