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London, England, 1813-03-21 00:00:00

to know her, before my daughter might be old enough to be
corrupted by her." .Aler this, we are told of a mad tlick
played off on Prirce William of Gloucester. To this
succeeds a nonseir-ical converation about Sir Sidney, Smith
which brings us down to the 29th Marc!), when on Lady
Douglas waiting on the Princess kith Vansittart's note,
annowlci.lg the news of re:xe, the Princess is made to go.
on iu the follmsing incoherent manner:—

" Upon the Uth ( t March, I left Month vie House, ar d the Prin-
cess commanded me so be sent up to her bed-chamber. I went Lind
found her in bed, and I took Mrs. Vansittatt's note in my hand, an-
nouncing the news of Pent. She desired nee to sit down close to the
bed, and then, taking me by the lrana, she said, You see, my dear
friend, I have the must complaisant husbaud in the world—l have no
one to controul me—l see whom I like, Igo where I I spend
what I please, and his !loyal highness pays' v all—Other English
husbands plague their wives, but he never plagues me at all, which lc.
certainly I dug very polite and complaisant, and I am better off than.
my sister, who was heartily beat ever.y day. How much happier ,am,
I than the Duchess of York. She and the Duke hate each other, and
yet they will be two hypocrites, and live together—that I would
Dever do.--Now I wi!l spew you a letter wherein the Prince ot Wales,
gives me full leave to follow my own plans.' She then put the:hater
into my bands, the particulars of which I have mentioned, 'Whitt) i
had finished, I appeared aCfecPtd, lead she said, Y. u tit mu to think
tlia!a floe. thing; now I see nothing in it ; but I dare to say that when
my beloved
shad finished it,' he fancied it one of the Gest pieces ut:
peninanship in the world. I should have bee.*tn the mt.a, anclhe the
•woryau.
.1 am a real Brunswick, mind do nut know what the sensatiun of
'Feat' is ; but us to him, he lives in eternal warm water, aid delights
it, if he can but have his slippers under any old Dowager's table, and,
sit there scriholi: g emelt; that's his whole Might.' She then told „tale
every circumventer relative: to her marriage, and that she vioteld be
aeparated, and that she had invitedethe Chancellor very often Well
-to try and acconiplisb it, but they 'were stupid, and told tier it could•
not be done. It appeared to me that, at this time, her Royal. High-
• 'ness.'s mind was lifitt• upon the accomplishment of this purpose.; and it:
would be footle!, I thitik, from Ldrd Eldon and !tie others, that'. site,
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pressed this subject close upon them, whenever they were at A.P.li!ague
Ifon'e ;. for she told me more'than once she had'"., ller.Royql If igh
Ile‘s, before: she put the letter by, said, I always keep this, fot it ic,
ever necessary, I will go into the House of Lords with it myself. The
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niece of Wales desires me in that lead-, to choose my own plan pf
life, and amuse myself as I like, and also when A lived iu Carlton,
lieu,e, he often asked me why I did net select some particular gen-,
denim) for my friend, and was surprised I did not.'7-She then anded,;
am not treated at 'all as a Princess ot Wales ought to be. A to the
friendship of the Duke 'of Glouester's Featily, I understand that
Prince William w( uld like to marry either my daughter, or me, if lie.
couid. I now, therefore, am desirous of forming a society of my own
choosing, and I.bl-g yoti always to remember, all your life, that I shall
always be happy to set you. I think you very discreet, and the best
womzui in the w(Ald, and I beg you to consider the Tower always as.,
your own ; there are Aka, and you might almost live there, and it
Sir Jahn is ever called away, do nut go home to your famiiy ; it is not
pleaaant after, people have children, therefore always come to my
'rawer. .1 hope to see you there very wen agaW. The Prince has en-.

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Y... /4. 7'hi passage contained in this Vote is, in. the authenticated Calk'
ttansmitted to the Princes., of Wake, placed in the Illar4in.