Whitehall, Dec. 3rd, 1788.
MY DEAR BROTHER,
It is now past four o'clock, and I am but just returned from the
Privy Council. The whole number that attended was above fifty,
including Lord North, Lord Stormont, Lord Loughborough, &c., &c.
Fox was not there, being confined with a flux, which he has got by
the rapidity of his journey. None of the Royal Family attended. The
physicians who were examined, were Warren, Baker, Pepys, Reynolds,
and Addington. The general questions that were proposed to them
were three: