gratitude, and honor, which the prince, the legislature, or the people, could express. He had never yet taken his seat in the house of lords, and now at his first introduction was placed in the highest rank of the peerage, his various patents of viscount, earl, marquis, and duke, being read on the same day. Here he received the thanks and congratulations of the house, on his return from his command, and for the great, signal, and eminent services which he had so repeatedly rendered to his majesty and to the public. The house of commons appointed a deputation to congratulate him on his return; and the duke on the 1st of July, 1814, attended in the house in person to express his thanks. This was a memorable scene. All the Embers, uncovered, rose, and enthusiastically cheered him as he entered. The speaker, in an admirable address, touched co those parts of his military character for which Wellington is more peculiarly to be presed-the implicit faith which he comunicates to his soldiers, the confidence be bad ever felt in himself and his cause, and the skill with which he had united 27nies of sneh different and discordant materals "It is not," said the speaker, "the grandeur of military success, which has me fixed our admiration or commanded car applause; it has been that generous and lofty spirit which inspired your troops with unbounded confidence, and taught them to know that the day of battle was ways a day of victory that moral and endaring fortitude which in perilons times, when gloom and doubt had beset ordinary ds, stood nevertheless nushaken; and that ascendancy of character which, uniting the energies of jealous and rival nations, enabled you to wield at will the fate and fetnnes of mighty empires." The dake on Les part expressed his admiration of the great efforts made by the house and by the antry in times of unexampled press and difficulty, for supporting on scale those operations by which the had been brought to so happy The occasion ind forth all the efforts of the were adequate er cess could not be doubtful when those mighty means were entrusted to hands which could direct them so well. In the midst of the general exultation at the late propitious concurrence of events, the people of England were complimented and gratified by a visit from the emperor of Russia and king of Prussia, accompanied by a numerous train of illustrious attendants. The duchess of Oldenburgh, sister to the emperor Alexander, received his imperial majesty at the Pulteny Hotel, where he established his temporary residence. The king of Prussia was accommodated with apartments in Clarence House. If the sedate and melancholy aspect of the Prussian monarch commanded respect, the elegant person, the polished manners, and the condescending demeanour of the emperor captivated every class of society, and especially the fair sex. He was every where welcomed as he passed with loud and heartfelt acclamations. The frank and gallant Blucher was an object of peculiar attraction to the multitude. The crowd, assembled to witness his visit to the prince regent, lost all respect for the decorum of Cariton-house, and, partly by force, and partly by permission, were admitted into the hall. When the prince regent returned with Blucher from his private apartments, he stopped in the centre of the grand hall, surrounded by the people, and placed on the general's shoulder a blue ribbon, to which was hung a beautiful medallion, with a likeness of the prince richly set with diamonds. Marshal Blucher knelt while the prince was conferring this honor, and on his rising kissed the prince's hand. The prince and the general bowed to the public, who returned their conde scension by reiterated plaudits. It would be equally impossible and te dious to describe the illuminations, the festivities, the dinners, and the re Juch these gust personages endte by their presENCE ns, bowever luxurious accommodations provided by the prince' regent, and were contented to repose on a simple mattrass. Nor did all the magnificence of a Guildhall feast seem to possess the attraction of an Oxonian chapel, or an ingenious manufactory. Even the promise of a civic jubilee, under the immediate superintendance of the prince regent, had no charms for them; and, by a timely departure for their own countries, at the latter end of the month of June, they escaped the disgust and amazement that must have been excited by the vulgar, licentious, and tawdry spectacle, exhibited in the parks. From one individual alone, of all the joyous and exulting nation, were the gaiety and magnificence of this exhilirating period totally withheld. In this moment of Europe's deliverance, the prince regent caused his mother to prohibit the princess of Wales from appearing at her majesty's drawing rooms: the princess, in her reply, acquiesced in the distressing prohibition from a regard to the queen's feelings, but maintained her right, originating in her rank and character, to appear before her majesty. The princess