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: ... determined to place himself above all suspicion. "In desiring to be placed in a forward situation, 1 have performed one duty to the people of England; I must now perform another, and humbly supplicate your Majesty to assign those reasons which have induced you torefuse a request which appears to me and to the world, so reasonable and so rational. "I must again repeat my concern, that I am obliged to continue a correspondence which I fear is not so grateful to your Majesty as I could wish. I have examined my own heart--I am convinced of the justice of my cause--of the purity of my motives. llcason and honour forbid me to yield: where no reason is alleged, I am justified in the conclusion that none can be given. "In this candid exposition of the feelings which have agitated and depressed my wounded mind, I hope no expressions have escaped me which can be construed to mean the slightest disrespect to your Majesty. I most solemnly disavow any such intention; but the circumstances of the times--the danger of invasion, the appeal which has been made to all your subjects, oblige me to recollect what I owe to my own honour and to my own character, and to state to your Majesty with plainness, truth, and candour, but with all the submission of a subject and the duty of an affectionate Son, the injuries under which I labour, and which it is in the power of your Majesty alone at one moment to redress. "It is with sentiments of the profoundest veneration and respect that 1 have the honour to subscribe myself, "Your Majesty's most dutiful, "And most affectionate "Son and subject, (Signed) G. P." A correspondence was subsequently entered into between the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York, on the same subject, and the following letters passed between their Royal Highne...
