The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-03-17 00:00:00

TILE PRINCESS OF WALES.

FURTHER DOCUMENTS-NOT IN THE BOOK.

LETTER ADDRESSED DV 'Hell DOTAL HIGHNESS THE
PRIREESS OF WALES To THE KIDD.
Star,—ln discharge of the defy I owe to myself, and the
gr.mt duty I owe to your Majesty and your IlluArions
I have herewith trammitted a statement, • which I ent,lideutly
mot will appear to prove me riot unworthy of the protertimp
and f :your with which your Majesty has pteased t an. ow ins.
" To be restored to that favour and protection, in consequence
of a cooviction in your Majesty's mind of my innocence, pro.
duce by the papers I now humbit lay befbre your *jest., is
the first arts of my heart.
" Grieved. Sire, deeply grieved as I cannot bat be, that ynur.
Majesty should be exposed to so moth trauhle on so painful an
occasion, and on my account, it Is yet my humble truss that your
Majesty will graciously forgive me. If extreme anxiety about
my honour, and your Majesty's favourable opinion, me
humbly to solicit, ar an set of justice, that scrupulous anemias
no your Majesty's part to these papers. which cannot fail, I
think, to produce in your Majesty's mind, a full conviction of
my innocence, noda doe sense of the injuries I have Yuffered.
" One other prayer 1 with all possible humility and moiety
address to your Majesty, that, as I can hope fat no happiness,
• tr expect to the benefit of that fair reputation to which
I know ram entitled, till I am re-admitted Into your Majesty's
preseuee, and as I am in truth w ithout guilt, sufferlag what
to me is heavy punishment, whilst I um denied access to your.
Majesty, year Majesty will be graciously pleased to foto an
early determination whether my conduct and my sufferiogs
do
not authorise me to hope that ibe blessing of being restored to
your klajesty's presence may be conferred upon, Sire, your Ma-
'jesty's dutifully attached, affectionate, and afflicted daughter-In-
11‘ and subject*
(Sigoed)
• I Blackheath, Oct. 2, 1806."

46 CAROLINA;*

SEX 1101 FA Is HIGH NIISI2I.THE PRINCESS OF RA LEI
'l'o THE KING.
" received yesterday, aid with inespresible pain,
yeller Mayer y's last verbal commingle:llion. The duty of statings
in a representation to your Majesty, the various grounds upon
which I ;eel the hardship. of my case. and upon which, 1 Con.
Adeptly think, that upon a review of it, your Majesty will be
dispelled to rent year last determination, is one 1 owe to my-
self; and I cannot forbear, at the moment when I acknowledge
the receipt of your Majesty. letter, to announce to your Ma-
jesty, that I propose to execute that duty without delay.
" After burin sulered the punishment of banishment from
your Majesty's presence for seven mouths, pending an enquiry
which your Majesty had directed to be made in.° my conduct;
affecting both MY USE and mg honour. After that enquiry bad
at length terminated in the advice of your APjesty's Confiden-
tial and Sworn Servants, that there was no longer guy reason for
your Ninjestys declining to recehe me. After your Majesty's
gracious communication, which led me to measured that your
Majesty would appoint an early day to receive me. If, after all
this, by is renewed application Olt the part of the Prince of
Wales (upon whose communicatious the brit enquiry bud boil
directed), I now Sted, that that pusiishment to which I had
been condemned during that same seven months' enquiry pm&
ors to the determination in my favour, should, contrary to Ake
opiaissat of your Modesty's Servants, be continued after !bat de-
termination, to :malt the result of some new proceeding. to be
suggested ko the Lawyers of the Prince of Wails, it is timpossiik
tint I can fail to assert to your Majesty, wit► the effort due to
truth, that 1 am, is the cossecbasseases of say own iiustwas, and
with a strong sense of my unneeriled saferingr,
" Sire,

" Your Majesty's oast dutiful and Wheatmeal', •
" But melt bajured, Subject and Daughter-Jo-Law.
(Slimed) " CA ROLISL.
" Mutative-Woe, illsekbootb, . Feb,42 1937."

• The 'gamiest hem referred to i;thot dump op by yr.
Pereeval, Lai Fides. hod Sir T. !slather, as ter floral WO
arees Defence.—We pro on abstract of it yeaterday.

TO CORIt ESPON 01.!ITS. •
Coanscron's Lee er to Doctor DrIGIVAX etintAlolllllll443jolii• ,
cilia criticism on that Gentleanues uritlngti, yet the mad..
eau is too mach for. publlcalloo. Tbe Doctor's Mission n
certainly much easier pronottoced twat than his MD! I aid al
to librreif ;gime never heard of an Instauce of it, except if brit
of proposing, while a Member 6f the Irish louse of Cotillions.
Lire 4iscourdry fumy to England. Bus that coming IS A.
man, with our keen `4oucrroasGanan bowever, might be
too much for the Oath-dealing honest Statesman .boold foe
foment to apply Connicroa's ast-'o-none.,7lsils to Ms becks
he;Klitened as it is by lib wire.woven lash. We hive the save
unfavourable opinion'Of the Doctor's political conduct cis the
writer ; but we should he sorry to direct the concentrated re,
!,,,ntment of so many thousands, nay, we may say, of so ma*
iniilions, upon the head of one man, though Ito one can expel*

him.
•intim TavEsalr's Second Letter is come to hand, containing
Bowe very able Strictures upon the Unconstitutional Treat.,
went which the Princess of WALE' has received lu this Coun-
try, and it shall appear to-morrow,if passible.
Cousins Stsrss upon the Poor Laws is highly deserving of at.
tentioo, and will be inserted the first opportunity.

