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nOt speak
to me on that subject again. She said, I shall • tell evens
flrineto.Satunders- I think this was on the day on which
t;betold me.of wh it had happened at Lady Willoughby's—
'' lliittaders -wa's a very good-. woman. and miglit he trusted,
- and that she mus. he with her at the labour ; that she would
Arend Miss. Garth to Brunswick, and Miss Miiftel was too
young to be tau tt-d. and must Ise set t out of the way. I
was brimiaht to bed on the 23d July, ISO 2. The Pr ineess
insisted on -being present. f determined that-slie should not,
but I meant to avoid it without offeridieg her. On the day
ssn which I was brought to bed, she came to my house and
insisted on corn rag in. Dr. Mackie, who attended me, lock
gd the d -or on the opposite side of the but there
'was alother door on the opp-site side of the room,
which was not locked, and She came in at that door, and
Avis resent during the time of the labour, and took the
.child as seen as it was b-mn, and said she was very ead she
..bad seen the whole of it. The Princess's pregnancy appear-
ed .ta me to he very visible. She wore a cushion behind,
• And made Mrs. Saunders make one for me. During my
lying.ill,' the Princess came one day ssith Mrs. Fitzgerald.
She' sent Mrs. F. away, and took- a chair, and sat by my bed-
side. She said you will hear of my tattles childten in bas-
kets; hut you wtat't take any notice of it. I shall have them
Arought bs a poor woman in a basket. I shall do it as a
toyer to have my own brought to me in that way; or, that
•• is the way in which must have my own brought %hen 1
-hive it. Very soon after this, two children, who were
twins, welt brought by a poor woman in a basket. The
'Princess took them, and had them carried up into-her room,
and the. Princess washed them herself. The Princess told
me this het self The. father a few days of erwards, came and
Insisted on having the children, and they we: e given to
him. The Princess afterwards said to me, " You see 1 took
the children, and it answered very well.—The father had
got them back, and she could not blame him : that she
should take other children. and have quite a nursery."
saw the Pi incess on a Sunday, either the Sod) or 3 Ist Oc-
tober, 1802, walking before her door. She was dressed so
as 'o conceal her pregeatiey. She had a long cloak. and a
-very great mall: She had just returned from Greenwich
Chum ch. She looked very ill, and I thought must be very
near her time.

About a week or ten (lays after this. I received a note
from the Princess, to desire that I would not come to Mon-
tague House, for they were apt►rehensive that the children
they had taken had had the measles in their clothes, and
that she was afraid Inv chid might take it. When the Pt in-
ch.:; came to see me du lag my lying-in, she told me that
when she shou'd be brought to bed, she wished I would not
come to her for some time, for she might be confused in see-

ing me. About the end of December I went to Gloucester-
and staid there about a month. When 1 returned,
which was in January. I went to Mont,i-gue [louse, mid w.is
.let in. • The pi incess w.;s oacking tin something ill a black
box. Upon the sofa, a child 'vis lying-, covered ~ve -‘,ith a
piece of red c'oth. The P. incest got up, and took ole I}v
the hand. She then led in:. to the sofa, and said, there is the

I lia l him only two day.aft.tr I saw you. The wo.ds
. vete, eifter I had hi;u, or wa, hrou4ht to bed; t,e w,)rdt
were such as clew 'y inirred that it was her own chii t.
• She said she got very ,‘ ell ..thr.tigh it , she she"ed tue a
*ark the child's 11311E1 ;itis .i pio.k-in4tk. The Princess
said, he ha, ain• rk like y..irr licit. girl. 1 saw the chill of
terwa,rdt: ft entientk, with the P: iticcss, quite HI Chiistroas
I 03, when I left Bl!tcl:lieath. I •saw the mar k upon the
thild's band, and 1 ant sure that it -was the same child

