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

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. I rant, to my house, to bring before them,' at once, about one-half ,of my Household for eeaminition. The -idea of Nitrites', after an art so much calculated, from the nature of it, to excite the ereateat attention and surprise, your 11TAiesty must feel to have been im peeitible and absurd ; for an attempt at secrecy, mystery, and con cealment on my part could, tinder such circumstances, only have been construed into the fe aridness of euilt. It will appev, ef u n, from that thins, I heard nothing nethen• tics I'• upon the subject till the 11th of An un st. when i was furnished, Lys your Niajesty's commands, the Report. The several papers. necessary to my understanding tile whole of these charges, in the nu. themic state in which your Majesty thought it proper gtacitotsly to direct that I should h ,%c , hem, wale not delivered tame till the hegin flaw of September. M I answer to these %orlon!' charges, though the w hole subject of them was new to those whose advice X had recourse tn. hula as that answer was necesetarily obliged to he, was delivered to the lAnd Chancellor, to he lorwacrietl t(s your Majesty, by the 6th of Ort,ltert and from the tith of Octoher to the '2Bth of January. I was kept in total ignorance of the effect of thr.t answer. Not only will all this delay 'lab apparent. but it will he generally sitewn to the world, how :your Majesty's servants have, in his important business, treated your deuehter-itelaw, the Princess of Wales ; tied what measure of jute tic" she, a fema e, and a stranger in parr laml, has experienced at their bend'. tlndottetedly neainst such .a proseedine T have ever felt, and still feel, an almostievinethle repueneme. tvery sentiment of delicacy, with which a female mind must *rink ItYdn the act • f bringing be fine the pnhlic such charges, however consCions of their *caudal and falsity, and however clearly tlnit scandal you! Noitv may he manifested by the answer to those charges ; the respect still tine from me to pet "GCS employed in:l'll6,4v tinder your Msiestc, however little respect T “my have r ceived from them. - Itllt duty to his Royal Highness the 'Prince of Wales. —mv record for all the members of -our august ranily,—woresteent, my dew, my grgtitude to, your Mitieste,— try att•ctionitte gratitude for all the patin), kindness which I have ever -exylegieneed (rem enu.--ame anxiety, not i oply to avoid the flak of giving age:astfsews or displeasure to your MOjeaty, but also to fly from every occasion of creating the slight, bi sentiment of umeisireeso in the mind ofyoor Mliestc, whose happiness it wou'd he-the pride and pleasure r my tile to cat tilt, and to promote ; aII these various sentiments bore compelled me to submit, as 1011 e as human patience :onld endure, teen the unfavourable inferences e hies were, the uch this delay, daily itteressitte in tie public mind. What the strength and efficacy of these motives have brine year Majesty will do me the justice to feel, whom ye.. are pleased graciously to consider how long I have h4 , eo con tented to suffeethos‘amapicions to exist against my innocence, which the bringing .befare the public of my accusation, and my defence to it, would so 4%db-tenably and immediately have dispeled. The measure, howevee, of making these proceedings public, what ever- mode t can ndnpt (considering especially the absolute penssibility of suffering any partial production of them, and the ne cessity that, if fur any put pose arty part of shem should be produced the whole must be brought• before the I►ubliio, remains surrounded with obiectiods whet) I have enumerated ; and nothing conld ogee have -preiailed Alton me, or can now even prevail upon me, to have recourse to it, but an iroperitios sense of indispensable duty to ingk, future safety, to my present character and Neville, and to the feelings, the character, and interests of my child. I had flattered my self. when once this .long proceeding should have terminated - in my reception into your Majesty's presence, that that circumstance alter would have so strongly implied my innocence of all that had been brought against me, as to have been perfectly sufficient for my honour and my security ; but accempanied as it now must be with the knowledge of the Net, that your Nfaiesty has been hr tight to hesitate npon its propriety, and aecomp sided also with the very unjustifiable observations, as they appe,a , to me, on which I shall preseotly pro , eeed to remark, and which wele made by }nor Majesty's servants, at the time when they gave you efeir advice to receise mei I feel my self in A situation, in o kids T deeply regret that I cannot test in si lence, ...blend tin immediate reception i .to your Mwesty'4 prseence: nor, indeed with that reception, unless it he futc• did by other chcom stances, which may mark my satisfactory acquittal of the charges which have been tinsmiths against one. It shall at no lime he "aid, with troth. that T hack from these infamous eharees ; that I crouched before my enemies ; Rod coursed them, by my submisssion into onoletatiem ! tgo: I Men boldly tidied them. 1 have ever felt, and still feet !hat, it they should think-, either of pursuing these accnsati ms,,or of briielier forward any other which wirkedneas of indisidoals - a devise, to affect my lesnenr, , faince My COP' as base and gr.