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ROYAL CORRESPONDRNCE IN 1813.

COPT OF A LETTER FROM HER ROYAL HIGIIIIESs
TH6 PRINCESS O► WALES TO HIS ROYAL HIGH.

NESS THE PIINCII REGENT.
u SIR—It is with great reluctance that I presume to ob-
trude myself upon yore Royal Higbee's, and to solicit your
attention tomatters which may, at first, appear rather ea
personal than • public nature. If I could think them so—
il they related merely to myself—l should abstain from a
proceeding which might give uneasiness, or interring the
more weighty occupations of your Royal Higbeeses time.
I should continue, in silence and retirement, to lead the
life which has been prescribed to me, and console myself fur
the loss of that society and those domestic comforts to which
I have so long been a stranger, by the reflection that it bas
been deemed proper I should be afflicted without any fault
of my own, bud that your Royal Nighties* knows it.
" But, Sir, there are considerations of a higher nature
than any regard to my own happiness, which render this ad.
dress a duty both to myself sad my daughter. May I ven-
ture to say—a duly also to my hesbanill,and the people cow-
milted to his care? T►ere is a point beyond which a guilt-
less woman cannot with safety carry tier forbearances. If
her honour is Welded, the defence of her reputation is so
longer a matter of choice; and it signifies tort whether the
attack be made openly, manfully, sail directly—or by secret
insinuation, sod by holding such conduct towards her as
countenances all the suspicious that malice can suggest. If
these ought to be the feelings of every woman i■ &wised
who is conscious that "be deserves no reproach, your Royal
Highness has too sound a judgment, and too nice a sense of
honour, not to perceive how much more justly they belong
to the mother of your daughter—the mother of her who is
destined, I trust, at • very distant period, to reign over the
British empire.
" It easy be k•own to your Royal Higbee's, that (Jurist
the continuance of the restrictions noun your Royal anibo.
rely, I purposely refrained front making any representations
which might then augment the painful difficulties of your
exalted &tattoo. At the expiration of the restrictions I still
was inclined to delay taking this step, in the hope that I
might owe the redress I sought to your gracious and unsoli.
cited condescension. I have waited, in the fond indulgence
of this expectation, until, to my inexpressible movtificution,
I find that my unwillingness to complain has only predated
fresh grounds of complaint ; and I sin at 'forth compelled,
either to abandon all regard fur the two dearest objects which
I possess use earth—mine owe. honour and my beloved child
—or to throw myself at the feet of your Royal Highness,
the Literal protector of both.
* I presume, Sir, to represent to your Royal Highness,
' that the separation, which every succeeding mouth is making
wider, of the mother and the daughter, is equally injurious
to my character and to her education. I say nothing of the
deep wowed' which so cruel an arrangement inflicts upon
my feelisga, although I would fain hope that few persons
will be found of a disposition to think lightly of these. To
see myself cut off from one of the very few domestic enjoy.
meets left me--certainly the only one upuu which I set ally
viable, the society of my child—involves me in such misery,
as !well know your Royal Highness could never inflict upon
me, if you were aware of its bitterness. Our intercourse
has been gradually diminished. A single interview weekly
seemed sufficieutly hard allowance fun a mother's affections.
That, however, was reduced to our meeting once • fortnight ;
aud I now learn, that even this must rigorous interdiction is
to be still more rigidly enforced.
" But while I do not venture to intrude my feelings as a
mother upon you► Royal Highness's notice, I must be allow.
ed to say, that in the eyes of an observing and jealous
world, this separation of a daughter from tier mother will
only admit of one cuiestruetiou—a construction fatal to the
mother's reputation. Your Royal Nightie's will also' par-
don me for adding, that there is no less incimisteut, than
injustice in this treatneent. He ohn dares advise your
Royal Iliglim ss to overlook the evidence of any menu-
truce, and disregard the sentence of complete acquittal
which it produced—Or is wicked and false enough still
to whisper suspicious in your ear, betrays his duty to you,
Sir, to your daughter, nod to your people, if he counsels
you to permit a day to pass without a further iovestigation
of my c.iaduct. I know that ito such c.iiumuiator will Ten-

