royal family, together with the Prince of Wales and his amiable Bride, and numerous lords and ladies in attendance, repaired to the late Queen's Palace, Buckingham House, where a most splendid supper and entertainment were prepared by her Majesty for the royal pair. Besides some other foreign royal personages, there were present at the supper table, the Stadtholder and his family.

At twelve o'clock the newly married couple retired to Carlton House, where they slept.

The nuptial ceremonies were announced, in the course of the evening, to the public, by the firing of the Park and Tower guns; and the satisfaction which the event gave to the people was displayed by illuminations of a most magnificent nature. The burst of joy, and the manifestations of its sincerity, were as voluntary as they were universal. No mob-law was necessary to enforce obedience to the general wish for illuminations, and other demonstrations of the popular sentiment; nor was the evening marked by any of those disgraceful riots, disturbances, and accidents, which are so frequently the effects of such public proceedings.

On the morning of the 9th of April, the day after the royal marriage, the Prince and his Princess were visited by their Majesties, the King and Queen, who soon afterwards left town for Windsor, whither they were followed by their Royal High

nesses.

It may not be improper to notice in this place, that amongst the supplies granted by Parliament

for the year 1795, we find the following items, under June the 15th: "Preparations for the Prince of Wales's Marriage, 27,500l. ;" and, "for completing the works at Carlton House," for the reception of the Prince and his royal consort, “25,000/." Little more than a month after this, an act was passed to enable his Majesty to settle an annuity on the Prince of Wales; and to make provision, out of his revenues, for the payment of debts due from his Royal Highness; and for preventing the accumulation of debts in future; and for regulating the mode of expenditure of the said revenues. An act also passed, about the same time, for making provision for a jointure for the Princess of Wales; but both these acts we shall notice more particularly farther on.

Soon after the marriage, addresses of congratulation to the King and Queen, and to the Prince and Princess of Wales, began to pour in from almost every quarter; and the city of London, always foremost on occasions of this nature, on the 17th of April, presented an address, expressive of the warmest congratulations to their Majesties. The same corporation also presented the following address, dated April the 23d:

"TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES.

"May it please your Royal Highness,

“The lord-mayor, aldermen, and commons of the city of Londou, in common council assembled, beg leave to congratulate your Royal Highness, on your recent marriage with her Serene HighHess, the Princess Caroline of Brunswick.

"It is with extreme pleasure and gratification that we behold your Royal Highness so impressed with affection towards his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, as to form the present happy alliance with a princess, illustrious in rank, and possessing every engaging quality of the heart, united to the important situation she fills, and calculated to remunerate, with conjugal felicity, the high honour of your Royal Highness's affection and choice:

"The prospect, by this illustrious event, of perpetuating the virtues of your royal house to posterity, who shall know, equally with ourselves, how to value the mild monarchy so admirably interwoven with our most excellent constitution, forms a material part of our happiness.

"Depending, as good subjects ever must, on the virtues of the royal breast, so essential to the splendour of the throne, and the prosperity of the people, it is matter of great consolation to us, to reflect upon the invaluable example of your royal father, which, confirming the many graceful and amiable qualifications of your own mind, cannot but complete the royal character, and, in the fulness of time, must make your future people happy.

"May your illustrious consort long enjoy her exalted situation, and may a numerous progeny, from this auspicious union, transmit the blessings under which we live to the end of time.

(Signed, by Order of the Court,)

"RIX."

To this affectionate and flattering address, his Royal Highness returned the following answer:

"My lord-mayor and gentlemen,

"I am truly sensible of this mark of attention in the lord-mayor, aldermen, and commons of the city of London in common council assembled. I return them my sincere thanks for their congratulations on the occasion of my marriage; and it gives me peculiar satisfaction that they take so warm an interest in this event. I am much gratified by the expressions of their affectionate attachment, which convey so strong a proof of their loyalty to the King, and of their zealous regard for my happiness.".

The deputation from the corporation were received by his Royal Highness in the most gracious and affable manner; and having received the above answer, they were admitted to kiss the Prince's hand, and were then introduced to the Princess, to whom they presented the following address:

"

"TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS.

May it please your Royal Highness,

"We his Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the lord-mayor, aldermen, and commons of the city of London, in common hall assembled, take the earliest opportunity to congratulate your Royal Highness on the happy occasion of your marriage with his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

"Added to the intrinsic virtues of your Royal Highness, the high station you are so well qualified to adorn, and your alliance with so distinguished a prince, the heir apparent of these happy realms, your Royal Highness has also powerful claims to the affection of a grateful people, nearly related as you are to our most gracious sovereign, the father of his subjects.

"Permit then, Madam, the faithful subjects of the best of Kings, to assure your Royal Highness of their most sincere veneration and esteem, and to believe that as your interest is now united with that of our amiable Prince, your happiness will by them be considered and consulted as one.

“Long may your Royal Highness share the joy of so splendid an union, and may our latest posterity receive from you a continuation of those blessings which can only be experienced under the government of a beloved and virtuous King.

(Signed, by Order of the Court,)

"RIX."

To this address her Royal Highness returned the following answer:

"My lord-mayor and gentlemen,

"I return you many thanks for your congratulations upon an

event so interesting to my happiness, and so grateful to my feelings. My sentiments will ever be the same with those of the Prince, and they have been already better expressed to you by him."

Besides these, many other similar addresses were presented, and similar answers returned; and, for some time after the marriage, nothing but fetes and festivals, rejoicings and congratulations were heard of, interrupted only by the anxieties of the nation respecting the state of the war with France; and by the interest which the long-protracted trial of Warren Hastings, then drawing to a close, excited amongst the higher ranks of society. That gentleman was impeached, in the year 1786, by Mr. Burke, at the bar of the House of Lords, in the name of all the Commons of Great Britain, of high crimes and misdemeanors, whilst governor-general of Bengal; in 1788 his trial commenced, and he was acquitted by a majority of the Peers on the 25th of April, 1795. This trial, then, lasted upwards of seven years. Its termination, therefore, very greatly occupied the public attention during the rejoicings for the Prince of Wales's marriage.

CHAPTER III,

THE frame of man is not calculated to support the physical excitement of perpetual joy, any more than it can bear up under the pressure of continual