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It may easily be supposed that, whatever might be pretended or promised, the Princess Charlotte's treatment continued as bad as before the scene at Connaught Place. The following from Lord Grey shows the information he had received, and which was fully confirmed by all that came to my knowledge:

FROM LORD GREY.-(Extract.)

"Saturday.

"MY DEAR BROUGHAM,—I have not heard from Miss Mercer since I wrote to you. I believe I forgot to add to the list of cruelties in my last, that Princess Charlotte's allowance has not been paid since she left Warwick House, and that she has been obliged to sell part of her diamonds to pay tradesmen who were distressed for their money, and some pensions to poor people who have no other support. -Ever yours,

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At the same time I received from Miss Mercer a letter, from which the following is an extract :

"I know of no new grievances, but all the old ones continue. What she complains most of is, that one of the ladies is obliged either to sleep in the room with her, or in the next with the door open, and that many of her letters have been kept back-all, excepting mine, are sent to be examined at Carlton House, and every parcel she gets is opened first, and rummaged by the ladies-in-waiting.-Yours sincerely."

The presents alluded to in the following letter from

the Princess Charlotte's most confidential friend, were what I had announced that my friend Prince Czartoryski wished to ask that he might hope she would condescend to accept. They consisted of Polish embellishments connected with different books of great value, and having inscriptions formed of small engraved stones of great rarity, which were according to our alphabet, and the inscriptions were read by that alphabet. I have no doubt that my friend Prince Czartoryski, and those of his suite-one of whom, Count Sierakowski, came to Brougham-entertained hopes of the young Princess receiving a favourable impression of their cause, in support of which I had lately prepared a tract in concurrence with them, and circulated very extensively, under the title of 'An Appeal to the Allies on behalf of Poland.' It had been presented to the Princess Charlotte.

The following letter is from Lady Charlotte Lind

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"Sunday.

Many thanks for both your letters, which I should have answered immediately, but when I have nothing particular to say, I do not like to be too troublesome. You will be glad to hear that I have had a long letter from Lord G., and that he is better, but he does not say a word about coming to town. La belle prisonnière is fully aware of the necessity of being prudent and quiet, and your opinion has at all times so much weight with her, that I have no doubt she will follow your advice strictly in this instance. She is, however, very uneasy at the idea of her mother's re

* An appeal to the Allies and the English Nation on behalf of Poland. London, 1814. Reviewed in the Edinburgh Review, No. XLIV., art. iii.

turn; for if it is occasioned by her letters and entreaties, she feels it will be a sad reward for this sacrifice to her interest, to find that all intercourse between them will be immediately put a stop to, and that her return is only to be greeted with fresh insults and mortifications. It really is a very painful and embarrassing situation; and should those letters be shown that you forwarded (which is more than likely), there will be no bounds, I am convinced, to the Regent's rage. She has been strictly questioned lately relative to her former communications with the Duke of Sussex, and if she authorised the step he took last year in Parliament. This, of course, she denied, further than its originating from their meeting at her mother's; and on the whole she got through the conference very well; but I hope these interrogations will not be renewed, as I think they are dangerous.

“I believe she has sent a message to explain what passed to the Duke of Sussex, by the Duke of Kent, which was very right, and I hope will not be misrepresented. I have told her of the attention of your Polish friends, with which I am sure she will be much flattered, but the music must come through the Dragons, if it comes at all; pray send the letter. I think the best way would be to forward the parcel at once to one of her ladies, who will name it to the Regent, and then she will get it immediately. I wish you were not so perverse and so coquettish about coming into Parliament. I give you no credit for either your ambition or your politics being on the decline. Have you heard of a quarrel between the Prince and the Chancellor about divorcing the Princess? It is said at Windsor that the Chancellor has

sent in his resignation in consequence. Yours very sincerely, C. LINDSAY."

It might well be thought likely that objection would be made to the Princess Charlotte receiving these Polish presents without their passing through Carlton House, when, a few weeks before, Lady Jersey having sent her some, an order was given that the Princess should receive nothing from Lady Jersey, unless it was first sent to the Prince, and through him, if he pleased, to his daughter. Possibly this rigour might be defended; but what must be allowed to be wholly inexcusable, was the order that the Princess should herself desire Lady Jersey to send everything she might wish to give her to the Regent, and tell that falsehood of declaring that it was her own wish to have this course pursued.

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PURSUITS ANECDOTES QUEEN CHARLOTTE AND THE PRINCESS CAROLINE-THE QUESTION OF THE PRINCESS CAROLINE GOING ABROAD-IMPRUDENCE OF THE STEP-LETTER OF REMONSTRANCE AGAINST IT-RECEPTION OF THE REMONSTRANCE -CARLTON HOUSE POLITICS CORRESPONDENCE WITH LORD GREY CONSTITUTIONAL POSITION OF A QUEEN-CONSORT JURY TRIAL IN SCOTLAND-THE PRINCE AND GOVERNMENT— PATRONAGE AT THE SCOTCH BAR-THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE AND HER HOUSEHOLD-DEPARTURE OF THE PRINCESS CAROLINE-THE PRESS ON HER AFFAIRS-POLICY OF THE 'TIMES.'

THE Princess Charlotte was a person of great abilities, tolerably well cultivated. She had her mother's quickness, but with more habitual reflection and more deliberate judgment; and she inherited her resolute courage and determination of character. Her temper was somewhat violent and irascible, and her preceptors had failed in taming it. When a mere child she was desired by one of them (I think the Bishop) to pause before she spoke when anything irritated her, and it was recommended that she should say the Lord's Prayer. It used to be said that she was some

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