s not the
smallest trace or appearance of any disorder; that the King's
manner was unusually composed and dignified, but that there was no
other difference whatever from what he had been used to see. The
King spoke of his disorder as of a thing past, and which had left
no other impression on his mind than that of gratitude for his
recovery, and a sense of what he owed to those who had stood by
him. He spoke of these in such a manner as brought tears into his
eyes; but even with that degree of affection of mind, there was not
the least appearance of disorder.

After Pitt had left His Majesty, he conversed with Willis, who told
him that he now thought the King quite well; that he could not
perceive the least trace remaining of his disorder. Under these
circumstances, the more I consider our actual situation and what
seems due to the King's feelings, the more I am persuaded of that
opinion, to which I think our friends begin in general to lean,
that the King's resumption of his authority must be done purely by
his own act, and that it is impossible to hear of any examination
of physicians.

The two Princes were at Kew yesterday, and saw the King, in the
Queen's apartment. She was present the whole time, a precaution for
which, God knows, there was but too much reason. They kept him
waiting a considerable time before they arrived; and after they
left him, drove immediately to Mrs. Armstead's, in Park Street, in
hopes of finding Fox there, to give him an account of what had
passed. He not being in town, they amused themselves yesterday
evening with spreading about a report that the King was still out
of his mind, and in quoting phrases of his to which they gave that
turn. It is certainly a decent and becoming thing, that when all
the King's physicians, all his attendants, and his two principal
Ministers, agree in pronouncing him well, his two sons should deny
it. And the reflection that the Prince of Wales was to have had the
Government and the Duke of York the command of the army during his
illness, makes this representation of his actual state, when coming
from them, more peculiarly proper and edifying. I bless God it is
yet some time before these _matured and ripened virtues_ will be
_visited upon us_ in the form of a Government.

Believ