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

IS6 TIM NATIONAL REMSTErt. blamed her very r.meh for palling fro• its s'tYing, that thi'Y'"""" "t let t:'e King have a child of theirs. and many ofier observations of the litre nature, %cloth conteil used to render her very uneasy. Mr. Stikeilian then observed. 4 • If you will • come w.th me. I win satisfy :you, by she" in? you the child with her Royal ifeltness."jl. theo to •k her to the door of the Princess's ro 411, and desired her to look thrmivb the keyhole; and having obeyed N.J,„ Stikem,r,'s direction , • she tiv otiseiyed her Royal Highness passing to and fro, nursinv rfe child and chatting to it. 'Nit's. Austin was now better satisfied. Mr. mil: , man desired her to come Niturday evening, Whell ti promised that she should see the child. MN. Austin ace oidinelv went to Ilontarne Thome . nn the (ley ap rooted. and saw Mary V; ik o n, w h o told her th:o the was liskep, and that her R dal Highness war takoig a walk. Upin her 11.yal • Highness's return„, Mrs. Austin was ordered no no.. the blite-" , :eim, %%bete the Pri•4 esti was, with thy lay inu in her ; and she lan and kissed the child as he lay. Her liot ai Highness said it had bred very good child ; but beat it had a little cough, and suer ed is but that she had consulted a physician, and he was of op'nioa lb 'I its sucking its thumb would not Mrs. Austin oh-ersed sonic phials the-re, and on flu , I , el was witten, Fur the infant at Mona. guc Bower.' Her K y• I Hi:loess desired let rto come again on Sun day morning and she should nurse the child. 'lhus she (RI, end wait• E,l a csoisiderebte tine the child nut hcino (tressed. --he was at length, introduced nit Miss Slmicr ' s so( a,, where the I'lincess was, who her self gave her the child. Here Mrs. Austin remained, mnstog the chid ; hsr Royal Highness b(iug present, during the whole ut the time. with Miss S.inder. , . ( uch were the (..rnstvnces attending the intr' duction of this child to Lc: - Royal Highness. 'lto or 4 .hout the whole business an air of mu. necessity mystery a, peat to have been ketit up. IV thing, howeve c r, in alt that has yet tt.mspred. inch can be deoei.dt ( 1 upon goes to ban Con; io tic. slightest degree, a belief that the child in gnestion was the so') of the Princess. If there were mamon to suppose that her Roy al 1 - in:hhess could have wit tot wrongfully - to pass for iii'' mother of the boy ott. ) er tier ine'eetion, what his cow nut laight justly have st,h jected her to suspicion. but that she coulo act .s she diet I:um a wish to cence.l t•e tact (4 tier being a mother is hardly within the hinge of thing" possible.) IMPERIAL PA RLIAmENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. MnNDAY, MARCH th On the Motion of Lord WaAngl .iato, the rcielution of the Comntittee of deelarteg t at General had n t mate gold h Claim to the title ot La.l ot 14:1111,ory. Was aweetl to without a dir6ion TUESDAY, MARCH :6. Lord Grenville enlnt ett ' Earl I iveri , o 1 at what time Govert , snri.t meant tu clibeuss the subject 4 , 1 the Lest IndiA Charter in On, 111 tire Lord LIVERPOOL repliPd, 111 Pt ce•tain Rest,lutilus respecting flit Et- India Empire, woffld ef,tett• before.. the 11 .use f ofeurineve in • few days; and - (itivernment tint tuircl In n elce;),t such a course of proceeding as will ~(1 !At of the Import:ln subject 'tieing discussed situ nus;N in both lionses 01 Vali cue ut. WEIII7E6DAY.' MARCH 17. on the Table e lead ut pogress, and the House then THURSDAY, MATCH 'l3 no business how e 'heir : . . varnAy, ht \RCH 9. of t'oNouovimoick. five Petitions from th lit, and tit S c!:. - itei in Ireland, in fav ,, tir i , t with lic claims, wisicli 1w tt.! rodaod by some prefatory in lie the tohfr Lf) STANHOPE nte-ctite.l a siliitar Petitinn from thi f z'alvnakil ,to •ta 6 Qiie . c .unty, in l imat, %%Inch old I•,y ntl out lit . SO mail) of the contra') of DARNLtv Lave ivvice of a mction on the Navai mis -01 the vathout however tixin .djoura.d. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MARCH IS. LRANE jOiifinONE was tiC4:l.