London she occupied Berkeley House, which stood in Piccadilly, on the site now covered by Devonshire House.189 Her income was secured by Act of Parliament; but no punishment which it was in the power of the Crown to inflict on her was spared.  Her guard of honour was taken away.  The foreign ministers ceased to wait upon her.  When she went to Bath the Secretary of State wrote to request the Mayor of that city not to receive her with the ceremonial with which royal visitors were usually welcomed.  When she attended divine service at Saint James’s Church she found that the rector had been forbidden to show her the customary marks of respect, to bow to her from his pulpit, and to send a copy of his text to be laid on her cushion.  Even the bellman of Piccadilly, it was said, perhaps falsely, was ordered not to chaunt her praises in his doggrel verse under the windows of Berkeley House.190

That Anne was in the wrong is clear; but it is not equally clear that the King and Queen were in the right.  They should have either dissembled their displeasure, or openly declared the true reasons for it.  Unfortunately, they let every body see the punishment, and they let scarcely any body know the provocation.  They should have remembered that, in the absence of information about the cause of a quarrel, the public is naturally inclined to side with the weaker party, and that this inclination is likely to be peculiarly strong when a sister is, without any apparent reason, harshly treated by a sister.  They should have remembered, too, that they were exposing to attack what was unfortunately the one vulnerable part of Mary’s character.  A cruel fate had put enmity between her and her father.  Her detractors pronounced her utterly destitute of natural affection; and even her eulogists, when they spoke of the way in which she had discharged the duties of the filial relation, were forced to speak in a subdued and apologetic tone.  Nothing therefore could be more unfortunate than that she should a second time appear unmindful of the ties of consanguinity.  She was now at open war with both the two persons who were nearest to her in blood.  Many who thought that her conduct towards her parent was justified by the extreme danger which had threatened her country and her religion, were unable to defend her conduct towards her sister.  While Mary, who was really guilty in this matter of nothing more than imprudence, was regarded by the world as an oppressor, Anne, who was as culpable as her small faculties enabled her to be, assumed the interesting character of a meek, resigned sufferer.  In those private letters, indeed, to which the name of Morley was subscribed, the Princess expressed the sentiments of a fury in the style of a fishwoman, railed savagely at the whole Dutch nation, and called her brother in law sometimes the abortion, sometimes the monster, sometimes Caliban.191 But the nation heard nothing of her language and saw nothing of her deportment but what was decorous and submissive.