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London, England, 1824-11-02 00:00:00

LETTER OF KING GEORGE

We last weak (says the S ,ul,,amr un t•cti i) copied
parsgrapl: (rent a I,ondon paper relative to an autograi.,
letter of George the Second's having bten discovered in L.,
British Museum. This has brought to our notice a past:..
in this tow:: who has in his possession a 'letter of the at:.
Monarch's writing, the subject of wittch is a reprlmar•
given by George the Second to his son Frederick, Prier
of %Vales, great grandfather to oar present Sovereign, ft::
concealing from the King and Queen the situation of tlio
Princess of Waler till the last month of her pregLancy.
The following is a copy of the letter
(feorgius Rex
The Professions you have lately made in yocr Letters, of your
particular Regan, to me, ere so contradictory to your Aotiors, that
I cannot stiffer myself to be :wooled on by them. You ittiow very
well you did rot give the least Intimation to no- or to the Queen
that the Princess was with Child till within a month of the Birth of
the young Princess.
You removed the Princess twice in the week Immediately pre-
ceding the Day of her Dielivery, from the Place of my Itesidence
in Expectation (as you voluntarily declared) of her !About, and
both Tinits, upon ytair Return you intlustriousiiiconeesPd (roe.
the knowledge of Mt & the (liieer, even. Circumiterce relating tu
this important afikir & you at last, without giving Notice to me,
or to the Queen, pNicipitsietv hurried the I'riticeos front Hampton-
Court a Ctuttlition net to Le named; after having thus, in Exe-
cution of rune own deterntined measures. expeied both the Print. sit
add ;her Child to the pcivest Periils, you now plead Surprize P`.
Tenderness for the Princess, as the only Motives that occasien.• •
those repeated Indignities to me. & the Queen your Mother.
This extravagant & undutiful Behaviour, in so essential a Pohl..
as the Birth of an Heir to my Crown., is such an kividence of you.
premeditated ILetiance of me, & such a contempt of my Authority .
& of the natural Rigl.t belonging to your Parents as cannot be ea
cured by the pretended Innocence of your It.tentions„ nor palliated
or disguised by Specious• Words only, but the whole Ti-nor of your
Conduct for a considerable Time, has beer. so entirely sold of all
real! Duty to me, that I have long had reasnit to be highly offended
with you, & until! you withdraw your Regard & (:ontidence from
those, by whose Instigation and Advice, you are directed & en,
couraged in your unwarrantable Behaviour to me & to die Queer.,
& untill you return to your Duty, you shall not reside in my Pa
lace. which I will riot wirer to be made the Re.ott of them'
under the Appearance of an Attachment to you, foment the Div .
Lion which you have made iti my Family, & thereby weakea'd ti.
common trams: of the Whole.

In this Situation, I will receive no reply; but when your A•
lions manifest a just Sense of your Duty and Submission, ltat a,
induce me to pardon what at pr.setit 1 must justly resent.
In the mean Time, it in my Pleastite, that you !cave St. Jam&
it •
with all your Family. when au be done without Prejudice s
inconvenience to the Princess.
1 shall for the present lesve to ti.e Princess the Care of
(rand-daughter, until' a proper time calls upor. mu to consider ..
her Education. . G. R.
This document is alluded to it. Smollett's }list. of Eng. vol.
p, 13 (1;37). Also in Cowley's, p. 478.
The letter was saved front destruction by its present possessor,
who is by profession a painter, and being some rears since em-
ployed in renovating an old hottse. this parer, with other of a cu-
rious kind, were swept one with some rubbish and condemned tc
the flames. It was already on the bottling heap, when this person
fixed Ilia eyes on '• Geormas Ilex" at the corner, and he revolye
on preserving it, but he never till now attached to it any hop-nano: