Star.
London, England, 1810-12-20 00:00:00

VIA Volt !peak 4 the Itines recoteiy, tor the
purpose of transacting public business, do you under-
stand it in the same way, ;s you would, the same
words applied• to an individual, that he was competent
to the transaction of all his business, public and pri-
vate, and to the complete management of his affairs?
Most assdiedly.
Since you ceased to attend the King in June, 1801,
when were you since called to his Majesty ?—On the
Bth of last month.
Did not you attend the King, in the year 1 Ult.—No.
Since you have been called in, to the king, do you
rreeollect having objected to any proposal, made for
an interview between the King and the Lot d Chan-
cellor ?—Yes.
Had you known, that it was intended to propose to
tha King, to see the Chancellor, should you have ob-
hected to his being' told of it ?—I should, certninly,
ave objected.
Do you think that any beneficial effact was pro-
duced, to his Majesty's mental health, by the inter-
view between the King and the Chancellor ?—No.
Has any prejudicial effect resulted from it ?—I am
not aware that any prejudicial effect arose.
On the night of the Chancellor seeing the King,
did you see any effeCt, good or bad, produced, that
you attributed to the visit of the Chancellor ?—Not
that I could attribute to the visit of the Chancellor.
Wh:tt was the reason assigned, by the _physicians,
for wishing the King to see the Chancellor ?—Some
of the physicians had formed an idea, that the Chan-
cellor would have some influence on the King's mind.
In point of fact, was the King worse that night,
than he had been the preceding night ?—T he King
had a remarkably good night.
When did you last see his Majesty ?--This morn-
inc!, about eight o'clock.
What was his state at that time ?—Nearly in the
same state that the King has been, for the two or
three last daYio
Ha J he passed a good night ?—A tolerably good
nigh. ; nor equal to the preceding.
Do you esteem it an unfavourable circumstance,'!
that .would not be attend:d with its natural ef-
fect of refreshment and composure, in a malady of
tire nature of that, with which the ing is affected
It only marks the stage of the complaint. It uni-
formly takes place, e:arly, in complaints of this de- I
scription, that sleep does not benefit tha mind, it only
recruits the constitution at large.
Does sleep, now .%enefit the King's mind, more than
it did in the c..rlier stages of this disorder ?—Most
undoubtedly.
Does it benefithis mind, as much as it did in the
'corresponding states of his disorder, heretofore?— I am
scarcely able to discover the exact parallel situation.
Have you now, or had you lately, under your care,
any. patients of the age of the King ?—Not affected
exactly as his Majesty is.
Have you had any patients, titentally deranged, of
or about that age ?—No, I think not.
Hive you had patients, mentally derange.l, of about
the same age, under your CATO have had persons,
under states of insanity, of the King's age; font per.'
haps under mental di rangement similar to the King's.
What is the distinction, between mental derange- ,
inert, and insanity ?—The Committee must be mute;
of the extreme difficulty of giving a definition,
premeditated. I will describe the character of dm
different states : I consider the King's derangement,
More nearly allied to delirium, than insanity when.!
ever the irritation, in his Majesty, arises to a certain
point, he uniformly becomes delirious:. In delirium,..l
the mind is actively employed upon past impressions,
upon objects and former scenes, which rapidly pass
in succession before the mind, resembling, in that
case, a person talking in his sleep. There is also a
considerable disturbance in the general constitution;
great restlesness, great want of sleep, and total
cowcionsness of surrounding objects. In insanity,
there may be little or no disturbance, apparently, in ,
the general constitution ; the mind is occupied upon
some fv:Pd assumed idea, to the truth of which, if will
pertinaciously adhere, in opposition to the plainest
evidence of its falsity ; and the in4ividual is acting,
always, upon that false impression.: in insanity, also,
the mind is awake to object....vhich arc present. Tak-
ing insanity, therefore, and delirium, a's two points, I
place del angerneir. of mind somewhere between them.
His Majesty's illness, uniformly partakes mote of the
delirium th;tn of insanity.
Do you mean to say, that the King is at any time
unconscious of surrounding objects ?—When I first
5 acv his Majesty, on the Gth of November, he was per-
fectly unconscious of surrounding objects.
Was that his state on Tuesday last ?—Nn.
\\'.;i there derangement oa Tuesday ?—There was
derangement 91 Tuesday.
Then, on Tuesday, did his Majesty's disorder bear
the characteristic of insanity; and on the 6th of No-
vember at delirium ?—lt has never borne the charac-
teristic of insanity ; it never gets beyond derangement,
according to the scale I have just laid down.
Does this apply to the illness of 1801,as well as to
the present ?--Strictly.
What is the present state of the King's bodily
health, in your opinion ?—The King is far from being
in a good state of health, at this time.
Are there symptoms of bodily indisposition, suffi-
cient to account for all the derangement of mind,
which is perceived in his Majesty ?—Fully sufficient
to account for the present symptoms of the state of his

mind. • _ -
Is there a greater absence of sleep, now, than there
was a fortnight ago t—Foe six days, there was more
regular sleep, than there has been for some days past;
when I say a fortnight, am perhaps not quite accu-
rate to the time.
Do you attach any, and what importance, to a pa-
tient, having previously had repeated attacks of men-
tal disorder ?—Provided I see no consequences arise
from the repetition of the disorder, I should attach no
importance to it.
In his M:+jesty's cast, have you obierved any con-
sequences of the kind you allude to ?—I have obser-
ved none.
Did not the Chancellor know, before htswas actually
introduced to the King, that you concurred, upon the
whole, in thinking it would be better he should see
the King, than that he should not ?—Having started
the objections, which' I did, to the Chancellor's ad-
mission, I proposed going over to the King, to see in'
what state of expectation his Majesty was knowing,
that he had been apprized of the Chance ♦isit to
Windsor. I found him, then, in such a state of ex-
pectation, that it was a doubt whether as much itri•