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Ir ° i ray---~• `. . s :~- - ii!ftieNim!Ef&stafTAw=33 PARLMMENTARr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE - 01 7 LORDS, MARCH IL • Lord SALTOUN took the oaths and 4 ont. The Commons' Amendines)blui,tkAdmlnistration of Justice Bill were taken into conitderation, and agreed to. Lord ELL ENBOROUGH presented petitions from the Block sphere, Sail-makers, Copper-smiths, Anchor-smiths, Stc. of the port of London, praying that the export trade to India may be continued as heretofore. Mr. LusitiNGTON, and others, brought up, from the House of Commons, the Mutiny Bill, which was read a first time. The Local Militia Amendment Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. - The Marquis of DOUGLAS presented petitions from the Magistrates and Tows Council of Glasgow, and from the Mer chants of that City, against the renewal pf the East ladla Com pany's Charter.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Two ballots having taken pla c e for Committees to try the me. tits of the controverted elections for the Boroughs of Hellstone and Seaford, the following Members were chosen : FOR HELLSTONF. H. Lloyd, Ecq. D. Campbell, Esq. R. Williams, Esq. R. M`Gennis, Esq. C. Fort:kr., Esq. R. Latouche, Esq. W. T. Drake, Esq. W. Astell, Esq. T.H.Tretnayne, Esq. G. Smith, Esq. T. Wyndham, Esq. H. Swann, Esq. S. Smith, Esq. E. B. Portman, E , q. Hon. F.S.N. Douglas. NOR SEAFORD. J. c. Ramsden, Esq. Lord C. Fitzroy Taf01..7, Esc: J. E.Dowdeawell, Esq. R. Chaloner, Esq. C. Brooke, Esq. X. Desbrow, Esq. E. Protheroe, Esq. J. Osborne, Esq. W. Rowley, Est!, General \Ferguson R. Smith, Esq. Allr J. Duckworth SirT.Winnington,Bt. Hon. J. Meade. The House having resolved itself into aCemmittee of the whole li.fouse on the Artificers' Bill, the report was ordered to be brought asp to-morrow. Mr. COCHRANE JOHNSTONE gave notice, that on Wed atesday next he should call the attention of the House to the Pe tition of Lady Douglas. An enquiry having been made, from the Opposition Bench, soh' her the Chaucellor of the Exchequer would, to-morrow, bring forward the consideration of his Resolutions of Finance, which stotid for that day, Lord Ca STLERLA on observed, that he feared that his Right Hon. Fr:end would not be sufficiently re estahl:shed in health; he therefore moved the postponement of the subject *and Tuesday next, The order was accordingly dis charged, and a new one made for Tuesday.—Adj mama PRINCESS OF WALES. ,LETTER FROM THE PRINCESS OF WALES TO THE KING. Stitt-By my short letter to your Majesty of the lilth Instant, In answer to your Majesty's communication of the 10,h, I anti ted my intention pf representing to your Majesty the various grounds on which I felt the harthhip of my case ; and a review of which, U confidently hoped, would dispose your Majesty to recal your determination to adjourn, to an indefinite period, my reception into your Royal presence; a determination which, in addition to all the other pain which it brought along with it, af fected me with the disappointmmt of hopes which I had fondly eherish. , d with the must prilect confidence, because they rested On your Maje•ny's gracious assurance. Inds;end;ntli, however, of tkit communication from your aje•ty, I should have felt myself bound to have troubled your Majesty with mud) of tie contents of the present letter. Upon the receipt of the paper, which, by your Majcsty's com mands, was transmitted to the by the Lord Chancellor, on the 28th of last mouth, and which communicated to me the joyful intelli6ence, that your Maje,ty was advised, " that it was no longer necessary for you to decline receiv.ng me in o your Royal presence," 1 conceived myself necessarily called upon f) seed an immedive answer to so mutt of it as respected that int ell , gence. I could fiat wait the time which it would have required, to state these Misers • Jas which i. was impossible for me to refrain from inakinr, at some period, woo the other it paryi culars which ehat y aper contained. _ Accordingly, I - ansteei ed it inintedietey ; and as your Ma tety''s greet:tee sad fonds:p:y of last Tit urselay fertiegle, an weed to me your plestire, that 1 should be received by your Majesty tan a dry subsequent to the then ensuing week, I was led most confidently to assure myself that the last week would vot have passed without my having received that sa; isfaction. I therefore determined to wait in patience, wizheut further in trusion upon your Majesty, till 1 miefit have the opportunity of guarding myself trom the possibility of being misunderstood, by personally explaining to your Majesty, that whatever observa tions I had to make upon the paper so communicated to me, on sthe 28th ultimo; and whatever camplaitits respecting the delay, and the many cruel circumstances which had attended the whole of the proceedings against me, and the unsatisfactory state in which they were at length left by that last communication, they were observations and complaints which affected those only, un der whose advice your Majesty had acted, and were not, in any degree intended to intimate even the most distant insiuuatiou against your Majesty's justice or kindness. 