Star.
London, England, 1813-02-10 00:00:00

TO THE PRINCE REGENT.

66 giR-It is with great reluctance that I presinhe
to obtrude myself upon your Royal Highness, and
to solicit your attention to matters which may at first
appear rather of a personal than a public nature.—
If I could think them so—if they related merely to
myself—l should abstain from a proceeding which
might give uneasiness, or interrupt the more weighty
occupations of your Royal Highness's time : I should
continue, in silence and retirement, to lead the life
which has been prescribed to me; and console my-
sef for the loss of that society, and those domestic
comforts, to which I have so long been a stranger,
by the reflection, that it has been deemed proper I
should be afflicted, Without any fault of my own---
and that your Royal Highness knows it.
" But, Sir, there are considerations of a higher na-
ture than any regard to my own happiness, which
render this address a duty, both to myself and my
daughter—may I venture to say, a duty also to my
husband, and the people committed to his care?—
There is a point beyond which a guiltless woipan
cannot with safety carry her forbearance.
66 If her honour is invaded, the defence of her re-
putation is no longer a matter of choice; and it sig.
nifies not whether the attack be made openly, man-
fully, and directly—or by secret insinuation, and by
holding such conduct towards her as countenances
All the suspicions that malice can suggest. If these
ought to be the feelings of every woman in' England
who is conscious that she deserves no reproach, your
Royal Highness has too sound a judgment, and too
nice a sense of honour, not to perceive, how much
more justly they belong to the Mother of your Daugh-
ter—the Mother of her who is destined, I trust, at a
very distant period, to reign over the British Empire.
66 It may be known to your Royal Highness, that
during the continuance of the restrictions upon your

royal authority, 1 pusposely refrained from making
any representations which might then augment the
painful difficnities of your exalted station. At the
expiration of the restrictions, I still was inclined to de-
lay taking this step, in the hope 'hat I might owe the
redress I sought to your gracioua and unsolicited
condescension. I have waited, in the fond indul-
gence of this expectations. until, to my inexpressible
mortification, I find that my unwillingness to com-
plain, has only produced fresh grounds of complaint;
and I am at length compelled, either to abandon all
regard for the two dearest objects which I possess on
earth, mine own honour, and my be'oved Child, or
to throw myself at the feet of your Royal Highness,
the 'natural protector of both.

44 I presume, Sir, to represent to your Royal High-
ness, that the separation, which every succeeding
month is making wider, of the Mother and the
Daughter, is equally injurious to my character and
to her education. I say nothing of the deep wounds
which so cruel an arrangement inflicts upon my feel-
ings, although I would fain hope that few persons
will be found of a disposition to think lightly of these.
To see myself cut off from one of the very few do-
mestic enjoyments left me--certainty the only one
upon which I set any value, the society of my Child—
involves me in such misery, as I well know your
Royal Highness could never inflict upon me if you
were aware of its bitterness. Our intercourse has
been gradually diminiihed. A single interview
weekly seemed sufficiently hard allowance for a Mo-
ther's affections. That, however, was reduced to our
meeting once a fortnight ; and I now learn, that even
this most rigorous interdiction is to be still more ri-
gidly enforced.
" But while Ito not venture to intrude my feelings
as a Mother upon your Royal Highness's notice, T
must be allowed to say, that in the eyes of an observ-
ing and jealous world, this separation of a Daughter
from her Mother will only admit of one construction :
a construction fatal to the Mother's reputation.—
You: Royal Highness will also pardon me for ad.
ding, that there is no less inconsistency than injustice
in this treatment. He who dares advise your Royal
Highness to overlook the evidence of my innocence,
and disregard the sentence of completeacquittal which
it produced—or is wicked or,false enough still to
whisper suspicions in your ear, betrays his duty to you,
Sir, to your Daughter, and to your People, if he coun-
sels you to permit a day to pass without a further in-
vestigation of my conduct. I know that no such ca-
lumniator will venture to recommend a measure
which must speedily end in his utter confttsion. Then
let me implore you to reflect on the situation in which

