Star.
London, England, 1813-03-10 00:00:00

" HIGHLY INTERESTING DOCUMENT.

a Among the various documents which have been received by
tie respecting the investigation of the conduct of her Royal High-
nese the Princess of WALES, is a copy of, the Message which was
delivered to her Iron the KING, by the Lotto CHANCELLOR,
(Lord ErAinc) at the close of that investigation ; and as we
trust it wit tend to chew the propriety of no further public pro-
ceeding on the subject, and of acquiescing in the authority el his
Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, to conduct the education
et his Daughter in the manner in which he may deem most berefi-
ttial fsir the interests of the State, aided, when necessary, by the
advice of his confidential Servants, we deem it our duty, how-
ever painful to our feelings, to lay it before the public."—Mor-
slag Post.
ae This Message was rer.rumended on the 25th of January,
1807, by the following persons :
The LORD CHANCELLOR. Lord Viscount Howtac.
Loan PREbIDENT. Lord GRENY/LLE.
Loan PRIVY SLAL. Lord ELLENBOROOGII.
Earl aPINCER. Mr. Secretary WINDHAM.
Earl of Monte. Mr. T. GRENVILLE.
Lord HENRY Pc ITT.

(COPY.)
MESSAGE FROM THE KING.
44 TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES.

" The KING Laving referred to his confidential Servants the

proceedings and papers relative to the written Declarations which
bad been laid before his Majesty, respecting the conduct of the
Princess of VsraLes, has beta apprized by them, that after the
fullest consideration of the examinations taken on that subject,
and of the observations and affidavits brought forward by the
Princess's Legal Advisers, they agree in the opinions submitted
to his Majesty is the original Report of the four Lords by whom

hls Majesty directed that the matter should, lathe first instance,
be inquired into; and that in the present stage of the business,
upon a mature and deliberate view of this most important sub-
4eet, in all its parts and bearing!, It is. their opinion; that the
• facts of this case do not warrant their advising thut any further
step should be taken in the business by his Majesty's Govern-
ment, or any. ether proceedings inarituted upon it,.exctpt such
only as his Majesty's Law Servantsmay, on reference to them,
think fit to recommei.d for the prosecution-or-Lady Douglas, on
those parts of her deposition which• may appear to them to be
justly liable thereto.
" In this situadort his Majesty is advised, that it is no longer
Necessary for him to decline receiving the Prime's into his
Royal presence.
" The King sees with great satiJaction the agreement of his

Confiders:a:l Servants, in the decided opinion espres.cd by the
four 1 aw Lords upon the Salm:hood of the acrusatians of preg-
zancy and delivery h 7 ought forward azainit the Princess by Lady
Douglas. On the ~tl:er maters produced in the teurse of the
Inquiry, the King is advised, that ;mac of the facts or allegations
stated in preliminary examinations, carried on in •tLe absence of
the parties interested, are to be considered as legally or conclu-
sively established. But in those examinations, and evett in the
answer drawn in the sante of the Princes% by her legal advisers'
there have appeared circuniva.,tes of conduct on the part of the
princess which his Majesty eosin never regard but with serious

ow.: ern. . •
" The elevated rank which the Prince:s holds in thin country.

and the relat t,L, in ..vhich she.startas to Ms Majesty and The Royal
Slimily, rrin.t c.ways des ply involve both the interests of the
1 , State, and the personal frelings• of Lis Majesty, in the propriety
$ and correctness ui ....r COlidUC: ; and his Majesty, therefore,
4 emnot forbsar to express, in the ronMusion of the business, Ins
desire and expectation, that such a conduct may in future be
observed by the Princexs, as May fully justify • those- Marks of
pats raalteLard which Lis Majesty always w ishes to slew to every
pal i of the Stoyal family. . .
. • “ its Mak:sty has directed that this Message should be trans-
'tenltedAsx the I:tin:was of W?les by his Lord t.baticellor ; and

that copies et the trutedisse which have takes Oise en this
subject, should ako be communicated to his dearly-beloved Sou,
the Prince of *ales.'
The following is the Letter of her Royal Highness
the Princess of ‘VALits to the tt-xo, which the Hon.
COCHKA'. Jimssrota read as a part of his speech,
end which he said he could prove, at the B.tr the
House. to have been written by the late Mr. Police-
VAL, in conjunction with Lord Ecnozi and Sir Tito-
MRS PLostitt. We give it without a comment:

