The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-03-19 00:00:00

lIE ROYAL FAMILY.

IM THE PRINCESS OF WAL.
.ICW°.
short letter to youoilajesty of the
Majesty's' commouieatiott of the'"
' representing to your Majesty.
. I felt OM Ilattiship of my case;
confidently hoped, would dispose you'
determination ,te adjourn, to an indefil
your royal pretence; a determir
the other pain which it brought i
I the disappointment of hopes •
with the most perfect confidence,
fajesty's gracious assurance.
, however, of that communication
should have felt myself hound to have'
luck of the contents of the present I
receipt of the poser, which. by 3o
trausnsittll to me by the tord t
,
menth, an. which communicated ,
, that your .Majesty was" advised,
necessary for volt to decline receiving
." I coloeived myself netessarily ef,
hate ansu er to so such of it as respect
could not wait the time which it •
those observations, which it was
nis to refrain from making at some periva, upon
portant particulars which that-paper contained.
answered it immediately ; and, as your Majesty's
instant reply of last Thursday fortnight, announced
pleasure, that I should be eeceived by your Molest,
oibsequent to the then ensuing week, I was led most
to assure myself, that the Itoi week svould not '
without my having receivedthat Otisfaction. 1 •
mined to wait in patience, without further intrusion
Majesty, till I might have the opportunity of guardil
from the possibility of being raisuaderatood, by
Ilaining to your Majesty, that whatever observo
make Upon the paper so communicated to me, oe
and Whatever complaints reopecting the delay, r
cruel circumstances which had attended the whole
logs against me, and the unsatisfactory state in wl
at length left by that last communication, they '
dons eel complaints which effected those only, ui
vice your Majesty had acted, and were not, in
tended to intimate even chemist distant insinotatiOn
Modesty's justice or kindness.
That paper established the opinion, which I,
ever confidently entertained, hut the justness i
not before any document to establish. that your
from the first, deemed this proceeding a high a
matter of State in the consideration of which, 3
'tad not felt yourself at liberty -to trust to your
feelings, and to your owl -Rossi and gracoons
never did believe, that ropl state of anxiety
had been kept, ever since eOdelivery of my nit
enhel
least sixteen weeks), co Wall attributable t
jesty : it was most anlikeriery thing which I had i
weed from your Majesty s candescensio.., feeling, a
and.l found. from that paper, that it was to your
:•ervants I was to ascribe the length of banishment
presence. which they, at lg.;. advised your Majesty
longer necessary shoUld be' cootinued. I percei,-
what I always believed, that it was to them, and
that I owed the protracted.;coutinuaace of my-tutro. .yo Majesty's .
my disgrace; and that your Majesty, considering the whole o my character world not, I fear, staid cleared . . the public , may e upon myself,
_pain whin, .....4
tno proceeding to have been instituted and conducted under the °moon, by the m• v fact of your Mejesty's reception of me.— ' give to your Majesty, your august Family, foil your loyal sub-
-rive responsibility of yotteldajeityai Orients. bad not slosegbf 'flee revocation of your Majesty*o gracious purpose has flung an ' jests.
proper to take any step, orexpress any opinion. upon any part ! additional clout' about the o hole pcnceediog; and the inferences : As far as myself am concerned, 1 ano aware of the observe-
ef it, hut such as was recemm ended by their advice. HUM- drawn in the public mind, front this circumstance, so mysterious • lions to which this publicatiao will expeoe the; but lau
erred by these sentiments, and anxious to 'have the op Lathy and so perfectly inexplicable, upon any grounds which are open placed in a situation on which I have the choice of only two
of conveying them, with Ise nyetilowlogi b( a al bean*, to their knowledge, has wale, and will leave so deep an impres. ! most unpleasant alternative': and lam perfdelly confident that
to your Nlajesty, wb. t 'Jemmy sensations at surprise, inertia- yin to my prejudice, as scarce any thin*, short of a public err- , the imputations and the loss of character which must, under
cation. anordimppoiramento on the receipt of your Majesty's posnre of all thee has passed, can possibly efface. these eireauotences follow from my silence. are most injurious
letter of the 10th instant, your -Majesty may conceive, thOugh The publication of all these proceedings to the world, then, and unavoidable,--that my sileoce under such circumstances,
I am utterly unable ta express. • •
the ',Mess* to me, under the present circumstances (whatever re- must lead inevitably to my utter infamy and ruin. The pitblien-
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That letter announties to one, that his Royal High** lisetenos I feel against such a measure, and however I regret the . Hon, no the other hand, will expose to the world antitiog,
Prince of Wales, coop recelviog the several dicamenta which hard necessity which drives me to it), to be almost the only re- which is spoken to by any whiner's (whose infamy and discredit is
eour,Majeste directed your Cabinet to traiiemit so be.. made a 'malting resource, foe the vindication of my honour and shame- not unanswerably exposed and established) which cans in the
personal meninunientioelo Am. Majesty of bilakstemt lesstallet- Tbe fahelmod of :he accusation is, by no means, all that slightest degree, affect my confuter, for bowler, Mose,- and
them into the hand. otirl,i:sllzzers, acco*Paniee• by Aieegoest,,,; •w .bytiech publication, appear to the credit and clearance of . delicacos .
