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In the present dreadful and alarming illness with which it has pleased Almighty Providence to afflict the King We The Queen and nine of His Majesty's Children, at present assembled at the Queen's house, think it a duty we owe to His Majesty, to our Country, and to ourselves, to state in writing the Reasons which have induced us, after having duly weighed the melancholy Circumstances under which we stand # to accept with thanks the offer which has been made to us by His Majesty's confidential Servants to relieve us from the Care and Superintendence of His Majesty on this trying Occasion - We are fully sensible that we are bound both by duty & affection towards the King, in our respective situations of Wife and children [[note]] # the following words were proposed by the Duke of Kent, but objected to by the Duke of York and the Sentence as it now stands from "to accept" to "trying occasion" inserted - ,to express our grateful satisfaction upon the Communication made to us by Mr Addington, of its being the disposition and intention of His Majesty's confidential Servants to take altogether upon themselves the responsibility attending the Care and superintendence of His Majesty's Person duting the Continuance of his present calamitous and alarming disorder - [[/note]]
