JET. 35.] AND THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE. i;i 



" I must tell you that the Princess Charlotte is 

 extremely solicitous that her mother should be openly 

 vindicated, and the Princess's wish for this proceeds 

 almost as much from the desire of gratifying her as 

 of punishing her husband. The young one is quite 

 furious at their treatment of her. I mean Queen, 

 Princesses, Dukes, and her father as much as any. 

 She says she complained of her letters being opened 

 at the post-office by his orders, which he denied cir- 

 cumstantially; and that she pressed him until she was 

 obliged to stop, to avoid the unpleasant necessity of 

 convicting him of a plain lie. This is her own story. 

 As for the confinement at Windsor, she entertained 

 a plan of escaping as soon as she was of age (for she 

 conceives she is so next birthday very falsely in point 

 of law). She also desired my advice on this and other 

 matters, and I am to write a representation as strongly 

 as possible against it. 



" That she is disposed towards popular principles I 

 know from undoubted authority. The interest she 

 took in Komilly's election and mine she was at no 

 pains to conceal from anybody ; and after it was over 

 she went to Fremantle to know if we were to be out 

 of Parliament ; to which I may add a trifle which I 

 learnt by chance in a shop viz., that t'other day 

 she sent for a modeller, and had a cast of me done ; 

 with a number of observations showing she feels a 

 peculiarly strong interest in our side of the question. 



" You have seen so much ill in one heir-apparent 

 that I think I see you scouting all idea of a popular 

 Queen. Believe me ever yours, H. B." 



On my arrival at York I wrote again to Lord Grey : 



