The National Register. — London, England, 1813-03-28 00:00:00

• MARCH 28. to giv,: public notic sion of the di..ath Brunswick, all per stid mourning to be March 27, 1813. It is further order black cr ape round t PRINCESS CI The following Blackheath, Frida3 " The Princess to-day; and, from • her. Tim young Pr bdt she did not cot description flocked tion seeing the the seene; the pen • rur the Princess riaze she was loud:, belli of Greenwich nmfacd for the Dm joy he:ls for the P ay, too much so, That I suppose the j • Royal Mother, quit nt the nieethe.r.; Inv rejoicing hue." 13.1 t In order that of •specelt of Lord E Whitnread, in brim the Commons, on th lug to that part of was stated to hay , was that of a woma have thought any who should !Olive I Manhy"—Mr. Whi placed in his ham re asau to doubt, vt•l \aunina. ion of Mrs wit upon conttast lady, which had be siote. at astouishmer heen sudered ttl the punlished state spontaneously, and flown trout her as tl breath. So tar, hoc been put t!► her, by a .: hest suited the ol flirting was ever II Twiny other remark! which the lour CA were putt which Loi his own, would rat: Lord ELLEN BOW CAiioll,. ill ..• a,nie•rbt-loati, J 1 9 J TTIE NATIONAL REGISTER. ice that it is expected that, upon the present occa of her late Royal Highness Augusta Duchess of 2rsons do put themselve, into decent mourning; the begin on Sunday next the (.?Atti instant. NORFOLK, Earl Marshal. 'tiered, that the Officers of the. Army and Navy wear a their left arm with their uniform. been salvised to issue a Commssion tin . an Inquiry into matters • I which involved some eminent persons in this country. In that • , Commission his (Lard Ellenborougles) name was inserted, without • his knowing any thing of the matter. Once engaged by his Ma jesty's command, lie did his duty to the best of his power. Bid it eras in the performanre of that duty that some person, with the 6 most abandoned mil detestable slander, had dared to charge him with the gross act of dishonesty ; him, on whose character for In. 4 tegrity, diligence, and care, depended more of the property and interests of the people thin on those of any man in the country ; yet 4 of him it was foully andalauderously alleged, that be hod filisitie4 the evidence given before the commission, giving in as a document, evidence that was not received, and suppressing that whielvnitia ;lethally Civet'. T:tis was all a heemati vile idauder,—ell false as Hell. i'• He would not violate the propriety of that House ; lie knew !be respect and decency whielt it reirtired ; but he mustgive the lie to falsehood. In the ecurse of the enquiry his Noble Colleagues .. inought it proper to have some person to take down and arrange the evidence. His Majesty's Sidieitur-General at that time, (Sir . Samuel Romilly,) was the version Axed on. One evenieg the Cu m a Mission having on I', and tile witnesses being in kitten/Noce,. it was thought better not to detir the examination,. and lose the evening. though front some circumstance or other Sir Samuel Romilly was not in attendance. The Commisaioners requested, that he, (1.014 Ellenborough,) as lie had been in the habit of taking down evidence. :11111 probably in the year toots downtwice as much has any man in the king& m, should take down the evidence of the witnesses in attendance. He declare!' upon the moat stirred asseveration that could be made,— tbi , most solemn sanction of an oade—that every. 1 word of that deposition came from the lips of the winless in clues. tiou, that every word of it wtis read over to her, if not paragraph by paragraph as it was taken down, certainly all atter4 was taken, and every sheet signed with her name. if it would not be going into the particulardiselosure, which nothing could induce him to allow or ad vise, the bare inspection of the paper would be enoogh to abew that fabrication was impw.sible. It was fell of interliueations, the mind of the patty was expressed in its language,—.any man .might have seen, in its changes and corrections, that the deposition went to s ascertain the HI meaning of the witness, and could not have been_ the work of him, Or the other Commissioners. Bnt how .absurd was the change? Would hi, noble Colleagues have glittered him to . vitiate the evidence I Wodid they have allowed him to set down- a word on the paper which was not deposed by the witness ? Their Lordships could not blame him for standing forth to repel in the strongest minter so base and impudent, and miscreant an imputa tion. (Hear.) Nay, the thin?, was foolish as well as wicked. It was despicable from its very stupidity.. It charged him with put ting leading questions. Now what wee the case in which leading questions could be. put i It was, where there were contending. parties ; and leading questions were only improper when 'be couu sel might be suspected of instructing his .own witness. • But the Judge had a right to put any question which appeared to him likely 1 to el neidiite the truth. There was another case, when the Wituesa was adverse ; but here the rule had its•extreptions,• and nothing - to be derived from it could impeach the putting of any questions by Commissioner:, who could have had no object but the .trath. It remained for this stupid and cursed impudener,—for impudence was a curse,—to" add another query, 'and gravely demand sail the examination had not been written it-question and answer. Hot was there tt. man .grey.lteaded in the to who had ever heard of such a thing 2 If the whole of the facts conk! be detailed, no prejudice on the subject could lie on the minds of the public tor au instant. But as a Privy Councillor he could not address this Prithat likegent for that purpose—( Hear !)