Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-10-03

cess returned no answer, and waited of
course, TO hear from the king. Thus
every thing appeared to be satisfactorily
settled, and the princess was about to be
restored to society, when, at the request
of the prince of Wales, all further
steps were suspended-that is to say,
the receiving of the princess by his
majesty was put off until the prince
should be enabled to submit to the king
statement, which he proposed to make
to him upon the papers relating to the
prncess's defence, after consulting with
| his own lawyers.
princess began to change the tone of her
letters, and from the paintive to burst
forth into the indignant. Her royal high
ness answered the letter of the king,
communicating the circumstances last
alluded to, on the 18th of February,
807, intimating her design TO represent
to him, IN another letter, the various
grounds on which she felt the hardship
! of her case; which was done in letter
dated the 10th of February, in a most
able manner. At the close of the letter,
there was threat OF "an appeal to the
public" unless the princess should be
speedily received at court, and also al
| lowed some suitable establishment in
some one ofthe royal palaces, if not in
Carlton-house. 10 this letter she received
no answer, and on the 5th Of March, she
wrote again 10 the king O say, that un-
less her requests were granted, the pub
llcatlon would not be withheld beyond
the next Monday, which would have
been on the 9th of March, 1907. The
publication, or, as it was afterwards call
ed, "The Book" did not appear; but,
in fifteen days from that time, MIR. Per-
ceyal was chancellor Of the exchequer.
The publication for time being thus eff
feCtually checked, the whig ministry, in
GLIDING the friends of the prince, went
out OF Office, and there was no longer any
obstacle to the receiving of the princess
at court; and, and accordingly, on the
2lst of April, 1907, minutes were laid
before the king, as prelude to that step,
in which the council declares as follows
"After the most deliberate considera-
ton OF the evidence which been brought
before the commissioners, and of tho
previous examinations, as well as the
answer and observations, which have
been submitted to your majesty upon
them, the cablneO feel it necessary to
declare their decided concurrence in the
Clear and unanimous opinion of the COM
nissioners, confirmed by that OF all your
malesty's late confidential servants, that
the two main charges alledged against
her royal highness of pregnancy and de-
livery are completely disproved; and
they further submit TO your majesty their
unanimous opinion that all the other par
,iculars of conduct brought against her
royal highness to which the character Of
crlminallty can be ascribed, are either
satisfactorily contradicted, or rest upon
evidence OF such nature, and which
was given under such circumstances, as
render it, in the judgement of your ma
jesty's confidential servants, undeservlng
Of credit. Your majesty's confidential
Servants, therefore concurring in that
part of the opinion OF your majesty's late
servants, as stated in their minute of the
25th of January, that there is no longer
any necessity for your majesty being adj
vlsed TO decline receiving the princess
into your royal presence, hereby submit
to your majesty, that it is essentially ne
cessary, injustice TO her royal highness,
and for the honor and interest of your
malesty's illustrious family, that her
royal highness the princess of Wales,
should be admitted with as little delay
as possible into your majesty's royal pre-
sence, and that she should be received
in manner due to her rank and station
in your majesty's court and family"
Among The ministers sanctioning this
minute, were Lord Eldon, Lord Camden,
Lord Westmoreland, the Duke of Port
land, Earl Bathurst, Viscount Lord Cas-
tlereagh, Lord Mulgrave, Mr.. Canning,
&c.
There was a separate minute in which
the council declined interfering, as to
the assignment OF apartments to the prin-
cess, in one of the royal palaces, this be-
ing subject purely of private and do
mestic nature.
Thus ended the matter at that time.
The princess was restored to her situa-
ton at court, with reputation perfectly
unsuliied, although il had been so base
iy attacked, and to this period itmay fairly
be aliedged, that if the death of the king
had nos taken place, there was nothing
in justice which could have deprived her
royal highness of all those rights and
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