fast your Majesty Would sap end may falser steps lethe bust- ' oohs' sae vsomooa, whoor the whale proceedings : • There envy be etteralnittlees disetieetf, maidfeineg d deli-tee:of
t Susan
sa-a• until 'l'e "nee "Paid Ile enable ,
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,DsO'flfisa_i_ole it Noe been casseedom, great/ter delayed, by those to whom your eirideseensit.n and familiarity in my behadroor 'ale conduct,
your aioissty the statementawhieb bc prepare fo maeet'ana' Majesty referred the consideration of them, will show, that, which, in the opinion of many, may be eMuldered as slat sir-
also announces to we, that your. Majesty, therefore, anuideredaosOsatever measure ofjastice I may have ultimately received at . ficieutly guard( d, dignified, and reserved 1 chrostostiaces. how-
lo incumbent an you",. to defer dtming_aeay to me. until the fer- ; tbeirhands, itsiosoate be *invented as arising from any.tnerci- ever. which my foieign education, and foreign lintitte, misled me
(her result of the Prince of Walesalltteritoun lhould have been ' fuland indulgent gousideratiou of me, of my feelings, or of my to think. in the humble and retired situati In which it wals
made known to your Majesty.. • I eAe .. my fate to live,- and where 1 - bad no. refat*too ao ,equal,
,
This determination of your aatoty,.on this request. madabY .o et will be seen bow my feelings had been harmed, and my .no friend to advise toe. were wholly free (rain offence. But
his Royal iligliams, I bulkily trust
.your Majesty will permit acharfeirer and honour exposed, by the delays which have taken when they have been dragged forward, from the Mimes ofpil-,.!
me to entreat y 40,104414 umatpacions jtistice, to recotoider. ;place in ateseroceedings; it will-be emu, that the existeneeof vate life, ma grave proceeding on ii charge it MO treason mod I
Your Majesty, lam conviocodomest have been surprised 7t' the ehaege against me had avowedly been known to the public, ndultery, they seem to derive a colour and character.. from thus
the time, and prevniled open by the importunity of
the Prince , from the 7th of Junein the last year. I say known to the pub- nature of the charge which they are brought forward to sip-
ef Wales, to think this determination necessary, or your. Ma- , lie.. because it was on that day that the Coimmissioners, acting, poll read I cannot .butbelieve, that they havebein used' far
jeity• generosity andjustierorooln never have adopted it. And I.aa am to suppose (for so they state' in their Report), under the no other purpose, than to afford a movers to stovelofrom view
d I can satisfy ywor atajekta, of the unparalleled injustice, and aariobafs with, that their trust should.be executed with as little the injustice of that charge; that they have been _taken sidtans
cruelty, of this interpesottoo of the Prince of Wales. at such i+ribilicity as possible, authorised that unnecessary insult and . lace of. to let down my accusers more relit; and to deprive
time, and under such circumstances, : feel the-most perfect con- outrage upon me, as .1 must always conßeport consider it, which, how- ;me of that fill acquittal nn the a the:four Lards, which
tidence that your Majesty 1411 hasten to recent it. ' . ' :
: ever intended, gave the utmost publicity and exposure to the ex- ii my innocenceof all offence most jolly entitled me.toteceive. ,
I should basely be wanting to my own interest and feelings,' istence 'of these charges—l mum the standing ; ding two Atternies, Whatever opinion, however. may he termed upon any part
if I did not plainly state my sense of that injustice, and cruelty " armed with their Lordships' warrant, to my house, to bring he. 'of my coeduce. it trust in justice he fortaed, •Ritto iefeteuee to'
and if I did not most lordly-complain of it. Your Majesty will • fore them, at once, about one half of my 'leasehold for exami- the sills:dim in which I was, plated. if I am judged of as
bettei perceive the just grognds of my complaint, when Ire- , notion, The idea of privacy, after an act so mtichealculated; ! Princess of Wales with reference to the high Tent' of that.,
trace the course of these froceedings from their commencement. from the extraordinary nature of it, to excite the greatest atten- . station, 1 slut be judged as Prince!! of Wales nahislied from 1
The four Noble Lords, appointed by your Majesty to enquire tion and surprise your Majesty mitt feel to have been impossible . the Prince, unprotected by-the support and countenance which
into the charges brought akairli Mr, in their Report of the 14th and absurd; for an attempt at secrecy. mystery, and conceal- , belong to. that statiou ; and
~if I am judisen dal iqacose.ffitYate
July last, after tame stated that his Royal Highness the prince meat. on my part, could, under soch cireu ooly•have ' character, at a mart ied wpmna, I iouot be,Atittokloafet wife 1
of Wales had laid berth* them, the charge which was tone beck comitruats into, the fehriookomooort .0.,,, f : banisbed from her hiobsneonod livinmin SPlti• ft/Maslow
against me, by Ledo' OoMilfs, we the declarations.* support of r ..• . .... - . .. 4h ,-"" - beton! ao,h,„, as...- from lams and;moiremeet fro the world. ooTMa laat enosideta-R
it, proceed in the following manner:— _tot wohippear, aniootnato mem m lime.,"
tion, leads Inc teo recur. to no diptestien itt Mr}. Lisiesexemina- -
- '''' elbanticall upon the subject till the 11th of August, when r was
•‘ In the painful situation in which his Royal Highness coo.
,don, whiatt desertbei my comdtiet, in the, frequency and. the
yb eer Nlajesty's commands, with the Report. The
was placed by these communications, we learnt that hts•Roval 'os.'"'manners& ray receiving the Alit! of Captains-Malian, •thengts
several Papers to my uuderstanding the whole of throe .
