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who, under the appearance of an attachment to you, 

 foment the division which you have made in my 

 family, and thereby weakened the common interest of 

 the whole. 



" In this situation I will receive no reply ; but when 

 your actions manifest a just sense of your duty and 

 submission, that may induce me to pardon what at 

 present I most justly resent. 



" In the mean time, it is my pleasure that you leave 

 St James's with all your family, when it can be done 

 without prejudice or inconvenience to the Princess. 



"I shall for the present leave to the Princess the 

 care of my granddaughter, until a proper time calls 

 upon me to consider of her education. G. K." 



The Prince was with much difficulty persuaded by 

 Liverpool and Eldon to read a letter which the Prin- 

 cess of Wales had written, and proposed to send to 

 Queen Charlotte. 



He wrote to the Princess Charlotte respecting it, 

 asking who had written it. The Duke of Kent told 

 her that in speaking to him about it " he blessed his 

 stars it had not been written to him, so he was relieved 

 from having to answer it, which he should not have 

 known how to do." This was certainly an additional 

 reason, as both the Princesses thought, for going 

 further; and on the best consideration I could give 

 the subject, it seemed expedient that the Princess 

 should address a letter to the Prince direct. That 

 letter was as follows : 



" SIR, It is with great reluctance that I presume 

 to intrude myself upon your Royal Highness, and to 



