The National Register. — London, England, 1813-03-21 00:00:00

TITS vATMNAT, TirCISTEIt. i'lB feted me s.xty thous: , oll if :old live :1•. Miiver, but 1 iievvr will ; this is the only country in the woad to live in. She then kissed me, mud I took my leave." The story of the Princeis te!lin her that she etas preg nant is told nearly the same as in the deposition, and after this, the statement goes on as fol'Ows.— " It will scarcely be ers (Wed (nevcrthe . ess it is strictly true, and thos- Who were present must avow it, or 'sedum themselves) wi9ast liberty the Princess gave both to her thoughts and her tongue, in respect to every part of the Royal Family. It was disosting to beyond the power of lasiglrge to l!eserilre, and upon such oc casions we always believed ae:l loped she could tut br arl are of what she was talking about, otherwise c mmon family affection, common sense, and common policy ‘vonld have kept her filcut. She said before the two Fitzgeralds, Sir Sidney Swills, and on: selves that when Mr. Addington had his house given him, his Majesty did tint know what he was about, and waved her hand round and sound her head, lairdsing, and saying "Certainly he did not; but the Queen got twenty thousand, so that was all very well." We were all at a los=, and no one said any thing. This was at my house one morning ; the rest of the morning passed in abusing Mr. Addihgton (now Lord SWIII O IIOO and her critiques upon him closed by say ing, " It was not much wonder a Pcsce was not lasting, when* it was made by the son of a qa.sek doctor." Before Miss Hammond, one evening at my house, she said 6 6 Prince IVilliam is to Rnssia, and there is to be a grand alliance with a Russian Princess, but it is no.l very likely a Rnssi.in Princess will marry the grandson of a washerwoman." Sir Sidney Smith, sviio was present, beg;cd her pardon, asserted it was not so, min % , ished to stop her, but she coe• tradicttrd him, and entered into Al sne knew of the private history of tie Duchess's mother, saysvg, 6' she was literally a comma. Veasherwoman, and the Duchess need not to take so much pains and nut expose her skin to the open air, when her mother had been in all day long." %Vises' she was gone, Sir John was very much dis gusted, and said, her em.versation •had been so low and ill-judged, and so much below her. that he was perfectly ashamed of her, am; she disgraced {let station. Sir Sidney Smith agreed, and coolessed he was astonished, for it must he confessed she was not deserVirg o her station. After the Mike or Kent had been so Find as to come rod take leave of her, herore he last left England, upon the day I Mentioned, she delivered lier critique upon his Royal Highness, say ing, " He had the manners of a Prince, lint was a di •agree..ble man, and trot to be trusted, and that his M..jesty had tole: him, Now, Sir, when you go to Gibraltar, do not make :inch a trade of it as you did when you went to Halifax "fhe Princess repeated, Up on my honour it is true ; the King said, Do not make such a trade of it.' She went on to say, " the Prince at first ordered them all to keep away, but they came now sometimes, however they were no loss, for there is not a man among them all whom any one can make their friend. As I was with the Princess one morning in tier garden house, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland waited upon her. As soon as he was gone the said, "He was a foolish boy, and had been asking her a thousand foolish questions." She then told me-every word•of his secrets, which he had been telling her, in particular, a tong story of Miss Keppel, and that he said, the old woman left them together, and wanted to take him in, and there fore he had cut the connection. She said, she liked hi; countenance best, but she could trace a little family likeness to herself; but for all the rest they were very ill made, and had plum-pudding faces, which she could not hear. His Royal Highness the Duke of. Cam bridge was next ridiculed. She said he looked exactly like a sir jeane and so vulgar with his ears full of powder." This was her Royal Highness's usual cud favunrite mode of amusing herself and her company. :baracter given of the Princess, in t will be seen spite and malice are the generous, loyal, and warm heart MARCH 21. •• Such was the per.on we found her-Roy-I Highness the Princess o: NV:A.:se and as e e continuel to see ter cleiracter and tanks, Sir John and mvse'frreqe and m ire daily a