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    became this high favourite , I laid it down for a maxim , that flattery was falsehood to my trust and ingratitude to my greatest friend ; and that I did not deserve so much

    favour if I could not venture the loss of it by speaking the truth , and by preferring the real interest of my mistress before the pleasing her fancy or the sacrificing to her passion . From this rule I never swerved . And though my temper and my notions in most things

    were widely different from those of the Princess , yet , during a long course of years , she was so far from being displeased with me for openly speaking my sentiments , that she sometimes professed a desire , and even added her command , that it should be always

    continued , promising never to be offended at it , but to love me the better for my frankness . * * # # " Kings and princes , for the most part , imagine they have a dignity peculiar to their birth and

    station , which ought to raise them above all connection of friendship with an inferior . Their passion is to be admired and feared , to have _eubjects awfully obedient and servants blindly obsequious to their pleasure . Friendship is an offensive word : it imports a kind of

    equality between the parties — it suggests nothing to the mind of crowns or thrones , high titles , or immense revenues , fountains of honour or fountains of riches , prerogatives which the possessors would have always uppermost in the thoughts of those who are permitted to approach them .

    " The Princess had a different taste . A friend was what she most Coveted ; and for the sake of friend-Ship ( a relation which she did not disdain to have with me ) she was

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    fond even of that equality which she thought belonged to it . She grew uneasy to be treated by me with the form and ceremony due to her rank , nor could she bear from me the sound of words which

    implied in them distance and superiority . It was this turn of mind which made her one day propose to me that , whenever I shou ; d happen to be absent from her , we might in all ' our letters write ourselves by feigned names , such as

    would import nothing of distinction of rank between us . Morley and Freeman were the names her fancy hit upon , and she left me to choose by which of them I would be called . My frank , open temper

    naturally led me to pitch upon Freeman , and so the Princess took the other ; and from this time Mrs Morley and Mrs Freeman began to converse as equals , made so by affection and friendship .

    " During her father ' s whole reign she kept her court as private as she could , consistent with her station . What were the designs of that unhappy prince everybody knows . They came soon to show themselves undisguised , and attempts were made to draw his

    daughter into them . The King , indeed , used no harshness with her . He only discovered his wishes by putting into her hands some books and papers , wnich he hoped might induce _nsr 10 a change of religion ; and , had she had any inclination that way , the chaplains about her were such divines as

    could have said but little in defenee of their own religion , or to secure her against the pretences of Popery , recommended to her by a father and a King . * # ? * " Upon _tha landing of _the _PritiSe

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1837, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01071837/page/9/