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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![for non-, when after this lou' Enquiry into matters which re- quired immediate investigation, I have been acquitted of every thin; which could call for my banishment from your Royal pre- sence. After your Majesty’s confidential servants have thus ex- pressly advised vour .^laje5ty, that they see no reason why you should anv lonscr decline to receive ma into your presence:— after vour Majesty had graciously notified to me, your deter- mination to receive me at an early day, his Itoyal flijjhness in- terposes the demand of a new delay,—'desires your Majesty not to take any step,—desires you not to act upon the advice which vour own confidential servants have given you, tiiat you need, no longer decline seeing me—not to execute your intention, and assurance, that you wilt receive me at an early day because he has laid liis documents before his Lawyers, and intends to prepare a further statement. And the judgment of your Majes- ty's confidental servants, is, as it were, appealed from by the Prince of Wales (whom, from this time, at least, I must be per- mitted to consider as assuming the character of my accuser); — thej'ustice dhe to me is to be suspended, while the judgment of vour .Majesty’s sworn servants is to be submitted to the revision of my accuser’s Counsel; and I, though acquitted in tlie opinion ef your Majesty’s confidential servants of all that should induce your Majesty to decline seeing me, am to have that punishment, which h.ad been inflicted upon me, during the enquiry, continu- ed after that acqnitttil, till a fresh statement is prepared, to be again submitted, for aught 1 know,'to another Enquiry, of as extended a continuance as that which has just terminated. Can it be said that the proceedings of tiie four Noble Lords, or of your Majesty’s confidential servants, have been so lenient, and coniidcrate towards me and my feelings, as to induce a sus- picion that f liave been loo favourably dealt with by them ? and lliat tiie advice which has been given to your Majesty, that your Majesty need no longer decline to receive me, was hastily and partially delivered? 1 am confident your Majesty must see the very reverse of this to be the case—that I have everyijea- son to complain of the inexplicable delay which so long with- held that advice : and the wliole_^ character of the observations with whirl] they accompanied it, marks the reluctance with which they viclded to the necessity of giving it. For your .M.ajesty’s confidential servants adviseyour Majesty, “ ttiat it is no longer necessary for you to dcclim- receiving me into your Royal presence.” If thi.s is their opinion and their advice now, why was it not their opinion and their advice four months ago, from the date of my answer? Nay, why was it not their opinion ''ud advice from llie dale even of the original Re- port itself? For not only had they been in posse.ssion of my an- swer for above sixtim ic.-c/is, which at least furnished (hem with all the materials on which this advice was at leng;h given; but further, your .'vlajesty’s confidential servants are Rirw-ard to stale, that after having read my observations, and the aflidavi(s which were annexed to them, they agree in I/it: opinions (not in any single opinion upon any particular branch of (he case, but iii ?/i« npiiiions gencra/l'j) which were submiKcd to your Ma- jesty, in the original Report of the four Lords, if, therefore G](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22021656_0075.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
