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

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. _ (though going to a tar,lesi utealoqiiiite ottl limit of duty to your Majesty, and of concern- for \re, required that these particulars should not 127 •our Majesty, to whom more particulars-.• toloogesi 4' a matter tit . State, :wady torwhing the Entiont 's Royal Family, and, by possibility, affecting the bileeesAOliof y our Majesty's CrOwn. " Your Majesty hail been pleased, on your part. to view the sub ject in the saute light. Considerina it as a matter. which, on every account, demanded the most immediate investigation, your Majesty • had thought fit to commit into om hands the duty of aseertaieing, iu the first instance, what degree of credit was due to the intrirma tions,-and thereay enabling your Majesty to decide 'what tardier conduct to adopt respecting them. His Royal Highness then, impaling, as . the four Lords say, the only course. which could t heir judgment, with oroPriety, be pur sued, Submitted the matter to your M tjesty. Your Majesty di rected the inquiry by the four Noble Lords. The four Lords, in their Re po!'t upon the case, justly acquitted me of all crime. and ex pressed (I will not wait now to say how unjustly) the credit which they gave, and the consequence which they ascribed to other mat ters, which they did not, however, characterize as amounting to any crime. T.' this Report I made my answer. That answer, together with the whole proceedings, was referred by your Majesty to the same tour Noble Lords, and othei . s of your Majesty's con fidential servants, They advised your Maicsty, amongst much other matter, (which must 1w the subject of further observations), that there was no longer any reason why you should decline reeds?. ing Your Majesty will necessurily conceive that T have always look ed upon my banishment from your Royal presetiCe, ac, i i i tact, a punishment, and a severe one too. I thought it sufficiently bard, that I should have been sittfering that punishment, dining the time that this Inquiry had been pending, while I was yet only under accusation, and upon the principles of the just law of your Majesty's kingdom, entitled to be presunied to be ionovent, till I was proved to he guilty. Rut I find thin does not appear to be enough in the opinion of • the Prince of %Volta. For now, %%hen after this long in q uiry into matters which resumed immediate investigation, I have been acquitted of every thing which could call for my banishoent from your Royal presence. Atter your Majesty's confidential servants have thus expressly ad visesl your Majesty, that they see la) icason eelry you should any longer decline to receive me into - your presence :—after your Majesty had graciously notified to nu', your determination to se ceive me at an early slay, his Royal 1-lieliness interposes the demand for a new delay,—desires your Majesty not to take any step, — desires you not to act upon the advice which your own confidential servants have given you, that you need no longer decline seeing ,ne —not to execute your intention and assurance, that you • ill receive me at an early day •,---because he has laid the documents before his Lawyers, and intends to prepare a farther Statement. And the judgment of your Majesty's eoefidential servants, is, as it were, appealed from by the Prince of Wales, (whom, from this 'time, at least, I must be permitted to consider as assuming the character of my accuser) : -the justice due to me is to be snspentle.l, %chile the judgment of yopr Majesty's sworn servants is to he milimitted to my accoser's Counsel : and 1, though acquitted in the ~ F inion of your Majesty's confidential Servants of all that shouV induce yom• Majesty to decline seeing sue, and to has that punisione..t, which had men inflicted upon me, during the inquiry cotii•nocl, after that arquittal,l till a fresh statement is prep.ocsf, oat' t be again submitted, for aught I know, to another Inquiry, 'of a; extended a couthaialice as that which has just fermi:med. - Cast it be sad that the proceedings of the Isr.r Noble Lords, or of your Majesty's confidential servants, have been so lenient, and coe siderate towards me and my fee:ings, as to induce a suspicion that I have been too'favom•ably dealt with by - tleni and thud the wiviec which has been given to your Majesty, that your M kie-tv ste-ttst: , longer decline to receive nie, was haqily and ietrrialty is livered I all confident your Majesty moat see the very reverse of this to be the case—that I have every reason to complain ,of the inexpLealble delay which so long withhell that advit-e : and the whole e:,araOter of the , ohservatims with which they accompanied it, marks the re luctance with which they yielded to the necessity of giving it. : • For your Majesty's c,otti lential servants advise vonr Majesty, " that i t is no longer 'neees%aty fi r you to decline receiving me into , yolir Royal presence.' tins is their opinion and their advice now, why was it not their opinion and their . Advice four months ago, from the date of my answer? Nay, why was it - nor theircipinion 41341 their itlitue Crow the date mq of the original.Roport itself? For t , , - not mil ) lni'd theyleen in possession of my answer for above sixteen ((Wks; ivhitd.. - at lasf-ftyritislied.4.liant. %%14141101w unuerials oat wide • this advice was at length . given';. '&0116, your Atile;t3''a cons fidi tattal servants are forwarded to stare, that after having read them my observations, and the affidavits which sr( re annexed to them, they agree in the opinions Coot in - any single opinion upon any par ticular branch of thiw case, but in the opinions'geherally) which %%cis submitted to yonr Majesty, in the original Report (tithe fair - Lord , . therefore;(tiotwithstanding their concurrence in all the opiniona contained in.the Report) they have ni;vertheless . given to your Ma jesty their advice, ‘.