Chapter XXII: Appendix (3)

Major-General Sir John Douglass had declared that the Princess of
Wales was delivered of a child in 1802. This vile calumny was refuted
by the evidence adduced before Lords Grenville, Spencer, Erskine, and
Ellenborough, sitting in commission, in 1806. After Sir John’s revival
of this disproved slander, he was suspended from employment about the
Duke of Sussex, expelled from a masonic lodge, and spoken of with
contempt by Lord Castlereagh in the Upper House, and by Mr. Whitbread
in the House of Commons.

Footnote 136:

One of the sons of the Duke of Clarence (by Mrs. Jordan), and,
therefore, first cousin of the Princess. There is subsequent mention
of this calumny at page 226.

Footnote 137:

The report of the commission appointed to investigate the conduct of
the Princess of Wales is given in the Appendix.

Footnote 138:

Mother of the Princess of Wales. Her Royal Highness died at her
lodgings in Hanover-square.

Footnote 139:

The Princess of Wales had, at this time, taken up her residence in the
village of Charlton, near Blackheath.

Footnote 140:

Sir Henry Halford’s very interesting account of the opening of the
coffin of Charles the First is given in the Appendix.

Footnote 141:

Daughter of Dr. Roberts, Provost of Eton, then deceased some years.

Footnote 142:

Lady Charlotte Campbell says in her Diary: “Her (the Princess’s) legs
and feet are very pretty; her Royal Highness knows that they are so,
and wears extremely short petticoats. Her face would be pretty, too,
if the outline of her cheeks was not so full.”

Footnote 143:

The following is the letter referred to in the text. It is addressed
to the Duchess of Leeds:

“Jan. 16, 1813.

“MADAM,—Nothing can exceed my gratitude to the Prince Regent for
the confidence he has been pleased to place in me. It will be
imprinted deeply on my mind while I have life.

“My attachment to the Princess Charlotte is very great, and there
is nothing I would not do to prove it. I am also most sensible of
your Grace’s kindness; but, although her Majesty has been
graciously pleased to say that she leaves me unbiased as to my
decision, duty and gratitude oblige me to consider myself as
belonging to her, and therefore not at liberty to accept what
would have otherwise been my ambition.

“As this is _my only_ cause for declining the honour offered me, I
will entreat your Grace to communicate it to the Prince, and to
believe me, madam,” &c.

Footnote 144:

The following is the Prince’s letter:

“Carlton House, July 3, 1813.

“MY DEAR LORD,—Your glorious conduct is beyond all human praise,
and far above my reward; I know no language the world affords
worthy to express it. I feel I have nothing left to say, but
devoutly to offer up my prayers of gratitude to Providence, that
it has in its omnipotent bounty blessed my country and myself with
such a general. You have sent me, among the trophies of your
unrivalled fame, the staff of a French marshal; and I send you in
return that of England. The British army will hail it with
enthusiasm, while the whole universe will acknowledge those
valorous efforts which have so imperiously called for it. That
uninterrupted health, and still increasing laurels, may continue
to crown you through a glorious and long career of life, are the
never-ceasing and most ardent wishes of, my dear Lord,

“Your very sincere and

“Faithful friend

“G. P. R.

“The Marquis of Wellington.”

Footnote 145:

“July 1. At Warwick House, Mrs. Gagarin, many years an affectionate
and faithful attendant of the Princess Charlotte of Wales. Her last
moments were solaced by the condescending and unremitting attentions
of her Royal Highness, reflecting a lustre on the native goodness of
her heart, superior to all the appendages of her exalted rank.”—_Gent.
Mag._, August, 1813.

Footnote 146:

Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall.

Footnote 147:

The subjoined letter, from Lord St. Vincent to Miss Knight, relates to
this subject:

“MY DEAR MADAM,—Under the circumstances you were placed in,
nothing could be better judged than your letter; the reply wore
the finesse of a courtier; the means of applying an antidote to
the poison are difficult in a position surrounded by spies, prone
to put that construction upon actions which they think will be
most pleasing to the persons who listen to them, mixed with envy
and malice. Truth will in the long run prevail; in the mean while
you have a powerful shield in the correctness of your conduct
through life, and the integrity with which you have performed the
important duties of your present station. I dread the effect these
miserable subterfuges may have upon the young lady’s mind, happily
formed to resist attempts to make her a hypocrite; yet to have the
movement of her muscles watched, and a wrong interpretation put
upon all her actions, must produce an ill effect, in the practice
of concealment of thought at least, if not driven to carry it
farther. One should have expected that her openness of character
would have created confidence.

