accept. In a point of such importance, it seems to me that
it would be proper that you should have, for your own
justification, the written opinions of your lawyers on the point I
mention, but not to send them over here. I mention this as a
general idea; but wish you to consider it, because I am sure, in
general, the less you write on this subject the better, in order
that you may not give ground of misquoting, or misrepresenting what
you say.

As to the idea of vesting the Government in Lords Justices, or
taking any step for throwing up the Government in the interval,
except with the consent and by the direction of the Prince of
Wales, I should most earnestly deprecate it for a thousand reasons;
but, above all, for the impression which it would give here of
abandoning the interests of this country in Ireland, for the sake
of adding to the confusion, and creating factious difficulties. I
think your line clear, and that you have nothing to do but to sit
still saying or doing nothing till our measure passes. You then ask
the Prince of Wales whether he chooses that you or any Lords
Justices should meet Parliament; and if he directs you to stay, you
have nothing to do but to express to anybody that asks you, your
wish that the English measure should be precisely followed.
Whatever, under such circumstances, is the conduct of the Irish
Parliament, you cannot be responsible for it, unless you make
yourself so.

There is another urgent reason against your taking any step for
breaking up your Government: the King is daily getting better, and
has been continuing so to do ever since Sunday. Willis's
examination before the Committee yesterday, was all but decisive as
to the certainty of his recovery in a short time. I will send it to
you in the course of to-morrow, or the next day; but these are the
material parts. He is asked what hopes he entertains of the King's
recovery? He says he entertains great hopes; that if it was the
case of a common man, he should have no doubt of his recovery; but
in the King's situation, his own reflections on his situation, when
he begins to recover his reason, may retard the cure. (A good
lesson, by the bye, to the Prince of Wales, &c.) He says he cannot
yet affirm that there are signs of convalescence, but that there is