She never friends there. She thinks it mụst have been before the child was brought to the princess, that the woman told this. She knows all the women in the princess's house. She doesn't think that any of them were in a state of pregnancy, and if any had, she thinks she must have known it. told Cole that Mary Wilson, when she supposed the princess to be in the library, had gone into the princess's bed-room, and had found a man there at breakfast with the princess; or that there was a great to-do about it, and that Mary Wilson was sworn to secrecy, and threatened to be turned away, if she divulged what she had seen. This was sworn on the seventh day of Jupe, 1806 in the presence of ERSKINE, CHAPTER. VIII. Depositions of Mary Ann Wilson-Samuel Ro. berts. Thomas Stikemandohn 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 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 Byè, assisted with her in making the bed. From what she ob'served she never had any reason to believe that two persons had slept in the bed. She never saw any particular appearance in it. The linen was washed by Stikeman's wife. This was sworn at the same time in the presence of the same. 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 Sworn at the same time |