“I rejoice that your health does not suffer under these painful
restrictions and suspicions. You have the most ardent wishes for
the continuance of it and every other blessing, of

“Your truly affectionate,

“ST. VINCENT.

“Rochetts, Aug. 23, 1813.”

Footnote 148:

The Governor of the Military College, Sandhurst.

Footnote 149:

Afterwards first King of the Netherlands.

Footnote 150:

“The Duke of Brunswick is very-near being a handsome man; his figure
is light and graceful; and were it not that he carries his head ill,
he would be a noble-looking creature. His eyes are deep sunk in his
head, more so than I ever saw in any one, and his brows are remarkably
prominent, with shaggy eyebrows. This circumstance gives him a sombre
expression, and indeed the whole cast of his countenance is gloomy,
but his features are regular; and, when he smiles, there is a
transitory sweetness which is very striking, by the contrast to his
usual severity of expression. In manner he is very reserved—stiff and
Germanic. He remained some time conversing with his sister (Princess
of Wales) in German, eyeing the lady-in-waiting occasionally askance.
He seemed glad to take his leave.”—_Lady C. Campbell’s Diary_, vol. i.

Footnote 151:

“May 31, 1814. The latter (Princess Charlotte) told her mother, the
last time they met, that she was determined not to marry the Prince of
Orange; that ‘his being approved of by the Royal Family was quite
sufficient to make him disapproved of by her; for that she would marry
a man who would be at _her_ devotion, not theirs. Marry I will,’ said
she to the Princess of Wales, ‘and that directly, in order to enjoy my
liberty, but not the Prince of Orange. I think him so ugly that I am
sometimes obliged to turn my head away in disgust when he is speaking
to me.’

“‘But, my dear,’ replied her mother (at least so her Royal Highness
told me), ‘whoever you marry will become a king, and you will give him
a power over you.’

“‘A king! Pho, pho! _Never!_ He will only be _my first subject—never
my king!_’”—_Lady C. Campbell’s Diary_, vol. i.

Footnote 152:

There is apparently an error of a week in this—the date should be the
11th. See note, _infra_, page 268.

Footnote 153:

“Sunday, January 9.... There was hung in the apartment one portrait,
amongst others, that very much resembled the Duke of D. I asked Miss
Knight whom it represented; she said that was not known; it had been
supposed a likeness of the Pretender when young.”—_Lady C. Campbell’s
Diary_, vol. i.

Footnote 154:

There is evidently some confusion of dates in this narrative. It was
on the 14th December that the grand City banquet was given at the
London Tavern in honour of the hereditary Prince of Orange—the Duke of
Clarence in the chair. According to Lord Colchester (Diary), the young
Prince did not arrive from Spain before the 11th of December.

Footnote 155:

Purposely erased in the original journal.

Footnote 156:

“The frost was ushered in by a fog which, for its intensity and
duration, has seldom been equalled. This began about five in the
evening of Monday, December 27th.... The Prince Regent, intending to
pay a visit to the Marquis of Salisbury at Hatfield House, was obliged
to return back to Carlton House, after one of his out-riders had
fallen into a ditch on this side of Kentish Town, and which short
excursion occupied several hours. Mr. Croker, of the Admiralty, also
wishing to proceed on a visit northward, wandered in the dark several
hours without making more than three or four miles’ progress.... There
is nothing in the memory of man to equal the late fall of snow, which,
after several shorter intervals, continued incessantly for forty-eight
hours, and this, too, after the ground was covered with a
condensation, the result of nearly four weeks’ continued frost. Almost
the whole of the time the wind blew continually from the north and
north-east, and was intensely cold.”—_Universal Magazine_, January,
1814.

The thaw did not commence until the 6th of February, 1814, and a fair
was held on the Thames for several weeks. “Paths were formed,” says
the _Universal Magazine_ for March, “both direct and diagonal from
shore to shore; and frequent cautions were given to those heroines
whose curiosity induced them to venture on the glassy plane, to be
careful _not to slip off the kerb_. The votaries of Terpsichore amused
themselves with the mazy dance, in which they were accompanied
principally by Pandean pipes, while others diverted themselves with
skittles; and the well-known cry of ‘Up and win ’em’ resounded from
the voices of numerous vendors of savoury pies, gin, and gingerbread,
&c. Most of the booths were distinguished by appropriate signs; there
were the Watermen’s Arms, the Crown, the Magpye, the Eelpot, &c.; and
one wag had a notice appended to his tent that several feet adjoining
his premises _were to be let on a building lease_.”

