Aberdeen is to allow the instalments of the loan guaranteed to Leopold to be paid in four instead of eight years if he can keep him to his principality by doing so.
The French were off on the 18th. There is a partial change in their
Ministry.
May 23.
Rode to the Cabinet at three from Roehampton. The bulletin is that the King had had embarrassments in his breathing.
The Duke waited two and a half hours before he saw him yesterday. The King signed the two messages, and then said 'the Duke has just caught me in time!' and in an instant there was a gurgling in his throat. He seized Knighton's arm. The Duke ran for Halford, went out into the gallery where he did not find him, then into another room where he was. Halford immediately took a bottle from the table and gave the King something which seemed to relieve him.
The Duke thinks the King was in pain three or four seconds; but it was a minute and a half before he was relieved. He then did not speak; but made a motion with his hand for the Duke to go.
He had just before been talking of going to Ascot and then to Aix-la-
Chapelle.
The King was perfectly satisfied with the proposed arrangement for the stamp.
He asked the news, was told Leopold was behaving very ill, and agreed.
As to Algiers he was told the note of the French Minister was unsatisfactory, and that it was under consideration whether a note should not be presented. He thought it right.