" TO THE KING.
" SlRE—lmpressed with the 'deepest sentiments of gratitude
for the countenance and protection which I have hitherto nut-
formly received from your Majesty, I approach you with a heart
undismayed, upon the occasion so awful and momentous to any
eharacttr, my honour, acrd my happiness. I should indeed (un-
der charges such as have now been brought against me) prove
myself undeserving of the continuance of that countenance and
protection, and altogether unworthy of the high station which I
hold in your Majesty's family, if I sought for any impartiality,
for any Indulgence, for any thing more than what Is due to me in

justice. My entire confidence in your Majesty's virtues assure

me that I cannot meet with leap.

" The situation which I have been so happy as to bold in your
'Majesty 't. good opinion and esteem, my station in your Maksty's
august family, my life, my honour, and through mine, the honouf
of your Majesty's family have been attacked. Sir John and Lady
Douglas have attempted to support a direct and precise charge,
by which they have dared to impute to me the enormous guilt )
of High.Treasonl committed In the foul act of Adultery. In this I
charge the extravagance of their malice has defeateditself. The
Report. of the Lords Commissioners acting under your Majesty's:
Warrant, has most fully cleared me of that charge.
" But there remain imputations, strangely sanctioned and
countenanced by that Report, on which I cannot remain silent
without incurring the most fatal consequences to nay honour and

character. For it states to your - Majesty, that " the circum-
stances detailed apinst me must be credited 1:11 they are decisively

