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believe the child came to the Princess in November. (Signed) C. SANDER. Sworn at Lord Grenville's House, in Downing-street, the 7th day of June, 1806. (Signed) ERSKINE, GRENVILLE,

SPENCER, ELLENBOROUGH.

(No. 12.)-The Deposition of Sophia Austin. I know the child which is now with the Princess of Wales; I am the mother of it; I was delivered of it four years ago the 11th of next July, at Brownlow-street Hospital. I have lain in there three times; William, who is with the Princess, is the second child I laid in of there. It was marked in the right hand with red wine. My husband was a labourer in the Dock-yard at Deptford. When peace was proclaimed a number of the workmen were discharged, and my husband was one who was discharged. I went to the Princess with a petition on a Saturday, to try to get my husband restored. I lived at that time at Deptford-new-row, No. 7, with a person of the name of Bearblock; he was a milkman. The day I went to the Princess with the petition was a fortnight before the 6th of November. Mr. Bennet, a baker, in New-street, was our dealer, and I took the child to Mr. Bennet's, when I went to receive my husband's wages, every week, from the time I left the Hospital

till I carried the child to the Princess. I knew Mr. Stikeman only by having seen him once before, when I went to apply for a letter to Brownlow-street Hospital. When I went to Montague-house, I desired Mr. Stikeman to present my petition. He said they were denied to do such things, but seeing me with a baby, he could do no less. He then took the child from me, and was a long time gone; he then brought me back the child, and brought half a guinea, which the Ladies sent me. He said, if the child had been younger, he thought he could have got it taken care of for me, but desired that I would come up again; I went up again on the Monday following, and I saw Mr. Stikeman; Mr. Stikeman afterwards came several times to us, and appointed me to take the child to Montague-house on the 5th of November, but it rained all day, and I did not take it. Mr. Stikeman came down to me ou the Saturday, the 6th of November, and I took the child on that day to the Princess's house. The Princess was out, I waited till she returned; she saw the child, and asked its age. I went down into the coffee room, and they gave me some arrow-root to wean the child, for I was suckling the child at this time, and when I had weaned the child, I was to bring it and leave it with the Princess. I did wean the child, and brought it to the Princess's house on the 15th of November, and left it there, and it has been with the Princess ever since. I saw the child last Whit-Monday, and I swear that it is my child.

(Signed) SOPHIA AUSTIN. Sworn at Lord Grenville's house in Downing-street, the 7th day of June, 1806, before us,

(Signed) ERSKINE, SPENCER, GRENVILLE, ELLENBOROUGH.

(No. 13.)

20th June, 1806.

My Lord,-In consequence of certain inquiries directed by His Majesty, Lady Donglas, wife of Sir John Douglas, of the Marines, has deposed upon oath, that she was told by Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, that at a breakfast at Lady Willoughby's house in May or June, 1802, &c.

[Extract from Lady Douglas's Deposition.] It being material to ascertain, as far as possi ble, the truth of this fact, I am to request that your Lordship will have the goodness to desire Lady Willoughby to put down in writing every circumstance in any manner relative thereto (if any such there be) of which her Ladyship has any recollection; and also to apprize me, for His Mathe course of the above-mentioned year, Lady jesty's information, whether at any time, during Willoughby observed any such alteration in the Princess's shape, or any other circumstances, as might induce her Ladyship to believe that Her Royal Highness was then pregnant.—I am, &c.

(No. 14.)

SPENCER.

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to look after a little child. I understood that
he had been then nine days in the house. I was
narse to the child. One of the Ladies, I think
Miss Sander, delivered the child to me, and
told me Her Royal Highness wished me to take
care of him. The child never slept with the
Princess. I sometimes used to take him to the
Princess before she was up, and leave him with
her on her bed. The child had a mark on the
hand; it appeared to be a stain of wine, but is
now worn out. I was about a year and three
quarters with the child. The mother used to
come often to see him. I never saw the Princess
dress the child, or take off its things herself, but
she has seen me do it. The child is not so much
now with the Princess as he was.

(Signed) ELIZABETH GOSDEN.
Sworn at Lord Grenville's house, in
Downing-street, the 23d day of
June, 1806, before us,

(Signed) ERSKINE, SPENCER,
GRENVILLE, ELLENBOROUGH.

