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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1812. 



directed the estimates for the ser- 

 vice of the current year to be laid 

 before you. He trusts that you 

 will furnish him with such supplies 

 as may be necessary to enable him 

 to continue the contest in which 

 his Majesty is engaged, with that 

 spirit and exertion which will afford 

 the best prospect of its successful 

 termination. 



His Royal Highness commands 

 us to recommend that you sViould 

 resume the consideration of the 

 state of the finances of Ireland, 

 which you had commenced in the 

 last session of parliament. He has 

 the satisfaction to inform you, that 

 the improved receipt of the reve- 

 nue of Ireland in the last, as com- 

 pared with the preceding year, 

 confirms the belief, that the depres- 

 sion which that revenue had expe- 

 rienced is to be attributed to acci- 

 dental and temporary causes. 



My Lords and Gentlemen, — The 

 Prince Regent is satisfied that you 

 entertain a j ust sense of the arduous 

 duties which his Royal Highness 

 has been called upon to fulfil, in 

 consequence of his Majesty's con- 

 tinued indisposition. 



Under this severe calamity, his 

 Royal Highness derives the greatest 

 ■consolation from his reliance on 

 your experienced wisdom, loyalty, 

 and public spirit ; to which, in every 

 difficulty, he will resort, with a 

 firm confidence, that, through your 

 assistance and support, he shall be 

 enabled, under the lalessings of 

 Divine Providence, successfully to 

 discharge the important functions of 

 the high trust reposed in him ; and 

 in the name and on the behalf of 

 his beloved father and revered sove- 

 reign, to maintain, unimpaired, the 

 prosperity and honour of the nation. 



Declaration of the Members of her 

 Majesty's Council respecting the 

 State of his Majesty's Health, 

 made on the bth of Jan. 1812. 



We, the under-written members 

 of the council, &c. having duly met 

 together, on this 4th day of Jan. 

 1812, at the Queen's Lodge, near to 

 Windsor Castle, and having called 

 before us, and examined upon oath, 

 the physicians and other persons 

 attendant upon his Majesty, and 

 having ascertained the state of his 

 Majesty's health by all such waya 

 and means as appear to us to be 

 necessary for that purpose, do here- 

 by declare and certify, that the 

 state of his Majesty's health, at the 

 time of this our meeting, is not 

 such as to enable his Majesty to 

 resume the personal exercise of his 

 royal authority : 



That his Majesty's bodily health 

 appears to us to be as good as at 

 any of the periods of our former 

 reports : 



That his Majesty's mental health 

 appears to us not to be worse than 

 at the period of our last report : 



That all the physicians attending 

 his Majesty agree in stating, that 

 they think his Majesty's complete 

 and final recovery improbable; 

 differing, however, as to the degree 

 of such improbability ; some of 

 them expressing themselves as not 

 despairing, — others as not entirely 

 despairing, — and one of them re- 

 presenting that he cannot help de- 

 spairing of such recovery. 



(Signed) 

 C, Cantuar, Aylesfoud, 

 E, Ebor, Eldon, 



MoNTRosK, Ellenborough, 

 WiNCHiLSEA, W.Grant. 



Shortly after the 



above report 

 had 



