136 PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES. [1810. 



greatly esteemed, Lady Charlotte Lindsay, and her 

 sister, Lady Glenbervie, were among her ladies, both, 

 like all the North family, persons equally agreeable 

 and clever ; so that without taking any part at all in 

 the controversy, I went there as Eogers, Luttrell, and 

 others did, whom the Princess liked extremely to have 

 about her. Canning I often met there ; Perceval 

 and Eldon never ; but she always spoke of them with 

 great kindness, only she called Eldon " old Baggs," as 

 all the royal family did, which once caused a droll 

 mistake, when the Eegent said, " Send for old Baggs," 

 and the page in waiting summoned Mr Banks, who 

 came in court- dress, and was kept waiting in the ante- 

 chamber till the mistake was discovered, which, it is 

 said, he did not soon if ever forgive. The conversa- 

 tion at Kensington was quite free from any trouble- 

 some restraint of etiquette, but always with the re- 

 spect, both in form and substance, due to royalty. 



The Princess had been ill-used by her husband from 

 the very first, as we shall find by looking back to the 

 beginning of her maltreatment, upon her first arrival 

 in this country, when Lady Jersey was forced into her 

 household, and was in league with the Prince to miscon- 

 strue all her words and actions ; and, although in her 

 service nominally, to act as the Prince's ally against her. 



The following letter to him urges, or rather repeats, 

 her complaints on this subject : 



" Je suis trop pendtree des devoirs que m'imposent 

 les relations que j'ai avec vous pour blesser en quoi- 

 que ce soit votre delicatesse, je ne decide point des 

 raisons pour lesquelles vous croyez devoir manager 

 Lady Jersey, et je ne souhaite pas du tout de lui nuir 

 dans Topinion publique, mais j'en appelle a votre 