(No. 18.)-The Deposition of Betty Townley.
I lived at Charlton sixteen years, and till
within the last two years I was a laundress, and
used to wash linen for the Princess of Wales's
family. After the Princess left Charlton, and
went to Blackheath, I used to go over to Black-
heath to fetch the linen to wash. I have had
linen from the Princess's house the same as other
Ladies, I mean, that there were such appear
ances on it as might arise from natural causes to
which women are subject. I never washed the
Princess's own bed linen, but once or twice oc-
casionally. I recollect one bundle of linen once
coming, which I thought rather more, marked
than usual. They told me the Princess had been
bled with leeches, and it dirted the linen
more. The servants told me so, but I don't
remember who the servants were that told me
so. I recollect once I came to town and left
the linen with my daughter to wash; I looked at
the clothes slowly before I went, and counted
them, and my daughter and a woman she em-
ployed with her, washed them, while I was in
town. I thought when I looked them over,
that there might be something more than usual;
my opinion was, that it was from a miscarriage,
the linen had the appearance of a miscarriage.
I believed it at the time. They were fine da-
mask napkins, and some of them marked with
a little red crown in the corner, and some with-
out marks. I might mention it to Fanny Lloyd.
I don't recollect when this was, but it must be
more than two years and a half ago, for I did
not wash for the Princess's family but very little
for the last six months. Mary Wilson used to
give me the linen, and I believe it was she who
told me the Princess was bled with leeches, but
the appearance of the linen which I have spoken
of before was different from that which it was
said was stained by bleeding with leeches. I
remember the child coming, I used to wash the
linen for the child; and Mrs. Gosden, who
nursed the child, used to pay me for it. I kept
a book in which I entered the linen I washed. I
am not sure whether I have it still, but if I have,
it is in a chest at my daughter's, at Charlton,
and I will produce it if I can find it.

(No. 19.)-The Deposition of Thomas Edmeades, of
Greenwich, Surgeon and Apothecary.
I am a Surgeon and Apothecary at Green-
wich, and was appointed the Surgeon and Apo
thecary of the Princess of Wales in 1801. From
that time I have attended Her Royal Highness
and her Household. I know Fanny Lloyd who
attended in the coffee-room at the Princess's; I
have frequently attended her for colds. I do
not recollect that I ever said any thing to her
respecting the Princess of Wales; it never once
entered my thoughts, while I attended the
Princess, that she was pregnant; I never said
that she was so to Fanny Lloyd. I have bled
the Princess twice. The second bleeding was
in 1802, and it was in the June quarter, as ap-
pears by the book I kept. I do not know what
she was bled for; it was at her own desire; it
was not by any medical advice. I was unwill-
ing to do it, but she wished it. If I recollect,
she complained of a pain in her chest, but I do
not remember that she had any illness. I did
not use to bleed her twice a year. I certainly
saw Her Royal Highness in November, 1802; I
saw her on the 16th of November, but I had not
any idea of her being then with child. I did not
attend her on the 16th of November, but I saw
her then. I was visiting a child ; (a male child),
from Deptford. I have no recollection of hav
ing seen the Princess in Oct. 1802. The child
must have been from three to five months old,
when I first saw it. I have no recollection of
the Princess having been ill about the end of
October, 1802. I have visited the child very
often since, and I have always understood it to
be the same child. The Princess used some-
times to send for leeches, and had them from
me. I do not think that I attended the Princess,
or saw her often in the Summer and Autumn of
1802. I had not the sole care of the Princess's
health during the time I have spoken of; Sir
Francis Millman attended her occasionally.

(Signed) THOMAS EDMEADES.
Sworn at Lord Grenville's house, in
Downing-street, the 25th day of
June, 1806, before us,

(Signed) ERSKINE, SPENCER, GRENVILLE, ELLENBOROUGH. (No. 20.)-The Deposition of Samuel Gillam Mills, of Greenwich, Surgeon.

