Star.
London, England, 1813-03-13 00:00:00

PROCLAMATION OF THE KING OF FRANCE.

Mr. WHITBREAD inquired whether the pttbli-
cation of a certain document in the newspapers to-
day, purporting to be the Proclamation or Manifesto
of the King of France, had received the countenance,
or been inserted with the concurrence, of his Majes-
ty's Government ?
Lord CASTLEREAGH said, on the part of the
Government, he wholly disavowed it.
Mr. WHITBREAD.--0 Ah, that won't do."

The other Orders of the Day were ties disposed of sod dse
tiplOC adjourned till Monday.

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.4i Whereis our right , trusty and well . . ' .
Comitillor, THOMAS Lord Emaciate, our Chancellor,
has this day laid before us an Abstract of certain
written declarations puching the conduct of her
Rod a! Highness the Princess of Watts, we do hereby
autforise, empower, and direct the said THOMAS
Lord ERSICI%F,, our Chancellor, our right trusty and
well beloved Cousin and Councillor Gamma Josus
Earl SpaNcsa, one of our Principal Secretaries of
State, our right trusty and well beloved Councillor
W. WINDHAM, Lord Garsvitts, First Commissioner
of our Treasury, and our right trusty and well be-
loved Councillor EDWARD Lord ELLENBOROUGH, our
Chief Justice, to hold pleas before ourself, to inquire
into the truth of the same, and to examine, upon
oath, such persons as they shall see fit touching and
concerning the same, and to report to us the result
of such examination.
44 Given at our Castle of Windsor, en 29th May,
in the 46th year of our_ Reign. it a. R.”
COPY OF THE DEPOSITION OF LADY CHARLOTTE
DoVOLAS.
"I think I first became acquainted with the Princess
of Wales in 1801. Sir John Douglas had a house at
Blackheath. One day, in November, 1801, the snow
was lying on the ground. The Princess and a Lady
Who, I believe, was Miss Heyman, came on foot,
and walked several times before the door. Lady
Stewart was with me, and said, she thought that
the Princess wanted something, and that I ought to
go to her. I went to her. She said, she did not want
any thing but she would walk in ; that I had a very
pretty little girl. She came in and staid some time.
About a fortnight after Sir .h Douglas and I received
an invitation to go to Montague House, after that I
was very frequently at Montague House, and dined
there. Tne Princess dined frequently with us.—
About May or June, 1802, the Princess first talked
to me about her own conduct. Sir S. Smith, who
bad been Sir John's friend for more than 20 years,
came to England about November, 1801, and came
to live in our house. I understood the Princess knew
Sir Sidney Smith before she was Princess of Wales.
46 The Princess saw Sit S. Smith as frequently as
ourselves. We were usually kept at Montague-house
later than the rest of the party, often till three or four
in the morning. I never observed any impropriety of
conduct between Sir S. Smith and the Princess. I
made the Princess a visit at Montague-house, in
March, 1802, for about a fortnight. She desired me
to come there, because Miss Garth was ill. In May
or June following, the Princess came to my house
alone—she said she came to tell me something that
had happened to her, and desired me to guass—l
guessed several things, and at last I said I could not
guess.any thing male. She then Said she was preg-
nant, and that the child had come to life.
46 I don't know whether she said on that day, or a
few days before, that she was at breakfast at Lady
Willoughby's, that the milk flowed np to her breast
