manners and
attempts at cleverness and coarse sarcasm, increased it till it
became positive hatred.

"From this time, though I dined frequently during the first three
weeks at Carlton House, nothing material occurred; but the sum of
what I saw there led me to draw the inferences I have just expressed.
After one of those dinners, where the Prince of Orange was present,
and at which the Princess had behaved very lightly and even
improperly, the Prince took me into his closet, and asked me how I
liked this sort of manners. I could not conceal my disapprobation of
them, and took this opportunity of repeating to him the substance of
what the Duke of Brunswick had so often said to me, that it was
expedient _de la tenir serree_, that she had been brought up very
strictly, and if she was not strictly kept, would, from high spirits
and little thought, certainly emancipate too much. To this the Prince
said--'I see it but too plainly; but why, Harris, did you not tell me
so before, or write it to me from Brunswick?'

"I replied that I did not consider what the Duke (a severe father
himself towards his children) said, of sufficient consequence; that
it affected neither the Princess's moral character nor conduct, and
was intended solely as a communication which I conceived it only
proper to notice to his Royal Highness at a proper occasion, at such
a one as now had offered; and that I humbly hoped his Royal Highness
would not consider it as casting any _real_ slur or aspersion on the
Princess; that as to not writing to his Royal Highness from
Brunswick, I begged him to recollect I was not sent on a
_discretionary_ commission, but with _the most positive commands_ to
ask the Princess Caroline in marriage, and nothing more; that to this
sole point, respecting the marriage and no other, these commands
went; any reflections or remarks that I had presumed to make, would
(whether in praise of, or injurious to her Royal Highness) have been
a direct and positive deviation from those his Majesty's commands.
They were as _limited_ as they were _imperative_. That still, had I
discovered notorious or glaring defects, or such as were of a nature
to render the union unseemly, I should have felt it as a bounden duty
to have stated them, but it must have been _directly to the