ck.

I am just returned from the Committee, who have finished the
examination of the physicians. The examinations of to-day are not
very material; but as far as they go, they confirm our favourable
hopes. Another account is just come from Kew, that the King has
continued better ever since the account of this morning, which is
the public one.

Pitt is to move to-day for the Committee of Precedents. Fox told us
he meant to say a few words against it, as unnecessary, but not to
divide; so I shall not go down again.

The notion of the Prince of Wales not accepting, seems to lose
ground; and all these favourable accounts of the King are evidently
strong grounds of argument for our measures.

SIR WILLIAM YOUNG TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.

Stratton Street, Thursday, Dec. 11th, 1788.
MY DEAR LORD,

I did not receive your kind letter of Dec. 2nd, until my arrival
last night from the House of Commons, when it was too late to
write, and the conversation which then arose was of so important a
nature, that it was not practicable or proper to steal a moment
from the debate, or to send a line respecting it ere it was closed,
and the subject took a decisive turn, which was after the post
hour.

To a friendship so dear and honourable to me as yours, and shown me
by so many instances of goodness, the best answer I can make is,
through life, by a return of grateful attachment, honour, and
disinterestedness; and in these, if I aught know myself, I shall
never fail.

Of the momentous business opened last night, I can only say that
_our_ astonishment is only to be equalled by the spirits we are in,
on viewing the grounds Mr. Fox hath abandoned to us and left _our
own_. Lord Radnor, who breakfasted with me this morning, told me he
understands that Fox's doctrine, "that the Prince of Wales was
Regent, invested with full regal authority immediately and _de
jure_ on the incapacity, however temporary, of the King, and that
the two Houses of Parliament had no right to debate thereon even,"
came from _that constitutional lawyer_, Lord Loughborough. Radnor's
further remark, that Fox, having on a former occasion sought to
trespass on the royal just prerogative, had now completed his
attack on the Constitution, in denying the rights of Lords and