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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 Queens 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 melancholly circumstances under which we stand to accept with thanks, the offer which has been made 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 and affection towards the King in our respective situations of Wife and Children, to fulfill as far as in our power, any personal wish or intention of His - But considering His Majestys public situation in this Country, as King, the interest which the Nation has in the preservation of His life, and the restoration of His health,