and came through her gown ; that she threw a nap.
kin over herself and went with Lady 'Willoughby
into her room, AA adjusted herself to prevent its
being observed. She never told me who was the
father oldie child. She said she hoped it would be
a boy. She said that if it was discovered she would
give the Prince of Wales the credit of being the fa-
drer, for she had slept two nights at Carlton house
within the year. 1 sail that I should go abroad to
.
my mother. The Princess said she should manage
it vermeil, and if things came to the worst, she
Should give the Prince the credit of it. While I was
at Montague-house, in March, I was with child, and
one day I said 1 was very sick, and the Princess de-
sired Mrs. Saunders to get me a saline draught. She
then said that she was very sick herself, and that she
would take a saline draught too. I observed, that
she could not want one, and I looked at her. The
Princess said, yes, I do. What do you look at me
for with your wicked eyes ? you are always finding
me out. Mrs. Saunders looked very much distress-
ed ; she gave us a saline draught each.
46 This was the first time I had any suspicion of
her being with child. The Princess never said, who
was the tather. When she first told me she was with
child, I rather suspected that Sir S. Smith was the
father, but only because the Princess was very partial
to him. I never knew he was with her alone. We
had constant intercourse with the Princess, from the
time when 1 was at Montague-house, till the end of
October. After she had first communicated to me
that she was with child, she frequently spoke upon
the subject. She was bled twice during the time.
She recommentled me' to bleed too, and said that it
made you have a better time. Mr. Edmeads bled
her; she said, one of the days that Mr. Edmeads bled
her, that she had a violent heat in her blood, and
that Edmexds should bleed her. I told the Princess
that I. was very anxious how she would manage
to be brought to bed without its being known ;
that I hoped she had a safe person. She said, yes :
she should have a person from abroad ; that she
had a great horror of having any men about her
upon such an occasion—she said. I am confident in
my own plans, and I wish you would not speak to
me on that subject again. She said, I shall tell
every thing to Saunders. .1 think this was on the
day on which she told me of .what had happened at
Lady Willoughby's. Saunders was a very good wo-
man, and might be trusted, and that she must be with
her at the labour; that she would *nd Miss Garth
to Brunswick, and Miss Milfield was too young to
be trusted, and must be sent out of the way. I was
brought to bed on the 23d July, 1802. The Prin-
cess insisted on being present. I determined that she
should not, but I meant to avoid it without offend-
ing her. On the day on which I was brought to bed,
she came to my house and insisted on coming in.—
Dr. Mackie, who attended me, locked the door on
the opposite side of the —, but there was another
door on the opposite side of the room, which was
not locked, and she came in at that door, and was
present during the time of the labour, and took the
child as soon al it was born, and said she was ter,
glad she had seen the whole of it. The Princess'i
pregnancy appeared to me to be very visible. She
wore a cushion behind and made Mrs. Saunders
make one for me. During my lying-in the Princess
1 came one day with Mrs. Fitzgerald. She sent Mrs.
F. away, and took a chair, and sate by my bedside.
She said you will hoar of my taking children is boa.

