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easl~ in the ~eerning tlttee, abet!' t ten or eleven o'clock.
He was at Sir Mtn Douglas's; and was in thehatsit,
as Well as Sir John and Lady Douglas, of dining, or
having larateon, or supping there almost every day.
I saw Sir Sidney Smith one day, in 1802, in the blue
room, about eleven o'clock in the morning, which is
full two hours before we ever expected to see com-
pany. I asked the servants why they did not let me
know that he was there ? The footman informed me
that they Sid let no person in. There was a private
ertior in the Park, by which he might have come in
if he 'had a key to it, and have got into the blue
room without any of the servants perceiving him.—
I never observed stay appearance of the Princess
which could lead me to suppose that 'she was with
child. I first observed Captain klanby come to
Montague House either the end of 1803 or beginning
of 1804. I was waiting one day in the anti-room,
Captain Manby had his hat in his hand, and ap-
peared to be going away : he was a long time with
the Princess, and as I stood on the steps, waiting, I
looked into the room in which they were, and in
the reflection in the looking-glass, I saw them salute
each other—l mean, that they kissed each othets lips.
Captain Manby then went away. I then observed
the Princess have her handkerchief in her hands, and
wipe her eyes as if she was crying, and she went into
the drawing-room. The Princess went to Southend
in May, 1804 ; I went with her : we were there, I
believe, about six' weeks before the Aftican came in.
Siccard was very often watching with a glass to see
when the ship would arrive. One day, he said he
saw the African, and soon after the Captain put off
in a boat from the ship. Siccard went down the
shrubbery to meet him. When the Captain came on
shore, Siccard conducted him 'to the Princess's house
and he dined there with the Princess and her La-
dies. After this, -he came very frequently to see
the Princess. The Princess had two houses on the
Cliff, Nos. 8 and 9. She afterwards took the draw-
Ing-room of No. 7, which communicated by the bal-
cony with No. 8, the three houses being adjoining.
—The Princess used to dine at No. 8, and after din.:
ner to remove with the company inw No. 7, and I
have several times seen the Princess,. after having
gone into No. 7 with Captain Hanby and the rest of
the company, retire alone with Captatn'Manby from
No, 7 through No. 8 into No. 9, which w,s the house
in which the Princess slept ; I suspected that Cap-
tain Kinby slept frequently in the hoti.se. It was a
subject of conversation it: the house. Hints were
given by the servants, and I believe that others sus-
Feared it as well-as myself.
1, The princess took a child, which I understood
WAS brought into, the house by Stikeman. I waited
only one week in three, and I was not there 'at the
time the child was brought, but l saw it there early
in 1803. The child who is now with the Princess is
the same I saw there early iii 1803; it has a mark
on its left hind. Austin is the name of the man who
was said to be the father. Austin's wife is, I be-
lieve, stir; alive. She has had another child, and has
brought it sometimes to Montague Howe. It is very
like the child who lives with the Princess. Mrs. Gor-
don was employed as a nurse for the child, and she
used to bring tae child to the Princess as soon as the
'Princess awoke„ind the child used to stay with her
Royal Highness the whole morning. The Princess
appeared to be extremely fond of the child and 'still
• apimears so. (Signed) 66 R. B1DGOOD."
46. bworn at Lord Grenville's House, in Downing.
two, tl.e 6th day of June, WC
sPENLEIt. 66 GRENVILLE."
DEPOSITION OF WILLIAM COLE.
lived with the Princess of Wales ever
trriage. Sir Sydney Smith first visited at
House about 1802. I have observed the
familiar with Sir Sydney Smith. One
: about February in that year, the Prin-
some sandwiches; I carried them into
Im to her. Sir Sydney Smith was there;
;bed to ste 'him there, he must have come
Park ; if he had been let in from Black-
lust have passed through the room in
waiting. When I had left the sand,
.urned, after some time, into the room,
lney Smith was sitting very close to the
the sofa. I looked at him, and at her
mess. She caught my eye, and saw that
manner in which they were sitting toge.
appeared both a little confused when I
me room. A short time before this, one
, twelve o'clock, I saw a man go into the
the Park, wrapped up in a great coat. I
'e any alarm, for the impression on. my
:hat it was not a thief. Soon after I had
icess and Sir Sydney Smith sitting toge-
sofa, the Duke of Kent sent for me, and
It the Princess would be very glad if I
duty in town, because she had business';
,wn which she would rather trust to me
ly else.
