258 THE PRINCESS OF WALES [1814. 



is rather alarming. However, I lost no time in mak- 

 ing the most of it, and wrote immediately. All will 

 be in vain now, but it may help to bring her back. 



" I have got my answer to the letter I sent you a 

 copy of. It is as follows from Lady Charlotte Lind- 

 say: 



" ' The Princess got your letter this morning, and 

 commands me to tell you that she is very much 

 obliged to you for it. I have not seen it, but it really 

 seems to me to have struck her very much. Al- 

 though it may not make her change her determination 

 of going abroad next Monday, it may induce her to 

 hold herself in readiness to return upon any indication 

 of inimical designs from hence. She has written to 

 Canning to desire him to tell Lord Liverpool, that if 

 she hears any alarming reports from England, her re- 

 turn shall be immediate. Your letter has not offended 

 her in the least, and has produced a much better effect 

 than one Whitbread wrote a few days ago, which made 

 her very angry. But nothing can stop her. I never 

 saw so fixed a determination. The only good circum- 

 stance is her keeping her apartments at Kensington, 

 with some of her servants in them. I shall also live 

 there every now and then/ 



" The feeling in favour of Princess Charlotte is every- 

 where I go very strong, and against the Prince and 

 Court. I am most anxious about her health. If that 

 survives, she must soon carry all her own way. 



"You have the circumstance of Caniiino- and his 



a 



friend G. Leveson being the only persons consulted by 

 the Princess they having revised, if not advised, the 

 letter, and Canning having carried it to Lord Liver- 

 pool. All this (and the above letter from Lady Char- 



