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happen, by a chance which I trust 

 is very remote, that she should be 

 called upon to exercise the powers 

 of the crown, with an experience 

 of the world more confined than 

 that of the most private individual. 

 To the extraordinary talents with 

 which she is blessed, and which ac- 

 company a disposition as singularly 

 amiable, frank, and decided, I wil- 

 lingly trust much ; but beyond a 

 certain point the greatest natu- 

 ral endowments cannot struggle 

 against the disadvantages ot cir- 

 cumstances and situation. It is my 

 earnest prayer, for her own sake, 

 as well as her country's, that your 

 royal highness may be induced 

 to pause before this point be 

 reached. 



" Those who have advised you, 

 sir, to delay so long the period of 

 my daughter's commencing her in- 

 tercourse with the world, and for 

 that purpose to make Windsor her 

 residence, appear not to have re- 

 garded the interruptions to heredu- 

 cation which this arrangement oc- 

 casions ; both by the impossibi- 

 lity of obtaining the attendance of 

 proper teachers, and the time un- 

 avoidably consumed in the fre- 

 quent journies to town, which she 

 must make, unless she is to be se- 

 cluded from all intercourse, even 

 with your royal highness and the 

 rest of the royal family. To the 

 same unfortunate counsel I ascribe 

 a circumstance in every way so 

 distressing both to my parental and 

 religious feelings, that my daugh- 

 ter has never yet enjoyed the be- 

 nefit of Confirmation, although 

 above a year older than the age at 

 which all ihe other branches of the 

 royal family have partaken of that 

 solemnity. May I earnestly con- 

 jure you, sir, to hear my entreaties 



upon this serious matter, even if 

 you should listen to other advisers 

 on things of less near concernment 

 to the welfare of our child ? 



•'The pain with which I have at 

 length formed the resolution of ad- 

 dressing myself to your royal 

 highness is such as I should in 

 vain attempt to express. If I 

 could adequately describe it, you 

 might be enabled, sir, to estimate 

 the strength of the motives which 

 have made me submit to it : they 

 are the most powerful feelings of 

 affection, and the deepest impres- 

 sions of duty towards your royal 

 highness, my beloved child, and 

 the country, which I devoutly hope 

 she may be preserved to govern, 

 and to shew by a new example the 

 liberal affection of a free and ge- 

 nerous people to a virtuous and 

 constitutional monarch. 



"Iam,sir,with profound respect, 

 and an attachment which nothing 

 can alter, your royal highness's 

 most devoted and most affectionate 

 consort, cousin, and subject, 



(Signed) " Caroline Louisa" 

 '• Montague-house, \^th Jan. 

 1813." 



Princess of Wales. — Report, Sfc. — 

 To his royal highness the Prince 

 Regent. 



The following members of his 

 majesty's most honourable privy 

 council, viz : 



His grace the archbishop of 

 Canterbury ; the right hon. the 

 lord high chancellor; his grace 

 the archbishop of York ; his grace 

 the lord primate of Ireland ; the 

 lord president of the council ; the 

 lord privy seal ; the earl of Buck- 

 inghamshire ; the earl of Bathurst ; 