luke said, that the Princess had thought
more agreeable to me to be told this by
Siccard. After this I never at-1
:ontague House, but occasionally, when
sent for me. About July, 1802, I ob-
the Princesi had grown very large, Audi
end of the same year she appeared to be'
and I -observed it to Miss Saunders, Who
Princess was much thinner than •she had'
not any idea of the Prineesi being with
Lawrence, the painter, used to go to Mon-
e, about the latter end of 1801, when he
mg ; the Princess and he have slept in the
tr three nights together. I have often seen
with the Princess at eleven and twelve
~fight. He has been there as lite as one
lock in the Morning. One night I saw kith
-incess in the blue-room, after-the Ladies
Some time afteWards, When I supposed
. gone to•his room, I went Id see that all
and• 1 found the blue room door locked,
whispering in it, and I went nWay.
(Signed) '' WM. cots."
Lord Grenville 's House, in Downing-
tith day of June, 1806. •
%tied) • 66 SPENCER. $6 GRENVILLE."
DEPOSITION or FRANCES LLOYD. •

lived twelve years with the Princess of
October. lam in the coffee-room; my
the coffee-room does not give me oppor.
seeing the Princess. • do not see her
for months. Mr. Miles attended me for
.He asked me if the Princess came to Black.
'-wards and forwards, or something to that
the Princess was with child, or looked as

if the was with shad. Ws asst him been Frei cr
four years ago. It "say have been film years ago.—
I think it must have been some time before the child
was brought to the Princess. I remember the child
being brought, it was brought into my room. I had
orders sent tc me to give the mother arrow-root,
with directions hoW to make it, to wean the child,
and I gave it to the mother, and she took the child
,away; afterwards the mother brought the child back
again.—Whether it was a week, tea days, or a fort-
night, I cannot say, but it might be about-that time.
The second time the mother brought the child, she
brought it into my room asked how a mother
could part with her child ? I am not sure which time
I asked this.—The mother cried, and said she could
not afford to keep it. The' child was said to be
;about four months old when it was brought. I did
not particularly observe it myself.
(Signed) FRANCES LLOYD."
" I was at Ramsgate with the Princess in IBoB.
One morning, when we were in the house at East
Cliff, somebody, I do not recollect who, knocked at
my door, and desired me to get up, to prepare break-
fast for he Princess; this was about six o'clock; I
was asleep. During the whole time I was in the
Princess's service I had never been called up before,
to make breakfast for the Princess. I slept in the
Housekeeper's room, on the ground-floor; I opened
the shutters of the windows for light. I knew at
that time that Captain Manby's ship was in the
Downs. When I opened the shutters, I saw the
Princess walking down the garden with a Gentleman;
she was walking down the gravel-walk towards the
sea. No orders had been given over night to prepare
breakfast early. The Gentleman the Princess was
walking with, was a tall man ; I was surprised to see
the Princess walking with a Gentleman at that time in
the morning—l am sure it was the Princess. While we
were at Blackheath, a woman at Charlton, of the name
of Townley, told me that she had some linen to wash
from the Princess's house; that the linen was marked
with the appearai ce of a miscarriage, or a delivery.
The woman has since left Charlton, but she has friends
there. I think it must have been before the child was
brought to the Pi incess, that the woman told me this.
I know all the women in the Princess's house. I
don't think that any of them were in a state of preg-
nancy, and if any had, I think I mast have known
it. I never told Cole, that Mary Wilson, when she
supposed the Princess to be in the Library, had gone
into the Princess's bed-room, and had found a man
there at breakfast with the Princess ; or that there
was a great to do about it; and that Mary Wilson
was sworn to secrecy, and threatened to be turned
away if she divulged what she had seen.
(Signed) FRANCFS LLOYD.
" Sworn at Lard Grenville's house in Awning-
street, the Ith day of June, iaoti, before us,
(Signed) Easel N lig GRENVILLE,
SPENCER, EL LEN BO ROUGH."
THE DEPOSITION OF MARY ANN WILSON.
" I believe it will Le ten years next quarter that I
have lived with the Princess of Wales as house-maid.
I wait on the Ladies who attend the Princess. I re-
member when the child who is now with the Princess
was brought there. Before it came, I heard say that
it was to come. The mother brotight the child. It
appeared to be about four months old when it was
brought. I remember twills being brought to the
Princess before that child was brought. I never no-
ticed the Princess's shape to be different in that year
from what it was before. I never had a thought that
the Princess was v:idt child. I have heard it repor-
ted. It is a goad while ago. -I never myself suspec-
ted her being with child. I think she could not have
been with child, and have gone on to her time, with-
out my knowing it. I was at Southend with the
Princess. Captain Manby used to visit the Princess
there. I made the Princess's bed, and have been in
the habit sf making it ever since I liyed with her
Royal Highness. Another maid, whose name is
Ann Bye. assisted with me in making the bed. From
what I observed', I never had any reason to believe
that two persons had slept in the bed ; I never saw
any particular appearance in it. The linen was
washed by Stikeman s wife. • " MARY WILSON."
