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any possibility have foreseen ; and it is quite certain 

 that he never had any communication, on any subject, 

 with her before that night, from the terms on which 

 he was with her mother. But the Regent mixed him 

 up with the whole refusal to marry ; and having as- 

 sembled all the family, he gave them warning that 

 they must choose between him and the Duke. All, 

 except the Duke of Gloucester, yielded to this threat. 

 He very manfully refused to give up the Duke of 

 Sussex, and the penalty was not enforced of the Ee- 

 gent's displeasure ; for he soon after married his 

 favourite sister, Princess Mary, and ever after enjoyed 

 his share of his favour.""" 



Cochrane (Dundonald) in his Autobiography has 

 stated that it was the Duke of Sussex who appealed 

 to the Princess Charlotte, by referring to the crowd 

 which would cover the streets at the election, and that 

 she expressed her hope of Cochrane being returned, 

 and her disapproval of his sentence. For this dream 

 of the Duke (if he was the relater of it) there is not 

 the shadow of a foundation. He had no conversation 

 whatever with her but in presence of the rest of the 

 company ; and the account which I have here given 

 was in every essential particular published before the 

 Duke's death, and was read by him before it was pub- 

 lished. He made one or two trifling corrections, 

 especially as to his having only been the channel of 

 communication in the case of Lady Douglas ; and to 

 gratify him I adopted them, as they did not alter 

 materially what had been written. The Duke of 

 Sussex thought it necessary to bring before the House 



* The Duke of Gloucester, nephew of George III., married his cousin 

 the Princess Mary, daughter of George III. 



