exceedingly base, to honour any one I am, Sir, your obedient servant, We do not, however, feel ourselves at liberty, much as we should wish it, to close our report here. Besides the allegations of the pregnancy and delivery of the princess, those declarations, on the whole of which your Majesty has been pleased to command us to inquire and report, contain, as we have already remarked, other particulars respecting the conduct of her Royal Highness, such as must, especially considering her exalted rank and station, necessarily give occasion to very unfavourable interpretations. P. S. The affair of Belgium is really settled. The intrigues in England have all failed. Intrigues without bayonets and field-pieces are little worth. The From the various depositions and proofs. King has refused bis assent to his son annexed to this report, particularly from the being King of Belgium; and, to be sure, examinations of Robert Bidgood, William because it would only delay that re- Cole, Frances Lloyd, and Mrs. Lisle, your union which must take place. Alas! Majesty will perceive that several strong cir cumstances of this description have been poor VELLINTON! The caricature-positively sworn to by witnesses, who cannot, shops already begin to make one burst in our judgment, be suspected of any unfavourone's sides with the various ludicrous able bias, and whose veracity in this' respect exhibitions of the "Conquerant de la we have seen no ground to question. France," "Le Heros de Waterloo," &c. &c. No. III. OF THE facts thus appearing, it is not for us to decide; On the precise bearing and effect of the these we submit to your Majesty's wisdom: but we conceive it to be our duty to report on this part of the inquiry as distinctly as on the former facts, that, as on the one hand the facts of pregnancy and delivery are to our minds satisfactorily disproved, so on the other hand, we think that the circumstances to which we now refer, particularly those stated to have passed between her Royal Highness and Captain Manby, must be credited nutil REGENCY AND REIGN OF GEO. IV. they shall receive some decisive contradiction; BY WILLIAM COBBETT. (Continued from No. 3, col.144.) THE identity of the child now with the Princess, its parentage, the place and the date of its birth, the time and the circumstances of its being first taken ander her royal highness's protection, are all established by such a coucurrence both of positive and circumstantial evidence, as can, in our judgment, leave no question on this part of the subject. That child was, beyond all doubt, horn in the Brownlow-street hospital, on the 11th of July, 1802, of the body of Sophia Austin, and was first brought to the Princess's house in the month of November following. Neither should we be more warranted in expressing any doubt respecting the alleged pregnancy of the Princess, as stated in the original declarations-a fact so fully contradicted, and by so many witnesses, to whom, if true, it must in various ways have been known, that we cannot think it entitled to the smallest credit. The testimonies on these two points are contained in the annexed depositions and letters. We have not partially abstracted them in this report, lest by any unintentional omission we might weaken their effect; but we humbly offer to your Majesty this our clear and unanimous judgment upon them, formed on full deliberation, and pronounced without hesitation on the result of the whole inquiry. and if true are justly entitled to the most serious consideration. We cannot close this report without humbly · assuring your Majesty, that it was on every account our anxious wish to have executed this delicate trust with as little publicity as the nature of the case would possibly allow; and we entreat your Majesty's permission to express our full persuasion, that if this wish has been disappointed, the failure is not imputable to any-thing unnecessarily said or done by us. All which is most humbly submitted to your Majesty. (Signed) July 14th, 1806. ERSKINE, 61. It does not comport with my plan to enter here into the case of the cruelly-treated Princess, who was, during the whole of her married life, dogged by spies, and beset by perjurers and traitors; her case, which forms the great characteristic of the regency and reign of this “mild” and “ generous and "gentleman" king; her case, though as we go along we shall find it force upon us here and there, must wait for full display, till we come to the date of her death and burial. In this place it is my business to show how this affair of the Princess affected the great and general interests of the nation; how it affected the policy of the kingdom, external as well as internal; how clearly it showed that the interests and safety of millions were thought little of in comparison with the indulgence of the passions of