ther to my Daughter. I am extreamly mortify'd that I could not do it in Perfon, as I certainly should have done, if the King's Orders had not put it out of my Power. I am extreamly concern'd at the Manner in which the Conduct of the Prince has been represented to your Majefties, and especially in the Article relating to our two Journeys from Hampton-Court to London the Week before I was brought to bed. I can venture to affure your Majefty, that the Phyficians and the Midwife were then of Opinion, that I fhould not lie-in before the Month of September, and that the Pain I complained of was only the Colic; and indeed, Madam, is it credible, that if I had gone twice to London with the Defign and Expectation of being brought to Bed, I fhould have returned to Hampton Court? I flatter myfelf, that Time and your Majefty's good Offices will procure a happy Change to the prefent Situation of Affairs, which must affect me fo much more fenfibly, as I look upon myself to be the innocent Cause of it. I am with all imaginable Respect, ma fille. Je fuis trés-mor- Anno 11.Geo, II. tifiée de ne pouvoir le faire en 1737-8. Perfonne, comme j'aurois certainement fait, fi par les Ordres du Roy il ne m'eût été defendû. Je fuis trés-affligée de la maniere dont la conduite du Prince a été reprefentée à vos Majeftez, & fur tout dans l'article de deux Voiages que nous fimes de Hampton-Court à Londres la femaine avant mes Couches. J'ofe affurer votre Majefté, que les Medecins & la SageFemme furent alors de l'opinion, que je n'accoucherois pas avant le mois de Septembre, & que le mal dont je me plaignois étoit feulement la Colique ; & en effet, Madame, eft-il croiable que fi j'étois allée deux fois à Londres, dans le deffein & l'attente d'accoucher, je ferois retournée à Hampton-Court? Je me flatte que le tems, & les bons Offices de votre Majefte, apporteront un heureux changement à une fituation d'affaires, d'autant plus douleureufe pour moi, que j'en fuis la caufe innocente. Je fuis avec tout le Refpect imaginable, Madame, Votre trés-humble, & trés-obeiffante Fille & Kea, le 17 Sept. 1737. Ggz Servante, AUGUSTE. From Anno 11.Geo. II. From the QUEEN at Hampton-Court, to the PRINCESS at Kew. Sept. 20, 1737. 1737-8. I Am very glad, my dear Princefs, to hear you are perfectly recovered of your Lying-in; you may affure yourself, as you have never offended either the King or me, I fhall never fail to give you every Mark of my Regard and Affection. I think it would be unbecoming either of us to enter into a Difcuffion of the unhappy Divifion between the King and my Son; and when you are truly informed of the several Declarations that have been made relating to your Journeys from Hampton-Court,by whom, and to whom, they were made, you will be convinced, that the Conduct of your Hufband has no way been mifrepresented. I hope Time and due Confideration will bring my Son to a juft Senfe of his Duty to his Father; which will be the only Means of procuring that happy Change, which you cannot more fincerely wish than I do. T CAROLINE. E fuis ravie, ma chere Princeffe, de vous fçavoir parfaitement remife aprés vos Couches. Vous pouvez être affure, comme vous n'avez jamais offensée ny le Roy ny moy, je ne manqueray jamais de vous donner des Marques de mon Egard & de mon Affection. Je crois qui'l nous feroit mal-feant à toutes les deux, que j'entraffe en difcuffion avec vous fur les malheureux Differends entre le Roy & mon Fils. Quand vous ferez informée au juste, des differentes Declarations qui ont êtés faites au fujet de vos Voyages de HamptonCourt, & par qui, & à qui, vous ferez convaincue, que la Conduite de votre Mary n'a été nullement mife dans un faux jour. J'efpere que le tems & une meure Confideration porteront mon Fils à des juftes fentiments de fon devoir envers fon Pere. C'est la le feul moyen de procurer cet heureux changement, lequel vous ne fauriez fouhaiter plus fincerement que je le fais. CAROLINE. HE fourth Seffion of the fecond Parliament of K. George II. was opened Jan. 24, with a gracious Speech to both Houses as ufual, which fee in Chandler's Hift. Anno II. Georg. II. 1737-8. Page 1. Which being immediately taken into Confideration in the Houfe of Lords, their Lordfhips voted, and next Day presented to his Majefty the following Addrefs, in return to his moft gracious Speech from the Throne, viz. Meft Moft gracious Sovereign,, WE Anno rr.Geo. II. E your Majefty's moft dutiful and loyal Subjects, the 1737-8. Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament affembled, beg leave to return your Majefty our unfeigned Lords Addrefs Thanks for your most gracious Speech from the Throne. with his Ma It is with the greatest Humility we take this first Oppor-jefty's Answer. tunity of approaching your Royal Perfon, to lament the irreparable Lofs, fuftained by your Majefty and thefe Kingdoms, in the Death of that excellent Princefs, our late moft gracious Queen; and with Hearts overwhelmed with Grief, to condole with your Majefty, on this melancholy and folemn Occafion. To indulge ourselves in reflecting upon the many great and amiable Qualities, which diftinguished her fhining Character, and confpired to form the greateft Queen, the most endearing Confort, and the best Parent, that ever made a Prince, a People, and a Royal Family happy, would only serve to aggravate your Majefty's juft Grief, and make thofe Wounds bleed afresh, which it is our Interest, and shall be our endeavour, to heal. For if the Remembrance of the Bleffings we enjoyed, from the happy Effects of her never-to-be-forgotten Virtues, adds fo much to the general Affliction, how deep a Sense must it ftrike into the Breaft of your Majesty, the immediate and daily Witness of her ineftimable Accomplishments! At the fame time that we prefume to lay these imperfect Expreffions of our real Sorrow at your Royal Feet, we cannot but blefs God for the Prefervation of your Majesty's most precious Life, on which the Welfare