Footnote 157:

The _Morning Chronicle_ of January 6th gives the following account of
the christening at Belvoir:

“The baptismal ceremony of the infant Marquis (who, to use the phrase
of a nurse, ‘is as fine a little fellow of four months old as ever was
seen’) took place at six o’clock in the evening (4th January, 1814).
The sponsors were—

H.R.H. the Prince Regent - in person,

H.R.H. the Duke of York - in person,

Her Grace the Duchess-Dowager of Rutland, proxy for H.M. the Queen.

His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury arrived at the Castle early in
the morning, and he performed the baptismal ceremony with solemnity
and graceful expression, assisted by the Rev. John Thornton, Chaplain
to his Grace the Duke of Rutland, who made the responses.... A
discharge of fifteen cannon from the Castle announced the event,” &c.
&c. There are long accounts in the papers of the time of the
festivities at Belvoir Castle. The Prince Regent’s subsequent illness
may be thence easily accounted for.”

Footnote 158:

“A singularly neat and very elegant landau will be launched in a few
days by H.R.H. the Princess Charlotte of Wales. It is built by Messrs.
Birch and Son, Great Queen-street, Lincoln’s Inn-fields. The carriage
is beautifully finished. The body is painted a fine light green,
emblazoned with arms, supporters, &c., with mantles on the panels. On
the side panels is a beautiful _à la Grecque_ border, enclosing the
cipher C. P. W., with a coronet above. The same ornaments are placed
on the door rails; very superb silver joints, lamps, and other
appropriate ornaments, extremely neat; the lining is a fine scarlet
cloth, with rich gold lace and fringe; the hammercloth is, agreeable
to royal etiquette, composed of scarlet cloth, very full, with a
purple velvet border, and trimmed with gold lace. Outside elbows are
introduced, but the projection is upon so moderate a scale that they
are scarcely perceptible. The carriage is a very light compass perch
painted yellow, picked out with maroon colour, hung upon whip springs,
two feet six inches from the ground; silver hoops to the wheels; an
upright coach-box, made in the usual style, but not fixed.”—_Morning
Chronicle_, February 3rd, 1814.

This statement was contradicted in the same paper on the following day
“by authority.”

Footnote 159:

“The Baron Van der Duyn Van Maasdam, Grand Master of the Household to
his Royal Highness the Prince Sovereign of the Netherlands, whose
presentation to the Prince Regent at a private audience on the 9th
inst (March), accompanied by M. Fagel, the regular ambassador, was
notified in the _Gazette_ of Saturday last, as having come on a
special mission from the Court of the Hague, has been sent over to
make a demand in form of the Princess Charlotte’s hand in marriage for
the hereditary Prince of Orange. The sanction of the previous consent
and approbation of the Prince Regent, the Princess herself, and of the
whole Court and Government, has already smoothed the way to the
arrangements of this important and auspicious union, which must,
however, according to the established etiquette among crowned heads,
be demanded by embassy after it has been agreed upon by the parties;
and the settlements and provisions resulting from the exalted
condition and prospective sovereign duties of the personages to be
married, must be reduced into a treaty by plenipotentiaries specially
appointed. M. Van Maasdam is charged with full powers for this purpose
on the part of the Prince Sovereign of the Netherlands.”—_Morning
Chronicle_, March 17, 1814.

Footnote 160:

It had been adjourned to that date.

Footnote 161:

See Lord Colchester’s Journal, under date February 28. “At Lord
Sidmouth’s office met Lord Liverpool; talked over the proceedings upon
the intended marriage of the Princess Charlotte to the hereditary
Prince of Orange, which is to be communicated to Parliament before
Easter.”

Footnote 162:

“May 21, 1814. The Prince of O——e, it is said, wishes his wife to go
with him to his own Dutch land, and so does the Prince Regent, who
does not like a rising sun in his own: but report also whispers that
the _rising sun_ is aware of this, and will not consent to the
marriage, unless she is allowed to shine in her own dominions.”—_Lady
C. Campbell’s Diary_, vol. i.

Footnote 163:

Subsequently married to the Crown Prince of Würtemberg.

Footnote 164:

Prince Nicolas Wasiliwitch Repnin, nephew of Count Panin, minister and
favourite of the Empress Catherine. As Russian Ambassador at the Court
of Stanislaus Poniatowski, he virtually governed Poland from 1764 till
1770, when he joined the army under Count Romanzoff, and greatly
distinguished himself in the campaign against the Turks. In after
years he gained more than one victory over that enemy, and also became
the successful rival of Prince Potemkin. He was raised to the rank of
Field Marshal by Paul I., and was sent to Berlin rather as a
negotiator than as an ambassador. He died at Moscow in 1801.

