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Montague House later than the rest of the party, often till
three or four o'clock in the • morning. .1 never observed ' .
any impropriety of conduct between Sir S. Smith and the
Princess. I made the Princess a visit at Montague House. •
in March 1802, for about a fortnight. She desired me to
come there, because Miss Garth was ill. In May or June
following, the Princess came to my house alone : she said
she came to tell me something that had happened to her,
and desired- me. to guess—l guessed several things, and at
. last I said, I could not guess any thing more. She then said
she was pregnant, and the child had come to life. 1 don't
know whether she said on that dav, or a few days before, that
she was at breakfast at Lady Willoughby's, that the milk
flowed up to her breast, and came through her gown ; that
she threw a napkin over herself, and went with Lady Wil—
/loughby into her room, and adjusted herself to prevent its
being observed. She never told me who was the father of
the child. She said she hoped it would be a boy. She said,
that if it was discovered she would give the Prince of Wales •
the credit of being the father, for she had slept two nights
at Carlton House within the year. I said that I should go
abroad to my mother. The Princess said she should manage
it very
.well, and if things came to the worst she should give
the Prince the credit of it. While I was at Montague House,
in March, 1 was with child, and one day I said I was very
sick, and the Princess desii ed Mrs. Saunders to• get me a
saline draught. She then said that she was very sick herself,
and that she would take, a saline draught too. I observed,
that she could not want one, and I looked at her. The
Princess said, yes, I do ; what do you look at me. for with your
wicked eyes; you are always finding me out. Mrs. Saunders
looked vciy much distressed ; she gave us a saline draught
each. This was the first time I had any suspicion of her
being with child. The Princess never said who was the
father. When she first told me she was with child, I rather
suspected that Sir S. Smith was the father, but only because
the Princess was very partial to him. I never knew he was
with her alone. We had constant intercourse with the
Pt incess, from the time when 1 was at Montague House, till
the end of October. After she bad first communicated to
me that she was with child, she frequently spoke upon the
subject. She was bled twice during the time. She recomr.
mended me to be bled too, and said that it would make me have
a better time. Mr. Edmeads bled her; she said, one of the days
that Mr.' Edmeads bled her, that she h:.d a violent heat in her
blood, and that Edtneads should bleed her. I told the.
Princess that I was very anxious how she would manage
to be brought to bed, without its being known ; that I hoped.
she had a safe person.—She. said, yes; -she should have a
i .
person from abroad; that she had a great horror of having
, any men about 'her upon such an occasion—sea said, 1 us.

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