contradicted." To contradict with as much decision as the cons
tradiction of an accused can convey; to eiiiose the injustice and
malice of my enemies; to shew the utter impossibility of giving
credit to their testimony ; and to vindicate my own innocence
will be the objects, Sire, of this Letter.
48 In the course of my pursuing these objects, I shall have much
to complain of, in the substanc of the ploceeding itself, and much
In the manner of conducting it.
" That any of the charges should ever have been entertained
upon testimony so little worthy of belief, n hich betrayed in
every sentence the malice in whit, it originated; that even ii
they were entertained at all, your Majesty shoal have been
advised to pass by the ordinary legal modes of inquiry into such
high crimes. and to refer them to a Commission', open to all the
objections which I shall have to state to such a mode of in-
quiry; that the Commissioners, after having negativedthe prin-
cipal charge of substantive crime, should have entertained con-
siderations of matter that amounted to go legal offence, and
which were adduced, not as substantive charges in themselves,
but as matters in support of the principal accusation; that
through the pressure and weight of their official occupations,
they did not-..perhaps could not—bestow that attention on the
case, which, if given to it; must have enabled than to detect the
villainy and falsehood of Isiy.secusers, arid their tdul conspiracy
I against sue, and must have preserved' my character from Ois
weighty imputation which the authority of the Commissioner*
,has for a time cast upi it—but above all, that they should upon
this ex-partr examination, without hearing one word that I could
urge, have reported to your Majesty an opinion on these mat-
to s, so prejudice' to my honour; and from which I can have no '
appeal to the laws of the country (because the charges consti-
tuting no legal offence, c..nnoi be made the ground of a judicial
inquiry) ; these, and many other circumstances connected, with
the length of the proceedings, which have cruelly aggravated to
my feeling, the pain necesrily attendant upon this inquiry, I
shall not be able t 6 refrain from stating and urging as matters of
serious lamentation at least—lf stet di well gosinded complaint.
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44 In commenting upon any part of the circumstances which
have occurred in the course of this inquiry, whatever observa-
tions I maj be compelled to make upon any of them, I trust I
shall never forget what is due to officers in high station and em-
ployment under your Majesty. NO apology, therefore, can be
required for any reserve in my expressions towards than: But
if, in vindicating my innocence against the injtiatice• and make
of my enemies, I should appear to your Majesty not td'express
myself with aU the warmth and indignation which innocence so
foully calumniated must feel, your Majesty will, I trust, not at-
tribute my forbearance to any insensibility to the grievous inju-
ries I have sustained, but will graciously be pleased to ascribe it
to the restraint I have imposed upon myself, lest, in endeavour.
ing to describe in just terms the motives, the conduct, the per.
jury, and all the foul circumstances which characterize and estae
the malice of my accusal, I might use language, which, '
though not unjustly applied to them, might be improper to be
used by me to any body, or unfit to be employed by any body, '
humbly, respectfully, and dutifully addressing your Majeitys
That a fit oppurtunity has occurred for laying open my heart to
your Majesty, perhaps I shall hereafter have no 'reason. to bp
ment ;• for more than two years, I had been informed, thatimon
the presumption of some misconduct in mO, my behaviour bad
been the subject of investigation, and 'my neighbours' servants
had been examined cdecerning It; and for some time I had re:
ceived mysterious and indistinct intimations, that some great
mischief was 'meditated towards' me; and in all the drcumstances
of my very peculiarsituatibn, it will not be thought strange, that I
however conscious I *as that I hid no just cause for fear, I
should yet feel lonatuheasittess 'on this account. With surprise,
Certainly, (because the first tidings' were of a kind to excite cur-
prize,) tutwithout alarm, I received' the intelligence, that for
some reason, a formal investigation of some paste of my conduce
had been advised, and had taken place.
" His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, on the 7th of June,
180§, announced it to me. He announced to The, the Princess
of Wales, the bear approach of two Attornies (one of them I
since find the Solicitor employed by Sir John Douglas), claiming
to enter my dwelling with a Warrant to take away one half of
my Household, fur immediate examinatuso upon a charge against
myself. Of the nature of drat charge i"stras then uninformed.—
It now appears it was the charge of WO Treason, committed
in the intimous crime it A y. Hie Royal Highness will, I
ant sure, do me the presentjustic:lt to your Majesty, that I
betrayed no fear—that I rnaniksteti, no symptoms of conscious
get—that I•sou,:jrt no excuses to prefare or- to tutor my ser-
vants, for the examination which tiny were to undergo. The
'only request which I made to his Royal Highness N.A.., that be-
would have the goodnesa to remain with me till the servants
were gone, that he might bear witness that I had no converse_
tion with them before they went. In truth, Sire, my anxieties
under a knowledge that some serious mischief was planning
against me, and while I was ignorant of its quality and extent,
had been so great, that I could not but rejoice at an event which
seemed to promise me an early opportunity of ascertaining what
the malice of my enemies intended against me.

66 It has not been, indeed, se4thout impstknce the most pain-

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fid, that I have passed the teemd which hat Once elapse 4
Whoa it was not only known to the world (for it was known to the
world) that inquiry of the gravest nature bad been instituted into

my conduct, I looked to the conclusion with all the ..ageniess
that could belong to an absolute conviction that my innoceuce and

my bouour, to the- disgrace and confusion of my accusers, would
be established, and that the groundless malice and injustice of the

whole charge would be manifested to the worhl, as widely as the
calumny bad been circulated. I knew that the result of art ex

parts inquiry, from its very nature, could not, unless it fully as-
serted my entire innocence, be in aoy degree juit ; and I had
tauz'ht myself more firmly to believe, that it was utterly Itnpossl-
ble that any opinion which could in the smallest degree watt a
prejudice to my honour and character, could even be expressed

in any terms, by any persons in a Report upon a solemn formal
Inquiry, and more especially to your Majesty, velthost my bay-
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big some notice and some opportunity of Wing heard ; and I was
convinced, that if the proceeding allowed me, before an opinion
was expressed, the ordinary means which accused persons have
of vindicating their honour and their opinion, which could then
be expressed, b: fully vindicated and effectually established.
What then, Sire, must have been my astonishment and my dis-
may, when I saw, that notwithstanding the principal accusation

was found to be utterly false, yet some of the witnesses to those

charges which wen brought in support of the principal accua.
done—witnesses whom any person interested to have protected

