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us? That -her lose for me, with whom, by his Majesty's
vice and gr';icious art angements, she i'assed the years of her ,
infancy *and childhood, never can be extinguished, 1 well
know, anti the knowledge of it forms the greatest blessing of
my existence. But let me implore your Royal Highness to
reflect, how inevinb!y all attempts to abate this attachment,
by forcibly searating us, if they succeed, must injure my
principles—if they fail must destroy her barpiness.

The plan of excluding my daughter from all intercourse
with the world, appears to my bumble judgment, peculiarly
unfortunate. She, who is destined to be the Sovereign of
this great country, enjoys none of those advantages of so-
ciety which are deemed necessary for imparting a knowledge
of mankind to persons who have infinitely less occasion to
learn that important lesson ; and it may so happen, by a
chance which I trust is very remote, that she should be called
upon to exercise the powers cf the Crown, with an experi-
ence of the world more confined than that of the most pri-
vate individual. To the extraordinary talents with which
she is blessed, and which accompany a disposition as singu-
larly amiable, frank and decided, I willingly trust much;
but beyond a certain point the greatest natural endowments
cannot struggle against the disadvantages of circumstances
and situation. It is my earnest prayer, for her own sake, as
well as her country's, that your Royal Highness may be in-
dnced to pause befe,re this point be reached.
'6 Those who have advised you, Sir, to delay so long the
period of my Daughter's' commencing her intercourse with
the world, and for that purpose to make Windsor her resi-
dence, appear not to have regarded the interruptions to her
vducaf on which this arrangement occasions ; both by the
impossibility of obtaining the attendance of proper teachers,
and the time uuavoitktbly consumed in the frequent jour
nrys to town, which she must make, unless she is to be se-
cluded from all intercourse even with your Royal Highness
and the rest of the Royal Family. To the same unfortunate
Counsels I ascribe a circumstance iu every way so distressing
both to me pirental a: id religious feelings, that my Daugh
ter has never yet enjoyed the benefit of Confirmation, al-
though above a year older than the age at which all the
other branches of the Royal Family have partaken of that
solemnity. May I earnestly conjure you, Sir, to bear my
intreatics upon this serious matter, even if you should listen
to other adviscis on things of less near concernment to the
welfare of our Child ?

" The pain with which I have at length formed the reso-
lution of addressing myself to your Royal Highness is such
as I should iu vain attempt to express. If I could adequately
describe it, you might be epabled, Sir, to estimate the
strength of the motives which have made me submit to it.
They are- the most powerful feelings of affection, and the
deepest impressions of duty towards your Royal Highness,
my be:oved Child, and the country, which I devoutly hope
she may be preserved to govern, and to chew, by a new ex-
ample, the liberal affection of a free and generous people to
a virtuous and constitutional Monarch.

" J am, Sir, with profound respect and an attachment
which nothingtan alter, your Royal Highness's most de-
voted and affectionate consult; cousin, and subject,
(Signed) " CAROLINE LOVISi."
Montague Wule, J: n. 14, 1E313."