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


oftruth, were distorted in the most shame
1ul manner.
Upto this time Mr.. Perceval may have
been said TO have acted in the most
honorable manner towards his illustrious
client-he had cleared her of every i'm
putation; he had restored her to the
court; he had replaced her in palace
lshe obtained apartments in Kensington
palace,) and had done all that her most
sanguine wishes could have anticipated.
From his subsequent conduct, however,
It would seem, that he had acted under
different feelings.-When the Regency
came to be established in the person of
the Princes when the husband came to
be exalted to the rank, the splendor, and
power OF King, the Princess was still
left in her former comparatively obscure
end penurious state. His conduct on
this occasion excited at the time a con.
siderable degree of animadversion. He
had relieved the Princess from the con-
sequences of foul calumny but her
husband being exalted, her non-exalta-
zion operated with regard TO her charac-
fer, in nearly the same way as her ex-
kluson from court had formerly operated.
Her royal highness was again exposed
70 the malevolent shafts of time serving
malice, but still she preserved digni6ed
silence, and would probably have re-
manned in retirement, were not her ma
ternal feelings deeply wounded by the
increasing restraints which we're daily
imposed upon her intercourse with her
daughter. At length her indignation
burst forth. She could no longer exist
in silence under the reiterated charges
which were preferred against her, and
under the modification of being almost
exposed to her daughters con'empt--
She wrote letter to the Prince Regent,
charac ,erzed by some considerable force
and etoquence, in which she challenged
a full-a public disclosure of every thing
connected with the investigation of SOC.
She emphatically said in this letter,
"that while she did not venture to in
'rude her feelings as the mother upon
bis royal highness's notice she must be
allowed to say, in the eyes of any obsery-
ing and jealous world, this separation of
daughter from her mother would only
admit OF one constructicn--a construc-
ton fatal to the mothers reputation. +"
This letter was sent back to her unopen-
ed, but it subsequently obtained pubici-
~. The subject underwentrcpeate and
YARN discussion in the public press at
the time, and party feelings were exerted
in considerable degree. Still, how
ever, nothing was done.
AT last her royal highness, by the adj
eice of her counselors, Cd March, 1918,
ansmitted to the House of Commons
Ihe following letter -
"Montague house, Blackheash,
March !, 1918.
"The Princess of Wales informs Mr.
Speaker, that she has received from Lord
Viscount Sidmouth a copy of report
made in pursuance of the orders of his
rpyal highness the Prince Regent, by
certain members of his majesy's most
honorable privy council to whom, it APP
pears, that his royal highness had been
advised, to refer certain documents, and
other evidence respecting the character
and conduct other royal highness. The
highness feels persuaded no person can
read it without being sensible of the
aspersions which it casts upon her-and
although it is so vague as to render it |
impossible to discover the tenor of the !
charge, yet, as her royal highness is
conscious of no offence, she feels it due
to herself, to the illustrious houses to
which she is connected by blood and
marriage, andto the people among whom
she holds so distinguished rank, not to
acquiesce for single moment in any i'm
putation affecting her honor. The Prin-
cess of Wales has not been permitted to
know on what evidence the members of
the privy council, proceeded in their in
vestigation, nor has her royal highness
been allowed to be heard in her own de-
fence.-She knew only by common ru-
NOR that such inquiry had been instituted
until the result was communicated to
her in the form of a report.--She knows
not whether she is to consider the men,
bers of the privy council, by whom her
conduct has been inquired into, as bo-
dy to whom she could be authorised to
apply for redress, or in their individual
capacity as persons selected to make the |
report of her conduct. The Princess of
Wales is therefore compelled to throw
herself on the wisdom and justice of
Parliament, and she earnestly desires a
full Investigation of her conduct, during
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