trious heir of the House of Orange, who has announced himself to me as my future son in law. From their society I am unjustly excluded. Others are expected of rank equal to your own, to rejoice with your Royal Highness in the peace of Europe. My daughter will, for the first time, appear in the splendor and publicity becoming the approaching nuptials of the presumptive Heiress of this Empire. This season your Royal Highness to the Queen. "Madam; has chosen for treating me with Answer of the Princess of Wales fresh and unprovoked indignity: and of all his Majesty's subjects, I alone am prevented by your Royal Highness from appearing in my place, to partake of the general joy, and am deprived of the indulgence in those feelings of pride and affection permitted to every Mother but me. "I am, Sir, Connaught-house, The Queen to the Princess of Wales. Windsor Castle, May 23, 1814. The Queen considers it to be her duty to lose no sime in acquainting the Princess of Wales, that she has received a communication from her son the Prince Regent, in which he states, that her Majesty's intention of holding two drawing-rooms in the ensuing month having been notified to the public, he must declare, that he considers that his own presence at her court cannot be dispensed with; and that he desires it may be distinctly understood, for reasons of which he alone can be the "I have received the letter which your Majesty has done me the honour to address to me, prohibiting my appearance at the Public Drawing-Rooms which will be held by your Majesty in the ensuing month, with great surprize and regret. "I will not presume to discuss with your Majesty topics which must be as painful to your Majesty as to myself. "Your Majesty is well acquainted with the affectionate regard with which the King was so kind as to honour me up to the period of his Majesty's indisposition, which no one of his Majesty's subjects has so much cause to lament as myself: and that his Majesty was graciously pleased to bestow upon me the most unequi-' vocal and gratifying proof of his attachment and approbation, by his public reception of me at his court at a season of severe and unmerited affliction, when his protection was most necessary to me. There I have since uninterruptedly paid my respects to your Majesty. I am now without appeal or protector. But I cannot so far forget my duty to the King, and to myself, as to surrender my right to appear at any public drawing-room to be held by your Majesty. "That I may not, however, add to the difficulty and uneasiness of your Majesty's situation, I yield in the present instance to the will of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, announced to me by your Majesty, and shall not present myself at the Drawing Rooms of the next month. "It would be presumptuous in me to attempt to inquire of your Majesty the reasons of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent for this harsh proceeding, of which his Royal Highness can alone be the judge. I am unconscious of of- ` fence; and in that reflection, I must endeavour to find consolation for all the mortifications I experi ence; even for this, the last, the most unexpected, and the most severe; the prohibition given to me alone, to appear before your Majesty, to offer my congratulations upon the happy termination of those calamities with which Europe has been so long afflicted, in the presence of the illustrious personages who will in all probability be assembled at your Majesty's court, with whom I am So closely connected by birth and marriage. "I beseech your Majesty to do me an act of justice, to which, in the present circumstances, your Majesty is the only person competent, by acquainting those illus trious strangers with the motives of personal consideration towards your Majesty which alone induce me to abstain from the exercise of my right to appear before your Majesty and that I do now, as I have done at all times, defy the malice of my enemies to fix upon me the shadow of any one imputation which could render me unworthy of their society or regard. "Your Majesty will, I am sure, not be displeased that I should relieve myself from a suspicion of disrespect towards your Majesty, by making public the cause of my absence from court at a time when the duties of my station would otherwise peculiarly demand my attendance. "I have the honour to be, "Your Majesty's most obedient daughter-in-law and servant, "P. CAROLINE." "Connaught House, May 24, 1814. The Queen to the Princess of Wales. "Windsor Castle, May 25, 1814. "The Queen has received, this afternoon, the Princess of Wales's letter of yesterday, in reply to the communication which she was desired by the Prince Regent to make to her; and she is sensible of the disposition expressed by her Royal Highness, not to discuss with her topics which must be painful to both. "The Queen considers it incumbent upon her to send a copy of the Princess of Wales's letter to the Prince Regent; and her Majesty could have felt no hesitation in communicating to the illustrious strangers who may possibly be present at her court, the circumstances which will prevent the Princess of Wales from appearing there, if her Royal Highness had not rendered a compliance with her wish to this effect unnecessary, by intimating her intention of making public the cause of her absence. "CHARLOTTE, R." The Answer of the Princess of Wales to the Queen. "The Princess of Wales has the honour to acknowledge the receipt of a note from the Queen, dated yesterday; and begs permission to return her best thanks to her Majesty, for her gracious condescension in the willingness expressed by her Majesty, to have communicated to the illustrious strangers, who will in all probability be present at her Majesty's court, the reasons which have induced her Royal Highness not to be present. "Such communication, as it appears to her Royal Highness, cannot be the less necessary on account of any publicity which it may be in the power of her Royal Highness to give to her motives; and the Princess of Wales, therefore, entreats the active good of fices of her Majesty, upon an occasion wherein the Princess of Wales feels it so essential to her that she should not be misunderstood. has this day notified, by command of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, to the Ministers of friendly Powers resident at his Court, that the Commander in Chief of his Majesty's naval forces off the coasts of the United States of North America, has issued a proclamation, dated at Bermuda, on the 25th day of April last, declaring all the ports, harbours, bays, creeks, rivers, inlets, outlets, islands, and sea-coasts, of the said United States, from the point of land