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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
The great object appeared to be the Establishment being only Temporary and of course determinable whenever the Kg was in a state capable of resuming the Govt.
The Ch. beggd all private or partie animositys to be suspended as it might happen that to give the intermediate Govt effect arrangements might be prepared which, if consonant to the above Principle, might be admissible. Mr. P. thought that any alteration which might make it impossible for the K. to resume the Govt in such a state as he had left it would be an insuperable objection to any alteration of that nature. This was observed as far as the executive power was concerned might be pleaded in defence of such arrangement, as the P. might say the same motives might induce him to name particular persons in whom he had confidence to places in Govt during his Regency, as the K. might have incontinuing the servants of his nomination in power.
page 120 note 1 This is probably an account of a Cabinet Council held at Richmond House to decide the question of the regency arising from the King's illness. It was important to know how long the King was likely to remain ill, and on that subject doctors were uncertain. Mr. W. Grenville, writing on the same day to the Marquis of Buckingham, says: “Warren told Pitt yesterday that the physicians could now have no hesitation in pronouncing that the actual disorder was that of lunacy; that no man could pretend to say that this was or was not incurable; that he saw no immediate symptoms of recovery; that the King might never recover, or, on the other hand, that he might recover at any one moment.”