>ET. 35.] AND THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE. l6l 



any sufferings of my own could accomplish. And if 

 for her sake I presume to call away your Eoyal High- 

 ness from the other cares of your exalted station, I feel 

 confident I am not claiming this for a matter of in- 

 ferior importance, either to yourself or your people. 



" The powers with which the constitution of these 

 realms vests your Koyal Highness in the regulation of 

 the royal family, I know, because I am so advised, are 

 ample and unquestionable. My appeal, Sir, is made 

 to your excellent sense and liberality of mind in the 

 exercise of those powers ; and I willingly hope that 

 your own parental feelings will lead you to excuse the 

 anxiety of mine for impelling me to represent the un- 

 happy consequences which the present system must 

 entail upon our beloved child. 



" Is it possible, Sir, that any one can have attempted 

 to persuade your Eoyal Highness that her character 

 will not be injured by the perpetual violence offered 

 to her strongest affections, the studied care taken to 

 estrange her from my society, and even to interrupt all 

 communication between us ? That her love for one 

 with whom, by his Majesty's wise and gracious arrange- 

 ments, she passed the years of her infancy and child- 

 hood, never can be extinguished, I well know, and the 

 knowledge of it forms the greatest blessing of my ex- 

 istence. But let me implore your Royal Highness to 

 reflect, how inevitably all attempts to abate this attach- 

 ment by forcibly separating us, if they succeed, must 

 injure my child's principles ; if they fail, must destroy 

 her happiness. 



" The plan of excluding my daughter from all inter- 

 course with the world, appears, to my humble judg- 

 ment, peculiarly unfortunate. She who is destined to 



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