Highoess had adopted the only enure which could in our
change,audit-
-le the autheutic state in which your Majesty thought always is the Preatlece of 'HT ladtee!"."*lhee°satag • atani"
anent, with propriety be followed. When informations such as Upon the *extreme injustice of setting up the opinion,
t Proper,graciously to direct, that I shoald have them, were I "MR".
these had been thus confidently alleged, and particularly de- ' of one woman; as it were, in. judginearnWi the conduct of
1 not divrid to me till the beginning of Septetnber. My answer ,
tailed, and had been in some degreetupported by collateral eel- ' •astetaer ;OW well as of estimating the. canWt astat'olcmortin
dence, applying to other facts of the same nature (though maimthough-. the •Ifol Obj t f them mto these various charges. e s e s ec o em
n anfortauate situation, by refersace to that o which tnioht ;I;
to a far less extent), one line antri could be punnas , was new to those whose advice I had recourse to, long as . be exuected, a married wasivino jiving happily
that sower was necessarily obliged to be, was delivered to the general • from . • - -1, :i • -
" Every sentiment of duty to 3 our Ma and of concern for , . , ~ mith, her! husband, .1 have before generally reser e . But be-
am public welfaro, required that these particulars should not be - Fon. chanoellor, to e orwar led to vb 1 d '' fil• i by the 6h •
-u'ir ase"Z• - " yond these gewral reingrksao. farming any estimate et ony coo-
t. Oct ber ; and from the 6th of
the
to t
f 4& he Olt °familiar,/ '
oi,likeld from your Majetty, to whom more particularly be- ' -• t euct ydur Modesty will never forget the very peculiar circum-
longed the cognizance out matter of State, so needy touching I 1„-- --
was ke tin Mal ignornme a the effect' Of tliat answer. Not , • • •.
, „, Stances nod misfortunes of my lkillitaiol,l. Year Majesty will
v ilrll IC delay be pp mot Mit • w'll be e Al .'
the honour of your Majesty's Royal Emily, and, by possibility, ' n"is " iie Ilc IA I; a-
.4 - -1. IL' 1 k I": r"
/ remember, that I toad • eel • been much abovaii'yeatr ia this
&Meeting th- succession of your Majesty's•Crowo. shown in tie wino, oow your hloooty's —reams oao, .n thii
conanyOwthen 1 received the following kite? from * Royal
the bnoortant business' treated your daughterstrbsw, the Priacess of ' .
" Your Majesty had been pleased. on your part, to view ' • ' -• 'female,and a Hfohnew the Prince of Wales,*
subject in the same light. toonaitioting it m a omuer,,,,,,aino, „ Wailes; and what measure of jestice sleet s ,
a
i dat their hands.
every account, demanded thosoosolcuradiate investigation, your tinterr irs your land, has e v per.ence
I las.. The date of our tnadtiage, your MaiestylVlß etscallect, is
Majooy had thought At to chmatit into our hands the duty of ' Undoubtedly against such a proceeding /have ever felt, and ' if h day of A• the • 1%6, SRO that of the birth of
. the t nil.p on
ssear I
a.Crrtaining, is the mot tassaatisomhat &grata eredieseas dim - stea, an almost invincible repugnance. Every sentiment • dor Day thitd,tbe oih of Jon. omit,
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to the information. and theta' tiaiienalfiktg yqur hlajesty to deft _Pt delicacy, with wbieir ofensaioratbd niusoardak from the act , Oa the letter air his Royal Highness. I offer so, tempo:it. 1
tide what further mooted t ropectiag Clem. ,
!of bringing before the public such charges, however conscious ' only eotrout your majesty• em. to understood Of So introduce it,
His Royal Halmos then.pursuiag, as the foot Lords say," of their scandal and falsity. andlaittever clearly that scandal
... - las affording anti supposed justification or excuses Berithd • least
the only rourse,which cmddirio their jadgmeatowids propriety, and ,faisitst may be manifested by Ole ausaaer teatime charges othe , departure trout the strictest Hoe ,of virtue„ Of tnellitileOft de-
ar pursued, submitted the matter to your. majesty, ,Your, Ma- respect still due from in to persetaleMP*Yed *authority under : voodoo foam the utoOt refined delicacy. The erimaated has
oesty directed the Eattatty ay the four Noble Lords. The four" *our Majesty, however little MOP** R may have received from ; been tolfiiiatiolagoinie me, 'would be elimilly eilto le de-
Lords, in their Report open the case,anstly eapltted use of all •ihelni— myduty to his Royal Iliganeo the Prince of Wales,— testableithe indelicacy imputed to me would equally' Winos aid
crime, and expressed (I will not waft new to say bow unjustly) .my regard for all the Oembariof your somas* Family.—my es- 1 abominable whatever renunciation of emangal hotel sty and
the credit which tlsry gave, nod the consequence. they ascribed teem, my duty, raygratitude to your himeoly,--anysaffectiouate ! affection the' above letter of his Royal Higliness I. is .any
to other mutters, hw Mb thy did not, however" diaracterise as gratitude Mr all the paternal kindness which I lave ever expo-' i.it ri •he tto h ' 14: Mimes.
construct o• I, oupeosco ave•convm .
amounting to any crime. To ibis Report I Ina& my answer,— rienced from you,--tny anxiety, not only to avoid the risk of •
and faults, derive sot thew guilt from the combleratharefihe
That answer, together withlibe whole proceedi, was referred giviiag any °knee or displeasure to your Majesty, but also telly ; conjogki thous of the iodivideal, who may be the most injured
by your Majedy to the saute four Noble Lords, and others of from every occasion of creating the slightest sentiment of mind- ' by ammohoweter mueb such virtues may aggrattile tleir mot.
