Star.
London, England, 1810-12-19 00:00:00

his Majesty been bodily indisposed one ot
ithin the last fortnight ?--Yes ; there has been
.s considerable accession of fever about the King.
you attach any importance to such bodily in:
,i;n ,ns as his Majesty has been subject to for the
fanlight attack considerable importance to
cession of fever ; and there was accession of fe.
within the last fortnight ; we had no alarm on
of any other indisposition.
using the Word " fever'," do you mean an* ac.
1,4 the mental disease, or of bodily indisposi.
L.. 01 bodily indisposition, when we have made
of the word fever ; the • King had fever, though
gnioanied with an aggravation of the mental dis-
, vet it was independent of that.
gas it at the suggestion, or at the request of the
I Chzicellor, that he saw the King ; or was the
itellor, upon his arrival at Win sor, to inquire
his Majesty, informed that it was settled that he
add attend upon him ?d--It was not at the sugges-
of the Chancellor, and his Lordship said that he
nit ever prepared to expect pea a circumstance;
rather at the recadmiendittioi of the physicians

lendance ,
;hen Lord Thurlow aiiti Mr. Pitt saw the King,
his former illness, were any of the physicians pre-
t at the same time ?—Yes, I was present.
Were any physicians present when the Lord Chao-.
lot saw him the other day ?—No.
Nor any other person?--Not .any person was in
Two, but the Chancellor f Sir Henry Halford
educed the Chancellor to the. King, and then re-
' ; and no other.person was in the room.
mbave stated, that one of the inducements to the
senor's seeing the King was, that Parliament
to meet the next day ; did the physicians desire
Chancellor to see the King because they were
re that Parliament was. to meet the next day
not know whether that was not ode of the rea-
s ; but it was notdokwith any disrespect to Par-
ent,only with a Voeir, as it had been in the foriner
in the year 1788,.diat Mr. Pitt and the Chancel.
might both have to say, that they did not take
tate of the King merely from the representation
is medical attendants.' •

• • , -•
Has there been at any tame, in your opinion, any
lection between the defect subsisting in his Ma-
r's sight, and the mental tliaorcler under whiCh his
Testy at present lab Ours, or at any foriner period
Aired Id° not apprehend there,is.
You have said, that you are not the less. sanguine ,
his Majesty's ultimate recovery, than ybu were
. you gave your evidence before the Privy Coun.
; 'are you less-sanguine. of his Majesty's speedy
very than you were at that period ?"—Yes, of his
'sty's tpredy recovery; from the 'relapse which
. place immediately afkeiwards; we certainly have
so fair a prospect.
Can pm state any-probable time for his Majesty's
recovery ?—No, T • Cannot indeed ; I think
Xing is very:mach in the same StateAhat .I, saw
in the latter end of the-. year 176 g, ?oil die be- I
- of the
_Year 178 g; 'belt it varies so, there are
An'y fluctuations, that When we see tie King a
better, and tolnron..a 14ete bettet for t4ro or
days, we are ungoirie, . and if tyre, Conies a
it throws us back again there are Such
'I, it is impossible to give any positive and
opinion ; and indeed in this case there. is no
ittive time in the nature of this malady ; Too can
seldom say; when men have a common fever,
the symptoms have been formed three or four
one can form a pretty, pod judgment as ta. the.
ion of the disease but in this, T. believe, noboay
.ter seen able to ascertain anypreciai time.
Then I understand, from the nature of the malady,
impossible for medical skill to 'ascertain the time
recovery, as in a feier or other ordinary disease ?
9St so.

Are you of opinion, that that difficulty is increased
his Majesty's advanced age, and by any other in-
that may have attached to his Majesty ?-7
.ing's is a green old age ; there is so much alt-
. integrity of constitution about him, that T
that that certainly does not operate upon my
; and I believe not upon tire mind of any, so
,ch as it would in the case of any ocher person.
D-
o you know how long the Chancellor remained
the Kin ?-.Very little more than a quarter of
hour; I think Sir Henry ;Halford said he minuted
and that it was 18 minutes.
ou have stated, that when Lord Thurlow saw his
..y in 1788, and when Mr. Pitt saw his Majesty
)utthe same time, you were present at those inter-
. ?—I was present when Mr. Pitt went-in, and I
ink I was once present when Lord Thurlow went in.
Nobody was present the day before yesterday, when
Lord Chancellor went in ?—No.
Was the absence of the Physicians, upon this (x-
-i, al the Physicians' own suggestion, or at the
!st of the Lord Chancellor ?—At the Physicians'
i suggestion, that the Chancelloi should form his
opinion.
Did not the duration of his continuance depend
the opinion of the Physicians ?—Entirely ; the
iulation of the Physicians was, that he should see
Majesty for a quarter of an hour.
It was Sir Henry Halford's own • motion, that he
to the King to see the Lord Chancellor,
hxvinp; so proposed to the King, he communica-
to the other Physicians that he had so proposed,
. they after some discussion consented to it ?—Yes.
But it was not first of all proposed to the Physi-
':lns.as a measure by Sir Henry Halford ? It had
discussed among us some time before, and Sir
Henry Halford at that time thought he saw the
King in such a state in which we all said if we had
ten him we should have wished it : there was no
blame in the world attached to Sir Henry Halford.
When his Majesty's Physicians occasionally, in
their daily reports, describe his Majesty as being bet-
ter, do they mean to confine themselves exclusively
to his mental disorder, or to combine with it any con-
liderations of his bodily state ?—To combine them ;
then they say he is better, they mean both.
tl Fever, in the bulletins, means not merely fever ;
Dose
the mental disorder aggravated by fever ?—At
s times the King has had fever, and it has perhaps
,'"e_e* the most prominent part of his disorder; there
rue been ixiiods when the King was very seriously
ill with f.N.
['Withdrew.
.Dr. Matrintw BAILLIE called in and examined.
~acq3aint the Committee, whether the state of his
^t coming
health is such as to render him incapable,
coming in person to his Parliament, or of attend-
t9 any kind of pablit,bosineseri--The aate'd his

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