The Princess again in public--Restricted intercourse between the Princess and her daughter--Sealed letter addressed by the Princess to the Prince--Published--The Princess’s appeal to Parliament--Bitterness on both sides--Meeting of the Princess and her daughter--The Princess at Vauxhall--Death of the Duchess of Brunswick--Last interview between the Duke of Brunswick and the Princess--Her depressed spirits--Unnoticed during the festivities of 1814--Sacrifice made by the Princess-- Unnoticed by the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia--The Princess at the opera--A scene--Not invited to the great city banquet--Mr. Whitbread’s advice to the Princess--A freak-- Reception of the Regent in the city--The Princess excluded from the drawing-rooms--Correspondence between the Queen and the Princess--Her letter to the Regent--Discussed in the House of Commons. From the comparative retirement in which the Princess had lived for a few years she was now, in 1813, again to issue and appear before the public more like an athlete on the arena than a suppliant with wrongs to be redressed. Her retirement had given, however, much subject for comment on the part of the public, for censure on the part of her enemies. The latter still pointed to her habits of life as forming apology enough for the restrictions set upon her intercourse with her daughter. The fashion of opening _all_ her apartments to her visitors at Kensington was considered indecorous; and the popular tongue dealt unmeasuredly with her cottage at Bayswater, at which she was _said_ to have presided at scenes of at least consummate folly--and folly in such a woman was but next to serious guilt, and almost as sure to accomplish her utter ruin. It is difficult to say positively in what light the Princess Charlotte looked upon the restrictions which kept her mother and herself apart. Report accredited her with being a thorn in the side of Queen Charlotte, and a continual trouble to the Regent. She is said to have paid to neither an over-heaped measure of respect, and she seriously offended both by marring the splendour of her first ‘drawing-room,’ at which she was to be presented by the Duchess of York, and which was postponed because she insisted upon being presented by her mother.