, and only
then, make known all the state secrets which I have left in
the Earl of Warwick's keeping for your knowledge. Such
papers I bequeath to you for your sole and uncontrolled
property, to use and act upon as you deem fit, according to
expediency of things. Receive this as the sacred will of
JAMES WILMOT."

"_June --st_, 1789.
Witness, WARWICK."

Mrs. Ryves maintained that up to the moment of the opening of the
sealed packet her mother had believed herself to be the daughter of
Robert Wilmot and the niece of Dr. Wilmot, and she did not know of any
Olive Wilmot except her aunt, who was the wife of Mr. Payne. When the
first information as to her birth was given to her by Lord Warwick,
she supposed herself to be the daughter of the Duke of Cumberland by
the Olive Wilmot who was afterwards Mrs. Payne, and had no idea that
her mother was the daughter of Dr. Wilmot, and was another person
altogether. There was a great consultation as to opening the packet
before the king's death; but the Duke of Kent persisted in his desire
to know its contents, and the seals were broken. The Duke of Kent died
on the 26th of January, 1820, and George III. in the following week,
on the 30th of the same month.

Mrs. Ryves then proved the identity of certain documents which bore the
signatures of the Earl of Warwick and the Duke of Kent. They were
chiefly written on morsels of paper, and elicited the remark from the
Lord Chief-Justice, that "his royal highness seemed to have been as
poor as to paper as the earl." She said that these documents were
written in her own presence. Among them were these:--

"I solemnly promise to see my cousin Olive, Princess of
Cumberland, reinstated in her R----l rights at my father's
demise.
EDWARD."

"_May_ 3, 1816."

"I bind myself, by my heirs, executors, and assigns, to pay
to my dearest coz. Olive, Princess of Cumberland, four
hundred pounds yearly during her life.
EDWARD."
"_May_ 3, 1818."

"I bequeath to Princess Olive of Cumberland ten thousand
pounds should I depart this life before my estate of
Castlehill is disposed of.
EDWARD."

"_June_ 9, 1819."

"I hereby promise to return from Devonshire early in the
spring to lay before the Reg