ROYAL MARRIAGES.
During this year marriages were contracted between the Duke of Clarence and the princess of Saxe Meningen; the Duke of Kent and the Princess Leiningen; and the Duke of Cambridge with the Princess of Hesse.
At the recommendation of the prince regent to parliament, suitable provisions were made for the royal personages, though not on an extravagant scale. During the discussions on the provision to be made for them, Mr. Wilberforce inveighed in strong terms against the royal marriage act: an act which prevented the several branches of the family on our throne from entertaining the best feelings, and from forming connexions which might at once promote their happiness, and guarantee their virtue.