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

J r • I k , •, .4. _ ~ MARCH 14. • 169. •. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. - opinion, that all the other particulars of conduct brou.hr in accusation against her Royal Highness, to which the character of criminality can be ascribed, are either satisfactorily contradicted or rest upon evidence ofstich a nature, and which was giveu uneer such circumstances, as render it, in the julgineitt nt your Majesty's confidential servants, undeserving olcieclit.—Your Majesty's confidential servants, there fore, concurring in that part of the opinion of your late servants, as stated in their minute of the 25th of I muary,'t hat there is no 10r.g.1 any necessity foryour Majesty being advised ;o decline receiving )..!e Princess into your Royal presence, humbly sui . mit t. - 1 your &Diem,. that it is essentially necessary, in juStice to her R-yal Highness, and for the honour ;ind interest of your Majesty's illtntrious FamilF, that her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, should be admitted, with as littte delay as possible, loco your Majesty'S Royal Presence, and that she should be received in a m due to her r.nk and station. in your Majesty's Court and Fainily.—Your Majesty's confl-lenti4 servants likewise hes, leave to suhmit to y r -NI :jesty, that consider lag that it may he necessary that your Majesty's Government should possess the means of referri ., g to the tint state of this transa mon, it is of the utmost importance that these documents, demonstrating the ground on which your Majesty has pr ‘ceeded, should he preserved in safe custody ; and that f.r that purpose the.originals or authentic copies of all these papers, should '_e sealed up and deposited in the Office of your Majesty's Principal Secretary of State:" A questi-n naturally arises, to what cause is (ming that the Princesq of WAL ES was precen!cd from immediately appear ing at court ? we are happily enabled to solve this doubt by the production of the following documents : " Windsor Cvsilo. Jan. '29.) RO7. “ The Kiva ras this inomtnt received the Princess qf s's letter, in which sh” intimates her iffiention of coming to Win , lor Qn Monday nest ; and His lilt STY wi,hing not to put the P to the inconvenience of comitlEr to this place. so immediately after her Mist's, hastens to acquaint her, that he shall prefer to receive her in London upon a day subsequent to the week ; which will also better suit HIS MAJESTY, and of which he will tint to Ito apprise the PRINCESS. (Signed) " GLORLIE It." To the Princess of W LES." " Wind.mr elm le, Feb. 10, 1807. " As the Princess of WAtrs may ha e bi.en led to expect, from the Krwo's letter to her, tliat would fix tin early day for seeing her, His /I.l.t.msyr thinks it right to acquaint her, that the Prince of Wit to, upon receiving the several documents which the KiNr.: directed hi., Cabinet to transmit to hint, made a formal communication to him, ot Losintention to put them into the hands of his Lawyers ; accompanied by a request, that lirs MAsFs - t would suspend any further steps in the business, until the Prince of WA 1.E.6 thoidd be enabled to submit to him ti e statement which he proposed to make. The KING, therefore, considers it incumbent on him to defer naming a day to the Princess'•f t.v.s, until the farther result of the PurNees intention shall have k een made known to him. r To the Princess of WAr.rs." It is superfluous to add, that this new scrutiny by the Prince of WALES'S lawyers, had the same termination as &very other scrutiny levelled at Her RoY At. HIGH NEs,;,-- it redounded to her honour; and she was received at Court, was admitted to her Child, was put in possession of alt the claims appropriate to her dignity al a Princess, and her feel ings as a Mother.—(Times.) (Signed) ~ GEORQE It." UTTER FRONT THE PRINCESS TO THE PRINCE OF WALES. IN ANSWER TO TILE LETTER FROM HIS ROYAL IiIeHNESS WHICH AP- ?EARED IN OUR LAST. The avowal al your conversation with Lord Cholmondeley, neither snrprises nor (den& me. It merely confirmed what you have tacitly insinuated fur this twelvemonth. But after this, it would be a want of delicacy, or rather, an unworthy meanness i.t me, ere Ito complain of those condi!ions which you impose upon yourself. " I should have returned no answer to your letter, if it had not been conceived in terms to make it doubtful whether this arrangement pro ceeds from yoa or from me ; and you are awar, , that the credit of it he ' " The letter which you announce to me as the last, obliges me to cola municate to the King, as my Sovereign and my Fatht-r, both year avowal and may answer. You will find enclosed the copy of my letter to the King. I apprise you !if it, - that I may not incur the slightest reproach of duplicity from you. As I have at this moment nu protector hit his Majesty, I refer myself solely to him upon this subject ; and if ley con 4uct s p ects his approbatiou, 1 , hall be iii Eume degree, at least, consoled • I retain every