The book: or the investigation of the conduct of Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales / being the evidence given under a Commission from the King; with Her Royal Highness's defence and other important documents.
- Caroline of Brunswick
- Date:
- 1813
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The book: or the investigation of the conduct of Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales / being the evidence given under a Commission from the King; with Her Royal Highness's defence and other important documents. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![, Sfmled to intimiite even the most distant insinuation against youf M.iji-'t>’s justice or kili(llH‘^s. That'i.aiior establislied die o|)inion, witicli I, certainly, liad ever coLiidemlv ciuertaiiietl, hut the jiistne.ss of wliicli 1 nad not before anv d-'cunieut o establish, that your Mtijesty htid, fioiii the first, deen.ea this (nocee tinj: a higii atul i]ii,)Oi tant mattfr of State, iti liie coiisideralioii of tvhich, your ftlajesty had not fed yourself at liberty to trust to your own generous feelings, and to your own Royal and gracioits judgment. I never did hetieve. tliat the cruel .stale of anxiety, in which I had been kept, ever since the delivery of my answer (for at least sixteen weeks), could heal all attributa.de to your Wa- jL-sty : it was most unlik ? every thing which 1 had ever experi- enced from your Majesty's coiidesreiisioo, feeling, and justice; and [found, from that paper, that it was to your confidential servants I was to ascrioe the length of banishment from your presence, which iney, at last, advised your Majesty, it was no longer necessary should be coniiiiued. 1 perceive, therefore, wha; I always believed, that it was to them, and to them only, that I owed the protracted continuance of my sulferings, and of ' mv disgrace; and that your Majesty, considering the whole of this proceeding to have been instituted and conducted under the grave responsibility of your Majesty’s servants, had not thought proper to take any step, or express any opinion, upon any part of it, but such as was recomii.ended by tiicir advice. Intlu- cnccd by these sentiments, and anxious to liave the opi'.orUiuity of conveying them, with the overflowings of a grateful heart, to your .Majesty', wh li were my sensations of surprise, mortifi- cation, and disappointment, on the receipt of your Majesty’s letter of the iOtn instant, your Majesty may conceive, tliough I am utterly unable to express. That letter announces to me, that his Royal Highness (he Prince of Wales, upon receiving the several documeuls which y our Majesty directed your Cabinet lo transmit ;o him, made a personal’communication lo your Majesty of hi.s intention to put them into the hands of his lawyers, accompanied by a re(|ucst, v tint your .Majesty,would suspend any fiml(er steps in the busi- neH, until the Prince of Wales should be enabled lo submit to your .Majesty the statement which he proposed to make; and it alio announces to me, that your .Majesty, therefore, considered it incumbent on you, to defer naming a day to me, until the fur- ther result of the Prince of V,'ales’s iatentiun should have been mode known to your Majesty. This determination of your .Maji^sty, on this request, made by his Royal flighness, 1 humbly trust your Majesty will permit me t) entreat you, in your most grticious justice, to reconsider. Your vlajestv, I am convinced, must have been snrpriseti at tile time, and prevailed upon by the importunity of the Rrince of Wales, to think this determination necessary, or your .Ma- jestyS generosity and Justice would never have adopted it. And if I can satisfy your Majesty of the unparalleled injustice, and cru'dty, of this interposition of'the Prince of Wales, at such a time, ami under such circuinslaiices, I feel tiie most perfect con- fidence that your .Majesty will hasten to recal it.' I should basely be wanting to my own interest and feelings,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22021656_0073.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
