PuoLic AFFAIRS.
The Chancellor & Mr. Pitt came here this day. They both saw The King seperately & both were alone with Him. The Chancellor's Visit was short. Mr. Pitt's was about an hour & a half.
When. Mr. Pitt went in, He was resolved to answer the King's questions about public Affairs, & I understood He did so. Mr. Pitt on coming out expressed Himself to General Gordon & to Colonel Digby extremely satisfied with. The King's manner & conversation at this Interview. He told Mr. Pitt that " He had no anxieties on the reflexion of what had passed during his Illness, as his Recovery reminded Him how much He owed to God Almighty."
I had an opportunity this day of knowing the general purport of The Kings letter to The Chancellor from one to whom He had shewn it. It acquainted Him that He had had the pleasure of seeing his Sons, The Prince of Wales & The Duke of York, that the meeting had been cordial & most satisfactory & that by his own desire He had seen them in The Queen's Apartment. He expressed a Wish to see Him & Mr. Pitt, & that without entering deeply on business He was anxious to know a little more than He now knew, of what had been doing during his Illness. This was the general purport of The King's Letter to The Chancellor, and most probably a similar one was sent to Mr. Pitt at the same time. • If H.My. is declared fit to assume his Government surely the continuance of Dr. Willis & his Son's under this roof would be incompatible with his introduction to The Public again, & his high functions. Should Ministers advise this, they would thereby proclaim to The World, that they do not believe that H.My. is sufficiently well to be trusted to Himself. I think The King is now so near well, that I wish Him (by prudent degrees) every resumption of power & dignity. I long to know that He again sitts down to dinner (if his dinner still must be in his own apartment) by Himself, & not forming a trio as He yet does with Dr. Willis & his Son, & who still regularly assist at his Evening Parties.
From what I have accidentally heard this day I suspect that there is a something in agitation respecting the removal of some of H.Mys Pages, that is they are to be dismissed keeping their Salaries for Life.
The Duke of Cumberland came here this Morning and saw The King. The Archbishop of Canterbury was intro- duced afterwards to The King with whom He staid an hour & a half.
I have been told this day, that part of the Archbishop of Canterbury's conversation yesterday with His Majesty was directed in .endeavors to persuade Him to relinquish an Intention which He had often & strongly hinted, of going to St. Paull and to be present there at a Public Thanksgiving on His Recovery. * * *
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