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41 D'1M5,.:4141. 1,1/ IWlllifteta ,0111plialter, Mkt art oat GOON
).,odor . Igo ••••Otirt hail to rratt),,t the port from whence
he was .dual to eeiharh, hamar. r, than lw received au cu-
res*, :Ilitiusinfill: to bun lb. dangerous tuilispoestion of hit
wire. lie retained itl lower without delay, and with some
dope, of intention &livered the dispatcher intrusted to his
tuff PI AIM !?Snead Ss g mtgeg by whom their centrist%
were arterial:es lirtrappil. It has !writ I wismerril that these
entices .citn tatted' Matter 4 sl,iilaterl to excite •hanirasure iu
tilt niiiiil of une to *beta the Prinwt af %Vales sea stout to
ply arnyVarit obolietsze, mad that a ferhag atrili:Tike, ~ever
aren't' Attfl rtadiestr%l.lstAllitWllite • .A.anniiiii grher soul.
In such a Stale of things. it to net.ltcas to say that the
.;hirers a xturard• aCfe.thot bane every day still more
rinh,te 'A Wit of inylitertWaithiown tWer tfir; whole stair,
which Lae never IlilltlP tkeis iromtrein ery'utied; 'mid, is the
curl the Mineral.after being itch' 'reel of her titileeert-iwire-
lames, tt it daughter, Sera Me tfte titled); tent On sikr.sts estli.
tkiiitimerit on illaehlealli. ' 'tf,i %aid aelsrittioitsitrok pitch
ks ftr:l /!!)d, iltelittiMisslSS Are the marriage, ind three
month* artur the birth of the Priiieess Charlotte ref Wales.
.1 was. nreredett by milli wegoriallime, In Which Lord and
iady kiwinionettley ttOt 'a t,.ey. hioveying to his Royal
IlHigbee:. a ftWeirer ON up to di Princess to know able
terms on which thief efirk. to ;el.
The following leiter was at Mt period written by the
ri ince of Watts ki"her Royal flighness:—
. ," indoor Castle, April 30, 1790.
" 3404.4-41, 114014 Imuniteley lamps ms that you
wish I would define, itt prising, the terms upon which we
are to lire, I shall tl4,lfillf 14) explain lomat upon that
"mad with as much cleanies., and wills as mach. purr iety,
m the nstareof dm gnbjrct will admit. Our Wickman...
are not in our power; nor should eislicr of us be Weld an-
swerable fqr the other, itemise nature basal", made us suit-
...hie to each other. Trauquil and comfortable euelely ir,
hpozvcr, im our power i Set oar intercoarm, therelpre, be re-
strietod to that ; and I wih 4,1104.11 y subscribe to the con-
dition which you required through Lady Chohnouiletey,
Alit even io II . meal of any accident happening to my
*tighter, which 1 trust Providence wilt in its mercy are. i,
3 stall not infringe the terms of the restriction, by pro-
posing, at asp petite!, a count-sew, of a more particular ha-
:ow. I shall now finally close this disagreeable correspouil-
ware, trusting that, ea we have completely explaineil our-
wives to each other, the met of our lives will be passed in
.or.witrernottal tranquillity,.
" I am, Madam, wig; great tenth, very sincerely runt,
(Signed) " GEORGE P."
Tn Ibis her Royal Highness returned the following an-
swer

" The *vowel of your emiversetion with Lord Cholinos-
deley grittier surprises nor offend,' me. It merely confirmed
what yew tacitly insiouated for this twelvemonth. But after
;hi% it would he a wam of delicacy, or rather an unworthy
meanness is me, were I to complain of those conditions
which you impose tenon remelt 1 should have returned
now to your letter, if it bad nut been conceived in
terms to make it doubtful whethse this arrangement prof-cede
from you or from me; and you are aware that the credit of
it belongs to yon alone. The letter which you almoner, to
to the a. the last, obligee me to communicate to the King,
es to my Sovereign and ray father, by your avowal and my
answer. You will And enclosed the copy of my letter to
she King. I apprise you of it that 1 may mot /over the
slightest reproach of duplicity from you. As I hare at
Ate moment DU protector but his Majesty, I refer m)• elf to
Mar entirely on this subject ; and if my conduct meet his
approbation, I shall be in some degree at least consoled. 1
retain every sentiment of gratitude for the situation in which
I And myself, as Princess of Wales, enabled by your means
to indulge In the free exercise of a virtue dear to my heart—
mean charity. It will he my duty likewise to art upon
another motive, that of giving an example of patience and
resigriation under every trial. Do aie the justice so be.
that I shell never cease to pray for one happiness,
mid to be your most dimmed w CAROLINE.
" 60. May, 1790."
From this period her Royal flightiest retitled in Mon.
tats Nouse, Bleckbeetti, without having had any root-
monication with her husband. There, In ISOI, she be.
tome aeridentally acquainted with Lady Douglas, the wife
el' Sir John Douglas, who, es en Ater of marines, greatly
distiognished himself at the siege of St. Jean D'Acre, when
iloo place was so bravely defended by Sir Sidney Smith
egsuisi llonspeirie. Lady Dourless and her [twittered soon
hernme extremely intimate with the Pt incese. This intl.
iscy roultteneet until 1804, when the Princes% after some
ereeione bickering% dismissed Lady Douglas from her
eoesel V.
In the beginning of November, 11415, hi. Lips' Highness
I'u. Duke of Sussex infutmed the Prince of Water that Ste
!oho Douglas had communicated to him some circumstances
in the ramble, of the Princess of Wales which it was deeps,.
veal remeriqiienee to the honour of his Hoye; Highness, and
the purity of she Royal Succession, should be made known
h. him. He edited, that Sir John Dunelais had empowered
Aim to my, that hob himself seed Lady Douglas were ready
to make a 101 l disclosure of all they knew, If they should be
milted upon so to do. And the Duke of Susaex intimated
• net Rnysl Highness the Duke of Kent had been partly
acquainted with the matter twelve months before." The
Prince of Wale% in roneerinrote, cailrd on the Duke of
hit Royal Brother, to tell him u het had been commie.
r :Wed to hint, end to ark him why, for a whole year, he had
kept from his knowledge a metier in which the harbour of
the Royal It-amity was so deeply interested,
His Bore, Flighnetia the Duke of Kim% without hesitation,
mask a declaration to this effect That about the end of the
war Tgo4, lee had received a note from ii.. Prioress eef
Wale% in which abe stated, that she Is got into an unplese
mot alteemitices with Sir John and Lady Douglas ahem( an
eleonyinnies le tier and a Whir drawing which they had pre-
eoffned to impute to her Royal Highnen. She requested the
puk • a Kehl to interfere, and to prevent the matter geeing
te -it r. His Royal Highness. tie refore. •ppliesl to Sir
SAN, Smith, and thwiegli lion procured en iiiterriew
w.th rJohn Dsrualal. The latter teilei hr wasoconviured
tins both the anonymous leiter and the loose drawing were
by tk• hand of the Pi were% and that her %belga was to pro-
woe.. Sir .1 Douglas to a Joel with his old friend Sir Sider,
S.aith, by reason of the glues insiouation coe.veyed empeet •
nog toady Douglas soil Sir Sidney. The Duke succeeded iu
p.. vsil.oß roost Sir 1. Douglas to abstain from his purpose
of ronottenciug a peewee HON or of MI any way stirring fur.
titer to the besiners, as be was at once satisfied of the false.
hood of the invinuatton in queation, anal tolerably certain
ta•t hothfsheicatious were, to feet, some Kamm/wog store,
Vewhilde the Palaces. had uo hand. Sir John Douglas, not.
wellestendiug, spuks of the l'.incese's conduct with great
indignation. aadowly promised to abstain frum furtlier
io-
settigatioa for the present ; but lie would give no promise
or. preserving stlesice in ease of further annoyance. The
Doke aMeth essoctadad by among, that oohing %idler
ibica communicated to him, and having succeeded iu
capping the altercation, he had not thought 6t to trouiSe
Ais halal Highness with a story foal might rest mitirely on
the raisappmbrosluo of both puke.
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Lady Dunes% sod Mr linsbiod„ after this, that is to say,
if. the month or December, in that pear, gate is, esabc
ass led, in consequence of cottensuds Ito that pu►pose Mum
Use zince of Wales, a written st.:tensent offactsvretative to
the Moorage and bAsaviorr of hiS nee, and pstticohirly re
Isittre lo the ►irth of a cliiht,lethsch .tse asserted the Princess
to Maya beontebt into the world. in VIOL

