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and amiable young woman, that, besides the enmity of 

 her father, she from her earliest years had to struggle 

 with the hatred of the old Queen, which never ceased to 

 annoy her, and certainly was communicated to several 

 of the princesses, her daughters. 



It was most unfortunate that, soon after the scene 

 in July, and the prohibition of all attention, even the 

 most ordinary courtesy, from the Allied sovereigns, the 

 Princess of Wales, wearied out, as she said, by constant 

 ill-treatment, and debarred from all intercourse with 

 her daughter more strictly in consequence of what 

 had occurred, resolved to go abroad, at first only 

 intending to travel for a few months, but which she 

 extended to several years. Her daughter was ex- 

 tremely averse to this plan ; indeed the only difference 

 I ever knew between them was upon this, and it 

 amounted almost to a quarrel. She urged me to use 

 my influence against it. She had no occasion to press 

 me, for I, as well as Whitbread, regarded the step as 

 full of danger. We remonstrated strongly against it. 

 I addressed a letter to her, solemnly warning her of 

 the risks she was to run. I said that as long as she 

 and her daughter remained in this country, surrounded 

 by their friends, and by English men and English 

 women, and having our laws to protect them, I would 

 answer for their safety with my head ; but that it was 

 altogether another thing if she went, as she intended, 

 to Italy. Seeing she was persisting in her plan, I 

 once more wrote to her : 



TO THE PEINCESS OF WALES. 



"YORK, July 30, 1814. 



" MADAM, -I humbly presume to address your Royal 

 Highness once more before your departure, in the hope 



