The Sun.
London, England, 1813-03-11 00:00:00

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0... r .miesmy, 1.0 110,i1 SCIOIT tt,Lcadi 1.4 tat
cOglliz'aM;e of a matter Wi...etes so ocal'lY Pruch-
ing the honoor of your Oleicsty's Faniilje;
and by possibilitYomffee!ino the SOccessiou 'yoer
Majesty's Crowo. .70117 Mejte.ty had heee pleuseei
on your part to view the, .;:micet M. the :muse
light. Consideriimg it as at neotee tvhich in-every
respect demanded time ittost, immediate investo:
,ration, your Majesty betel. thoeglic .fit ter-
cant-
mit illta•OILT tlawls the duty of ;Ist:cry:Ming; Pa
the first instanoe, what degree Of Credit mvas
due to the informations, and thereby enabling
your Majesty to decide what limner eonduct to
adopt concerning ibis review, were-
fore, °fame ;netters thus alleged, awl of thecours
Hitherto pursued upon them, we deem it ;miller, in
the first place, to examine those persons in whose
declarations the °cc:A:shin for thie impliry had oni,
;in:tte4.;
,because, if they, 00 being examined oa
oath, had relCacted or varied their assertions, ell ne-
eessity.of further investigetien might possibly have
been prechided. We accordingly first examined
on oath the principal informents, Sir•.loimu
glas and Charlotte his wife, who positively-severe,
the former to his 'having observed -.the *fact of
the pregnancy, of her' Royal Highness, and the
latter to all the important particulars Coutained in
her former declaration, and above referred tme—
Their examitooionS are annexed to this Report,
and are circumstantial anti positive. The most
material of
,thOse 'allegations, into the truth of
which we have beeO directed to inquire, being
thus far supported by the oath of the partiesofrom
whom they had proceeded, we then felt it to be
our duty to follow ep the Inquiry,eby the exami-
nation of such other persons as we judged best
able to afford us information as to the facts in
question. We thought it beyond all doubt, that
in the course of inquiry many particulars uu
he learnt which would he necessarily conclu-
sive. on -the truth or falsehood' of these decla-
rations, so many persons must have been tvit-,
nesses to this appea.rancc of, an actual exkting
pregnancy; so manyeircumstanceStaust have been
attendant uptin a reeldelic,ery, and ditHeelties so
'nnnicrous :mad insurmoiwzable must have been in-
volved, in any attempt to account for the infant
in question, as the child, of another woman, if it
had been in fact the child Of the Princess, that we
entertained a full-and confident expectation of ar-
riving at complete proof, either in the affirmative
or negative, on this part of the strbject. •
" This expectation was not disappointed. We
are happy to declare mmir perfect conviction'that
there is no foundation whatereC for believing that
the child now with the Princess of Wales is time
child of her Royal Highness, or that she was-de-
livered of any child in die year 1802 ; nor hue any
thine appeared to us which could warrant the be-
HO that she was pregnant in that year; or at any
`other period within the compass of our inquiries.
The identity_ of -the child now with the Princess,
itiparents, its age, the place and date of its 14th,
the time and circumstance of its being 'first taken
ender her Royal Highness's protection, are
established by such a COUCtlfl:ellec both Of positive
and Circumstantial evidence as Can 111 our judg-
ment leave no question on this part of the• sub-
ject. Time child was beyond all doubt born in
Browolow-street Hospital, on the I lth day of
July, 1802, of the body of Sophia Austin, and
Was first nromight to the rrinCess's house in the'
month At November following. Neither should
we be more warranted in expressing anydotibt re-
specting the alleged' pregnancy of the Prince,s,os
stated in the original Declaration, a fact Sc) fully
coutratlicted, and by so many Witnesses, to Whom,
if true, , it must in various War be known;that we
cannot think it entitled to the smallest
The testimonies on these tWO ,points aresontain-
ed in the annexed Depositions and , tie
have not partially abstracted them in this Report,
lest by any unintentional omission. we might
weaken their effect ; but we humbly offer to your
Majesty this out' 'clear and Min ninions judgment
upon them, .formed mem full deliberation, and
prommoqiced without hesitation, on. the result of
the whole Inquiry. We do not, however, feel,
ourselVea at liberty, Much as We' shinild wish
it, to close our Report here: Besides the
al-
legation of the pregnancy and delivery of the
Priucess, those Declarations, on the whole Of
which your Majesty has been pleased to Command us
to inquire and repOrt, contain, aS we have already
remarked, other particulars respecting the conilect
of her Royal. Highness, such as must, especially
considering her exalted rank. and station, neces-
sarily give occasion to very imfavourable immterpre-
tatious. Fronk time various depositions and proofs
unnexed to this Report, partitadarly from the exa-
minations of • RObert Thrigood, Cole,Co
Francis Lloyd, and Mr. Lisle, your Majesty will
perceive that m
several strong circustatices of this
description have been poskietly sworn to by wit.'
tresses, who cannot, in Our Judgment,. be Stl4.-
pcc;ed of any:unfavourable bias, and whose 'vette
city in this respect we have seen no .ground.to
question.
Onitheprecise bearing and effect of the.tects
thus Appearing,. it is not tor us to decide; these
we submit to your Majesty's wisdom ; but.we
Conceive it to b our duty to report on this part
of the Inquiry, as distinctly as on the former facts,
that as on ,the one baud the facts of Pregnancy
and Delivery are to our minds satisfactorily dis-'
proved, so on the _other .band we think that.the
circumstances to Which we now refer, particularly
those stated to have passed between her Royal
Highness and, Captain (Hanby, Must be credited
until they shall receive some decisive cotitraclic-
don ; and it tree, are justly entitled to the most
serious consideration. We cannot close this Re,
port. without humbly assuring your Majesty, that
it was on every account our 1111:60115 Wibb to haVe
executed this' delicate trust with us little publicity
as the nature of the case would,possibly allow;
and we entreat your Mejesty'sperinksion to ex-
press our full persuusioo, that if, this wish has
been disappointed, the failure is not imputable to
any, thing unnecessarily said:or done liv us, all
which is most humbly :submitted to your nejesty.'
(SigniA) EnSKENE.
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After the above Report bad been given, Ilk
Majesty signified that the Ministry of that period
Perfectly agreed in the acquittal. of criminality