I am a Surgeon at Greenwich, have been in partnership with Mr. Edineades since 1800; be fore he was my partner I attended the Princess of Wales's family from the time of her coming to Blackheath froni Charlton; I was appointed by the Princess her Surgeon in April, 1801, by a written appointment, and from that time I never attended Her Royal Highness or any of the servants in my medical capacity, except that I once attended Miss Gouch, and once Miss Millfield; there was a child brought to the Princess while I attended her; I was called upon to examine the child; it was a girl. It must have been in 1801, or thereabouts. The child afterwards had the measles, and I attended her. When first I saw the child I think it must have been about ten months old; it must have been prior to April, 1801. I understood that the child was taken through charity. I remember that there was a female servant who attended in the coffee-room. I never said to that woman, or to any other person, that the Princess was with child, or looked as if she was with child; (Signed) ERSKINE, SPENCER, and I never thought so, or surmised any thing of GRENVILLE, ELLENBOROUGH the kind. I was once sent for by Her Royal

(Signed) B. TOWNLEY. Sworn at Lord Grenville's house, in Dowping-street, the 23d day of June, 1806 before us,

Highness to bleed her; I was not at home, and
Mr. Edmeades bled her. I had bled her two or
three times before, it was by direction of Sir
Francis Millman, it was for an inflammation she
had on the lungs. As much as I knew, it was
not usual for the Princess to be bled twice a
year. I don't know that any other medical
person attended her at the time that I did, nor
do I believe that there did. I don't know that
Sir Francis Millman had advised that she should
be blooded at the time that I was sent for, and
was not at home, nor what was the cause of her
being then blooded. I do recollect something
of having attended the servant, who was in the
coffee-room, for a cold; but I am sure I never
said to her that the Princess was with child, or
looked as if she was so. I have known that the
Princess had frequently sent to Mr. Edmeades'
for leeches. When I saw the female child, Mrs.
Sander was in the room, and some other ser-
vants, but I don't recollect who; I was sent for
to see, whether there was any disease about the
child, to see whether it was a healthy child, as
Her Royal Highness meant to take it under her
patronage; the child could just walk alone. I
saw the child frequently afterwards, it was one
time with Bidgood, and another time with Gos-
den and his wife. I don't recollect that the
Princess was by at any time when I saw the
child; I never saw the child in Montague-house
when I attended it as a patient, but when I was
first sent for to see if the child had any disease,
it was in Montague-house.

(Signed) SAM. GILLAM MILLS,
Sworn at Lord Grenville's house, in
Downing-street, the 25th day of
June, 1806, before us,

(Signed) ERSKINE, SPENCER, GRENVILLE, ELLENBOROUGH. A true Copy, J. Becket.

with him when he was abroad. I don't recollect to have seen him ever early in the morning at the Princess's; I was at Ramsgate with the Princess, Captain Manby may have dined there once, he never slept there to my knowledge, nor do I believe he did. The Princess rises at different hours, seldom before ten or eleven. I never knew her up at six o'clock in the morning. If she had been up so early I should not have known it, not being up so early myself. I remember the Princess giving Captain Manby an ink-stand. He had the care of two boys, whom she protected. I cannot say that Captain Manby did not sleep at South End. He may have slept in the village, but I believe he never slept in the Princess's house. I was at Catherington with the Princess. I remember Her Royal Highness going out in an open carriage with the present Lord Hood; I believe Lord Hood's servant attended them; there was only one servant, and no other carriage with them. I was at Dawlish this summer with the Princess, and afterwards at Mount Edgecumbe. The Princess saw a great deal of company there; Sir Richard Strachan used to come there. I do not know what was the cause of his discontinuing his visits there. I remember Sir Sydney Smith being frequently at Montague-house; he was sometimes there as late as twelve or one o'clock in the morning, but never alone that I know of. The Princess was not in the room when Lady Douglas was brought to-bed; I know she was not, because I was in the room myself when Lady Douglas was delivered. Dr. Mackie, of Lewisham, was the accoucher. I do not recollect Sir Sydney Smith ever being alone with the Princess in the evening. It may have happened, but I do not know that it did. I used to sit with the Princese always in the evening, but not in the morning. I was with the Princess in the Isle of Wight; Mr. Hood and Lord Amelius Beauclerk were there with her she went there from Portsmouth.