•-siy character, would easily have ststwo, out of their own mouths.
to be utterly unworthy of credit, and confederates jai joint coasri-
racy with Illy false accusers, are reported " to be free fruila aq
suspicion of untavourable bias; their veracity, la the judippra
Of the Commissioners not to be questioned ;" and their Infamous
stories and iusinuatiuns against nee" to be such as deserve the
niust serious consideration;' and as such to be creclitel " tiU de-

cisively contradicted.? . .
41 i'he Inquiry, after I thus had notice of it, continued for
above two months. I venture not to complain, as if it bad been
unnecessarily protracted. *I he important duties and official avo-
cations of the Noble Lords appointed to carry it on, may natu-
rally account for and excuse some delay. But, however exalts;
able it may have been, your Majesty will conceive the pain and
anxiety which the interval of suspeuce has eccasiuned; and your
I Majesty will not be su'rprise4 if I further represent, that I have
fuend a great 'aggravation of my painful sufferings, in the delay
which occurred in communicating the Report to me; for though
it is dated on the isth of 'July, I did not receive ft till the llth '
ot August, notwithstanding ypui Majesty's gracious commands,
it was nue unqueitiOnably to your Majesty, that the result of an
Inquiry commanded by your Majesty, upon advice which bad
been offend, touching-matters of the highest immirt, should be
first and ;immediately einrimunicited itcyou. 'l'he respect and
uonour due to the Prince of Wales', the ititer. et which he mast
necessarily have taken in this inquiry, combinedsto make it in-
dispensably tit that the result should be fbithwhh also stated to
his. Royal Ilighnina, '1 complain not' therefore that it was too
carry communicated to any one; 1 complain only, and I corn-
plinn most seriously, (far I felt it most seriously), of the delay in
.1m controunnatiOD to me. ••• ' .`". ' '• • *
4* Rumour has informed the world, that the Report bad been
early communicated to your Majeily and to his Royal Highness,
I did not receive the benefit intended for me by your Majesty's
most gracibns commanditill a month after the Report was signed.
But the same rumour has represdn:ed me, to my infinite preju-
time, as in possession of the Report during that month; and the
tualice of those who wished to stain my honour, has not failed to
su,,,;est alt that malice could infer front its remaining in that pos-
session so long. ' May I be permitted to ray, that if the Report
acquits We, my innocence entitles me to receive from those to
whom your Majesty's commands had been given, an immediate
notification ot the fact that it did acquit me: Sentence should
not have kit to settle its any mind, much less upon your Ma-
jesty's, for a month before I could even begin to prepare for an
mown*, which, when begun, could not speedily be concluded;
and that if the Report could be represented 'as both acquitting
and condemning me, the reasons which . suggested the propriety
of an early communication in each of the former cases, combined
to make it proper and necessary in the latter. ' -
" And why all considerations of my feelings was then cruelly
neglected—why I was kept upon the rack, during all this times
ignorant of the result of a charge which affected my honour and
my lite—and why, especially in a case where such graver matters
were ro continue to be credited to the prejudice of my honour.
till- they were decidedly Contradicted, the means of knowing
what it was, th.it I might at least endeavour to contradict, were