Thin, in possession of an assevii4ll3 .of his trife's era m insliiy,
th. Prime tnet bat little time in lilies the styraseat imitate
fiber, who, we the tUth of kiny. 31101, issued a warraat
to .T. tour Loral', Erskine, Syr...yr, treenail/v.. and Ellen-
Issiough, to gamine trite the mailer. 'the fear Lords haw-
ing thus got their asstionty fur acting, assembled, •rot alb/
sus, persons at they those. is, older in eamatne them le
tgoebing the matters Mimed /pound tine ?cinema..

Whet. their Lordships hell pee throttle% the esareinstiots,
bertictior ebb those of Lady Wed Sir Joh* Dories,. they
sestie, aoreeiblo to thr osresot wooer wloeh they petrol,*
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In foamiest epos loth suet peewee so. we *meld see It,
tone oohed mot roneiesoug the same, sod he repots lo pose
Mimi the result of such exarniostioss;' we hew, to do.
liful aredience lu your Majesty's consensods, proceeded to '
eta ttttt it she avast witnesses. the copies of wisoseeleposts•
theta" we It see hers num woo tool ; is Nether exereelosa
df .s. raid weasittauds, re now most respectfully stesmit se
your klajsoy the report of these examioations as is has op.
geared 1.. t its; but er leave, at the same lime, humbly
to refer your Majesty, fur more complete informatiou, to
the ex•roinatioits theinselver. order 14, rotted an, error
o f jitilittess!, Roost which we may have u•intentiolially fallen,
wish vetoer? Si any part of tots inissuees. Oa a referrer..
to the abovexrientioncil ikelso at loos, as she orressatry font.-
etas lose of all our proCralingia, we roomd that they consisted
is certain seats lutists. which hod been laid before his Royal
Hichuess the Prince of Weirs' respecting the e mplace of tier
Royal Highness ilie Princess. That thesrstalements not only
imputed to leer Royal Milliners great impropriety soil lade-
cs tory of lieliasiuur, but expressly emoted, partly on the
ground of certain •Ileerd declamations from the Prineess's
ow a mouth, and partly on tier personal oh tom of the
itifornianoi, she 101101 ling must importaat feet, vie..—That
her Royal Highness had been pregnant le the year 1101, is
consequence of an illicit iiiteremerse, sod that she had in
the same year been merrily delivered of a male child;
which child bail ever store that period been brought up by
her Royal Hi26ne.s, in her own house, nod under her unlit.
diet, inspection.
"These allegations thus mole, bad, sis we foetid, been fol.
lowed by declaration. from other persons, who hail nut in.
deed, *polies Is the important facts of .b. pregnancy or de.
livery of her Royal Highness, but had mimed other parti.
clliera, in them•elves extremely sorpirioos, sad still snore ais
when connected will, the essertiosia ahead, sormiersied.
" In the painful sit oat i tttt in which his lloysl Higbee," Wig
plae.d, by these communications, we learnt that his Royal
Hiehnees had adopted the only course which valid, in our
jedgnient, wills propriety he followed. When informations
such as these had been thus confidently alleged, and peril-
cularly derailed, and had been in some degree ou omitted by
collateral evidenee, applying to other points of the same
nature (though goiug su a far less tattoo), our line poly
emelt, be pursued.
" Every sentiment of duty to your Majesty, mud of con-
tern fur the public welfare, reqwired thet these particulars
should not be withheld from your Majesty, to whom more
particularly belonged the eogniaance of • matter of slate,
se, nearly touching the husoor of your Medesty's Royal
!amity, and, by pomibi lity, 'Fitting the succession of your
Majeety's crown.
" Your Majesty had been pleased, on your part, to view
the subject is the sane light. Considering it ss a molter
whit+, on every account, demanded the most immediate in-
vestigation, your Ntajesty bad thought at to commit into
our bands the duty of ascertaining, in the first instance,
what degree of credit was doe to the taformations, mid
thereby enabling your Majesty to decide what further con-
duct to adopt concerning them. 0. this review therefore
of Ile- matters thus alleged, and of the coarse hitherto pur-
sued upon them, we deemed it proper, In the first place, to
examine those persons on whose derlaratioris lb, petioion
for shim inquiry bad originated ;. because if they, on bring
eaamiued upon oath, bad retracted or 'pried their laser.
alone' all necessity fur further isivesligation might possibly
have been precluded
" Wesceordingly first examined on oath the principal
isfortriasts, Sir /oho Douglas sad Charlotte his wife: who
both positively swore, the former to his having observed the
fact of the pregrancy of her Royal nighties.; mod the latter
ti; all the important particulars contained ip her former de-
eleration, and above referred to. Their exammations are
annexed to this report, and are eirentoglial and positive.
T'be most material of those attentive., into the troth of
whirl, we had bees directed to inquire, being thus fee sup-
ported by the oath of the parties from whom they bad pro-
ceeded, we the. felt it our duty to follow up the Motors by
the examination of such other peewees as we jade• d best
ebb to afford us information as to the facts in qiiestinea. We
diiisllst it beyond all doubt that in this course of inquiry
rioter part ienlars must he byword which would be iseetisa-
rily motherlys on the two% or falsehood of these declare-
tioos. So many persons must have been witnesses to the ap-
pearances of an actual ilia. inf pregnancy; so many citron,.
stunres moat have been attendant upon • real delivery; and
difficulties su numerous and inseirmouotalite mast have been
involved In soy attempt to eccount for the infaut in mots.
lion, as the child of onto her woman, if it had been in fact the
child of the Prince's, that we estertained a full and coofident
eapectstion of arriving at complete proof, either in the sif-
Gras/dive or oweative, on this part of the subject. This ex.
pectatioo was Not elisappoisted. We are happy to declare
to yunr Majesty our perfect cuuvicturs that there to no fouti.
dation whatever for believing that the child now wish the
Prisons is the child of her Royal Highbese, or that she was
delivered of any child in the year 1102; nor has soy thiag
appeared to us which would warrant the belief that she was
pregnant in that year, or at any other period within the emir
pass of oar inquiries.
" The identity of the child, now with the Prince**, Is.
parentage, the place sod the date of its birth, the time aid
the circumstances of its being fine takes antler her Royal
Highness's peacetime, are all established by each s canter.
react both of positive and cirenmatantial evieleoce, ma can,
in our judgeuwot, leave so question on this part of the sob.
ject. That child was, beyond all doubt, born is the Brows.
low-sireet Hospital, on the 11th day of July, 11102, of the
tio.ly of Sophia Austin, sod was lest brought to the Prior
toss's house in the mouth of November following. Neither
should we be more warranted is expressing mop doubt re.
,pectins the alleged palmistry of the Prioress, as staled io
the original di•claratiiiiis--a fact so folly contradicted, sad
by so many witnesses, to whom, if Into, it Mimi in elisions
says have bete kaiswis, that we cannot think it retitled to
the smallest credit. The testimonies on these two poiote
are evotaioed in the enurxed depositions and letters. We
bare out partially abate acted them in this report, km. by any
uoinientitioal °monitor, we might weaken *sir effect; bat
se humbly offer to your Majesty this our clear and onani.
Mulls judgeicat opus. them, formed me full deliberatiou, sad
pooounvcrd without hesizetion on she result a the whole
4ioquitiy. We do not, bowie, r, f,el ouraelvos si tihydy, mod,
as we slimild wish it, to cicse our report here. Resides
the allegations of the press mcy and delivery of the Prin•
cum, those decierations, on the whole of which your Majesty
ha* been phew,' to command us In Where're sud r, poet, cow.
lam, as we have already rem:liked, either p.itticulars respect-
ing the conduct of her Royal Highness, Farb as must,
especially cottaideriug her citified task and Beeline, cedes- '
Wily gave nee:mewl to very eisfaseetrable interprelatioes,
From the vellums de/emotions and proofs annexed to this re-
port. particularly from the examinetioas of Robert pidgood,
Cole, Fusion% Lloyd,and Mrs. Lisle, your Majesty
w II perceive that several Woo., ciesammesatets ref • thii 'de-
eseetwiten have been punitively 1111•118 le by v.iteiesses who
esesect, is our jedgeoeut, be suspected of airy unfavourable
' its.. and whose veracity, in obis respect, we bare seep no
elenued to apteelion. Oa the precise bearing and rlert sf the
'forts thus appearitig, it is sot for us to decide—lbese we
submit to your M limeys wisdom; but we conceive it to be
sue duty to report sin this part of the inquiry as distinctly
seem the former facie: that, as of the ease hand the facts
el pregnancy and delivery are to oar minds seliefartorily
disproved, soon the other hood we think that the eircuis•
siaoces to which we now refer, particularly those stilted to
have passed between her Royal Highness and Capt. Illsoby,
most be credited until they shall 'eerie* some decisive con-
lyadictioo,and, if true, are justly retitled to the most seeious
coseideratiou.
" We cannot close lies report wlilliont humbly assuring
your Majesty, that it was, on every account, our anxious
wads to have 'aerated ibis delicaterrost with as hole pvto
licit, as the suture of she case would possibly allow • and
we amoral your Majesty's permission to express our full per.
suasion that if this wish haebern disappointed, the failure
is out imputable to any thing sonecellsanly sad or done by
us. All which is must hunsfily subeiitted to %our Majesty.
(Weld) ERAKINIF.
" SPEfit'Rli, ELLVMOIRUUGH.