'our Majesty's confidential servants. Tbey advised, your Ma. ness in the mind of your Majesty; *hose happineso it would be i
Oily. NaN suchletter. therefore, in any eonitesetioti if it, as .
ty, amongst mach other matter (which mast be tae subject of the pride and pleasure of my life to consult, and to promote t— ' • and ti of conjugal affection or duties, cool& 1 rod a ria emootalllate.
further observations), that Mere was longer . .
no any reason why 'an them various sentiments have compelled me to submit, as . them. But whether conduct free from all crime A* :from all
you should &case receiving um. • : lung as human forbearance could midgets t 9 all the unfavourable inealiency(whfelflainifalla to be-the character eff the'dminoct te•
Your Majesty will aecessastly conceive that I have always inferences which were through this delay d I
, ...._- de 3' increasing—* the 1 which Mts. Lisle's. observationsapply), yet • . ' . tittaellestO!
tanked upon my banishment Doss Royal presence, its, ofo public mind. What. he *MO. bee "'ICI.. !leY:.°T toe* 'natives
I mired, as a cautious wife, easeful- *Avoid,/ . • •, „,
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foci, a punishment? and troves* 'one too. I thou ht WOOS- artve'heetnarl4'r htniesky• • Ldetaaatitair4celo feel, when, ante of not preferring her huidtand to 01l • 04,11,, ,
eitoitly hard, that should have beta suffering that punishment, you are pleased, graciousli—al oo long I have been otadionr to observe, WMithee conduct 4 - 4
ioiring the time that this Vitathose hes been pending, while I was contented to sutler sno,icittnii to a
htagainst my inn*. i nossihio, in sums goose, . not becominga lies* moil
7,,-,wily under oecusatlon, d upon the principles of the just cents, which the bringing before the public of my vv,...mi
---4°, t ite justly deemed, io my liitiationomoolfence * Met t • ' lessee
ofli .5, • •
Jour Motesma kingdom, entitled. to be presumed to he and my defence to it, would so indisputably and inneediklely ' t determine,
, to
_your Majesty o
isoneent, till I was proved et be tialiltY• But I find this does have die lied. • • ' • • I In making that detenallintion, however, it will areal. etrape
not appearto be miough, fo-the °saltiest of the Prince of Wales. ; The me sure, however, of making these proceedings public, l your Majesty to. consider, That the deduct which doer or does
For stow, when after this lone Enquiry into matters which whatever mode I can adopt (eptuldenng especially the abiolute 1 Oot become a Married woman, materially • derhnixson what
attired immediate investigation. I have been acquitted of every impossibility of suffering any partial production of them, and ,is or hoot known by ber to be agreeable to IMF .d. His
thing which could call for my banishinentfrom your itoyalpre. the necessity that, if for any purpose any part of them should i pleasure end bapplpesi ought: onquestionahly. to .be ter kw ;
sense. After your Majettyteosiddential seivants have the! ex- be minced, the whole must be'beoeght before the public), - i'isd hi b ton the inept fnvourite object of ,hiteparsult.
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pre,Oy advised your mojeol, that theatiee no reason why yoto morns sarrounded with all the objections tneo' .regiulre different Medea arcoadt
istaild any lone,' (eche* tie. receive ine into your premier to- baled.; Sind nothing could ever hate to - irtfeseas Mt Mope 'en eigiank
after your Majesty bad pinejoutly notified to me, year deter...now even prevail upon me, tabs-- •1 agreitukte*tseffeltster
"thane" 10 receive me at dl early day. hislloyel Highness in- • does genie of indiipensable d lora* elOtribeca to ,-
lerf moo the demand of a new delay,--desires /oar filqesty not ' presant character sad honour. 'by hit-tip prnietimoso
to take any stelo—desires you not to act upon die advice Which ; Sod the interests of thy child.- oolave sir o
sour fissu couadential servants have glvea yeti, that you seed• ormetkis long proceeding sbonld •
so longer decline seeing me—not to-execale your intention and .lionM
into your•oiesty s pretences
moo:lure, thift-dau a ill receive me at au early day r—bei:ause . wait hitte so strongly implied •
ho has ioid his doemiteuts before his WY era? and intends to •beastimightogelnitt me, maw P.
prepay., a further statement. And tlif of your Majes- lay baastiraae my security 4.1
ty's conedentat servant'', Is, as it -werectpeed from by flora beiwilb tba know ledge of the
Priaoe of W aks (whom, from this tlamtetht NII Hoot be per-' bireetgat tit.. imitate aratits '

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eatiaie my bread, yet . consnianieiting.
vowelisation, were going on—am I S. understand. that your,
Majesty's coafidential servants egree with the Sir Lords is
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thinking, that he cannot, under such *circumstances, be suspect.
id of ussfausasiable Idiss.9 That after having bad pointed out to
them the 'direct, fiat cootmdiction between the: same Wlllhot
Cole and Fanny Lloyd, they nevertheless agree to Milt Mesta.
both (though In contradiction to each other, yet both) *anima,
whose veracity they. eve no ground to flusher's? After hosing
seen Fanny Lloyd' directly and positively contradicted in an as-
sertion Most injuriotte to my honour. by Mr. Mills nal Mr. 17,d..
meades, do they agree in *platen with the four Noble Lords; that
they see aro gresistiti reshot their imeadt.y ll After having read:
the observations on Mr. Bideootrs evidence—after having seen,
that be bad the hardihood to ' sifeii, that he believed Captain
bianbtdePt laillif.liawr.-at )loiltheisd4 Psi to imamate -that he
slept .my bed-room—after having sees they he founded him.
self on this most false fact, and most foul and wicked insiinsa
lion, upon the circumstance pf observing a bayou and some
towels where he thought they ought net to be placed—after
having seen that this fact, end this lodination, wertdisproveil
before the four Noble Lords themselves. by, two mnid-servants,
who, at that time, lived wills me at fleathetelianci.etmle duties
about-my person and my apartments mast have made them ac-
quainted with Ibis fact. as •asserted, or as iminuated, if it had
happened—after having observed, tan, in confirmation of their
testimony,' that one of them mentioned the-name of another fe-
male servant (who was not examined), who bad, from her satia-
tion, equal means of knowledge with themselves,—l Ask whe-
ther, after all this decisive weight of_coetratlictioo to Robert
Bidgood's testimony, I em to understand your Majesty's cod-
debtial Are:sets to agree with the-four Noble Lords in think ag,
no Mr. Bidgood is a wheat, ,sehtkoetiot be suspected of un-
favourable bias, and that there is no ground to question his ve-
racity?—if, Sire, 1 were toga through all the remarks of this .
