GENERAL HISTORY. 



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nvliose evidence was contradicted 

 by one of the medical attendants. 

 Mr. Whitbread, on the evening 

 of the same day, took notice of the 

 attack which had been made upon 

 him in the other house, and de- 

 clared his intention of sending the 

 paper alluded to, to Mrs. Lisle, in 

 order to obtain her avowal or dis- 

 avowal of its autherticlty. On the 

 following day, he produced to the 

 House the answer he had received 

 from that lady, which was an ex- 

 plicit acknowledgment that the 

 paper was a correct copy of one 

 she had written from her recollec- 

 tion, immediately after she had 

 been examined, and of which she 

 had transmitted a copy to the prin- 

 cess of Wales at her command. 

 Mr. Whitbread now considered 

 himself as entirely cleared from 

 the imputation of having been 

 imposed upon by the paper in 

 question ; and he said, that if the 

 same thing presented itself to him 

 at the present moment, he would 

 follow the very same course he 

 had done, and throw himself on 

 the justice and candour of the 

 public. 



From the conversation that fol- 

 lowed, it however appeared, that 

 the sense of even the friends of 

 the hon. gentleman was, that his 

 zeal had led him in this instance 

 to pass the bounds of propriety. 



On March 31st, Mr. Whitbread 

 rose in the House to call its atten- 

 tion to a letter which had appeared 

 i in the public papers from lord 

 Moira to a member of the grand 

 lodge of Free Masons, in which 

 were some observations on the 

 evidence ofone Kenny, since dead, 

 ending with the remark, that her 



royal highness's advisers had long 

 preserved an absolute silence con- 

 cerning it, " a forbearance only to 

 be solved by their being too cau- 

 tious to touch on the point while 

 Kenny was alive." In another 

 passage of the letter it was stated, 

 that Partridge,lordEardley's por- 

 ter, was known to be entirely de- 

 voted to the princess. As lord 

 Moira was about to leave England, 

 Mr. Whitbread thought that he 

 ought to be called upon for an 

 explicit declaration of his meaning 

 in these passages ; and he therefore 

 moved, " That a message be sent 

 to the lords, requesting their lord- 

 ships to grant permission to the 

 earl of Moira to attend at the bar 

 of this House for the purpose of 

 being examined as to his know- 

 ledge of certain circumstances 

 connected with the conduct of 

 her royal highness the princess of 

 Wales." 



The Speaker expressed his 

 doubts concerning the parlia- 

 mentary usage with respect to 

 such a motion, there being no 

 matter then pending before the 

 House on which the evidence of a 

 noble lord was required ; and he 

 thought that their lordships would 

 undoubtedly reject the applica- 

 tion. 



The same being the opinion of 

 other members, and there appear- 

 ing a general disinclination in the 

 House to renew the discussions on 

 this subject, Mr. Whitbread would 

 not press a division, and the ques- 

 tion for the order of the day was 

 read and carried. 



Thus terminated all the parlia- 

 mentary proceedings relative to 

 the case of the princess of Walts- 