'l'hat paper established the opinion, which I certainly had ever confidently entertained, but the justness of which I had not be fore any document to establish, that your Majesty had, frum the ,first, deemed this proceeding a high and important matter of State, in the consideration of which, your Majesty had not felt yourself at liberty to trust to your own generous feelings, and to your own Royal and gracious judgment. 1 never did believe that the cruel state of anxiety, in which I bad been kept ever since the delivery of my answer, for at least sac - weeks, could be at all attributable to your Majesty :it unlike eve thing which I had ever experienced from joity's can recension, feeling, and justice ; and I found paper, that it was to your confidential servants I was the length of banishment from your presence, which last, edvised your Majesty, it was no longer necessary , continued, I perceive, therefore, what I always be , ;hat it was to the m and to them only, that I owed the rattedcontinuance of my sufferings , "and of my-disgrace; your Majesty, considering the whole of this proceeding teen instituted and conducted under the grave responsi your Niajtis'y% servants, had not thought proper to rake or express any opinion, upon any part of it, but such as !commended ley their advice. nced by these sentimetits, and anxious to have the op of conveying them, with the overfiowings of a grateful sour Majesty, what were my sensations of surprise, teatime and disappointment, on the receipt of your Ma 'etter of the 10th Instant, your Majesty may conceive, , ant utterly' unable to express. letter announces to me, that his Royal Highness the- Wales, upon receiving the severaLdocuments which lesty directed your Cabinet to transmit to him, made a tommunicazion to your Majesty, of his intention to put .he bends of his lawyers, accompanied by a request, blajesty 'would suspend any further steps in the bud el the Prince of Wales should be enabled to submit to eje , ty the statement which he proposed to make; and it J announces to me, that your Majesty, therefore, considered incumbent on you to deter naming a day to me, until :be fur --mit of the Prince of Wales's intenuo.s should L eve e b een even to your Majesty. ittermleation of your Majesty, on this request, made by ral Highness, I humbly trust your Majesty will permit 'rest you, in your most gracioua justice, to reconsider. ije , .ty, I an convinced, must have been surprised at the id ptieveiled upon by the importunity of the Prince of t.thin " thin dttermination necessary, or pour Majesty's ,y and justice wotild never have adopted it. Aud if 1 y your Majesty of the unparalleled injustice and cruelty iterposi ton of the Tr.nce of Wales, at such a tittle, er such eircumvat.cee, I feel the most perfect s . unfidence ,ur I'vlajt sty v.ill hasten to renal it. mold basely be wanting to my owri interest and feelings, if not plainly state my sense of that injustice and cruelty ; I did mot shiest loudly complain if it. Your Majesty wet paefalbrelhe just grounds of soy complaint, when I retrace - dibe cif theft proceedings 1. em their commencement. `our Noble Leeds, appointed by your Majesty to enquire :bargee brought against me, in their Report of the 14th after having stated that his Royal Highness the Prince a had lalillstee.re film, the charge which was made agaia.4 Lady I,kietas, and the declarations is support of it, pro the'following 111:1111.cr : • the painful situation in which his Royal Highness was _ by these communications, we learnt that his Royal %tunas had adopted the wily course which could, in our kids ., Wile pro icsy he felivwid• WllgP il4feeli9l44 h • • • U these had been thus Itinfidently alleged, and particularly di, rags me, as I must always madder It , which, however fn " tailed, and had been in som e degree supported by collateral te gave the utmost publicity and exposure to the existence " evidence, applying to other facts of the same nature, (though of these charges—l mean the sending two Attornies, armed " going to a far less extent) exam only could be pursued. with their Lordships' warrant, to my house, to bring before " Every sentiment of duty to your Majesty, and of concern them, at once, about one half of my Household for examination. " for the public welfare, required that these particulars should The idea of privacy, after an act so much calculated, from the " not be withheld from your Majesty, to whom more partial.. extraordinarrnatere of it, to excite thesreatest attention and " larly belonged the cognizance of a matter of State, eo nearly surprise, your Majesty must feel to have been impossible and " touching tile heneureaf your Majesty's Royal Family, and by absurd; for an attempt at secrecy, mystery, and concealment on " possibility; affecting the succession of your Majesty's Crown. my part could, under such circumstances, only hive been con " Your Majesty had been pleased, on your part,' to view the strued into