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SIRE,

Montague House, Jan. 29th, 1807.

I HASTEN to acknowledge the receipt of the paper, which, by your Majesty's direction, was yesterday transmitted to me, by the Lord Chancellor, and to express the unfeigned happiness, which I have derived from one part of it. I mean that, which informs me that your Majesty's confidential servants have, at length, thought proper to communicate to your Majesty, their advice, “that it is "no longer necessary for your Majesty to decline "receiving me into your Royal presence." And I, therefore, humbly hope, that your Majesty will be graciously pleased to receive, with favour, the communication of my intention to avail myself, with your Majesty's permission, of that advice, for the purpose of waiting upon your Majesty on Monday next, if that day should not be inconvenient; when I hope again to have the happiness of throwing myself, in filial duty and affection, at your Majesty's feet.

Your Majesty will easily conceive, that I reluctantly name so distant a day as Monday, but I do not feel myself sufficiently recovered from the measles, to venture upon so long a drive at an earlier day. Feeling, however, very anxious, to receive again as soon as possible, that blessing, of which I have been so long deprived, if that day should happen to be, in any degree, inconvenient I humbly entreat, and implore, your Majesty's most

gracious and paternal goodness, to name some other day, as early as possible, for that purpose.

I am, &c.

(Signed)

To the King.

C. P.

Windsor Castle, January 29th, 1807.

THE King has this moment received the Princess of Wales's letter, in which she intimates her intention of coming to Windsor on Monday next; and his Majesty, wishing not to put the Princess to the inconvenience of coming to this place, so immediately after her illness, hastens to acquaint her, that he shall prefer to receive her in London, upon a day subsequent to the ensuing week, which will also better suit His Majesty, and of which he will not fail to apprize the Princess.

(Signed)

To the Princess of Wales.

GEORGE R.

Windsor Castle, February 10, 1807.

As the Princess of Wales may have been led to expect, from the King's letter to her, that he would fix an early day for seeing her, His Majesty thinks it right to acquaint her, that the Prince of Wales, upon receiving the several documents, which the King directed his Cabinet to transmit to him, made a formal commnnication to him, of his intention to put them into the hands of his lawyers; accompa

nied by a request, that His Majesty would suspend any further steps in the business, until the Prince of Wales should be enabled to submit to him, the statement which he proposed to make. The King therefore considers it incumbent upon him to defer naming a day to the Princess of Wales, until the further result of the Prince's intention shall have been made known to him.

(Signed)

To the Princess of Wales.

GEORGE R.

Montague House, February 12th, 1807.

SIRE,

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I RECEIVED yesterday, and with inexpressible pain, your Majesty's last communication. The duty of stating, in a representation to your Majesty, the various grounds, upon which, I feel the hardship of my case, and upon which I confidently think that, upon a review of it, your Majesty will be disposed to recal your last determination, is a duty I owe to myself: and I cannot forbear, at the moment when I acknowledge your Majesty's letter, to announce to your Majesty, that I propose to execute that duty without delay.

After having suffered the punishment of banishment from your Majesty's presence, for seven months, pending an Inquiry, which your Majesty had directed, into my conduct, affecting both my life and my honour;-after that Inquiry had, at length, terminated in the advice of your Majesty's

confidential and sworn servants, that there was no longer any reason for your Majesty's declining to receive me ;-if after your Majesty's gracious communication, which led me to rest assured that your Majesty would appoint an early day to receive me;

if after all this, by a renewed application on the part of The Prince of Wales, upon whose communication the first Inquiry had been directed, I now find that that punishment, which has been inflicted, pending a seven months Inquiry before the determination, should, contrary to the opinion of your Majesty's servants, be continued after that determination, to await the result of some new proceeding, to be suggested by the lawyers of the Prince of Wales; it is impossible that I can fail to assert to your Majesty, with the effect due to truth, that I am, in the consciousness of my innocence, and with a strong sense of my unmeritted sufferings,

Your Majesty's most dutiful, and most
affectionate, but much injured Subject
and Daughter-in-law,

To the King.

SIRE,

(Signed)

C. P.

By my short letter to Your Majesty of the 12th instant, in answer to Your Majesty's communication of the 10th, I notified my intention of representing to Your Majesty the various grounds, on which I felt the hardship of my case; and, a review of which, I confidently hoped, would dispose

Your Majesty to recal your determination to adjourn, to an indefinite period, my receptson into Your Royal Presence; a determination, which, in addition to all the other pain which it brought along with it, affected me with the disappointment of hopes, which I had fondly cherished, with the most perfect confidence, because they rested on Your Majesty's gracious assurance.

Independently, however, of that communication from your Majesty, I should have felt myself bound to have troubled Your Majesty with much of the contents of the present letter.

Upon the receipt of the paper which, by Your Majesty's commands, was transmitted to me by the Lord Chancellor, on the 28th of last month, and which communicated to me the joyful intelligence, that Your Majesty was "advised, that it "was no longer necessary for you to decline re"ceiving me into Your Royal Presence," I conceived myself necesrarily called upon to send an immediate answer to so much of it as respected that intelligenee. I could not wait the time, which it would have required, to state those observations, which it was impossible for me to refrain from making, at some period, upon the other important particulars which that paper contained. Accordingly, I answered it immediately; and, as Your Majesty's gracious and instant reply of last Thursday fortnight, announced to me your pleasure, that I should be received by Your Majesty, on a day subsequent to the then ensuing week, I was led most confidently to assure myself, that the last

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