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report, and IN weempaselog alePenilionn• weak mend lea ghsflkillif •timeservise insltesi . OW Ithe PremThromll.
',Pees to the time; auto aeon lettere emetaluml her drawee a dig"ltki allmkei and would t gut" "Iva II"
le
*swan thus town 'herrn with whleb lbe Leeds Come eslieroiesf, were not herniatermil ',deeply wounded
deeply
had left bee tarnished. le' the ' perform- Iby the lorressing restraints which
dilly imposed opus
su▪ e
of this task, she had reeunrae to the legal advice her ostereouree with her daughter.
sod assistance of Mr. Hunger Pereeval, the late Chief At length her iiidighation horst forth. She could no
Justin Gibbs, mid ehe present Minter of the Rolls, Ste T. longer exist in sileure under the reiterated charges which
Potwar were preferred agaiust her, and wader the niortifieatiok
In the lettere to which we allude, her Royal Highest*, of being Rimini exposed to her daughter's ruelrmPt•
.lifter a must able refniaiion ire all winch bad been urged She wrote a letter to the Peirce Regent. charsein teed
Statist her, eimeheled with a prayer to be restored to the by considerable form and eloeplenre, is which glue chat-
prommee at hie Majesty at Court, sad thus to be cleared in booted a full, •• public disclosure of
lie eyes of the world. wetted with the issotiestion of 1008. Sire emphatically
The King, haring the &Ince of the Princess before said in this leper, "That while ,he did soil ',wore to in.
hies, and also her demands of justice at his hands, referred testile her feeling, as a mother soros hi. pausal Highness's
her letters to his Cabinet Ministers, sad required their opt- notice. she must be allowed to nay, that itl the eyes of an
sin and advice as to whet he oaght to do in the case. observing arid jealous worhl, thin reparation of • daughter
The Whigs who were then in power, felt some difficulty from her mother would only adroit atone consiendion--a
as to the course Udell they should pursue; hot, at length, construction fetid to the mother's reputation." This letter
ant January 25, 1807, they came to a resolution is the was moo back to her unopened, hot it aide.eqnently obtained
form of • Cabinet Miaow, in which, after adverting to publicity. The .whjert underwent repeated and warm dis-
the subject submitted to their consideration, they essieleded caution in the public press at the time, and warty freliegs
by stating, that "they bare agreed humbly to reconfirmed to I were exerted is a considerable degree. boll, however, no-
your Majesty the draft and message, which, if approved by d thing wag done.
Your Majesty, thi y woad humbly Ileigrat your Ma pity At last her Royal Highness, by the advice of her Coon-
might send t.. her Royal Highness llwough the Loud fint• senors, on the Sul March, 1/113, irastemitted to the Saraker
cello,. Having before humbly ssibmilled to your Majesty of the Howie of Commons the foHowing letter:— •
their opinion, that the farts of thecae, did nut warrant their " Montagn.bouse, Plackheath, March 1, 1813.
advising that nor Nether steps should be takes upon it by a The Prioress of Wales informs Mr. Speaker, that she
your at..jesty's Government, they lose not thought it me- I has received fruin Lord Viserst Sidmouth a ropy of a report
Lowry to advise yner Majesty sty longer to decline reedy. made in pursuance of the orders of his Mon Hotlines the
ing the Pris-en into ye*, Royal pennies. But the result i Prince Regent, by certain Members of bit 31.ijeei y's most ho.
of the whole ease dem in their judgment, reader it Oohs, mas,,sbk, Privy council, to whom, it appears. /list him Royal
pensable that your !Majesty should, by ft serious admonition, Highness hail hero advised to refer cert du olneu meats, sod
convey to her Royal Highness be
Majesty's expectation other evidence respecting the character mod esioduet of her
that her Royal Nighties, shouldbe more circumspect is her Royal Wellness. The report is of smell • nature, that her
future complete* ,. • . ,
_._ led Royal Hochman feels remanded no person eon read it with
Pending the deliberation of the LOllleiti widen ln out being sensible of the aspersions which it rats open her;
this Minute, the Princess, on the Bth of December, VW, i and althatogis it is so vague as to render it impossible to dis-
hed written anther letter to the King, urging a speedy de- I cover the tenor of the there', yet, as her Royal listings is
eision on her ease. conscious of no uffewee, elm feels it due to herself, to the
The King, agreeably to the advice of his Cabinet, sent a illuetriows Houses to chick she is connecter' by bled sad
message to the Princess, through the Lord Chancellor Ee. marriage, sod to the people among whom she holds so dot.
shine, enotaming the admonition recommended in the Mi- lingoished • rank, nut to acquiesce fur a single moment in
note of the Cabinet above alluded to. This message was any imputation affecting lire honour.
sent on the 48th of limitary, 1807. The Princess., upon re.
"The Princess of Wales has not been permitted so know
relying it, immediately wrote to the King, intimating to
os what evidence the Members uf the Privy Ci.uneil pro.
him that she would well upon him at Windsor ou the Mons
nested in their investigitom, our has her Royal Highness
day following. The King, the monies't he received her let.
been allowed to be heerd in her own defence, She knew
ter. wrote back that he preferred receiving her in London
oily by cosmoses rumour that such me inquiry had been in-
. epos a day subsequent to the ensuing week. To this letter
ustioited, unlit the mutt was commonicaird to her in the
the Princess returned no seswer, and wailed, of cease, to
form of the report. She knows •ut whether site is to con-
hear from the King. Thus every thing appeared to be ea.
eider the Members of the Privy Consul, by whom bet cons
thrfactoeity misled, and the Prince'', was abort to he restored
hie Royal Regimen the
.duel had been inquiireil into, alio body to whom she could
to society, when, at the request of
De authorised In apply for mires!, or in their individual