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hi Salt Shay i .i 4. that .6` the. way, in irli I 4tuie,
have my ewe brought when .I. have it. ' Veit *boil
after this two children, who were twins, were !weigh;
by a poor woman id &basket: The Princess too
theta, and had them carried up into her room; And
the Princess washed them herself. Ile Princess told
me this herself. The father, a few days afterwarda;
milli and insisted on havin& the chil&en, ant titer
`were given to him. The Princess afterivieds sud t 9
me, " You. See I took the children and it answena
very well. The father had got them back, and chi
could not blame him : that ithe should take ethei
children, and have quite a nurser*. I saw the Prin.
cess on a Sunday, either the SOth or Slst of ISeoS,•I-,
moe, walking before her door. She was dressed .it
as to conceal her pregnancy. She h.id a laity cloak;
and a very great muff. She had just reid* t d from
Greenwich Church. She locked- very ili, a:.d I
thought must be very near her time.
44 About a week or ten days after this, I receive,' a
note from the Princess, to desire that 1 would not
come to Montague House, for they were apprehen!
sive that the children they had taken had had the
measles in their clothes, and that she was afraid my
child might take it: Vhen the Priniess came to sae
me during my lying-in, she told me that, when :.! e
should be brought to bed, she wished I would to t
come to her for some time, for she might be confused
in seeing me. About the end of December I went to
Gloucestershire, and stayed there about a month.—
When I returned, which was in January, I went td
Montague House, and was let in. The Princess was
packing up something in a black box. Upon the
sofa a child was lying covered over with a piece of
red cloth. The Princess got up, and took me by the
hand. She then led me to the sofa, and said, there ii
the child, I had him only two days after I saw you.
" The words were, either I had him. or I was
brought to bed—the words were such as clearly im-
ported that it was her own child. She said she got
very well through it ; she sheaved me a mirk on the
child's hand, it is a pink mark. The Princess said,
she has a mark like your little girl. I saw the child
afterwards frequently with the Princess quite" till
Christmas, lbo3, when I left 131ackheath. 1 saw the
mark upon the child's hand, and I am sure that it
was the same child, I never saw any other child
there. The Princess Charlotte used to see the child
and play with him. The child used to call the Prim;
ccss of \Vales 9 Mamma, I saw the child looking
at the window of the Princess's house about a mlntli
ago, before the Princess went into Devonshire, end
lam sure that it is the same child. Not lung *het.
I had first seen. the child, the Princess said, that she
had the child at first to sleep with her for a few nights,
but it made her nervous, and now they had got a re-
gular nurse for her.
4, She said, We gave k a little milk at first, but it
was too much for me, and now we breed it by li.indo
and it does very well. I can swear pesi.ivt4y that
the child I saw at the window is the same- child as •
the Princess told me she had two days ntter,shi I
parted with me. The child was called William.
never heard that it had any other name. When the
child was in long clothes, we breakfasted eihe day
with the Princess, and she said to Sir J. hn Dotiglas,
This is the Deptford boy. Indepenuentty oat the
Princess's confession to me, I can swear that she Was
pregnant in 1802. In October, 1804, when we 'toy
turned from Devonshire, I lett my turd at Montague
House, and on the 4th October I received a liter
from Mrs. Vernon, desiring me not to come any mole
to Montague House. I had never at this time men.
tioned the Princess's being with child, or being deli.
vered of a child, to any person, not even to Sir John
Douglas. After receiving Mrs. Vernon's letter, I
wrote to the Princess on the subject. The letter was
sent back unopened. I then wrote to Mrs. Fitzge-
rald, saying, that I thought myself extremely di
used. lii two or three days after this, I receiveu an
.anonymous, which I produce, and have marked with
the letter A, and signed with my name, both on the
letter and the envelope.
" The Princess of Wales has told me, that she gft
a bed-fellow whenever she could, that nothing was
More wholesome a she said, that nothing was more
' convenient than her own room ; it,stands at the bead
of the staircase which leads into the Park, and I have
bolts in the inside, and have a bed-fellow whenever I
like. I wonder you can be satisfied only with Sir
John. She said this more than once. She has told
me that Sir Sydney Smith had lain with her. That
she believed all men liked a bed-fellow, but Sir Syd-
ney better than any body else ; that the Prince was
the most complaisant man in the world; that she did
what sheliked, went where she liked, and had what
bedfellow she liked, and the Prince paid for all.
(Signed) 66 CHARLOTTS DOUGLAS.
" Sworn bola re us, June Ist, 1806, June 1, 11000.
at Lord Gra:Mlle's, Downinp
street, Westminster.
(Signed) 64 ARUM& 46 GRINVILLIL
" SPENCER. " ELLANDOROUGH."
, THE DEPOSITION OF SIR JOHN DOUGLAS, KNT.
" I bad a house at Blackheath, in 1801. Sir Syd.
ney used to come to my house. I had a bed for him.
The Princess of Wales formed an acquaintance with
Lady Douglas, and came frequently to our house.
I thought she came more for Sir Sydney Smith than
for us. After she had been some time acquainted
with us, she appeared to me to be with child. One
day she leaned on the sofa, and put her hand upon
her stomach, and said—Sir John, I shall never be
Queen of England. I said, not if you do'nt deserve
it. She seemed angry at first. In 180, on the 27th
of October, I received two letters by the twopmuy
post, one addressed to me, which I now produce, and
have marked with the letter B. both on the envelope
and the enclosure, and the other letter addressed to
Lady Douglas, and which I now produce, and hate
marked with the letter C. both on the envelope and
the enclosure. (Signed) " JWIN DoUGLAis
" Sworn before us' at Lord Gras- June 1.
ville's House, in Downing-wrest,
Westminster, lune 1, 1806.
(Signed) 64 EAMON& di op.—
" SPSNCSN.

THi

4' iLLENBOROUGIL"

OF ROBERT BIOWOOD.

44 I have lived with the Prince 23 years next Sep.
timber; I went to the Princess in Much, 1795, and
have lived with her Rol al Highness ever since.-•.
About the year 1802, early in that year, 1 lira s.b•
*erved Sir Sidney Smith come to Montague kiLtwi:
he uml to stay very :Ate at night; I have Neal kiin