lore in recommend a measure which mast speedily red I.
his otter confer•uu. Theo let me implore pig Ile teasel ou
t 6.• situation in whirls I ant placed without the absiow of a
charge Rudest me—without ecru pin ilfritarr...ofirt SIB ill.
q.uy that led to my ample treatel as if I
•till more celpal.l•r than the yes; .rtros of my unburned
son !seeees represented me, xu•J held up to the world SO a mo.
titre who may nut enjoy the society of her only
" The feelings, Sir, *bid) arc no; oral to my unciemepled
situation, might justify me its the gracious judgment of
your Royal Flightless, hail I no other motives rut addressing
you but such as relate to myself : hut I will out disguise
from tour Royal Highness what I almost for a mesent coo-
ceal from myself, that the serious, and it soon maybe, the
irreparable injury which my daughter austaiiis front the plan
at present pursued, has done more in ova rcoming my ►eluc.
lance to infertile myself upon your Royal Highness, than
soy sefferints of my own could accomplish; and if, for her
sake, I presume to call away your Royal Hip:mos from the
other clues of your exalted station, I C. ri coofidest I ern
not claiming it for a matter of toreros, importance either to
yourself or your people.
" The powers with which thacoestitetioo of these realms
rem your Royal Highness ie the re/stades of the florid
Faneily,l know, Itemise I ant err advised, memoir and so-
questionable. My appeal, Sir, is made to yore excellent
seam and liberality of mind in the exercise of those powers;
and I willingly hope, that your own parental feelinp will
lead you to excuse the anxiety of mine, for impelling nte to
represent the unhappy consequences which the present sp-
lints mast retail upon our beloved child.
" Is it possible, Sir, that any one eon have attempted to
persuade your Royal Highness. that her character will nut
be injured by the perpetual violence offered to her strongest
affectioes—the studied rare takeu lei estrange her from my
society, and even to interrupt all commuitication between
as ? That her love fur me with whom, by his Majesty's wise
and gracious arrangements, she passed the years of her
in-
Casey sod childhood, never can be extinguished, I well know;
and Ike knowledge of it forms the greatest blessing of my
existence. But let me implore your Royal Highness to re-
tied, how inevitably all attempts to abase ibis attachment,
by forcibly separating us, if they saceeed, must injure my
child's principles—if they fail, must destroy her happiness.
" The plan of excluding my daughter from all intercourse
with the world, appears to my humble judgment peculiarly
unfortunate. She who Is deathbed to be the Sovereign of
this great country, enjoys none of those advaniates of society
which are deemed necessary for imparting a knowledge of
mankind to persons who have iniisitely less occasion to Mrs
that important. lesson ; and it may so happen, by a chance
which I trust is very remote, that she should be called opus
to exercise the powers of the crown, with an experience of
the world more coufined than that of the most private in
vidual. To the extraordinary 'siesta with which she is
blessed, and which accompany a disposition as singularly
amiable, frank, and decided, I willingly trust much ; hut
beyond a certain point the greatest natural eisdowments can.
not struggle steins' the disadvantages of circumstances and
situation. It is my earliest prayer, ler her own sake, as well
as her country's, that your Royal Highness may be induced
to pause before this point be reached.
" Those who have advised you, Sir, to delay so long the
period of my daughter's committing her intercourse with
the world, and for that purpose to make Windsor her real.
deuce, appear not to have regarded the interruptions to her •
educatioe which this arrangement occasions ; both by t►e
hapoesibilitt of obtainiug the attendance of proper teachers,
sad the time unavoidably consumed Cu the frequesttjoeripi.•
to tows, *lath she meat make, unless she is to ha *Medi
from all interestame, eves with your Royal lEgheess and the
rest of the Royal Family. To t►e same ■efortonate counsel
I ascribe a circumstance in every way so distressing bolls to
my parental and religioue feelings, that my daughter has
never yet eujoyrd the benefit of confirmation, although
shove a year older than the op at which all the other
breeches of the Royal Family have partaken of that totem•
oily. May 1 earnestly conjure you, Sir, to hirer my en.
treaties epos this serious nastier, even if you should listen
to other advisers on t►ings of less near folletrnment to the
welfare of our child?
" The pain with which I have at length, formed the mu-
tation of addressing myself to your Royal Highness is sdch
as I should in vain attempt to express. if l could ade-
quately describe it, you might be enabled, Sir, to estimate
the strength of the motives *hick have made me submit to
it : they are the most powerful feelings of affection, and the
deepest impressions of duty towards your Royal Higher's,
my beloved child, and the country, which I devoutly hope
site may be preserved to govern, and to thew by a new exam.
pie the liberal affection of a free and generous people to s
virtuous and constitotional Monarch.
" I am, Sir, with profound respect, and an attachment
which nothing can alter, your Royal Highness's most de.
voted ant most affectionate Consort, Cousin, otod Subject,
(Signed) " CAROLINE LOUISA.
" Montagu House, January 14, 1813."