Prince of Wain, all further steps were suspended—that is
caneity es persons selected to make the report on her con-
ga say, She receiving of the Princess by his Majesty was pat
a. duct. s
he P
of Wales is, therefore, compelled to
off, until the Pm*" littudit he enabled I. sub." to toe throw herself on the wisdom and justice of Parliament, and
King a statement, which he plopereed to make to hiss upon are
me
„pine
reeling •• the primed.% defence, after annashi.
.. thy dram a
_flip investigation of her conduit d_ur-
) g the whole period of her residence in thee cossitiy. Her
iiig with his own lawyers.
Royal Highness feses no scrutiny, however strict, twovided
It was now that
•Ithe advisers of the Petite". begun ' ~,„ ''' it enducted by impartial joilges, and in a fair and ups.
change the tone of See letters, and frog the plaintive to
mason acnoding to law. It is her Royal ltiehneas'a wish
burst forth into the indignant. Her Royal Highness as- _ . - . '
uremia dee letter
of the King ennimanieeling the eireurn.
Hight to Dedesitreated
thisastiolothscset.it, or proved guilty.—Her Royal
i letter may be communwated to
atone last alluded tovou the 1216 of February, 1807, int-
..._ the Huesca Commons."
mating her design to represent to him, in another letter, late
varions ground* on which she felt the hardship of her ease; At the period of the receipt of this letter, Mr. Cochrane
which was done in a Wier dusted the lith of February, is a J°hnetune had given notice of a motion on the entkfret of
most able
question from Mr Whitbread, said, that it was nut neer-wiry
threat of " An appal to the public,' stolen the Prineelia '
should be speedily received at Court, and also allowed some to my say thing on the topic, till Mr. J°Mmlotte'• motion
suitable establishment ia some uue of the Royal Patens, I'm brought forward.
if ISO{ in Caritas House. To this letter she received so The report alluded to by her Royal Highness, as lowing
answer, cud out the sth of March she wrote again to the been sent to her by Lord Sidmouth, referred to her lever to
King to say, that unless her requests ware grouted, the the Friona Regent on the subject of the restrictions which
publication would not be withheld beyond the seat Mon- were plated on her intercourse with her daughter; and isle.
day, which 'would have been os the 9th of Marti% 1807. mined, " that the intercourse between her Royal Hightiess
The publication, or as it was afterwards called, Ili Bo* sad the Princess Charlotte should continue to be subject to
did wet appear; hot In fifteen days from that lime, Mr. regulation end restraint." This iutereourse, it sill he ris..
Perceval visa Chanoellee of the Exchequer. The publics. collected, was limited first to once a week, and eubsernenly
tins being thee for a time effectually checked, the Whig to once In two weeks.
Ministry. including the friends of the Piinee, went out of i On the dtb of !March Mr. Cochrane Johnstooe's motion
office, and lore was no longer any obstacle to the receiving I came oil; it roadsted of two resolutions, whiuh called for
of the Fitness it Court; and, accordingly, on the 2lsl of I all the documents rclatiog to the charges *loch had bee*
April, 11107,illiaillea were I iid before the King, as • peels* I directly and indirectly imputed to her Royal &betimes,.
to that step, in which the Council declared as follows: A debate took place. with closed doors, strangers having
" Afar the most deliberate consideration of the eel- been excluded from the gallery, the result of which lioa
deuce which has been brought before the Commisseoutrat the complete admission, on the part of Lord Castlereagh,
. and of the previous examinations, as well as of the Gnawer - of the insoceoce of her Royal Hi:horse, and au acknowledg-
sad observation which have been submitted to your Ma- I meet that the pre/election of the documents and papers
jesty upon them, they (the Cabion) feel it lowessary to is question was trot necessary to establish that fact. The
declare their decided eeneurrean in the clear and sisal- mottos of Mr. Johnstone was in consequence uegatived,
mous opinion of the Commissioners, confirmed by that of without a division.
all your Majesty's late confidential Servauts, that the two So in afterwards the long.suppreneil Look made its sp.
undo charges alleged against her Royal Highness, t f peer I penance, mud pot an roil to all Muse doubts which the pre-
oancy and delivery, are completely disproved; and they fur- VIUII4 mystery that haul hung about the trausactious it un-
Hier submit to your Majesty their unanimous opine*, that folded was calculated to excite.
all the other particulars of conduct brought in accusation Na sootier had the oulii;c an opportunity if appreciating,
against her Royal Mightiest, to Udell the character anion- the real contents of The Ike*, than the citizens of Condos.
nighty can be ascribed, are either satisfactorily contradicted, expressed a determiNtiton to meet, for the purpose of taking
Of real spon evidence of such a mature, mud which was given iota email ration a the prom lily of pretending • loyal and
cider such circumstances, as render it, in the judgment of affeetionete address to her Royal H trines, ow the subject
• your Majesty's confidential servants, undeserving of credit. of the lately exposed wicked sad cruel attempts against
Tour Majesty's confidential servants, therefore, concurring her Ropl Highsen's character and life." A reapoisittim was
Is that part of the opinion of your late servants, as stated delivered to the lord Mayor on the 29th of March, request.
in their minute of the 25th of J y, that there is no ing him to hold a COIOOIOII Hall for the conaideratiou of
• longer any necessity for your Majesty beteg advised to de- this proposition, and in accord:tore slorewith a Cisme,'
ehiue receiving the Princess into your royal presence, humbly Hall was actually convened on the Slat of the same month.
' submit to your !Majesty, that it is einwatially necessary, is Alderman Wood brought furoard the subject of the day,
jimier to her Royal Higher, and foe the homier and tole- and after commenting as the cruel slanders by which the