id hou:ly, regretted that the world -mild not bee her us we did, and that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales should !owe lost any popularity, when, from her own account t the only account we ever had) she was the aggressor from the begin herself alone, and 1, as an humble individual, declare, that from the most heartfelt and unfeigned conviction, that I believe, if any other married woman had acted as her Royal Highness had dune, I never yet have known a man who could have endured it; and her temper is so tyrannical, capricious, and furious, that no nom on earth - will ever bear it; in private life, any woman. who had thus played and sported whit her husband's comfort and her husband's popularity, would have been turned out of her house, or left by herself in it. and would deservedly have forfeited her place in society. I therefore again beg leave to repeat, from the conviction of my own unbiassed understandi• , e, and the conviction of my own eyes, no human being would live with her. exceptieg her serVants for their wages : and any door unfortunate woman, like the izeeralds, for the it dinner ; and I trust uud hope her re,.l character will sometime or other be display• ed, that the people of this cmutry may nor he imposed upon." A pent deal of paltry chit chat follows, not worth putting to paper originally, nor worth printing ; now Lady D. re presents the Pt incess to have acted like an idiot, and 'she mole than once hints she suspected that she was not right in her mind ; a sinyla , snspicion, we ahould think, might fairly he entertained of Lady Douglas herself, instead of shelving that rty, which it might be hoped the melancholy sinatir , n of such a person ; throughout the statement, nothing 1 , soy apparent as the ill will of the wirer; ficcept, inneed, het boundless folly and vulgar stu pidity. Ti.e in , nner in which she speaks of certain anony. mous letters, which she received is worth transcribing.— " i now rek caved, by the twovete:y post, a long anonymous letter, writeis by this restless eesetnevous persen. the Princess of *Wales, in Abide its language which any one wilco had ever heard her speak, would have known to be hers, she called me all kind of names, impu •ient, silly, wretched. smgreteful, and ill tot al (meaniug illeterate), she, tells me to take that, at.d it will mend wy ill temper, &c. Ste. &c and :sle she is a person h:ert in this governmcnt, and has often an oppue, runny of • freely --- with his Alojesty, and she thinks my con. duct authorizes her to tell him of, and that she is My only true and integer friend. Such is the spnit of this foreigner, winch would hav e disgraced a house-maul' to have written, and it encloses a fabricated anonym..us letter, which she pretends to ha e received, and upon which she built her doubts and disapprobation of me as it edvoed her not to trust me, for thael am indiscreet, and tell every body that the child she took from I)eptford, was her own. The whole construction of both these epistles, from bejtming to cud, sire evidently that of a foreigner, and a very !pots! t , me, and the vulgarity of it is altogether quite shocking. In one part she el:chants that bhe did not think I should have had the impudence to come on her door again, and tells me Nis for my being indiscreet, and not have allowed her to call me a liar, that she treats me thus, and that I would do wen to remember the story of Henry the Eighth's i4u(en, and Lady Douglas. • I was ihstantiv satisfied it was front her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, mei that Mts. Fitzgerald had shewn her my letter, and this was her answer to it. I inotiediately carried it to Sir John Douglas, who said he wai sure it came from the Princess, and he showed it to Sir Sidney Smith. who said, every word and expression in O. were those which the 'gla ce:3 of Wales constaialy used. She here states the explanation, which on this occasion she gave to Sir John, which is in substance the same as her deposition, and then proceeds Finding that Sir John Doilies did not choose to si-it where his wife was discarded hurt in the estimation of her acquaintance her fury beeante so mihoweled, that she songht what she couid do uso in the authenticiatt d cur MAC wind Wan °witted. . is. .. , . nk the c ..2. 4 4 1t4 •.# e To . 1 ,th . 11 i ~. • . i. . .. : (L' ~.1, .„.k. --• r - :-, , ,hr 4 '` ,' ' 5; ') At l- 1 .4 't "' .. - I ,*.s. , eb.,,l fr c.' hLr - - , 1,,,i , 1 .. I I