am placed; withenit the shadol of i ehiiir against
ine—withotit even an acenser—after ail inquiry that
led to my ample vindication—yet treated as if I were,
still more culpable than the perjuries of my suborned
traducers represented me, and held up to the world
as a Mother whtniay hot enjoy the society of her only
Child.
" The feelings, Sir, Whi'ch ate natural ie my unet_
ampled situation, might justify me in the gracious
judgment of your Royal Highness, had I no other
motives for addressing you but such al relate to my-
self. But i would not disguise fitm your*Royal
Highness what I cannot for a MOntent conceal froM
myself, that the serious, and it soda May be, the irre-
parable injury which my Datighter sittains from the
plan at present pursued, has done more in overcoming
my reluctance to intrude upon your Royal Highness,
than any sufferings of my own could accomplish ;
and if, for her sake; I presume to call away your
Royal Highness's attention from the 'other cares of
your exalted station, I feel confident I am not claim-
ing it for a matter of inferior importance either to
yourself or your people.
a The powers with which the Constitution of these
realms vests your Royal Highness in the regulation
of the. Royal Family, I know, because I am so ad.
vised, are ample and unquestionable. My appeal,
Sir, is made to your excellent sense and liberality of
mind in the exercise of those powers; and I willingly
hope that your own parental feelings will lead you to
excuse the anxiety of mine for impelling me to re-
present the unhappy consequences which the present
system must entail upon our beloved child.

gs Is it possible, Sir, that any one can have attemp-
ted to persuade your Royal Highness, that her cha-
racter will not be injured by the perpetual violence
offered to her strongest affections—the studied care
taken to estrange her from my society, and even to
interrupt all communication between us ? That her
love for me, with whom, by his Majesty's wise and
gracious arrangements, she passed the years of her in-
fancy and childhood, never can be extinguished, I
well know, and the knowledge of it forms the greatest
blessing of my existence. But let me implore your
Royal Highness to reflect how inevitably all attempts
to abate this attachment, by forcibly- separating us,
if they succeed, must injure my child's principles—if
they fail, must destroy her happiness.

The plan of excluding my Daughter from alf
intercourse with the world, appears to my humble
judgment peculiarly unfortunate. She who is des-
tined to be the Sovereign of this great country, en.
joys none of those advantages of society which are
deemed necessary for imparting a knowledge of
mankind to persons who have infinitely less occasion
to learn that important lesson ; and it may so happen,
by a chance which I trust is tee 7 remote, :hat she
should be called upon to exercise the powers of the
Crown, with an experience of the world more con.
fined than that of the most private individual.
" To the extraordinary talents with which she is
blesied, and which accompany a disposition as singu.
larly amiable, frank, and decided, I willingly trust
much; but beyond a certain point the greatest natu-
ral endowments cannot struggle against the di:advert.
tages of circumstances and situation. It is my earnest
prayer, for her own sake as well as her country's, that
your Royal Highness may be induced to pause be—
fore this point be reached.

Those who have advised you, Sir, td delay so
long the period of my Daughter's commencing her
intercourse with the world, and for that purpose to
make Windsor her residence, appear not to have re-
garded the interruptions to her education which this
arrangement occasions ; both by the impossibility of
obtaining the attendance of proper teachers, and the
;time unavoidably consumed in the frequent journies
to town, which she must make, unless she is to be
secluded from all intercourse, even with your Royal
Highness, and the rest of the Royal Family.

is To the same unfortunate Counsels I ascribe a
circumstance in every way so distressing both to nsy
parental and religious feelings, that my Daughter has
never yet enjoyed the benefit of Confirmation, al-
though above a year older than the age at which all
the other branches of the Royal Family have partaken
of that solemnity. May I earnestly conjure you, Sir,
to hear my intreaties upon this serious matter, even
if you should listen to other advisers on things of less
near concernment to the welfare of our Child ? •

44 The pain with which I have at length formed the
resolution of addressing myself to your Royal High,
nets is such as I should in vain attempt to•express. If
I could adequately describe it, you might be enabled,
Sir, to estimate the strength of the motives which
have made me submit to it. They are the most
powerful feelings of affection, and the deepest im-
pressions of duty towards your Royal Highness, my
beloved Child, and the Country, which I devoutly
hope she may be preserved to govern, and to chew,
by a new example, the liberal affection of a free and
generous people to a virtuous and constitutional mo-
narch.

u I am, Sir, with profound respect, and an attach
meat which nothing can alter,

Your Royal Highness's mast devoted,
And most affectionate Consort,
Cousin and Subject,
(Signed) ig CAROX.INX LOVZSA."
Montagtue House, lath January, 1518."