rest of your Majesty's illustrious family, that her Royal Princess hail bees assailed, sod the complete and terefrag-
: Witham' the Prioress of Wales should he admitted with all able esteblisheneut of her imincence, be moved an Address
little delay as possible lath your Majesty's royal presence ; to her Royal Highness to the rffcrt above stated.
sad that ate should Ire received in a manner due to her rank The Addles, was, after some discussion, carried with very
' sod station in your Majesty's Court and family." Among the fen opponents. It ens also agreed drat it should be pre.
Ministers sanctioning this initiate were Lord Eldon, Lord nested to her Royal Highness by the Lord Mayor, Aldermen,
Camden, Load Wellmucand, the Duke of Portland, Earl Sheriffs, and 100 of the Livery.
Bathurst, Viseoulit Castlereagh, Lord Mulgrave, Mr. Can. t Her Royal &hoots, received the Lord Mayor .114 his at.
sing, the. I tendairts in the gravid dining-room. She was accompanied
There was • sups-ate initiate in which the Council de. by Ladies Charlotte Lindsay, Chat ludic Camper 11, and Lady
dined interfering, as to the assignment of apartments to the Acne Hamilton, her Royal Hirlineses ladies in waiting.
?risen., in one of the Royal Palaces, ibis being a subject The Town Clerk haying read ;he Addrtai, her Royal °High.
.paelifiyof a private and domestic nature. mess and the followiug Asiswer r-ar
Thus ended the matter al that time. The Princess was ra
stored to her sitaniou at Court, with a reputation per. I thank you fur your !eon sod affectionate Address.
re
It is to me the greatest entisidatiou to learn, that during so
belly unsullied, altboagh it had hero so base", attache:l,2nd many years of unmerited persccutiou, notwithstanding the
to this period it may fairly be alleged, that if Providence sehive and persevering dimemination of the most deliberate
bad ordained that the neat which we have so rectally had calumnies against me, the kind sad favotiratile sentiments
to deplore, had not token place, there grai, mulling la Jar- with which they did me the honour to approach rue. uo nit
Moe which could have deprived her Royal Highness of all I arrival in able eutintry, have undercoat neithertliminutiop
bon rights and dignities belonging to the Quell of Eng- seer chaste is the heart• of the ciente IBS of leandon. 114
*ed. IVhat may hays sincy I nod ip change the rho- pease of indignation and abhorrence you express against the
rain, of bee claims, fature-dieroverito may possibly unfold. foul and detestable e„„pirsey, ',hick, by perjored sal
AS grimes' the matter ie unwired in aecre,,,re the exist- suborned traducers, has been carried on against my life and
IN. a doe rumours to which we shall hereafter revert. honour, is worthy of you, and most gratifying to me. It
II In Wiper in this platen Mete, that the details respect. f must be duly appreciated by french vf that Illustrious.
sis• The Delicate liorestigatios." which we have jos! eon. Homo with which lam so closely connected by blood and
mod, were, although ready for publication, soddenly marriage, the personal welfare of every one of whom must
aelleiraws from the public eye. Three copies only, it is have bees affected by the success of such atrocious ameba-
wifigened, escaped die vigilance of those whose interest it onions.
ma la suer'', thems mud for these lb' moat extravagant " The coneinnaness of nor innocence Ws supported me
piens were offered. lessee cariosity was excited only to through my lung, severe, and munition' trials; your up.
lie disappointed, and the arestry at large remained in ign0,.....
,..... probation of my conduct wider ttwiii is a reward for all
anew of OW charges which had bees brought against the my siarriugs. I shall nut lose any opportunity 1 may be
fibbing, sad whistle is the absence( truth, were diaeortert permitted to enjoy, of earoarsguag the totems aril virtues
In Its moat altaniefol morose. •
of my dear daughter, the Princess Charlotte; and I shall
tip to this time Mr. Perrevai may have bees said to have impraia, upon her mind my full Settle of theftwie,iou co„.
acted is the mail honoweable manner towards his illisstrisios (erred upon gee by ibis spootaneous act of yousjiudice and
eliesit...ht had eleared her of every imputation; he had re. generosity. She will therein clearly perceive the value of that
stored her to the Cunt ;Ise had replaced her in a palace (she •
Wee COI 000 i O 1311011. whirls, is the 'moral COW'Se of events,
eibtaiwed epartmeuts in Kensiugion Palace), mud bad doom
it will be her derisiny to preside*over, mid her mesa duty
all that the aunt sanguine wishes could have anticipated. to maintain, which allows no one to sink under oppression;
From hie subsequent troadoct, however, it would seem and she will ever he bound to the City of Loodon in ties
Ilial he had acted under • different helium. When the proportioned to thesetength of that filial 'Multiunit I have
Regency tame to he established is the person of lb. puree; had the happens* uniformly to experince fauns her.
when ire lumbuld came la he exalted 19 the rash. the " Bs assured that the cordial and convincing proof yon
spleodutir, and power of a King, the Prinennwas still left jam thus gives of your solicitude fur my peuripseity and
it' her forint comparatively obscure mud penurious Melee happesess, will herb/wished in patella remembrance by me
His anion oat this *ensure excited at the time a Mod- -to the latest woman of my life; and the distinguished pro.
disable degree or aollusdeerstual• He had renewal the eeediag adopted by the Brat any of this great empire, will
'Pilings trim the emisequenen of • fend taboos, ; hot be eionsialsed by ponseity as • Freed esenuoild of my vie.
her hosbenri being *ow rutted, her nom-exaltation oper•thl dialled boarow."
• with rewire in lin• tharseite, is lonely the same way se Her Royal Higbee. read the *sower with great propriety,
her exclusion from Genet had ferrule, operated. '. &Aim sad dignity. Mr. Aliment Wood resesias es gen-
Her Royal Highness wits spin exposed to die stalevu estudwas with her Royal ilighuiss for • cousidetable time,