sentiment of gratitude for tite situation in which I 'find myself, as Princess of %Vales, enabled by your means to indulge in the free exere . se of a virtue to illy hem t,--I mean charity. " it will be my ditty li•ewise to act upon another motive,--drat of giving an example of putionce and resignation under every trial. " Du me the justice't‘; bdirre that I shall never cease to pray for your " I.'tiur much devoted 6th of May, 1796. " CAROLINE." Our readers will perceive, by referring to the document' relative to the PaiNcEss or %V er.Ls, that (in the opinion of the four Noble Commissioners who investigated the charges against her) the principal stain on the reputation of her Royal Highness was certain acts of levity between her and Captain Manby, - as deposed by one of the witnesses named Robert I3idgood.---1 . his man's evidence, however, has been since decisively contradicted by Captain Manby, who, three months after the Coni,missioners' Report was written, made affidavit as follows " 'to solemnly, sod upon my oath declare, that the said passage (in BlOg )od'a evid:oce) is a vile and wicked invetation ;—that it is atol abtolt.iei) Mar •,--•that it is impossible he could have seen (what he swore 11 , saw) 31:y such thing ; as 1 never, upon any •occa , sion, or in any sitt.aticui, 14A the presumption to take that liberty, or to oft' r any such hie/City to her Royal Highness's perscn " [The evidence of Bidgood was, that while waiting in an anti-room, he, by the aid of a mirror placed on the opposite side of the room in which Captain Manby and the Princess stood, saw Captain M. kiss the Pi incess.] NARRATIVE OF FACTS. The indispositions of the Princess Charlotte commenced previous to the fete at Carhoe House, awl afterw ads increasing,. her Royal Hiehitess was necessarily obligect to defer her return to Windsor. In consequence of this, the Princess of Wales. on the Bth ofFebruary, ad, dressed herself to Lord Liverpool, desirieg that he would communicate to the Prince Regent he, Royal Highness's intention to visit the Princess Charlotteat Warwick House, not anticipating the possibility of a pre vention on the part of the Prince fsegen, under the circumstance of the Princess Charlotte's confinement from illness. Lord I.iverpool replied, that he was happy to annouece the Princess Charlotte so much better, that her Royal Highness would he able to visit the PrinCess of Wales at Kensington Palace on the following Thursday. February. On that morning, however, at the moment (and not berate) of the Princess of Wales stepping into her carriage, she re. crived inf rmation that the Priree , ,s Charlotte was refused coming. Upon this, the Princess of Wales aaein atldtesssed. Lord Liverpool to know the rea , oe, none having been assigned, for the Princess Charlotte's being thus suddeely ,prohibited from giviog the meeting to her Royal Mather, and when and how soon her Royal Highness might expect to see the Princess Ciaarlette. To this inquiry the Princess of Wales received the fellowing extraordinary, but not over courteous, reply front Lord Liverpool (COPY) " Fife House, Feb. 14, 1813. " Lord Liverpool his the honour to inform your Royal Highness. that inconsequence of the publication in " The Morning Chronicle" of the 10.1 i inst. of a letter iTddres,e.l by your Royal Highness to the Prince Regent, his Royal Highness thought fit, by the advice of his confidential Servants to signity his rtanmands that the in t ended visit of the Princess Charlotte to your Royal Highness on the following day should not take place. " Lord Liverpool is not enabled to make any forth tr commtelica tion to your Royal Highness on the subject of your Royal Highness's note." To this letter the Princess of Wales commanded Lady Anne Hamil ton, her Lady in Waiting, to reply as follows to Load Liverpool : " Montague House, Blackheath, -Feb. to, 1813. " Lady Anne Hamilton is commanded by her Royal Highness the Princess of \Vales to renre:ent to Lord Livetpeol that the insiduous insinuation, respecting the i tithiication of theletter addresstd by the Pt ilexes of Wales, on the 14th of January, to the Prince Regent, con veyed h his Lordship's reply to her Royal Iliehness, is as void of foitielation and as false as all the other former accu.ations of the tradu cers of her Royal Highness'sbonour in the year 1806. " Lady A. Ilatnilten i, further commaaded to say, that dignified :fleece would have been the line of conduct the Princess would have preserved upon such insinuation (more thae unbecoming Lord Liver pool), did net the elf!et arising tram it, operate to deprive her Royal flienness of the sole real happiness she can possess in this world—that of seeing her only child. Anti The confidential Servants of the Prince Rqent uueht to feel aOutmed of their conduct towards thea2rincess vaia (to him upon this subject ; told if my cn - seeing Iter only child. Anti COnntiell. 1111 "" v. 31141 be in Eutue degree, at least, consuled. Itcw:nt uultt to feel as tined of their conduct towards thea2rincess in • I