The National Register.
London, England, 1813-03-21 00:00:00

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feted me s.xty thous:,oll if :old live :1•. Miiver, but 1 iievvr will ;
this is the only country in the woad to live in. She then kissed me,

mud I took my leave."
The story of the Princeis te!lin her that she etas preg-
nant is told nearly the same as in the deposition, and after
this, the statement goes on as fol'Ows.—
" It will scarcely be ers (Wed (nevcrthe.ess it is strictly true,
and thos- Who were present must avow it, or 'sedum themselves)
wi9ast liberty the Princess gave both to her thoughts and her tongue,
in respect to every part of the Royal Family. It was disosting to
beyond the power of lasiglrge to l!eserilre, and upon such oc-
casions we always believed ae:l loped she could tut br arl are of
what she was talking about, otherwise c mmon family affection,
common sense, and common policy ‘vonld have kept her filcut. She
said before the two Fitzgeralds, Sir Sidney Swills, and on: selves
that when Mr. Addington had his house given him, his Majesty did
tint know what he was about, and waved her hand round and sound
her head, lairdsing, and saying "Certainly he did not; but the
Queen got twenty thousand, so that was all very well." We were
all at a los=, and no one said any thing. This was at my house one
morning ; the rest of the morning passed in abusing Mr. Addihgton
(now Lord SWIIIOIIOO and her critiques upon him closed by say-
ing, " It was not much wonder a Pcsce was not lasting, when* it
was made by the son of a qa.sek doctor." Before Miss Hammond,
one evening at my house, she said 66 Prince IVilliam is to
Rnssia, and there is to be a grand alliance with a Russian Princess,
but it is no.l very likely a Rnssi.in Princess will marry the grandson
of a washerwoman." Sir Sidney Smith, sviio was present, beg;cd her
pardon, asserted it was not so, min %,ished to stop her, but she coe•
tradicttrd him, and entered into Al sne knew of the private history
of tie Duchess's mother, saysvg, 6' she was literally a comma.
Veasherwoman, and the Duchess need not to take so much pains and
nut expose her skin to the open air, when her mother had been in
all day long." %Vises' she was gone, Sir John was very much dis-
gusted, and said, her em.versation •had been so low and ill-judged,
and so much below her. that he was perfectly ashamed of her, am;
she disgraced {let station. Sir Sidney Smith agreed, and coolessed
he was astonished, for it must he confessed she was not deserVirg o
her station. After the Mike or Kent had been so Find as to come
rod take leave of her, herore he last left England, upon the day I
Mentioned, she delivered lier critique upon his Royal Highness, say-
ing, " He had the manners of a Prince, lint was a di •agree..ble man,
and trot to be trusted, and that his M..jesty had tole: him, Now,
Sir, when you go to Gibraltar, do not make :inch a trade of it as
you did when you went to Halifax "fhe Princess repeated, Up-
on my honour it is true ; the King said, Do not make such a trade
of it.' She went on to say, " the Prince at first ordered them all
to keep away, but they came now sometimes, however they were no
loss, for there is not a man among them all whom any one can
make their friend. As I was with the Princess one morning in tier
garden house, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland waited
upon her. As soon as he was gone the said, "He was a foolish boy,
and had been asking her a thousand foolish questions." She then
told me-every word•of his secrets, which he had been telling her, in
particular, a tong story of Miss Keppel, and that he said, the old
woman left them together, and wanted to take him in, and there-
fore he had cut the connection. She said, she liked hi; countenance
best, but she could trace a little family likeness to herself; but for
all the rest they were very ill made, and had plum-pudding faces,
which she could not hear. His Royal Highness the Duke of. Cam-
bridge was next ridiculed. She said he looked exactly like a sir-
jeane and so vulgar with his ears full of powder." This was her
Royal Highness's usual cud favunrite mode of amusing herself and
her company.

:baracter given of the Princess, in
t will be seen spite and malice are
the generous, loyal, and warm heart

MARCH 21.