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THE STATESMAN.

LONDON:
VILDIIIIIIMT, strAttat 17, 1813.

pelt. prognos) tipproiehl
ing mortality in the body politic: it may be difficult
to say, whether• we are in the last stage of eucfi
a consumption; but if 'our ci.se is not too far "
gone, it will be adviiable to employ it remedy; and
remedies hive been indicated, consistent with ressoni
and approved by experience. The cure consists in a -
species of political regeneration ; it is effected by real
verting back to the primitive good principles on
which the Government was first- instituted. It it
not to be supposed that the inhabitants of that land
which was first peopled by our transported. Woos%
would be less corrupt, individually, thanAhe tiotlf4
_country ;
G; and there is certainly more Philtichl •
.virtue 'm the Government'ef America than in`Ont
own, hiCh can only be accounted for by its recent
establishment on genuine constitutional
Here then is a proof what good principles will do':
and it is my humble, but firm opinion, that if the
case of the Princess of Wates was fully before tht
Public, they would find in that affair the most
powerful reasons for such a Reform as would pro.
duce a happy renovation of the genuine principles of
British Government There is nothing in the Bag:
lish Constitution, properly considered, that cad
offend the nicest moral feeling; but there is much o(
this kind of offensive matter, proceeding from that
corruption of that invaluable system ; so true is it,
that corruptio optimi pessima est. The honest patriot
will not think meanly of that system, however,
merely because he sees its most sacred inslitutiont
trodden under feet by greedy Worldling, in theie
eager pal.suit of wealth and. power. He knows that,
private ambition has always been the source of great
political abuses, and Oppressions upon the sointict:.
as well as the most flattering and dangerous means'
of subverting Thrones. Though an act should tui
furnished with the names of those who one-It most
to be'respected iii the State, t'he Law, and the GOS:
pet., yet will he not be imposed upon by such 4-
phalanx of authority,. and, wilfully shutting' his
eyes against the truth, permit himself to be blindly'
;.led to an abnegation of the Constitution, if his cone.
science tells him that that such an act is In hostility
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with its principles; •
According, to the Constitution of this kingdoth.
every sulljecolli it, nay even the Sovereigilintse.l4
owes obedience to the supreme dominion of the lew..
No persowit ibnv'e the law;and'hOne eicluded from
its protection,- but- those who by their mimes have
forfeited that; protection, and those crimes must btlf
proved. It is by the law itself that a Matt can
sorilf.
be outlawed. The power of the Crown cannot dais'.
prive any one of -the protection of law. Of this we
hare many instances on record,' but none more re.
markable than that of HENRY of HOLINGsRom, after-
wards Maar IV. who was banished by the .ar.'
bitrary act. of Hiceraan 11. This lawless act of
King RtcnAink Wai held to be a violation of the
Coronation Oath, and as such was charged against
him in the articles of his deposition ; it occupies the
9th and 1111 i elegises, the latter of which says—
"- yet the slid King, without any legal reason abet:
soever, did cause and command the said Duke to be
banished for. ten.yeirs, against-all justice, and the
laws and customs of this kingdom, thereby damnably
incurring perjurya."—No doubt, King RictrAne, by
thiS act of 'dolour,* and malice, did, -as his indictment
imports, incur the crime of periury; for he had sworn,
at his coronation, is every..Kilig of -England mu ,
to administer justictt according to the "ancient lons
and customs of the realm.; and yet he withheld jos.
tice from the Doke of I...(xciinika nhis sought it

