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on eveiy question. Except on the regency, they have 

 never attended so zealously. 



" Sheridan both voted and spoke. After saying 

 he should only vote for sending it to a committee, 

 Tierney gave him a severe licking, which Sheridan 

 did not like, and complains bitterly of. Jekyll voted 

 with us once, which was very handsome. Adam 

 never appeared the whole week, but has, I under- 

 stand, a very strong opinion with us. William Lamb 

 was always there some part of the debate, but never 

 at the division. He durst not vote either one way or 

 another. Pierce, governor of the bank, was under 

 the gallery, and the Duke of Cumberland sat by him, 

 flirting for two hours one night. In short, the whole 

 Carlton House interest has been most actively exerted 

 with what views I think it not very difficult to 

 guess. 



" The king is certainly a little better ; the private 

 accounts say so ; but the danger is not over. The 

 physicians differed from each other so much on Satur- 

 day, when examined by the Lords' Council, that no- 

 body can tell what their opinions are : no two spoke 

 the same language. They have to-day had a Council 

 at Carlton House, and resolved to prorogue; and one 

 motive is, that something about the bank bill may be 

 said in the speech. Perceval's wife told a person 

 whom I know that the prince, in putting off the 

 dinner at Perceval's, added, ' Be the event what it 

 might' (of the king's illness) 'he should dine with 

 him/ This story of Seville turns out a humbug, and 