Footnote 165:

And in their persons, too. Lord Colchester speaks of them as “two ugly
old women.”

Footnote 166:

“The Duchess of Oldenburg is spoken of as a very clever woman, and I
am inclined to believe the truth of the report, by the observation she
seems to take, not only of our places of entertainment, but of
everything best worth seeing in this country. I understand she is a
great favourite of Princess Charlotte, and gives her (as it is
supposed) excellent advice about her conduct.”—_Lady C. Campbell’s
Diary_, vol. i.

Footnote 167:

On the 20th of April, 1814.

Footnote 168:

Count Woronzow died in England on the 18th June, 1832. His daughter
married the Earl of Pembroke, and was the mother of Lord Herbert of
Lea. The Count left one son, whose name, as Prince Woronzow, became
familiar to English ears during the Crimean war.

Footnote 169:

April 20th.

Footnote 170:

“Judge of the transport with which I seize my pen to apprise you that
my daughter has acted with the greatest firmness, promptitude, and
energy of character possible in the very intricate business concerning
her marriage. She has manœuvred and conquered the Regent so
completely, that there can be no more doubt that the marriage is broke
off. The Prince Hereditary of Orange was secretly sent for by the
Regent, and arrived under the feigned name of Captain St. George.
Under that same name he presented himself next day at Warwick House
early in the morning. She was in bed, and had not expected him in this
country; Miss Knight received him. She had afterwards a long
conversation with him, in which she showed him every letter that had
passed between her father and her upon that subject. She then declared
to him that she never would leave this country, except by an Act of
Parliament, and by her own especial desire. She then desired that he
might retire, and that she would not see him again till these matters
were settled. Two days after he came again and brought a message from
the Regent, in which he proposed to her that he would forgive and
forget everything, and that she should immediately come to him, and
that everything should be arranged in the most amicable manner. She
declared that she would not see her father, or any of the family, till
their consent to her remaining in this country had been obtained, or
that otherwise the marriage would be broke off. She has received no
answer since the course of a week from her father, and she supposes
that the papers have been sent to Holland, to make the family there
also a party concerned in a new political question for the future
happiness of England. It has, in my opinion, nothing at all to do with
the Dutch family. The Duchess of Oldenburg, I believe, is her chief
adviser, and as she is a clever woman, and knows the world and mankind
well, my daughter cannot be in better hands.”—_Extract of Letter from
the Princess of Wales in Lady C. Campbell’s Diary_, vol. i. See
Appendix.

Footnote 171:

“We are now fitting up the Duke of Cumberland’s house, to receive
Alexander (Emperor of Russia) in, because we have none of our own. And
in the mean time our future son-in-law lodges at his tailor’s! because
he has neither house nor hotel to put his head in; and though we drink
his health occasionally with three cheers, and twice as many speeches,
we do not love him well enough to give him a good bed
anywhere.”—_Extract of Letter from Lord Granville to the Marquis of
Buckingham, dated “Camelford House, May 9, 1814.” Memoirs of the
Regency_, vol. i.

Footnote 172:

There was precedent for this—see following extract from preamble of
the statute 1 Mary, sess. 3, chap. 2, relating to the proposed
marriage of Philip and Mary: “That the said Lord Prince shall not lead
away the foresaid most Noble Lady out of the borders of her Highness’s
realme, unless she herself desire it, nor carry the children that
shall be borne of his matrimony out of the same realme of England; but
to the hope of succession to come, shall there suffer them to be
nourished and brought up, unless it shall be otherwise thought good by
the consent and agreement of the nobilitie of England.”

Footnote 173:

“While every one in the three kingdoms was under the influence of
excitement, it was not to be expected that her Royal Highness the
Princess of Wales would remain unmoved. The Queen was about holding
two Drawing-rooms, and as the Prince Regent intended to be present,
his Royal Highness had requested her Majesty to intimate to the
Princess of Wales his determination not to meet her, either in public
or in private. The Queen was thus placed under the painful necessity
of intimating to her Royal Highness that she could not be received at
her Drawing-rooms. This was quite sufficient provocation for the
inflammable nature of the Princess, and the following day her Royal
Highness addressed the Queen at considerable length, apparently
acceding to the prohibition, but threatening to appeal to the public.
Her Majesty answered with characteristic dignity, which elicited a
rejoinder from her angry daughter-in-law, which produced only a simple
acknowledgment from the Queen. She then addressed herself to the
Prince Regent, referring, as usual, to the declaration of her entire
innocence by the Government in 1807, and giving him to understand that
they _must_ meet at the approaching marriage of their daughter, and at
their _coronation_; adding, that the prohibition was rendered
intolerable, in consequence of the distinguished visitors then
flocking into the country; one of whom, the illustrious heir of the
House of Orange, had ‘announced himself to me as my future
son-in-law.’”—_The Duke of Buckingham’s Memoirs of the Regency_ vol.
ii.

