STATE PAPERS. 



331 



The Answer of the Princess of 

 Wales to the Queen. 



" The Princess of Wales has the 

 honour to acknowledge the receipt 

 of a note from the Queen, dated 

 yesterday; and begs permission to 

 return her best thanks to her Ma- 

 jesty, for her gracious condescen- 

 sion in the willingness expressed 

 by her Majesty, to have communi- 

 cated to the illustrious strangers, 

 tvho will in all probability be 

 present at her Majesty's court, the 

 reasons which have induced her 

 iloyul Highness not to be present, 



" Such communication, as it 

 appears to her Royal Highness, 

 cannot be the less necessary on ac- 

 count of any publicity which it 

 may be in the power of her Royal 

 Highness to give to her motives ; 

 and the Princess of Wales, there- 

 fore, entreats the active good of- 

 fices of her Majesty, upon an oc- 

 casion wherein the Princess of 

 Wales feels it so essential to her 

 that she should not be misunder- 

 stood. 



" Caroline, P." 

 " Connaught Place, May 26." 



The Queen to the Princess of Wales, 

 " The Queen cannot omit to ac- 

 knowledge the receipt of the Prin- 

 cess of Wales's note, of yesterday, 

 although it does not appear to 

 her Majesty to require any other 

 reply than that conveyed to her 

 Royal Highness's preceding letter. 

 " Charlotte, R." 



'I>eclaration of Blockade imposed 

 and removed. 



FOREIGN OFFICE, MAY 31. 



Earl Bathurst, one of his Ma- 

 jetty's principal secretaries of state. 



has this day notified, by command 

 of his Royal Highness the Prince 

 Regent, to the Ministers of friend- 

 ly Powers resident at his Court, 

 that the Commander in Chief of 

 his Majesty's naval forces off the 

 coasts of the United States of 

 North America, has issued a pro- 

 clamation, dated at Bermuda, on 

 the 25th day of April last, declar- 

 ing all the ports, harbours, bays, 

 creeks, rivers, inlets, outlets, is- 

 lands, and sea-coasts, of the said 

 United States, from the point of 

 land called Black Point to the 

 northern and eastern boundaries 

 belween the said United States 

 and the British provinces of New 

 Brunswick, to be in a state of 

 strict and rigorous blockade, and 

 that the said Commander in Chief 

 had stationed off the ports and 

 places above-mentioned a naval 

 i'orce adequate to maintain the said 

 blockade in the most rigorous and 

 effective manner ; and that the 

 ports and places aforesaid are and 

 must be considered as beinsr in a 

 state of blockade accordingly ;and 

 that all the measures authorized by 

 the law of nations will be adopted 

 and executed with respect to all 

 vessels attempting to violate the 

 said blockade. 



Earl Bathurst at the same time 

 notified to the said Ministers, by 

 command of his Royal Highness 

 the Prince Regent, that the whole 

 of the French troops, which forci- 

 bly occupied positions on the banks 

 of the Elbe, having been removed, 

 so as to leave that river free and 

 secure to the vessels of his Majes- 

 ty's subjects, as well as of other 

 nations, his Royal Highness has 

 judged it expedieiU to signify his 

 commands to the Lords Commis- 

 sioners of the Admiralty, that the 