description'', herb occur to me to make, I shout! he obliged to
repeat nearly all my former oboematioss, and to 'strike this let.
ter as 'sag as my original answer : but 10-,that rummer 1 coo&
dolly appeal, uod 11 will venture to challenge your idalesty's
coMidentt.il servants to find aiiii4le impartial haillhiiitier..ble .
man, uticonnecttd is gefLut and iaterest wilt the- tser4kirt and
unconnected in' tolmill wit ii those who have already pledged ,
themselves to hiqtreielini upon this subject, who will lay Ms
band upon his head. hadsay, that thede'tlsree witoessee. oli'whom
-that'iteporr iii notion tart not to be sappectsto of the
gromest partiality, and that their veracity is not must fuoda.
mentally farpeasited. -..7 , . • ' `
• 'Was it, their, noble; essatitimaetogs, was it manly, was it
just.- le your If ejestfe% Torillwalial servants. instead of haft
admitting the injestiee wtOeikled ' beep, .inadvertently. and tio-
imentioeoll7, no doubt, iffenfit Me by the. fuer Noble Lords, in
their Report, opon'the eeiance of these a itoes,es, to mite to •
yoor.iliojesty, Mutilate agree with these Noble Louts in their
opaline, 'though they cannot, it seems, go the length of agree•
ing any longer to withhold file native, which reste.re, .ie, to
your Majesty., presesteli And with respect to the particulars
to' my peel uelice.ietoarked epee' in the Report as those '• a hich .
justly deserve the !opt 'setimis voasideratiois,iind which- must
be credited till derisasely contradieted,u'imitrod-of tairirtivowd
alit, either that therswas origiaally ito-pretesice for siteit;lo te.
mark, or that, if thaloha¢. been origivally. ,yet ,that use awe. -
'swer had given that detisave coetratliction.whicli woe surrtriene
to.divcredit them 1— ' ,'I say, a sic. hot this just. limiest,
tietsil
and'opeo kart, to ' ii, rie *lice whivsoover of thine robins-
dictions, lad; . tlitsioseties w fib sad leg, that " none of the . •
feels or *Hegel ' ted in preliminary esaminotions,„carried ,
on in the ablienoe of the' parties interested, Meld be considered
as kgettfur cosidatlikty established?" . ..,. .
• They agree jo the ojoinion'tbot the fearer allegations. tbdigh
stated ineweljesiaary vitalised.", raffled ea lie the &bemire 14
cite Ennio interested, mast is dredged tillriedurety tontlailicted,
and &unto Ma swat wham causbdieeeHon. They rend with this
fullest miestiteration, the contradiction which 1 have tendered to
them; they must have known,- that so other sort of contradic-
tion coups by possibility, front the nature of things, have been
o141:1 Imes each ouldectstibey do not question the truth, they.
d 1 of
pert est the insuSciencythe contradiction, but m
likme., general, indefinite term. referring to any gamer, eon.
silt, as it does, ofabove two hundred written` pages, *ad
coupling it with those teetotalism (which theradmit esta-
blish nothing against An absent party), they advise vier Ma-
jest -.
Y•' that, “ there 'appear many ciroutestaeces of goof^
which could pot be regarded by your Majesty without,, osos ,
moan ..."'.and that, as to all the other facts and allegations, tot. ..
cept thasCrelative to my pregnancy and delivery. they arnaot
to be. considered as " legally and conclusively established:: he-
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cause spoken to In preliminary examinations, nut carried on in
the presence of the parties concerned. They do not, indeed,
expreely assert, that my cabtradiction was not decisive or satis-
factory ; limy do not eternity MOM that they think the facts
and alklatioas want Duthie; towasillkheir legal and covicluilve
establishment, but a re-exspii_notioa la th: preset:it of the
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to your Mt
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in:l,l66km to all t
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Independently,
Atajesty, 1 shook
Maiestv «ith mac
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sitlitg to condder assent:dog theatres:o;4 my accuser) I— with se • le avistratipos, as 11„.., esin to lad/Algae, oe 8,1 atilt vs grades to ids detevanism-
. thellnticedoo to me is to be 111911011144 the: judgment of on Wkidi I • - toy propecittslioutTosaladi aisd •to • • Abort& Irhitifitthilaf
vote Majesty's sworn servants is to tied to the revision mode by yule 'irsoletots: at dm lima viage. Iwo • e milhil lit • ' .soiliir kitok__ ... •
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LES TO TEE -44 "4' accuser's Coooset ; and I. t alelloided•ln thnopinion you their
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,shalliditoduce wbich t deply regret that I cant* Kittle silence, wittiest in !thigh' Lam now alhidlog.; 1. liewaeClllW ".10Pt*41*.....
the 14th ioat. la yogi hit jetty to declines ong Meow Iststare tau puoisitratme, jounalltde tenpin into Km
"11111.411611114.eseholaoti -thartellik Site :digit WI years. after As .gtagsaa. at . ,
oar hil to - ;nor, ladoed, gargled; Mtn, easel? After the reqlpt of tbrilbova healer .
