I?2 THE PRINCESS OF WALES [1813. 



TO EARL GREY. 



"YORK, January 3, 1813. 



" MY DEAR LORD GREY, I send you in this and 

 another cover a most curious account of our beloved 

 Prince's behaviour to his daughter. He is jealous of 

 her to a degree of insanity, and has been for some 

 time. I believe the Duke of Cumberland and Yar- 

 mouth have actually been feeding him with hopes of 

 getting rid of her by divorcing his wife, and this he is 

 fool enough to believe. It seems too absurd, but you 

 may rely on it some such thing has been broached. 

 The young Princess is quite aware how much she is in 

 the same boat with her mother, and feels such topics 

 accordingly. The letter to the Queen was rather a 

 tickler, but quite unexceptionable in point of discre- 

 tion, relating solely to the seeing her daughter. I 

 wrote a considerable part of it, and revised the whole, 

 and made it safe and sure. It is to this he alludes 

 when he asks who wrote it ; also to the Duke of Kent, 

 he blessed his stars that it was not written to him, as 

 he was thus relieved from having to answer it, not 

 knowing what to say. 



" You may recollect my being of opinion last Au- 

 gust that a formal remonstrance professedly as such, 

 though written nominally by the Princess, should be 

 delivered to him if he continued his proceedings to- 

 wards the mother and daughter, and you were of this 

 opinion also. 



" Various things lately have made this still more 

 advisable. I accordingly drew it up with much care, 

 and she is to copy it and send it immediately after 

 the 7th, her daughter's birthday, or about the 8th, 

 according to circumstances. 



