576 
They have fince béen found. “ Allow me then, 
Sir, to recal to your recollection the expreffions 
you were gracioufly pleafed to ufe, and which I 
ence betore took the liberty of reminding you 
of, when I folicited foreign fervice, upon my 
firft coming into the army. They were; Sir, 
that your Majefty did not then fee the opportu- 
nity for it, but if any thing was to arife at home, 
T ought to be “* firit and foremoit.’’ There 
cannot be a ftronger expreffion in the Englith | 
language, or one more confonant to the feelings 
which animate my heart. In this I agree moft 
perfectiy with your Majefty, 1 ought to be the 
firft and foremoff. cis the place which my 
birth affigns me,- which Europe, which the 
Englifh Nation expect me to fill; and which 
the former affurances of your Majefty might 
naturally have led me to hape I fhould occupy. 
Alter fuch a declaration, Pcould hardly expect 
t) be told that my place was at the head of a 
Regiment of Dragoons, 
} underftand irom your Majefiy, that it is 
your intention, Sir, in purfuance of that noble 
example which you have fhown during the 
courfe of your reign, to place yourlelt at the 
head of the People of England. My next 
brother, the Duke of York, commands the 
Army; the younger branches of my Family 
are either Generals, or Lieutenant Generals, 
and I, who am Princeof Wales, am to remain 
Colonel of Dragoons. There is fomething fo 
humiliating in the contraft, that thofe who are 
at adiftance, would either doubt the reulity, 
or fuppofe that to be my fault, which is only 
my misfortune. 
Who could imagine, that I, who am the 
oldeft Colonel in the fervice, had afked tor the 
rank of a General Officer in the Army of the 
Kirg my Father, and that it had been retuted 
me ? 
| am forry, much more than forry, to be 
obliged to -break in upon your letiure, and wo 
trefpafs thus, a fecond time, on the attention of 
your Majeity ; but I have, Sir, an interett in 
my character, more valuable to me than the 
Throne, and dearer, far dearer ta me than Life, 
I am called upon by that imtereft, to perfevere, 
and I pledge myfelt never to defiit, tili Lreceive 
that fatistaction which the juttice of my ciaim 
leads me to expect. 
In thefe unhappy times, the world, Sir, 
examines the conduct of Princes with a jealous, 
a fcrutinizing, a malignant eye- No man is 
more aware than | am of the exiftence of {uch 
a difpofition, and no man is, therefore, more 
determined to place himfelf above all fufpicion, 
In defiring to be placed in a2 forward fitua- 
tioi, I have performed one duty to the People 
ef England ;\1 mutt now perform another, and 
humbly fupplicate your Majetty to affign thole 
reafons which have induced your Majefty to 
retule a requeit, which appears to me, and to 
ihe world, fo reafunable, and fo rational. 
_I mutt again repeat my concern, that I am 
oliged to continue acorrefpondence, which I 
fear, is notio grateful to your Majeity as I could 
with. 1 have examined my own heart ; lam 
convinced of the juftice ot my cafe, of the pu- 
K.ty of my motives: Keaton and Honour iorbid 
me to yield ; where no reafon is alleged, I am 
jutiined in the conclufion that none can be given. 
Royal Carrefpondences 
[ Jan. ty 
In this candid expofition of the feelings 
which have agitated, and deprefied my wounded 
mind. I hope no expreifion has e(caped me, 
which ean be conftrued to mean the flightett 
difrefpect to your Majefty; I moft folemnly 
difavow any fuch intention ; but the circum- 
ftance of the times, the danger of invafion, the 
appeal which has been made to all your fub- 
je@ts, oblige me to retolle& what Towe to 
my own honour, and, to my own character, 
and to ftate to your Majefty, with plainneis; 
truth, and candour, but with the fubmififon of 
a Subjet,. and the duty of an affectionate Son, 
the injuries under which I labour, which it ig 
in the power of your Majeity alone at one 
moment to redrefs. } 
It is with the fentiments of the profoundeft 
veneration, and refpect, that 
I have the honour to ‘ubfcribe myfelf 
Your Majeity’s moft dutiful, and moft 
affetionate Son and Subjecr, 
{Signed} | G. .P. 
Subfequent Corrfpundencey Between his Royal 
Highnefs the Prince or Wares, and 
his Royal Highnefs the Duxe of Yorx. 
N 
Dai 
Brighton, OGobcr 2, 1803, 
My dear Brother, 
By the laft night's Gazette, which I have this 
moment received, I perceive that an extenfive 
promotion has taken place in the Arm), where- 
in my pretenfions are not noticed; a circum- 
{tance which, whatever may have happened on 
other occafions, it is impoffible tor me to pafs 
by, at this momentous crifis, without oblervation, 
My ftanding in the Army, according to he 
moft ordinary routine of promotion, had it been 
followed up, wouid have placed me either at the 
bottom of. the Jiit of Generals, ofthe head of 
the lit of Lieutenant Generals. When the 
younger branches of my Family are promoted 
to the higheft military fituations, my birth, ac- 
cording to the diftinctions ulually conferred on 
it, fhould have placed me firft on that lift 
I hope you know me too well to imagine, that 
idie, inaCtive rank isin my view; muco lels in 
the direction, and patronage of the military de- 
partments, an object which fuits my place in the 
State, or my inclinations; but ina moment 
when the danger of the Country is thought by 
Government fo urging as to call forth the energy 
of every arm in iss de/ence, I cannot but fee! 
myfelf degraded, both as a Prince and a Soldier, 
if ] am not allowed to take a forward and dif-_ 
tinguithed part in the detence of that Empire 
and Crown, of the glory, profperity. and even 
exiltence of chat People, inall which mine isthe 
greatett ftake. 
To be told, I may difplay this zeal, folely and 
fimply at the head of my regiment, isa degrad- 
ing mockery. PFE © 
If that be the only Gituation allotted me, I 
fhall certainly do my duty as ochers will. But 
the confiderations, to wh:ch I have already al- 
‘luded, entitle me to expect, and bind me, in 
every way, to require a fituation more corref. 
pondent to the dignity of my own character, and 
to the public expectations. 
It is for the fake of tendering my fervices 
in a way more formal and official than | have 
before purfued, that 1 addreis this to sac a! Nils 
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