everything leading to it; particularly that the irritation has
almost entirely subsided, which must precede convalescence, or any
appearance of it. He is asked with respect to his own experience,
&c.? He says, that of ten patients brought to him within three
months of their being attacked, nine have recovered. That the
smallest time he remembers, is six weeks or two months from their
being brought to him; the longest, a year and a half; the average,
about five months.

With this account, it is not very sanguine to hope that the King's
actual recovery may take place before the measure can pass here;
or, at least, such a prospect of it as may make it absolutely
_impossible_ for the Prince, whatever his disposition may be, to
change the Government. If the amendment continues, it may even be a
question whether further adjournment may not be thought right,
though the inconveniences of this, particularly with respect to
foreign affairs, are so great that it must not be done but upon
very strong grounds indeed.

The nonsense about dissolution has been talked in England as well
as in Ireland; but I cannot persuade myself that it really comes
from Lord Loughborough. It has not made its fortune much here.
Anybody who had the smallest knowledge of the general turn and bent
of the public mind, both in and out of Parliament, would not have
broached so foolish an idea.

I told you, in one of my former letters, that I was utterly at a
loss to guess what Bernard's motive was for going to Ireland in the
moment which he chose. I stated my wishes against it; but I saw
that there was some mystery behind, which he did not wish to
explain, and therefore I pressed him no more about it.

Adieu, my dear brother. I hate writing anything to you, which can
bear even the appearance of complaint. I feel for the
disagreeableness of your situation at this moment: being at a
distance from the scene of events which interest you so much, and
from any conversation with those in whom you most confide. But I am
sure you will, on reflection, acquit me of any want of attention to
you on the head of communication.

I am much obliged to you for your anxiety about myself. I had a
slight attack of fever for a day or two; but it is now entirely
gone.

Five o'clo