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evitichee : she had plata d twit boys limier his care, and Airs. Lisle
aids, 0 that he avaa the person with whom the P. ince.:s took g; cater I;
Veasure in apeakhat 10. nate auy other that SIR' behaved to him,
any woman would do who liked flirting—but sae would mit
have Omaght that ati- married woman would have behaved prope4
%vie) nehayed as she did to him. She would not say slie was ata
tached to him, Out it was a flirting conduct. She never saw our
gall. Wry, ki•sing hand of the like."
Ti.ii was the sum tit her evidence. The Princes% was introduced
to Captain Manby at Lady S!:e pot two boys under
his cue. While the Africane, his ship, was fitting tint, he took
Apartments at Blaeklicath, and she sometimes saw him. Hiving
Pideel these boys ukider Intn, she made him a present of a little plate,
as it was constantly. her practiee to m3ke a present of some s:trt,
where she imaosed trunble. In like pianaer Sir Saintiel Flood had
tam of her boys, aml she aaYe him an epergne. She admits that
she-feequently coaversed avith Captain Manby, but Mrs. Lisle\
evidence w;h• hot salheiently sifted; she ought to have explained
3110I'e distinctly what she observed, and not to be left to speak in
genes ali tit s 'fay Priace•s's conscience acquitted her of eve' y ha-
piaper lieedona Mrs. Lisle had at this time lost a favourite daugh-
ter, tallied! nu doubt gave to her mind a serious and even severe turn
i i jatiging el a ptaatees behaviour in Company, who had not the
ilappitiess in the society and confide:tee of her husband ; but
certainly. Mrs. would not have contiimed to reside w ith the
Prinee;s, it. circumstances of an unseemly snit had presented them-
selves to hea eye. Loak round . the %voile], and to the conduct of
Ladies cf the. moat unimpeached charactea. and say, it they were
saliaa•teel to. the same severe tmu of niind, whether there might
mit he ad'. iaaal. ita4tances of gaiety and harmless payfidness, which
miolit be mi,itaaspreted into levity. This was the part of the ease
that husia the heavies.: cm the Priticess's mind.
For to Belaoors :tat', his saying that be saw Captain
Manic)' saiate the Prima's; in the reflection of a alasQ, this was to-
tai:y desti ayeal by the oath et Captain Alatiby, that there was no
gt.iss in the room. •s to the charge of driviog out with a luncheon
• to Langreaelt only with the coachman anti helper—why did nol the
Com ssionta s caw:: ine the caachman and • helper? They niiaht
have told the destivatiGn or the drives and the objeet of them.
The affalaNit of S. Gillian Mills, am.exed, would slim the insi-
dious pains titz:t %vete taken to diseover something upon which t•
thund a chrn•ge. The truth was, that upon two occasions of her
dyiviag .to Be I videre, acaempanied by Mrs. 'Fitzgerald, Captain
Alatiby was of the party; they did take- some refreshment at
Lord Eartilea's; and it was equally true, that she walked with him
at. Ingress; that Ale was
.on board the Atticane ; but she never
went witii him fate) ;lay room, or iota the holbe either at Belvidere
ear elsewhere.
At Stout:toil there are moreeircnnistauces—and site enumerates
the petilits of the evidence. The three houses, Nes. 7l tt, 9
Captain Ability's slevaing often in the house--seen next
raorulaas at ten o'clock—witting the candles out—not wititint!.
—.water jug, ialson and toweis, &e. the Princess coal not recollect
accurateiy. She rememhers there vac a dispute among the servants
as to the perquisites of candles. Iler's were to below.; to her
iltnitl---and she tuid Biti;:ond to leave them—bat as to water jugs,
hason and towels, she email not treat vetli gravity. What ! leave
thea.e things in an open let”‘aue, whetc.all her people ware-passing
to anima:lee to them all that he was there, and thus to promalhate
a ,icer'et which w;e; no less than hialetre;hen, and which was to cost
her her We! The Commissloners could not, seedy, bell, ye any
story so gross. Mrs. Sander and Mary Wilson both justified her
Ot
fr )111 this Slander.
Vranees Lloyd said she was aroused out of bed, to make break-
fast for Captain M:hiby, at six o'efack . This might have happened-;
because it was twice aarved that they shoirld go out upon water
litertit.•s, one of which only took place ; and she remember: to have
vaiktai doWn the 'awe, early on (ate of the meruings fixed for such
on excursion nit,- might, at each time, have been seen by F.
d. It w hardly be erta!ible, that Earl Moira seat fen. Mr.
7.1i11s the day after Faenylkaaat's de:a:trillion: hat it wit) be seen
icy his and Mr. Etimead's depositiou, what pains were talsen to
tamper with V.
The lIIAt was Mr. Vend, now ?awl Mod, who married
tianenthal, one of the Ladies iu tbe Princess's Household,
Ir ;s perleatly tette she rode with him twice in his whisky without
hvi• own servants. 'rids te3S innurdiately after the death of
Itit nalae of Gieurester, and while lie lay unburied. She went out
in the wilt-:ay fey stir; hut washed not fu be seen with a ietinne of
• PervA.:lt4; ‘vhilc; ItApy4l 11 ;ahresta ;ay linlairied.
The next persoas imputed to her were Chester
Mrs. "AWL'S eVidenCe it is; said, that Mr. Jolt Chester

