The National Register. — London, England, 1813-03-07 00:00:00

MARCH 7 tether the documents of that period to found a Report urn what te- . gulanons Were necessary to govern the Intercoutse between the Yrin.' cess and her Daughter ? Documents, in crushing which the Noble' Lord had formerly been warty. it, instead Of such an unju‘tifiable proceeding, his Royal Highness the Prince Regent had been advised to . say, Lam the tether of this child, and I wilt act as a lather is empow. ered to do-1 am Prince of the e realms. and I will exercise my prero guive of educating the successor ti the throne- the country -woulo, have been satisfied, in his opinion, as he oid not conceive the Princes was so popular as to fear that such advice would not have been univer sally approved of. The Hon. Member said, he had as high feeling for royalty as any man ; but he must say, all proceedings like these contribute to pull it down. He was very sorry we had a family who do not take miming from what is said and thought concerning them. They seemed to be the only persons in the country w ho were wholly regardless of their n welfare aw.l respectability. He %you'd not have the Regent lay the flattering unction to his oil, and think his coniluei will bear him haraileis through ail these transactions. He said this with no disrespect to him or his faoilly, no man was more attached to the House of Brunswiuk than he was; but if heltad a sister in the same situation, he would say she was exceedingly ill treated. Sir SAMUEL RoMtt I v said, ill,: Honourable Member was mistaken as to the nature of the powers given to the Cominissioners in 1806. He had no authority for saying the Noble Lords had officiously en. • tered on other pints besides those which were 'referred to them. He would ask the Honourable Member, if he had ever read the commis sion ? 1-Ic(iir Samuel) had seen it, and &he did not very much for. get it, it went to direct the four Noble Lords to inquire into the facts contained in the statement of the Princess of Wales, winch had b..en submitted e, his Majesty ; a , bang which there were other matters, h. sides tease forming the grounds of the principal charge against her Roy aI„H ighness. Mr. W. Sur -or fully participated in what left from the Honourable Member who spoke last but one ; it his sister had been treated as the Princess had been, he should feel extremely sore. He regretted h e could not see his way clear how josticr coo idte done to the Princess and, therefore, he wished his Honourable Friend would explain what further proceedings he had in contemplation. Mr. PONSONPY could not agree to the motion of his Honourable Friend, yet he was aim ,st inclined so to do, from the admirable, in_ comparable, resistless eloquence with which he urged it. He would ask, is it c•rmiletent for this !louse to grant the prayer of the Prin cess's Letter ? The Report of 1806 ought not to be laid before th e House. Is there any thing in it that (night to be submitted to thei r consideration? Suppose the Report on the table, what could they do with it ? Could they address the Regent for a trial ? Could they condemn ? Could they acquit ? This is truly an attack on the Go vernment ; and the defence of the Noble Lord worthy of the news papers which advocate his cruse. He denied that any person in Op position had had any connection with the publication of the papers or with any part of the transaction ; he disclaimed all knowledge u 1 all proceedings therein, aui he should despise any one who couldi mike the Royal quarrels a source to prove a stepping-stone to office : he had never so clone; those he acted with had never so done ; and he wished he could say as much for the living and the dead, and tha t all could lay their hands on their hearts and say the sane. He des_ pised such base and despicabie conduct from the bottinn of his soul. Mr. \'Fun rDRF. it n said. aner the qiiestiou asked of him by his Hon• Friend, Mr. W. Smith, he miuht, periiiips, be allowed to make good a deficiency in his former speech, by explaining what his further views and intentions were, provided he should succeed hos motion of to nieht, and obtain the Report alluded to in the Letter of the Pi incess ut Wales to the Speaker. It certainly •was Ins lineation, in the e"ent ot success to his first motion, to have fdlowed it up by motions for such Papers as might appear necessar fur de!further elucidation of the busi ness, and for the justfiC4ll9 l l or eainvietion of the pa-rson who had thrown lie r-elf, as a last resource, upon the justice and were), of the Rostral. Hut the few hours which had passed silky he mr.red ins Amendment, had SO entirely altered the state oft e case, that he should oet now even press a division. The most complete cleft once sir time pa tof the Princess sat Wales had been thrown out, in tles pre-ence of those per,ons who ha.l the fullest op prtuoity of inquiry, stud whose euy it w..s to ingeire two every part of her conduct—echo have now the nieens ot searching hem %cry heart. So completely did she now appe.r acquitted ot all possible imputation of blame, even by the persons from whom the aspersions were. by the world, supposed, in time last Rep.irt, to have been throan upon her, that it was, in his mind, uminecessurj to press the Amame to a • • rr • TITE . Ii4TATIONAII:i REGISTER. diri~u n. Her innocence restrictions its the Prince Regent in his eispacity of father to t.._ cess•Citirlotte, or by dice advice of his simi3ters might think propeeto impose - upon lwr ittercourse with her d aug hter, she must submit. It es het lot. But s:ie.had the satisfaction of knooing, that her reputtis Oun henceforward w.:41, by the contessioo of all, without i:op . utatiou of 'repruach.