PRINCES{ OF WA LE111..-• it EPORT. SCC.--..T0 HIS

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ROYAL. HIGHNESS THE PRINCE REGENT.
The following Members of his Majesty's Most Honour.
able Privy Council, vit.—.
His Grate the Archbishop of Canterbury; the Right
Hos. the Lord High Chancellor; his Grace the Archbishop
of York; his Grace Ibe Lord Primate of Ireland; the Lord
President of Ibe Cuuneil ; the Lord Privy Seal; the Earl of
Buckiughaneshire; the Earl Bathurst; the Earl of Liver-
pool; the Earl of Mulgravei the Viseouut Melville; the
Viscount Sidionuth; the Viscount Castlereagh; the Bight
Hos. the Lord Bishop of London ; the Right Hoc Lord
Elleuborough, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's
Bench; the Right lion. the Speaker of the House of Cons.
mints; the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer;
the Right Hon, the Chancellor of the Duchy ; bit !honour
the Master of the Rolls ; the Right Him. the Lord Chief
Justice of the Court of Common Pleas • ; the Right Hon.
the Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exch. quer ; the Right
Hou. the Judge of the High Court of Admiralty; the Right
Hon. the Dean of the Arches;
Having been summoned by command of your Royal High-
ness, on the Itith of February, to meet at the Office of Vim.
coast Sidmoreth, Secretary of State fur the Home Depart.
went, a communication war made by his Lordship to the
Lords their present, its the following terms:—
"My Lords—l have it in command from his Royal High-
ness the Politer Regent, to acquaint your Lordships, that a
Copy of a ICticr from the Princess of Wales to the Printe
Regent having appeared in a public parr, which letter refers
to the proceedings that took place in an inquiry instituted by
Command of bis Majesty, in the year 1606, and contains ausoug
other matterr,cerlain animadversions upon the manner in
which the Prince Regent has exercised his endoubted right
of regulating the conduct and aleicati ~,, of his daughter, the
Princess Charlotte; and his Royal Highness having lake
into his consideration the said letter su published, and ad.
verting to the directions heretofore gives& by his Majesty,
that the documents relatiorg to the said inquiry should be
sealed up, and deposited in the office of his Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State, in order that his Majesty's goverunfent
should possess the means of rest/nitre to then, it necessary,
his Royal Flightless has been pleased to direct that use said
letter of the Princtss Wales, and the whole of the said
documents, together wills the copies of other tellers and
papers, of which a schedule is annexed, should be referred 16
your Lordships; tieing Members of his Majesty's Must Ho.
uourable Privy Council, fur your consideration; and that
you should report to his Royal Highness your opinion.
whether, under all the circumstances of the MIAs, it be tit sod
proper that the IIIitICUMW between the IN-incase of Wales

• The Chia Justice of the Court of Common Pleas was
prevented by indisporatitro room attending doling *my part
of these proetediagc

