Star.
London, England, 1813-03-06 00:00:00

THE PRINCESS OF WALES.

The proceedings in the House of Commons List
night, though carried on with chned doors, have
been reported with accuracy; and from the detail
given in our Columns, the Public will be able to
form a correct judgment respecting the inuendos, so
long thrown out against this illustrious Personage,
in insidious hints, sympathetic sneers, and open ca-
lumnies, foisted into the columns of venal news-
papers. " She calls for enquiry," quoth they, ,g and
enquiry she must have; the matter cannot rest here—it
must proceeded in;" and all this they said, with thel

' hope that' some— incideni Might be bionght to light,
that migg Firi -colour to their calumnies.
We congratulate the country on the spotless purity
with which her Royal Highnesi the Princess of
WALES has passed the ordeal. Read ! Read, the so-
lemn, the perfect acquittal of her Royal Highness.—
Not a vestige of criminality was or could be imputed
—there were no grounds upon which any proCeedings
judicial or extrajudicial, could be founded. In short,
to the the words of an eloquent Member who spoke
the sentiments of his heart upon the occasion, and
who was one of her judges—We mean Mr. CANING
.44 such honourable and repeated sentences of ac-
quittal were pronounced for her, that no farther inves-
tigation could exhibit her innocence more strongly,
and none was necessary."

It has been thought strange, and the enefnies of
the PRINCESS of WALES have not failed to avail them-
selves of the circumstance—that the Privy Council,
believing her Royal Highness to be perfectly inno-
cent of all the charges brought against het—should,
notwithstanding, express an opinion that, under all
the circumstances of the case, it is fit and proper—
that the intercourse between the Princess CHARLOTTI
and her Royal Mother " shdlald continue to be sub-
ject to regulation and restraint." To this point we
cannot but call the attention of the public, the right
understanding of which can alone free their mind
from misapprehension and erroneous conclusions.
—Let it be remembered that the honourable indivi-
duals--and honourable we must hold them in the
strictest sense of the Word—had but one question re-
ferred to them, namely, 44 Whether, under all the
" circumstances of the case, it be fit and proper that
44 the intercourse between the Princess of WALES and
4i her daughter the Princess CHARLOTTE should con-
" tiime to be subject to regulations and restrictions?"
There Was no other question referred to them ; nor
could they with perfect propriety report upon any
other, or upon any topic not directly connected with
it.—To this accordingly they confine their answer,
and to the expression " suborned traducers," which had
appeared in the Princess of WALES'S Letter of com-
plaint respecting the restrictions—an express;on
which never was nor could, by any but a perverse
mind, be so misconstrued as to be applied to the
PRINCE REGENT.

Persons not acquainted with the strictness of form
required in the proceedings of the Privy Council,
might easily be led, by the unwarrantable insinua-
tions of certain Journalists, to conclude, that the an-
swer of the Privy Council could only be founded on
a conviction that suspicions still attached to the
Princess of WALES, though the evidence was defec-
tive : but mark the fact, as explained by some of
that very body, in the debate of last night.—
Their opinion is founded upon the acknowledged right
which belongs to every hu7slavd and fathcr to dictate what it
most proper for the education of his own daughter.—This is
the major proposition. It was farther stated, as a
minor proposition, that, though restrictions on the
visits of the Princess CHARLOTTE to her Mother were
admitted not to be necessary on account of any cri-
minality on the part of the latter, yet they might be
necessary, on account of her liability tO meet com-
pany with whom it was not thought fit that she
diould associate.—Even this kind of expression is
liable to a construction, far, we are sure, from the
sense in which it was meant by the Speaker. But
every honest and pure mind will give it the right
construction.—From ',the peculiar circumstances in
which the Princess CHARLOTTE is placed respecting
her Parents, it might be thought possible that some
indiscreet individuals might, on an opportpnitfpre-.
senting itself, employ language respecting the one or
the other, improper to be allowed to reach the ear of
the young Princess.
Before we dismiss this subject for the present, we
shall lay before our Readers a letter respecting which
there has been much conversation in the higher cir-
cles. In the course of the investigation which was
instituted in 18C6, it was adduced :in the course
of her Royal Highness's defence to the collateral
circumstances stated in the Inquiry, which terminated
so honourably to the character of her Royal High-
ness :

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