the fearfulness of guilt. " subject in the same light. Consideriog it as a matter, which, It will appear, also, that, from that time, I heard nothing au " on every account, demanded the moat immediate inveriga- thentically upon the subject till the 11th of August, when I was " tion, your Majesty had thought fit to cosiimit into our hands furnished, by your Majesty's commands, with the Reporr. The " the duty of ascertaioing, in the first instance, what degree of several papers necessary to my understanding the whole of these " credit was due to the information, and thereby enabling your charges, in the authentic state In which your Majesty thought it " Majesty to decide what further conduct to adopt respecting proper graciously to direct that I should have them, were um de " them.' livered so me till the beginning of September. • His Royal Highness then, pursuing, as the four Lords say, My answer to these various charger, though the whole sub the only course, which could in their judgment, with propriety,. be ject of them was new to those whose advice I had recourse to, pursued, submitted the matter to your Majesty. Your Majesty long u that answer was necessarily obliged to be, was delivered directed the Inquiry by the four Noble j,ords. The four Lords, to the Lord Chancellor, to be forwarded to your Majesty, by in their Ineport upon the case, justly acquitted me of all crime, the 6th of October : and from the 6th of October to the sloth of and expressed (I will not nil now to say how unjustly) the cre- January, I was kept in total ignorance of the effect of that an dit which they gave, aottthe consequence they ascribed to other swer. Not only will all this delete be apparent, but it will be matters, which they did not, however, characterize as amount- generally shewn to the world, how your Majesty's Servants had, ing to any crime. To this Report I made my answer. That in this Important business, treated your daughter-in-law, the answer, together with the whole proceedings, was referred by Princess of Wales ; and what measure of justice she, a female, your Majesty, to the same four Noble Lords, and others of your and a stran;er in your land, has experienced at their bands. Majesty's confidential servants. They advised your Majesty, j Undoubtedly against such a proceeding I have ever felt, and amongst much other matter, (which must be the subject of far- s t ill feel, an almost invincible repugnance. Every sentiment of titer observations), that there was no longer any reason why you delicacy, with which a female mind must skrink.from the act of should decline receiving me.. bringing before the public such charges, however conscious of Your Majesty will necessarily conceive that 1 have always their scandal and falsity, and however clearly that scandal and looked upon my banishment from your Royal presence, as, in falsity may be manifested by the answer to those charges ; the fact, a punishment, and a severe one too. I thought it sufficiently respect still due from me to persons employed in ' authority hard, that I should have been suffering that-punishment,nluting under your Majesty, however little respect I may have received the time that this Inquiry has been pending, while I was yet only i from them,—my duty to his Royal Highness the Prince of under accu-ation, and upon the principles of the just laws of your Wales,—my regard for all the members of your august Family, Majesty's kingdom, e ntitled to be presumed to be innocent, till —my esteem, my duty, my gratitude so your Majesty,—my al -1 was proved to be guilty. But I find this does not appear to be fectionate gratitude for all the paternal kindness which I have enouge, in the opinion of the Prince of Wales. For new, when ever experienced from you,—my anxiety not only to avoid the after this long Inquiry, into matters which required immediate risk of giving any offence or displeasure to your Majesty,but also investigation, I have been acquitted of every thing which to fly from every occasion of creating the slightest sentiment of could call for my banishment from your Royal presence : uneasiness in the mind of your Majesty, whose happiness it After yot.r Majesty's confidential servants have thus expressly would be the pride and pleasure of my life to consult, and to advised your Majesty, that they see no reason why you should promote,—all these various sentiments have compelled me to any longer decline to receive me into your presence—after your submit, as long as human forbearance could endure, to all the ' Majesty had graciously notified to me, your determination to re- unfavourable inferences which were through this dslay daily ceive me at an early day, his Royal Highness interposes the de- Increasing in the public mind. What the strength and efficacy mand of a new delay—desires your Majesty not to take any step of these motives have been, your Majesty will du me the justice —desires you Let to act upon the advice which your own confi- to feel, when you are pleased graciously to consider how long I &tidal servants have given yon, that you need no