The National Register.
London, England, 1813-03-14 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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opinion, that all the other particulars of conduct brou.hr in accusation
against her Royal Highness, to which the character of criminality can
be ascribed, are either satisfactorily contradicted or rest upon evidence
ofstich a nature, and which was giveu uneer such circumstances, as
render it, in the julgineitt nt your Majesty's confidential servants,
undeserving olcieclit.—Your Majesty's confidential servants, there-
fore, concurring in that part of the opinion of your late servants, as
stated in their minute of the 25th of I muary,'t hat there is no 10r.g.1
any necessity foryour Majesty being advised ;o decline receiving )..!e
Princess into your Royal presence, humbly sui.mit t.-1 your &Diem,.
that it is essentially necessary, in juStice to her R-yal Highness, and
for the honour ;ind interest of your Majesty's illtntrious FamilF, that
her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, should be admitted, with
as littte delay as possible, loco your Majesty'S Royal Presence, and
that she should be received in a m due to her r.nk and station.
in your Majesty's Court and Fainily.—Your Majesty's confl-lenti4
servants likewise hes, leave to suhmit to y r -NI :jesty, that consider-
lag that it may he necessary that your Majesty's Government should
possess the means of referri.,g to the tint state of this transa mon, it is
of the utmost importance that these documents, demonstrating the
ground on which your Majesty has pr ‘ceeded, should he preserved in
safe custody ; and that f.r that purpose the.originals or authentic
copies of all these papers, should '_e sealed up and deposited in the
Office of your Majesty's Principal Secretary of State:"

A questi-n naturally arises, to what cause is (ming that the
Princesq of WAL ES was precen!cd from immediately appear-
ing at court ? we are happily enabled to solve this doubt
by the production of the following documents :
" Windsor Cvsilo. Jan. '29.) RO7.

“ The Kiva ras this inomtnt received the Princess qf s's
letter, in which sh” intimates her iffiention of coming to Win,lor
Qn
Monday nest ; and His lilt STY wi,hing not to put the P to
the inconvenience of comitlEr to this place. so immediately after her
Mist's, hastens to acquaint her, that he shall prefer to receive her in
London upon a day subsequent to the week ; which will also
better suit HIS MAJESTY, and of which he will tint to Ito apprise
the PRINCESS. (Signed) " GLORLIE It."
To the Princess of W LES."

" Wind.mr elm le, Feb. 10, 1807.
" As the Princess of WAtrs may ha e bi.en led to expect, from the
Krwo's letter to her, tliat would fix tin early day for seeing her, His
/I.l.t.msyr thinks it right to acquaint her, that the Prince of Wit to,
upon receiving the several documents which the KiNr.: directed hi.,
Cabinet to transmit to hint, made a formal communication to him, ot
Losintention to put them into the hands of his Lawyers ; accompanied
by a request, that lirs MAsFs-t would suspend any further steps in
the business, until the Prince of WA 1.E.6 thoidd be enabled to submit to
him ti e statement which he proposed to make. The KING, therefore,
considers it incumbent on him to defer naming a day to the Princess'•f
t.v.s, until the farther result of the PurNees intention shall have
keen made known to him.
r To the Princess of WAr.rs."
It is superfluous to add, that this new scrutiny by the
Prince of WALES'S lawyers, had the same termination as
&very other scrutiny levelled at Her RoY At. HIGH NEs,;,--
it redounded to her honour; and she was received at Court,
was admitted to her Child, was put in possession of alt the
claims appropriate to her dignity al a Princess, and her feel-
ings as a Mother.—(Times.)

(Signed)

~ GEORQE It."

UTTER FRONT THE PRINCESS TO THE PRINCE OF WALES.
IN ANSWER TO TILE LETTER FROM HIS ROYAL IiIeHNESS WHICH AP-

?EARED IN OUR LAST.

The avowal al your conversation with Lord Cholmondeley, neither
snrprises nor (den& me. It merely confirmed what you have tacitly
insinuated fur this twelvemonth. But after this, it would be a want of
delicacy, or rather, an unworthy meanness i.t me, ere Ito complain of
those condi!ions which you impose upon yourself.
" I should have returned no answer to your letter, if it had not been
conceived in terms to make it doubtful whether this arrangement pro-
ceeds from yoa or from me ; and you are awar,, that the credit of it he-
' " The letter which you announce to me as the last, obliges me to cola-
municate to the King, as my Sovereign and my Fatht-r, both year avowal
and may answer. You will find enclosed the copy of my letter to the
King. I apprise you !if it,-that I may not incur the slightest reproach of
duplicity from you. As I have at this moment nu protector hit his
Majesty, I refer myself solely to him upon this subject ; and if ley con-
4uct spects his approbatiou, 1 ,hall be iii Eume degree, at least, consoled
•

I retain every sentiment of gratitude for tite situation in which I 'find
myself, as Princess of %Vales, enabled by your means to indulge in the
free exere.se of a virtue to illy hem t,--I mean charity.
" it will be my ditty li•ewise to act upon another motive,--drat
of giving an example of putionce and resignation under every trial.
" Du me the justice't‘; bdirre that I shall never cease to pray for your
" I.'tiur much devoted
6th of May, 1796.

