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awed elsewhere, ()fixing less actuated than he ought
to be with becoming feelings of delicacy Anti respect
bawards his Sovereign. It such a charge WAS tw.,v
attempted in any quarter, be must remind tlkir
Lordships, that every such charge was equally ~,.
Ilent and forcible against those who proposed twelve
months—(Hear, hear.) It was agreed on all ham's
'bat some limit must be fixed, and- the only quessiili
was, which of the two periods proposed was cons,..
slant to fact, to meiical experience, to sound rano.
g, and judicious deduct,on ? But there was ore
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Lord SIDMOUTH observed, that the opinions
which were expressed on the present important woes.
tioe. have generally turned on the temporary nature
of his Majesty's disorder, and on the probability of
his recovery. On the latter, his Noble Freud Vito
spoke last (Lord Grenville) seemed chiefly to refit
_the atguments which he adduced in suppoit of his
Amendment. But these arguments must and were
chiefly drawn from the.evidence of the Physicians.
Now the evidence of all the Physicians w is in favour
of his Majesty's recovery. They all thought it pro-
liable. The restrictions and limitations proposed to
be laid on the Regent rested upon the same basis of
the probability of the King's recovery. When the
King's-recovery became so improbable as to render
these restrictions and limitations unfit to be centaur/di
[ then, it was-argued, they should be taken off, or its
rothel-Wards, they should cease, as soon as the eroba-
bility ceased of his Majesty's recovery. Much he
wished, that throughout the whole of this business,
Noble Lords had-adhered to the simplicity of that
argtithent. But his Noble Friend seemed to insiuu-
, ate, that at first he had no experience respecting the
nature of the King's malady. What ! was nia th it
experience recorded on the Journals of their Lo4l-
- House ? Might not Noble Lords there find
the opinions and tfie judgment of Dr. Willis, opt.
nions and a judgment grounded on kirg and various
experience ? Does not Dr. Willis there state, that
( the course of his observations enabled him to say,
that the greater number of patients whom he hid
seen, recovered within eighteen months? In answer
to the question put to him, how soon he conceived
that patients so afflicted might recover ? he replied
that the average might be from three to fifteen months.
They had often, indeed, recovered within three
months after he had been called in. Then his Noble
Friend must allow that their Lordships had expe-
rience so far to proceed upon, and that the experience
of the person who was acknowledged to be the most
practised in the treatment of such complaints.. Thor
Lordships bad then on the Journals the grounds of
ithe restrictions which were proposed, and of the de-
gree of duration which should be given to the Bill.—
The clause, so far extending the duration of the Bill,
came recommended to him, because it had the sanc-
tion of this experience and authority ; and it came
further recommended to him, because when its du-
ration was to expire, it would have the judgment of
Parliament to regulate the proceedings which should
then be adopted. But his Noble Friend would assert
that, in fair reasoning, and in just argument, the pe-
riod of six months should be considered sufficiently
long. Such an assertion could rest only on the sup-
position, either that the King must be recovered by
the Ist of August, or that then his recovery must be
so improbable, that the restrictions should then be
taken off. These were points, into an examination
of which, it could not but be painful to enter—but
the view which he had taken of the general evidence
of the Physicians, enabled him to draw inferences front
it, very different from those which seemed to he de-
duced from it by his Noble. Friend. In his mina, how-
ever, and he would thank GOD for it, there was never
less room for difference of opinion on this point.—
But with this impression on his mind, he could not
well set forth and establish, with a minute reference
to the evidence of the different Physicians, a detail
which, he much feared, must greatly fatigue the at-
tention of their Lordships ; but it was necessary to
go into it at some length, in order to chew that it did
not conntenance the Amendment moved for by his
Noble Frierid. The Noble Viscount then proceeded
to read different parts of the Examination of the Pity-
cisians ; and, when Noble Lords read it, be hoped
they would attend to the questions as well as to the
answers respecting the point on which his tsroblurtknd
rested the whole of his observations. These observa-
tions tended to prove, that if the term of his Majesty's
, disorder was protracted beyond its limits on former
occasions, the probability of -his recovery would be-
come fainter, if the symptoms continued to be the
, same. But his Noble Friend did not seem to take the
symptoms into his consideration, but merely the-time.
The symptoms, however, the Physicians never I.or
sight of. They repeated again and again, that if the
symptoms continued the same, and the disorder was
protracted beyond its duration on former occasions,
then the probability of the King's recovery would be
less favourable. Now, it afforded him the utmost sa-
tisfaction to know, that a material change had already
taken place, and that the amendment was gong on.
The symptoms, therefore, did not remain the same ;
land; therefore, the opinions of the Physicians, if fairly
stated, would not make out his Noble Friend's argu-
, ment. It was on the favourable change in the symp-
i toms, and not on the greater or less duration of the
disease, that the Physicians founded their opinions ;
' for they observed, that that particular illness was
very different at different times. •P•ey could not even
conjecture what might be its duration—it was longer
in 1788 than in 1804, which they could not account
for. But he would repeat, that i: was upon the
change in the symptoms, anti not on the duration of
the disorder, that they formed their opinions of the
probability of recovery. This was a point to which
he hoped their Lordships would particularly attend.
This it was which, in his conscience and judgment,
afforded him the most confident hopes ;
and this, in
his mind, was the fair interpretation which should bo
put on that part of the evidence of the Plies clans, on
which his Noble Friend seenaed to lay so hitch stress.

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Ist of August. Ihis appeared to hit
rounded idea ; for any man who 100
of the pubrw. business must be sangui
believed, that, while the Repency c
mence till Febru.nt, the public bit
brought to a close belay the eud of Ji
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