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was invited tort? speciiii •Oiffer. Nov-, instead of this, he wax
only one of several invited,. She begged of Lady Sheffield that
every thing of the name of North, all the Legges, all the Chester.,
and Mr. Elliot should be invited. All about the candle, and being
funnel in the gallery, would have been explained if Ludy Sheffield
had been examined. It is most likely that she might have walked
with Mt. John Chester, but what was there in all this that she ought
to be called on to answer
As to CaptaiwNloore, Mrs. Lisle leid borrowed a bock from him.
Her Mother, the Duche:4. of Brunswick, was fond of the late 1)1..
Moore's writings, and the Captain lent them a MS. of his late. fa-
thee, •in retura for-which she made him a trifling present.
As to the anonymous papers marked A. B. C. she solemnly
dolled all knowledge of them. They were subniittctl to Mrs. Fit z.-
gerald, together with the seal— sbe denied that they were the
hand-w riting of the Princess, or that the seal was her's, and yet this
was not contained in her examination.
The Princess concludes her- defence with some few observations,
on the Repoli of the Commissioners. There were great emissions
in it. Shit was de,•ii (ins that it should be-opeeed up again ; but she
deprecated secret tribunals. Against false charges of friends tamed
enemies—of servants, who seemed traitors and spies, mid the foul
conspiracy of social and domestic treason, she could lock to no
security for her honour but to the priecple jiritice, which con-
stantly actuated the conduct or Isis Maje-Iy. For a Princess of
%Vales to have been placed in a situation, in which it was essential
to her honour to regnest a Gentleman to swear that he was not
locked up in a room %%ill' her alone ; and anotl_er, that he did Hot
give her a lascivious salute, and never slept in her liwe, is to have
been actually degraded and disgraced..' I have been, Sire," said the
Princess, " placed in this situation. • Coted I forbear to announce
a conspiracy against my honour and station in the c unity. ?
" At all events, I trust you will restore me to your pucions pre-
; I " scnre, and confirm to me, by your gracious words your satisfac-
i " tory conviction army innocence.
II 66 3tl October, 18i 6.

" CAROLINE P."

AFFIDAVIT OF THOMAS LAWRENcr, T.SQ.

I, Thomas Lawrence, swear, that in the yr t did steep
several nights at Montague House, lend that colewiy between the
close of the day's setting, and her Royal 1! jnrss drcsisi f&
(ltnticr, I was atone w itli the Puincpss. ThatatonePrincess. 1 saw her in the even-
ing, and remained till twelve, one, or two o'clock, but lICN er alone
except in one single instimee, and that fora short tbue, w lieu I
remained with her Royal Highness in the blue room, or drawing-
room, as I remember, to answer same questions that had been put
to me. 1 eatniot re:milt:et the particular?, hut solemnly declare
that I have not the least objection for all the world to have - heard
or I, een that tpoic place ; that I never was with' the -door locked,
bolted, or fastened, otherwise than in the common and usual man-
ner, which leaves it in the power of any person on the outside to
()pep it. Su help me God.•-
THOMAS LAWRENCE.

Hatton Garden, ‘24th Sept. 1806.
T. LEACH.

We have already given the Letter of Licence (as it was called)
from the Prince to the Princess, together with her ansuer. Upon
that letter of the Prince, her koval Highugss made the following
remarks in justification of the freedom in her intercour e with so-
ciety, w ith which AC had been charged by the witnesses examined :
On the letter of his Royal Highness foffer no comment. 1 only
entreat your Majesty not 'o understand me to introduce it, as af-
fordiog any supposed justificatiog or t xcuse, for the least departure
from the strictest line of virtue, or the slightest deviation front the
most refined delicany. The crinte, which has been insinuated against
me, would be equally criminal and detestable; the indelicacy ins-
puled to me would be equally odious and abominable, whatever re-
nunciation of' conjugal authority and affection the above letter of
his Royal Highuess might in any construction of it be supposed to
have conveyed Such crimes, anti faults, derive not their guilt
tivm the consideration of the conjugal virtues of the individual, who
may he the most io;nred by them, however much such virtues may
aggravate their enormity. No such letter, therefore, in any con-
struction of it, no remnichtt ion of.conjugal affection or duties, emit t
ever palliate them. lint whether conduct tree from all crime, free
from all indelicacy, (which 1 maintain to tiC iii* character ot the
conduct to which Airs. Lisle's observations apply,)yet porssibly not
Isti•measured, as a cautious wile, easeful to -mink! the I.lightest up,
pearitice of not preferring her husband to
.ali the world, might 14
stndious twobscrvp, Whither youtluct lit .otic* destaliatiitu, tao-
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