“I hardly knew how to creep upstairs, frozen both within and without, to tell such news; but it was not received as if unexpected, and I omitted whatever was not essential to be known. “Afterwards arrived Mrs. Schwellenberg, so oppressed between her spasms and the house’s horrors, that the oppression she inflicted ought perhaps to be pardoned. It was, however, difficult enough to bear! Harshness, tyranny, dissension, and even insult, seemed personified. I cut short details upon this subject—they would but make you sick.” ----- Footnote 85: Mr. Storer, the friend of George Selwyn. Footnote 86: By William Combe [1741-1823 Footnote 87: The writer and translator, 1735-1799. Footnote 88: One of the Canons of Windsor. Footnote 89: Dr. Maskelyne (1732-1811) was Astronomer Royal at the time. Footnote 90: Physician in Ordinary to the King: born 1722; died 1809. Footnote 91: Wardrobe-woman to the Queen. Footnote 92: William Heberden. Born in 1710; Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge; practised medicine at Cambridge; removed to London in 1748; wrote ‘Medical Commentaries;’ passed the later years of his life at Windsor, where he died in 1801. Footnote 93: Richard Warren. Born about 1732; Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies; Physician in Ordinary to George III. and the Prince of Wales; died in 1797. Footnote 94: We have substituted the real name here for the ‘Mr. Fairly’ of the printed Diary. Footnote 95: It is fair to mention that the Prince afterwards apologized to his old sub-governor on meeting him at Kew.—Diary, iii. 117. Even Walpole, chary as he usually is of praise, has done justice to the “singular virtues and character,” the “ignorance of the world as well as its depravity,” of this estimable person. “Happy for the Prince,” adds Walpole, “had he had no other governor; at least no other director of his morals and opinions of government.”—See Walpole’s ‘Reign of George III.,’ vol. iv., pp. 312, 313. ----- CHAPTER IX. State of Kew Palace—Dr. Willis and his Son called in—Progress under the New Doctors—Party Spirit—The Regency Question—Attacks on the Queen— Fluctuations in the King’s State—Violence of Burke—Extraordinary Scene between the King and Miss Burney in Kew Gardens—Marked Improvement of the King—The Regency Bill postponed—The King informs Miss Burney of his Recovery—The Restoration—Demonstrations of Joy—Return to Windsor— Old Routine resumed—Reaction.