one single man. 62. One thing, in this report, will have stricken every reader; namely, that the Princess should have the child in her own house four years, and that no complaint should have been made by the Prince before now. When we look at the evidence, we find that the originators of the whole story were a Sir John DOUGLAS and HIS WIFE, who had gone to live at Blackheath (near MONTAGUE-HOUSE, the Princess's place of residence) in 1801, and who swore positively to the facts of the preg nancy and delivery in 1802. They both swore, also, that they communicated the facts to the Prince from a deep sense of duty, as loyal subjects: the four lords say, in this their report, that it was the bounden duty of the Prince to communicate to the King matter "so nearly "affecting the honour of the royal family, "and, by possibility, the succession to the crown;" but it does not appear to have occurred to those lords to state why the Prince had not made the communication to the King at an earlier period! He might not be informed of the facts before. Strange, indeed! What! a child kept in the house of the Princess for four years, nursed as if it were her own; and the Prince, her husband, never hear of it though only at five miles distance from his own palace, though bis wife was surrounded by servants that had been, for the greater part, in his own service! But did those Douglases, those loyal people, those people who swore that they communicated the facts to him from a sense of their duty as loyal subjects, did those people suppress their anxiety about the succession to the crown for four years? Did they hide the facts for four years? and if they did, were they to be believed when they communicated the facts? And how came the FOUR LORDS not to ask (and it does not appear that they did) at what time it was that the Douglases first communicated the facts to the Prince? and if the first communication were in 1806, how came the lords never to ask the Douglases why they did not communicate the facts before the year 1806? And when it became clear that the evidence of the Douglases was false, how came they not to be prosecuted for perjury? And if the tribunal were (as was alleged) not of a nature to bring those who had sworn falsely before it, under the law for punishing perjury, why did the Ministers of that day counsel the King to appoint such a tribunal? 63. Who, then, were the Ministers of that day? And here, when we answer this question, we see all the mystery removed; we see why the child lived so quietly for four years; we see why the Douglases could restrain their feelings of loyalty no longer than the year 1806; we see how it came to burst out all at once at that time; and this leads us to the development of intrigue upon intrigue, of the existence of which, and of the injurious con-' sequences to the country, not one mau out of ten thousand has any the most distant idea. 64. The Ministers of that dry were those who are called the WHIGS. They consisted of a coalition indeed; but this was the name they bore; and the principal offices were filled thus: Lord Grenville, first lord of the treasury; Lord Erskine, lord chancellor : Lord Spencer, secretary of state for the home department; Mr. Fox, secretary of state for the foreign department; Mr. Windham, secretary of state for the department of war aud colonies; Mr. Grey (now Earl), first lord of the admiralty; Lord Moira, master general of the ordnance; Lord Fitzwilliam, president of the council; Lord Sidmouth, privy seal; Lord Henry Petty (now Marquis of Lansdown), chancellor of the exchequer; and Ellenborough, the lord chief justice, had a seat in the cabinet. How this ministry came to be in power is a matter which belongs to the history of George II. For our present purpose, it is, as to this matter, sufficient to say, that this ministry had succeeded that of PITT, upon his death, which took place in January, 1806. Now, let it be well remembered, that Fox, who, and whose adherents, had now got into power, had always been a sort of political mentor of the Prince; that ERSKINE, who was now the lord chancellor, had, for many years, been one of his chief companions; and that Lord MOIRA, who was now master general of the ordnance, had been on the footing of a brother with the Prince for a great many years, his “personal friend" par excellence, 65. The Princess, in her answer to the report of the four lords, distinctly declared that the report, and the whole of the proceeding against her, were the fruit of a foul conspiracy;" and though there be in the documents no proof of any subornation of the Douglases, it is, at any rate, certain, that their information against the Princess was not made known to the King until, as appears by the WARRANT, (paragraph 60,) the month of May, 1806; that is to say, until about a hundred days after the