The National Register.
London, England, 1813-03-28 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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rant, to my house, to bring before them,' at once, about one-half
,of my Household for eeaminition. The -idea of Nitrites', after an
art so much calculated, from the nature of it, to excite the ereateat
attention and surprise, your 11TAiesty must feel to have been im-
peeitible and absurd ; for an attempt at secrecy, mystery, and con-
cealment on my part could, tinder such circumstances, only have
been construed into the fe aridness of euilt.
It will appev, efun, from that thins, I heard nothing nethen•
tics I'• upon the subject till the 11th of Anunst. when i was furnished,
Lys your Niajesty's commands, the Report. The several papers.
necessary to my understanding tile whole of these charges, in the nu.
themic state in which your Majesty thought it proper gtacitotsly to
direct that I should h ,%c ,hem, wale not delivered tame till the hegin-
flaw of September. MI answer to these %orlon!' charges, though the
whole subject of them was new to those whose advice X had recourse
tn. hula as that answer was necesetarily obliged to he, was delivered to
the lAnd Chancellor, to he lorwacrietl t(s your Majesty, by the 6th of
Ort,ltert and from the tith of Octoher to the '2Bth of January. I was
kept in total ignorance of the effect of thr.t answer. Not only will all
this delay 'lab apparent. but it will he generally sitewn to the world, how
:your Majesty's servants have, in his important business, treated your
deuehter-itelaw, the Princess of Wales ; tied what measure of jute
tic" she, a fema e, and a stranger in parr laml, has experienced at
their bend'.
tlndottetedly neainst such .a proseedine T have ever felt, and still
feel, an almostievinethle repueneme. tvery sentiment of delicacy,
with which a female mind must *rink ItYdn the act • f bringing be-
fine the pnhlic such charges, however consCions of their *caudal and
falsity, and however clearly tlnit scandal you! Noitv may he manifested
by the answer to those charges ; the respect still tine from me to pet-
"GCS employed in:l'll6,4v tinder your Msiestc, however little respect
T “my have r ceived from them. - Itllt duty to his Royal Highness the
'Prince of Wales. —mv record for all the members of -our august
ranily,—woresteent, my dew, my grgtitude to, your Mitieste,— try
att•ctionitte gratitude for all the patin), kindness which I have ever
-exylegieneed (rem enu.--ame anxiety, notioply to avoid the flak of giving
age:astfsews or displeasure to your MOjeaty, but also to fly from every
occasion of creating the slight, bi sentiment of umeisireeso in the mind
ofyoor Mliestc, whose happiness it wou'd he-the pride and pleasure
r my tile to cat tilt, and to promote ; aII these various sentiments
bore compelled me to submit, as 1011 e as human patience :onld endure,
teen the unfavourable inferences e hies were, the uch this delay, daily
itteressitte in tie public mind. What the strength and efficacy of
these motives have brine year Majesty will do me the justice to feel,
whom ye.. are pleased graciously to consider how long I have h4,eo con-
tented to suffeethos‘amapicions to exist against my innocence, which
the bringing .befare the public of my accusation, and my defence to it,
would so 4%db-tenably and immediately have dispeled.
The measure, howevee, of making these proceedings public, what-
ever- mode t can ndnpt (considering especially the absolute
penssibility of suffering any partial production of them, and the ne-
cessity that, if fur any put pose arty part of shem should be produced
the whole must be brought• before the I►ubliio, remains surrounded
with obiectiods whet) I have enumerated ; and nothing conld
ogee have -preiailed Alton me, or can now even prevail upon me, to
have recourse to it, but an iroperitios sense of indispensable duty to
ingk, future safety, to my present character and Neville, and to the
feelings, the character, and interests of my child. I had flattered my-
self. when once this .long proceeding should have terminated- in my
reception into your Majesty's presence, that that circumstance alter
would have so strongly implied my innocence of all that had
been brought against me, as to have been perfectly sufficient for my
honour and my security ; but accempanied as it now must be with the
knowledge of the Net, that your Nfaiesty has been hr tight to hesitate
npon its propriety, and aecomp sided also with the very unjustifiable
observations, as they appe,a, to me, on which I shall preseotly pro-
, eeed to remark, and which wele made by }nor Majesty's servants, at
the time when they gave you efeir advice to receise mei I feel my-
self in A situation, in o kids T deeply regret that I cannot test in si-
lence, ...blend tin immediate reception i .to your Mwesty'4 prseence:
nor, indeed with that reception, unless it he futc• did by other chcom-
stances, which may mark my satisfactory acquittal of the charges
which have been tinsmiths against one.
It shall at no lime he "aid, with troth. that T hack from these
infamous eharees ; that I crouched before my enemies ; Rod coursed
them, by my submisssion into onoletatiem ! tgo: I Men boldly tidied
them. 1 have ever felt, and still feet !hat, it they should think-, either
of pursuing these accnsati ms,,or of briielier forward any other which
wirkedneas of indisidoals -a devise, to affect my lesnenr,,faince
My COP' as base and gr.-mindless as
Those " witnesses to the innocence
of able to disprove dada ail,

MARCH 2S

and whoever may be my accusers. to triumph ever their wickedile
and malice. But should these accusations be rene,ccd. or •any tither
be brought ff.rward, at Any future time, death may, I know not how
soon, remove from my innocence its best security, and deprive me of
the means of my justification, and my defence.
[To be continual

DEATH OF THE DUCHESS OF BRUNSWICK.