‘ that it is no lomier necessary for sou to decline receiving me," what could have prevented Mir oflerito ,- tloit advice even from the'ntli of July, the date of the original Iteoolt itself? Or Molt could have warranted the Withholding of it, even for a sin gle moment? Instead, therefore, of 'ally trace - 1)61w obsurvable, of hasty, precipitate, anclitartial . tietermination in my tavola , it is possible to interpret their emiduet and their reasons together .in any other sense, than as amounting to an admission of your Ma jesty's confidential servants themselves, that I' have, in consequence of their withholding that advice,. been' inmecessarily . and cruelly banished from your Royal presence, from that 14th of July, tcrtlie 28th of Jammry, including, a.spti of abovi‘. - six months ; tool the effect of the interposition of the*Pi ince, is to prolong my sufferings, and my disgrace, under the same banishment, t o a perio d perfectly indefinite. The principle which will admit the effect of such interposition now, may be acted upon again ;.and the Prince ma y re q uire a fru-- ther prolongation. !Ton fresh statements, and fresh charges; kepi back possibly for the purpose of being, front thne to time, conve niently interrsed, to preventihr ever the arrival of that hour, disolayiug to the world the acknowledgment of my unme rited sufferings and disgrace, May, at the same tints, expose- the true malicious and unjust quality of the proceedings which have been so long carried on against use. This unrea , miable,, unjust, and cruel interposition of his Royal Highness, as I m u st ever deem it, has prevailed upon your Majesty to reeal, to my prejudice, your gracious purpose of receiving me, in porsuatire.of the advice ,Of tour servants. Do. r theu; flatter myself tonninch, when I foul assured. that my just entreaty, founded upon this reasons which I urge, and directed to counteract only the elli.ct of that anjust interposition, will induce you Majesty to turn to your original' determination ? Restored, however, as I should feel myself, to a state of compa rative security, as well as credit, by being at length permitted, upon your Maji.s.ty'svacious reconsideration of your last determi nation, to have access to your Majesty; yet, under all citation stances under which I should now receive that mark and contirma. (ion of your Majesty's opinion of my innticeoce, inv character would not, I fear, stand cleared in the p t:blic tl.e. mere tart of your Majesty's reception of me. This revocation of your INekty'i gracious purpose has thing an additional cloud about the whole proceeding,and the. inferences drawn in the public mind; from this circumstance,. so mysterious and so perlectly *inexplicable, upon any grounds which are open to their knowledge, has made, and will leave so deep .an impiession to my oltjtolice, as scarce any, thing, short of a public exposure of all that has passed, can possibly efface. 'Tice publication of all these proceedings to the world; then seems to me, tinder the . present circumstance, (whatever reluctance I feel aoainst Inch a meastire, and however I regret the. hard neces sfty which draws me to it) to ‘ be almost the only remaining re source for the conviction of my honour and character. • The false hood of the accusation by no means, ail that - trill, by such publication, appear to the credit and clearance of my character; but the. course which the whole ptoccedines have been car ried on, or rather delayed, by those to whom your Majesty re ferred the consideration of them, will Atm, that whatever mea- sure of ,justice I may have ultimately received at their hands..is not to be suspected as arising front any merciful and indulgent conside tion of ne., of my feelings, or of my case. It will be seen how my feelings have been harassed, aril my cha racter and toy honour expOsed, by the delays which have taken vlace.in 'liege proceedings : it will be seen, that the existence of the charge aaiOnst me had avowedly been known to the public, from the 7th of June in the last year. I say known to tire public, bocau , e it was. on that day the Commissioners, acting, as I snopose, (for so they state in t..eir Report), under the anxious wish, that that their trust should be executed with as little publicity as pose anthorfsed that unnecessary insult and outrage *won me, as I must always ennsiderit, which, however intended, gave -most publicity and exposure to the existence: of these ch man the grinding two Anomie', armed with their Lordshi . the frt. liarges--11 tipg war- f a A 195 MARCH 98. the same nature could be phrsued. Eery sentin th e public weltai withheld from yt tbecoenii.ance of of your 141;kiesty'! Filece-inti cif ull " Vottr 'M;ijest ject in the sAtie 1 account, demand' had thought.tit to in the first tions, - and there; conduct to adopt His Royal Hi; only ccurse. whie sued, Submit tett rreted the irlguir Rtpo..•t upon th; pressed (I will 11C they gave, and tl tet", vullielt they &my crime. T.. to4etlier with tilt t , ) the same lour lidential servant , • other matter, (w• that there MIS tic ing Inc. Vali Majesty ed upon my bat puni*lmietit, atit bard, that 1 (luring the time )et only tinder at of your Majesl be itinovent, till not appear to be For now, %%hen a . immediate invei which could rail Atter your Mak' y our longer decline I Majesty had grat •