The National Register.
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TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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not recollect that I did. I never heard any body say anv
thing about the Princess being pregnant till I came here to-
day. I did not expect to be asked any questions respecting
the Princess being pregnant. Nobody came over to the
Princess from Germany, in the Autumn of 1802, to my
knowledge. Her Royal Highness was generally blooded
twice a-year, but not lately. I never had any reason to
suppose that the Princess received the visits of any gentle-
man at improper hours. Sir Sydney Smith visited her fre-
quently. and &most daily. He was there very late, some-
times till two o'clock in the morning. I never saw Sir Syd-
ney Smith in a room alone with the Pi incess late at night.
I never saw any thing which led me to suppose that Sir
Sydney Smith was on a very familiar footing with the Prin-
cess of Walea. I attended the Princess of Wales to South-
end. She had two houses, No. 9, and No. 8. I knew
Captain Manby, be commanded the African ; he visited
the Princess while his ship was there, he %vas frequently with
the Princess. Ido not know or believe, and I have no rea-
son to believe, that Captain Maltby stayed till very late
hours with the Princess. never suspected that there was
any impr)per familiarity between them. I never expressed
to anv bodya wish that Captain Manby's visits were not so

frequent. If the Princess had company,•l never was present.
The Princess was at Hainsgate in 1803; I have seen Captain
Manbv there frequently. Ile came to the Princess's house
to dinner, he never stayed till late at night at the Princess's
house. 1 vira in Devonshire with the Princess lately, there
was no one ofli:er that she saw when she was in Devonshire
more than the rest. I never heard from the Princess that
she apprehended her conduct was quevioned. When I was
brought here, I thought I might be que:.t oned respecting
the Princess's conduct, and I was sorry to come; I don't
know why I thought so; I never saw any thing in the con-
duct of the Princess, while I lived with her, which would
have made me uneasy, if I had been her Inas'iand. When
I was at South End, I dined in the Steward's room. I can't
say whether I ever heard any body in the steward's rown
say any thing about the Captain (meaning Captain Maltby);
it is so long ago, I may have forgot it ; 1 have seen Captain
Manbv alone with the Princess, at No. 9, iii the drawing-
room, at Southend ; I have seen it only once or twice ; it
was two or three o'clock in the afternoon, and never later.
I slept in a room next to the Princess, in the house N 0.9,
at Southend ; I never saw Captain Manby in any part of
that house but the drawing-room ; I have no reason to be-
lieve he was in any other room in the house. I was at Ca-
therington with the Princess; she was at Mr. hood's house;
I never saw any familiarity between her and Mr. flood ;
have seen her drive out in Mr. Hood's carriage with him
alone : it was a gig; they used to be absent for several
hours, a servant of the Princess attended them; I have de
livered packets by the order of the Princess, which she gave
toe, sealed up, to Siecard, to he by him forwarded to ('ap-
tain Manby. The birth-day of the chid who lives with the
Princess is the 11th of July, as his mother told Inc she says
that he wvaa christened at Deptford. The child had a mark
on the hand, the mother told me that it was from red-
wine: I believe the child came to the Princess in No-
(S:gned) C. SANIkR.
Sworn at Lord Cilerivilh's house,
in Downing-street, the ith day •
of June, 1 RA. •
Igned) ERSKI sIT, SPENCER.
GRENVILLE, ELLENAOROUGH.

vetnber.

DEPOSUI lON OF FRANCES LLOYD.

I have lived twelve years with the Princess of• Wales next October.
I am in the coffee-room ; my situation in the coffee-room does not give
me opportunities of seeing the Princess. .1 do not see her sometimes
tbr montlts. Mr. Milks at*nded me for a cold. He asked me if the
incess came to Blackheath backwards and forwards, or something to
that effect, for the Princess was with child, or looked as if she was
with child. • This must have been three or four years ago. It may
have been five years ago. I think it must have been some time before
the childwas brought to the Princess. I remember the child being
brought, it was brought into my room. I had orders sent to me to
give the mother arrow-root, with directions how to make it, to wean
the child, and I gave it to the mother, and she took the child away ;
afterwards the mother brought the child back again. Whether it was
a week, ten days, or a fortnight; I cannot say, but it might be about
that time. The second time the mother brought the child, she
brought it into my room ; I asked how a mother could part with her
child ? lam not sure which time I asked this. The mother cried,
and said she could not afford to keep it. The child was said to be
about four months old when it was brought. i did not particularly
observe it myself. (Signed) FRANCES LLOYD.

1 was at Ramsgate with the Princess in 180.1.—One morning when
we were in the house at East somebody, I do not recollect who,
knocked at my door, and desired me to get up, to prepare breakfast
for the Princess ; this was about six o'clock ; I was asleep. During
the whole time I was in the Princess's service I had never been called
up befote to make breakfast for the Princess. .1 slept in the House-
keeper's room, on the ground-floor ; I opened the shutters of the
windows for light. I knew at that time that Capt. Manby's ship
was in the Downs. When I opened the shutteri. I saw the Princess
walking down the garden with a gentleman ; she was walking down
the gravel walks towards-the sea. No onkrs had been given over night
to prepare the breakftst early. The Gentleman the Princess was
walking with was a tall man ; I was surprised to see the Princess
walking with a gentleman at that time in the morning— I am sure it
was the princess. While we were at Blackheath, a woman at Charl-
ton of the name of Townley, told me she had some linen to wash front
the Princess's house ; that the linen was marked with the appearance
of a miscarriage, or a delivery. The woman has simce left Charlton,
but she. has friends there. I think it must have been before the child
was br6ught to the Princess, that the woman, told me this. I know
all the women in the Princess's house. I don't think any of theca
were in a state of pregeaney, and if any had, I think I must have
known never told Cole, that May Wilson, when she supposed
the Princess to he in the library, had gone into the Princess's bed-room,
and had found a man there at breakfast with the Princess, or that there
was a great deal to do about it, and that Mary Wils-qr was sworn to
secrecy, and threatened to be turned 'away if she divulged what she
had been.

IRANCES LLOYD.

(Signed)
Sworn at Lord Grenville',: in
Downing-street, June 7, 1806, btf)re
(Signed) ERSEINE, - GRENVII.I E.
SPENCER, ELLENBOROUGII.

THE DEPOSITION AL‘ fly AN N WILSON.

I believe it will be ten years next quarter that I have lived with
the Princess. I waited on the ladies who attend the Princess. I
remember when the child who is now with the Princess was brought
there. Before it came I heard say that it was to come., The Mother
brought the child. It apppearcd to be abut four months old when
it was brought. I remember twins being brought to the Princess
before the child was brought. I never noticed the Princess's shape to
be ralterent in that year from what it was betbie. I never had a
thought that the Princess was.with child. I think she could not have
been with child, and have gone on to her time, without my knowing
it. I was at Southend itit the Princess. Capt. Maltby used to
visit the Princess there. I made the Princess's bed, and have been in
the habit of malcng it ever since I lived with her Royal Flighne:-s.
Another maid, whose name is Aim Bye, assisted with me in making
the bed. From what 1 observed, I never had any reason to believe
that two persons had slept in the bed; I never saw ary particular
appearance in it. The linen was washed by Strikeman's %vile.
(Signed) MARY WILSON.
Sworn at Lord Grenville's Douse, in
Downing-street, Jun.: 7, IW6, bet Ore
(Signed) EKSKINE, ,GRENVILLE,
SPE. N CER, ELLLNIIOROUGH.

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