longer decline have been contented to suffer those suspicions to exist against seeing ttie—not to execute your intention, and assurance, that my innocence, which the bringing before the public of my accu you will receive Inc at an early day—because he has laid the do- scion, and my defence to it, would so indisputably and iinmedi cuments before his Lawyers, and intends to prepare a further ately have dispelled. statement. And the judgment of your Majesty's confidential ser- The measure, however, of making these proceedings public, veins is, as it were, appealed from by the Prince of Wales, whatever mode Icm adopt (considering especially the absolute (whom, for this time, at least, I must be permitted to consider impossibility of suffering any partial production of them, and the as assuming tie character of my accuser); the justice dee to me necessity that, if for. any purpose any part of them should be Is to be suspended, while the judgment ot your Majesty's sworn produced, the whole must be brought before the public), remains eisrants is to be submitted to the revision of my accuser's Court- surrounded with all the objections which I have enumerated; sd : and I, though acquitted in the opinion of your Majesty' con- and nothing could ever have prevailed upon me, or can now even fidential servants of all that should induce your Majesty to decline prevail upon me, to have recourse to it, but en Imperious sense receiving me, am to have that punishment which had been in- of indispensable duty io my future saity, to my present charac flieted upon me, during the enquiry, continued after that acquit- ter and honour, and to the feelings, the character, and the in tal; till a fresh statement is prepared, to be again submitted, for terests of my child. I had flattered myself, when once this long aught I know, to another inquiry,. of as extended a continuance proceeding should have terminated•tn my reception into your as that which has just terminated. Majesty's presence, that that circumstance alone would have so Can it be said that the proceedings of the four Noble Lords, strongly implied my innocence of all that had been brought against or of your Majesty's confidential servants, have been so lenient me, as to have been perfectly sufficient for my honour and my and considerate towards me and my feelings, as to induce a sus- security; but accompanied .as it now must be with the know picion that I have been too favourably dealt with by them ? and ledge of the fact, that your Majesty has been brought to hesitate that the advice which has been given tinyour Majesty, that your 'upon its propriety, and accompanied also with the very unjusti- Majesty need no longer decline to receive me, was hastily and liable observations, as they appear to me, on which l shall pre partially delivered? lam confident your Majesty must see the sently proceed to remerk; and which were made by your Ma very reverse of this to be the case—that I have every reason to f jetty's servants, at the time when they gave you their Attlee to complain of the inexplicable delay which so long withheld that receive me; I feel myself in a situation, in which I deeply regret advice; and the whole character of the observations with which that I cannot rest, in silence, without an immediate reception they accompanied it, marks the reluctance with which they into your Manety s presence; nor, indeed, with that reception, yielded to the necessity of giving it. unless it be attended , by other circumstances, which may mark For your Majesty's confidences: servants advise your Majesty, my satisfactory acquittal of the charges which have been brought " that it is no honer neenssary for yeu to eecliiie receiving inc ' against me. '' into your Royal presence." li this is their (million and their It'shall at no time be said, with tenth, that I shrank back from advice now, why was .t not their opinion and their advice four these infamous charges; that I crouched before my enemies; and months ago, front ;he date of my answer? Nay, why VMS it'llCt courted them, by my submission,' into moderation! No, 1 have .heir opinion :.std advice front the date even of the original Re- ever boldly defied them. I hive ever felt, and still feel, that, If port itself? For not only had they been in possession of my an- they should th nk, either of pursuing these accusations, or of swer for above .rixteers weds, which at least furnished them with bringing forward any other which the wickedness of individuals all the materials on which this advice was at length given; but may devise, to affect my honour, (since my conscience tells me, further, your Majesty's confidential servants are forward to state that they must be, as base and groundless as those brought by that after having read my observations, and the affidavits which Lady Douglas), while the witnesses to the innocence of my con were annexed to them, they agree in tine opinions (not in any single duct are all living, I should be able to disprove them all, and, opinion upon any particular branch of the case, but in the opinions whoever