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as Birds of Passage who visit different countries <gap/.
different Seasons.

Your thoughts probably have been too much engaged
to attend to the any occurrances in England or you
may have had an opportunity of being acquainted
with them at this distance. I will therefore give
you some account —sometime in Novr last the King
& I may say His Country too had the misfortune
to of being attacked with a sever Malady of
the most kind an Insanity; which
rendered him incapable of <gap/. concerning himself
the least in the affairs of Government:
it became absolutely necessary for Parliament to proceed to appoint a Regent
that intended Regent was the Prince of Wales, but
unfortunately for him & the Nation, he was
known to be so firmly attached to a Set of
those about him, that every body said a total
Change of Ministry wod be the immediate
consequence w.ch & yt all the King's occasional
servants wod be dismissed. Mr Pitt & Lord
Thurlow the Chancellor were both of them to
go out, wch they themselves did not oppose
but by the Steadyness & their
popularity & in both Houses of Parliament
they got the Bill in to the Houses to be
so qualified as to restrain the Regent in the execution of his power in many
respects, & in their attempt to do that, &
the opposition met with
Mr Roc, Sheridan & Reece who
even to be the New Ministry under
Regency. So much time was taken around
passing the Bill thro' both Houses that it
gave time for a Chance of the King's Recovery
which has just now happily taken place
and he is now perfectly restored to his health

Identifier: | JB/541/024/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 541.
Date_1	1789-03-10	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	541	Main Headings
Folio number	024	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
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