The preceding Memorandum is an exact copy of what I made the day after I had seen Lord Moira. (Signed) Croome Hill, Greenwich, This is the Paper marked B. SAM. GILLAM MILLS. THOMAS LEACH. The Deposition of Jonathan Partridge, Porter to Lord Eardley, at Belvidere. I remember being informed by Mr. Kenny, Lord Eardley's late Steward, now dead, that I was wanted by Lord Moira, in town; accordingly I went with Mr. Kenny to Lord Moira's, in Saint James's-place, on the King's Birth-day of 1804. His Lordship asked me, if I remembered the Princess coming to Belvidere sometime before? I said, yes, and told him that there were two or three ladies, I think 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 I was in dishabille. His Lordship asked me whether they went up stairs? and I told him that they did not. He asked me, how long they staid? and I said, as far as I 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 publichouse, and, till it came, they walked up and down altogether in the portico before the house. His Lordship, in the course of what he said to me, said it was a subject of importance, and might be of consequence. His Lordship, finding that I had nothing more to say, told me I might go. Sometime afterwards, his Lordship sent for me again, and asked me, if I was sure of what I said, being all that I could say respecting the Princess? I said, it was; and that I was ready to take my oath of it, if his Lordship thought proper. He said, it was very satisfactory; said, I might go, and he should not want me any more. (Signed) JONATHAN PARTRIDGE. Sworn at the County Court of Middlesex, in Fullwood's THOMAS LEACH. The Deposition of Philip Krackeler, one of the Footmen of Her Royal Highness the Princess of IVales, and Robert Eaglestone, Park Keeper to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. These Deponents say, that on, or about the 28th day of June last, as they 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 this Deponent, Philip Krackeler, than desired the other Deponent to take notice, whether Lady Douglas and Mr. Bidgood would speak to each other; and both of these Deponents observed, that when Lady Douglas and Mr. Bidgood met, they stopped, and conversed together for the space of about two or three minuees, 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. 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 disrespectful or unduteous impatience, when I thus again address myself to your Royal grace and justice. It is, Sire, nine weeks to-day, since my counsel presented to the Lord High Chancellor my letter your Majesty, containing my observations, in vindication of my honour and innocence, upon the с с 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 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 Your Majesty's own gracious and royal mind will easily conceive what must have been my state of anxiety and suspence, whilst I have been fondly indulging in the hope, that every day, as it passed, would bring me the happy tidings, that your Majesty was satisfied of my innocence; and convinced of the unfounded malice of my enemies, in every part of their charge. Nine long weeks of daily expectation, and suspence, have now elapsed; and they have brought me nothing but disappointment. I have remained in total ignorance of what has been done, what is doing, or what is intended upon this subject. Your Majesty's goodness will therefore pardon me, if in the step which I now take, I act upon a mistaken conjecture with respect to the fact. But from the Lord Chancellor's communication to my Solicitor, and from the time which has elapsed, I am led to conclude, that your Majesty had directed the copy of my letter to be laid before the Com missioners, requiring their advice upon the subject; and, possibly, their official occupations, and their other duties to the state, may not have, as yet, allowed them the opportunity of attending to it. But your Majesty will permit me to observe that, however excusable this delay may be on their parts, yet it operates most injuriously upon me; my feelings are severely tortured by the suspence, while my character is sinking in the opinion of the public. It is known that a Report, though acquitting me of crime, yet imputing matters highly disreputable to my honour, has been made to your Majesty that that Report has been communicated to me ;-that I have endeavoured to answer it; and that I still remain, at the end of nine weeks from the delivery of my answer, acquainted with the judgment which is formed upon it. May I be permitted to observe from the extreme prejudice which this delay, however to be accounted for by the numerous important occupations of the Commissioners, produces to my honour? The world, in total ignorance of the real state of the facts, begin to infer my guilt from it. I feel myself already sinking, in the estimation of your Majesty's subjects, as well as of what remains to me of my own family, into (a state intolerable to a mind conscious of its purity and innocence) a state in which my honour appears at least equivocal, and my virtue is suspected. From this state I humbly entreat your Majesty to perceive, that I can have no hope of being restored, until either your Majesty's favourable opinion shall be graciously notified to the world, by receiving me |