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and palled riot the moat penvoineht characters she ewe
present, as they advanced to kite her hoed.
The example thus art by the City of Loudon was followed
by Westminster, by the Common (outwit of LOHISSON, by the
Freemen and Burgesses of Bristol, and by other pupilage
pares.
tlds spirit pervaded atte prisstior "may, however,
the,e were those who were still ilistinlined to acquiesce is
all that was urged in favor, of her Royal Highoess't Mae.
tenet. Abe was still an vole f
4ons the British Court, apt
Slistaiwed all that prejudice which sorb a situation was as.
'orally calculated to moiler,. The resting-toms toe as whet
interconnw wills bee disogliter were libewia► cinaisited, saut
slur had only occasionally lb. billowier, of erjuying
',Season of her society. Her R.Til 1-I.ehtivas still e.0010w..l
her benevolent pursuits, and in the eai rrise sit prints eu,„;
to obtain a consolatio• fur her public urrunve it Is ai„,yr
that her Royal Highness was extremely partial to 1A116%
and deprived of the society of her to wheal nalnre had ca.
*hinted her the guardian, she frequently bestowed an
air/MOM sport the off peieg of others, whim she WlLlyaol
and eftereards sworided fee. Anomie ethers to Mood she
was Hens attached, was the boy Williams Ale•IOI, slhhiell as
in the report of she Com inissisisiers already instill. Th.. lad
is still her companion, utd areasuipames her.. her travel,
1907, the Duchess of Brunswick arrivr4 in this rose.
try, sod was met by his late Majesty .1 the house 01 the
Princess of Wales, at Blackheath. After • hug residence la
• lonise provided for her accomniudation, winch is Slow
Occupied by the Prioress Sophia of Gloucester, she died, sad
thus her daughter, the Prisms, of Wales, was deprived of
the solace of • kind and affectionate pares,.
The brother of her Royal Highuesa, we believe, was
killed in action, and the dispointion of hi• property has
solve gives rise to prneeednige in the Court of (ninny In
which her present Majesty is deeply interested, aid wioca
se. ins to be tanked in considerable demist.
The gererosity wit& which the Parisian refused to .rapt
the innisente eif WOW pre amnia proposed to be granted
to her by his Majesty'eMleiaters, tinder the R y, is still
freak in the reetitleetio• of no. readers. She loomed the sow
proposed to2L.dOAfl wheels peorssessa she has sine* enjoyeil.
In 1814, lie, Royal 1111glesem baring then bast few induce-
mews to remain WS a country where she was cumeantiv re.
posed to indignity, quitted England with a small ro 'nw,
nail by travel emlearoused to de. rt lot mind from the coo.
timplatiuo of circurnst which were emilient ly tales Writ
to produce pain. In this nay sloe visited all that was wordy
of elmrest ))))) in &trope sod Asia, and then dud her rrsi-.
deuce on the borders of lake Coinu, Guns whence she Occasion.
ally nastle excurateue to uti.er places. Of her Wale in shit
romantic retreat, she afterwards disposed, and proceeded to
Prism), $ town in Italy, "Woe about 130 mile. of Rowse.
where she now reit/bre/I some property. In 1418, she ow,
apprised of the marriage of the P. inns* Charlotte, mid in
the following year had the painful tutelligence emansasio..
rated to brr of the death of her beloved used antiallk
daughter, whose 111111 was *el hiss statetio: to her feelings
than it was to the satins UMW wheels, had she bred, she was
&stilted to goveru. Her Royal Highness had west fewer io-
dine:seats than ever to retina to Rogland, and she conk.
sued to seek, by occasional chances from place is place on
the Coodiurot, a relief from the melanclonly by which the
was assailed. Daring these exeursions, rumours owe circu-
lated in this cessillryospoo whet suatliority we have hero as.
able to discover, that the conduct of her Royal Higbee.
was utterly at veriattere with that dignity sod purity which
was calculated to everet lionsisir epos herself, or wpm the
Lliyb rank in which she was placed.
The following is an extract from a Work just
entittrd, " A Word fur the King, nail a
Word to the Queen :"
" It is knovrts that shorUy after the death of hie late Ma-
jesty, it was dcsigued to put the matter at rest for ever by
en open judicial proceeding, which should release the parties
from those bonds which, had so long connected thews to-
gether, but never mold unite. them. This titration was
changed, however, to consequence of as. interview whit),
took place between an eariowat Bin rioter and a distioguisheil
Nobleman; ON which ocresioa, the copy et a letter to ass
Illustrious Penonage was laid before Isis Lordship, hs which
the Royal Writer declares his i..Aexibla risohatiois never
again to hold communion or intercourse with her. The
leper la supposed to base been critics sow years age, in
the warmth of injured feeliism, ae she language and senti-
ments betray considerable optative,. Shortly afterwards.
an extraordinary Cahiset Cuhucil was contented, to take
into consideration the important polo., so long a sahject of
anxiety is the mind of the King. 0517 arse sal the Law
Officers of the Crown costarred i• the wishes of hie Ma-
jesty ; the whole Cabinet besides were so oppressed with the
lechoital difficulties of the case, Ibat they declined encearr.
tering them, and a rotted robin was addressed to his Mainly/
on Monday the lath Feburary oft. which left, for • time, sia
the great offices of State raceme, and the comity without . a
responsible Governmeut."

