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furnished with a copy of the report, that I should also see this essential part of the proceeding, the foundation on which it rests.

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"Secondly, That I may be informed whether I have one or more, and how many accusers; and, who they are; as the weight and credit of the accusation cannot but be much affected by the quarter from whence it originates

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Thirdly, That I may be informed of the time when the declarations were made. For the weight and credit of the accusation must, also, be much affected by the length of time which my accusers may have been contented to have been the silent depositories of those heavy, matters of guilt and charge, And, ong Hade 1 turf

Lastly, That your majesty's goodness will secure to me a speedy return of these papers, accompanied, I trust, with the further information which I have solicited; but at all events a speedy return of them. And your majesty will see, that it is not without reason that I make this last request, when your majesty is informed, that though the report appears to have been made upon the 14th of July, yet it was not sent to me till the 11th of the present month. A similar delay, I should, of all things, deplore. For it is with reluctance that I yield to those suggestions, which have induced me to lay these, my bumble requests, before your majesty, since they must, at all events

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in some degree, delay the arrival of that moment to which I look forward with so earnest and eager an impatience; when I confidently feel I shall completely satisfy your majesty, that the whole of these charges are alike unfounded, as are all parts of the same conspiracy against me. Your majesty, so satisfied, will, I can have no doubt, be as anxious as myself to secure to me that redress which the laws of your kingdom (administering, under your majesty's just dispensation, equal protection and justice to every description of your majesty's subjects,) are prepared to afford to those who are so deeply injured as I have been. That I have in this case the strongest claim to your majesty's justice, I am confident I shall prove: but I cannot, as I am advised, so satisfactorily establish that claim, till your majesty's goodness shall have directed me to be furnished with an authentic statement of the actual charges against me, and that additional information which it is the object of this letter most humbly, yet earnestly to implore.

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"Your majesty's most dutiful, submissive, and humble daughter-in-law,

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The following notes were afterwards sent by the lord Chancellor to the princess of Wales

Aug. 20th, 1806 The lord chancellor has the honour to return to her royal highness the princess of Wales the box, as he received it this morning from his majesty. It contains the papers he formerly sent to her royal highness, and which he sends as they are, thinking that it may be in the mean time most agreeable to her royal highness.

of "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; but her royal highness may depend upon having other copies sent to her, which have been duly examined and certified to be so.

"The box will be delivered to one of her royal bighness's pages in waiting, by the principal officer attendant upon the lord chancellor, and he trusts he shall find full credit with her royal highness, that in sending a servant formerly with the papers, the moment he received them (no messenger being in waiting, and the officers who attend him being detained by their duties in court,) he could not be supposed to have intended any possible disrespect, which he is incapable of shewing to any lady, but most especially to any member of his majesty's royal family.

"To her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales."

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Lincoln's Inn Field, Aug. 24th, 1806 **"His majesty has been pleased to transmit to me the letter which he has received from your royal highness, dated the 17th inst. and to direct that I should communicate the same to the lords comi missioners, who had been commanded by his mad jesty to report to his majesty on the matters therein referred to; and I have now received his majesty's further commands, in consequence of that letter, to acquaint your royal highness, that when I transmitted to your royal highness, by the kings com mands and under my signature, the copies of offic cial papers, which had been laid before his majesty, those papers were judged thereby duly authenti cated, according to the usual course and forms of office; and sufficiently so, for the purposes for which his majesty had been graciously pleased to direct them to be communicated to your royal highness.

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That, nevertheless, there does not appear to be any reason for his majesty's declining a compliance with the request which your royal highness has been advised to make, that those copies should, after being examined with the originals, be attested by some person to be named for that purpose; and that, if your royal highness will do me the honour to transmit them to me, they shall be examined and attested accordingly, after correcting any errors that may have occurred in the copying

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"His majesty has further authorized me to acquaint your royal highness, that he is graciously pleased, on your royal highness's request, to consent that copies of the written declarations referred to in the report of the lords commissioners, should be transmitted to your royal highness, and that the same will be transmitted accordingly, so soon as they can be transcribed...

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"The lord chancellor has the honour to add to the above official communication, that his pursebearer respectfully waits her royal highness's com mands, in case it should be her royal highness's pleasure to return the papers by him.

"Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales."

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Lincoln's Inn Fields. Aug. 29th, 1806. "The lord chancellor has the honour to transmit to her royal highness the princess of Wales the papers desired by her royal highness, just as he received them a few minutes ago from earl Spencer with the note accompanying them.".

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These papers were the original declarations on which the inquiry proceeded.

The following letter was soon after sent by the. princess of Wales to the lord chancellor.

Ti's vigin Aug. 31st, 1806. "Her royal highness the princess of Wales ac

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