The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-05-07
TO JAMES PAUL.


OF Bursledon, in Lower, Dublin township.
in Philadelphia county, state OF Pennsyt
wanna on matters relating to her royal
hiShness the princess OF Wales,
LETTER /.
Ny Dearest Friend,
The excellent effect which attended
my letter to you, has made me resolve to
discuss the present subject in the form
of letters to you; form, which from vari-
Gus reasons, l have great liking to, and
which has always this strong recommends
tion, that il affords me an opportunity oe
proving to you that your friendship and
that of your brother and children is always
alive in my recollection. At this time,
however, another motive has had some
weight with mel understand. that our
government has issued orders for causing
all letters for your country to PASS through
lis hands, or, which is the same thing, the
hands OF its agents; and am resolved,
that they shall never have the lingering of
a letter of mine TO America. ! will put
what have to say into print, and then it
can be no more impeded in its progress than
the clouds, or the rays of the sun.
In the case above alluded 70, my letter
did, l understand, settle all mems minds
at once, as far as it went; and as it was
republished in America, it gives me great
satisfaction to reflect on the extent of its
influence. Nor was it without uses here.
where the people at a little distance from
London, must of course, know almost as
little about the local circumstances of the
case as the people in Pennsylvania them
selves. Indeed the publication of that let
ter soon convinced me, that one ought not
to take it for granted, that the mass Of the
people know mucls about particulars as to
any sort of public matter; and that To sup
pose ones readers to be on the other side
of the Atlantic is no tad way Of ma King any
case that one dscusses quite clear to the
people OF England nay, even to nine-ten,hs
of those who walk, in decent clothes, about
she streets of London Itself.
II is therefore in the full conviction that
xhall com municate information to a great
portion of the people here as sell as to the
eight millions of people who iuhabt the
United States, that now renew my COR
rcspondence with you, leaving my promised
communication, about the mcde Of keeping
large quantities of sheep, till the return of
peace, lest by fulfilling that promise at this
time, should subject myself to the charge
of conveying comfort and giving assistance
to the enemies of my sovereign than which
assuredly, nothing can be further from my
heart.
The subject upon wh;c. now address
you, is one of very great interest and of
very great Importance. 1t is interesting, as
involving the reputation of persons of high
rank; and 1t is important as being capable
of raising questions as to rights of most
fearful magnitude.
You will have seen, in your own newspa-
pers, copious extracts from our English
daily papers, upon the subject OF her royal
highness the princess of Wales; but, these
extracts you will find so confused, SO dark,
go unintelligible, upon the whole, SO top
less and tail less, that you will from them
be able to draw no rational conclusion
You viii sec her royal highness the princess
o. Wales abused by those journalists you
will see all sorts of charges by them prefer
red against her; you will hear one insinua-
tion following another, till, at last, they can
Sicken with the sound but, you will find no
where any true statement OF her case -
Even her own letter, which shall, though
for a second time, insert below for your pc
rusal, does not go far enough back to pro
Dice that view of her case which ought to
be exhibited, in order to defence of her
against the base nsnuations which have
for a long while, been in circulation. In
short, all that will reach your country
through the channel Of these corrupt Lon
don journals can only serve to nislead you
as to the real merits of the case and even
/, with most earnest desire TO lay before
the world the means of forming a CORE ct
Judgment, should fail of my object, we're !
not to revert to the earliest period Of that
convection between the princess and the
prince WATCH has unhappily, been, Cor some
years interrupted
1t is generally well known, bat not i'm
proper to state here, that the princess o
Wales ia the daughter of the late duke Of
Brunswick, and that her mother is sister
oe our present king. Of course sl,e is a
first cousin of the prince her husband
They were married on the 9Th Of April
1875, the prince being then So years of age
and the princess S6 Years of age; the for
ner will be 81 the 10Th of next August, 8;
the latter will be Is OF the 17ih Of next
MAY. On the 7h of January, 1896 tina,
Is TO say, precisely nine months from the
Cay I'll Iuarr.ag5, was born the princess
Charlotte ofWales, who, being their only
child, is the heiress to the throne, and
who. Of course, has now completed her 17th
year.
Here you hsve an account Of who the
parties most concerned are, and of the bow
and the when Of their connection. Bat.
there were some circumstances, con rec Cd
with the marriage of the prince and prin
cess TO which it viii be necessary to 20
back, in order TO have a fair view Of the
natter.
The prince, at the time when h vas
about 20 be married in 1905, was greIliy IL
dc6f. lie had an annual allowance from
his nation, beside the amount OF cert IN re-
venues in the county Of Cornwall belonging
20 him "a duke of that county. But, these
nrovinr insufficient TO meet his eXueDces.