may be my accusers, to triumph over their wickedness g:.vrally) which were submitted to your Majesty, in the or:gloat an d m a lice. But should these accusations be renewed; or any iteport of the four Lords. If, therefore, (notwithstanding their ot h er b e brought forward, at any future time,drath may, 1 know concurrence in a!I :he opiniuns contained in the Report) they not how soot), remove trout my innocence its best security, and have never.heless given to your Majesty their advice," that it is • deprive me ot the means of my justification, and my def e nce. "no longer necessary for you to decline receiving me," what I There are !herefare other measurete which I trust your Ma coied have prevented their ohfeting that advice, even front the ' jesty will think indispensable to be 'Alen, for my honour, and 14th of July, the date of the original Report itself ? ()r what ; f or my secur ity. Amongst these, I most humbly submit to your could have warranted the withholding of it, even for a single Majesty my most earnest entreaties that the proceedings, Liclud moment ? Instead, therefore, of any trace being observable, of ' i ng not only my first answer, and my letter of the sth ot Decent hasty, precipitate, and partial determination iu my favour, it is ber, but this letter also, may be &rectos by your Majesty to be? impossible to interpret their conduct and their reasons together so preserved and deposit:d, as that they may, all of them, securely in uny . other sense, than as amounting to an admission onyour remain eernianent. authentic documents and memorials of tLis Majesty's confidetrial servants themselves, that I have, in cone- accusat i on , awl the manner it, winch 1 me: it; of my defence, as quence of their withholding that adyice, been unnecesaarey and well as of the charge. That they may remain capable at any time cruelly banished, front your Royal presence, front that 14th of of Reiss; resorted to, it the malice whicu produced the charge July, to the 28th of January. including a space of above six orig hall ever venture to renew it. mouths; and the effect of the interposition of the Prince, is to ± Bey ind this, I an. sure your Majesty will think it but proper prolong my sufferings, and my disgrace, under the same banish- • and jun that I should be restored, In every respect, to the same ment, to a period perfectly indefinite. trail elenc- t'.e proceedings, wrier these false charges, The principle which will admit the effect of such interposition have nelovei! m i hat, besides being graciously received again now, may be acted upon again; and the Prince may require a t it o the oosion ef yaw Itlaj sty's Royal Family, restored to my further prolongation upon fresh statements, and fresh charges, . former respect and station amongst them, your Majesty will be, kept back potsibly for the purpose of being, from time to time, graciously pleneel, tido rto exert your influence with his Royal conveniently interposed, to prevent fur ever the arrival of that Highness the Prince of Wales, that I may be restored to the use hour, which, displaying to the world the acknowledetept o: my of my apartment in Centon-house, which was reserved for me, unmerited suss: rings and disgrace, may, at the same time, expose . except whets the apartments were undergoing repair, till the date the true malicious and unjust quality of the proceedings which of these proceedings ;or to atom' to me some apartment in one have been so lung carried on against me. of your Royal Palates. econte apartment In or near to London is Tint unreasonable, unjust, and cruel interposition of . his Royal indis-p , nsably necessary for my convenient attendance at the Highness, as - I must ever deem it, has prevailed upon your Ma- Drawing-room. And if lam nut restored to that atCarlton-house, jesry to rezell, re my prejudice, your gracious purpose of recetv- !trust your Majasty will graciously perceive, how reasonable it is ing me, in pursuance of the advice of your servants. Do I then that I should request, that some apartment should be assigned to flatter myself too much, when I feel assured that my just en- me, suited to my dignity and situation, which may mark my re treaty, founded upon the reasons which I urge, and directed to ception and acknowledgment, as one of your Majesty's family, counteract only the effect of that unjust interposition, will induce and from which my attendance at the drawing-room may be easy your Majesty to return to your original determination ? ' and convenient. Restored, however, as I should feel myself, to a state of come If these measures are taken, I should hope that they would parative security, as well as credit, by being at length permitted, prove satisfactory to the public mind, and that I may feel myself upon your Majesty's gracious reconsideration of your last deter- fully restored in public estimation to my former character. And mination, to have access to your Majesty; yet, under ail the should they prove so satisfactory, I shall indeed be delighted to citcumatances under which I should now receive that mark