they trust, that in the terms in which they have advised that such admonition should be conveyed, your Majesty will not be of opinion, on a full consideration of the evidence and answer, that they can be considered as having at all exceeded the necessity of the case, as arising out of the last reference which your Majesty has been pleas ed to make to them."

A Copy of the Message alluded to in the above Minute, was forwarded to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales by the Lord Chancellor, in his own hand writing; it is as follows:

"THE KING having referred to his confidential servants the proceedings and papers relative to the written declarations which had been laid before His Majesty, respecting the conduct of the Princess of Wales, has been apprized by them, that after the fullest consideration of the examinations taken on that subject, and of the observations and affidavits brought forward by the Princess's legal advisers, they agree in the opinions submitted to His Majesty in the original Report of the four Lords by whom His Majesty directed that the matter should, in the first instance, be inquired into; and that in the present stage of the business, upon a mature and deliberate view of this most important subjeet in all its parts and bearings, it is their opinion that the facts of this case do not warrant their advising that any further step should be taken in the business by His Majesty's government, or any other proceedings instituted upon it, except only as His Majesty's law servants may, on a reference to them, think fit to recommend, for the prosecution of Lady Douglas, on those parts of her deposition, which may appear to them to be justly liable thereto.

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"In this situation, His Majesty is advised that it is no longer necessary for him to decline receiving the Princess into his royal presence.

"The King sees, with great satisfaction, the agreement of his confidential servants, in the decided opinion expressed by the four law lords upon the falsehood of the accusation of pregnancy and delivery brought forward against the Princess by Lady Douglas. On the other matters produced in the course of the Inquiry, the King is advised, that none of the facts or allegations stated in preliminary examinations, carried on in the absence of the parties interested, are

to be considered as legally or conclusively established. But in those examinations, and even in the answer drawn in the name of the Princess by her legal advisers, there have appeared circumstances of conduct on the part of the Princess, which His Majesty could never regard but with serious concern. The elevated rank which the Princess holds in this country, and the relation in which she stands to His Majesty and the Royal Family, must always deeply involve both the interests of the State, and the personal feelings of His Majesty, in the propriety and correctness of her conduct; and His Majesty, therefore, cannot forbear to express, in the conclusion of the business, his desire and expectation, that such a conduct may in future be observed by the Princess, as may fully justify those marks of paternal regard which His Majesty wishes to show to every part of the Royal Family.

"His Majesty has directed, that this message should be transmitted to the Princess of Wales by his Lord Chancellor; and that copies of the proceedings which have taken place on this subject should also be communicated to his dearly beloved son, the Prince of Wales."

In consequence of the remarks of the Princess of Wales upon this Message, in her long letter to the King, another Cabinet Council was held:

"Your Majesty's confidential servants have, in obedience to your Majesty's commands, most attentively considered the original charges and report, the minutes of evidence, and all the other papers submitted to the consideration of your Majesty, on the subject of those charges against Her Roval Highness the Princess of Wales.

"In the stage in which this business is brought under their consideration, they do not feel themselves called upon to give any opinion as to the proceeding itself, or to the mode of investigation in which it has been thought proper to conduct it. But adverting to the advice which is stated by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to have directed his conduct, your Majesty's confidential servants are anxious to impress upon your Majesty their conviction, that His Royal Highness could not, under such advice, consistently with his public duty, have done otherwise than lay before your Majesty the statement and examinations which were submitted to him upon this subject.

"After the most deliberate consideration, however, of the evidence which has been brought before the commissioners, and of the previous examinations, as well as of the answer and observations which have been submitted to your Majesty upon them, they feel it necessary to declare their decided concurrence in the clear and unanimous opinion of the commissioners, confirmed by that of all your Majesty's late confidential servants, that the two main charges alleged against Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, of pregnancy and delivery, are completely disproved; and they further submit to your Majesty their unanimous opinion, that all the other particulars of conduct brought in accusation against Her Royal Highness, to which the character of criminality can be ascribed, are either satisfactorily contradicted, or rest upon evidence of such a nature, and which was given under such circumstances, as render it, in the judg; ment of your Majesty's confidential servants, undeserving of credit. "Your Majesty's confidential servants, therefore, concurring in that part of the opinion of your late servants, as stated in their Minute of the 25th of January, that there is no longer any necessity for your Majesty being advised to decline receiving the Princess into your royal presence, humbly submit to your Majesty, that it is essentially necessary, in justice to her Royal Highness, and for the honour and interests of your Majesty's illustrious Family, that Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales should be admitted, with as little delay as possible, into your Majesty's royal presence, and that she should be received in a manner due to her rank and station in your Majesty's court and Family.

"Your Majesty's confidential servants also beg leave to submit to your Majesty, that, considering that it may be necessary that your Majesty's government should possess the means of referring to the true state of the transaction, it is of the utmost importance

that these documents, demonstrating the ground on which your Majesty has proceeded, should be preserved in safe custody; and that for that purpose the originals, or authentic copies of all these papers, should be sealed up, and deposited in the offices of your Majesty's principal Secretary of State."

This distressing discussion here terminated for the present, by Her Royal Highness's re-appearance

at court.

From these painful details, it is pleasing to turn our attention to the interest which the person and prospects of our young Princess had excited in the mind of an author who is an honour to her country and her sex. We allude to that important work of the celebrated Miss Hannah More, entitled, “Hints towards Forming the Character of a Young Princess ;” which she judiciously dedicated to the Bishop of Exeter, Her Royal Highness's tutor. It has been asserted, that this eminent and pious lady had previously been requested to undertake the education of the infant Princess; which she is also reported to have declined: but whether those statements be well or ill founded, the publication, in which she has treated with consummate ability upon the various points connected with the important object of forming the character of an heir to the throne of a great Empire, entitles her to the esteem and gratitude of the nation at large. There are strong reasons to conclude this work did, in fact, largely contribute to the growth and developement of those excellent qualities which the Princess Charlotte subsequently displayed: and as many passages tend materially to illustrate her character, and will lead the reader to resume the thread of her short but brilliant career with more comprehensive views of her character and intentions, no apology can be necessary for their insertion.

I call, (says Milton, in the motto which Miss More has prefixed to her work,) that a complete and generous education, which fits a person to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously, all the offices of public and private life, of peace, and of war." This is an apt allusion to the enlarged view of her subject, which this accomplished writer has taken. The importance of which subject she thus notices in her preface:

"If we were to inquire what is, even at the present critical period, one of the most momentous concerns which can engage the attention of an Englishman, who feels for his country like a patriot, and. for his posterity like a father; what is that object, of which the importance is not bounded by the shores of the British islands, nor limited by our colonial possessions;-with which, in its consequences, the interests, not only of all Europe, but of the whole civilized world, may hereafter be, in some measure, implicated ;-what Briton would hesitate to reply, The Education of the Princess Charlotte of Wales?"

In the second chapter the following observation occurs: "A Prince should be ignorant of nothing which it is honourable to know; but he should look on mere acquisition of knowledge not as the end to be rested in, but only as the means of arriving at some higher end.-He may have been well instructed in history, belles lettres, philosophy, and languages, and yet have received a defective education, if the formation of his judgment has been neglected. For, it is not so important to know every thing, as to know the exact value of every thing; to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.

"But above all, there should be a constant, but imperceptible habit, of turning the mind to a love of TRUTH, in all its forms and aspects; not only in matters of grave morality, but in matters of business, of common intercourse, and even of taste: for there is a truth both in moral and mental taste little short