JUNE 5• announced to me by your Majesty, and shall not present myself at the Drawing roams 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 preceeding, of which his Royal High ness can alone be the judge. lam unconscious of otrence ; and in that reflection, I must endeavour to find consolation for all the mortifications I experience; even fur this, the last, the most unexpected, and the most severe ; the prohibi ion given to me alone, to appear before your Majesty, to oiler illy congratulations upon the happy termination of those ca lamities with which Europe has been so long afflicted, in the presence of the illosti ious . pe:sonages who will in all pioba bilitv be assembled at your Majesty's Court, with whom I am so closely connected by birth and marriage. " I bese , ch your Majesty to do me an act of justice, to which, in the present circumstances, your Majesty is the dilly person competent, ly acquainting those Illustrious Strangers with the motives of personal consideration towards your Ma jesty which alone induce me to abst-in front 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 rega d. " Your Majesty will, I am su: e, not be displeased that I should relieve ntse f from a suspicion of disiespect towards your Majesty, by making public the cause of Inv :thsence front Court, at a time when the duties of my station would other wise peculiarly demand my attendance. " I hate the honour to be, tour Majesty's " Most obedient daughter-in-law and servant, " Connaught House, May 24, IUI CAROLINE, P." THE QUEEN TO THE PRINCESS OF WALLS. 44 WINDiOR CASTL E, MA Y 25, 151 4. " The Queen has received, this afternoon, the Plincess of Wales's letter of yestelday in reply to the commnoication which she was desired by the Prince Re.,2nt t:' make to her; and she is sensible of the disposition expressed by her hova! Highness nut to discuss with her, topics IA hick must be pain, ful to both. " The Queen considers it incumbent upon her to send a copy of the Princess of Wales's letter to the Pi ince Ite44nt ; and her Majesty could have felt no hesitation in communi. eating to the Must' ions Strangels who may possibly be pre sent at her Com t, the circumstances which will prevent the Princess of Wales from appealing there, if her Royal flightless had not rendered a compliance with ~ i ) to this effect unnecessary, by intimating her inten:iuti of making public the cause of her absence. " CHARLOTI E, 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 man n her best thanks to her Maje,ty, for her gracious condescension, in the willingness expressed by her Majesty, to have communicated to the Must' ious 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 High ness, cannot be the less necessary on account of any pub licity which it may be in the power of her Royal Highness to give to her motives ; and the Princess of Wales, therefore, entreats the actiie good offices of her Majesty, upon any oc- THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Iril ." 'Pr ChSlOll wherein the Princess of Wales feels it so essential to her that she should nut be misunderstood, 16 Connaught place, May 27, 1811." CATOLINE, THE QUEEN TO THE PRINCESS OF WALES. C‘ WINDSOR CASTLE, MAY, Q 7, 1814. " The Queen cannot omit to acknowledge the receipt of the Princess of Wales's note, of yesterday, although it does not appear to her Majesty to require any other reply than that conveyed to her Royal Ilighnoes's preceding letter. " CHARLOTTE, R. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE :)F LORDS. WEDN-ESU %I', JUNE 1. Lord Comhernicre, Lord Hill, and Lord Beresford p took their catlis and seats.—Adjourned till Friday. FRIDAY, JUSZEI Lord lillixvoN presented Petit iomi from the Parish of St. George'4 in the County of Middlesex; from St. Dunstan's, Stepney, ani from the liandet of Radcliffe, again.t the Corn Rill ; and the Doke of SOMP.RSET, a Petition from the Parish of St. Luke. Mid'ilesex signed by Epwards of 4,690 persons, to the same effect. (Meta to lie on the table. Adjourned till Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1. Several Petitions were presented against the proposed alterations i n t h e (7orils Laws. vflic F. liidnirtzti Jail Bill %as read a thlrd lime and passed. Sir G. Cl.Enli presented a Petition from some Distillers in Scot land of the name ot . Haigh, praying for the continuance of the sus pension or intercourse of spirits between Great Britain and Ireland. General thy:cote:NE presented a similar Petit iou_trom Liverpeol, both were referred to a Committee on the subject. Mr. W. Smith wi •lird to know whether it wa, the intention of the. Right Honourable Gentlemen oppo , ite (Mr. Fitz.:crald) to propose rely measure to , (iodize the ditty on salt imported from Ireland and tint sign parts, as otherwise he (Mr. S.) had given notice of a motion on the subject ? Mr. FiTznEiratn said it was his intention to bring a measure to evalise the duties, before the Honer. THE PRINCESS OF \VALES. Mr. AICTIIUFN rose in consequence of a Correspondence whirls had been Wel before the public, to ask the Right Honourable Geri tkinan ( Mr. Bathar•t), whom he saw la his place, which of his Majesty's Alinisters it was that had advised his Royal Highness the Prince Regent to take those measures which had been taken to prevent the Princess of Wales from appearing at her Alajesty'a Drawing Room i—(Hear!) Air. BATHURST said, he was aware of the convenience of the practice which had been adopted of asking and answering questions in that House, by which means the necessity of making inotirais was frequently obviated ; but as to the question which the I I , m, Gentleman had put, he could only say that it did not appear to him that the circumstances and character of the transaction warranted him in giving it any answer. Mr. METHUEN then gave notice, that he should, on Ft iday nf•xt, brine forward a motion on the subject. The purport of his motion would be—That an humble Address be presented to the Prince Regent, to enquire who was the person that advised his Royal Highness to adopt the nteaqtres which hail beer' taken to pie:relit her Royal Highness the Princess of %Vales from appearing at her Majesty's Dric.vitig-Room. Mr. PONSONDY rose to say a febw words en a subject connected with that respecting -which notice of a'motion had been given. He was a friend, as much as any man, to the liberty of the press, and :IS not at all inclined, for personal or private - considerations, to inter fere with this liberty ; but he should read, for the purpose of • diveine 11, a statement which had reerntly been published. paper called The Morning Herald, of Friday, Alay the lowing pmegraph had appeared . " Several Opportion Councils haste ii.tets assembled 03! fomented varianee between her itiajestyand the rfinCL'AS i f contra- , 19 the the 101. on a wcll of Wale*, . • a ' • • 4, •