154 THE PRINCESS OF WALES [1812. 



telling me that Princess Charlotte came there the day 

 before yesterday, accompanied by Miss Knight, and 

 that before Miss Knight set off from Windsor, the 

 Queen sent to her, and gave her a charge not to let 

 Princess Charlotte go out of her sight for one moment ; 

 and her Majesty also sent for Princess Charlotte, and 

 told her that she was not to retire at all; upon which 

 she replied, ' that after so long a journey she must re- 

 tire to dress, and make herself clean before dinner; 

 and that what she had to say to her mother she could 

 say before anybody, as she made no secret of her feel- 

 ings upon their strange proceedings.' Yours truly, 



C. L." 



Among other letters on the same subject, all proving 

 the interdiction of communication with the Princess 

 Charlotte, is the following : 



FEOM LADY CHARLOTTE LESTDSAY. 



" September 29, 1812. 



"DEAR MR BROUGHAM, I enclose in two covers 

 several papers that I have this morning received from 

 H.R.H., who went to Windsor last Sunday. She 

 stopped at the lodge that had been destined by the 

 King for her occupation whenever she should go to 

 Windsor. She wrote from thence to Lady de Clifford, 

 desiring she would bring Princess Charlotte there. 

 Lady de Clifford's answer is one of the enclosures. 

 Then she wrote to Colonel Disbrowe, and asked an 

 audience of her Majesty : what passed at that inter- 

 view is another of the enclosures. 



" I hope, as I send these letters before the Parliament 

 is dissolved, that you will not have an enormous 