withholden from rue a single unnecessary hour, I know not, and
I will npt trust myself in the attempt to conjecture.
• " Orr the llth of August, however, lat length received from
the Lord Chancellor a packet, containing copies of the Warrant
or Commission'•authori4ng the Inquiry, °Elbe Report, and Of
the Examinations'-on which the Report was founded; and your
Majesty may be Pritkitisly pleased to recollect, that on the ISt h
Ileturned ila ygiattful'thauks to your Majesty fur having or-
dered these Papers to beeeht Me. Your Majesty will readily
imagine, 'that,- upone subject of such importance, 1 could not
venture to trust only to my!own advice, and those with whom
I advised, suggested; that the Declaration or Charge, upon
ethich the Inquire had proceeded; and which the Commission-
era refer to in their ffeyfort, and reptesetrl'lo be the essential
foundation of the whole proceedings, 'did hot accompany the
Eranilnation and the'Repcirr, and also that the Papers them-
Selves were not authenticated. • : ! • • **- • ,
" I ventured, therefore, to address your Majesty upon the
supposed defect in-the communication, and humbly requested
that the Copies of the Papen which • I then returned, might,
aftet being examined and ambeadcicated, be again transmitted
to me, and that I might also be furnished with, the Copies of the
written Declarations, so referred to in the Report, and my
humble thanks are due for your Majesty's compliance with my
request. .0n the 29th of Augest I received, in consequence, the
attested Copies of those Declarations, and of a Narrative of his
Royal Highness the Duke of Kent ; and a few days afterwards
on the ad of September, the attested Copies of the Examinations
which were taken before the Commissioners. : : .•
• " By the copy of the Commission, a' warrant which I have
received, under which the inquiry 143 been prosecuted, it ap-
pears to be au instrument under your Majesty's Sign-Manual.
not countersigned, nut under any seal. It recites chit an abstract
of certain within declarations, touching my conduct (without
specifyin: by whom those declarations were made, or the nature
of the matters touching which they had been made, or even by
whom the abstract had-been prepared) had been laid before your
Majesty, iuto the truth of which it perports to authorize the four
Noble Peers, who are named in it, to inquire and examine upon
oath such persons as they thibk fit, and report .te? your Majesty,
the result of their examination.
0 By referring to the within Declaration, it appears that they
contche al tgAtioas against att., amounting to the charge of High
freason, and also other matters, which, if ui:derstood to be, as
th.y seem to have been acted and reported upon by the Com-
missioners, not as evidei.ce coi.firmatory (as they are expressed
to be in the title) of the principal charge, but as distinct and
substantive subjects of examination, cannot, as I am advised, be
represented as in law amounting to cr•snes—how rune. of the
Declarations refrred to were collected, by whom, at wb -se soli-
citation, under what sanction, and before what persons, newis-
h rates, or others, they were made, does not appear. By the tile,
oleed, which all the within Declarations, except Si: .1 .i.n and
lady Douglas', bear, viz. "That they had Len taienf'or ens in.rfrese
i.l solfranin: Lady Dow:las:1 statement," it may he cellecte.t, tint
they lead been by her, or at lease by Sir John's prof urenteut, anti
the concluding passage of one of them, 1 mean the sib declaratopo
of Wiikata.Coke, attergthens this opinion, as it represent) lir