of Wales then addressed her husband and enclosed him copies of her correspondence with the queen. She declared that she owed it to herself, to her daughter, and to the nation, to whom she was deeply indebted for the vindication of her honor, to remind his royal highness, that, after open persecution and mysterious enquiries, upon undefined charges, the malice of the world fell entirely upon themselves; and that she had been restored by the king, with the advice of his ministers, to the full enjoyment of her rank in his court, upon her complete acquittal. majesty. It would be in vain for me to inquire into the reasons of the alarming declaration made by your royal highness, that you have taken the fixed and unalterable determination never to meet me, upon any occasion, either in public or private. Of these your royal highness is pleased to state yourself to be the only judge. You will perceive by my answer to her majesty, that I have only been restrained by motives of personal consideration towards her majesty, from exercising my right of appearing before her majesty, at the public drawing-rooms, to be held in the ensuing mouth. But, sir, lest it should be by possibility supposed, that the words of your royal highness can convey any insinuation from which I shrink, I am bound to demand of your royal highness-what circumstances can justify the proceeding you have thus thought fit to adopt? 66 66 "I owe it to myself, to my daughter, and to the nation, to which I am deeply indebted for the vindication of my honor, to remind your royal highness of what you know; that after open persecution and mysterious inquiries, upon undefined charges, the malice of my enemies fell entirely upon themselves; and that I was restored by the king, with the advice of his ministers, to the full enjoyment of my rank in his court, upon my complete acquittal. Since his majesty's lamented illness, I have demanded, in the face of parliament and the country, to be proved guilty, or to be treated as innocent-I have been declared innocent-I will not submit to be treated as guilty. Sir, your royal highness may possibly refuse to read this letter. But the world must know that I have written it; and they will see my real motives for foregoing, in this instance, the rights of my rank. Occasions, however, may arise, (one, I trust, is far distant) when I must appear in public, and your royal highness must be present also. Can your royal highness have contemplated the full extent of your declaration? Has your royal highness forgotten the approaching marriage of our daughter, and the possibility of our coronation? "I wave my rights in a case where I am not absolutely bound to assert them, in order to relieve the queen, as far as I can, from the paiurul situation in which she is placed by your royal highness; not from any consciousness of blame, not from any doubt of the existence of those rights, or of my own worthiness to enjoy them. may be distinctly understood, for reasons of which he alone can be the judge, to be his fixed and unalterable determination not to meet the princess of Wales upon any occasion, either in public or private. "The queen is thus placed under the painful necessity of intimating to the princess of Wales the impossibility of her ma. jesty's receiving her royal highness at her drawing-rooms. "CHARLOTTE, R." THE QUEEN. "Madam,-I have received the letter which your majesty has done me the honor to address to me, prohibiting my appearance at the public drawing-rooms which will be held by your majesty in the ensuing month, with great surprise and regret. Sir, the time you have selected for this proceeding is calculated to make it peculiarly galling. Many illustrious strangers are already arrived in England; amongst others, as I am informed, the illustrious heir of the house of Orange, who ANSWER OF THE PRINCESS OF WALES TO has announced himself to me as my future son-in-law. From their society I am unjustly excluded. Others are expected, of rank equal to your own, to rejoice with your royal highness in the peace of Europe. My daughter will, for the first time, appear in the splendor and publicity becoming the approaching nuptials of the presumptive heiress of this empire. This season your royal highness has chosen for treating me with fresh and unprovoked indignity and of all his majesty's subjects, I alone am prevented by your royal highness from appearing in my place, to partake of the general joy, and am deprived of the indulgence in those feelings of pride and affection, permitted to every mother but me. "I am, sir, "Your royal highness's faithful wife, "CAROLINE, P." Connaught House, May 26th, 1814. (Inclosures.) THE QUEEN TO THE PRINCESS OF WALES: "Windsor Castle, May 23rd, 1814. "The queen considers it to be her duty to lose no time in acquainting the princess of Wales, that she has received a communication from her son, the prince regent, in which he states, that her majesty's intention of holding two drawing-rooms in the