totfi, j notified width bad been Inflicted upon n0e,111104-the eoqiiery,:coadoe. with • that .recrptioa, no It . '. bp otbitlefreavol. in,
_about two true-from my arrival In tbitlcitatry..l.: . .„
~ ed iter. that acquittal, sill a froth statoateut•ia proposal', to be. Wallet. Which oesol. notteZZladdligetsyy,:esistttal- of tha totspertoise code to thle support. . .-.. • •
Y. the raring, No enhinitted, rtntattait 1 itonws .1. ;toolbar. lingilry, to
at ebargers_wbigh hip{ been alit° Sm, :`-• • • •-• ' .'• rwieditnatof my --.1 was UAW . a It. were... ,
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and, a nein" -sampled a continuance as that whickkajoittenolonta ' ' redo/Bat tosifteity sail:Mitre anal igsrusetikk ?rim , sort Or, hem,* redrements at a MOW* fetoi4lss
our Majesty to , .Cals it be said Mkt the Practediaes af*.,MW•fier Moble Look!, .these iamnoos • . I.lhat I marched mr. Bows I moony* from the whole of the An - g-ns .•
definite period. ."tor of your, Majesty's contitletttiiskt MIAOW katilmess so lenient, 4 coveted their. Tee: bassimr,'lnto inoderatiolie. Pail have 1 paps of homing reermose, elther.for et .4f sire rk ...
:. which.: 4lllllemoiderate towards me and my feelings, so to %dace a us. , evr;,.-wan_ 4
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y tiled I kereever far, aodatit 11264 tel, that. ' froon:WhoM My ineaterieare .c011itl• 96' - • lat
ninat-n plains that'll bare /teen too favourably deity Risk hv them ? and if they:sboall Nat, either ofAmtrmilmt.theter , or of i monger/a?• the var, and with whom I • past t
t along with Its • lot She, advice' which has bet. gives' co. gaiessv that mill* forwartany'olbeetelliet drirwitikednem sited. I hove enjoyed the eomfortkof the Abu t gr kill* r ,
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i which I bad ,yessrAlty oeed no longer deckle to ',me, ;si-ALl:tit may devise,jo area my ottoe(siatselayesmweallorgis!neos4 i alls% iifis:unoroteeted state. without the - of ts ,
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••3, delivered ? 1 aniacenlideat yliarliftijesty, must" Moselle as . balm andStotaillept as Ibidt b• Lady autoottlY• .wiNsout the benefit of liii advice,. 4114111..;.*
coq because isty . gag
-.:• .-, stsesbaserp reverse of this to Ile TheNti°6-4411 I have every reik Dotiglat), Whlfetbe ditbetnes- to the tumefies:ls' r get 1 fort osid sapper...et Nob society. of plc family, a Wine! se :t ow
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• , son to complain•of the iiiexplieritte doily lobed so • long with- at ail Being; Zboold be able to dieprive theuigill*wbao 1141bils nod foshrona,or this teettOrYll 'humid MIS% inetWit!tr aar •
Moe from 'Yale' hasthitt alsiee.; and the wind" Aberlasaft • the obeervatione entainf he tOatedlers, to triumph over their di and : der the ihiluence of foreign WAR*, and forelgit eMprairto, tam . '
4. troubletl'YOur • let& Wkids they aegatePaniC444 telliclateo with malice. But Abell diestekeensallans be renewal' yodscr . observed a coodovt, lif icy degree 'deflating fropli,lllo:digtge f•
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t ktter, width they yielded to tba tlfett . Itt:. . - • he blputebt Method, tit_iray future time, • deattrmiaNilttoW ; end•seterlty. of WWII' teenier!, dad partakiag OA gelslgiegly!,
..„. For yoar MolettelPallne4u ' "1"...
Pier ita),WY, harbewillbat entity* n'SnY justification
Its bestsecteitY. and . shoe and familiarity itlfich that reserve and ler a_en
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3'mle 14,a;itattz".. sof- Via sitiuM:nget ' * aPwfaislatilek anoolvlnLeme me glAbe mime sny jeetification, idtsiakvece. ; haps deem beneath the dignity 'of my exalted ,
Gnaw** 4to imisegsAds and ir .. are meiemoe,vibee, measures: whit% T . drills. ildeto (since suth devitilien will be Seen to haft „.„,.,,„,,,
II to toe t sir, why was it not their iron and their advice four i , y wilt Walt loaispeeablo to be taktioAnn Aid eiStmtt with perfect fppocenee), that sot dal i ...,;,..„„ r-• ". ' . -•-•
sed, that. ft 4.ai ago,,-. duos she dm?, 4 !rammer? Nel, why was It Doti no„eseeritY....4lwetfoSai these, 'I toast buinblyeellolig Oa Year cautlftur and induhteaM'but 101. pludoar mid . .-I.'" . ~.
~, ).,•,..,, and advice fronftnewaye'letisr timerlghtal Re- i kitty Y mod earnest entreaties that tbe' proaeraings, In- noirilth imoling She • reserve and Severity' .of• ~.:
me 'n'" ‘•''''" .potil • ?'For not only:hatiftrdieffit-toollesslio o/ my on. illodimetot say my first aosWer, and my letftw'at the Stb of away' belong to the British public, will never night '.. Os • . .-
y railed open.di::.astiottisate 311,,tieueek,,, witith at Ikandet*Witell them with December, but this letter also, may be direoleCapt your Ma. redly or censare.- -••••• : • . •
espected that in.. al= at whicirthis oderhervalaltso4:: WO given I. but Jetty to be se preserved and deposited, as that they they, all of ft retimins fir :mg now tp Mike some MDR . .
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would hate re. it yen ourviiss watt al.•,se tat . are eorward to them, seminal remain permanent autbemtiedommeettrand me- tiler content. of the paper,' Which was tromothed , , . alai
hi. for Mate,: Sig . finding readrig.•
_fa, gild aSdavits newish of tails accosation, aid the manner in hid I met it; Iwo chancellor...a the ilithish. ; .sad I, soma la •: . ' molt •
as imP°"i-- . - *moos* aniefed to theiti,leeto
jar* Otoctebtions (sot is of My &few, as well as of the charge. Thattbey May remain to.remark..tbst Shot paperlad whim title, &Jet 's • are, .
