The National Register.
London, England, 1813-03-07 00:00:00

MARCH 7

tether the documents of that period to found a Report urn what te-.
gulanons Were necessary to govern the Intercoutse between the Yrin.'
cess and her Daughter ? Documents, in crushing which the Noble'
Lord had formerly been warty. it, instead Of such an unju‘tifiable
proceeding, his Royal Highness the Prince Regent had been advised to.
say, Lam the tether of this child, and I wilt act as a lather is empow.
ered to do-1 am Prince of the e realms. and I will exercise my prero-
guive of educating the successor ti the throne- the country -woulo,
have been satisfied, in his opinion, as he oid not conceive the Princes
was so popular as to fear that such advice would not have been univer-
sally approved of. The Hon. Member said, he had as high feeling
for royalty as any man ; but he must say, all proceedings like these
contribute to pull it down. He was very sorry we had a family who
do not take miming from what is said and thought concerning them.
They seemed to be the only persons in the country w ho were wholly
regardless of their n welfare aw.l respectability. He %you'd not have
the Regent lay the flattering unction to his oil, and think his coniluei
will bear him haraileis through ail these transactions. He said this
with no disrespect to him or his faoilly, no man was more attached to
the House of Brunswiuk than he was; but if heltad a sister in the
same situation, he would say she was exceedingly ill treated.
Sir SAMUEL RoMtt I v said, ill,: Honourable Member was mistaken
as to the nature of the powers given to the Cominissioners in 1806.
He had no authority for saying the Noble Lords had officiously en. •
tered on other pints besides those which were 'referred to them. He
would ask the Honourable Member, if he had ever read the commis-
sion ? 1-Ic(iir Samuel) had seen it, and &he did not very much for.
get it, it went to direct the four Noble Lords to inquire into the facts
contained in the statement of the Princess of Wales, winch had b..en
submitted e, his Majesty ; a,bang which there were other matters,
h. sides tease forming the grounds of the principal charge against her
Roy aI„H ighness.
Mr. W. Sur -or fully participated in what left from the Honourable
Member who spoke last but one ; it his sister had been treated as the
Princess had been, he should feel extremely sore. He regretted he
could not see his way clear how josticr coo idte done to the Princess
and, therefore, he wished his Honourable Friend would explain what
further proceedings he had in contemplation.
Mr. PONSONPY could not agree to the motion of his Honourable
Friend, yet he was aim ,st inclined so to do, from the admirable, in_
comparable, resistless eloquence with which he urged it. He would
ask, is it c•rmiletent for this !louse to grant the prayer of the Prin-
cess's Letter ? The Report of 1806 ought not to be laid before the
House. Is there any thing in it that (night to be submitted to their
consideration? Suppose the Report on the table, what could they
do with it ? Could they address the Regent for a trial ? Could they
condemn ? Could they acquit ? This is truly an attack on the Go
vernment ; and the defence of the Noble Lord worthy of the news-
papers which advocate his cruse. He denied that any person in Op-
position had had any connection with the publication of the papers
or with any part of the transaction ; he disclaimed all knowledge u 1
all proceedings therein, aui he should despise any one who couldi
mike the Royal quarrels a source to prove a stepping-stone to office :
he had never so clone; those he acted with had never so done ; and
he wished he could say as much for the living and the dead, and that
all could lay their hands on their hearts and say the sane. He des_
pised such base and despicabie conduct from the bottinn of his soul.
Mr. \'Fun rDRF. it n said. aner the qiiestiou asked of him by his Hon•
Friend, Mr. W. Smith, he miuht, periiiips, be allowed to make good a
deficiency in his former speech, by explaining what his further views
and intentions were, provided he should succeed hos motion of to
nieht, and obtain the Report alluded to in the Letter of the Pi incess
ut
Wales to the Speaker. It certainly •was Ins lineation, in the e"ent ot
success to his first motion, to have fdlowed it up by motions for such
Papers as might appear necessar fur de!further elucidation of the busi-
ness, and for the justfiC4ll9ll or eainvietion of the pa-rson who had thrown
lie r-elf, as a last resource, upon the justice and were), of the Rostral. Hut
the few hours which had passed silky he mr.red ins Amendment, had SO
entirely altered the state oft e case, that he should oet now even press
a division. The most complete cleft once sir time pa tof the Princess
sat
Wales had been thrown out, in tles pre-ence of those per,ons who ha.l
the fullest opprtuoity of inquiry, stud whose euy it w..s to ingeire two
every part of her conduct—echo have now the nieens ot searching hem
%cry heart. So completely did she now appe.r acquitted ot all possible
imputation of blame, even by the persons from whom the aspersions
were. by the world, supposed, in time last Rep.irt, to have been throan
upon her, that it was, in his mind, uminecessurj to press the Amame to a