ensuing month, having been notified to the public, he must declare, that he considers that his own presence at her court cannot be dispensed with; and that he desires it "I will not presume to discuss with your majesty, topics which must be as painful to your majesty as to myself. Your majesty is well acquainted with the affectionate regard with which the king was so kind as to honor me, up to the period of his majesty's indisposition, which no one of his majesty's subjects has so much cause to lament as myself and that his majesty was graciously pleased to bestow upon me the most unequivocal and gratifying proof of his attachment and approbation, by his public reception of me at his court, at a season of severe and unmerited affliction, when his protection was most necessary to me. There I have since uninterruptedly paid my respects to your majesty. I am now without appeal or protector. But I cannot so far forget my duty to the king and to myself, as to surrender my right to appear at any public drawing-room to be held by your majesty. "That I may not, however, add to the difficulty and uneasiness of your majesty's situation, I yield in the presence instance to the will of his royal highness the prince regent, announced to me by your majesty, and shall not present myself at the drawingrooms of the next month. "It would be presumptuous in me to attempt to inquire of your majesty, the reasons of his royal highness the prince regent for this harsh proceeding, of which his royal highness can alone be the judge. I am unconscious of offence; and in that reflection, I must endeavour to find consolation for all the mortifications I experience; even for this, the last, the most unexpected, and the most severe; the prohibition given to me alone, to appear before your majesty, to offer my congratulations upon the happy termination of those calamities with which Europe has been so long afflicted, in the presence of the illustrious personages who will in all probability be assembled at your majesty's court, with whom I am so closely connected by birth and marriage. "I beseech your majesty to do me an act of justice, to which, in the present circumstances, your majesty is the only person competent, by acquainting those illustrious strangers with the motives of personal consideration towards your majesty which alone induce me to abstain from the exercise of my right to appear before your majesty and that I do now, as I have done at all times, defy the malice of my enemies to fix upon me the shadow of any one imputation which could render me unworthy of their society or regard. "Your majesty will, I am sure, not be displeased that I should relieve myself from a suspicion of disrespect towards your majesty, by making public the cause of my absence from court, at a time when the duties of my station would otherwise peculiarly demand my attendance. "I have the honor to be, your majesty's "Most obedient daughter-in-law, "And servant, "CAROLINE, P." Connaught House, May 24th, 1814. THE QUEEN TO THE PRINCESS OF WALES. Windsor Castle, May 25th, 1814. "The queen has received, this afternoon, the princess of Wales's letter of yesterday, in reply to the communication which she was desired by the prince regent to make to her; and she is sensible of the dispo sition expressed by her royal highness not to discuss with her, topics which must be painful to both. "The queen considers it incumbent upon her to send a copy of the princess of Wales's letter to the prince regent; and her majesty could have felt no hesitation in communicating to the illustrious strangers who may possibly be present at her court, the circumstances which will prevent the princess of Wales from appearing there, if her royal highness had not rendered a compliance with her wish to this effect unnecessary, by intimating her intention of making public the cause of her absence. CHARLOTTE, R." 66 THE ANSWER OF THE PRINCESS OF WALES TO THE QUeen. "The princess of Wales has the hono to acknowledge the receipt of a note from the queen, dated yesterday; and begs permission to return her best thanks to her majesty, for her gracious condescension, in the willingness expressed by her majesty, to have communicated to the illustrious strangers, who will in all probability be present at her majesty's court, the reasons which have induced her royal highness not to be present. "Such communication, as it appears to her royal highness, cannot be the less necessary on account of any publicity which it may be in the power of her royal highness to give to her motives; and the princess of Wales, therefore, entreats the active good offices of her majesty, upon an occa sion wherein the princess of Wales feels it so essential to her that she should not be misunderstood. "CAROLINE P." Connaught-place, May 26th, 1814. THE QUEEN TO THE PRINCESS OF WALES. Windsor Castle, May 27th, 1814. "The queen cannot omit to acknow ledge the receipt of the princess of Wales's note, of yesterday, although it does not |