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tan tough., leoOfitpanied by tioiltitof,.llle.LWAtels W
have gone doyen as far as Cheltenioun, for tte esarnination
of
two witnesses, whose declarations ate there stated. I am, have-
ever' at a loss so know at this moment, whom I ant to tons der,
ur Whom I could fix upon, as my false accuser. From the cir-
cumstance last mentionedi it might be interred that Sir John
Douglas, or oue of them, is the aerosol. but Lily Douglas is
her Within decksation,• el far trout representing the into .ma-
Coo which she then gives, as moving voluotare trom lierselt. ex-
pressly states that she gives it nods. the direct command of it s
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the Papers leave me
wLhout information from whom any cornoosaientisou to the
Prince originated, which induced him to give such cornea/took.
" Upon the question, How far the advice is agreeable to ilaw,
under which it was recommended to your Majesty, to issue this
warrant or commission, not countersigned, nor tattler seal, and
without any of your Majesty's attvisers, therefore, being nu the
fair of it responsible for its issuing t • I am osa competent to de-
termine. And undoubtedly,'that the two bleb Legal Authori-
ties, (the Lord Chancellor and the Lard Clue( /Patter of the
King'; dwell, consented to act Coder it, k is with GO greaiot
doubt and diffidence that I can bring myself to rape se shy too-
picioti of its iltegaLty. But if it be (as lam gives to on:Ns--
stand it is) open to timothy, whether comistarty with has.''
your Majesty should have been advised to coonntatni by •tui
warrant sir commissitip pawns not to act in any --k-svwll
ter, as Secretaries of State, as Pres., Cuousetiors, as Magpie's:to
o:tterwise empowered, but to act as Commissioners, std under
the sole authority of such warrants, to Mi./CM Whir"( any am-
thority, to hear and determine any thing upon the subject of
those mini. its, into the known clime ni high treason, under the
sanctiou id oaths to Is administered by •heat as such Commie*
sinners, and to report the result theieot to your Mr.' sty.
• say, there can be any question upon the Lgiorty of a war-
rant or commission, the extreme hardship with which it has
operated upon me, the extreme prejudice ethics it has do:-e to
my elearaoter, and to which such a proceeding noes ever qt.
pilse th • person who is the object of it, oblige me oil I am telly
convinced of its legality, to forbear acknow:e.tgine its authority,
and with all humility ani.deicreoce to your Majesty, to voted.
against all proceed.h.gs under U.
In addition to the above, and to the documents oa
this subject which have appeared in our columns, we
have others to subjoin, but it may be proper first to
lay before our Readers a short narrative of s.•me re-
cent facts with which' they are already patly ac-
quainted :—The indisposition of the Piindess Cnsta.
LOTTO commenced previous to the fete at Carlton.
house, and afterwards increasing, her ROYAL HIGH-
NESS was necessarily obliged to 'defer her return to
Windsor. In consequence of this, the Princess of
WALES, on the Bth kebruary, addressed herself to
Lord LivErtrooL, desiring that he would communi-
cate t 0 'the PRINCE REGENT her ROYAL HIOHNEhs'S
in-
tention to visit the Princess CRARLorft, at Warwick.
house, not anticipating the possibility' of a prevention
on the part of the PRINCE REGENT, uuder the circum-
stance of the .Princess • CiIAULOTTe; COElsl4llleilt

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from illness.- •
Lord LIVERPOOL replied, that be was happy to and
nounce the Princess CHARVOTTE so moth better, that
her Royal Highness would be able to visit the Prin. •
cess of WALES at Kensington Palate on the following
Thursday, tlth February. On that morning she re
ceivid information that the Princess Cnit'nz.orrs was
refused' coming' • • •
Upon thisiUte Princess of WALE, again addressed
Lord LivEr.rooi to knrw the reason, none'llaving
been assigned, for :the Princess CHARLoTTL'S being
thus suddenly prohibited from giving the meeting tw
her oral Mother, and When and how soon her Roy 4
Highness might expect tome the RLvrra.
To this inquiry the Princess of WALE.; received d,
following reply from Lord .I..lirsaroot. : •
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LETTER PROW LORD LIVERPOOL *To iseit` ROYAL mate
• NESS THE PRINCIND OP WALES. • ' • •
•- '• ' ' N Fiie Hiku.se, Feb. 14,1811.
" Lord Llcepool has the honour to inform your P.oyal H gip
nen, that in 'consequent, of the publication In' The Afseougt
Cis:oxide of the 10th instant. of a letter addressed by yeneltuyal
H:gitness to the Prince Regent, his Royal Highbesa thottght Ate
ly the advice V. his eolfulentiei Servals! s, to Dignity his corrananda,
twit the initialed vivit of the Piinceie L'hal .ut cc to four Royal
Highness on the tollowing day ohould not take plate. ,

