has been hitherto
followed, and under the same superintendence. Nor do we
apprehend that any other alterations in the plan will be
required than those which will be gradually made by the
judicious director of Her Highness's studies, as the mind
expands, and her faculties are strengthened."

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The Duchess of Kent referred all this correspondence to the Archbishop
of Canterbury.[5] His memorandum is preserved; it states he has
considered the Report, and further, has himself personally examined
the Princess. He continues:

"I feel it my duty to say that in my judgment the plan of Her
Highness's studies, as detailed in the papers transmitted to me by
command of your Royal Highness, is very judicious, and particularly
suitable to Her Highness's exalted station; and that from the
proficiency exhibited by the Princess in the examination at which
I was present, and the general correctness and pertinency of her
answers, I am perfectly satisfied that Her Highness's education
in regard to cultivation of intellect, improvement of talent, and
religious and moral principle, is conducted with so much care and
success as to render any alteration of the system undesirable."

[Footnote 5: Dr William Howley.]

The Princess was gradually and watchfully introduced to public life,
and was never allowed to lose sight of the fact that her exalted
position carried with it definite and obvious duties. The following
speech, delivered at Plymouth in 1832, in answer to a complimentary
deputation, may stand as an instance of the view which the Duchess of
Kent took of her own and her daughter's responsibilities:--

"It is very agreeable to the Princess and myself to hear the
sentiments you convey to us. It is also gratifying to us to be assured
that we owe all these kind feelings to the attachment you bear the
King, as well as to his Predecessors of the House of Brunswick, from
recollections of their paternal sway. The object of my life is
to render the Princess worthy of the affectionate solicitude she
inspires, and if it be the Will of Providence she should fill a higher
station (I trust most fervently at a very distant day), I shall
be fully repaid for my anxious care, if she is found competent to
discharge the sacred trust; for communicating as the Princess does
with all classes of Society, she cannot but perceive that the greater
the diffusio