The Royal Wanderer, Or Secret Memoirs of Caroline: The Whole Founded on Recent Facts, and Containing Among Other Things, an Authentic and Hitherto Unpublished Account of Court-cabals, and Royal Travels, Tom 1H. Rowe, 1820 - 860 |
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Strona 510 - Lloyd, and Mrs. Lisle, your Majesty will perceive that several strong circumstances of this description have been positively sworn to by witnesses, who cannot, in our judgment, be suspected of any unfavourable bias, and whose veracity, in this respect, we have seen no ground to question.
Strona 511 - ... which we now refer, particularly those stated to have passed between her Royal Highness and Captain Manby, must be credited until they shall receive some decisive contradiction; and, if true, are justly entitled to the most serious consideration. We cannot close this Report without humbly assuring your Majesty, that it was on every account our anxious wish to have executed this delicate trust with as little publicity as the nature of the case would possibly allow ; and we entreat your Majesty's...
Strona 506 - ... of the informants, the following most important facts, viz.: That her royal highness had been pregnant in the year 1802, in consequence of an illicit intercourse, and that she had in the same year been secretly delivered of a male child, which child had ever since that period been brought up by her royal highness, in her own house, and under b.er immediate inspection.
Strona 508 - We accordingly first examined on oath the principal informants, Sir John Douglas, and Charlotte his wife ; who both positively swore, the former to his having observed the fact of the pregnancy of her royal highness, and the latter to all the important particulars contained in her former declarations, and above referred to. Their examinations are annexed to this report, and are circumstantial and positive.
Strona 507 - ... possibility affecting the succession of your Majesty's Crown. Your Majesty had been pleased, on your part, to view the subject in the same light, considering it as a matter which, on every account, demanded the most immediate investigation. Your Majesty had thought fit to commit into...
Strona 506 - ... copies of whose depositions we have hereunto annexed; and, in further execution of the said commands we now most respectfully submit to your majesty the report of these examinations as it has appeared to us: but we beg leave at the same time humbly to refer your majesty, for more complete information, to the examinations themselves, in order to correct any error of judgment into which we may have unintentionally fallen with respect to any part of this business.
Strona 510 - Inquiry, as distinctly as on the former facts: that as, on the one hand, the facts of pregnancy and delivery are, to our minds, satisfactorily disproved, so, on the other hand, •we think that the circumstances to which we now refer, particularly those stated to have passed between her Royal Highness and Captain Manby, must be credited until they shall receive some decisive contradiction ; and, if true, are justly entitled to the most serious consideration.
Strona 508 - ... our duty to follow up the inquiry by the examination of such other persons as we judged best able to afford us information, as to the facts in question.
Strona 509 - Hospital, on the 11th day of July, 1802, of the body of Sophia Austin, and was first brought to the Princess's house, in the month of November following.
Strona 507 - ... the painful situation in which his Royal Highness was placed by these communications, we learnt that his Royal Highness had adopted the only course which could, in our judgment, with propriety be followed...