(Signed) HARRIET FITZGERALD. Sworn before us at Lord Grenville's house, in Downing-street, the 27th day of June, 1806, before us,

(Signed) ERSKINE, SPENCER, GRENVILLE, ELLENBOROUGH A true copy, J. Becket,

(No. 22.)

(No. 21.)-The Deposition of Harriet Fitzgerald. I came first to live with the Princess of Wales in 1801, merely as a friend and companion, and have continued to live with Her Royal Highness till this time. I know Lady Douglas; I remember her lying in; it happened by accident that Her Royal Highness was in the house at the time of Lady Douglas's delivery. I think it was in July, 1802. I was there myself, the Princess was not in the room at the time Lady Douglas was delivered; there was certainly no appearance of the Princess being pregnant at that time. I saw the Princess at that time every Whitehall, July 1, 1806. day, and at all hours. I believe it to be quite My Lord, The extreme importance of the impossible that the Princess should have been business ou which I have before troubled your with child without my observing it. I never Lordship and Lady Willoughby, makes it the was at a breakfast with the Princess at Lady Wil- indispensable duty of the persons to whom His loughby's. The Princess took a little girl into Majesty has intrusted the inquiry, further to rethe house about nine years ago. I was not in the quest that her Ladyship will have the goodness house at the time. I was in the house when the to return in writing, distinct and separate anboy, who is now there, was brought there. She swers to the enclosed Queries. They beg leave had said before, openly, that she should like to to add, that in the discharge of the trust comhave a child, and she had asked the servant whomitted to them, they have been obliged to exbrought the child, if he knew of any persons who amine upon oath the several persons to whose would part with a child. I was at South End testimony they have thought it right to have rewith the Princess. I remember Captain Manby course on this occasion. They have been unwillbeing there sometimes. He was not there very ing to give Lady Willoughby the trouble of so often; he used to come at different hours as the long a journey for that purpose, well knowing tide served; he dined there, but never stayed the full reliance which may be placed on every late; I was at South End all the time the thing which shall be stated by her Ladyship in Princess was there, I cannot recollect that I this form. But on her return to town it may have seen Captain Manby there, or known him to probably be judged necessary, for the sake of be there later than nine, or half after nine; I uniformity in this most important proceeding, never knew of any correspondence by letter that she should be so good as to confirm on cath,

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(No. 23.)
Sidmouth, July 3, 1806.
My Lord, I immediately communicated to
Lady Willoughby the Queries transmitted to me
in the envelope of a letter dated July the first,
which I had the honour to receive this day from
your Lordship. I return the Queries with Lady
Willoughby's Answers in her own hand-writing.
-We are both truly sensible of your Lord-
ship's kind attention in not requiring Lady Wil-
loughby's personal attendance. She will most
readily obey the order of the Council, should
her presence become necessary.—I have the
honour, &c.

To Earl Spencer, &c. &c. &c.
A true Copy, J. Becket.

Queries.

(No. 24.)

1. Does Lady Wil loughby remember seeing the Princess of Wales at breakfast or dinner at her house, either at Whitehall or Beckenham, on or about the months of May or June, 1802?

2. Has her Ladyship any recollection of the circumstance of Her Royal Highness having retired from the company at such breakfast or dinner, on account, or under the pretence, of having spilt any thing over her handkerchief? And if so, did Lady Willoughby attend her Royal Highness on that occasion? and what then passed between them relative to that circumstance?

3. Had Lady Wil. loughby frequent opportunities in the course of that year to see Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, and at what periods? And did she at any time during the year, observe any appearance, which led her to suspect that the Princess of Wales was pregnant?

4. Is Lady Willoughby acquainted with any other circumstances leading to the same conclusion, or tending to establish the fact of a criminal intercourse or improper familiarity

GWYDIR.

Answers.

1. In the course of the last ten years the Princess of Wales has frequently done me the honour to breakfast and dine at Whitehall, and Langley, in Kent. Her Royal Highness may have been at my house in the months of May or June, 1802, but of the periods at which I had the honour of receiving her, I have no precise recollection.

2. I do not remember her Royal Highness having at any time retired from the company either at Whiteball, or at Langley, under the pretence of having spilt any thing over her handkerchief.

