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prior to April, 1801. He understood that the child was taken through charity. He remembers that there was a female servant who attended in the coffee-room. He never said to that woman, or to any other person, that the princess was with child, or looked as if she was with child, and he never thought so, or surmised any thing of the kind. He was once sent for by her royal highness, to bleed her. He was not at home, and Mr. Edmeades bled her. He had bled her two or three times before; it was by direction of sir Francis Milman. It was for an inflammation she had on the lungs. As much as he knew, it was not usual for the princess to be bled twice a year. He doesn't know that any other medical person attended her at the time that he did, nor does he believe that there did. He doesn't know that sir Francis Milman had advised that she should be blooded at the time that he was sent for and was not at home, nor what was cause of her being then blooded. He does recollect something of having attended the servant who was in the coffee-room, for a cold, but he is sure he never said to her that the princess was with child, or looked as if she was so. He has known that the princess has frequently sent to Mr. Edmeades for leeches.. When he saw the femal child, Mrs. Sander was in the room, and some other servants, but he doesn't recollect who. He was sent for to see whether there was any disease

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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. He saw the child frequently afterwards. It was at one time with Bidgood, and another time with Gosden and his wife. He doesn't recollect that the princess was by at any time when he saw the child. He never saw the child in Montague house when he attended it as a patient, but when he was first sent for to see if the child had any disease, it was in Montague house.

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Harriet Fitzgerald deposed, that she came first to live with the princess of Wales in 1801, merely as a friend and companion, and has continued to live with her royal highness to this time. She knows lady Douglas. She remembers her lying-in. It happened by accident that her royal highness was in the house at the time of lady Douglas's delivery. She thinks it was in July, 1802. She was there herself. 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. She saw the princess at that time every day, and at all hours. She believes it to be quite impossible that the princess should have been with child without her observing it. She never was at a breakfast with the princess at lady Willoughby's. The princess took a

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house when the boy, who is now there, was brought there. She had said before, openly, that she should like to have a child, and she had asked the servant who brought the child, if he knew of any persons who would part with a child. She was at Southend with the princess. She remembers captain Manby being there sometimes. He was not there very often. He used to come at different hours, as the tide served. He dined there, but never stayed late. She was at Southend all the time the princess was there. She cannot recollect that she has seen captain Manby there, or kuown him to be there, later than nine, or half after nine. never knew of any correspondence by letter with him when he was abroad. She does not recollect to have seen him ever early in the morning at the princess's. She was at Ramsgate with the princess. Captain Manby may have dined there once. He never slept there to her knowledge, nor does she believe he did. The princess rises at different hours, seldom before ten or eleven. She never knew her up at six o'clock in the morning. If she had been up so early she should not have known it, not being up so early herself. She remembers the princess giving captain Manby an ink-stand. He had the care of two boys whom she protected. She can't say that captain Manby did not sleep at

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