IQ2 THE PRINCESS OF WALES [1814. 



mischief in every way. Nothing she can do will 

 diminish the foolish and vile fear of the Prince which 

 some folks Lave, and the others will take up the thing 

 only on its own grounds. Grey's scruples are all for 

 fear of injuring her. If you have anything to write, 

 address under cover to Lord Thanet, Hothfield, Kent. 

 -Yours ever, H. BROUGHAM." 



Lady Charlotte Lindsay wrote to me as follows : 



March 1814. 



" I have found means, without any danger, of letting 

 Princess Charlotte know that I would be with her 

 this morning, and accordingly she received me by 

 herself in Miss Knight's room. She read both your 

 letters very attentively, was very much satisfied with 

 them, and said that it was a great ease to her mind to 

 feel herself in the hands of a person whose integrity, 

 abilities, and discretion she could entirely depend 

 upon ; that she should be careful to follow your advice 

 in every respect; and that she was very much obliged 

 to me for having executed her commission so well. 



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She seems very much in earnest in her desire of not 

 leaving England without some Parliamentary security 

 for her return whenever she wishes to do so, and says 

 that she conceives at present, at least, it would be 

 very unsafe for her to go to Holland, as she under- 

 stands from the young Prince's letters that the levies 

 of troops arc going on slowly, and that he finds it very 

 difficult to get them into any state of defence, owing 

 to their indolence, notwithstanding their loyalty to 

 him and his family. Princess Charlotte then spoke a 

 good deal about her mother, and said (what I always 