called Black Point to the northern and eastern boundaries between the said United States and the British provinces of New Brunswick, to be in a state of strict and rigorous blockade, and that the said Commander in Chief had stationed off the ports and places above-mentioned a naval force adequate to maintain the said blockade in the most rigorous and effective manner; and that the ports and places aforesaid are and must be considered as being in a state of blockade accordingly; and that all the measures authorized by the law of nations will be adopted and executed with respect to all vessels attempting to violate the said blockade. Earl Bathurst at the same time notified to the said Ministers, by command of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, that the whole of the French troops, which forcibly occupied positions on the banks of the Elbe, having been removed, so as to leave that river free and Declaration of Blockade imposed secure to the vessels of his Majes and removed. FOREIGN OFFICE, MAY 31. Earl Bathurst, one of his Majesty's principal secretaries of state, ty's subjects, as well as of other nations, his Royal Highness has judged it expedient to signify his commands to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that the necessary orders may be given, that all his Majesty's ships of war, which may have been stationed at the mouth of the Elbe for the purpose of blockading the same, may be immediately withdrawn. The Prince Regent's Speech, July 30th. "My Lords and Gentlemen ; "I cannot close this Session of Parliament without repeating the expression of my deep regret at the continuance of his Majesty's lamented indisposition. "When, in consequence of that calamity, the powers of Government were first intrusted to me, I found this country engaged in a war with the greater part of Europe. “ I determined to adhere to that line of policy which his Majesty had adopted, and in which he had persevered under so many and such trying difficulties. "The zealous and unremitting support and assistance which I have received from you, and from all classes of his Majesty's subjects; the consummate skill and ability displayed by the great commander, whose services you have so justly acknowleged; and the valour and intrepidity of his Majesty's forces by sea and land, have enabled me, under the blessing of Divine Providence, to surmount all the difficulties with which I have had to contend. "I have the satisfaction of contemplating the full accomplishment of all those objects for which the war was either undertaken or continued; and the unexampled exertions of this country, combined with those of his Majesty's allies, have succeeded in effecting the deliverance of Europe from the most galling and oppressive tyranny under which it has ever laboured. "The restoration of so many of the acient and legitimate Governments of the Continent affords the best prospect of the permanence of that peace, which, in conjunction with his Majesty's allies, I have concluded; and you may rely on my efforts being directed, at the approaching Congress, to complete the settlement of Europe, which has been already so auspiciously begun, and to promote, upon principles of justice and impartiality, all those measures which may appear best calculated to secure the tranquillity and happiness of all the nations engaged in the late war. "I regret the continuance of hostilities with the United States of America. Notwithstanding the unprovoked aggression of the government of that country, and the circumstances under which it took place, I am sincerely desirous of the restoration of peace between the two nations upon conditions honourable to both. But until this object can be obtained, I am persuaded you will see the necessity of my availing myself of the means now at my disposal to prosecute the war with increased vigour. luded, and the necessity of maintaining for a time a body of troops in British pay upon the continent, have rendered a continuation of our foreign expenditure unavoidable. You may rely, however, upon my determination to reduce the expenses of the country as rapidly as the nature of our situation will permit. My Lords and Gentlemen, "It is a peculiar gratification to me to be enabled to assure you, that full justice is rendered throughout Europe to that manly perseverance which, amidst the convulsions on the continent, has preserved this country against all the designs of its enemies, has augmented the resources and extended the dominions of the British empire, and has proved in its result as beneficial to other nations as to our own. "His Majesty's subjects cannot fail to be deeply sensible of the distinguished advantages which they have possessed; and I am persuaded that they will ascribe them, under Providence, to that Constitution which it has now for a century been the object of my family to maintain unimpaired, and under which the people of this realm have enjoyed more of real liberty at home, and of true glory abroad, than has ever fallen to the lot of any nation." Speech of the Prince Regent, November 8. It is with deep regret that I am again obliged to announce the continuance of his Majesty's lamented indisposition. It would have given me great satisfaction to have been enableď to communicate to you the termination of the war between this country and the United States of America. Although this war originated in the most unprovoked aggression on the part of the Government of the United States, and was calculated to promote the designs of the common enemy of Europe aainst the rights and independence of all other nations, I never have ceased to entertain a sincere desire to bring it to a conclusion on just and honourable terms. I am still engaged in negociations for this purpose: the success of them must, however, depend on my disposition being met with corresponding sentiments on the part of the enemy. The operations of his Majesty's forces by sea and laud in the Chesapeake, in the course of the present year, have been attended with the most brilliant and successful results. The flotilla of the enemy in the Patuxent has been destroyed. The signal defeat of their land forces enabled a detachment of his Majesty's army to take possession of the city of Washington, and the spirit of enterprize which has characterized all the movements in that quarter has produced on the inhabitants a deep and sensible impression of the calamities of a war in which they have been so wantonly involved. $ The expedition directed from Halifax to the northern coast of the United States has terminated in a manner not less satisfactory. The successful course of this operation has been followed by the immediate submission of the 2 A |