stance in any manner relative thereto (if any such there be) of which her ladyship has any recollection; and also to apprize me, for his majesty's information, whether at any time, during the course of the above-mentioned year, lady Willoughby observed any such alteration in the princess's shape, or any other circumstances, as might induce her ladyship to believe that her royal highness was then pregnant.

“ I am, &c.

SPENCER."

The following answer was immediately returned with an inclosure :

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Sidmouth, 21st June 1806. “ My Dear LORD, “ In obedience to your commands I lost no time in communicating to lady Willoughby the important subject of your private letter, dated the 20th instant, and I have the honour of enclosing a letter to your lordship from lady Willoughby. “ I have the honour, &c.

GWYDIR.”

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“ MY LORD, “ In obedience to the command contained in your lordship's letter communicated to me by lord Gwydir, I have the honour to inform you, that I have no recollection whatever of the fact stated to have taken place, during a breakfast at Whitehall

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in May or June 1802; nor do I bear in mind any particular circumstances relative to her royal highness the princess of Wales at the period to which

you allude.

“ I have the honour, &c. June 21, 1806.

WILLOUGHBY."
EARL SPENCER.

The following register of the births and baptisms, under the name of Austin, born in the Brownlow street lying-in hospital, about the period in question, was obtained upon the present occasion. .

Thomas, of Richard and Elizabeth Austin, born May 8. 1802, baptized May 20.

“ William, of Samuel and Sophia Austin, born May 11, baptized May 15.

CHARLES WATKIN WILLIAMS WYNN. “ June 23, 1806."

Elizabeth Gosden deposed, that she is the wife of Francis Gosden, who is a servant of the princess of Wales, and has lived with her royal highness eleven years. In November 1802, she was sent for to the princess's house to look after a little child; she understood that he had been then nine days in the house. She was nurse to the child. One of the ladies, she thinks, Miss Sander, delivered the child to her, and told her her royal highness wished her to take care of him. The child never slept with the princess. She sometimes used

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to take him to the princess before she was up, and leave him with her on her 'bed. The child had a mark on the band; it appeared to be a stain of wine, but is now worn out. She was about a year and three quarters with the child. The mother used to come often to see him. Deponent never saw the princess dress the child, or take off its things herself; but she has seen her do it. The child is not so much with the princess now as he was.

Sworn June 23, 1806.

Betty Townley deposed that she lived at Charlton sixteen years, and till within the last two years she was a laundress, and used to wash linen for the princess of Wales's family. After the princess left Charlton, and went to Blackheath, she used to go over to Blackheath to fetch the linen to wash. She has had linen from the princes's house the same as other ladies : she means that there were such

appearances on it as might arise from natural causes to which women are subject. She never washed the princess's own bed-linen, but once or twice occasionally. She recollects one bundle of linen once coming which she thought rather more marked than usual. They told her that the princess had been bled with leeches, and it dirtied the linen more: the servants told her so, but she does not remember who the servants were that told her so. She recollects once she came to town and left the

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linen with her daughter to wash; she looked at the

; clothes slowly before she went, and counted them, and'her daughter, and a woman she employed with her, washed them while she was in town. She thought when she looked them over, that there might be something more than usual. Her opinion was, that it was from a miscarriage. The linen had the appearance of a miscarriage, she believed it at the time. They were fine damask napkins, and some of them marked with a little red crown in the corner, and some without marks. Deponent might have mentioned it to Fanny Lloyd. She does not recollect when this was, but it must be more than two years and a half ago; for she did not wash for the princess's family but very little for the last six months. Mary Wilson used to give her the linen, and she believes it was she who told her that the princess was bled with leeches; but the appearance of the linen which she has spoken of before, was different from that which it was said was stained by bleeding with leeches. She remembers the child coming. She used to wash the linen for the child, and Mrs. Gosden, who nursed the child, used to pay her for it. She kept a book, in which she entered the linen she washed. She is not sure whether she has it still ;-but, if she has, it is in a chest at her daughter's, at Charlton, and she will produce it if she can find it.

Sworn at the saine time.

Thomas Edmeades deposed, that he is a surgeon and apothecary at Greenwich, and was appointed the surgeon and apothecary of the princess of Wales, in 1801. From that time he has, attended her royal highness, and her household. He knew Fanny Lloyd, who attended in the coffee-room at the princess's; he has frequently attended her for colds. He does not recollect that he ever said

any thing to her respecting the princess of Wales. It never once entered his thoughts, while he attended the princess, that she was pregnant. He never said that she was so to Fanny Lloyd. He has bled the princess twice; the second bleeding was in 1802, and it was in the June quarter, as appears by the book he kept. He don't know what she was bled for-it was at her own desire—it was not by any medical advice. He was unwilling to do it, but she wished it. According to deponent's recollection, she complained of a pain in her chest, but he doesn't remember that she had any illness. He did not use to bleed her twice a year. He certainly saw her royal highness in Nov. 1802. He saw her on the 16th of November, but he had not any idea of her being then with child. He did not attend her on the 16th November, but he saw her then; he was visiting a child (a male child) from Deptford. He has no recollection of having seen the princess in October, 1802. The child must have been from three to five months old when he