346 ANNUAL REGISTER, 181^. 



In obedience to the commands 

 of your royal highness, we have 

 taken into our most serious con- 

 sideration ihe letter from her royal 

 highness the Princess of Wales to 

 3'our royal highness, which has 

 appeared in the public papers, and 

 has been referred to us by your 

 royal highness, in which letter 

 the Princess of Wales, amongst 

 other matters, complains that the 

 intercourse between her royal 

 highness, and her royal highness 

 the Princess Charlotte, has been 

 subjected to certain restrictions. 



We have also taken into our 

 most serious consideration, toge- 

 ther with the other papers referred 

 to us by your royal highness, all 

 the documents relative to the in- 

 quir)- instituted in 1806, by com- 

 mand of his majesty, into the truth 

 of certain representations, respect- 

 ing the conduct of her royal high- 

 ness the Princess of Wales, which 

 appear to have been pressed upon 

 the attention of your royal high- 

 ness, in consequence of the advice 

 of lord Thurlow, and upon 

 grounds of public duty, by whom 

 they were transmitted to his ma- 

 jesty's consideration ; and your 

 royal highness having been gra- 

 ciously pleased to command us to 

 report our opinions to your royal 

 highness, whether, under all the 

 <;ircumstances of the case, it be fit 

 and proper, that the intercourse 

 between the Princess of Wales and 

 her daughter the Prmcess Char- 

 lotte, should continue to be subject 

 to regulation and restraint. 



We beg leave humbly to report 

 to your royal highness, that after 

 a full examination of all the do- 

 cuments before us, we are of opi- 

 nion, that under all the circum- 



stances of the case, it is highly 

 fit and proper, with a view to the 

 welfare of her royal highness 

 the Princess Charlotte, in which 

 are equally involved the happiness 

 of your royal highness in your 

 parental and royal character, and 

 the most important interests of the 

 State, that the intercourse be- 

 tween her royal highness the 

 Princess of Wales, and her royal 

 highness the Princess Charlotte, 

 should continue to be subject to 

 regulation and restraint. 



We humbly trust, that we may 

 be permitted,withoutbeing thought 

 to exceed the limits of the duty 

 imposed on us, respectfully to ex- 

 press the just sense we entertain 

 of the motives by which your 

 roj'al highness has been actuated 

 in the postponement of the Con- 

 firmation of her royal highness 

 the Princes Charlotte, as it appears, 

 by a statement under the hand of 

 her majesty the Queen, that your 

 royal highness has conformed in 

 this respect to the declared will 

 of his majesty; who had been 

 pleased to direct, that such cere- 

 mony should not take place till 

 her royal highness should have 

 completed her eighteenth yeai*. 



We a'.sc humbly trust, that we 

 may be further permitted to no- 

 tice some expressions in the letter 

 of her royal highness the Prin- 

 cess of Wales, which may possi- - 

 bly be construed as implying a 

 charge of too serious a nature to 

 be passed over without observa- 

 tion. We refer to the words— 

 " suborned traducers." As this 

 expression, from the manner it is 

 introduced, may, perhaps, be lia- 

 ble to misconstruction (however 

 impossible it may be to suppose 



