STATE PAPERS. 



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the earl of Liverpool ; the earl of 

 Mulgrave; the viscount Melville; 

 the viscount Sidmouth; the vis- 

 count Castlereagh ; the right hon. 

 the lord bishop of London ; the 

 right hon. lord Ellenborough, 

 lord chief justice of the court of 

 King's Bench ; the right hon. the 

 speaker of the House of Com- 

 mons; the right hon. the chan- 

 cellor of the Exchequer ; the right 

 hon. the chancellor of the Duchy ; 

 his honour the master of the Rolls; 

 the right honourable the lord 

 chief justice of tlie Court of Cara- 

 mon Pleas ;* the right hon. the 

 lord chief baron of the Court of 

 Exchequer; the right hon. the 

 judge of the High Court of Admi- 

 ralty ; the right hon. the dean of 

 the Arches. 



Having been summoned by com- 

 mand of your royal highness, on 

 the 19th of February, to meet at 

 the office of viscount Sidmouth, 

 secretary of state for the home 

 department, a communication was 

 made by his lordship to the lords 

 then present, in the following 

 terms : 



" My Lords ; — I have it in com- 

 mand from his royal highness the 

 Prince regent, to acquaint your 

 lordships, that a copy of a letter 

 from the Princess of Wales to the 

 Prince Regent having appeared in 

 a public paper, which letter refers 

 to the proceedings that took place 

 in an inquiry instituted by com- 

 mand of his majesty, in the year 

 1806, and contains among other 

 matters, certain animadversions 

 upon the manner in which the 

 Prince Regent has exercised his 

 undoubted right of regulating the 



conduct and education of his 

 daughter the princess Charlotte ; 

 and his royal highness having 

 taken into his consideration the 

 said letter so published, and ad- 

 verting to the directions heretofore 

 given by his majesty, that the 

 documents relating to the said in- 

 quiry should be sealed up, and de- 

 posited in the office of his ma- 

 jesty's principal secretary of state, 

 in order that his majesty's govern- 

 ment should possess the means of 

 resorting to them if necessary, his 

 royal highness has been pleased 

 to direct, that the said letter of 

 the Princess of Wales, and the 

 whole of the said documents, to- 

 gether with the copies of other 

 letters and papers, of which a 

 schedule is annexed, should be re- 

 ferred to your lordships, being 

 members of his majesty's most 

 honourable privy council, for your 

 consideration: and that you should 

 report to his royal highness your 

 opinion, whether, under all the 

 circumstances of the-case, it be fit 

 and proper that the intercourse be- 

 tween the Princess of Wales and 

 her daughter, the Princess Char- 

 lotte, should continue to be subject 

 to regulations and restrictions.'' 



Their lordships adjourned their 

 meetings to Tuesday, the 23rd of 

 February : and the intermediate 

 days having been employed in pe- 

 rusing the documents referred to 

 them, by command of your royal 

 highness, they proceeded on that 

 and the following day to the fur- 

 ther consideration of the said do- 

 cuments, and have agreed to re- 

 port to your royal highness as 

 follows : — 



• The chief justice of the court of Common Pleas was prevented by indispositioq 

 from attending, during any part of these proceedings. 



