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within a y two a c vra ; and
pose, that the rapers hereunto annexed, marked A.
an() •we in the hand-writing of Samuel Gillam
Mills, o Greenwich aforesaid, my partner ; and that,
he is at, present, as verily believe, upon his road
from Wades through Glocester to Bath.
( Sign ed ) (f THOMAS EpligtAHESI
Swam ot the Public Of§oe, Hatton-Garden,
this nth day of SereinbeT. 1806:
(pigrred) ft THOMAS LEACH. 1
A.
" MOMOg4OIII of tall beads -of auction betyreeo 4ort!
Moira, Mr, Lowteo, iodibyself.
t May.l4, 1804.
ef May 13, 1406.-1 receiver' letier from Lord
ligoliro-of which the following is an enact copy ; •
't St. U1m:0416c,, May 13, 1810.
‘. •
Of Sta.-A particular circumstance maims me desire
04 have the pleasure of seeing you, and indeed rent
den itindispeosable that you should take the trouble
of-calling on sne. As the trial in Westminster Hell
occupies the loiter hours of the ;lay, 1" must beg you
to be with Hie AS early as nine 'o'clock to-morrow
owning. In the mean time it will be better that
you should vaot apotrist sioy cane of my having re-
quested you to converse with rise.
4' Mar the hopour, Sire to be youx ohedieac ser-
L 4014, (Signed) st siquid4
To Mr. MUla.
nista he paper A. ow Cynod to by the affidayit of Thoo
I -*Meade*, eurrat before me chit etch sept. 18416.
ABigned)TillPS. LEACH."

•.: B.
41 In conseonnce of thp above letter I waited pn
his Lordehipexactly ax nine o'clock. In less than fiTt
mintnes I was admitted at his room, and by him re-
ceived very politely. HF began the conversation by
stating he wished to converse with me on a very de;.
licate'eubject—thrit I might rely on his honour, that
what passed was tp be in perfect confidence ; it was
his duty to his Prince, as his Counsellor, to enquire,
into the subject, which he had known for some time,
and the enquiry was due also to my character. He
then stated, that a deposition had been made -by a
domestic of her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales,
deppsing, as a declaration made by me, that her
Royal Highness was pregnant, and that I made en-
quiries when interviews might have taken place with
the Prince. I answered, that I bad never declared
the. Princess to be with child, nor ever made the en-
quiries stated—that the declaration was an infamous
1 falsehood. This being expressed with some warmth
his Lordship observed, that I might have made the
enquiries very innocently, conceiving that her Royal
Highness scald not be in that situation but by the'
Prince. I repeated my assertion of the falsehood of
the declaration, adding, that though the conversation
was intended to be confidential, I felt my character
strongly attacked by the declaration, therefore it was
necessary the declaration should be, investigated. I
had no doubt but the character I hall so many years
maintained world make my assertion believed before
the deposition of a domextic. I then requested to
know what date the declaration bore ? his' Lordship
said he did not remember, but he had desired the so-
licitor to meet me, who *mild strew. it me. I then
observed, that I should, in confidence communicate
to his Lordship why I was desirous to know the date.
I then stated to his Lordship., that soon after her
Royal Highness came to Illackheath, 4 attended her
in an illness, with Sir Francis Millman, in which I
bled her twice, Soon after her recovery, she thought
proper to form a regular medical appointment, and ap,
pointed myself and Mr. gdmeades to be surgeons and
apothecaries tp her Royal Highness, On receiving
, my warrant for such appointment, I declined accept,
ing the honour of being appointed apothecary, being
inconsistent with my character, being educed as sur-
geon, and having had an honorary degree of physic
« conferred op me. Her Royal Highness condescend-
ed to appoint me her surgeon opty. His Lordship
rang to know if Mr. I.,owten was come : he was in
the next room. His Lordship left me for a few
minutes, retnrned and introduced me to Mr. Lowten,
with much ,politeness, as Or. Mills, repeating the as-
surance of what passed being confidential, I asked
' Mr. Lowten the date of the declaration that had
been asseited to be made by me. He said in the
Tear 1802. I then, with permission of his Lorcishie,
gave the history of my appointment, adding, since
then I had never seen the Princess as a patient.--
Once she sent for me to bleed her. I. was from home.
