Memoirs of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales Volume 2

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1808 Excerpt: ... the most serious evils that has arisen of late years from the unbounded licentiousness of the press, is the encouragement that has been given, by impunity, to professed libellers, to ransack the secrets of domestic life, and drag them before the tribunal of the public. The open noon-day actions of a man, by which the public welfare may be affected, are fair subjects of animadversion, but not what is strictly pergonal to himself, and concerns only his own domestic happiness and comfort. Another objection too, we wish to make, is, the extreme freedom which some writers have indulged in when treating on this subject. Had it been the case between two individuals no ways peculiarly, distinguished for their rank, a decent respect for the feelings of persons in such a state of estrangement and separation would, we should have thought, have imposed some restraint upon their pens: but the high rank of the illustrious personages in question, instead of affording them any protection against the assaults of these literary bravoes, seems to have been an additional incitement to them, to whet their rancour and malice. We know of nothing more truly disgraceful in the whole compass of English literature, than the libellous publications which, from the year 1796, to the present times, have circulated with impunity against the Prince and Princess of Wales. Dismissing this ungrateful subject for the present, and we sincerely wish wc had not to recur to it again, we must proceed to the mention of some parliamentary proceedings in which the interest of his royal highness the Prince of Wales was concerned. Shortly after the conclusion of the peace of Amiens, a gleam of prosperity seeming to break over the political horizon, it became the wish of men of all parties that the Princ...