—One of the most alarming sysaolasea of the age was, that brutal and savage indifference with which men threw about slander at the . highest characters : this was 1 4 twai n firebrands," and then saying, , g am I not in sport i" lint in the whole transaction; he and the Noble Comini,siouers, he ;unit be allowed to say, felt, not perfect indifference, (for who could feet iudifference?) but a single desire to do their d u ty—(Hear 1)-1.1e was sorry to have so far troubled the House. His purpose was not vindictive, but exculpatory For whale al- punishment the. offence might call, he would call for none ;—lie was only desirous to stand unimpeached in the opinion of the country. and toneA in the eves of his fellowmeue—(dear.). Lord EttsgtNn was one of .the Commissioners, and felt the . im portance of having the character of high Magistrates clear in the A . public eye. The Commissioners hall to complain. that if they had done justice, justice had not been dune them. If the ]Magistrate were not permitted to put leading questions to witnesses, the most • fatal consequenees might follow. lint if the 'Render was intended to eittivey ittl impntation that he v; as guilty of any fabrication of ;HARLOTTE\ VISIT TO HEIIMOTHER. is an extract two' a letter, dated Conduit-vale t) night, 111:ireli 1813:-.- CharkAte paid a visit to the Princess her Mother the time she arrived at, I suppose she dined with 'rincess was expected here at half-past four o'clock, ome till a little after live. Great crowds of every to the Princes of Wales's door, in the expects. visitor, and you can have no idea of the gaiety of .ogle waited very patient:) , for nearly two hours, Charlotte's arrival. Oa alighting from her ear ly cheesed. She was dressed in mounting. Th e tolled the greater part of the day—half the peal ichess of lirouswiel..'s death, and half played as Princess Charlotte's visit, Blackheath was quite ), perhaps, considering the melancholy occasion. joy of sek,ing the young Princess again with her, ite overcame the sorrow of the immediate cause d the day was a day of universal and licartfejt 11P E ilLi P.l 1? L Al ENT. HOUSE OP I.OIIDS. MONDAY, MARCH 2^. PRINCESS OF WALM our readers may rightly understand the following I , :llenborough ' it is necessary to state, th a t M r . acing forward his motion on Wednesday week, in he subject Of the Princess of Wales, after advert the evidence given by Mrs. Lisle, in which she vc deposed, that " her Royal Highness's conduct an who liked flirting ;" and that " she should not married woman would hive behaved properly, behaved as her Royal Highness did to Captain itbread said, that a paper had that morning been ids by a gentlemaa whose veracity he had no !deli purported to be au authentic copy of the Lisle [Kline the tiatr Commiss.oners in 11:07 ; fink; that document with the deposition of that ieett published, he could not withhold his expres 'nt that so pealed and mtinstiliable a statement :o go forth. It would be suppo-ed, he said, from emend, that Mrs. Lisle bad given her testimony that all and appeared upon her deposition had Llte plain result other observations, and all at one iwever, was this from the case, that questions had ly which in a mauner snob aitswe•s were extorted. thjects of her interrogators. N:lt one word of Anted at by Mrs. Whitbread made .s on the extraorlatary tcole of interrogation Ammtissioners adaptcd, and mid, that questiona nal Chancellor Erskine, it' acting for a client of :her have expired than have suffered to be put ] !OUGH had to trouble their Lordships on an oc moo motives concurred to make him come for ward reluctantly. Ife was aware, that in coming forth to clear himself, there miglit be an impatat;on of weakness and irritation under the charge which forced him forwarl ;' but then it was ne cessary that trials shoudl be told ; there were cases, in winch ail of respect that we could feel fur general opinion, —all of credit that we could claim with the world,—all honour and propriety urged us on exculpation. Nothing should prevent him giving the fullest denial to the calumny is qu°stion,—that toalest, and basest, and most malignant calumay that could have been thrown out against men in the situatiouin which lie and hits Noble Colleagnes had held,. It would be remembered, that some . ears since his Majesty had