—Froul these considerations he shu'uld tint press a division. • Mr. CANNING COUlti not sufficiently praise the honest and manly w irmth shewn by Mr. Whitoread t but all motions sinsilar to the present he should resist. He never would consent to support tkat which, however plausible at the morryant, would endanger the permit , 'tent interests of the country. Bes des, the necessity of such motions is lessened, if the object be to declare the entire acquittal of the Prin. cess ; because, from the tone of the Noble Lcrd, as well as his re. peated declarationS of her innocence, further proceedings are unnetes• sary. He was prepared to assert and maintain, that the words and meaning of the Cabinet R epott iw ISO 7, conveyed a cotnplete, satisfac. tory, and unlimitea acquittal. Ile w.'uld not have supporte.l the late Minute of the Council had he been in the Cabinet ; he should have been content to say that his Royal Highness was the master of, his own family ; as Father and Sovereign, he had a right to direct and contrcul the conduct of Lis dao4hter, and to regulate whom:she should see, and whom she should not see.—The Minute, he was glad to hear owred, left acquitted ionoCetice, as it was, before the Council made their Report. It is hard * to stop these discussions here, but it is better they should be so done, than lett where it would be difEls cult to cow rout thk it circulation. M r. BA :HURST disapproved of the motion. Mr. CAANINC: disrpproved of the original publication of the letter as the cause of all the mischief. He would not-have raised the flame by callin; in the aid of other persons to assist the Cabiper, which.has given to th.sproceeding a character of 'Uneasiness and anxiety thathas heen very injurious. . - Mr. GA s ROW maintained that the Prince Regent was placed by . the appearance of the letter in print, in a situation that forced him to take the opinion of grave and honourable persons, as to the lini he • was to take upon this subj....et. He denidd be ug a party to the ptibli,, cation of the extract whioh appe•reil in a newspaper some drays back. Wliat took place was this, he and Mr. Adam, and Mr. 14)11, ik•tre not called to revise the proceedings of the C;iuned in 1366, but they were commanded by the Prince to give their.opinions upon questions proposed to them. They met at his house, looked up all the papers while the subject was in discussion ; they destroyed all the copies,but one, and he had not seen the papers since, till he was shewn tract that was printed in one of the newspapers the other day. Mr. Yates): requested Mr. C Johnstone to withdraw his motion. Mr. C. JounsTone refused so to do, adding, that it , was a proud day for him, because it had completely established the inn ocendeof her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. • .r The question was put, an d Mr. C. Johnsto.ne's motion was'nega. tived without a division —The House then icjourned. REPORT, Ecc. TO HIS ROYAL lIIGTINE` , S THE PRINCE REGENT. The following Members of los Majesty's must 11 .notnable PHvy Council, Grace the A , clibi , hop of I:amen:air!? ; the Right! Hon. the Lord High Chancellor ; 11.3 Grace the Archivsliop or York ; This Grace the Lord Print Ate of Ire!met ; the Lord Presideut Costotil ; the 1..,,rd Privy Seal ; the Eat! of Blickitighaiiiihire;•the Ead Ilsthurst ; the Eatl of Liverpo I; the Earl of Mulgrav , - ; -the Visconti. 111.1 ville ; the Viscount Imdruouth; the Vi.count r aidlereigh ; the Hight! Hon. the Bishop 01 London ; the Hight Hon Lord Elten hotough, L. rd Chief Jussice of the t u n t of King's Bench; the Right Hon. the Speaker of the Howie of Commons; the Hight Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchetpter the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Datc:l; his Honour the Mime: of the llo!lit; the Right Ilon.'the L rtl Cotel Ju.tie! of tho Court of Ci:nr WM Hess"; the RiAit Ilan. the lon d Chief Baron of Cite Court of Exchequer ; thu Right Hon. 'the Judge of th- High Court of Ad,iiraity ; the It glit Him. the Dean of the At eheN:--lla in t !, been summoned he command of your lirival Highne.s, on the 19th of Feh. to meet at the office of Viscount Sid month. Secrematy of State for the Home Dertriment, a gonimunica thin as made by his Lordship to the she tolln hi t t temp,: Mr Lontos-1 have it in corium Prince ReKent, In acquaint y..ur from the Princess of Wales to the I' say acknow!rtigeil entire—complete. To such t.. h ei.rtacitv of father to the Prin. e Lords then pretent, in the tullow. • nand (torn his Royal Highness the Lord,hips, that s copy of i letter h WWI &gent, having appeuxed its • • • • ) • / • •