Mr. Edtneades went ; nor had I visited any one in
the house, except one Mary, and that was in a very
bad case of surgery ; I was not sure, whether it was
' before or after trey appointment. Ikr. Lowten asked
me the date of it ; 1 told him I did not recollect.—
He observed from my warmth of expressing my con-
tradiction of the deposition, that I saw it in a wrong
light ; that I might suppose, and very innocently,
her goyal Highness to be pregnant, and then the En-
quiries were as innocently made. I answered, that
the idea of pregnancy never entered my head ; that I
Inver attended her Royal Highness in any sexual
complaint ; whether she ever had any I never knew.
Mr. Lowten said, I might think so from her increase
of size. --I answeied, No--I never did think her
' pregnant, therefore never mild say it, and that the
aepositiop was an infamous falsehood, His Lord-
ship then observed, that he perceived there must be
a mistake, and that Mr. V.dtreades was the person
meant, whom lie wished to see. I said lie was then
at o*rii, and did not return bEibre Saturday. His
Lordship asked if he come through London. I said
I could not tell.
" finding nothing now arising from conversation,
.1 asked to retire. His Lordship attended me out of
the room with great politeness.

.When I came home I sent his Lordship a letter,
with the date of my warrant, April 10, 1801, 14
answered my letter, with thanks for my immediate
attention, and wished'to see Mr. Edmeades on Sun.
day morning. This letteT came on the Saturday";
early on the Sunday I sent Timothy to let his. Jeord-
, ship know Mr. Edmeades would not return till MO-
' day. On Tuesday I promised he should attend,
which be did.

44 The preceding caemnractdum is an exact copy
of what I made the day :titer I. had seen Lord Moira.
(Signed) « SAM. GILLAI*
" tAreEwich, Aug. so, 1406.
This is the paper mat Ittd B, reltired to to, ;he Affidavit of
elt.Balineaciet% Swots betore nit, this it6th Sept. 1806.
• t Signed) ' Tho. LEAcil."
1

ll Iteloartne chilrlitiellialierrisrfalhF - liiii at was pregnant During my erten.
of Walesa ( am theomdther of it; I was delivered of dance hardly a day passed without my seeing her._
it four years ago the 11th of neat July, at
,Peownlow- .She could not be far advanced in pregnancy without
street Hospital! I have laitein there three tunes; my knowing it. I was at East Cliffe with her Rayal
William, whii is with the Princess, is the second child Highness in August, 1803 ; I saw Captain Manby
I laid it! of there. It was marked in the right hand only once at East Cliffe, in August, 1803, to the best
with red wine.- My husband was a labourer in, the of my 'recollection—he might have been oftener ; and
Boeir-yard at Deptford, When peace was proclaim• once again at Deal Castle ; Captain Manby landed
Vdt a number of ;he workmen were discharged, and there with some boys the Princess takes en charity.-
Imy husband was one who was discharged. I went to I saw Captain, Manby et East Cliffe one morning,
the Princess with 'a petition on a Saturday, to try to not particularly early, I do not know of any pre-
ps, my husband restored. I lived at that time at seats which the princess made Captain Manby. I
'Tpleptford-new.roav, No. 7, with a person of the name have seen Captain Manby atßlackheathoneChristmasst
of alearkilock.; he was a inilk•frian. 'The day I went to he used to come to dine the Christmas before we were
ace Princess with the petition was a fortnight before, at Ramsgate. It was the Christmas after Mrs,
the 6th of Ishsverither. 41r. Bennet, a baker, in New- Austin's child came. fie alwas went away in my .
