224 THE PRINCESS OF WALES [1814. 



It was quite impossible that this treatment should 

 be submitted to without a solemn remonstrance, both 

 on the part of the Princess and her daughter. The 

 following letter, therefore, was addressed to the Prince 

 on the same day with the last letter to the Queen, 

 it having been well considered and prepared while 

 that correspondence with the Queen was going on. 



It will be found that this letter contains, in a con- 

 densed form, the substance of the letter to the Prince 

 of the year before, the grievances which had given 

 rise to that letter having been increased by what hap- 

 pened in the interval; more especially by the new 

 proceeding upon the arrival of the foreign princes. 



" SIR, I am once more compelled to address your 

 Koyal Highness, and to enclose for your inspection 

 copies of a note which I have had the honour to re- 

 ceive from the Queen, and of the answer which I have 

 thought it my duty to return to her Majesty. It 

 would be in vain for me to inquire into the reasons of 

 the alarming declaration made by your Royal High- 

 ness, that you have taken the fixed and unalterable 

 determination never to meet me in public or in private. 

 Of these your Royal Highness is pleased to state your- 

 self to be the only judge. You will perceive by my 

 answer to her Majesty that I have been only restrained 

 by motives of personal consideration towards her Ma- 

 jesty from exercising my right of appearing before 

 her Majesty at the public drawing-rooms to be held in 

 the ensuing month. 



" But, Sir, lest it should be by possibility supposed 

 that the words of your Royal Highness can convey 

 any insinuation from which I shrink, I am bound to 



