JET. 36.] AND THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE. IQI 



" I am still decidedly of opinion that the matter is 

 kept in the best and safest train, by political charac- 

 ters taking it as a political question, and her Eoyal 

 Highness making her own stand privately without 

 any communication with them. This avoids all chance 

 of committing her, and makes even the most complete 

 failure of the attempt in Parliament of no manner of 

 injury to her. 



" Since I came to town, I have heard twice from 

 my friend the Dutch Premier. They are in perfect 

 quiet and without the least alarm now, and I think 

 we may really expect a safe end of all our troubles. 

 Believe me ever yours truly, H. BROUGHAM." 



TO LADY CHARLOTTE LINDSAY. 



" HOTHFIELD. 



" DEAR LADY CHARLOTTE, The enclosed contains 

 the exact state of the case, and is what I had to tell 

 you if we had met. I put it separately, that if you 

 find it more convenient to let Princess Charlotte read 

 it than to tell it, you may do so. 



" When I return I shall see you speedily. 



" I am still a little uneasy about the advertisement, 

 and if I thought it came from Carlton House, I should 

 almost be for your making Princess Charlotte write to 

 implore her mother to be quiet. Of all moments for 

 taking the field, this does seem the most frantic** 



" The sooner you see the Princess Charlotte the 

 better. I fear her bestirring herself, which would do 



* This, and the " mysterious paragraph" (p. 187), may probably refer 

 to newspaper passages occasioned by the letter of the Princess (p. 160) 

 having come into the hands of the editor of the ' Morning Chronicle.' 

 See Miss Knight's * Autobiography,' vol. i. p. 216 et seq. 



