consolation in this country. I remain with sentiments of the highest esteem, veneration, and unfeigned attachment,

Sire,

Your Majesty's most dutiful, submissive, and humble daughter-in-law and subject, "CAROLINE."

(Signed)

Now, in regard to the deposition of Lady Douglas, we would wish merely to observe,considering that the admirable letter of the Princess, which we next lay before our readers, and which is marked (X) is a most complete, triumphant, and irrefragable exposition and detection of the evident improbabilities and gross falsehoods contained in that deposition-that the following remarks naturally suggest themselves to every reader of common sense.-In the first place, the account which is given of the commencement of the Princess's acquaintance with her Ladyship is at once sufficient to make every one conclude, that either the account itself is false, or that the circumstances which are said to have so immediately followed upon it, are false. The Princess is represented forcibly to have obtruded her company upon Lady D. who with her husband, were in one fortnight after, invited to Montague House. Seven months having elapsed, her present Majesty is said to have voluntarily discovered her own situation to this very woman whom she had herself selected, according to this deposition, it should seem, with

no other view!-Why is not this monstrous? that one female should, unsolicited, unasked, walk out upon a snowy day in November, force herself as it were into the house of another female, and all this with a pre-concerted view of making her, seven months afterwards, the depository and confidante of her own enormities? Now let the reader observe how falsehood always contradicts itself. Lady D-says-" It was in "May or June, 1802, that the Princess FIRST "talked to me about her own conduct;" and again, having nearly committed herself, by saying afterwards that in March, 1802, she paid a visit to Montague House for a fortnight, which would have extended only to the middle of April at the furthest, she tells that most indelicate story of the manner in which the Princess's situation was exposed, while breakfasting at Lady Willoughby's in "May or June, 1802,' when the Princess was obliged to hide her bosom with a napkin, &c. Now, though May OR June was a convenient way of putting the case, by a woman who was conscious of the enormous falsehood she was swearing to, yet even that vague description could not save her from detecting herself, as the reader shall immediately see. Lady Douglas's deposition is continued in exactly the following words :-" While

I was at Montague House in MARCH, I was "with the (her own) child, and one day I said, "that I was very sick; and the Princess desired "Mrs. Sander to get me a saline draught. She "then said that she was very sick herself, and

"that she would take a saline draught too. 1 "observed that she could not want one, and 1 "looked at her. The Princess said yes, I do; "what do you look at me for with your wicked eyes? You are always finding me out."So then, it was neither in May nor June, but in MARCH that the Princess FIRST spoke of her own situation!-But it may be objected that Lady Douglas did not then, in March, 1802, consider the Princess to have been speaking of her pregnancy. But observe what immediately follows the last sentence we have quoted:-"Mrs. Sander "looked very much distressed; she gave us a "saline draught each. This was the FIRST time "that I had any suspicion of her being with child."

So much for the consistency of this perjured woman and yet we cannot so soon part with her. Let us hear how her "statement," to the then Prince of Wales, of the motives which actuated her in making it, beyond, and in addition to, the duty she owed to him as their Heir Apparent-agrees with former parts of her conduct, and declarations, according to her own shewing. There shall be nothing left to inference; but to Lady Douglas, if she be yet living, (it is said that she is dead,) we will venture to say, with the Apostle of old,-"Out of thine own mouth will we convict thee."

Now the "statement," which in "The Book" is marked B., after reciting that Lady Douglas felt it her duty to obey the commands of His Royal Highness the Prince, proceeds thus: "I did so, because I conceived, even putting aside

the rights of an Heir Apparent, His Royal Highness was justified in informing himself as to the actions of his wife, who, from all the information he had collected, seemed so likely to disturb the tranquillity of the country; and it appeared to me that, in so doing, His Royal Highness evinced his earnest regard for the real interest of the country, in endeavouring to prevent such a person, from, perhaps, one day placing a spurious Heir upon the English Throne, and which his Royal Highness has indeed a right to fear, and communicate to the Sovereign; as the Princess of Wales told me, "If she were "discovered in bringing her son into the world, she would give the Prince of Wales the credit "of it, for that she had slept two nights in the year she was pregnant, at Carlton House."

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"As an Englishwoman, educated in the highest respectful attachment to the Royal Family; as the daughter of an English officer, who has all his life received the most gracious marks of approbation and protection from his Majesty, and from His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; and as the wife of an officer, whom our beloved King has honored with a public mark of his approbation, and who is bound to the Royal Family by ties of respectful regard and attachment, which nothing can ever break, I feel it my duty to make known the Princess of Wales's sentiments and conduct, now, and whensoever I may be called upon."

- This statement is dated 3rd December, 1805, and is signed by Charlotte Douglas, and John

Douglas. Now, the deposition of Lady Douglas, of which we have already given an abstract, and which is dated 1st June, 1806, makes it appear, that the origin of the intimacy which subsisted between the Princess of Wales and Lady Douglas, was an interview occurring in the month of November, 1801: that in a fortnight after, the first of a series of visits, which was uninterrupted until the breach occasioned by the letter and enclosure, of December, 1804, was paid by Lady Douglas, to the Princess at Montague House; that Sir John and Lady D. in the course of this friendly communication, "were usually kept at Montague House, later than the rest of the party, often till three or four o'clock in the morning;" that in March, 1802, Lady Douglas paid a visit of a fortnight: that in May or June following, the Princess herself, informed Lady Douglas of those facts, which have been so recently submitted to the reader: that the Princess told Lady D. she was with child: that Lady D. suspected Sir Sydney Smith to be the father; and that both herself and Sir John, had constant intercourse with the Princess from March till October; that Lady Douglas said to her, she was very anxious to know how she, the Princess, would manage to be brought to bed, without its being known; and hoped she had a safe person:" that the Princess then disclosed to Lady Douglas, the whole of her arrangements, for the purpose of concealing the expected birth: that the Princess was present at the birth of Lady Douglas's child, on the 23rd

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