hesitation here in adopting any
proposal which you may think it right to make on the subject of
dismissals, and that his opinion inclines to the immediate removal
of all the people whom you have named, on the ground not of their
former votes, but of the combination which is now avowed.

The King was now so much better that he was permitted, at his own
request, to see the Chancellor, who, however, was prohibited by the
medical attendants from talking to His Majesty on business. Even this
prohibition was removed in a few days; and Willis considered him so
completely recovered that he recommended, as a preliminary experiment to
test the state of his mind, that the Chancellor should be authorized to
communicate to His Majesty the public events which had occurred during
his illness. Of all men that could have been selected for so delicate an
affair, Thurlow was, perhaps, the worst qualified; but his relation to
the Crown as Chancellor left Ministers no alternative.

MR. W. W. GRENVILLE TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.

Whitehall, Feb. 19th, 1789.
MY DEAR BROTHER,

The account which you will receive by this post of the King, is as
favourable as any of the others. This is now the thirteenth day
since Warren thought him so much--

I am agreeably interrupted in my reasoning by the arrival of Pitt,
who has seen Willis this morning. His account is, that as far as he
is enabled to judge, the King is _now actually well_. That he is
not sufficiently acquainted with the sort of effect which the
peculiar duties of the King's situation produce upon his mind, to
be able to pronounce as decidedly with respect to him as he would
in other cases; but that in the instance of any common individual,
he should not feel the smallest difficulty in pronouncing the cure
complete, and the patient as capable of attending to his own
affairs as he had been before his illness. He added that the
keeping back from the King the present situation of public business
and the measures which have been taken by Parliament, did him now
more harm than good, because it created a degree of anxiety and
uneasiness in his mind. He therefore recommended that the
Chancellor, whom the King has already seen, and whom he has
expressed a wish to see again, might go to him, for the purpose of
explaining to him all that has passed. You will easil