Letter from Sir Henry Halford and Dr William Heberden to the Queen's Council on the state of the King's health the previous day

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To the Queen's Council. Sept: 20. 1811. It may explain the King's state yesterday sufficiently well to say that His Majesty pass'd more than five hours of the afternoon under Restrained-- His manner appear'd excited soon after His Physicians left Him in the morning-- and as the day advanced His language became coarse and lewd, and His manner turbulent-- the King ate His dinner, however, with good appetite-- His Majesty slept four hours last night-- but became intractable at three oclock in the morning. His conversation with the Physicians [[deletion]] [[unclear]] [[/deletion]] their [[unclear]] has been a [[unclear]] of the wildest and most extravagant notions--detail'd all in perfect good humour--and tho' interrupted from time to time by ye suspicion, [[addition]] they [[/addition]] express'd at the arrangements which His Majesty was explaining, yet resumed easily, and continued until it was impossible to