Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1813-05-03
TO JAMES PAUL.
aurora.

TO JAMES PAUL,
OF Bursledcn. i'm Lower Dublin TOWNSHIP.
Philadelphia county, state of Pehnsylva-
ma on matters relating to her Royal
highness the Princess of Wales.
LETTER
My DEAR FRIEND,
The excellent effect
which attended my letter to you, has made
me resolve to discuss the present subject in
the FORM Oh letters TO you form, which,
from various reasons, have great liking
to, and which has always this strong recon-
mendation, that it affords me an opportuni.
ty OF proving to you that Your friendship
and that OF your brother and children is al
ways alive in my recollection. AT this time
however, another motive has had some
weight with me. understand that our go
vernment has issued orders for Causing all
letters tor your country to tass through lis
hands, or, which is the same thing, the
hands at its agents and i am resolved, that
they shall never have the lingering of let.
ter OF mine to America. i will put what
have to say into print, and then it can no
more be impeded in its progress. than the
Clouds or fhe rays of the sun.
In the case above alluded to, nv letter
did understand, settle all mems minds at
once, as tar as it went; and as it was re-
published in America, it gives me great sa
tistactlon to reflect OH the extent of its infu
ence. Nor was it without its uses here,
where the people at a distance from Lon
don, must, OF course, know almost as little
about the local circumstances of the case as
the people in Pennsylvania themselves. In
deed the publication of that letter soon con-
vihceo me, that one ought never TO take it
81 hat thn g Il 4
Know much abou. particulars as to any sort
ct public matter; and that to suppose one 3
readers tn be on the other side of the Allan
tic is no bad way of making any case that
one discusses quite clear to the people of
England nay, even to nine-tenths of those
who walk, in decent clothes, about the
streets OF London itself.
1t is, therefore, in the full conviction that
l shall communicate information to great
portion OF the people here as we'll as TO the
eight millions of people who inhabit the u
nited States. that / now renew my CORES
pondence with you, leaving my promised
communication, about the mode of keeping
large quantities af sheep, till the return of
peace. lest, by fulfilling that promise at this
timo, 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 which 7 how address
you, is one of very great mteret and of very
great Importance. 1t is interesting, as in
volving the reputation of persons high in
rank and it is important as being Capa
bic ofraising questions az to. rights of most
fearful magnitude.
You will have seen in your own newspsoer,.
copious extracts from English daily pa
pers, upon the subject of her royal Hie.hness
the princess of Wales; but, these extracts YOU
will find so confused, so dark, so unintelligibie
upon the whole, SO topless and tail less, that
you will from them be able to draw no ration
al conclusion. You will see her royal higI,ness
the princess of Wales abused by these journal
lists ; you will see all sorts of charges by them
preferred against her you will hear one insin.
uation following another, till, at last, the ear
sicken with the sound but, you will find no
where any true statement of9her case Even
her own letter, which shalt, though for Sc
cond time, insert below for your peruslf, does
not go far enough back to produce that view
ofher case which ought to be exhibited, in or.
der to defence of her against tie base insin.
uations which have, for a long while, been in
circulation. In short all lIl,t will reach your
country through the channel of these corrupt
LondonJournalists,ca only serve to miylead you
as to the real merits of the case & even |. with
most earnest desire to lay before the world
the means OF forming correct Judgment,
should fail OF my object, were not to revert
tothe earliest period of that connection be-
tween the princess and the prince which has,
unhappiiy, been, for some Years, interrupted
1t is generally well known, but not impro-
per TO state here, that the princess Of Wales is
the daughter of the late duke of Brunswick,
and that her mother is sister of our present
king. Of course she is first cousin of the
prince her husband They were married on
the 9th OF April, 1895, the prince being Slen
80 years OF age, aud the princess 90 years of
age the former will lie 81 the 12.h of nexi
August and the latter will be As on the ITS
of next May. On the 9Th Of January, 1896.
that is to say, precisely nine months from
the day OF marriage, was born the princess
Charlotte of Wales, who, being their only
child, is the heiresss to the throne, and who
ofcourse, has now completed her 18th year.
Here you have an account Of who the parties
most concerned are, and of the how and the
when of their connexion. But, there were
some circumstances, connected with the mar
rige Of the prince and princess, to which it will
be necessary TO go back, in order To have fair
view of the matter.
The prince, at the time when he was about
to- be married, in 1875, was greatly in debt
He had an annual allowance from the nation.
besides the amount of certain revenues in the
county OF Cornwall belonging to him as duke
of that county. But these proving insufficient
TO meet his expences, lie was found, in I795.
to have contrac ted debts to the amount Of 6S9.
890l As. Id; for we very particular in this
country IN stating the fractions of sums il our