and think, .that no farther step may, even now, appear to be neces confirmation of your Majesty's opinion of my innocence, my oar/ to my peace of mind, my security, and my honour. character would not, I fear, stand cleared in the public opinion,) But your Majesty will permit me to say,tbat if the next week, by the mere fact of your ajesty's reception of me. This revo- which will make more than a month from the time of your Ma cedon of you r Majesty's gracious purpose has flung an additional jesty's informing toe that you should receive me, should pass cloud about the whole proceeding; and the inferences drawn in without my being received into your presence and without hay the pablic mind, front this circumstance, so mysterious and so Inc the assurance that these other requests of mine shall be corn perfectly inexplicable, upon any grounds which are open to their plied with, I shall be under the painful necessity of considering knowledge, Las made, and will leave so deep an impression to teem as refused. In which case, I shall feel myself compelled, my prejudice, as scarce any thing, short of a public exposure of however reluctantly, to give the whole of these . promesdings to all that has passed, can possibly efface. ; the world; unless your Majesty can suggest other whet:ate The publication of ail these proceedings to the w odd, then, means of securing my honour and my lice, front the rift et t t the seems to me, under the present circumstances, (whatever reluc- continuance or renewal of these proceedings, for the Metre, as tance I feel against such a measure, and however I regret the well as the present. Fur I entreat your Majesty to bel eve, that hard necessity which drives me to it), to be almost the only re- it Is only in the absence of all other adequate means, that I can miming resource, for the vindication of my honour and charace have resort to that measure ; that I consider it with deep regret ter. The falsehood of the accusation is, by no means, all that that I regard it with serious apprehension, by no Weans so much Will, by such publication, appear to the credit and clearance of on account of the effect it may have upon myself, as on aceoune my character; but the course in which the whole proceedings of the pain which it may give to your Majesty, your august Fa have been carried en, or rather delayed, by those to whom your mily, and your loyal subjects. Mejesty referred the consideration of them, will chew, that, As far as myself am concerned; lam aware of the observations whatever meesure of justice I may have ultimately received at to which this publication will expose nit ; but lam placed in a their hands, it is not to be s trisected as wising front any merci- situation in which I have the choice only of two mast unpleasant ful and indulgent cousideration 'of me, of n:y feelings, or of alternatives ; and lam perfectly confident that the imputations my case. j and the loss ot character which must, under these circumstances, It will be seen how my feelings had been h tressed, and my fulloW from my silence, are most injurious and unavoidable—that character and honour the nelays nitwit lave taken my silence, under such circumstances, Wig lead inevitably to n:y place in these paoceetliegs : it *ill be seen, that the existence of ; utter infamy and ruin. Ihe publication, on the other baud, will the charge against me had avowedly bent known to the publi c , i expose to the world nothing, which is spoken to by any wallas front the 7th of June in the last year. I say known to the pub. (whose infamy and discredit is not unanswerably exposed and lic, because it was on that day that the Commissioners. acting,: established) which can, In the slightest degree, affect my chanc es I ant to suppose, (for so they state in their Report) tinder the ter, for honour, virtue, and delicacy. ' anxious wish, that their trust slimed he eine:tot:4 eet as little There may be circumstances discloeed,menifestlng a degree of publicity as poss:ble, autavrised that yaw sexy inTullaad Coadettelason and familiarity in my beivinur tad auP4uCtt which In the Opinions or many, may be considered as not an ciently guarded, dignified, and reserved ; circumstances. ever, which my foreign education, and foreign habits, mi. to think, in the humble and r e tired situation in which it v fate to live, and where I had no relation, no equal, no 'elec.! adviseme, were wholly free from offence. But when they been dragged forward, front the scenes of private life, in a proceeding on a charge of high treason and adultery, tin to derive a colour !and character, from the nature of the . which they are brought forward to support ; and I cannot believe, that they have been used for no other purpose, tb• afford a cover, to screen from view the injustice of that that they have been taken advantage of, to let down my i mote gently ; audio deprive me of that full acquittal on , port of the lone Lords, which intioetece of all offence justly entitled me to receive. Whatever opinion, however, may ha formed upon any my cutuluct, it must in justicelbe formed, with reference , situation in which was placed. If lam judged of as Prince! Wales ' with reference to the high rank of that station, I judged as Princess of Wales banished from the Prince, tested by the support and the countenance which belong station ; and if I ant judged of in my private character, as vied woman, I must be judged of Sc a wife banished tri husband, and living in a widowed seclusion from hint, and ment from the world. 