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 the world, out of regard for the character of the father of my child, and from a desire to prevent her happiness from being disturbed-shunned from motives of selfishness by those who were my natural associates-living in obscurity, while I ought to have been the centre of all that was splendid:-thus humbled, I had one consolation left—the love of my dear and only child. To permit me to enjoy this was too great an indulgence. To see my daughter—to fold her in my arms—to mingle my tears with hers-to receive her cheering caresses, and to hear from her lips assurances of never ceasing love—thus to be comforted, consoled, upheld, blessed, was too much to be allowed me. Even on the slave mart the eriescries [sic] of "Oh! my mother, my mother! Oh! my child, my child!" have prevented a separation of the victims of avarice. But your advisers, more inhuman than the slave-dealers, remorselessly tore the mother from the child.

Thus bereft of the society of my child, or reduced to the necessity of embittering her life by struggles to preserve that society, I resolved on a temporary absence, in the hope that time might restore me to her in happier days. Those days, alas! were never to come. To mothers-and those mothers who have been suddenly bereft of the best and most affectionate and only daughters—it belongs to estimate my sufferings and my wrongs. Such mothers will judge of my affliction upon hearing of the death of my child, and upon my calling to recollection the last look, the last words, and all the affeetingaffecting [sic] circumstaneescircumstances [sic] of our scparationseparation [sic]. Such mothers will see the depth of my sorrows. Every being with a heart of humanity in its bosom will drop a tear, in sympathy with me. And will not the world, then, learn with indignation that this event, ealeulatedcalculated [sic] to soften the hardest heart, was the signal for new conspiracies, and indefatigable efforts for the destruction of this afflicted mother? Your