royal highness could never have wished for a more authentic attestation, if she had conceived that they were authenticated under such signature. But she could not think that the mere signature of his lordship, on the outside of the envelope which contained them, could afford any authenticity to the thirty papers which that envelope contained; or could, in any manner, identify any of those papers as having been contained in that envelope. And she had felt herself confirmed in that opinion by his lordship's saying, in his note of the 20th inst." that the reason of their not having been authenticated by the lord chancellor was, that he received them as copies from earl Spencer, who was in possession of the originals, and he could not therefore with propriety do so, not having himself compared them.

"Her royal highness takes this opportunity of acknowledging the receipt of the declarations referred to in the commissioners' report." "To the Lord Chancellor,"

The Answer

"Lincoln's Inn Field's, Sept. 2d, 1806.

"The lord chancellor has taken the earliest opportunity in his power of complying with the wishes of her royal highness the princess of Wales. He made the promise of other copies, without any communication with the other commissioners, wholly from a desire to shew every kind of respect

and accommodation to her royal highness, in any thing consistent with his duty, and not at all from any idea that the papers, as originally sent, (though there might be errors in the copying) were not sufficiently authenticated. An opinion which he is obliged to say he is not removed from; nevertheless the lord chancellor has a pleasure in conforming to her royal highness's wishes, and has the honour to inclose the attested copies of the depositions, as he has received them from earl Spencer. "To her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales."

"SIRE,

To the King.

"Impressed with the deepest sentiments of gratitude for the countenance and protection which I have hitherto uniformly received from your majesty, I approach you, with a heart undismayed, upon this occasion, so awful and momentous to my character, my honour, and my happiness. I should indeed, (under charges such as have now been brought against me,) prove myself undeserving of the continuance of that countenance and protection, and altogether unworthy of the high station which I hold in your majesty's illustrious family, if I sought for any partiality, for any indulgence, for any thing more than what is due to me in justice. My entire confidence in your majesty's virtues assures me that I cannot meet with less.

The R. Hanb!" Spencer Percevar . the able Defender of Her Majesty in

in 1806.

"The situation which I have been so happy as to hold in your majesty's good opinion and esteem; my station in your majesty's august family; my life, my honour, and through mine, the honour of your majesty's family have been attacked. Sir John and lady Douglas have attempted to support a direct and precise charge, by which they have dared to impute to me the enormous guilt of high treason, committed in the foul crime of adultery. In this charge, the extravagance of their malice has defeated itself. The report of the lords commissioners, acting under your majesty's warrant, has most fully cleared me of that charge. But there remain imputations, strangely sanctioned, and countenanced by that report, on which I cannot remain silent without incurring the most fatal consequences to my honour and character. For it states to your majesty, that "the circumstances detailed against me must be credited, till they are decisively contradicted."

"To contradict, with as much decision as the con tradiction of an accused can convey; to expose the injustice and malice of my enemies; to shew the utter impossibility of giving credit to their testimony; and to vindicate my own innocence, will be the objects, Sire, of this letter. In the course of my pursuing these objects, I shall have much to complain of, in the substance of the proceeding itself, and much in the manner of conducting it.