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of [[underline]] knowing much, & seeing much, [[underline]] & in the course of painful & distressing periods, the Information I possess'd, might have been usefully Extended to some few, who had a right to as for it of Me - but in such directions to which I now allude, it was [[underline]] not [[/underline]] asked for [[underline]] of Me. [[/underline]] Mr. Pitt in all his Visits here, never once Enquird for Me, nor did He ask information from Me - but not unfrequently He returned from hence, with details less accurate, than those which plainer [[underline]] matter of fact, [[/underline]] within his ready reach, might have afforded Him. It has been my peculiar lot to have Witnessed the [[underline]] whole [[/underline]] course of His Majesty's late very alarming and afflicting illness -- I came to Windsor on active duty, a [[underline]] very few days [[/underline]] after His Majesty's first attack appeared -- I was one of the Three Persons (viz [[underline]] General Harcourt, Colonel Goldsworthy & Myself) [[/underline]] to whom the important charge of His Majesty's Person was confided, [[underline]] on his removal from Windsor to Kew, on Saturday Eveng: Novr 29th: 1788, [[/underline]] & I continued in Daily Attendance on His Majesty under the same roof, until his Physicians were finally dismissed from their Attendance, & afterwards until I was releived by Colonel Manners [[underline]] on this day, Wednesday March 4th 1799. [[/underline]] I have done my best, cheerfully and Willingly, in a most difficult situation, & I have Scrupulously