When Mr. Whitbread waited on the Princess she received him rather coolly, and listened silently to his enumeration of the persons whose opinion it was that she should not appear at Drury Lane. He said that Mr. Tierney, Mr. Brougham, and Lord Sefton were of opinion that, however much the Princess might be applauded, the public would say it was at the instigation of Mr. Whitbread, and was not the spontaneous feeling of the people; that the more she was applauded, the more they would say so, and that if, on the contrary, a strong party of the Prince Regent’s friends and paid hirelings were there, and that one voice of disapprobation were heard, it might do her considerable harm. ‘Besides,’ continued Mr. Whitbread, ‘as the great question about an establishment for your Royal Highness comes on to-morrow, I think it is of the utmost importance that no one should be able to cast any invidious observation about your forcing yourself on the public, or seeming to defy your Royal Highness’s husband.’ In fine, the Princess was overruled. In the midst of her disappointments she was enlivened by renewed hopes of a visit from the Emperor of Russia, whose expressed intention to that effect was said to have given considerable uneasiness to the Regent. Meanwhile, the Princess found solace in various ways--and not always in the most commendable, if we are to put implicit truth in the following account of a freak, which seems more like a ‘freedom’ of the ladies at the Court of Charles II. than a frolic of more modern and less lively times. Such a story is best told in the words of a witness--Lady Charlotte Campbell.