P the other .iisiy aloe opinion son aey ret brands Abe ease, but capable at day •. time of being resorted It, if (kg.malice which nor attestators :.had oi-• the Lord PlettOltor h?l,ttool*,,
Accordingly: in the qpiaions ataerallo). wit* ylierS4sheleal„,lo your Ma- produced the charge origlaiuly, shall ever veavre to renew it. pied it with auge stating that it was eatiled it asestrw.nantr
y's gracing* :2 lesty, in the original Report of toe top . ' If, therefore Be) ond this. lfrom tire your Moira, will Mar it barrow, Irmo the orig ;rhish bk.:14,46m0 Add
reeett. laak
tn, ,- E (Miiiiiiitanding their concurrence in all the pas committed •• and,jull, that I should be restnek, is every mgtglit the same hfojestys. t , losiwAna so A r... to bamt pe . Illdb
Iced to ---:,,...." inAlus Re.port) theT have neterthelemitives to yes: baitlesty their situation, from whew the proeeedings.tinder -"' Wit!
, !liar. single Melt a idly bet(wdleg to It i• L it i 4 t:
*WY' tt..is rij • 'dace, " that is no longerlißessaryvirie decline re- have removed' me: That, betides bring grimiest •rece, et- wholly enable to tikattert Winn Isthetilla,Clastslege•oe-100 WM ,
most conosamaY. edging me," what could have prevented liarffering that ad- maid into the henna Serer Majesty's Royal P is mitered i
.helorx tojt. It Amalie, ..•Mdt.tlio
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tot have ptrsodit :Moe. ;sea from the loth of July; the- dale woe,. original Re- to my former respect RIM station amongst •therlyallejesto , jetty s aerosols loneeenerea la Yawl Ii .1r-I°w ~
I therefore demi:ft have warranted withholding of it, will be rarities!either tivexert ' Majesty
r Which- .otteornitor le that advice egg **fief . itself/Or what could _ . , . Royal g 1., 9 Pletwett . Yet' - .... . -
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.singlet moment ? instead, ik of any trace his I onmeirtherdome of• Wales, thht vita# sestacon-, &MOW 10 me. •
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usion upon /Otor: being observable, of hasty, preanitate, partial detetmi- to 'house omy aportuerolip,Caritoo:hontoomojahagnmeemord 1:. Doddering it, Ibdrellete, wholly mt their act, ietter ..
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r,uarding fall( 4. ion in my favour, it is implosible to interpret-their conduct for me, except white the apartments:were ioderidhiglepaii, ' w expose sod polka me, it deep), *Ora is II - .
, persoesdi • ' Awanstooxampitkeijloost olherodsune...thaaasamoondios gittlipitAlliNthetp Hared, i iorto am to soma -1 to Mei beetsby. thee, I express, myself With.' reed .
rations ['bight toi• to an admission of .
your 'ltd sty's icoolidential servants bent-
t I man in sneer yvor.Rayal P I-- iyeaLiperhajo With wprisitkiL'heamse* -.
selves, that 1 have, in withholding t t - to
caneqoence a their•ha ad ILemke It indispensably • for .- SI i tAtal"eadre s•
of .r • injuatersl,ll. ' • - ' necessary my con* • prise° ed by-a:tenwe g.om-
on the 28th.. tilt. tope,. !web unnecessarily and crueity bandied from yea Royal i anent thrDrawinge•Was,rAntlf-lf vim oat " tp.tbatik solely with Spumes aso withclelitalit,bocasteL
, and the man), ,presence, from that 14th of July, tritheAlith of January, in- 1 Carlton-None, I trust your MONO will,emetrierceive. by agenee ofcallel=flaeo- •-•.•• • ': • . ' '''' '' 1 •
le of the proceed- eluding a space of above six moods fand the effect of the loser- how tiessopable it is, that I should releest,thgv ultamaeggrt „Tao twist, s
- sosition of the Prince. is to prolong 'my sneering*, and my should be assimied to nie*,siiited tor my diktat/ libation. inihdoio Of . tilt •foiaa:Jerds 1" Rad olkeY Wit this,, • 1 •
which they were di race, antler the sane banishment, to a period, perfectly to. _which°, only mart we receptiso and. atiaalrieligaitheastione of •, fullest coadderallon (sr.'s, 401.1iivisireas, aeh
_ar the vita
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de oite. . . . jour fdajesty!s.family, and from which •my,attlaglooge.at the I which were annexed,
.;tlolibeal*. Annie of ~.nkle Dpi . PF
under whose ad.- . The principle which trill adininAbe efent of find literposition IDlrnwitig-room may be day and Convenient: ' ' • 1 Majesty wits retreat" Are, •illat." /Finials' LI/co' . _ ~'
in- now, may be acted upon again; and the 'Prince may require a if three meanies are taken, I'ehould hopirallt3ble: lictdd i Lloyd,' Robert Illfifiped, cad Mrs.. Lilies are witnesses
any degree,
further prolongation upon fresh alaininents, and frmh charges,.prove satisfacto2 to the public mind, and I t eel my;lseludment of the Tour Lardy, ". be suspected of
inn against your , .
