S18] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1814. 



a communication she had received 

 from her son, the Prince Regent, 

 stating the necessity of his pre- 

 sence at her court, and that he 

 desired it might be understood, 

 for reasons of which he alone 

 could be the judge, to be fiisfixfd 

 end unalterable determination not 

 to meet the Princess of Wales vpon 

 any occasion, either public or pri- 

 vate. Her Majesty was therefore 

 under the painful necessity of inti- 

 mating to the Princess the impos- 

 sibility of receiving . her Ro3'al 

 Highness at her drawing-rooms. 

 A correspondence between the 

 two illustrious personages was the 

 result, which the Princess desired 

 the Speaker of the House of Com- 

 mons to lay before that assembly, 

 and which was productive of a de- 

 bate reported in our summary of 

 parliamentary proceedings. The 

 letters themselves will be found 

 among the State Papers. A mo- 

 tion for an increase of the allow- 

 ance of her Royal Highness occa- 

 sioned other parliamentary dis- 

 cussions, which we have also re- 

 ported. In conclusion, the Prin 

 ress finding, doubtless, her situa- 

 tion in this country unconsfort- 

 able, (for influence had been u-ed 

 to prevent her from receiving even 

 the slightest mark of respect from 

 the great strangers), she asked and 

 obtained permission to make a 

 tour to the continent, and first 

 visited her brother at the court 

 of Brunswick. She then pro- 

 ceeded to Italy, every where re- 

 ceiving the honours due to her 

 rank ; and fixed herself for the 

 winter at Naples. Of her return 

 to England there are at present no 

 indications. 



The Princess Charlotte of Wales 

 became in this year a subject of 

 that interest to the public which 



must necessarily attend any extra- 

 ordinary occurrence relative to the 

 presumptive heiress of the crown. 

 It was expected that her union 

 with the hereditary Prince of 

 Orange, to which his father had 

 alluded as a determined measure, 

 in a public address to his States, 

 would have been declared, and 

 perhaps brought to effect ; but for 

 some reason, of which the public 

 are left in ignorance, the negocia- 

 tion for that purpose was entirely 

 broken off. Whether or not this 

 circumstance was connected with 

 what followed, is matter of con- 

 jecture ; but it appears that the 

 Prince Regent, accompanied by 

 the Bishop of Salisbury, repaired 

 to Warwick House, his daugh- 

 ter's residence, on July 12th, and 

 announced the dismission of all her 

 attendants, and his intention of 

 taking her with him to Carlton 

 House. This declaration, proba- 

 bly joined with paternal reproof, 

 had such an effect on the young 

 lady's feelings, that requesting 

 leave to retire, she took the oppor- 

 tunit}- of escaping by the back 

 stair-case, and rushing into the 

 street, where she got into a hack- 

 ney coach, and drove to Connaught 

 House, her mother's residence. 

 The Princess of Wales, much em- 

 barrassed by this unexpected visit, 

 immediately drove to the parlia- 

 ment house to considt her friends 

 what was proper to be done on 

 the occasion. The result was, 

 that the Princess Charlotte was 

 persuaded to accompany her 

 uncle, the Dvike of York, to 

 Carlton House. After remaining 

 there some time, she was removed 

 to Cranbourn Lodge in Windsor 

 Forest, where she was placed un- 

 der the care of her new attendants. 

 A complaint in one of her knee* 



