The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-05-04

has excited strong sensations in the nindn
of the people ot England, AND has giver
rise 10 much controversy III the papers of
Ministry and Opposition.
The. ROYAL FAMILY.
Cory IF letter from her Roydf Hi!ghnees
the Princess Fl lFGies, TO his Royal Aish-
ness rs Prince Regent -
'' SIR--it is with great reluctance pre-
sumo to obtrude myself upon YOUR Rows
Highness. * to solicit Your attention TO mat
ters which may, az first, appear rather Of
personal .thau pubic nature. If | could
think them so-is they related merely to
myself should abstain from a proceeding
which might give unrasness, or interrupt
the more wejshty occupations of your
| Royal Highncss's time. ! should continue
in silence and retirement, to leaaSthe life
which has been prescribed 70 me, and con-
sole myself for the. loss of that society and
those domestic cotpforts to which have
been so long stranger, By the reflection
that 1t has been deemed proper l should be
afflicted without any fault OF my own-and
that your Royal Highness knows it.
- But, Sir, there are consideration Of
higher nature than any regard to my own
happiness, which render this address du-
Ivy both to myself and my daughter. Nav
venture to say--a duty also TO my hus-
band and the people committed to- his
Isuiitiess woman cannot with safety carry
her forbearance. If her honor is invaded,
the defence ut her reputation is no longer
matter of choice; and 1T signifies not whe-
ther the attack be made openly manfullv
and director by secret inSinuation, and by
hpiding such conduct towards her as ccun-
ten3nceS all the suspicious that malice can
suggest. If these ought to he the feelings
OF ever" woman in England who is consci-
Sh ~ ~,
ROYAL Highness has roo sound a Judgment,
ana ton nice sense of honor, not to per-
ceI'e, how much more Justly they belong to
the mother of Your daughter-the mother
OF ner whc is destined. | trust, at a very
distant period, to reign over the British
Empire
" 1t may be k,'own to your Royal High
ness, that during the continuance of the
restrictions upon yoir royal authority, ]
purposely refrained from IT 6king any re-
presentations which might then augment
the painful duties ofyour exalted station
AT the expiration of the restrictions. still
was inclined 10 delay taking this step, in
tae nope that ! mi ght owe the redress |
ought to your gracious and unsolicited con
descension. have waited, in the fond in
dulgence of this expectation, until, to my !
'neXpressible modification, find that my
unwil'ingness to complain, has ONLY produ-
-
at length compelled. either to abandon all
regard TOR the two dearest objects possess
on earth. mine own honor, and my beloved
child or to throw myself at the feet of
you> Royal Highness, the natural protector
ofbotil.
presume, Sir. TO represent to your
Royal Highness, that the separation, which |
every succeeding month is making wider, |
mother and the daugh,,r, is equally |
n m r. 10 90 hn, H..
cation. say nothing of the deep wounds |
winch Sc cruel IN arrangement inflIcts upon
my feelings, although / would fain hope
that few persons will be found of dispos |
t'on TO think lightly of these. To see nv |
self cut oil from one of tbs very few dol |
mestic enjoymenis left rne--certainly the |
only one upon which set any value, the |
society OF my chIld---involv-s ne IN such |
n lsery' as l well know Your Royal High |
Gess could never infict upon me, if YOU
were aware Of its bitterness. Our inter. |
course has beeu gradually diminished A |
single interview weekly seemed sufficiently |
hard allowance for a mothers affections. |
1 nat, however. was reduced TO our meet |
ing once q fortnight and | now learn, that
even this most rigorous introduction Is 10 be |
still more rigidiy enforced.
But while do not venture co intrude |
nv nv feelings as a Mother upon your Royal
hSNiSC, HluSf De allowed TO say.
that IN the eyes of an Deserving and lea !
ious world, this separation of a Daughter
from her Mother will only admit Of one
construction--a construction fatal to the
Mothers reDutstioD.-You ROYAL Hiehness
VIII also pardon me for adding, that there
IS no less inconsistency than injustice in
TINS treatment. He who dares advise your
Royal Righness 10 overlook the evidence Of
my innocence, and disregard the sentence
"i complete acquittal which it produced, -
or rs wicked and false enough sin tn ,vhis.
per suspicious in Your ear,-betravs his
duty 50 you, Sir, to tour Diught~". and to
your : ope, II he counscls Won to permit q
DAY to pass without further investigation
.oi my Conduct. | know that no such ca
lummatnr viii venture to recommend a
measure which must spceuilY end in his nj
ter Confusion. Then let me impl9re va To
reject on the eitnatiop in which am Ma
ced-without the shadow of a charge a.
gainst mc-without even an accueer-.aftrr
an Inquiry thag led to- my ann pie vindicati-
on-yet treated as il / were still more Gil
pable than the perjures Of my suborned
traduoers represented me. and held nm to
The World as Mother who may not enjoy
the society Of her only Child.
The feelings. Sir, which are natural
to my uncXampled situation, might iust,ty
re ~ the graCions judgement OF your kov.
al Hisbnca>, had no other motives fcr al
dressing YOU but such as relates 70 myself.
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