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arid bet daughter. the Princess Ober:oo le. pl. me Id continue to
he 'object to rent: Lotion. awl restrictions r
Their Lottlatitps sOjunroicil their curettage to Tesist:ty :Its
rid of Februarys and the ioteesserliste dirt lorovion• Yr.! oi
-employed its perusing the, olueoliients referred to tlo 1,1 Ail
consent/a of your Royal ll:elutes', they prorreolwi .1, shoo!
and the ftillowiag slay to the furotw.r cono•oterAiono
said detains/ON and have agreed to `rotptort to your flnyal
Highness as follows
lit ohs ilieuce to the commands of your Royal 11:7,1tti.-.!..
we bate taken isto oar most series:a enooori:+at:luoi the leo ler
from her Royal Highness the Princess of %Vales to !boss Hoyal
Highness, which lts• appeared in the public patens, mot him
been referred to u. icy your linyal Hogloneos. la whorls testes
the Princess of %Vales, amongst usher .ushers, complaists
that the intereuturte bestir:rest bet Itoyal Ilighnsss, awl her'
Royal Highness the Priacese Charlotte, hr.. bete subj. cued
to rertaiu restriCt Mita.
We have alums takers into owe MOOS( arriroo• ronai.leral lion,
together with she other papers referred to us lay your Hoyt',
High:Atte. all the olueousewis relative on the sweptioy so.; .
t stied in ISO% by eusnaratot of his Majesty. moo the 1t,.:
of Certain repesewatalions. resprays)* tics euroloct .4 I.
Royal Highness she Primeval tff M'ehisk islOrlfrimsrur to hose
horn premed upon the attention of your Royal ilochnear, •
colowspieoce of the advice of Lod Thorloo, nod Iwo t
gruussils of dirty, by whom they were trans:amen to his Thi-
jesty's coosideratioss; sad your !Islet ll:choirs* hartoir uses
graciously pleased to command us b ,r• :soul our iiroithot. In
Your Ku's' Highness, **briber, uto., ill the rlrreuvoteoet
of the rem, it be fit and proper twit the jut, merest be-
tween the Primers of 'Wales slid her daalliter, the Po meta.:
Charlotte, *Wald tintlissue to be subject to irgalatiou acrd
restraint.
We keg leave lolonttly to report to yonr Port! Iligliarest
that after a full examination of all the iloctioreo, to Gore
we are of opiennOliliat wader all the Ito enema:roc:* of thr
ease, it is highly fit awl propel, with a view to the welfare
of her Royal Highness the Princess Chas hose, in whir{-sin
equally involved the happiness of yoiir Royal Itlightteas in
your parental sad royal character, tad the most isuportabt
interests or the Stale, that the intercourse haw. 4' to leer Royal
Higher.' the Prioress of 'Wiles, arid hit Royal
the Princess Charlotte, shooed Continue so be subject to re-
gulation and mite-riot.
We humbly treat, that we may he permitted, withoht
being thought to exceed the limits or the duty irnpoied us.
us, respectfully to expects the just sense we 'merlon.. of the
motives by which your flit.al Highness has bred arioutiti
in the postponement of the ividirmatioW of her Royal 1110,
mesa the Prioress Charlotte, as it appears by a atetesucia
birder the baud of her Mljestj the Queers, that your Royal
Highomis has conformed in this respect to the declared wt t
of his Majesty, who bid heels pleased to 'hetet, that sties
Ceremony should not take place till her Royal Highness
should bate completed her eighteenth year.
We also humbly trust, that we trey be further permitted
In notice some expressions in the letter of bur Royal Hitt.-
arse the Princess of Wales, ;Hsieh may possti.ly be coustrucil
as implying a charge of tots sciiona a nature to he passed
over wittiest ohs ion. We refer to the words "
°tried traducers." As thee eiprerrion, front the mann. r it
is introduced, may, prrlmpe, be liable to retartie.itociioo
(however impossible it stay be to asrppom that it cut have
been so intruded), to have reference to use part of the
conduct of yuer Royal Highness; we feel it our her andeis
duty nut to omit tbs. upporiouity ord.-daring that the do.
contents laid before us afford Ho- must ample proof
that there is not thc lightest foondatitto fur stick an as.
goriMo.
(Sired)
hidiriouth,
J. 1....0dum,
Elleuborosels,
Chas tee Abbot,
N. Vausittait,
G Rsthora,
W. Groat,
A Macdonald,
%V scoot,
J. 1•.icholl.