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never saw any other chtld.there. The Princess Charlotte
used to see the child, and play with him. The chid used to
catl the Princess of Wales " Mamma:" I saw the child
looking at the winch's,/ of the Princess's house about a month
ago, before the "Princess -Wetit into Devonshire ; and I ant
sure that it is the same child Not long after I had first seen
the child, the Princess said, that she had the child at first to •
sleep with her for a few nit'bts ; but it had made her net %rota.,
and now they had got a regular nurse for him.
She said, we gave it a little milk at first.; but it was too
much for me, and now we breed it 1).• hand, and it does
very well. I can swear positively that the child I saw at the
window is the same child as the Princess told me she had
two days after she parted with me. The chid was called
William. I never hc3rd Ova it had any.other name. When
the child was in long clothes, we hreakfasted one day with
the Princess, and she said to Sir .It.hn Dongl s, this is the
Deptford boy. Independently of the Princets'it t unfession
to me, I can swear that she was pregnant iu 180. In ()e-
-tcher, 194 t, when we returned Coin Devoeshite. I tel. my
card at Montague House, and on the 4th 4 *or be. I received
a letter from Mrs. Vernon, fiesiriii4
.not to come any
more to Montague ll•buse I lad never, at this time, men-
tioned the Princess's being with chiiit, 4.br cd of
a child, to any person, n.-t even to Sir 3,thie Douglas. Af-
ter receiving Mrs. Vernon's letter, i wrote to ce Princess
on the subject. The letter seas sent ask onepened.
then wrote to Mrs. Fitzgerald, saying, ib.t 1 thought myself
exttemely ill-used In two or tittle days after tali, 1 received
an anonymous letter, which I preslu.e, and have milted
with the letter A; and -igned with -my name, both on the
letter and the enveler e. The Priwess of Vales has told
me, that she got a t.ed•fellow wheneve. she could, that no-
thing was more wholesome : she sa d that nothinr, was mote
convenient than her own room : it situds at the head of the
stairea-e that leads into the Pa, k, and I have bolts in the
ins:de, and have a bed-fellow whetieve. I like. I wonder
you can be satisfied only with Sir John Site said this
more than once. She has told me that Sir Sydney
Smith had lain with her. That she believed all men
liked a bed-fellow, but sir Sydney better than any
body else; that the Prince was ele most comphisant man in
the writ iu ; that she did what she liked, went where she
liked, and had what bed-fellow she liked, and the Prince
paid for all.

(Signed) CHARLOTTE DOUGLAS►
Swcrn before us. Juju 1, 1805. at June 1, itioj.•
Lord Grenv7lle's, Downing-street,
Westminstrr

(Signed)

ERSKINE, GRENVILLE,
SPENCER, ELLENIIOROUGIi.

DEPOSITION OF. SIR JOHN DOUGLAS, ENT.

I had a house at Blackheath, in 1801. Sir Sydney
Smith used to come tomy house 1 had aoed for him. 'I he
incess of '..'ale:: formed an acquaintance with Lady Dou-
Oas, and came frequen.lv to our house. I thought sl a came
more for Sir Sydney Smith than for us. After she had been
some- time acquainted With us, she appeared to me to•be with
hild. One day sly. leaned on the sofa, and out -her hand upon
her stomach, and said-- Sir John, n,:ver he Queen of
aid, not if you don't deserve it. She seemed
1801, on the 27th or Qcoiser, I received
two letters hy the twopenny
_post,.one a!ltireiSed iv mv, which
I now produce, and have marked with the letter 13 both on
the cove ope and the inc!osuic, and the other letter address-
ed Lo Lady Douglas and which I now produce. and have

riltailiamommam=======
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confident in my own plans, and I wish you would
• •a r II

to TZ a'TT. 74, - .

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;narked with the letter C.
enclosure.

both on the envelope and the

(Signed)
Sworn before us. ift Lord Grervi
in Drvoing-street, We,t-
miuster, June 1. I BV6.
(Signed) ERSKINE. CRENVILLE,
SPENCER, ELLEN r OROUGH.

JOHN I)OI7CLAS.

June 1.