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I kept back possibly for the purpose being, time to time, , self fully resat public essimation to mittirm_ey, character. 1 any unfavourable bas; and whose! ty agree .
conveniently interposed, to prevent for ever the arrival of that I And should they prove •so snlistitettiry, I stint to be de- I they% had seen no ground to question r• ad that tbeirittows,„
', certainly, had hour, which, displaying to the world. the acknowledgment of i lighted to think, that no farther step lualstsoisebriew,* appear • stance to which tbey_epeallt,.. puticstlitriy as relating to vaPtoilt
of which 1 had • my unmerited sufferings and disgrace, may, at. the same time, : to be necessary, to my peace of anted, merldreftys NA my i Manby. Oidst.be credited snail they 'we, deeistvely,tsstritcliet.
tr Majesty bad, ,
• expom the true malicious and unjust quality of the proceedings. honour. ' ed.' Am 1, then, to indent*. foot
the:whichthatwits four loittbie,tor IR
4 and important This unreasonable, unjust, and cruel interposition of his week, which will make morn. than a month eromllho doe of : these opinions?: Am I, .to .udderstaid;. that, after • hay og
, your MatiestY . Royal Highness, as I most ever deem* it, has prevailed upon . your Mnsty's infortniog me that yeti would epeeist ae, should . rend with the., fulla(xodidaemtion, the dlniervitiiits'iwlticb,
ur own generous your Majesty to recal, to my prejodice, yourierociodl purpose 1 pots without my being received into 3 (mei preserier; end with- • I have. offered to•yolfr' Majesty; after having lee* •WifibMll
ns judgment. - I of receiving me, in pursuance of the advice of your servants.— ' out hash% the assurance that these other requested, mine hall I Cole there proved to have sui,mitteel himself "ye -4101eei- at.
iety, in which 1,.. Da Lthen, flatter layselfttrossisediknOlth [feel assured, that *be complied With, I shall be ander the gap it of con. !least, to tithe unauthorised, valtintary. ezainlatslinasiST.
I answer (for at -. r
my Put entreaty,.founded uptiplisfixempli,.Whick I urge, and • sidering3ent IS refuted. In which can ,mYeelf , Sir John Dotiglia f' i Solicitor, for Vt.,t ex ream Orritistonntsiin•
4e to vent Mn..; directed to counteract only the effat-Orale ulti.Ola interposition, ! t'entlociled, however reluctantly, to give.tnendiliihfMliese pro- ' firming the statement. .of Lady' • Deoglas, lorrAigru'lltidt
had ever expert- , will induce your Majesty to return- to your original determine.. coed*, to the world; unless your Majesty ran sagged other I Douglas, obese: ftatement and. dertsitioa they firefurillshicese
ust, and justice ; tine i . : ncli-quate metros of securing my homer earthy life, from the `i, to be so malicious and false, that t e3(jiropole to tosclintesieli,
your confidential ' o
...estored. however, a' I shriek) feel myself, to a state of coin- effect of the continuance or renewal of these proccediogs, for 1 prosecution against her, 'is your filaysty's Lisw Olken tz,
ment from your putative recurity,_ as well as credit, by being at length permit- ' lire future, as well as the present. For I mural rine Ma- I advise, upon a refereoce, new at length, after silt months( ,„,
sjesty. 11 was no ted. Ipon your Majesty's gracious reconsideration of your last .04 ' ill believe, that it is only in the absence of all other ado- 4 the detection of that malice and falsehodd, . folioclecl to he'
ceive, thereon', dete•-atination, to have access to your. Majesty; yet, under all quate means, that I can have resort to, that measure t that I ! made)—efier, having seen this %Villain Cole submitting id each
ad to than 014- the c7rcurstances tinder which 1. should now receive that omit • Consider it with deep regret; that 1 regard it . w ids serious ap. repeated voluntary. examinations fur
.such a purpose, and al-
tufferin;r: nad Of : and confi,ination of your Majesty's opinion of my innocence, i prehension, by oo means so much on recount •of the effect it though he was ill that, time a servant on my establishment, hod
ing the whole or . any character would not, I teat, stead cleared in the public , may have upfm myself, as on account of the pain which it may . eatine. my bread, yet never once communicating JO Me :bat such

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te °Wectinat which. I have. caseate- i Dillereat characters of mee .reeuirit Merest data market base Pet *Ptah!" ate'llterrY untenable, Whet the ebulevutlolls I '
er have pievalled upon me, or can ir le their wives I bet when * 'teffes'can nh limit* .1W ka . e mate, upon the credit and character of those witaesaes, I ,
to have ritOntlfse to it,.but an hope-. percell from time to lime what is egreeablervAlo Vto ' Iliian ewer gine/ eaetteeati ittatete/ti .: SI that those °beer"- • ..
duty to my future safety, to my her ha d—when her conduct can no lopeer eeetribailltio his tiara leave their credit wholly analfutteds and did not deserve
r. and to the feelings, the charactera hap. pi ;no Imager hope In be rewarded by hid ap prabetion-, the lent notice from you Majesty's servants, it is impossible
It,' I had flattered myself when i nuirly to . examine that condom Artie mpihird of I grim( ou.aas lisat•any Imeourehlirmen'ealt armed, or hay fair end anpreju.
mid "we terminated to . thy item-j in general to be the conduct of * Married Wesalle, lkaltogetrver diced eh° belle"; • • • ' .
lenges that that .cleculltlesera'aloot a onre_inoneble and unjust. ,' ' •
laid 1117 ktweence of all that had. Mutt:then, is isay case T Your Naito, will du me thrjas- lice faishoeStall'in your Mairsti as cnitalard-In the moleakidll
to babe been perfectly suricient he' deco araterk, that.. in the above letteentlibeiritftellit/4. Part at the "Mt eilliC* bus
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se fact, tbat yourMajetty MI Di*. ,--0 • - •• ' - 1 -.li' 04.1*..- Sul . retniehAblit condsct which cmalat,aspa bcr -irded bats
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