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

fIIE NATIONAL REGISTER.

possibly in Audi sense not becoming a married woman, could be
justly deemed, in my sitnation, an offence in me, I must leave to
your Majesty to determine.
In making that determination, however, it will not escape your
iklajestY to consider, the conduct wilier does or does not be-
come a married woman, materially depeods upon what is, or is not
known by her to be- agreeable to her litisbaml. His pleasure and
happiness ought, unquestionahly, to he her law ; and his approbation
the -most fa' owitc object of her pursuit. Different characters of
men, require different modes of conduct in their wives ; hut when a
wife can no longer be capable of perceiving from time to time what
is a-ieeable or offensive to her husband,—when her conduct (.311110
longer contribute to his happiness, no longer hope to be rewarded
by his approbation,— surely to examine that conduct by the standard
of what ought in general to be the conduct of a married woman, is
altogether unreasonable aml unjust.
What, then, is my case? Your Majesty will do me the justice to
remark, that. in the above letter of the Prince of Wales, there is
not the most distant surmise, that crime, that %ire, that indelicacy
cut iffy duseription, gave occasion to his determination ; and all the
tides of infamy and discredit, which the inventive unlike of my ene-
mies has brought forward on these chaeges, have their date, years
anal years after the period to which I am now alludiug. What, then,
let me repeat the questiou, is my case ? After the receipt of the
:above letter, and in abc.ut two years from my arrival in this country,
I had the misfor:une entirely to lose the support, the countenance,
the protection of my husband—l was banished, as it were, into a
sort of !imble retirement, at a distance from him, and almost es-
tranged from the whole of the Royal Family. I hail no means of
heviog recourse, either for society or advice, to those, from whom
my inev.ierience could hive best received the advantages of the
One, and with whom I could, most becomiogly, have enjoyed the
eonifoi is of the other ; and if in this retired, unassisted, unprotected
state, without the cheek of a Ino bend's authority, without the be-
nfit of his advice, without the comfort and support of the society of
his fani:ly, a stranger to the habits and fashions of this country, I
-shook', in any instance, under the influence of foreign habits, and
foreign elm...a:ion, have observed a conduct, in any degree deviating
teum the reserve and severity of British manners, and partaking of
a conde,:censioo and fainilimity which that reserve and severity
perhapb deem beneath the dignity of my exalted rank, I feel
confident (since midi deviation will be seen to have been ever con-
sistent with perfect innocence) that not only your Majesty's candour
:mil indulgence, hut the candour and induLt.ence notwitio
standing the reserve and severity of Briti>lr manners, al% ays belong
to the British public, will never vkil it with severity or censure.

LETTER ADDRESSED BY HER ROYAL HIGHNESS
TILE PRINCESS OF WALES TO THE KING,
SlRE—When I last troubled your Majesty upon my unfortunate
nosiness, I had rai!e(l my miml to h we that I should have the hap-
piness of hearing from Yaur 'Majesty, and receiving your most gni-
eioui command 'o pay lily ditty in your Royal preseace before the
expiration of tile last Keck and, when that hope was disappointed,
eagurly Hinging to an v idea which offered ate a pr.tspeet of being
raved hm' the necessity of having recourse (for the vindication of
anycharacterl to the publication of the proeuedings upon the in-
quiry into my conduct, 1 thought it just to suppose tlrtt the reason
for my not having received Your Majesty's commands to that etiect
might have been occasioned by the circumstanee of Your Majesty's
;tayini at Winds•tr through the whole of the week. I, therefore,
determined to wait a few days longer before I took a step which,
when once taken, could not be recalled. Having, however, now
assured IiaNSCII• 0112 your Majesty was in town yesterday,—as
have received no commands to wait upon Your Majesty, and no
intimation of Your Itiajesty's pleasure.-1 an; reduced to the ne.
cessity of abandoniog.all hope that Your Mjesty will comply with
my Ittmible, my earnest, and anxious request.
Your Majesty therefore, will not be surprised to find that the
publieatian of the proceedings alluded to will not be withheld be-
yond Monday next.
As to any conscquenees which may arise from such publication,
unpleasant and hurtful to my awn and interests, I way
perhaps be preperly responsible,--and iil any event have no one to
complain of brit myself, and those* with whose advice I have act-
ed ; and whatever those consequenves !nay he, I ant fully 411(1
unalterably convinced that tllcy must be incalculably- less than those
which 1 siondal be CXI) by my silence. But as to any consr-
quenees, unpleasant or hurttid to the feelings sand interest,i cif

• Nr. S;Tocer ai every one rikv, rfoqjlei:t, e
tisat time, ti4e chief adviser alter itoyal •

others, or of the public, my conscience will 'certainly Etetwit me elf
those.
I am confident that I have not acted impatientlysar precipi-
tately. 'fo avoid ctaming to this painful extremity, I have take*
every step in my power, except that which would aliandon my
character to utter infamy, and my station and life to uncertain
danger, and itossibly to no very distant destruction. -
With evcry prayer for the letw,thened continuance of Your
Majesty's health and happiness, fir every possible blessing which a
gracious God eau bestow upon the beloved Monarch of a loyal peo-
ple, and for the continued prosperity of your dominions, under
Your Majesty's propitious reign,
I remain,
Your Majesty's most dutiful, loyal, and affectionate,
Batt most unhappy and most injured,
Daughter-in-law, servant, and subject,
(Signed) . CAROLINE.,
I ontagne House, Blackheath,
Mareh d, 1807.