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(No. 6.)

The Deposition of Frances Lloyd.

I HAVE lived twelve years with the Princess of Wales next October. I am in the Coffee-room. My situation in the Coffee-room does not give me oppor tunities of seeing the Princess. I don't see her sometimes for months. Mr. Mills attended me for a cold. He asked me if the Prince came to Blackheath, backwards and forwards, or something to that effect, for the Princess was with child, or looked if she was with child. This must have been three or four years ago. It may have been five years ago. I think it must have been some time before the child was brought to the Princess. I remember the child being brought. It was brought into my room. I had orders sent to me to give the mother arrow root, with directions how to ́make it, to wean the child, and I gave it to the mother, and she took the child away. Afterwards the mother brought the child back again. Whether it was a week, ten days, or a fortnight, I cannot say, but it might be about that time. The second time the mother brought the child, she brought it into my room. I asked her, how a mother could part with her child. I am not sure which time I asked this. The mother cried, and said she could not afford to keep it. The child was said to be about four months old when it was brought. I did not particularly observe it myself. FRANCES LLOYD.

I was at Ramsgate with the Princess in 1803. One morning when we were in the house at East Cliff, some body, I don't recollect who, knocked at my door, and desired me to get up to prepare breakfast for the Princess. This was about six o'clock. I was asleep. During the whole time I was in the Princess's service, I had never been called up before to make breakfast

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for the Princess. I slept in the housekeeper's room on the ground floor. I opened the shutters of the window for light. I knew at that time that Captain Manby's ship was in the Downs. When I opened the shutters, I saw the Princess walking down the garden with a gentleman. She was walking down the gravel walk towards the sea. No orders had been given me over night to prepare breakfast early. The gentleman the Princess was walking with, was a tall man. I was surprised to see the Princess walking with a gentleman, at that time in the morning. I am sure it was the Princess. While we were at Blackheath, a woman at Charlton, of the name of Townley, told me that she had some linen to wash from the Princess's house. That the linen was marked with the appearance of *** The woman has since left Charlton, but she has friends there. I think it must have been before the child was brought to the Princess, that the woman told us this. I know all the women in the Princess's house. I don't think that any of them were in a state of pregnancy, and if any had, I think 1 must have known it. I never told Cole that Mary Wilson, when she supposed the Princess to be in the library, had gone into the Princess's bedroom, 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 secresy, and threatened to be turned away if she divulged what she had seen,, FRANCES LLOYD. Sworn at Lord Grenville's House in Downing-streetsthe seventh day of June, 1806, before us,

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A true Copy,

~J. Becket.

ERSKINE,

SPENCER,

GRENVILLE,

ELLENBOROUGH.

(No. 7.)

The Deposition of Mary Ann Wilson.

I BELIEVE it will be ten years next quarter, that I have lived with the Princess of Wales, as housemaid, I wait on the ladies who attend the Princess. I remember when the child who is now with the Princess, was brought there. Before it came I heard. say it was to come. The mother brought the child. It appeared to be about four months old when it was brought. I remember twins being brought to the Princess, before this child was brought. I never noticed the Princess's shape to be different in that year from what it was before. I never had a thought that the Princess was with child. I have heard it reported. It is a good while ago. Inever myself suspected her being with child. I think she could not have been with child, and have gone on to her time without my knowing it. I was at Southend with the Princes. Captain Manby used to visit the Princess there. I make the Princess's bed, and have been in the habit of making it ever since I lived with Her Royal Highness. Another maid, whose name is Ann Bye, assisted with me in making the bed. From what I observed, I never had any reason to believe that two persons had slept in the bed. I never saw any particular appearance in it. The linen was washed by Stikeman's wife.

MARY WILSON. Sworn at Lord Grenville's House in Downing-street, the seventh of June, 1806, before us,

A true Copy,

J. Becket.

ERSKINE,

SPENCER,

GRENVILLE,

ELLENBOROUGH.

(No. 8.)

The Deposition of Samuel Roberts.

I AM a footman to the Princess of Wales. I remember the child being taken by the Princess. I never observed any particular appearance of the Princess in that year-nothing that led me to believe that she was with child. Sir Sidney Smith used to visit the Princess at Blackheath. I never saw him alone with the Princess. He never stayed after eleven o'clock. I recollect Mr. Cole once asking me, I I think three years ago, whether there were any favourites in the family. I remember saying, that Captain Manby and Sir Sidney Smith were frequently at Blackheath, and dined there oftener than other persons. I never knew Sir Sidney Smith stay later than the ladies. I cannot say exactly at what hour he went, but I never remember him staying alone with the Princess.

SAMUEL ROBERTS.

Sworn at Lord Grenville's House in Downing-street, the seventh day of June, 1806, before us,

A true Copy,

J. Becket.

ERSKINE,

SPENCER,

GRENVILLE,

ELLENBOROUGH.

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(No. 9.)

The Deposition of Thomas Stikeman.

I HAVE been Page to the Princess of Wales ever since she has been in England. When I first saw the child who is with the Princess, it is about four years ago. Her Royal Highness had a strong desire to have an infant, which I and all the house knew. I heard there was a woman who had twins, one of which the Princess was desirous to have, but the parents would not part with it. A woman came to the door with a petition to get her husband replaced in the Dock Yard, who had been removed.

She had a child with

and shewed it to

her. I took the child, I believe,
Mrs. Sander. I then returned the child to the wo-
man, and made inquiries after the father, and after-
wards desired the woman to bring the child again to
the house, which she did. The child was taken to
the Princess. After the Princess had seen it, she de-
sired the woman to take it again and bring it back in
a few days, and Mrs. Sander was desired to provide
linen for it. Within a few days the child was brought
again by the mother, and was left, and has been with
the Princess ever since. I don't recollect the child had
any mark; but upon reflection I do recollect the mo-
ther said he was marked with elder wine on the hand.
The father of the child, whose name is Austin, lives
with me at Pimlico. My wife is a laundress, and
washed the linen of the Prince. Austin is employed
to turn a mangle for me. The child was born in Brown-
low-street, and it was baptized there; but I only know
this from the mother. The mother has since lain-in

a second time in Brownlow-street. I never saw the

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