Whigs, the Prince's friends, got into power! For four years, while Addington and Pitt were ministers, the child lived very quietly; the Douglases had known of the pregnancy and delivery; they (as they swore) were alarmed for the succession to the throne, and yet the first trace of their com municating the information is, from the documents, found to be in December, 1805. But, at any rate, we find that they had made the communication to the Prince before the stated; but on that day Lady Douglas gave a 3rd of that month; what time before is not narrative to the Duke of Sussex, who took it down in writing, and it was signed by him, as having been made in his presence: and the "true copy' The narrative sets out with stating that the was attested by BLOOMFIELD. narrator has been "ordered by the Prince of Wales" to give the narrative; but the precise time of the first communication to him does " Bond-street, intended to hand down to | if I had sense to estimate the past and posterity, the History of the immortal the present; if I had been thus raised; victory obtained over the French and if I had seen a whole people experiencthe Americans on the Serpentine River? ing what England now experiences, and What shall we do with the mound a in consequence, too, of transactions for hundred feet high, and the brass lion which I had been praised to the skies, thirty feet high, standing upon the I should, notwithstanding I might have mound, on the "Field of Waterloo," been as innocent in point of intention and put there at the expense of the as, I dare say, the Prince has been; poor Belgians themselves to commemo- were this my case, I confess that, howrate the glory of the great George the ever criminal it might be, I should be Fourth, then the Prince Regent? What coward enough to call upon the earth shall we do with the "Hanoverian to open and swallow me. To have an monument," erected on that field, and adequate idea of what the feelings of with the "Prussian monument," erected the Prince must be, supposing him to on the same field? What shall we do have as weak a mind as I have; and, for a place for the tax-eaters to visit at the same time, to furnish a warning and strut about upon, and spend our against the danger of indulging in the earnings at the sign of the Prince of dreams of glory and ambition, let me Waterloo, and that of the " Belle Al- insert here, from Debrett's Peerage, a liance"? What shall we do with "Wa-sort of history, or heraldic account, of terloo bridge," which the spinster specu- the glories of the Prince of Waterloo. lators first called the "Strand bridge," From the internal evidence of the writbut which was re-baptised in 1818, the ing, it must have come from the Prince great Prince Regent and the great himself, or have been written and proPrince of Waterloo being sponsors, mulgated by his authority. I recomaided and assisted by horse, foot, and mend it to the attentive perusal of all artillery, with all the pomp of glorious young men. They should read every war? What shall we do with the "Wa- word of it with attention; and here I terloo Places," the" Waterloo Squares," give it for that purpose, without the "Waterloo Terraces," "Waterloo Rows," addition or suppression of one single and "Waterloo Houses"? What shall we word. do to get these names out of our eyes and out of our heads? What shall we do with the tree, under which the great Prince sat while he was achieving the Waterloo victory, and which was afterwards dug up and brought to England, here to be planted, and now standing, I suppose, in the grounds at Stratfieldsay? What shall we do with the Waterloo triumphal arch at Hyde Park Corner, representing the glorious achievements of the Prince and joining on to his own dwelling-place? What shall we do with the great naked Achilles, standing in Hyde Park, opposite the Prince's own window, erected (naked thing) at the expense of the "ladies of England"? "But," as PERL in his agony said, on the 8th of November," WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE DUKE !” Different men are of minds differently constituted; but, speaking for myself, Iam sure, that, if I were in this state; ARTHUR WELLESLEY, DUKE OF WEL LINGTON, Marquess of Douro, Marquess and Earl of Wellington, Viscount Wellington Douro of Wellesley, co. Somerset ; Field of Talavera, and of Wellington, and Baron Marshal in the army, Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Horse-Guards, Master-Geueral of the Ordnance, and Governor of Plymouth, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Grand Cross of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Knight of the Order of St. Esprit of France, PRINCE OF and legislative body OF THE NETHERWATERLOO, so created BY THE KING LANDS, VALUE 2000. PER ANNUM; but the right in other respects is much enhanced when it is considered that it is bestowed IN LANDS AND WOODS SITUA TED IN THE VERY THEATRE OF HIS SPLENDID VICTORY. Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo, and a Grandee of Spain of the First Class, Duke of Vittoria, Marquess of Torres of the Most Illustrious Order of the Golden Vedras, Count of Vimeira in Portugal, Knight Fleece, of the Spanish Military Order of St. Ferdinand, Knight Grand Cross of the Impe rial Military Order of Maria Theresa, Knight | THE HEART AND MIND OF EVERY Graud Cross ut the Imperial Order of St. ENGLISHMAN. Suffice it, therefore, to George of Russia, Knight Grand Cross of say, that THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD the Order of the Black Eagle of Prussia, cannot produce another instance of a conflict Knight Grand Cross of the Portuguese Royal so severe, so sanguinary; in which the skill and Military Order of the Tower and Sword, and coolness of officers were so admirably Knight Grand Cross of the Royal and Mili- seconded by the discipline and bravery of tary Order of Sweden of the Sword, Knight soldiers; in which science was so eminently Grand Cross of the Orders of the Elephant invigorated by the coolness of a universal of Denmark, of William of the Low Countries, courage, which had in its turn submitted its of the Annunciade of Sardinia, of Maximilian fervour to be tempered by the soundest discre Joseph of Bavaria, and of several others, and tion; in which, in spite of these fair promises Commander of the Forces of his Britannic of victory, the fate of the battle was a long Majesty in France, and of the Army of his day so nicely poised, that the coming nightMajesty the King of the Low Countries fall would have left it undecided, but for one and his Majesty the King of France and of of those almost SUPERHUMAN IMNavarre; born May 1, 1769, married April 10, PULSES WHICH FALL ONLY ON THE 1806, the hon. Catherine Pakenham, 3d GREATEST MINDS, to produce the greatest daughter of Edward, lord Lobgford, (who d. results. The Duke of Wellington, by seizing before his mother Elizabeth, in her own right an opportunity which the delay of a moment countess of Longford,) and sister of Thomas, might have lost, destroyed that army which present earl of Longford, and has issue, Ar- had so long been the terror of Europe; thur, marquess of Douro, b. Feb. 3, 1807, and clouded for ever the almost romantic fame of Charles, 6. Jan. 16, 1808. its leader, and crumbled his rebellious throne into dust. This ILLUSTRIOUS NOBLEMAN is the 3d surviving son of Gerrard-Colley Wellesley, A DUE MEASURE of gratitude for such earl of Mornington, in the Peerage of Ireland, services COULD NOT HAVE BEEN REN (by Anne Hill, eldest daughter of Arthur, DERED, but the nation DID ITS BEST: viscount Dungannon,) and brother of Richard, on the 23rd of June the thanks of both Houses marquess Wellesley, K. G. &c. &c. (See of parliament were once more voted to him, Marquess Wellesley in the Peerage of Ire-" for the consummate ability" (to use the land.) After giving a pompous account of his other exploits, he comes to the battle of Waterloo. very words of parliament on the occasion), ' unexampled exertion and irresistible ardour, displayed by him on the 18th of June;" and on the 11th of the following month, the additional sum of 200,000l. was granted to him towards the purchase of lands, and the building on them a suitable mansion; such estates to be holden by him and his heirs, in free and common socage by fealty, and rendering to his Majesty, his heirs and successors, on the 18th of June in every year, AT HIS CASTLE OF WINDSOR, ONE TRI-COLOURED FLAG, for all manner of rents, services, exactions, and demands. However MARVELLOUS this series of eminent services, in which Providence had been pleased to crown the MOST SUBLIME EFFORTS OF HUMAN PRUDENCE AND COURAGE with the most unvaried success, it was but the prelude to that stupendous victory which, unparalleled in all its features, as well as in the vastness of its consequences, raised the character of this hero to a height never before attained by any captain. The beneficence of the King of France and the other sovereigns of Europe, was repaid by Alas! how flat, after this, would apthe French armies with the most detestable pear the plain names of GEORGE WASH treachery. The allies had no sooner withdrawn those troops, at the head of which they INGTON, JOHN ADAMS, THOMAS JEFFER replaced Louis on his throne, when Buona-SON, JAMES MADDISON, JAMES MUNROE, parte was again brought triumphantly from ANDREW JACKSON! How vapid! yet, Elba, and the King was once more obliged to when one reflects that the people of seek refuge in the bosom of foreign states. whom they have been the chief Magis Europe again rose, and the usurper advanced to meet its legions; it seemed trates, EAT MEAT THREE TIMES to have been ordained that the conflict A