The National Register. — London, England, 1813-03-14 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. 166 sleuth, and partly on the p e rs o nal observations of the leforments, the fellueing mom important fac.s, viz:--that her Royal Highness had been 'pregnant in the yeer 1892, in consequettee of an illicit interceutse, sand that site had in the /Same year been secretly delivered of a male child, wlech chile had ever s i nce that period been brought np by her Revel flightless in her own house, and under her immediate inspection. " These ellegationi thus made, had, as we found, been followed by de clarttions from other persons, who had not indeed spoken to the impor tant facts of the pregnancy or delivery of her Royal Highness, but lied stated whet particulars in themselves extremely suspicious,and still mole so when cotieteted with the avertion already menti .nevi. In the ;maul sit uetion in wleiefh his Royal IliOlinees was placed by these communica. teem we learnt that his Royal Highness had adopted the only course whir Is reuld, in our judgmeia, with propriety he fullovved, when infor mations such tie these had been thusconfidently alleged, and particularly detaifc d, anu loei been ill some degree supported by collateral evidence, ae, I% lust to other points of the same nature (though going to a tar lest eaticoi 'use li,.e could only be pursued. Every senescent of duty to yo ur Nee es te, avid of concern lOr the public vs ellare, required that these peoicul cos should not he withheld front your Majesty, to whom more parti!eikrty bee need the cognizance of a matter of State so nearly t ie: t et e. , Inc he ll oes- of your Nitijeste's Royel and by possibility effoc•itiv the socc:ssion r-f your Meiesty's Clown. Your Majesty bad beet! pleilEed, tour pa-0, to view the subject in the same lie ht. CO/I• it. as a matter whieli in every respect demanded the tiiiA i I:vt. ;!i t za licit), your Alojci•ty had !bought . fi' to cualmit into our Lands th- duly of P‘Cr ri Ow first instance, what degree of cre• evil wt. dee to the int-inflation!, and thereby enabling your Majesty t;) d tilde 'orther c to adopt concerning them. Oil this view', tl:clc.fure, of the neeacrs thus alleged, anti of the course hitiaeto pair slit. ri 41 POlll , we denied it pruptl, in the first place, to examine those perems in wleor declaration th.. occasion for this ineeiry had orieiletted ; if ewe, on being examined en oath, had retracted oreelned ail necessity ,•1 (wilier ievesti:•atiort possibly have bc!.?ii precluded. ‘Ve accoreaucly first ex./twined on oath t: • pfnic;p.:l iii!'ot wants, Sir John. Dooglas and Charli,ttc his a ile, who b. , . it wisitively sq . e. the former to biz baying (Aware(' the fact of the ereee;eley of lior Jte yal.llitiess, and the latter t , , the all tinpoi taut p..ri iculays eeetained in her lea liner declaration, enti . aheve referred to. Their eteeeieeteee arc aelieeed to this report, and are circumstantial end pozei‘ e. The most material of chest allegatio n ', into the truth of which ut neve Leen directed to inquire, heing thus far-suppioted by the oath of the parties from whom they had proceeded, we eheu tell it to II( oar e toy to follow up the inquiry by the .exantination of such other persons as we lodger: befit able to afford us eiformation as to the facts in question. We ilt.tneht it beyondall doubt, that in the cour s e of incieeire 'thane nerticeinrs no!si he learnt, which would be nece.,ssarii 3 conclusive of the truth of falsehood of these declaretions : so many person. time huts been witnesses to the appearance of an actual ex• istittg pregnancy : sec niatty circumstances must have been atteedenr upon a re-at delivery ; and d:frieulees somumeroes and insurmountable retest have been iteolved in any ettempt to at:count fo the intient iu : question ae the child ti another woman, if it had been in fact the child of the Princess, ek e we eraerteined a lull and coefident expectation of eirrivirg et c-mplete proof, either in the athrtuativeer negative, on this part of the subject. "This txpeetetion was not disappointed. We are happy to declare o perfect rorivictior, diet there is no foundation whatever for believing that the child now with the Prince's of Wales. is the child of her Royal Highness, or that she was delivered of any. child in the year 1802 ; no r Inwati anything appeared to us which would warrant the belief that site war previtent iv that year, Or at any other pe ied wit' in the compass of our inquiries. The identity of the child now with the Prioress, its pa rents, age, tie place and elate of its birth, the time and circumstance of it' being first taken nikile - r her Royal highness's protection, are all este- Melted by such a concurrence both of positive and circumstantial es i ciet.ce, as can iu fib judgment de-ice no question on Iles part bf the sub ject This cited sees. bev end ell doubt, born in Brownlow-street !ten pin'', en the 11th day ef 'July, 1801, of the body ri t Sophia Austin, and was first beeseht to the Princess's house in the month of 'November 'fol lowing. Neither should we be more warranted in expressing ene doubt respecting the alleged pregnancy of the Princess, as stated in the in elitist Declaration, a fact "0 fishy contradicted, Nod by Se entry wit• nestles, to whim, if true, it :owe in various ways be known, that we can. not think it entitled to the, smallest credit. The testimonies on these two peiets are contained in the. &tasseled Depositions a n d L e t ters 'We have net partially abstracted in this Report, lest by any tutititen tienal emission we might %tertian their effect ; but we beinbly offer to Igesent upon them, foe rue(' it heeitation, on the mutt - Wel ourselves at liberty, 1 1 qcs AT4.OC II The sl4c• MARC!! 14. gntions of the piegnai.cy . and denivery of the P. 