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CHAPTER. VIII.

Depositions of Mary Ann Wilson-Samuel Roberts-Thomas Stikeman John Sicard-Char lotte Sander-Sophia Austin, in favour of her Royal Highness

MARY ANN WILSON deposed, that to the best of her knowledge it will be ten years next quarter, that she lived with the princess of Wales, as house-maid; she waits on the ladies who attend the princess; she remembers when the child, who is now with the princess, was brought there. Before it came she heard say that it was to come. The mother brought the child. It appeared to be about four months old when it was brought; she remembers twins being brought to the princess, before this child was brought, She never noticed the princess's shape to be different in that year from what it was before. She never had thought that the princess was with child. She has heard it

reported. It is a good while ago.

She never herself suspected her being with child. She thinks she could not have been with child, and have

gone on to her time, without her knowing it. She was at Southend with the princess. Captain Manby used to visit the princess there. She made the

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princess's bed, and has been in the habit of making it ever since she lived with her Royal Highness. Another maid, whose name is Ann Bye, assisted with her in making the bed.

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served she never had any reason two persons had slept in the bed. any particular appearance in it. washed by Stikeman's wife.

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Samuel Roberts deposed, that he is a footman to the princess of Wales. He remembers the child being taken by the princess. He never observed any particular appearance of the princess in that year-nothing that led him to believe that she was with child. Sir Sidney Smith used to visit the princess at Blackheath. He never saw him alone with the princess. He (sir Sidney) never staid after eleven o'clock Deponent recollects Mr. Cole once asking him, he thinks, three years ago, whether there were any favourites in the family. He remembers saying that Captain Manby and sir Sidney Smith were frequently at Blackheath, and dined there oftener than other persons. He never knew sir Sidney Smith stay later than the ladies. He cannot say exactly at what hour he went, but deponent never remembers his staying alone with the princess.

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Thomas Stikeman deposed, that he has been inpage to the princess of Wales ever since she has been in England. When he first saw the child who is with the princess, it was about four years ago. Her royal highness had a strong desire to have an infant, which he and all the house knew. He heard there was a woman who had twins, one of which the princess was desirous to have, but the parents would not part with it. A woman came to the door with a petition to get her husband replaced in the dock-yard, who had been removed. She had a child with her. Deponent took the child, he believes, and shewed it to Mrs. Sander. He then returned the child to the woman, and made inquries after the father, and afterwards desired the woman to bring the child again to the house, which she did. The child was taken to the princess. After the princess had seen it, she desired the woman to take it again, and bring it back in a few days, and Mrs. Sander was desired to provide linen for it. Within a few days the child was brought again by the mother, and was left, and has been with the princess ever since. Deponent doesn't recollect the child had any mark; but upon reflection he does recollect that the mother said he was marked with elderwine on the hand. The father of the child, whose name is Austin, lives with deponent at Pimlico. Deponent's wife is a laundress, and washed the

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linen of the prince. Austin is employed to turn a mangle for deponent. The child was born in Brownlow-street, and it was baptized there; but he only knows this from the mother. The mother 'has since lain-in a second time in Brownlow-street, He never saw the woman to his knowledge before she came with the petition to the door. He had no particular directions by the princess to procure 'à child; he thought it better to take the child of persons of good character, than the child of a pauper. Nothing led him, from the appearance of the princess, to suppose that she was with child, but from her shape it is difficult to judge when she is with child. When she was with child of the princess Charlotte, deponent should not have known it, when she was far advanced in her time, if he had not been told it. Sir Sidney Smith at one time visited very frequently at Montague house, two or three times a week. At the time the prin'cess was altering her rooms in the Turkish style, sir Sidney Smith's visits were very frequent. The princess consulted him upon them. Mr. Morrell was the upholsterer. Sir Sidney Smith came frequently alone. He stayed alone with the princess, sometimes till eleven o'clock at night. He has been there till twelve o'clock, and after he believes alone with the princess. The princess is of that lively vivacity, that she makes herself familiar with gentlemen, which prevented deponent's

being struck with his staying so late. He does not believe that at that time any other gentleman visited the princess so frequently, or stayed so late: He has seen the princess, when they were alone, sitting with sir Sidney Smith on the same sofa in the blue room. He had access to the blue room at all times. There was an inner room which opened into the blue room. When that room was not lighted up, he did not go into it, and did not consider that he had a right to go into it. He had no idea on what account he was brought here. He did not know that the princess's con duct was questioned or questionable. He was with the princess at Ramsgate. When she was at East Cliff, captain Manby was very frequently there; went away as late as eleven o'clock at night. He doesn't remember Fanny Lloyd being called up any morning to make breakfast for the princess: he did not like captain Manby coming so often, and staying so late, and he was uneasy at it. He remembers a piece of plate, a silver lamp, being sent to captain Manby. He saw it in Sicard's possession. He told deponent it was for captain Manby, and he had a letter to send with it. Deponent has never seen captain Manby at the prin cess's at Ramsgate before nine o'clock in the morning, but he has heard he has been there earlier. He had never any suspicions of there being any thing improper, either from the fre

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