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the Princess Charlotte's most confidential friend, were 

 what I had announced that my friend Prince Czar- 

 toryski wished to ask that he might hope she would 

 condescend to accept. They consisted of Polish embel- 

 lishments connected with different books of great value, 

 and having inscriptions formed of small engraved 

 stones of great rarity, which were according to our 

 alphabet, and the inscriptions were read by that alpha- 

 bet. I have no doubt that my friend Prince Czar- 

 toryski, and those of his suite one of whom, Count 

 Sierakowski, came to Brougham entertained hopes of 

 the young Princess receiving a favourable impression 

 of their cause, in support of which - 1 had lately pre- 

 pared a tract in concurrence with them, and circulated 

 very extensively, under the title of ' An Appeal to the 

 Allies on behalf of Poland/ * It had been presented 

 to the Princess Charlotte. 



The following letter is from Lady Charlotte Lind- 

 say : 



" Sunday. 



" Many thanks for both your letters, which I should 

 have answered immediately, but when I have nothing 

 particular to say, I do not like to be too troublesome. 

 You will be glad to hear that I have had a long letter 

 from Lord G., and that he is better, but he does not 

 say a word about coming to town. La belle pri- 

 sonniere is fully aware of the necessity of being pru- 

 dent and quiet, and your opinion has at all times so 

 much weight with her, that I have no doubt she will 

 follow your advice strictly in this instance. She is, 

 however, very uneasy at the idea of her mother's re- 



* An appeal to the Allies and the English Nation on behalf of Poland. 

 London, 1814. Reviewed in the Edinburgh Review, No. XLIV., art. iii. 