greet, was our ~eater, and I took the, child to Mt. presence. I had no reason to think he stayed after
liennet4s, when I went to receive my husband's wages, we (the Ladies) retired. He lodged on :he Heath
every week, from the tittle I left the Hospital till I at that time. I believe his ship was fining up at
carried the child tq the Princess, I kgew Mr. Stike- I Deptford. He was there frequently. I tire::: not
'nen only by having seen hirn oneebefrtre, when I went . every day. He generally came to dinner three or
to apply 'for a letter to Browqlow-street Hospital. ; four times a week or more. I suppose he might be
st When f went to Montague-home, I desired' Mr, !alone with her. But *the Princess is in the habit of
stikeman to present my petition; He said they were seeing Genslemen and tradesmen without my being
denied to do such thing, bqt seeing me with a baby, -present; I have seen him at luncheon and dinner
he could do, no less, He then took the child from both ; the boys came with him, not to dinner, and not
ire, and was a limg time gone ; lie then brought me generally, not above two or three times i—two boys
back the child, and hrooglit half a guineaawhich tts;s I think.
Ladier, sent me. He said, if the child had been i Sir. Sidney Smith came also frequently the Christ.
younger, he thought he 'could have got it taken care MRS before that, to the best of my recollection, . !At
of Cor me, but desired that I would come up again; dinner, when' Captain Manby dined, he always sat
I went up again on the Monday following, and I saw next her Royal Highness; the constant company were
Mr. Stikeman ; Mr.Stiketrian afterwards came seve- Mrs. and Miss FitaGet:4l and myself; we all retired
ral times to us, and appointed me to tale the child ~with the Princess, and sat in the swine room; he ga,
to Montague-house on the sth of Novembers, but it nerally retired about eleven o'clock-abe sat with us
rained all day, and I did not take it. Mr. Stikeman till then. This occurred three or tour times 4 weeks
came down to me on the Saturday, the tth of No. str Mare. Her Royal Highness, the Lady in Wait-
fa the mg, mill her Page, 'have each a key of dr. door from
'ember, and I took the child pn that day
Princess's house. The Princess was out, I waited till the ape-en:house to the park. Captain alanby apt
she returned ; she saw the child, and asked its age. • the Princess used, when we were wart:A.4a to bespeak-
ing together aeparately, conversing separately, but.
i I went down into the coffee.room, and they gave me
some arrow root to weep the child, fur I wile suck- pot in a room n!une together, to my kaowledge. He
ling the child at this t'it're, and wheni had weaned . was a person with whom she appeared to have grea.er
the child, I was tp bring it and lepve it with•the pleasure in talking titan to her I .arises. She beh vied
, Princess. f di4 wean the child, and brought it to tie' to Mori only as any woman would vsho likes Bitting
Princess's house on the 15th of November, and left . I ithould not have thought any married weman aoutd
it there, and it has been with the Princess ever since.: have behaved properly, who shoidd have behaved ase
I saw the child last Whitsun Monday, and I swear ; hes. Royal Highness did to Captain Manby. I cal. 4
that it is my child! *say whether she was attached to C .plain Mark,
(Stalled) f. SOPHIA AUSTIN. only that it was a flirting cotaict. ' Never saw ;my
" Ssenrn at Lord Grenville's House in Down- gallantries, as kissing her hand, or the like.
