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Mr. Fox, who remarking how ill He looked, one observed that it was not surprising, as [[underline]] "He had eat nothing for some "days but his own words" [[/underline]] A joke which seem'd to please Dr. Willis full as well as the original one of George Selwyn, & which my Friend Colonel Digby now rescued & transmitted to the Doctor. [[underline]] Saturday Decr. 20th [[/underline]] The high spirits which had masked the latter part of yesterday evening gave no favorable prospect of H: Mys. falling soon asleep, & they proved the forerunners of much irritation. During the night He became restless & turbulent, jumped up from his Bed, & in other respects was much unsettled. About 5 oclock in the morning H. My: became so ungovernable that recourse was had to the strait Waiscoat; His legs were tied, & He was secured down across his Breast, & in this melancholy situation He was, when I came to make my morning enquiries. However persuaded I had been of the necessity of obtaining [[underline]] positive submission [[/underline]] from H. My: under his afflicting malady, as the best means whereby his recovery might be ultimately expected, I have not been prepared for these harsher processes, which have followed. I do not question that these have been now adopted, on a practice, sanctioned [[underline]] by confirmed experience, [[/underline]] but as of this I cannot decide myself, [[underline]] I can but greive, & hope the best. [[/underline]] Sir George Baker & Dr. Gisborne saw H. My. this morning