r refusal to
transmit the Address is generally approved here; and I have the
pleasure of seeing daily proofs that the Opposition in this country
are ashamed of what they and their friends have done in Ireland.
Your answer, I think, much improved by the transposition,
especially as it avoids the necessity of your submitting any advice
to His Royal Highness, which might have been said to be an
officious interference, as you are not in any situation which calls
upon you to advise _him_.

You will hear with as much pleasure as I write it, that the King
was not at all agitated by his interview with the Chancellor, and
was perfectly composed and collected all yesterday evening. The
accounts this morning are as good as can be.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Duke of York have
been once or twice at Kew, to desire to be admitted _to_ see him,
which you will naturally suppose was not permitted. This morning
they thought proper to make a formal demand that they should be
allowed to see him; or if not, insisting that the physicians should
give in writing the reasons for their refusal. In consequence of
this, Warren and Gisborne, who were there this morning, sent Willis
in to the King, to acquaint him that the two Princes wished to see
him. Willis returned with a message to them from the King, thanking
them for their inquiries, but wishing to put off the seeing them
till he had seen Thurlow again, which he is to do to-morrow. This
was reduced to writing, and sent to them; how it will be received I
know not, but it has completely defeated the avowed object of the
visit, which was to prejudice his mind against the measures which
have been taken.

There seems now every reason to hope that by the 6th or 7th of
March he will be sufficiently recovered, or rather will have been
recovered a sufficient time to make it proper to take his commands
for opening the Parliament. If not, you will see by the despatch
the nature of the measures which we have in contemplation; and I
can have no doubt of your agreeing, that no principle which we have
ever maintained would require or even justify us in putting the
Prince of Wales in such a situation as to enable him to overturn
the whole system of the King's Government, the King being all the
while perf