The National Register. — London, England, 1814-06-05 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGLSIFTI. ) T Since writing the above the Princess has been advised to address the Speaker of the House of Commons, inclosing copies of the CoFrespondence laid before the Public. We must confess our feelings are rather with the substance o Mr. Methuen's motion, though evidently unparliamentary, as striking at the root of the evil at once, than, with the equivocatinq counsels of those who approve the tendency of the procAing, while they actually oppose it. We ob serve, that the organ of " all the talents" was particularl y anxious to see the subject ihip—as well he might, since the report of his party first gave birth to all those ob noxious measures that now harrass the Public. But though the great advocate of the Princess is no more —though Mr. Perceval has ceased to live, his integrity and firmness are still felt too sensibly in our system, not to cur tain the reputation of his illustrious client against the ar rows directed by the hand of despair ) or barbed by the demoniasm of malevolence. JUNE 5. ••••• Royal Highness : not from any consciousness of blame, not from any doubt of the existence of those tights, or of my own worthiness to enjoy then). "6ir, the time you have selected for this proceeding is calculated to make it peculiarly galling. Mat.) , illustrious Strange is are alieady arrived in England; amongst others, am informed, the illesti lows heir of the House of Orange. who has announced himself to me as my futu.r son-in-law. From their society lam unjustly excluded. Others are ex pected, of rank equal to your own, to rejoice with year 110~ el ITighness in tire peace of Europe. Aly Daughter for the first time, appear in the splendour and iublicity becoming • the approaching nuptials of the presumptive • Heiress of thii Empire. 't his season your loyal Highness has chosen fur treating me with fresh and unprovoked nity : and of ail his Majesty's subjects, I alone am prevt nted by your Royal Highness from appeaiing in my place, to partake of the general joy, and am deprived of the indul. Bence in thov: feelings of pride and affection, permitted to . every Mother but me. " I am, Sir, " Your II.( )1 faithful Wife, Connaught House, May 16,1814. " CAROLINE ; P." 0 NCLOSURES.) THE QUEEN TO THE PIUNCESS OF WALES. " WINDSOR CASTLE, MAY 23, 1814. The Qqicen cc-insiders it to be her duty to lose no time in acquainting the Princess of Wales, that she has received a communication from her son the Prince Regent, in which he states, that her Majesty's intention of holding two Drawing-rooms in the ensuing month, having been notified to the Pubic, he must declare, that he considers that his own presence at her Court cannot be dispensed with ; and that he desires it may be distinctly understood, for reasons of which he alone can be the judge, to be his fixed and unal terable determination not to meet the Princess of Wales upon any occasion, either in public or private. 'The Queen is thus placed under the painful necessity of intimating to the Princess of Wales the impossibility of her Majesty's receiving her Royal Highness at her Drawing rooms. CHARLOTTE, R." ANSWER OF THE PRINCESS OF WALES TO THE QUEEN. " MADAM--I have received the Letter whith your Ma jesty has done me the honour to address to me, prohibiting my appearance at the public drawing-rooms which will be held by your Majesty in the ensuing mouth, with great sur prise and regret. " I will not presume to discuss with your Majesty, topics which must he as painful to your Majesty as to myself. Your Majesty is well acqmainted with the affectionate re• Bard with which the King was so kind as to honour me, up to the peliod of his Majesty's indisposition, which no one of his Majesty's subjects has so much cau'e to lament as my ! self: and that hi.. Majesty was gi aeiously pleased to bestow upon me the most unequivocal and gratifying proof of his attachment and approbation, by his public reception c t ine at his Court, at a season of severe and unmerited affliction, w'len his protection was most necessary in the. There I have since uninterruptedly paid :n" respects to your Majesty. am now without appeal or ptoteetor. lot I cannot so far forget my duty to the King and to m‘self, as to surrender my right to appear at any public DraNing-room ' yt)ur Majesty. That I may not, however, add to the di easiness of your. Majesty's situation, t yield it I stance to the will of his Royal Highness !be n t o b e ii(JI ifliculty and un- it the present Prince Regent, LECTEP, OF THE PRINCESS OF \VALES TO TILE PRINCE It WENT. Sir,-1 am once more ieluctantly compelled to address your Royal Highness, and to inclose for your inspection, copies of a note which I have had the honour to receive from the Queen. and of the answer which I have thought it my duty to return to her Majesty. It would be in vain far me to inquire into the reasons Of the alarming declaration made by your Royal Highness, that you have taken the fixed and unal terable determination never to meet me, upon any occasion, either in public or private. Of these your Royal Highness is pleased to state yourself to be the only judge. You will perceive by my answer to her Majesty, that I have only been restrained by motives of personal consideration towards her Majesty, from exercising my right of appearing berme her Majesty, at the public Drawing-Rooms, to be held in the ensuing month. " But, Sir, lest it should be by possibility supposed, that the words of your Royal Highness can convey any insinuation from which I shrink, 1 am bound to demand of your Royal highness—what circumstances can justify the proceeding you have thus thought fit to adopt ? I owe it to myself, to my Daughter, and to the nat ion, to which I am deeply indebted for the vindication of my honour, to remind your Royal Highness of what you know; that after open tiersecution and mysterious inquiries, upon undefined charges, the malice of my enemies fell entirely upon them selves; and that 1 was restored by the King, with the advice of his Ministers, to the full enjoyment of my rank in his (;oust, upon my complete acquittal. Since his Majesty's lamented illness, I have demanded, in the fitce of Parliament and the country, to he proved guilty, or treated as innocent. I have • been declared innocent-1 will not submit to be treated as guilty. your Royal Highness may possibly refuse to read this letter. But the world must know that liave written it ; and they ‘6ll see my real mu! ives for fore;; #l og, in this instance, the rights or my rank. • Oc( asions, In;%; v er, may rise (one, I trust, is far distant) when I must appear in public. and your Royal Highness must be present alo. Can !•oar Royal Iligh ness have contemplated the fufl . extent of ynur declaration ? Highness forgotten the approaching marriage lily of our coronation ? where I atn absolutely bound e the Queen, as far as I can, *hid' shit is placed by your lla y-our It(-yal lilglitiess lorgolu of _cm rd. cr ' i •, • f poss;bil .. I ;•••.* .."-', =-. •- • • !e . 1 - 1 4 , - - . 4.4 . /.4 • • to a. -7 " -- t. ' - . - * 4° • \N . e V • ' .;i l .. './' . , nt • 1 -- e • ft, a :• i 411. . 1 .4 \ _... • .: - , • • .• ' k u i • ‘ ~.,.,!..,/,.. .f i •'',,, - ..5" -. .. , '. . j . : - + • I . 4 %it