An history of the late important period : from the beginning of His Majesty's illness, to the settlement of the executive government, in the appointment of a regent. To which are added, observations on the conduct of the two contending parties to the period of His Majesty's re-appearance in the House of Lords / [by Louis Dutens].

  • Louis Dutens
Date:
1789
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Credit: An history of the late important period : from the beginning of His Majesty's illness, to the settlement of the executive government, in the appointment of a regent. To which are added, observations on the conduct of the two contending parties to the period of His Majesty's re-appearance in the House of Lords / [by Louis Dutens]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ‘3 ] of the day being read, to ftate to them a few mo- tions which he intended to fubmit to their confi- deration, which being agreed to by the Houfe, he proceeded by acquainting them that it was his wifh and moft earned: defire, to colled: by every polhble means fuch evidence, and procure fuch information on the prefent melancholy fi- tuation of our Sovereign, as would enable them to determine upon thofe meafures which feemed mofl prudent in this critical and very folemn bufinefs. He was a friend to every mode that honourable Houfe could fuggeft, and adopt in fo momentous an undertaking as the prefent. He informed them, that for the purpofe of receiving the moft fatisfadory and fubflantial opinion re- fpeding his Majefty’s prefent indifpofition, two more phyficians of eminence and ability were called in ; one of whom was peculiarly fkilled in the treatment of cafes fimilar to that under which his Majefty laboured. He trufted the motions, he wras now about to make, would be the means of enabling them to come to a fpeedy determina- tion on the fubjed, as by the propofed plan, the fenfe of the Houfe would fhortly be known, and the bufinefs no longer procraftinated. He alfo mentioned, it was his intention to move for a feparate Committee to fearch for precedents, that every advantage fhould be taken of the tin^e; he therefore fhould move for this laft Committee to proceed, and report their enqui ■ ries