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he was in the next room. His lordship left me for a few minutes, returned, and introduced me to Mr. Lowten, with much politeness-as Dr. Mills; repeating the assurance of what passed being confidential. I asked Mr. Lowten the date of the declaration that had been asserted to be made by me. He said, in the year 1802. I then, with permission of his lordship, gave the history of my appointment, adding, since then I had never seen the princess as a patient. Once she sent for me to bleed her; I was from home; Mr. Edmeades went; nor had I visited any one in the house, except one Mary, and that was in a very bad case of surgery; I was not sure whether it was before or after my appointment. Mr. Lowten asked me the date of it; I told him I did not recollect. He observed, from the warmth of my expressing my contradiction to the deposition, that I saw it in a wrong light; that I might suppose, and very innocently, her royal highness to be pregnant, and then the enquiries were as innocently made. I answered, that the idea of pregnancy never entered my head; that I never attended her royal highness in any sexual complaint; whether she ever bad any I never knew. Mr. Lowten said, I might think so, from her increase of size; I answered, no; I never did think her pregnant, therefore never could say it, and that the deposition was an infamous falsehood. His lordship then observed, that he perceived there

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must be a mistake, and that Mr. Edmeades was the person meant, whom he wished to see; I said, he was then at Oxford, and did not return before Saturday; his lordship asked, if he came through London; I said, I could not tell.

“Finding nothing now arising from conversation, I asked to retire; his lordship attended me out of the room with great politeness.

• When I came home, I sent his lordship a letter, with the date of my warrant, April 10, 1801; he answered my letter, with thanks of my imme- . diate attention, and wished to see Mr. Edmeades on Sunday morning. This letter came on the Saturday; early on the Sunday I sent Timothy, to let his lordship know Mr. Edmeades would not return till Monday; on Tuesday I promised he should attend, which he did.

“ The preceding memorandum is an exact copy of what I made the day after I had seen lord Moira.

“SAM. GILLAM MILLS." Croome Hil, Greenwich, Aug. 20, 1806."

“ Jonathan Partridge, porter to lord Eardly, at Belvidere, deposed, that he remembered being informed by Mr. Kenny, lord Eardly's late steward, now dead, that he was wanted by lord Moira,' in town; accordingly he went with Mr. Kenny to lord Moira's in Saint James's Place, on the king's birth-day of 1804. His lordship asked him if he

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remembered the princess coming to Belvidere some time before ? Deponent said yes, and told him that there were two or three ladies, he thinks three, with her royal highness, and a gentleman with them, who came on horseback; that they looked at the pictures in the house, had their luncheon there, and that her royal highness's servants waited upon them, as deponent was in a dishabille. His lordship asked him, whether they went upstairs ? and deponent answered that they did not. His lordship asked him how long they staid ? and he said, as far as he recollected, they did not stay above an hour, or an hour and a quarter; that they waited some little time for the carriage, which had gone to the public-house, and, till it came, they walked up and down altogether in the portico before the house. His lordship, in the course of avhat he said to him, said it was a subject of importance, and might be of consequence. His lord. ship finding that he had nothing more to say, told him he might go.

“ Some time afterwards his lordship sent for deponent again, and asked him, if he was sure of what he said, being all that he could say respecting the princess ? deponent said it was; and that he was ready to take his oath of it, if his lordship thought proper. His lordship said, it was very satisfactory; said he might go, and he should not want him any more.

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“Sworn at the county court of Middlesex, in Fullwood's Rents, September 25.

" Philip Krackeler, one of the footmen of her royal highness the princess of Wales, and Robert Eaglestone, park-keeper to her royal highness the princess of Wales, deposed, that on or about the 28th day of June last, as deporents were walking together across Greenwich-park, they saw Robert Bidgood, one of the pages of her royal highness, walking in a direction as if he were going from the town of Greenwich towards the house of sir John Douglas, and which is a different road from that which leads to Montague house, and they at the same time perceived lady Douglas walking in a direction to meet him. And the deponent, Philip Krackeler, then desired the other deponent to take notice whether lady, Douglas and Mr. Bidgood would speak to each other; and both deponents observed, that when lady Douglas and Mr. Bidgood met, they stopped, and conversed together for the space of about two or three minutes, whilst in view of these deponents; but how much longer their conversation lasted these deponents cannot say, as they (these deponents) proceeded on their road, which took them out of sight of lady Douglas and Mr. Bidgood.

“Sworn at Hatton Garden, September 27."

Some weeks after her royal highness sent the following letter to his majesty :

"SIRE,

"I trust your majesty, who knows my constant, affection, loyalty, and duty, and the sure confidence with which I readily repose my honour, my character, my happiness, in your majesty's hands, will, not think me guilty of any disrepectful or unduteous impatience, when I thus again address myself to your royal grace and justice.

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"It is, Sire, nine weeks to-day since my counsel presented to the lord high chancellor my letter to your majesty, containing my observations, in vindication of my honour and innocence upon the report, presented to your majesty by the commissioners who had been appointed to examine into my conduct. The lord chancellor informed my.. counsel, that the letter should be conveyed to your majesty on that very day: and further, was pleased, in about a week or ten days afterwards, to communicate to my solicitor, that your majesty had read my letter, and that it had been transmitted to his lordship with directions that it should be copied for the commissioners, and that when such copy had been taken, the original should be returned to your majesty.

"Your majesty's own gracious and royal mind will easily conceive what must have been my state of anxiety and suspense, whilst I have been fondly indulging in the hope, that every day, as it passed, would bring me the happy tidings that your majes

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