C. Canister,
Eldon,
E. Elver,
W. Armagh.
Parrowby, P.C.
Wesimorlaod. C.PS.
Buckinghamshire,
Balhural.
Liverpool,
Mulgiave,
(A true copy) - MDMerTH.

LATTER PROM THE PRINCESS OF 'R'ALFS TO THE

•PEA[EL OF THE MOUSE OF COMMONS.

" Montagu House, March 1.
“ The Princess of Wales informs Mr. Speaker that PM has
received front lord Viscount Sidusoutis a copy of a Report
made to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent by certain
mensberspf his Majesty's Privy Collbei 01. whom it appears
that his Royal Highness wag advised to refer certain Jura-
Meats aid evidence regarding the character and conduct of
the Priem,' of Wales. This Report is of sucb • nature,
that her Royal Highness is persuaded that am !WOWS ean
read it without ronsiderhig it to coniein aepersious on her
character, though its vagueness rendei p It impossible to be
precisely understood, or In know reseey with what she i 3
chorged. The Pascals of Wales feels conscious of her to-
'surface, •ud 'considers it due to herself, to the two illustriMm
Houses to which she is connected by b!uud and marriage,
and to the people of this country, in which she holds sorb a
distinguished rank, not to acquiesie foi a rniinieut is the rs.
Sections *bleb have been east upon her honour. The Prin-
cess of Wales has nut bees permitted to know on what evi-
dence Ibis Report has been Amin!. al, nor has eels ►ad any
opportunity of being beard in her own defenCe. What she
knew MI the subject was only from eurntnua flimsier, until
she received the Report ; our does she igloo altrther it pro-
ceeded from persons acting !together ss a body, to whom ebb
could make her appeal, or only as initividnals. Her Royal
Highness throws herself upon the wisdom sod justice of
Parliament, and desires the fnillest invi sl lotion of her con-
duct daring the time that she has waded in this eritiniry.
She fears nu scrutiny, provided she be tried by impartial
Judges, in a fair and open nsamer, ronxutent wish the laws
of the land. Her Royal Highness wi<hrs to be treated as
inuoceut, or to be poured guilty. She drsqes Mr. Speaker
to COMIPIII Wad! this letter to the Iltoiota.aLle the House cif
Ceastrious."

ICOASTIiD WHEAT.

FETITIC;3 PRESENTED TO TII IL HOUSE OF
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CO. MO? S.

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A Pethinh of the there-uadersigned inh:diitants of the cite
of Coveutiy, *ellers of resided *best, wss reunited, usd
read; setting forth, That the Petitionees are pour mann-
factor. rs, inhabitants of the city of Coientiy ; that they and
their families have lung. hewn a.fli ring nom want, approach-
in frequently neatly SO 'driest lOU ; that for Some time poet
they have used roasted wisest indeed of coffee and tea, t'ie
wheal being not uuly much 1464 %pensive than the cliff si
and tea, hot bring, as the !nimble Petitioeers have tally :
ascertained, winch more nutritious and wholesome, so t
toasted wheat is became an article of v. ry gement! consump-
tion ; that it M net et all times convenient to every family to
roast lied grind the wisest for their own use; that the humble
Peittroncis, therefore, have rue some tins, part roasted wheat,
it, and suld it, ready fur use, in retail to their live
basses ; that this afforded some riniolu)ntesit to the humble
Petitioners, and gave a small addition it portion of food. I.
themselves and their distressed LAI dies ; thst, to the
great surprise and shwas of the ;icor and bumble Pe-
titioners, they were in April laid served, at the suit
of the Attorney-General, with writs ill the King's name,
awl emu( *veil ley the Chief Baron of the Exclwquei,
csitmucwhii; tin m to appear before the Barons of the Eadit -
quer at ‘‘ ritailisater, on the 15111 day of May last; this
' they dsil so appear in person; that they were told by the
said Barons that they must employ lawyers to appear Iva
them; that the humble Petitioners answered that they had