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turn ; for if it is occasioned by her letters and entrea- 

 ties, she feels it will be a sad reward for this sacrifice 

 to her interest, to find that all intercourse between 

 them will be immediately put a stop to, and that her 

 return is only to be greeted with fresh insults and 

 mortifications. It really is a very painful and embar- 

 rassing situation ; and should those letters be shown 

 that you forwarded (which is more than likely), there 

 will be no bounds, I am convinced, to the Regent's 

 rage. She has been strictly questioned lately rela- 

 tive to her former communications with the Duke 

 of Sussex, and if she authorised the step he took last 

 year in Parliament. This, of course, she denied, fur- 

 ther than its originating from their meeting at her 

 mother's ; and on the whole she got through the con- 

 ference very well ; but I hope these interrogations will 

 not be renewed, as I think they are dangerous. 



" I believe she has sent a message to explain what 

 passed to the Duke of Sussex, by the Duke of Kent, 

 which was very right, and I hope will not be misre- 

 presented. I have told her of the attention of your 

 Polish friends, with which I am sure she will be much 

 flattered, but the music must come through the 

 Dragons, if it comes at all ; pray send the letter. I 

 think the best way would be to forward the parcel at 

 once to one of her ladies, who will name it to the 

 Regent, and then she will get it immediately. I wish 

 you were not so perverse and so coquettish about 

 coming into Parliament. I give you no credit for 

 either your ambition or your politics being on the 

 decline. Have you heard of a quarrel between the 

 Prince and the Chancellor about divorcing the Prin- 

 cess ? It is said at Windsor that the Chancellor has 



