History of the royal malady : with variety of entertaining anecdotes, to which are added strictures on the declaration of Horne Tooke, Esq. respecting "Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales," commonly called Mrs. Fitzherbert. With interesting remarks on a Regency / By a page of the presence [i.e. Philip Withers].

  • Withers, Philip, -1790.
Date:
1789
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Credit: History of the royal malady : with variety of entertaining anecdotes, to which are added strictures on the declaration of Horne Tooke, Esq. respecting "Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales," commonly called Mrs. Fitzherbert. With interesting remarks on a Regency / By a page of the presence [i.e. Philip Withers]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    left the horfes in the carriage, finding themfelves t i , > under no controul, fliould run headlong to deftruc- tion. Nor did I dare to call for affiftance, left the attendants fliould witnefs a icene that I defired to keep from their view. At laft her Majefty became attentive to her fituation ; and as the reins were hap¬ pily within reach, they were recovered, and the Queen commanded me to difmount, and to go and intimate, in a foothing voice and fuppliant terms, i , ( • that her Majefty wiflied for his company. On my Approach, I perceived that the King was engaged in earneft converfation. Perhaps the Learned may cenfure the term—Con¬ verfation—as properly implying alternate intercourfe of ideas. And yet I humbly conceive the Converle of the Obje&ion is in force againft the term—Soli- c — * loquy\ for his Majefty a?iticipated the anfwer of his royal