The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-12-19 00:00:00

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Are there any Symptemi now attending his Ma.
jetty's bodily health, by the removal of which you
think that the recovery of his Majesty's reason
would be attained ? His Majesty has a tendency
to fever, sometimes existing, sometimes not exist.
ing, the removal of which tendency would contri-
bute to his Majesty's restoration, In my opinion.
Has there been, during the present illness, at any
period, a total absence of fever ? Yes.
During the total absence of. fever, in the present
illness, has at any time, the derangement of mind
continued ? I believe never, in a great degree.
In day degree ? Yes.
You have stated that it has happened, that the
Kieg has had some hours sleep in the course of the
pight, and has not been better after that sleep: do
yen reckon that a favourable or an unfavourable
symptom, in regard to the King's recovery ? I
should' think it iudilferent, in regard to his Ultimate
recovery.

Would It lead yon to suppose, that his recovery
was not likely to be so speedy as if sleep prodoeml
its desired effect ? It would oot lead me to form any
certain conclusion, with regard to that elect.
When you attended the King in the year 1804,
did you sign the bulletins at that time ? Yes.

Du you recollect the last bulletin that was put
forth to the Public ? No.
Was it intended that that bulletin should convey
to the Public that. hit Majesty wes cosapletel►y um).
rued ? I apprehend that the bulletin must have been
intended to convey en idea that kis Majesty was per-
fectly recovered, so far as regarded a competency
to transact public business.

Are the Committee to understand, that when you
apply the words " perfectly recovered" to the
King, you apply • them in the same sense as you
weuld to any private individual, that he was per.
fectly recovered, for the transaction of any busi-
ness, public or private, which might belong to him,
and to the entire management of his affairs? Yes.
The Committee then are to understand, that at
the cessation of the bulletins, in the year 1804, the
King was so completely recovered ? I apprehend so.
After the cessation of the bulletins 9 did you visit
the King as his Physician, in 1804 ? After the ces.
cation of the bulletins, his Majesty went out of
town ; I was not with hint out of town ; he re-
turned to town at no very long intervals, and then
his Majesty's Physicians attended him. I believe
it. was in the month of Auguit that his Majesty
went down to Weymouth, and from (hut time to the
end of October, Sir Francis Millman and myself
were one of us always with his Majesty ; for the 1
greater part of the time, I was with his Majesty.
Were you and Sir Francis Milleme—the only at.
temdauts upon his Majesty at Weymouth ? Yes.
At any period subsequent to the bulletins in 1804,
did you perceive in the King any flurried manner
whicli excited your attention ? His Majesty was
i more liable to hurries; but I believe that at any pc.
' clod of any day ha was perfectly competent to
transact business. •••
Du you consider the hurries, of which you have
been speaking, to have been vestiges of, or at all de-
pendent upon the King's malady ? I do.
You have tiabl, that. fever
.lust aceossoutied the
King% malady, and that that fever has been inter.
mitting during the course of his malady ; but that .
you did not Consider the fever to be the cause of
his malady ; do you conceive the cleave of his ma.
lady to have been the affliction of the King for the
illness of his daughter ? I do.
• You bare said, that you do not consider the
King's to be a case: of ordinary insanity ? I did.
What is the Cause in your opinion subsisting in
the King's constitution which renders him liable to
these attacks of mental derangement ? It is a pe-
culiarity of constitution of which I can give no
distinct account.
Can you give any distinct account of the cause
of tie accession of fever which sometimes attends
the mental derangement of his Majesty ? In the
.disorders which his Majesty has had similar to the
present, and in the present disorder, the whole frame
has been more or less disordered, both body 'tied
mind. .
LCan you form any,opinion of the cause of that
fact ? .I coaceiv,ei with reference to the present
ease, that the cause was certainly .owing to his Ma.
' esty's anxiety on the subject of his daughter's ill.
nots '. that cause produced, from thirpecultiarity •of
'Ms Majesty's Constitution, the derangement both in
body and mind which constitutes his present dis.
'order. ..
Are you able to afford the Committee any Wm.
relation as to the peculiarity of that constitution,..ia J
what it consists ? I conceive the perularity to be'
Simply, that Ms Majesty has appeared liable to at.
tacks of disorder similar to his present ; but the
Cause of his being liable I cannot at all assign.
r Has the remisside of the fever, after the last con.
Adorable access of the disorder, been as entire and
complete is after any former attack, in this now
subsisting inchposidon of his Majesty ? I consider,
the present remission to bear date from the evening
of the 10th of this mootir; during that interval, front
the lOili to the time that I left his Majesty yester.
day morning, I should content the intermission is
as perfect as during the same number of days in
any former intermission of his present illness.
Do you conceive the defect of his Majesty's sight
to be a circumstance favourable or unfavourable
to his ultimate recovery ? I should consider it as
a circumstance of. inconveuience, but not a cir.
cumstance at all prejudicial to his ultimate sects-

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very.
Do you conceive it in be a circumstance having
any influence upon the 'duration of his illness, and
tending either to prolong or to shorten it ?
should not consider it likely either 4o prolong or to
shorten his illness to such a period when his Majes-
ty was described, in my answer, to a former ques.
tion, to have been considered capable of transact.
lug public business; after that period I should con
ccive it of infinite use to his. Majesty in preventing
the subsequent hurries that were alluded to.
Is the Committee to understand you as saying,
that you consider the defect of his Majesty's sight
as a circumstance neither likely to retard tt.n‘ likely
to accelerate the period Jf his recovery, so as that
his Majesty shall arrive at that state which you call
a fit one for, the distliarge of business ? d con.
ceive it to be an indifferent circumstance as to that..
I You have stated, that since you were examined

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beloril the Privy Coins:ll, bit !Majesty hal been
won foes fee &A sad Mace theebettet agala
Yes:
Is the Committee td tinderibuid hem that, that
since the examination before the Privy Council, his
Majesty has had a relapse? Tes.
State whether, since that relapse, Or in COMP&
quence of that relapse, you have the same contldeeee
and expectation of a speedy recovery that you had
before ? It would not alter my opinion of the
prob4ble time of his Majesty's recovery, though I
can hardly pronounce it speedy.
Do yon know whether during the former attacks
of his Majesty, after any remission of the disorder,
there was any renewed increase of his illness ? There
have been several.

. HAS the apprehension of a recurrence of mental
malady in the mind of any patient after repeated at-
tack*, any and what effect in producing the renewal
of such ;attack ? I should conceive, an apprehen.
alon in the mind of the patient would not tand to
produce any recurrence of the disorder.
Does the advance of his Majesty's age, since his
first attack in 1788, increase or diminish pier ex.
Initiation of his Majesty's ultimate recovery ? Ab.
.strectedly considered, his Majesty's greater age
would certainly be considered an unfavourable dr.
cumstance ; but when I have regard to the peculiar
circuautances of his Majesty's disorder, I think
bicadvanced age does not alter my own eipectatban
-of his ultimate recovery.
Would the greater treasure of public. business
now than in the year 1788, have any and what
effect, in your opinion, as to' aimelerating or re.
tarding his Majesty's complete likeocery ? I really
am not competent to give any - distinct wawa to
that question. -
Du ,on think more or less favoirablyor the pro-
bable Issue of his Majesty's malady, from there
being such an assignable cause' for that
.rnaladras
you hue stated ? I should think more favourably..
Sir RittltY II A LYO RD, Dart. called Ixdsidesasslitid.
Has any amendment already taken place in the
course of his Majesty's disorder, and does the ap-
pearance of such amendment continue at present ?
A. very considerable amendment has taken place in
his Majesty's disorder since its commencement. I
do not think hie Majesty has made much progress
within the last fOrtnight.
When did you last see the King ? This morning.
What was the state of the King, at that tiipe?
Nis Majesty had had sAniet night, and was corn.
posed in his conversation.

Do you think the King was better today than be
was yesterday ? I think he was quite as well to-
day as he was yesterday.
Do you think there was any amendment todayl
from yesterday ? No; I think the King was much
the same to-day as he was yesterday.
What symptoms were there to induce you—to
thick the disorder was in the same state as it was
yesterday, *ben the King had had a quiet night,
and was composed 2 That was the case the Etutter
part of yesterday, though there were occasiohally
moments of discomposure.
Was t the cam-yesterday miming, that Is was
composed ? No, not iu the early part of the

morning.
Dave:you seen any patients of the King's age,
afflicted with the same malady ? Not precisely un.
der the same circumstances with, the King's; the
King% case must be in some respects peculiar.
In what does the peculiarity of the King's case
consist ? More in the circumstances of the manage-
ment.
Is there any thing omitted in the management of
the King's case, that would be applied to that of
any other patient ? I believe not.-
Is there any thing added to the management. is
the King's case, which could norbe added to *id
in the ease of any other patient? I believe not. .
Then is what does the difference' of the manage-.
mesa consist ? I conceive the King is more capable
of being excited by external causes, from not being
'in the habits of being contradicted or opposed
through his life. • '
Are pow hopes of recovery more febst-.10 the
ease' of the King, from the CirCatrollatieds
.described, than they would' thp cat .:of Any
other patientmentally citeemstbsteed at thaiLing is?
Not 'of uttiniate recovery. : • - •
-- Are your hopes' of the epitcdy recovery of the.
ILiog as strong as they Were on.the2eth pf
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umber,. when you were examined before the Privy
Council.? -I had nut hopes of his apeedyieceicry
at that time.
Have you hopes of his' speedy recovery nois.tj
. Aefl
Not of speedy recovery. • •
Can you limit any time within ihiabit is probik
We the King way be recovered'? - 1 cintiot.
Have you had any patient•underyiser care, nibit;',
tally deranged, at or above the niiss.etteventy ?
have seen people deeanged, about sevesarl pore of
age ; but do not recollect that L bate hula ate&
nuder my own care,
Of• those persons whole yon have seen in such II
state at that age, hays all or soy of them reotereg
ed ? I cannot speakmith confidence to that once.'
;lion ; because, as they havis not been, people under
my own care, I do not know the result. •'
Do you not know the rgselt of any of those eases
which you have seest,pejoitoppoot speak confidently
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to the recovery of . ,Osove seveoty-two Ire t,
of age. t . -
Then you cannot take upon yourself. to 'est',
whether any pnitients et or above 70 years of age,
whom you have keow.e to have been meatally, -dew
ranged, has or has not recovered ? J csalot speak.
confidently IP that point. • e.
Do you know any one who has iecoveielit
do not speak of My own knowledge, bet
heard of recoveries. . •
What is the present state of the king't loony
health ? Not perfectly good.
What are the symptoms of disorder in bodily
health ? He has feverish symptom,. ' .
Have those feverish symptoms Continued, from
the time that you were first celled itt to. visit Watt
to the present time I • Ills Majesty his, occasion.'
ally, appeared almost free from fever; but I think
I can hardly say that be has at any time appeared,
entirety so., .
Du you ettribete hir mental derangement to eey
body complaint 2 I should conceive, theie were