" LOrd*Liverpocd Is not enabled to make any furthtr commit-
nkation to your Royal Bigness on. the subject of your Royal
Highness's Note. , .• .• • • •
To this Letter the Princess of WALtS commanded
Lady ANN; HAMILTON. her Lidy in Waiting, to mi.
ply is follows to Lord LIVERPOOL t " •'
' " Montague House, Blackheath, Psb. IS, 1513.
" Lady Aane Hamilton L commanded by her Royal Illgh.
ness the Princess of Wales to•represent to Lord Liverpool, mid
the iniiidlous insinna lea respeetiug the publicatlon•of the Letter
addressed by the Price:es of Wales' on the 14:h of January, to
the Prince Regent, conveyed in hisLordshsp's reply to her Royal
Highness, is as void of foundation and as false as all the former
accusations of • the traducer: of her Royal Highness's bottour is

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the year 1806.
" Lady A. Hamilton Is further commanded to say, that dip
nified silence would have been the line of conduct the Pine s
would have preserved updn ssch insinuation (more that untie*
coming Lord Liverpool), did not the effect arising from it operate
to ct-prive her Royal Highness of the sole real happ near si►• eau
possesf in this world—that of seem= her only ch.id. And the
Confidential Servants of the Prince Regime ought to feel ashamed
of their conduct towards the Princess in avowing to her Royal
Highness their advice to the Prince Regent, that upon aurandlir
rises/ and unfounded suppositions a Mother and Llaughtcr should
be prevented from meeting—a prohibition positively against the
law of name. Lady Anne Hamilton is commanded further to
desire Lord Liverpool to lay this paper before the Prince Regent,
that his Royal Highness may be aware into what error his Con-
fidential Servants are leading him, and will involve Um, bp
counselling and signifying such commands."
Here ended the correspondence.
The Cabinet meetings and proceedings succeeded
almost immediately ; but touching the nature, the
form, and the object of those proceedings, the Princess
of WALES being left to conjecture, her Royal High-
ness, on the 27th February, addressed the subjoined
I letter to the Earl of HARROWSY
COPY OF A LETTER ADDRESSED BY THE PRINCESS
. OF WALES TO THE EARL OF 14ARROWEY.
" February ST. ISIS.

el The Princess of Wales has received reports irons various
quarters of certain proceedings Ludy held by his Majesty's Privy
Council rey2cring her Royal 1 lighness; and the Princes. has
felt persuaded that these repots must be unfounded, berauw abet
could not believe it possible that any Resolution should be takes
by that most Honourable Bode in any respect affecting her Royal
Highness, upon statements which she has had no opportunity a
assurer-in:, eiridaistiar, or turn ruing.
" The Princess still trusts that there is no truth in these TV*
moors • -but slit feels it due to herself to low mno time in Ima..
isg against any Resolution affecting her Royal Highness, which
may he adopted. . •
" The Mob* and Right Honourable perms who are said to
have !nen selected for these proceedings, ere too Just to decide
any thing touching her Royal Highness, without affordiug het
an opportunity of laying her case :belore them. 'I be Princess
' has not bad auy.power to choose the Ju.ig. s before whom any
inquiry may be carried on; .t.ut she is pefectly wllliag to have
her (vide conduct inquired into by any p..r.otts who may be se-
lected by her accuiers. l'he Princess only demands that she may
be heard in defence or in explaoanon of her conduct, if it Is it-
lacked—and that -.sot shuuoi ether be treated as innocent, or
proved to be guilty." • •
Lord /is 'sower rallied to the effect, that a copy of the Mi.
miters Report, laid briore :be Pauses tteerscr, had hen trans.
mined that sun- evening so the Princess of Vi.stes, by the Vis.
count SIUMOVIII,

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