Mr. Methuen, on the 4th of June, proposed in the House of Commons
“that an humble address be presented to the Prince Regent, praying
that he would be graciously pleased to acquaint the House _by whose
advice he had been induced_ to form the unalterable resolution of
never meeting her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, on any
occasion, either in public or private.” After a brief and unimportant
discussion, the motion was withdrawn.

Footnote 174:

“Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte arrived a few minutes after
one o’clock, accompanied by Miss Knight, in an elegant and
particularly neat and light state carriage, with three footmen and the
coachman in new state liveries. She was received by the Duchess of
Leeds and the dresser, who had previously arrived in her plain
carriage, to attend her Royal Highness in dressing in a court dress
for the first time, yesterday being her Royal Highness’s first
appearance at a public Drawing-room. At the close of the Drawing-room,
on her Royal Highness leaving the Palace, the Prince of Orange handed
her Royal Highness to her carriage.”—_Morning Chronicle_, June 3,
1814.

Footnote 175:

Prince Alexander of Oldenburg was a child in the third year of his
age.

Footnote 176:

“June 17, 1814. Before the Princess (of Wales) dismissed Lady ——, Miss
——, or myself, she received a letter from Princess Charlotte, telling
her mother the match between herself and the Prince of Orange was
entirely off, and at the same time enclosing a copy of a letter she
had written to the Prince of Orange, in which she alludes to some
point of dispute which, it seems, remained unsettled between them; but
Princess Charlotte does not precisely name what that point was, and
chiefly rests her determination of not leaving this kingdom upon the
necessity of her remaining in England to support her mother. The whole
letter turns upon the Princess of Wales —it is extremely well
_written_, and very strong. I conclude the words are Miss Knight’s,
but the sentiments, for the _present_ moment, are Princess
Charlotte’s.... I know too much of all parties to believe that
Princess Charlotte, in her heart, quarrelled with her lover from any
motive of real tenderness towards her mother. I believe that what the
Princess of Wales told me some time ago is perfectly true, namely,
that her daughter did not at all admire the Prince of Orange, and only
wanted to be her own mistress; and now finding, I conclude, that that
end would not be answered by marrying him, she has determined to break
off the engagement.”—_Lady C. Campbell’s Diary_, vol. i.

Footnote 177:

Mr. Tierney.

Footnote 178:

“Widow of a Colonel Campbell, who went out governor to Bermuda, or
Bahama (I forget which), and died on his arrival there. Of this lady
he (George the Third) had received a most favourable account from an
authority he respected.”—_Diaries of the Right Hon. G. Rose._

Footnote 179:

“July 26, 1814. I received several letters from England to-day. Mrs.
—— says: ‘The Princess Charlotte went with a heavy heart, I hear,
yesterday to Cranford Lodge [Cranbourne Lodge] (I think that is the
name of the place), Windsor Park. She has, of all her friends, only
been allowed to see Miss Mercer. Miss Knight has not been suffered to
return to her. The courtiers say all is made up, but no one believes
them; how can they, while she is _a state prisoner_?’”—_Lady C.
Campbell’s Diary_, vol. ii.

Footnote 180:

“MY DEAR MADAM,—I cannot think the request in your note can be
inconsistent with my orders, and I will certainly communicate the
contents of your note to her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte.

“I am, dear madam,

“Your obedient servant,

“CHARLOTTE ROSSLYN.”

Footnote 181:

It may be interesting to observe the manner in which these events were
recorded by the journals of the day. The following is from the
_Morning Chronicle_:

“An extraordinary sensation was yesterday produced by the report
of an event which took place on Tuesday evening.