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NATAL INT ELLIGENCL
•-: FALMOUTH, FEBRUARY 7.
Arrived the THAIS gun-brig, from Basque Roads;
and the Speedy Packet, with a Mail, from C9runna,
in 7 days—the Princes! Mary Packet had arrived at
Corunna when the Speedy sailed, S:tiled his Ma-
jesty's ship RAPID, with a fleet for Portsrhouth and
London. Put back the SYLVIA cutter, having on
board dispatches for Lisbon. Wind W. blows fresh.
, PLYMOUTH; FEBRUARY e. .

Arrrived the London packet, Hero, and the Elisha,
TUPPER, from Gibraltar; left that plabe the 21st ult.
with a fleet of about forty sail, under onvny oftis
Majesty's ships 'ANDROMEDA and DelitvENT : they
passed up Channel yesterday: Arrived two French
chasse mattes, lately captured by his Majesty's ship
Anaow.—iisbout four o'clock Yesterdai afternoon, a
very large vessel that was standing in from the south-
ward for this port was captured, about five leagues
from Penlee Point, by a brig and a lugger privateer.
The pilots from Cawsand Bay, who saw the capture,
and who were about to proceed to pilot her into this
port, gave the intelligence to the GmeaNsa ketch,
then lying in Cawsand Bay; but she having on board
dispatches, her Coinmander was thereby prevented
horn going after them. It is much to be regretted,
that we are without small cruizers ; for bad there been -
any on this occasion, there can be little doubt but the
vessel taken before our eyes might have been retaken.
Put back the GLEANER ketch which sailed on Satyr.
day with dispatches for 'the Mediterranean. Arrived)
the ScrLLA, of 18 guns, from a cruise. Sailed the
PELICAN, of 18 gum, fur Falmouth. It blew a very
heavy gale all last night ut S. W. and the ships its
the Sound rode very hard. This morning the Bt's.
TARD, of 18 guns, parted one cable, but fortunately
brought up with the other. An anchor and cable
was dispatched from the dock-yard, and she is now
safe though the gale continues. The 'rasa frigate,
Captain HILLYER which has fitted for foreign service,
goes to Portsmotith the fast fair wind to wait for or-
ders : She was paid prize-money to-day. The SAW
JOsel, 112 guns, lately the flag ship of Lord Karns
has orders to sail to Portsmouth to refit for the Me.
diterranean, it is said for the flag of Sir EDWARD
PELLEW. The Officers of the SAN Josar are gone on
board the QyzEN CnAaLcrrrz, of 110 guns, in Ha-
moate, bearing the flag of Lord KEITII• Wind S.W.

PORTSMOUTH. FEBRUARY O.

Arrived his Majesty's ship DRAW., from Jamaica ;
and the following transports, from Gibraltar, under
convoy of his Majesty's ship DROMEDARY—Ieft the
Rock the 22d ult. viz. Hero of the Nile, Providence,
Fame, Plantagenet, Charlotte, Briton, Susannah,
Caldicot Castle, and the Eliaa Francis. Passed lir
his Majesty's ship SULTAN, with a fleet from Malta—,
left Gibraltar she Seth ult.
DEAL, FEBRUARY 9.

Arrived his Majesty's ship RAPID, with a contoy
from the westward ; the Sarah, Cortarts, from Gib.
Talus., in 17 days ; and the Aid, MACKIE; from Sti
Michael's—they are both gone for the River. It ha
blown a gale all day, but his Majesty's ships, the
transports, and the outward-bound are all well, ex.

cept a few who have lost anchors and cables. Five
o'clock, his Majesty's ship SULTAN has just arrived,
with a quarantine flag flying.sha is from the Medi.
terranean. Wind W. and squally.
YARMOUTH, FEBRUARY O.

Sailed on a cruize to the Northward the 0111111011
gun-brig, and the Fiarxo-risn schooner, for th•
Downs.—A gun-brig and several sail are now making
for these Roads, but cannot obtain their names in
time for Post.—Remain the SOLERATo Vice-Admiral
MeRRAY j and two cutters.—Wind S.W. and blows
strong.