1 his last consideration leads me to to an txprtssion iu Mrs. Lisle's examination, which describes conduct, ha the frequency and the simmer of my receiving P" sits of Captain Manby, though always in the presence of my . as unbecoming a married woman. Upon the t %mane OIL of setting up the etioisn of one woman, as It were, its judgment upon the conduct of another; as well as of estimating the con duct of a person in my unfortunate aituation, by reference to• that, which might in general be expected from a married woman. living happily with her .busband; 1 have before generally re-.. marked. But beyond these general remarks, in forming any cot mate of my conduct, your Majesty will u forget the very peculiar circumstances and misfortunes of my situation. Your Majesty will remember, that I had POI been much shove a year la this country, when I aweivut the following letter from his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales*. The date of his Royal Highness's letter is the 30th of Arr.!, 1796. The date of our marriage, your Majesty will recollect, i. the eth thy of April, in the year 1705, and that of the bum at our only child the 7th of January, 1796. On the letter of his Royal Highness I offer no comment. I only entreat your Majesty not to understand me to tutruduce it, as attording any supposed justification or excuse, fur the least departure from the strictest line of virtue, or Use slightest device tlun front the most refined dettcacy. The crime, winch has been insinuates against me, would be equally criminal and sleteetablsa use indelicacy impute d to me would be equally odious and abo minable' whatever reimuciation of cociugal authority and Ore. tion the above letterof his Royal Highnes• might in any construc tion of it be supposed to have co.aveyed. such climes, and faults, derive not their guilt from the cousuleration of the cusijugal vir tues of the individual, who may be the most injured by however much such virtues may aggravate their enormity. No such letter, therefore,in any construction of it, no renueciatfolt of conjugal affection or duties, could ever palliate them. But who. thee conduct free from all crime, free from all indelicacy, (whica I maintain to be the character of the conduct to which Mrs. Lisle's observations apply) yet possibly not so measured, as a meadow wife, careful to avoid the sligliest appearance of not pro. faring her husband to 41 the world, might be studious to *be serve. Whether conduct of such description, and possibly, in • such sense, not becoming a married woman, could be justly deemed, in my situation, an offence in use, I must leave to your Majesty to determine. In making that determination, however, it will not escapes your Majesty to consider, that the conduct which dues or does nit( become a married woman, materially depends upon what is or is not known by her to be agreeable to her husband. His pleasure and happiness ought, unquestionatAy, to be her law; and his ape probation the most favourite object of her pursuit. Different characters of men requtrs different modes of conduct in their wive.; but when a wife can no longer be capable 4*mi:retie/Jig irons thew to time what is agreeable or offensive to her husband, when her conduct can no longer contribute to his happiness-00 longer hope tube rewarded by his approbation—surely, to exao mine that conduct by.the standard of what ought in general to he the conduct of a married woman, is altogether unreasonable and unjust. What, then, Is my mac ? • Your Majesty will do me the justice to remark, that in this above letter of the Prince of Wales, there is out the must dim tant suendse, that crime, that vice, that indelicacy of any descrip. ' tion, gave occasion to his determination ; and all the tales of in famy and discredit, which the inventive malice of my enemies has brought forward op them charges, have their date years and years after the period to which lam now alluding. Wuat then let me repeat the question, is my case? After the receipt of the above letter, and in about two years from my arrival in skis country, 1 had the misfortune entirely to lose the support, the coyote:ranee, the protection of my husband—l was banished, as it were, into a eon to humble retirement, at a distance front him, and almost estranged irons the whole of the Royal Family. —I had nu means of having recourse. either for Society or advice, to those, fiont whom my inexperience could have best received the advantages of the one, and with whom I could, most becom ingly, bare enjoyed the comforts of the other; ant it in this re tired, unass seed, unprotected state, without the ch. ck of a hus