and Happiness of these Kingdoms do in fo great a Measure depend; humbly befeeching your Majefty, under this fevere Misfortune, fo to moderate your Grief, as not to endanger a Health of such infinite Importance to all your People, and to exert that princely Fortitude of Mind, which alone can revive our difconfolate Spirits; and, by leffening your Majefty's Grief, alleviate that of your faithful Subjects. Your Majefty's gracious Declaration, that the Affairs of the Public fhall fuffer no Delay or Interruption from you, on any Account whatsoever, is a fresh Inftance of your Majefty's making the Welfare of your People your first Care in all Circumstances, and under all Trials; and must be the strongest Inducement to us, if any were wanting, to lay afide all Heats and Animofities. As your Majefty has always founded the Glory of your Reign, in preferving the religious and civil Rights of your People, and fteadily pur Who dy'd November 20, 1737. fuing 1737-8. Anno 11. Geo. II. fuing their Profperity and Happiness; fo we, in return, place our great Security under God, for those invaluable Bleffings, in the Safety of your Majesty's most facred Perfon and Government, which we will always fupport to the utmost of our Power, excited by all the Ties of Duty and Gratitude, to persevere with unalterableZeal and Affection in our Loyalty to your Majefty, and an unfhaken Regard to the Honour and Dignity of your Crown. Debate upon the Lord Carteret. 66 His Majesty's most gracious Answer. My Lords, I' Thank you for this dutiful Addrefs, and for your Zeal for my Perfon and Government. The affectionate "Manner in which you express the just Sense you have of my great Lofs, gives me the moft acceptable Proof of your real Concern for me and my Family. 66 The House of Commons having, early in the Seffion as ufual, brought in and paffed the Mutiny-Bill, and sent it to the House of Lords, that Bill came to be read a second time by their Lordships, on Thursday the ninth of March, and was committed for the Tuesday following without any Debate; but as foon as it was ordered to be committed, the Lord Carteret ftood up, and spoke in Substance as follows. My Lords, When any Queftion happens in this House, which depends upon Facts or Circumftances, we are not to judge from common Reports or Surmifes: In all fuch Cafes we ought to be determined by nothing but Parliamentary Knowledge; which Knowledge must be communicated to us as a House of Parliament, and by fome proper Authority. The Question now before us, is a Question of this Nature. It is a Question which must depend upon Facts or Circumftances; for, I hope, no Man will, as yet, dare to say, that a Standing Army of 18,000 Men, is a part of our Con. stitution; and, that the keeping up of fuch a Number ought always to be agreed to by this Houfe, without our asking for, or being able to affign a Reafon for fo doing. By the eftablished Maxims of this Kingdom, by what ought to be an established Maxim in every free Country, a numerous Standing Army is never to be kept up, nor ought this House ever to agree to the keeping up of fuch a one, with out fome Neceffity for our being obliged to fubmit to such a dangerous Expedient; and as that Neceffity can proceed from + See their Debate upon the Army, in Chand, Hift, An. 11. Geo, II, 1737-8. p. 10. to 85. 1 1737-8. from nothing but our Circumftances, either Abroad or at Annorr. Geo.fr. Home, before we agree to the keeping up of fuch an Army, an Account of thofe Circumftances ought to be communicated to us in a Parliamentary Way. The Nation, my Lords, may fometimes be in danger of being attacked by a foreign Enemy, or our Government may be in danger of being overturned by a powerful and feditious Faction at Home; and fometimes we may be fo unfortunate as to be exposed to both these Dangers at once. When any of these happens to be our Cafe, we are to give our Confent to the keeping up of a Body of regular Troops; and, their Number ought always to be in Proportion to the Power of that foreign Enemy, or domeftic Faction, from which we have, at that time, reason to apprehend Mifchief. But, in all fuch Cafes, we are not to allow our Apprehenfions to take their Rise from public Gazettes and hackney News-Papers, or from the private Informations that may be whispered by one Lord to another. We have a Right to be fully informed of the Circumftances which the Nation may then happen to be in, and till that Information is laid before us in a proper Way, we ought not to load the People with the Expence, or expofe our Liberties to the Danger of keeping up a numerous Standing Army. Upon this Occafion, my Lords, I have done my Duty, I have done what every Member of this Houfe ought to do, I have carefully perufed his Majefty's Speech from the Throne, at the Beginning of this Seffion; and, upon that perufal, I had the Pleafure to fee, that it did not contain fo much as the least Intimation of Danger. I believe it is one of the shortest and most general, that ever came from the Throne; and, as I have great Confidence in his Majesty's Wisdom, Penetration, and Forefight, I muft from thence conclude, we are at present in such a happy Situation, as not to be under the least Apprehenfion of being disturbed, either by foreign or domestic Enemies. I have gone farther, my Lords, I have carefully examined our Journals for this Seffion, and upon that Examination, I had the Satisfaction to find, that there is no Meffage, nor any Anfwer from the Crown, which can give us the leaft Ground to believe we are now in any Danger. As thefe, my Lords, are the only Methods I can think of, by which a Parliamentary Knowledge of our being in dangerous Circumstances can be communicated to us, I muft think it inconfiftent with the Dignity of this Houfe to prefume, from any Information we may have had from public News-Papers or private Whispers, that we are in fuch Circumftances; and without fuch a Prefumption, no Member of this Houfe can agree |