enter into much detail.
Pitt was at Windsor yesterday, and by his account, which he
collected from the persons who immediately attend the King's
person, there can be no doubt of the King's being much better, and
more composed than he has been since his illness began. At the same
time, the accounts of the physicians are gloomy, and with less hope
than they have before expressed. It is very difficult to reconcile
these contradictions. Rennel Hawkins, the surgeon who has attended
him during the whole illness, and sits up with him every other
night, has written a letter to Sir Clifton Wintringham, which the
latter has shown about London, in which the King's recovery is
mentioned as a thing certain, and likely to take place, sooner than
people in general expect. On these data you can judge as well as
we can here. I confess myself to be sanguine in my hopes of his
recovery. In the meantime, no pains are spared to circulate all
sorts of lies, in order to depress people's spirits on this
subject; and the support which is given to these gloomy ideas by
the language and conduct of the physicians does certainly produce a
considerable effect.

Think of the Prince of Wales introducing Lord Lothian into the
King's room when it was darkened, in order that he might hear his
ravings at the time that they were at the worst. Do not let this
fact come from you; it begins to be pretty well known here, and no
doubt will find its way to Ireland; but it is important that we
should not seem to spread the knowledge of anything which can
injure His Royal Highness's character in public opinion.

I think the best thing that can be done in Ireland is to let your
Parliament meet at its prorogation; and that you should then
communicate to them the King's situation, and the measures taken in
England. A similar proceeding might then be adopted in Ireland, and
your commission then revoked in the usual form by the Regent, which
I should think far preferable to any contrivances of Justices, &c.
Long before all this can be necessary, things will have begun to
take some more decided turn than in the present moment, when hopes
and fears make the opinions of people fluctuate from day to day.

Unless we are clearly satisfied (which is far from being the case
now), that the King is