%lCd duly clect:d for the Bn- MARC!! 2/. Ms. GRA TT A N All (11 reply t • a (v.:, ion frOITI Mr. Barry), that it was his intmliois to bring in his Etll 'dative to the Catholics, so as to have it read.' first and second tittle before Easter ; but circum• stances might occur to 1 1 - e%ent him fulfilling that intention. Sir j. Cox HIPPESLEY said, that he should probably move for a SL:ttxtCcmolitte- he Bill. Mr. Wit TaßrAra, addressing Lord Castlereagh on the case of the Princess (.11 Walt's, ,:rid lie had three questions to propose to the Noble Lord ;--Ist. Whether the Prince Regent hat) been :idvised to eider his Law Officers to prosecute Lady Douglas for perjury ? Winther Lady Douglas had been reexamined by a Magistrate alld the Solicitor of the Treasure (in the presence of Sir j. Douglas) he. tweeti the I2th of February and st h o f March ? and 3d, Whether, sirce the .3th instant, any new inquiries have been set on trot, for the Purpose of obtainit g further evidence to form the ground of a sicw invest igatiril jet() the conduct of the Princess of Wales ? Lord CAS - *ART/telt declared, that a sense of public ditty pre• wtned him from g.ving any answer to the questions proposed; he at t!'e rdme time intimated, that great responsibility rested on those whe had nuhli-hed the Princess's first Letter, and on the head of Mr. Wlrthread at: well, f.Jr reading in that House a minute of Council, ren'ered it necessary to publish th:: whole case. Are animated conversat took lac hetweeis Mr. WHITIMEAD Lord eASTLEREAr.h, w ion hich en d ed i e n Mr. Whitbread giving no ttce, that on Wertnestiay l , e should move an Address to the Prince I '?ezent, p ..ying his Royal Highness, that he would be plcascd to I r.; , ..r the ffic et sof the Crown to institute a prosecution against Lady Douglas for pz-rjuty. Io a Committee on the Mutiny. Bill, Mr. BINNETT proposed se veral clauses, with the view of abolishing in sonic cases, and miti. gating in others, the punishment of flogging in the army ; but they I were negatived without a divisien. TVlSerny, MARCH 16. Committees were balloted for to try the Cardigan and Yougban Elect'on Petitions. On the Motiull of Lord CASTLFRLAGtt, the House resolved to go. into Committee on Nlonday, to consider the affairs of the East la ir, Company. T ic Bill introducvl by Sir J. Suisw, to compel all makers of fire l•ms to affix their annes to those of their own manufacture, was I Itrow:i out, on a division 78 against 18. WEDNESDAY, MA mcit - 17. Mr. La sett:As reported the Sitting Member for Youghalf *to be duly elected. Sir S. ROMILLY brought in a Bill to take away corruption of blood in eves of attainder ; and also Bi I to alter the punishment tot High Tr&IS011. Roth were read a first time. The Mutiny Bill was lead a third time :Ind passed. yll JOHN ANT) LADY DOI:GLAS. Mr. IV tin nitEAD rose and said, that, within a short time, a flentlema» had put into his band a 'Petition, which he requested hun to present to the House; anti that, on reading it over, and finding in it no language inconsistent or unoecoming in a Petition addressed to the House of Commow, he had felt it his bounden hay to undertake the charge of ptesentiag it. 'the Petition wax Irian Major Cem•ral Sir John Douglas, on hclealf of himself mid Charlotte Lady Douglas, wife; and it was signed by hoth-•a eireit m-tance which he pointed oat to tne Gentleman that handed it to him as irregular. Ile hoped, however, that in a case of an ' extraordinary nature, the House would not consider this informa lity as an impediment to its being received, if there should exist no other objection. lie now begged leave to tOO% e, that the Pe tition be brought up and read. The SPEAKI:II having put the question, and no uppusitionleing made, the P'titiou was accordingly brought up and read, to the following effect:-- " That the Petitioners having been advised that the depositions o.ade on oath by them, ou or about the Ist day of June, luOti, were oot made before such a tribunal as would tilliject them to a prose cution for pciliury, in the event -- of such depositions having been fare: the Petitioners being at the same time fully confident of the truth of the aforesaid depositions so made by them, and being ready to re-swear all they had swore, humbly prayed. that the Honourable the House Commons would adopt such proecedin,gS as might enable the Petitioners to re-swear what they had already swum, before such a tribunal as might render them legally subject '9 a prosecution thr perjury it' they swore faisety ; as they were not lesirons to shelter themselves under any pretext ; being coolident - .1 the troth - Of their depositions." 'll7e Position was laid on the Table. Mr Ill'utTlit FAD then said, he had been in hopes that the late dis cossion in that House, and the unanimous heliA therein declared of he Princess's innocence, had put an entire termination to the whole 61 he disputes respecting the conduct of that Illustrious Personage; and that by judicious-advice-4)y kindness on one side, and conciliation iltantoub;) to The Bills on adjourned. There was n Tl:e EARL C1'110iI4; iii ai the It()nun C. obscrvoion.:. • The . kARL Catriol3,:s of zno'ed shouk pennons The EARL mandgenr nr the dly A 1 . 4 Mr. Coo( tough el sir T I " I