WRIT MON DAY....-HOlidily et the Bank, Exchequer, KO:
With end S..th ites Houses.

TH E URIT(SiI Pit ESs.

LON DON.
MONDAY, MAY Ye, 1820.

Paris Papers of Wednesday and Thursday
have arrived at our Office. The H•gh Court: eF
Petry, in its sitting of the preceding day, hrar•l
the conclusion of the Report of the ..:otornittea tt.•
which the proceedings against Lourel were referred.
The Report, with the evidence and documents an-
nexed to it, being reed, the Attorinly-Ceneral, 11.
BELL&RT, commenced his charge prooit Ihr P.,-
poner. This, it was thought, would pflabobt.‘ oc-
cupy the Court during the sittings of Weduesddy
and l'hurvil.iy.
It is officially announced that her Royal High-
ness the Duclie.. of BtiOtlf has atteased the filth
month of her pregnancy. The Princess enjoys ex.
ttlleut health.

We litated on Saturday that the Queen of EMG-
LAND had arrived at Genres, where her 51AJK3Ilf
intended to remain until her &perry, Colonel
VassaLt, returned thither with answers to the dei-
patches of which he hail .been the beater to Eng-
land. The Paris Valerie licre for some tone rnn,
lopsly
repeated the asseriii.ii of her 11 um t
arrival ill l'aria. hilt thin certainly has hitherto been
.premr ere; indeed it has been positively iroettr.l
by some persona in England, that liar NlAJlirrl.
iii her route to London, *ll avoid Paris. Upon
this bulled we tind the following par.;e,r iplis in the
Paris Papery. of Touredsy:—
PARtS, PUY 28.
Yesterday evening, at seven o'clea.k. the Queer
of England arrived in Paris. Sire ali4hted at the
lintel de Ricoh, in the street of that laser. The
Queen's suite was not numerous: she bird two LI-
, dies of limiour.—(Thr-firiosiroor )

Every titi“g that has bsibettu been twit abort the
ervival-of the lithseirs of ENG LA N D iu Pam, op-
,
'ears comptvely turfoutoded. A colones eatraor-
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t—
• Phi it Our vuor Iblairelp—Totar Msjotty tomtit(
lore orotiovoly plessod, lay so insinisrert Wooer your blii-
jrati's wore Aro elserei, acuity of %Me% it sosoord to this
roWalti,' tit atitlioNtor, floproof. fiwd defeat us 10 loggia*
toff; for gnat of terOth otittett t‘cloriitiltirt twor4liet
of Isee• IlmillOtoPouStaf Woke. em
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• & <rpe c4m. J,perkrll"
report er.s stlornpattie4 by elipies of the arrui-
aeig which had bees taken b.f.,' their Girlsl4.4 loci
hick neither ow Hinds am oar ifellestions will wank us
err insert. Moos or theta were eharitrierigid bP de-
Lae of the mod iwkltrete sod moot isoproliabk n•tuhe.
no Princess, spoil being forslabed with s espy of this