" Sworn at Lord Grenville's House in Down-
ing-street, the 7th June, 1806, before us,
(Signed) " ERSKINE, GRENVILLE,
" SPENCER, EL LENBOROUGHe"
THE DEPOSITION OF SAMUEL ROBERTS.

" lam a footman to the Princess of Wales. I re,
member the child being taken by the Princess. I
never observed any particular appearance of the Prin-
cess in that year—nothing that led me to believe that
she was with child. Sir Sidney Smith used to visit
the Princess at Blackheath. I never saw him alone
with the Princess. He never• stayed after eleven
o'clock.—l recollect Mr. Cole once asking me, I
think three years ago, whether there were any favou-
rites in the family I remember saying, that Captain
Manby and Sir Sidney Smith were frequently at
Blackheath, and dined there oftener than any other
persons. I never knew Sir Sidney Smith to stay
later than the ladies. I cannot say exactly at what
hour he went, but I never remember his staying alone
with the Princess. (Signed) •
" SAMUEL. ROOEItIrS.,"
Sworn at Lord Ctenisille's house, in Downing-street,
tbe Ith of June, 1806, before 111.,
(Signed) " /MIME. ORICNVILLE.
" SPENCER. ELLENBOROUGH."
DEPOSITION OF THOMAS STAKEMAN.
" I have been Page to the Princess of Wales ever
since she has been in England. When I first saw the
child who is with the Princess, it is about four years
ago. Her Royal Highness had a strong desire to
have an infant, which I and all the house knew. I
beard there was a woman who had twins, one of
which the Princess was desirous to have, but the pa-.
tents would not part with it. A woman came to the
door witli a petition to get her husband replaced in
the Dock-yard, who had been removed ; she bad a
thild with her ; I took the child, I believe, and
shewed it to Mrs. Sanders. then returned the
child to the woman. I made inquiries after the
father, and after Wards desired the woman to bring
the child again to the house, which she did. The
child was taken to the Princess after the Princess
had seen it, she desired the woman to take it again,
and bring it hack in a few days, and Mts. Sanders
was desired to provide linen for it.
ge Within a few days .the child was brought -again
by the mother, and-was left, and has been with the
Princess ever since. Ido not recollect the child had
any mark, but,*upon reflection; I do recollect that
the mother said he was marked with elder wine en
the hand. The father of the child; whose name is

shore, Siccard con
and he dined the!
.dies. After this,
the Princess. Thy
Cliff, Nos. 8 and f.
Ing-room of No. 7
cony with No. 8,
—The Princess tit
Der to remove wil
have several tim(
gone into No. 7 w
the company, retie
No, 7 through No
in which the Prin
tain MAnby slept
subject of coaster!
' given by the sery
petted it as well-re
" The Princess
WAS biought into
only one week in
time the child ova
in 1803. The ch
the same I saw :
on its left hind.
was said to be th
Bove, stir; alive.
brought it someti
like the child wln
don was employ(
used to bri::g tau
'Princess awolcc:„:
Royal Highness
appeared to be c
'apiears so.
'. "" bworn at Lord
strict, tLe bit
: . (Signed.)
THE DEP
. ' a I have live
since her marriq
Montague How,
Princess too fami
day, I think abt
.. cess ordered som
the blue room to
1 was surprised t
in from the Park
heath, he must
which I was wai
wiches, f. roturns
and S:r Sydney
Princess, on the
Royal Highness.
I.noticed the ma
they. They app
came into the ro
night, about two
house from the I
did not give an
mind was, that i
seen the Princess
they on the sofa,
told me that th
would do the dut
to do in town v
than any body el
' " The Duke
it would be more
Iltti than throng
tended at Monta
the Princess sent
s :rved that the I
' in the latter end
grown thin ; ant
said that the NI
been—l had not
child. Mr. Law:
tagueliouse, aE
was painting ; t
house two ter thr
him alone with
, o'clock at night.
. . ; or two &clock is
.1 with the Princes
•i : bad retired. Soi
that he had goni
was safe, and I
and heard a whi
(Sii
!Sworn at Lord Gre
street, the eth
(Signed
.i - THE DEI
a I have live
Wiles next Oct
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