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forgotten in the great events which filled up that year 

 and the begioning of the next the end of the war 

 and of Napoleon. But next year renewed all the 

 quarrels of the royal parties, and the action of their 

 advisers, when the foreign princes came to England 

 upon the peace. 



The arrival of the foreign princes made a great 

 sensation in the town, and caused a display at Court. 

 The Queen (Charlotte) was made to hold a drawing- 

 room for their reception, and the great object of the 

 Eegent was to prevent all, even the most ordinary re- 

 spect and civility, being shown to the Princess his wife. 

 The Queen, by his commands, or request which, 

 now the King was confined for life, had become equal 

 to commands refused to receive her at Court, though 

 she might at any moment have become her successor. 

 This was resented by the people to such a degree that 

 the old Queen was not only assailed with yells as she 

 passed along the street, but the vile practice was 

 applied to her of spitting which had been introduced 

 at late elections; and she complained of it on her 

 arrival at the palace in her broken English, but in very 

 plain and expressive terms : " My Lords, I be fifty 

 year and more in this country, and well respected ; but 

 now I be shspit on." 



In the following letter she announced to the Prin- 

 cess of Wales that her husband had forbidden her the 



drawing-room : 



"WINDSOR CASTLE, May 23, 1814. 



" The Queen considers it to be her duty to lose no 

 time in acquainting the Princess of Wales that she has 

 received a communication from her son, the Prince 

 Eegent, in which he states that her Majesty's intention 



