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Commons; His Brother was much with H. My. during this morning and was well satisfied with his general manner & appearance. Among other details He told us that He listen'd to his reading to Him for three hours. However favorable such circumstance was, I own I could not help thinking it a very remarkable one, because it had been a general observation amongst us, that He never yet could settle for many minutes together to any one subject without introducing some new subject & which made him lose sight of the former. In the Evening Dr. John Willis returned from Town & soon after followed Dr Willis. The latter only had been Examined. Doctor Reynolds was also here. By the little that has dropped at different times from their several Examinations, I perceive pretty plainly that the Questions of the Ministry & particularly those which came from Sir John Scott are very much directed to this View viz to give over, [[underline]] if not all, [[/underline]] at least as much of the management of the King as possible to Doctor Willis who came back vastly pleased with his Examination of Him & on which He observed that He was the only Person in the Committee who knew how to put his questions so as to find out what He wished by Them, & that many others Mr Sheridan had asked questions which made against Them, when the answers were given. The King this evening was at times touchey & difficult; at others high, but in the end all subsided