DAY, while those who live in the which had subsisted for more than twenty country where these fine titles abound, years should remain undecided till the TWO live upon potatoes, from the 1st of MIGHTY LEADERS who had so long electrified the world should, for the first time, January to the 31st of December; when meet hand to hand, and on the 18th day of Jane, this great conflict took place on the plains of Waterloo. To attempt to particularize any of the events of that day, would the limits of this work allow it, would be impertinent, for they ARE ENGRAVEN ON one reflects on this, and when one knows at the same time that the jails of America are empty; that not ten men have been hanged out of twelve mile lions, in forty years; that such a thing than as well as the French and Belgians; and, let it be remembered that I now warn the Ministers of this danger. When the WHIGS were in power before, they took up from their predecessors, extended, and carried on, a most vigorous "paper-blockade.” That finally produced the war of 1812, followed up as it was by CANNING and CASTLEREAGH, with the aid of their sublime as a special commission was never heard attempt an interference in Belgium and of in that land; that there are all the France, we should have to fight Jonaold laws of England and none of the new ones; that, under that mild and gentle government, no standing army has been required, though it has carried on a triumphant war, by sea as well as by land against the undivided power of this great country itself: when one reflects on these things, one is almost tempted to believe that the plain names of George Washington and of Andrew Jackson are worth all the titles, all the negociators, of whom one was the coronets, all the ribbons, stars and garters in the world. younger GEORGE ROSE. The Americans began that war with (to use the Leaving the Prince of Waterloo to expression of the flippant and saucy the use of his titles, and to carry the Canning) "six fir frigates with bits of TRI-COLOURED FLAG to Windsor Castle striped bunting at their mast-head.” every month of June, or, rather, leaving They ended it with a stout fleet, some bright Peel to discover what he shall of them seventy-fours, which fleet has do with him, let me now, in conclusion been augmenting from that day to this; of this article, observe that we are not such being the natural consequences of to talk of war, especially about Belgium, a people being truly represented in and shut our eyes to the circumstance their legislative assemblies, and of the that we are not to have such war as savings of peace making provision for that without having something to do with the expenses of war. Jonathan, who, let it be remembered, Now, be it known to our ministers carries a Long Tom in his stern. It and to this bothered people, that longwas said of old BINGHAM of Philadel-sighted Jonathan has taken a wonderphia (the father of Messrs. Alexander and ful interest in the recent Revolution in Henry Baring), who had been a super-France. Without a moment's hesitacargo, or something, on board a privateer, tion, his Ambassador at Paris acknowduring the war of revolution, that he ledged the new order of things. In the used to say, in the heat of the fight, United States, joy at that event has "Never mind, my lads, while the Long been expressed in all sorts of ways. In Tom remains unshipped." It was said of him, or some other privateer's man, that being fired at by an English seventy-four, in order to bring him to and make him surrender, he returned the fire, but overloaded the Long Tom and got it unshipped. However he continued the fight, and got away; and when he was asked, after he got into port, how he could have the audacity to return the fire, he swore that if he had not unshipped his Long Tom "he would have took her!" I dare say that BINGHAM, who was a Yankee, (that is, a New Englander,) was, like the rest of his countrymen, as cool as a cucumber, and as brave as a lion; and certain it is, at any rate, that that cool race is now prepared for us; and that if our Government were so unwise as to the last Register, I inserted an account of the rejoicings at New York, to which I beg leave to refer my readers, if by chance they have overlooked it. Jonathan is even a cooler fellow than his ancestors. Show, for show's sake, is altogether contrary to his taste. There was not, be you well assured, a procession "three miles long," with all the display of the tri-coloured flag entwined with that of America, and will all the other demonstrations of joy and applause, without something more than mere enthusiasm being at the bottom! Jonathan never moves and never speaks without first duly thinking of the consequences. He did not make all that parade with LA FAYETTE, and heap upon the old general such marks of his gratitude (all which, however, he |