Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, that at a breakfast at Lady Willoughby's house in May or June, 1302. &c.

[Extract from Lady Douglas's Deposition.]

It being material to ascertain as far as possible the truth of this fact, I am to request, that your Lordship will have the goodness to desire Lady Willoughby to put down in writing every circumstance 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.

MY DEAR LORD,

(No. 14.)

Sidmouth, 21st June, 1806.

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.

(No. 15.)

MY LORD,

IN obedience to the command contained in your Lordship's letter communicated to me by Lord Gwydir, [ have the honour to inform you, that I have no recollec⚫ tion whatever of the fact stated to have taken place, during a breakfast at Whitehall in May or June 1802; nor do I bear in mind any particular circumstances relátive to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales at the period to which you allude.

Extract from the Register of the Births and Baptisms of Children born in the Brownlow-street Lying-in Hospital.

11,

15

William, of Samuel and Sophia Austin,

The above are the only two entries under the name of Austin, about the period in question, and were extracted by me. No description of the children is preserved.

CHARLES WATKIN WILLIAMS WYNN,

June 23, 1906.

(No. 17.)

The Deposition of Elizabeth Gosden.

I AM 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, I was sent for to the Princess's house to look after a little child; I understood that he had been then nine days in the house. I was nurse to the child. One of the ladies, I think Miss Sander, delivered the child to me, and told me her Royal Highness wished me to take care of him. The child never slept with the Princess. I sometimes used 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 hand, it appeared to be a stain of wine, but is now worn out. I was about a year and three quarters with the child. The mother used to come often to see him. I never saw the Princess dress the child, or take off its things herself; but she has seen me do it. The child is not so much with the Princess now as he was.

ELIZ. GOSDEN.

Sworn at Lord Grenville's house in Downing street,

the 23d day of June, 1806, before us,

(No. 18.)

Deposition of Betty Townley.

I LIVED at Charlton sixteen years, and till within the last two years, I was a laundress, and used to wash linen for the Princess of Wales's family. After the Princess left Charlton and went to Blackheath, I used to go over to Blackheath to fetch the linen to wash. I have had linen from the Princess's house the same as other ladies: I mean that there were such appearances on it as might arise from natural causes to which women are subject. I never washed the Princess's own bed-linen, but once or twice occasionally. I recollect one bundle of linen once coming which I thought rather more marked than usual. They told me that the Princess had been bled with leeches, and it dirtied the linen more: the servants told me so, but I dont remember who the servants were that told me so. I recollect once, I came to town and left the linen with my daughter to wash; I looked at the clothes slowly before I went, and counted them, and my daughter, and a woman she employed with her washed them while I was in town. I thought when I looked them over, that there might be something more than usual. My opinion was, that it was from a miscarriage. The linen had the appearance of a miscarriage, I 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. I might mention it to Fanny Lloyd. I don't recollect when this was, but it must be more than two years and a half ago; for I did not wash for the Princess's family but very little for the last six months. Mary Wilson used to give me the linen, and I believe it was she who told me that the Princess was bled with leeches; but the appearance of the linen which I have spoken of before, was different

from that which it was said was stained by bleeding with leeches. I remember the child coming. I used to wash the linen for the child, and Mrs. Gosden who nursed the child, used to pay me for it. I kept a book, in which I entered the linen I washed. I am not sure whether I have it still; but, if I have, it is in a chest at my daughter's, at Charlton, and I will produce it if I can find it.

B. TOWNLEY.

Sworn at Lord Grenville's House in Downing-street, the 23d day of June, 1806, before us,

ERSKINE,

SPENCER.

GRENVILLE,

ELLENBOROUGH.

(No. 19.)

Deposition of Thomas Edmeades, of Greenwich, Surgeon and Apothecary.

I AM a surgeon and apothecary at Greenwich, and was appointed the surgeon and apothecary of the Frincess of Wales, in 1801. From that time I have attended her Royal Highness and her household. I knew Fanny Lloyd who attended in the coffee-room, at the Princess's. I have frequently attended her for colds. I do not recollect that I ever said any thing to her respectiug the Princess of Wales. It never once entered my thoughts while I attended the Princess, that she was pregnant. 1 never said that she was so to Fanny Lloyd. I have bled the Princess twice;