'tires-, these net iara tions, on the %%bole of which : . our Blatt sty. has been 'Avast-et to eou ns.te inquire and report, contain.. as the have itbeadv reluarieesi, other particulars respecting the conduct tat her Royal Higlrise•s, su.li as must, especially considering trc.exalie*ratik at.d station, :leer's iri:y g ;0 (be. Citsloll tO VV . )? ftteraVOUguble interrietations. From the variviss depo sition of proofs annexed to this Report, purtictilaily hoot the evin l i na .; Lions of It. Bidgood, Wm.( ole, Fiances L.o d, dud Li.le, your fir jesty will perceive that Several strung tits toast Lives ut this de.crip coo have b ten positively 1 ,%0(1) to by want SseS, hi! Calllloi, in our•judg tucut, be suspected of any tatlaveurable bias, and Si hose seractiy, in this respect, we have seen no ground to question. On the precise bearine and effect of the lints thins appearh r , i t is not fur us to decide ; these we submit to your Alajes:y's wisdom, but we conceive it to be our duty to report on tt , is Fait of the inquiry, as distincly as on the former facts. -•that as on the one hand the tracts of pregnancy and delivery arc t.> our minOs satisfactorily doTroved ; so on the other band we think the circom•tances to which we now refer, particularly these stated to have pa:ered between her IZoyal highness and Capt. Manly, ninst be credited until they '1..11 ieceise some deri sive coaradiction ; and, if true, are justly entitled to the omst serious consideration. We cameit close this Ittl,ort without humbly assuring your Majesty. that it was on every account our anxious wish to 'ive executed this delirAte trust wi'ti as little publicity as the nature of t 1,41 case would possibly allow ; and we entleat your INiajr:ly's peonision to csoress our foil persuasion, that if this wish has be rt, cisalipointed, failure is not imputable to any thing onnecessarily said or done by us, ail which is most humbly d to your Mir-7. (Signed) Llt-iilN'E, CR EN VILLE, S PE N CELL _ EL LEN EUROUGIL July 14, 1806. (A true Cupy)-1. BECK ET. THE PRINCESS OF WALES'S LETTER TO TAE KING. The following letter was read by Mr. C. JOIII7STONE its his Speech, and wserted by him to have been wt itten by Mr. PERECEV AI , in conj':nction with Lord ELpurt and Sir THOMAS PLOMER:— StitE—linpresst-ct with the deepest sentiments of grlititude for the comitenance and proh elm which I have hitherto utniortnly tce,eived from your Majesty, I approach you with a heart undismayed, upon the oetusinti so &whit and momentous to my character, my honour, and my Irippiness I should, indeed (midtr chargks swig as have now been luotif!lit aivinst me), prove myself undesming of the continutnee of th a t eouidenance and protecti-o, and altoati.er unworthy of the 11471) station which I hold in your Majesty's family, if I sought for any par cality, for any iociulgence, fur any thing more than what is due to tue in justice. My cut t‘e u.nfidence in your Majesty's virtues assures war that 1 cannot meet The situation which I have been so happy as to hold in our Majes t Rood opinion and esteeni, my situation in your Alejesty's august hmily, toy life, my honour, and through mine, the honour of your :Majesty's family have been attacked. Sir John and Lady Dougla.: have attempted to support a direct and precise charge, by which they have dared to imputc 1 , ) nie the enummus guilt of High Treason, com mitted in the foul act of Adultery. In this charge the extravagance of thei , malice has detobted itscif. The Report of the Lords Comini•sion ers, acting under your Majesty's Warrant. has twos: fully cleared tuc of that charge. But 'here remain imputations, strangely sanctioned and countenanced hy that Report, on which I c 'coot remain silent, without incurring tit* illitst fatal conf.tecveuce. to r.v honour avid character For it Witt% to your Majesty that " the circumstances detailed against me must be credited :id they are deci.iveiy contradicted."—To contradict with as touch decision us the contradiction of an accused can convey ; ta ex p•ose the is justice and 'mince l'f my enemies; to chew the utter impos of giving credit In their testimom ; and to v i n dic a t e my sowni innocence. will be the objects, Sire, of this . f.etter. In the course of my pursuing these objects, I shall have mach to complain of. in the substance of the proceeding itself, and much in the manuar of comitirtiog That any of the charges should ever have been entertained upon tea• time• y so little worthy of belief., I T hiell betrayed ia every sentence iha malice it. which it originate.' t that even if they were etarnatl! ed at alnur Majesty sh old have bteu advisert In pass by the co &nat . % kgall aides of inquiry Iwo stecii high crimes, and to reter them to :2(mnd*. shut, open to all die objections which I shall hate to state to such a ;andel of inquiry; that chi. Commissioner.. alter !same helot verithe principal Charge of substantive criak., should have entertained tuasiderations of ityltlff ib> WP.OtIt44 tons 1 4 1 vilgwea d wbickvilifs a 44.1 4 11 noA your AI. jesty this nor clear aid unanimous juti; vows tilt uelibeelt lid 1 ,:mainced withoo' of the *bole ii, • - 1 1:-.,'-'. - . ,:-4.', • nit •., - ever, fokuch ss %I- ~.,. '. 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