ing•street, the 7th June, thUS, before us, .. " I was with her ,loyal Highness at Lady Shef:
(Signed) o manse, atutayna.E, field's, last Christmas, in Sussex. I inquired What
".. SPENCER, v4unnuauvG,4•l' i company was there when -1 came. She ' said, only
THE DEPOSITION OF 111ZARETII 'OOSDEN. I Mr. JohtsChester, who was :here by her Royal Hight
(6 lam the wife of yrancis Golden, who is a set- ness's orders ; that ehia Could get no othercompany
vain of the Princess of \Vales, and has' lived with her to meet her, on account of the roads and seasan gf
Royal Highness eleven years. In November, 1802, the year'. He biped and slept there that flight. The
1 was sent for to the Princess's house to look after a next day other company came, Mr. Chester remain-
little. child. I understood that he lied been then nine ed ; I heard her Royal Highness say she 1,-,i bn,
days in the house. I was nurse to the ehild. One ill in die night, and came out for a light, andlighled
of the Ladies, 1 think Miss Similes-, delivered the child her candle in her servant's room i—l returneJ frog
, to me, and teld me her Royal Highness wished me to !Sheffield-place to Blackheath with the Pritasesia-as
take tale cil him. The child never slept with thelCaptain Moore dined there. I left him and.the Pria,
Princess. I sometimes used tp take him to the !cess twice alone far a Short time ; he might be aka*
Princess befpre she was ttp, and leave him with her on half an hour with her. In die room below in which
the bed, The child had a mark op the hand ; it ap- !we had been sitting, I went to loak for a back ta
poured to be a stain of wine, bat is now wrap out. I', complete a set her Royal gigtinen Was lencllne Cap.
was HUAI; a year and three quatteis with the child. ! tain Moore. She made hint a presenu of an inksing,.
Thc mother used to cerue often to see him. I never ito the best of my recollection. He was there one
saw the Princess dress the child, or take eerie! things ! mosillng in Jartiary last, on the Princess Charlptte'i
herself; but she has seen me do it. 'the child is not no ' Birth-day. list went away ()dime the rest of thee
mach now with the Pi aims as he was. compaay ; I might be absent twenty minutes the se-
(Signed) 64 ELIZABETH eioalatua ;cud time. I was away the night Captain :Mae
" Swop at Lord Grenville's bouse! in Downing- was there.. At Lady Shefhsld's her Reyal H.iehaesa
street, the 23d day ot June, 1806, before es, paid moll ottention •to Mr. Chester 'tibia to the rest
(Signed) •.ERSKINE, 5' (lIIENVILLE.
,
46 Srii;Nc4n• 64 ELLENBOROIJOH:' of the campany.
4; I keiew of her Royal-Highness v:alking out twice
TIM DEPOSITION OF BATTY TOWNLEY, home with Mr. Chester in the insaniug a lorae I unc
5, I lived at Charlton 16 years, and till within the short time it rained—the other pet an hour—not long.
last two years I was a laundiess, and used to wash ! Mr. Chester is a pretty young; nein. Her attentioas
linen for the Princess of Wales's family. After the to him were not ancommop, not the same as to Cap-
Princess left Charlton, and went to Blackheath, ; used taro Manhy. lam not certain whether the Princeas
to go ovt' to Blackheath and fetch the linen to wash. answered any letters of 1...a4 Douglas. I wai at
I have had linen from the Princess's house the sameiCatheriugton with the Princess. Remember lAr:
as other ladies, I mean, that there were such ap.: now Lord Hood, there, and the Princess goieg but
pearances on it as might arise from natural causes to I airing with him alone in Mr. Hood's little whiskey,
which women are subject. I never washed the Prin.! and his servant man with thew. Mr. 'Hood drove ;
cess's own bed linen, but once or twice occasionally. ! staid out two or three hours, more titan once; slime
I recollect one bundle of linen once comiag, which I ; ortaur times. Mr. Hood dined Seidl us several times,
thought rather more marked than usual, l'ilai told' once or twice he slept in a house in the garisen. hil
me the Princess had been bled whh leeches, and had i o
appeared to pay no attention to him but that al canas
stained the linen mere. The servanse told me so, hfi---t 1 man eivilits io art intimate acquaintance. I: emember
I don't remember who the servants were that told me the Princess sitting to Mr. Lawrence for let pic.
so, I recollect once I came to town and left the linen ture, at Illacktiaath and in London ; I liar' Scat her
with my daughter to wash s I looked at the clothes ;..at his house it. zowa with him. r chi.* Mrs:
slowly before I went, and counted them, and MY : Fitagerald was With !'er, and she sat alone with laua,
daughter and a woman she employed with her, : j think, at Blackheath. 1 eras never in her kayo!'
