The National Register.
London, England, 1813-03-07 00:00:00

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istence may be acknowledged. It was natural, from all the
misrepresentations which had been circulated through the
country, to anticipate allusions and statements, which,
although they might be necessary as illustrations in debate,
it would be improper should fall under the public eye.
Such a motive must have influenced Mr. LYGON when he
moved a second time the exclusion of strangers. But we
have no doubt that, after what passed in Parliament on Fri-
day night, he sincerely laments that he should have contri-
buted to withhold from the nation that full and satisfactory
vindication of the Princess of which, uttered by
every person who, from his station and office, has had the
means of investigating her character and conduct, must,
when universally known, dispel every doubt that might still
'have been entertained respecting her complete innocence.
He must now conceive, what could not, however, have been
anticipated, that want of publicity in such a case as the pre-
sent would be injustice both to the PRINCE and his Royal
Consort ; and that if, as it is confidently asserted, Members
had not been found, who favoured particular Papers with a
detailed report of the proceedings of the !louse, this affair,
which is now decided, and, we trust, set at rest for ever,
as far as it relates to the Royal Couple, would remain
wrapped up in as much obscurity, and as liable to misrepre-
sentation as ever. From the animated and eloquent debate
of Friday night, it distinctly appears, that the restrictions laid
on the intercourse between the Princess of Wales and her
Daughter, do not proceed from any criminality or impropriety
of conduct on the part of the
.former, but spri i from the Pc-
cevity of preventing too great a loss (f lime a ,t 1 interruption
of her studies.
The additional restrictions (if restrictions they can rightly be
called) by which the interviews between the Royal Parent
and her Daughter were reduced to one a forth 41t, instead of
arising from the motive to which her Royal Highness or her
advisers chose to attribute them, were the c msequence, we
arc now officially told by Lord CXST L EREA CH, of the Prin-
cess CHARLOTTE'S stay at Windsor, and like it were merely '
temporary. It is to be lamented that this fact was not ex-
plained to her Royal Highness on her first private applica-
tion to the Pa iNce, as it would have prevented the publica-
tion of her letter, and the discussion of family differences,
which at a time like the present are particularly to be
deprecated, as they turn aside the attention of Govern-
ment from the affairs of the Continent, when every
thought ought to dwell on the means of profiting by the
present distress of the FRENCH EMPEROR, and every ex-
ert•on ought to be made to conulete hi.: overthrow.
We shall now refer our t vade..., to Ft idav's debate, in which
they still see the accusers of the PR INC 17.;c of W AI. Es repre-
sented by 1..0rd C ASTL FIREA as " gulty and degtaded
beings."
We shall close with the following pa 7 tic.JLlrs from The
:Mot nine. Chrnnicle
The Pe iNcEss of WA Les had long been sei/nrated from
the PRINCE, before the forinid3hle charges I..>re made against
her by Sir Jr) *-,N and lady Doucit.As; charges which made
it indisprnsible for the PRINCE, in the opinion of Lord
Tit utt Low, to sohmit them to His MAi Es'r v. Itl tire couise
Of her Royal Highness%) defence on the co:!atc:•a! ci;-cum-
stantes which came mot on the inquiry, she het forth a letter
which she had received from the PRINCE RLO EN T, which,
though certainly not gk-ing sanctum to any t.:•eedom of he,
)laviour, incoasistent with the duties and decorum of domes_