" CAROLINE."

Our readers will perceive, by referring to the document'
relative to the PaiNcEss or %V er.Ls, that (in the opinion of
the four Noble Commissioners who investigated the charges
against her) the principal stain on the reputation of her
Royal Highness was certain acts of levity between her and
Captain Manby,- as deposed by one of the witnesses named
Robert I3idgood.---1. his man's evidence, however, has been
since decisively contradicted by Captain Manby, who, three
months after the Coni,missioners' Report was written, made
affidavit as follows
" 'to solemnly, sod upon my oath declare, that the said passage
(in BlOg )od'a evid:oce) is a vile and wicked invetation ;—that it is
atol abtolt.iei) Mar •,--•that it is impossible he could have seen
(what he swore 11, saw) 31:y such thing ; as 1 never, upon any •occa-
, sion, or in any sitt.aticui, 14A the presumption to take that liberty, or
to oft'r any such hie/City to her Royal Highness's perscn "
[The evidence of Bidgood was, that while waiting in an
anti-room, he, by the aid of a mirror placed on the opposite
side of the room in which Captain Manby and the Princess
stood, saw Captain M. kiss the Pi incess.]

NARRATIVE OF FACTS.
The indispositions of the Princess Charlotte commenced previous
to the fete at Carhoe House, awl afterw ads increasing,. her Royal
Hiehitess was necessarily obligect to defer her return to Windsor. In
consequence of this, the Princess of Wales. on the Bth ofFebruary, ad,
dressed herself to Lord Liverpool, desirieg that he would communicate
to the Prince Regent he, Royal Highness's intention to visit the Princess
Charlotteat Warwick House, not anticipating the possibility of a pre-
vention on the part of the Prince fsegen, under the circumstance of
the Princess Charlotte's confinement from illness. Lord I.iverpool
replied, that he was happy to annouece the Princess Charlotte so
much better, that her Royal Highness would he able to visit the
PrinCess of Wales at Kensington Palace on the following Thursday.
February. On that morning, however, at the moment (and not
berate) of the Princess of Wales stepping into her carriage, she re.
crived inf rmation that the Priree,,s Charlotte was refused coming.
Upon this, the Princess of Wales aaein atldtesssed. Lord Liverpool
to know the rea,oe, none having been assigned, for the Princess
Charlotte's being thus suddeely ,prohibited from giviog the meeting to
her Royal Mather, and when and how soon her Royal Highness
might expect to see the Princess Ciaarlette. To this inquiry the
Princess of Wales received the fellowing extraordinary, but not over-
courteous, reply front Lord Liverpool
(COPY)
" Fife House, Feb. 14, 1813.
" Lord Liverpool his the honour to inform your Royal Highness.
that inconsequence of the publication in " The Morning Chronicle"
of the 10.1 i inst. of a letter iTddres,e.l by your Royal Highness to the
Prince Regent, his Royal Highness thought fit, by the advice of his
confidential Servants to signity his rtanmands that the intended visit
of the Princess Charlotte to your Royal Highness on the following
day should not take place.
" Lord Liverpool is not enabled to make any forth tr commtelica-
tion to your Royal Highness on the subject of your Royal Highness's
note."
To this letter the Princess of Wales commanded Lady Anne Hamil-
ton, her Lady in Waiting, to reply as follows to Load Liverpool :
" Montague House, Blackheath, -Feb. to, 1813.
" Lady Anne Hamilton is commanded by her Royal Highness the
Princess of \Vales to renre:ent to Lord Livetpeol that the insiduous
insinuation, respecting the itithiication of theletter addresstd by the
Pt ilexes of Wales, on the 14th of January, to the Prince Regent, con-
veyed h his Lordship's reply to her Royal Iliehness, is as void of
foitielation and as false as all the other former accu.ations of the tradu-
cers of her Royal Highness'sbonour in the year 1806.
" Lady A. Ilatnilten i, further commaaded to say, that dignified
:fleece would have been the line of conduct the Princess would have
preserved upon such insinuation (more thae unbecoming Lord Liver-
pool), did net the elf!et arising tram it, operate to deprive her Royal
flienness of the sole real happiness she can possess in this world—that
of seeing her only child. Anti The confidential Servants of the Prince
Rqent uueht to feel aOutmed of their conduct towards thea2rincess

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(to him upon this subject ; told if my cn- seeing Iter only child. Anti COnntiell.1111"" v.
31141 be in Eutue degree, at least, consuled. Itcw:nt uultt to feel as tined of their conduct towards thea2rincess
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