band's authority, without the benefit of his advice, without the comfort and support of the society of his family, a stranger to the Lobito and millions of this cannery, 1 should in any instance, under the influence of foreign habits, and foreign education, have observed a conduct, in any degree deviating from the reserve and seventy of British manners, and parcakiug of a condescension and familiarity which that reserve and severity would perhaps deem beneath the dignity of my exalted rook,l feel confident, (since such deviation will be seen to have been ever consistent with perfect innocence), that not only your Majesty 'e candour and indulgence, but the candour and indulgence which, netwitho standing the reserve and severity of British manners, always be long to the Briti.h public, will ~ever visit ft wick severity or censure. It remains for me now to make some remarks upon the fur ther contents of the paper, which was transmitted to one by the Lord Chancellor on • the oath ult.; and I cannot an passing, phutto remark, that that paper has neither title, date, signature, nor attestation and unless the Lord Chancellor had accompani ed It with a note, stating that it was coped hi billow° hand front chp original, which hie Lordship bad received from your Majesty, I should have been at a loss to have perceived any single mark of authenticity belonging to it; and as it is, I am wholly unable to discover what is toe true character which does belong to it. • It contains, indeed, the advice which your Majesty's servants have offered to your Majesty, and the message which, according that advice your to Majesty directed to be delivered to me. _ Considering it, therefore, wholly as their act, your Majesty will excuse and pardon me, if, deeply injured as l ter.l myself to have been by them, 1 express myself with freedom upon their conduct. 1 may speak perhaps with warmth, because lam pro. coked by a WOW of gross injustice —I shall speak cenainly with firmness and with courage, becaus e lam emboldened by a sense of conscious innocence. Your Majesty's confidential servants say, " they agree in the " opinions ui the four Lords ;" anal they say this, " after the fel; " lest consideration of my obeervations,*and of the affidavit* " which were annexed to them." Sume of these opinions, your Majesty will recollect, are, that Wiltian► Cole, nanny Lloyd, Robert ISidgoud, acid Mts. Lisle, arc witnesses who cannot," in the judgment of tie four Lords, " be suspected of any un " favourable bias;" and " whose veracity in this respect they " had seen no ground to question ;" and that the circumatafice to " which they speas, particularly as relating to Captain Manby, •t must be credited emit they sic decisively contradicted." Ate I, then, to understand your Majeaty's confidential servants to mean, that they agree wish the tour Noble Lords in these opl ❑ions Am Ito understand, that, alter having read with the fullest considera inn, the übservations whic2 I have offered te your Majesty; after having seen Wiliam Cole there preyed to have subnutted himsel; five times, at least, to pr►vate, unau thorised, voluntary examination, by . sir John Douglas's Solicitor, for the express purpose of confirming the statement of Lady Douglas, (01 that Lady Douglaa, who•r statement and deposition they are convinced to be so ni..ticious and false, that they pro pose to institute sach prosecu ion against her, as your Majesty's Law Officers may advise, upon a retrrer.ce, now at length, ante six months from the detection tit that make and falsehood, ie. tended to be iitadc) —Alva. having seen this William Cole sub muting to such red-catud voluntat y exammations for such a pur. pose, and altbtiugt► he seas all that time a servant on my esta. bosh:neat, and eating my bread, yet never once communicating to me that such examinations were going on—am l to understand, gnat your Majesty's confidential Servants agree with the tour Lords in thiuking, that he cannot, trader such circumstances, 4: reqsixied cf anfavearalk bias? that after having had pointed eat • Sri Tip Sri Qf 11144 Y. • 1115411 M rvi ' That pa confident! fore any d first, dear State, in t yourself at your own I never bad been I sixteen wt was most your Majt from that to ascribe they, w should be fllle 91d, 'h, protracted lad that y, to have be bi!ity of y 4 say step oi was recer Influent poitunity heart, to riortificat josty's lett though I a L That le Prince of your Majt etrsonal them into that your nest, until your Mak also annou it incunab Cher result wade knot This del bis Royal me to entr Your Maj " tinie, and Wales, to generosity can satisl y of thid sad wider that your 1 should I did n,,t and if I dit better pert ' the course The Toil Into the cl duly last, a of Wales h We, by La ► reed in th, " In the " ;laced 11 Hughnet !so-AMU wwwws of , s, how. i•ltel me was ror tiend to bey have s a grave ley SVCIIII le charge rinot but than tca charge ; accusers the Re- Ice moo: • y part cf ce to the incest of Must he g to is a ma: - f rom be. id retire• to recur gibes my ag the Ti- ny ladies, injustice