-mindless as Those " witnesses to the innocence of able to disprove dada ail, MARCH 2S and whoever may be my accusers. to triumph ever their wickedile and malice. But should these accusations be rene , ccd. or •any tither be brought ff.rward, at Any future time, death may, I know not how soon, remove from my innocence its best security, and deprive me of the means of my justification, and my defence. [To be continual DEATH OF THE DUCHESS OF BRUNSWICK. We are concerned to announce the death of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Brunswick, who expired on Tuesday night at onarter past nine o'clock. Her Royal Highness had been subject to an asthmatic complaint Jim some years, which was Increased by the epidemic disorder now prevalent, with which she was attacked abont two dims before ; but no alarm was excited till Tuesday mom_ ing Abort iive o'clock her Royal Highness seemed better, but a spasm came upon her chest about eight, and her Royal Highness died at a quarter past nine o'clock, without pain. Dr. Baillse left her about six o'clock in the evening, and pronounced her much better. A little before nine, he and Sir H. Halford were sent for with all possible speed ; the former did not arrive in time but the latter came within a few minutes of her expiring. Sir Henry pro ceeded from the house in Hanover-square to Carleton-house and had an interview with the Prince Regent at ten o'clock, to communicate the awful event. Wednesday morning,' no directions being found fresin the Duchess as to her funeral, orders were given from the Lord Chamberlain's Office to the Royal undertaker, to proceed in making the arratigetnents, in the same manner as the other royal funerals. All the public ph rest were ordered to be shut. Her Royal Highness was in her 1 76th year, being born on the 31st of July, 1737, and married his Serene Highness the late Duke of Bruns wick Wolfenbuttle, on the 17th of January, 170, by whom she had issue three sons and three daughters, of whom, we believe, but three are living, namely, the Duke of Brunswick, an exile from his own dominions, residing in the Austrian States; the Duke of Brunswick Oels, his younger brother; and the Princess of Widest residing in this country. When the symptoms of the Duchess's illness became alarming, an express ~sent for the Princess of Wales, and she arrived in time to receive a mother's last blessing, and to share her last embrace ; she was present two hours before the Duchess ex pired. The following arrangemeots, it is said, have been made for the funeral of this Princess. The Prince Regent and tile Queen being desirous that the wishes and t'eeliegs of the !hike of Brunswick , her son, should be consulted on the occasion, the Gentlemen be longing to the Lord Chamberlain, and those who have the arrange ' cent of the funeral, have waited on his Serene Highness, at his re , silence at 'Vauxhall. His Highness signified his intention to be the chief mourner. As her itoyal Highness only lived prisately in this I country, and had no Royal establishment, the fitueral is also, it is said, to be a private one. It is to take place on Ws duesday, at Windsor. The corpse of her Royal Highness is soldered up in a leaden coffin. The state coffin is not y et finished. ti Friday the following inscription for the silver plate to be placed on the coffin, was issued trout the Herald's Office : Deposi tam, Blnstrissinwe Printissimse AUGUSTA; Victim Sercnissimi Prineipi.; CAROL( Guememi Fen OINANDI, Duds Duunswict, et Sorouis Angtisti.odini et Potentissimi Cszonett 'VERTU, DO tanniarum Regis, Fidei Defensoris, Obiit die vicesimo tertio Mara, Aunt) 11313, wtatis' sex 76. GT.NERAL [From Last Nizlit's Gazette.] LORD CHANIPERLAIN ' S OFFICE, !.lARCII 27, 1813. Orders for the Court':. going into mourning on Sunday the 2'th instant, for her late Royal Highness the Duchess of Brunswick, his Majesty's sister, viz. The ladies t 3 wear black silk ; plain muslin, or lawn, crape or love litarldi: black siA shoes, black glazed gloves, and black paper fans. Undress, black or grey unwatered tabbies. The gentlemen to wear b!aLk cloth, without buttons on the sleeves or po kets ' - plain muslin or long lawn cravats dud weepers; ; back swords and hut Undress, dark grey froL ks. _ Furl Ntashart Orderfior a t;etterftt ir ...nsfinFug for her late Reid Ilightt'ril Aug:iota Da•hes of Iltutrtswirk. .• In pursuance of the continauds of his Royal Hizhness the Prince Ragan, axtius iu the mune and on the behalf of his Maje4ty, these Ore wirkedneas of indi.itittals ry.ay deviNe, t coolcience tens me thisi 4 they titesS•l6o e brought jot • ) whole ease , , ky •„ • • . •Mtbe s Jg'4 4 ‘" ll s l 4st. ,o .4 - • z- ; a. • • - -• .74 • • •