washed them, when I was in town. 1 thought when , Highness's coniidence, bai sae has always beenlig
I looked them over, that then; *slight be something : add good natured zo me. She never mataiatiedCapt.
more chats,. usual ;my opinion was, that it was from a Manby particalarly icame. I remember her beitsga
miscarriage, the iineo had the appearance ai a mil- t blooded the day Lady Sheffield's child was christerieic
carriage. I believed it at the time. They were tine anot, several tithes that I tecollettabor any other time,
damask napkins, and some of them ;narked with a -nor believe she was in the halite of being bloealecl
little red crown in the ccrner, and some without marks, ! twice a yaea The Priecess at one time salmi we, tq
I might mention it to Fanny Lloyd. I don't rocci-:! like Laos- Douglas; Sir John came freeneatly ; Sir
lect when this was, bet it must be more than two 1 Sydney Smith atoned about the same time witli the
years and a halt ago, ter I did not wash lorthe Prin., Datialasa ; I have seen Sir Sydney thsre very laiA
cess's family but' very little for the last six months. I the evening, but not Alin, with the Priiicea ; flair*
Mary Wilson used to give me the linen, and I be- . no reason to. suspect lie had a key of the Park gate;
lieve it was she who told Inc the Princess was bled i I never heard oi. any buJy being fuuacl wandering
X
j •h9d
with leeches, but the appearance of the linen which I about at Blackheath. 1 have heard of v nle
have spoken of before was ditfetent from that which : being found wanaering about late at night at Mount
it was said was, stained by bleeding with leeches. I'
remember the child coming ; I used to wash the linen 1 Edgecembe, when the Princess was there. 1 *heard
rs
that two women and a an were seen crossing the
for the child, and Mrs. Golden, who anised the child, • hail.
used to pay me for it. I kept a book in which I en. l Mount Edgecumbe. :es Richard Strachan was
The Princess saw a great deal al. company at
re-
tered the linen washed. I am not sure whether L
ported to have spoken freely of the Princess. I sad
have it still, but it I have, it is in a chest at my dough-
tee's, at Charlton, and 1 will produce it if I can hod not heat that he had offered a rudeness fisher pu son.
She told me she laza heard *he had epoken disrespect:
it. (Signed) 6' So ToWNLEY." fully of her, and therafore, I believe,' wrote tp hini by
" Sworn at Lord I.reuville's house in Downing. Sir Samuel Hood. (Signed) IiSSTS2I Liaili.
street, the tad day of Jude, 1806, before us,
(Signed) 6' ERSKINE, GRENVILLED " Swot'. before us, in Downing-street, '
this Hard Jai vl July, Into.
" SPENCER, etaxasiOnotiett.”. (Signed) a reasi se.
THE DEPOSITION OP MRS. LISLE. 6' 5ee.“..1.i1,
66 I Hester Lisle, am in the Princess of Wales's
family, have been so ever since her Royal Highness's
marriage. I was nut at South End with the Princesa;
WAS at Blackheath with her in ltita, but sirti nut per-
fectly sure as to dates. lam general), it month at a
1 time, three menthe in the year, with her Royal High
mess, in April, AUguit, and 'Decenther ; was ao
August, 1804 • .1 did not observe any alteraisan in
het 40/41 kfillhneu.* shape lehieh WI Re *V id.:
• ..,

C:IIEN
" LI.LISNIiuItIAUGHA

TIIE DEPO9TION_ oF lIAREIET 11 1441114 t 1.1:4

" I Caine lira to live with We Princess of Wales in
1801. merely as a tiitoid and comp:intim:, and have
continued to live with her Royal liighnei.s till I hi*
time. I know Lady D.bugLtu t I reniemba
at happened h) Acetuent mat her It • 41
hightiest Imo. in. the butte at the time of Lady Do.o.
glas's delivery. I think it was iu July, 18'd. I ..e •
these myself. The Priuccos wit; not in the rem at