hotel of the English emlnaiy, left her Mati.sli
in that city. It was not doubted at his departure
that this ['amass would shortly set out for the
csvitel of France.—(Joarnai des Debate.)
The Queen of ENGLAND slept the night before
last at Corbeil, and was to arrive yesterday in
Paris.—(Gazette de France.)
These paragraphs ire not absolutely contradic-
tory or inconsistent. To prove, however, the reli-
ince which we ought to repose ou one of these
papers, we find in the Gasette de Frames, in the
very next paragraph to that which relates to the
CICEEN, that " the celebrated Radical Hunt has
arrived in Paris, to be a witness to the disputes
upon the law of elections, and at the same time to
escape from the numerous writs which are directed
against him in England." Mr. MKT, we pre-
sume, would have no objection to exchange his
journey to Ilchester goal for a trip to the French
capital led dis outer vistas!
The debates still continue on the new law of
elections, but they are particularly uninteresting.
The Keeper of the Seals, M. DE SURE, has arrived
in Paris, perfectly restored in health.
Two individuals, named Julies Combo and
Palaiseass, formerly officers in the French army.
were arrested at Besancon on the 14th. This cir-
cumstance has excited numerous conjectures.
They ve supposed to have been implicated in a
conspiracy, as on the same day a man named
Bourgeois, who during the hundred days had been
en officer of • free corps. was arrested at Lons-le.
Sanliner, with four of his friends. They have all
been thrown into prison at Besancon.
Five per Cents. 74 f.

Dutch and Hamborgh Papers have arrived.
The latter to the 121. h, the former to the 17th inst.
Orders have been issued by the Government of the
Netherlowly to pay the strictest attention to the
passports of all persons travelling in that kingdom.
Tyro persons were letely arrested on the French
front erslimpet:lrd of being accomplices of (iracier.

An article front Milan antiounces some interest-
ing discoveries in literature. It is said that Mr.
PFARov, Professor of the Oriental languages in
the University of Turin, has lately discovered some
11,therto unknown MSS. of Clceao and of Sr.
AvotSTINS.

All account from Schwerin mentions, that two
large chests full of antiques have been found in
the Grand Ducal Palace, in • wing which was
built by the celebrated WALLENSTIBIN, during the
lbwy years war.
The Emperor of RUSSIA, in his anxiety to en-
courage the national manufacture of printed cell-
cars, published an Ukase on the 24th of March
incresiling the duties upon the importation of co-
11,urril tooth.

Satorday the depots of the 26th, 70th, 74th
74-011, aid 92d regiments matched into Portsmouth,
roil embarked for Albany barrack., in the I.le of
Wight. All the depots of King's troops on foreign
'eviler, have now been removed to the above bar.
lacks; and each East India and other ships as are
intemled to convey them to their respective &sil-
o/nista', will call at Portsmouth to embark them.
The Eint India Compati3's depots (for their own
troops) are continued at Chatham.
Friday the Richard packet, HUTCNINS. sailed
for awe, with about fifty passengers, from Ports-
mouth, all of whom inteitd embarking at that
port for the United States of America.
Captain HINDI!' STA/MOPS is appointed to the
Alacrity, 10, et Deptford. Lieut. N. GOULD to
coma:laud the Drake cutter; Lieut. D. .1. Dice.
SON to the Alacrity.
The launching of the P►ince Regent yacht, which
was fixed for the 29th inst. is postponed until fur.
thee orders. in order to have new patent water
xicatets fitted up. Mr. Swum, ma►ine printer to
the KING, is at Portsmouth, making a drawiug of
the yacht for his MAJIITY.
The Heroirsita Galutica. with naval stores for
the Mauritius sod Trincomalee, mud detachments
the 56th and Ind regiments on board, is lying
at Spithead, wind.bound.
Haddart, fur Quebec, is to call at Ports.
mouth to embark a number of Warrant Officers,
who have been appointed to ships ou the Lakes of
Canada.

The Success transport arrived at Portsmouth, I
yesterday se'unight from Malta and Gibraltar,
with detachments of Artillery and Eogineerv, and
, of the 10th, 11th, 261,i, 27th. and 64th regitnents,
commanded by Major PEA RCE, Royal Artillery.—
She sailed ou Friday for Sheerness, to laud part of
the troops.
His MmtertT'S ship Piga, Admiral LAMBERT,
ri
arved at . &Clews the I Ith tilt. and sailed the 14' h
i !'or Tenerife mid St. Helena. The Trihune, Ad-
miral PAMIR, arrived at Madeira the 23d ult. front
Plymouth, and sailed on the 26th for liarbadoes.
The Leander, Rear-Admiral the lion. Sir
I lENRY BLACKWOOD, arrived at the Cape of Good
Hope on the 4th of March. The Leander lost two
anchors and cables in Funchal Roads. Madeira, in
weighing from that Island, and encountered very
Severe weather to the southward of the Line, but
sustained no injury.
sA Court-martial was held on Friday and Satur-
day, at Portsmouth, on the clerk of his Majesty's
*hip Sappho, on charges of endeavouring to defraud ,
Government, by forging an officer's quarterly hill,
which being fully substautiated, lie was sentenced to
• be imprisoned two years in solitary confinement in
the Marshalsea, and to be dismiss.d the service.
The actual crime he coonnitted was forging a navy
bill, but it being done at St. Helena it was not
cognizable by the laws of this country. and neither
the Articles of War. nor the Admiralty Statutes.
comprehend the offence of forgery. He was them'
fore tried by a Court-martial for a Nod. ~

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THIS EVENtIIG.
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Lord Arden's entertainment, Si J•ines's place.
Countess of Shatiesbury'a assembly, Geo.:senor-square.
Subscription ball al Alruark's.
Mrs. Buller 's ball, Glimeesimplace.
Viscount Granville's pally, Brutria-street, Berkeley-square.

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Lady Htddheolea graud aaapnehly. Groaveaor-siaare.
Mr.. Scold klurraa'a ball. Csirra.lislaaapiare.
Lady Blackrier ball, Porttrinn 1.1:1111f P.
Ma Commas of Arram'a party, Mayer street.