3. To the best of my remembrance I had few opportunities of seeing the Princess of Wales in the year 1802, and I do not recollect having observed any particular circumstances relative to her Royal Highness's appearance.

4. During the ten years I have had the honour of knowing the Princess of Wales, I do not bear in mind a single instance of Her Royal Highness's conduct in society towards

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(No. 25.)—Robert Bidgood's farther Deposition. The Princess used to go out in her phaeton with coachman and helper, towards Long Reach, eight or ten times, carrying luncheon and wine with her, when Captain Manby's ship was at Long Reach; always Mrs. Fitzgerald was with her; she would go out about one, and return about five or six, sometimes sooner or later. The day the Africaine sailed from South End, the Princess ordered us to pack up for Blackheath next morning. Captain Manby was there three times a week, at least, whilst his ship lay for six weeks off South End, at the Nore; he came as tide served; used to come in a morning, and dine, and drink tea. I have seen him next morning, by ten o'clock. I suspected he slept at No. 9, the Princess's. She always put out the candles herself in the drawing-room, at No. 9, and bid me not wait to put them up. She gave me the orders as soon as she went to South End. I used to see water-jugs, basins, and towels set out opposite the Princess's door in the passage. Never saw them so left in the passage at any other time. I suspected he was there at those times, and there was a generat suspicion throughout the house. Mrs. and Miss Fitzgerald there, and Miss Hammond (now Lady Hood). My suspicions arose from seeing them in the glasses kiss each other, as I mention ed before, like people fond of each other, a very close kiss. Her behaviour like that of a wonian attached to a man; used to be by themselves at luncheon at South End, when Ladies not sent for, a number of times. There was a pony which Captain Manby used to ride. It stood in the stable ready for him, and which Sicard used to ride. The servants used to talk and laugh about Captain Manby. It was a matter of dis course amongst them. I lived there when Sir Sidney Smith came; her manner with him ap peared very familiar; she appeared very atten tive to him, but I did not suspect any thing further. All the upper servants had keys of the doors to the Park, to let Her Royal Highness in and out. I used to see Sicard receive letters from Mrs. Sander to put in the post instead of the bag; this was after Captain Manby was gone to sea. I suspected them to be for Captain Mauby, and others in the house supposed the

same.

(Signed) R. BIDGOOD. Sworn before us, in Downing-street, this 3d day of July, 1806. (Signed) ERSKINE, SPENCER,

GRENVILLE, ELLENBOROUGH.

(No. 26.)-Sir Francis Millman's Deposition. I attended the Princess of Wales in the spring, and latter end of the year 1802, i. e. in March and towards the Autumn. Mr. Mills, of Greenwich, attended then as her Royal Highness's Apothecary, and Mr. Mills, and his partner, Mr. Edmeades have attended since. I do not know that any other medical person attended her at that time, either as apothecary or physician. In March, 1802, I attended her for a sore throat and fever. In 1803, in April, I attended her Royal Highness again with Sir Walter Farquhar. I don't know whether she was blooded in 180%,

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"to induce him to drop the matter altogether. "About four or five days after this, Sir Sydney

called upon me again, and informed me, "that upon making use, with Sir John, of "those reasons which I had authorized his "stating to be those by which I was actuated "in making the request that he would not press "the business farther, he had not been able to "resist their force, but, that the whole extent of "promise he had been able to obtain of him, "amounted to no more than that he would, under "existing circumstances, remain quiet, if left un

"not to bring the subject forward hereafter, "when the same motive might no longer operate "to keep him silent. This result I communi"cated, to the best of my recollection, the fol"lowing day, to the Princess, who seemed sa "tisfied with it, and from that day to the pre"sent one, (November 10, 1805,) I never "have heard the subject named again in any "shape, until called upon by the Prince, to "make known to him the circumstances of this "transaction, as far as I could bring them to my "recollection."