•• Such was the per.on we found her-Roy-I Highness the Princess
o: NV:A.:se and as e e continuel to see ter cleiracter and tanks, Sir John
and mvse'frreqe and m ire daily a id hou:ly, regretted that the world
-mild not bee her us we did, and that his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales should !owe lost any popularity, when, from her own account
t the only account we ever had) she was the aggressor from the begin-
herself alone, and 1, as an humble individual, declare, that
from the most heartfelt and unfeigned conviction, that I believe, if
any other married woman had acted as her Royal Highness had dune,
I never yet have known a man who could have endured it; and her
temper is so tyrannical, capricious, and furious, that no nom on earth -
will ever bear it; in private life, any woman. who had thus played
and sported whit her husband's comfort and her husband's popularity,
would have been turned out of her house, or left by herself in it. and
would deservedly have forfeited her place in society. I therefore
again beg leave to repeat, from the conviction of my own unbiassed
understandi•,e, and the conviction of my own eyes, no human being
would live with her. exceptieg her serVants for their wages : and any
door unfortunate woman, like the izeeralds, for the it dinner ; and
I trust uud hope her re,.l character will sometime or other be display•
ed, that the people of this cmutry may nor he imposed upon."
A pent deal of paltry chit chat follows, not worth putting
to paper originally, nor worth printing ; now Lady D. re-
presents the Pt incess to have acted like an idiot, and 'she
mole than once hints she suspected that she was not right
in her mind ; a sinyla, snspicion, we ahould think, might
fairly he entertained of Lady Douglas herself, instead of
shelving that rty, which it might be hoped the melancholy
sinatir,n of such a person ; throughout the
statement, nothing 1, soy apparent as the ill will of the
wirer; ficcept, inneed, het boundless folly and vulgar stu-
pidity. Ti.e in,nner in which she speaks of certain anony.
mous letters, which she received is worth transcribing.—
" i now rek caved, by the twovete:y post, a long anonymous letter,
writeis by this restless eesetnevous persen. the Princess of *Wales, in
Abide its language which any one wilco had ever heard her speak,
would have known to be hers, she called me all kind of names, impu-
•ient, silly, wretched. smgreteful, and ill tot al (meaniug illeterate), she,
tells me to take that, at.d it will mend wy ill temper, &c. Ste. &c and
:sle she is a person h:ert in this governmcnt, and has often an oppue,
runny of • freely --- with his Alojesty, and she thinks my con.
duct authorizes her to tell him of, and that she is My only true and
integer friend. Such is the spnit of this foreigner, winch would have
disgraced a house-maul' to have written, and it encloses a fabricated
anonym..us letter, which she pretends to ha e received, and upon
which she built her doubts and disapprobation of me as it edvoed her
not to trust me, for thael am indiscreet, and tell every body that the
child she took from I)eptford, was her own. The whole construction
of both these epistles, from bejtming to cud, sire evidently that of a
foreigner, and a very !pots! t ,me, and the vulgarity of it is altogether
quite shocking. In one part she el:chants that bhe did not think I
should have had the impudence to come on her door again, and tells me
Nis for my being indiscreet, and not have allowed her to call me a liar,
that she treats me thus, and that I would do wen to remember the
story of Henry the Eighth's i4u(en, and Lady Douglas. • I was ihstantiv
satisfied it was front her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, mei
that Mts. Fitzgerald had shewn her my letter, and this was her answer
to it. I inotiediately carried it to Sir John Douglas, who said he wai
sure it came from the Princess, and he showed it to Sir Sidney Smith.
who said, every word and expression in O. were those which the 'gla-
ce:3 of Wales constaialy used.
She here states the explanation, which on this occasion she
gave to Sir John, which is in substance the same as her
deposition, and then proceeds
Finding that Sir John Doilies did not choose to si-it where his
wife was discarded hurt in the estimation of her acquaintance
her fury beeante so mihoweled, that she songht what she couid do

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