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O 11010100• public, is. logiie for this; neglect of etiquette.; indeed, Sir, 'i Mimi, whoa "ankint litielincelt hit. ellarel riztmtitit
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will non, leisure to correct that which I have hastily wrltteo.• •:11::(1` - ,44,' mrawiihisolimily.mitire--• oillor- „roa
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Cirtil of the King, mmecessary ; setthavtils:
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for r to a liberal- mind flattery is Uselegs—to a bigoted -conscientious. frost boomirable &awes. On thu Amami Wit
"is 10or borne her one It fs an limit.' I thank your thenf for the in.' court eomtiey,7-are wiring to meet ditansitmei weitaswered 11111!
misrepresentatioa is tie relent, only of the weak sad Ongjebeedng
r. heart, taut drawn sertion of my letter.i
-the ignornat oaf the prrjaJicvd-7-iee palm% tries ota day: • I
e ie her favour.— ' In looking over the Plymouth Paper I find a .1 remise Sir, with esteems door's, kfe
d, the matter is not namesake—alike in name; we differ in every send. 113411900 Doeito FeS.l6. A FuOTEItriIANT: .
Never 'repeat I. went but this one, that " every Englishmattlas en • . . .
ho may. be deemed unalienable right to canvass the merits of any sub-• • ' •
TILE PRINCISS . OF W4LEVS*. dealt
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aright which all are ready enough to boast CONSTITUTIONALLY CONSIDBRIID, •
at on .re-considers- ject,"
the don.,re , r_ of, but which few-are -willing to- grant when they . N'
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.. . , have it in their power to silence their opponents,— , . o: L ' ' " ',- •• • ' • .
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• . • ' We hive had one or two convincing proofs of the TO THE HDITOR TAE 11141EkANV.7
3is signing- iii the truth of this remark during the past week. ThIS Ste,—The remark published ks.retEr .Pepei ili.,
:he purpose' of ex. 1 writer next expresses great surprise at the confusion .
specting the Solemn appeal of the Princess of IVALIp
recullar situation of meeting
• and noise which he witnessed at the "No Popery" i ~.
in Princess-street, and attributes it to a I '`" justice,British 6'..ll''' the- """.="mli •
of WALII and the i party of gentlemen of the 44 Baptist denomination." I sustained from the effect of the foislegeaudeUset-cair .
retort. .
have appeared to me so propel/ anitledtdous, , • 1.
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—neither were many others who objected to the that I doubt vet they hive met the apptobsttion• of .
proceedings of that night. Besides, does be sopa
to town on Mon. I
, your numereasleaders, as well Is the. csisiiCientlene , i •
sterday morning his pose that a question of such moment.* question ! applause of 11
e •to Use Earl of Ls- on which the first characters in the kingdom ati i r your own,. heart. As the Wed 4
ck the Noble Earlevery! man furniihed with any ordinery4.4keee'. •
divided, should be agitated without some. differ- i - 1 .
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blilefledatieff item nine IA iontiment2 He reads
.tititei. and thinks Pi. "Illair, ~_...' Illeitigl7ll.lll It. eit. iii". ..-$.1014 • i
t, which sat till pat I:less on this subject, who can entertain such an fungal seeiereforer-With respect ,fii.' 11.4.1 Vil'Oia:
ng-up of the Conn-... •,.,2
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!opinion. This writerthen cites the 'antient JeWish bocei4 ht leSol). it, Ins* . rt. , • ~,,,,,-...,
a long conference 'Sing Solomon to prove that" there is a time for all .• • ..•
Ito offer any ftirtier rettaillng, *1 ' &ifs* fe'slndif• .
loon after, Viscount things." i . yet a applying It to this ; •
case, I rennet I ceting. that gm' 'tly injured -tamale s-i•-thee,, ie not *if
help telling him that he sadly libels this King of pro-I. d . ' • .1 ,
house to communi- 1
verbial memory.—Solomon never said that there ills I late°
on. Bet the incidents before os preeewirte Oaf * 4
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the deliberations of
1 a time for ambiguous and deceitful d 1 .)..
a vert sements, 1 .
- i reflecting min 4 a crowd of remarks in which public in
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orrx took isairi i conveningthe inhabitants of the town of Dock to terest is as deeply concereed as prisite justification: . , ,i .
At five o'clock ' assist in petitioning the British Legislature against This ektratordinery case odght to be carefully con,:
rwick-house. . the Roman Catholic Claims, and then, when the templated, with a view to the discovery of that grecit • ' • / '..
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transacted mill aforesaid inhabitants had conformed to the reqnisi- disease with which the State is afflicted. In my aged; I
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re. • : Son, that they should not be allowed to offer an Sir, it exhibits certain unequivocal signs, *lath'," it.
opinion upon the merits of the Petition. • k
nto Denmark wit • we are ant wilfully must. convince al, that - si •
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vledgment of the But, however, Sir, we will pass on to another part the • disorder we labour under procee de Iroise gene! • ,
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Power, and an asm of the subject. There are some circumstances con- I rat laxity of public principtel. Wily statesmen ltatei '
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ion of this country; nected with this Petition, as unprecedented as any iit must be confessed, been in all ages, mote' or les! 1 .t. : 1
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claration, that any I that have yet been submitted to your notice; fer in-1 subject to this disease; but now the contagion is apt,
i and Denmark must .stance—the Herald with the Bugle Horn. Here's a I versa) ; ecen the Ministers of Religion, and of OW . .
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horn Allies. Princess-street Chapel Missionary for you ! And lic justice, seem hardly to be sound: a general corruek! .: .
which can be spared . what did he
announce? Was he the harbinger oft Lion appears-to pervade all ranks, such as histeriani
" good tiding,"—of "
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onmtilinff nt Ilarba...ipeace on earth—of Rood will I have pointed out as the fatal prognostic of appreachl iI +

tice trom the Duke or I.4xeSsfie, Os sought itac-
cording to' the fathion of -those 'days, • tigainst thl
Duke of Notteomi. Remember, Reader, flint thiS
act of King RICHAhD'II Was edoubli offence against
the law, and therefore k occnillettwaiteits.or counts
in his indictment,--Bret, he iktithe paki, by banish. •
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