"fically telling her that they would in future be dispensed with; that the consequence of this "had been an application, through one of her "Ladies, in the joint names of Sir Sydney" "Smith, Sir John and Lady Douglas, for an "audience, to require an explanation of this," use of those arguments I had brought forward "which they considered as an affront, and that, being determined not to grant it; or to suffer any unpleasant discussion upon the subject, "she entreated me to take whatever steps 1 "might judge best to put an end to the matter, "and rid her of all farther trouble about it. I "stated in reply, that I had no knowledge of either Sir John or Lady Douglas, and there"fore could not, in the first instance, address "myself to them, but that I had some ac"quaintance with Sir Sydney Smith, and if the Princess was not averse to that channel, I "would try what I could in that way effect."molested, for that he would not pledge himself "This being assented to by the Princess, I took my leave, and immediately on my return home, wrote a note to Sir Sydney Smith, re"questing him to call on me as soon as he conve"niently could, as I had some business to speak "to him upon. Sir Sydney in consequence "called on me (I think) the next day, when I "related to him the conversation, as above "stated, that I had had with the Princess. After "hearing all I had to say, he observed, that the "Princess, in stating to me that her prohibition "to Lady Douglas to repeat her visits at Blackheath, had led to the application for an au"dience of Her Royal Highness, had kept from me the real cause why he, as well as Sir John "and Lady Douglas, had made it, as it origi"nated in a most scandalous anonymous letter, "of a nature calculated to set on Sir John and "him to cut each other's throats, which, from "the hand-writing and style, they were both fully convinced was the production of the "Princess herself. I naturally expressed my "sentiments upon such conduct, on the part of the Princess, in terms of the strongest animad"version; but, nevertheless, anxious to avoid the shameful eclat which the publication of "such a fact to the world must produce, the ef"fect which its coming to the King's knowledge "would probably have on his health, from the delicate state of his nerves, and all the ad"ditional misunderstandings between His Ma-, "jesty and the Prince, which I foresaw would (6 inevitably follow, were this fact, which would "give the Prince so powerful a handle to 26 express his feelings upon the countenance "shewn by the King to the Princess, at a time. "when I knew him to be severely wounded by "His Majesty's visits to Blackheath on the one "hand, and the reports he had received of the "Princess's conduct, on the other, to be brought "to light, I felt it my bounden duty, as an "honest man, to urge all these arguments with "Sir Sydney Smith in the most forcible manner "I was master of, adding also as a farther object, "worthy of the most serious consideration, the "danger of any appearance of ill blood in the “family at such an eventful crisis, and to press upon his mind the necessity of his using his "best endeavours with Sir John Douglas, not "withstanding all the provocation that had been "given them, to induce him to let the matter "drop, and pursue it no farther, Sir Sydney "observed to me, that Sir John Douglas was a "man whom, when once he had taken a line. ❝ from a principle of honour, it was very difficult "to persuade him to depart from it; however,

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And now having fulfilled what the Prince wished me to do, to the best of my abilities, in case hereafter any one by whom a narrative of all the circumstances as related by Sir John and Lady Douglas, of whom I was informed by my brother, subsequent to our conversation, should imagine that I know more of them than I have herein stated, I hereby spontaneously declare, that what I have written is the whole extent of what I was apprized of, and had the Princess thought proper to inform me of what, in the Narrative of the Information given by Sir John and Lady Douglas, is alluded to, I should have felt myself obliged to decline all interference in the business, and to have at the same time stated to her, that it would be impossible for me to keep a mat ter of such importance from the knowledge of the Prince. (Signed); EDWARD.

Dec. 27, 1805.

A true copy, B. Bloomfield, A true copy, J, Becket,
Whitehall, 29th August, 1806.

APPENDIX (B.)

No. 3.--For the purpose of confirming the State. ment, made by Lady Douglas, of the Cir cumstances mentioned in her Narrative, the following Examinations have been taken, and which have been signed by the several Persons who have been examined.

SARAH LAMPERT.

N. B. This witness was not examined by the Commissioners; at least, no copy of any examination of her's was transmitted with the other papers; and no observation is made in the Report of the Commis sioners, or in the answer of Her Royal Highness upon her examinations. It has, therefore, been thought that there was no necessity for publishing them. There are two of them; one dated at Chelten ham, 8th January, 1806; the other with no date of place, but dated 29th March, 1806.

MR. WILLIAM LAMPERT. N. B. The same observations apply to Mr. Wil liam Lampert's Examination, as to those of his wife,

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