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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![(notwithstanding their concurrence in all the opinions contained in the Report) they have nevertheless given to your Majesty their advice, “ that it is no longer necessary for yon to decline re- ceiving me,” what could have prevented their ollering that ad- vice, even from the 1 ;th of duly, ilie date of the original Re- port itself? Or what could have warranted the wilhhpl Jin<^ of it, even for a single moment? Ins'ead, therefore, of any*’irace’ being observable, of hasiy, preeipitate, and partial determi- nation in my favour, it is impossible to interpret their condact and their reasons together in any other sense, than as amounting to an admission of your Majesty’s conlid-ntial servants them- selves, that 1 have, in consecjueoce of heir withhoid ng that ad- vice, been unnecessarily and erueliy iianisi.ed frou, your /{oyal pi'esenee, from that llthof ,fiily, toiheiSih of .'.muary, in- cluding a space of above six months; and toe cll'eet of ;r.e inter- position of the Rrince. is to prolong niy sufl. rii g^ ...d my disgrace, tinder the same banisinnent, to a* period perfectly in- definite. The principle which will admit the efiectnf such i;';;prposition now, may be acted upon again; and the Prince iu;v require a further prolongation upnn fresh statements, and Pi -ah charges, kept back possibly for the purpose of beitig, from time to time, conveniently inter-jiosed, to pieveiii for ever the .irrival of that hour, which, disjilaying to the world the uirknovi ledginent of my unmerited sufrerinaj((»and disgrace, may. at the s.ame time, expose the truemalicioiis'ahd iinjnst qnabty of the proceedings which have been so long carried on against me. Tliis unreasonable, unjust, and cruel interposition of his Royal Highness, as I must ever deem it, has prevailed upon your Majesty to recal, to ray prejudice, your gracious purpose of receiving me, in ])ursiiancc of the advice of your servants.— Do I, then, flatter myself too much, wlieii I feel assured, that my Ju.vf entreaty, founded upon the rejLsons which I urge, and directed to counteract only the effect of that unjuft interposition, will induce your Majesty to retur^o your original determina- tion ? Restored, however, as I should feel myself, to a state of com- jiarative security, as well as credit, by being at length permit- ted, upon your Majesty’s gracious reconsidt ration of your last determination, to have access h) your Maje.-ty ; yet, under all the circuinslances under which 1 slioul'l now receive that mark and confirmatioii of your .Majesty’s opinion of my innocence, my character would not, I fear, stand cleared in the public opinion, by tiie mere f.ict of your Majesty’s reception of me.— This revocation of your Majesty's gracious pnrjiose has flung an additional cloiul about the whole |.•I•oceeding; and the inferences drawn in the public mind, from this ciicuinstaiice, so mysterious and so pcrfcell v inexplicabie, upon any grounds which are open to tlicir knowledge, has made, and will leave so deep an impres- sion to my prejudice, .as scarce any thisng, short of a public ex- posure of all that has passed, can jmssibly clface. The publication of all these proceedings to the world, then, seems to me, under the present circumstances (whatever re- luctance I feel against such a measure, and however I regret the hard necessity wliich drives me to it), to be almost the only to-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22021656_0076.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