We are concerned to announce the death of her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Brunswick, who expired on Tuesday night at
onarter past nine o'clock. Her Royal Highness had been subject
to an asthmatic complaint Jim some years, which was Increased by
the epidemic disorder now prevalent, with which she was attacked
abont two dims before ; but no alarm was excited till Tuesday mom_
ing Abort iive o'clock her Royal Highness seemed better, but a
spasm came upon her chest about eight, and her Royal Highness
died at a quarter past nine o'clock, without pain. Dr. Baillse left
her about six o'clock in the evening, and pronounced her much
better. A little before nine, he and Sir H. Halford were sent for
with all possible speed ; the former did not arrive in time but the
latter came within a few minutes of her expiring. Sir Henry pro-
ceeded from the house in Hanover-square to Carleton-house and had
an interview with the Prince Regent at ten o'clock, to communicate
the awful event. Wednesday morning,' no directions being found
fresin the Duchess as to her funeral, orders were given from the
Lord Chamberlain's Office to the Royal undertaker, to proceed in
making the arratigetnents, in the same manner as the other royal
funerals. All the public ph rest were ordered to be shut. Her
Royal Highness was in her 176th year, being born on the 31st of
July, 1737, and married his Serene Highness the late Duke of Bruns-
wick Wolfenbuttle, on the 17th of January, 170, by whom she had
issue three sons and three daughters, of whom, we believe, but three
are living, namely, the Duke of Brunswick, an exile from his own
dominions, residing in the Austrian States; the Duke of Brunswick
Oels, his younger brother; and the Princess of Widest residing in
this country. When the symptoms of the Duchess's illness became
alarming, an express ~sent for the Princess of Wales, and she
arrived in time to receive a mother's last blessing, and to share her
last embrace ; she was present two hours before the Duchess ex-
pired.
The following arrangemeots, it is said, have been made for the
funeral of this Princess. The Prince Regent and tile Queen being
desirous that the wishes and t'eeliegs of the !hike of Brunswick ,
her son, should be consulted on the occasion, the Gentlemen be-
longing to the Lord Chamberlain, and those who have the arrange-
' cent of the funeral, have waited on his Serene Highness, at his re-
, silence at 'Vauxhall. His Highness signified his intention to be the
chief mourner. As her itoyal Highness only lived prisately in this
I country, and had no Royal establishment, the fitueral is also, it is
said, to be a private one. It is to take place on Ws duesday, at
Windsor.
The corpse of her Royal Highness is soldered up in a leaden
coffin. The state coffin is not yet finished.
ti Friday the following inscription for the silver plate to be placed
on the coffin, was issued trout the Herald's Office :
Deposi tam,
Blnstrissinwe Printissimse AUGUSTA; Victim Sercnissimi Prineipi.;
CAROL( Guememi Fen OINANDI, Duds Duunswict, et Sorouis
Angtisti.odini et Potentissimi Cszonett 'VERTU, DO
tanniarum Regis, Fidei Defensoris, Obiit die vicesimo-
tertio Mara, Aunt) 11313, wtatis' sex 76.

GT.NERAL

[From Last Nizlit's Gazette.]

LORD CHANIPERLAIN'S OFFICE, !.lARCII 27, 1813.
Orders for the Court':. going into mourning on Sunday the 2'th
instant, for her late Royal Highness the Duchess of Brunswick, his
Majesty's sister, viz.
The ladies t 3 wear black silk ; plain muslin, or lawn, crape or love
litarldi: black siA shoes, black glazed gloves, and black paper fans.
Undress, black or grey unwatered tabbies.
The gentlemen to wear b!aLk cloth, without buttons on the sleeves
or po kets ' - plain muslin or long lawn cravats dud weepers;; back
swords and hut

Undress, dark grey froL ks. _
Furl Ntashart Orderfior a t;etterftt ir
...nsfinFug for her late Reid Ilightt'ril
Aug:iota Da•hes of Iltutrtswirk.
.• In pursuance of the continauds of his Royal Hizhness the Prince
Ragan, axtius iu the mune and on the behalf of his Maje4ty, these Ore

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