“It is perfectly known that the intended marriage between the
Princess Charlotte of Wales and the Hereditary Prince of Orange
was broken off in consequence of the dread which her Royal
Highness felt of being taken out of the country at a time when
considerations of the highest importance demanded her continuance
in it. From the time of the breaking off this negotiation,
attempts have been incessantly made, if not to renew it, at least
to show the high offence which she had given; and her Royal
Highness has suffered the most cruel agitation, although her
health was so seriously affected as to demand the most lenient
attention, and particularly that her mind should be kept free from
all harassing disturbance. Her physicians had, some time ago,
given a written certificate that the complaint of her lameness
required sea bathing and sea air; and we have reason to believe
that this certificate was laid before the Prince Regent some days
ago.

“On Tuesday evening his Royal Highness the Prince Regent entered
Warwick House, and, without any previous notice, informed the
Princess Charlotte that Miss Knight and all her household, as well
as all the servants attending upon her, were dismissed, and that
her Royal Highness must forthwith take up her residence in Carlton
House, and from thence to Cranford Lodge [Cranbourne Lodge], where
the Countess-Dowager of Rosslyn, the Countess of Ilchester, the
two Miss Coates, and Mrs. Campbell, were actually in the next room
in readiness to wait upon her; and this intimation was made in
terms of unusual severity, as it was accompanied by a declaration
that she was to be under their sole superintendence, and that she
was neither to be permitted to receive visits or letters. In this
embarrassing situation, and under the agony of despair, she ran
out of Warwick House, threw herself into a hackney-coach, and
drove to Connaught-place, the residence of her mother. The
Princess of Wales was absent, but a groom was despatched to
Blackheath, to request her immediate return to town. The groom met
her Royal Highness on the way, and delivered the Princess
Charlotte’s note acquainting her with the event; upon which the
Princess of Wales drove to the Parliament House, and eagerly
inquired for Mr. Whitbread, who was absent, and for Earl Grey, who
had left town several days before. She then went on to her own
house at Connaught-place, where her daughter communicated the
particulars we have stated, and where Mr. Brougham, who had been
sent for to Mr. Michael Angelo Taylor’s, had arrived.

“The flight of the Princess from Warwick House was soon made known
to the Prince Regent, at the Duke of York’s, where a great party
were assembled. Notice of it was also sent to the Queen, who had a
card party, and which she instantly left. A council was called,
and Lord Ellenborough and Lord Eldon were consulted. Rumour says
that a habeas corpus was to be issued to bring back the person of
her Royal Highness to Carlton House. But the Duke of York and
three of the Prince Regent’s people went to Connaught House, and
stated to her Royal Highness her father’s commands to conduct her
back. Mr. Brougham had previously acquainted her Royal Highness
that, by the laws of the land, she must obey her father’s command;
and when the Duke of York gave her an assurance that she should
not be immured, nor treated with the severity which had been
threatened, she consented to return with him, and, accordingly, at
a little past three o’clock yesterday morning, her Royal Highness
was conveyed to Carlton House, where she now remains, all the
persons by whom she has been served being removed from attendance
on her person, except Mrs. Lewis, who had followed her to
Connaught House with her night-clothes, and who was permitted to
return with her in the carriage along with the Duke of
York.”—_Morning Chronicle_, July 14, 1814.

Footnote 182:

Mrs. Piozzi says: “He never read but one book, which he did not
consider as obligatory, through in his whole life; and Lady W.’s
Letters was the book.”—_Anecdotes of Johnson_, p. 259.

Footnote 183:

The Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas was prevented by
indisposition from attending during any part of these proceedings.

Footnote 184:

On the 19th of July the Duke of Sussex “put some most important
questions to the Ministers respecting Princess Charlotte, which they
refused to answer, and thus admitted the inferences to which the
questions point. It appears that his Royal Highness had concurred in
the advice given to the Princess Charlotte by Mr. Brougham respecting
her return to Carlton House. The first was, Whether the Princess
Charlotte had been allowed personal intercourse with her friends since
Tuesday last? Secondly, Whether she had been allowed to write and
receive letters, and whether she had been allowed the use of pen, ink,
and paper? Third, Whether she had been, and now was, under restraints
from which persons not in actual imprisonment are free? Fourth,
Whether the physicians of her Royal Highness had last year certified,
by a writing under their hands, as they have this year, that the sea
is necessary for her recovery from her complaints? Fifth, Her Royal
Highness being considerably past the age at which the Legislature has
repeatedly recognised the capacity of heirs to the Crown to exercise
its powers without assistance, whether any steps had been taken to
form an establishment for her Royal Highness suited to her exalted
rank in the State, and fitted to prepare her for the functions she
will one day be called on to exercise?”—_Morning Chronicle_, July 20.

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