[84] Last Friday her Majesty was most graciously pleased to extend her mercy to William Bales, under order for transportation for fourteen years, who sometime since was condemned on the Black Act.--_Daily Gazetteer_, 26th July, 1736. Her Majesty has been pleased to pardon the three following condemned to transportation for fourteen years--_viz._, Thomas Ricketts, for stealing a silver hilted sword, and Thomas Morris and John Pritchard, for housebreaking.--_Daily Gazetteer_, 7th August, 1736. The day before the Court removed from Windsor to Richmond her Majesty gave £80 for discharging poor debtors confined in the town jail.--_Daily Post_, 19th October, 1730. [85] Petitions have lately been presented to her Majesty from insolvent debtors confined in the prisons of this city, the numbers of whom are so great that several have died lately of the prison distemper, and others through want.--_Craftsman_, 18th May, 1728. [86] Second Report of the Select Committee, presented 14th May 1729. [87] _Commons’ Journals_, vol. xx. [88] Hervey’s _Memoirs_. [89] _Tindal’s History._ [90] Maby’s _Life of Chesterfield_. [91] _Parliamentary History_, vol. ix., p. 254. CHAPTER IX. FREDERICK, PRINCE OF WALES. There was another and more dangerous enemy whom Walpole could not touch, and of whose dislike he was at this time not fully aware--the Prince of Wales. Throughout the excise agitation the Prince had silently and stealthily worked against his parents and the Prime Minister. He had now become more familiar with the position of affairs in England, and had learnt the importance of his position in the state. The Prince was a constant source of trouble to the King, nor was the blame wholly on Frederick’s side. The Queen urged the advisability of giving the Prince a separate establishment, and went to look at a house for him in George Street, Hanover Square, but the King stubbornly refused to give the necessary money, and so Frederick had perforce to live with his parents in apartments in one of the palaces, and to be a daily recipient of his father’s slights. Such a position would have been trying for the most virtuous and dutiful of sons, and the Prince was neither virtuous nor dutiful. Moreover, though Parliament granted the King £100,000 for the Prince of Wales, yet Frederick received only a small allowance from his father, and even that was uncertain. Under these circumstances he quickly accumulated debts, which the King refused to pay. The Queen interceded for him, but in vain, and she received no gratitude from her son, who resented, as far as he dared, her being appointed Regent in the King’s absence instead of himself. As he was entirely dependent on his father for money, he did not venture to make a public protest, but he cherished a grudge against his mother for superseding him.