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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1815. 
CHAPTER V. 
Additional Grant to the Duke of Wellington: Thanks to him, and to 
Marshal Blucher, and the Armies— Motion for a National Monument of 
- the victory at Waterloo.— Message respecting the Duke of Cumberland’s 
» Marriage, and debates.—Repeal of the Assize of Bread Laws in Lon- 
don. 
of Parliament. 
UT few of theremaining pro- 
ceedings in parliament were 
of sufficient importance to re- 
quire notice. 
The glorious victory of Water- 
loo produced a message to both 
Houses from the prince Regent 
on June 22nd, recommending to 
them “to enable his Royal High- 
ness to grant such additional pro- 
vision to Field-marshal the duke 
of Wellington as shall afford a 
further proof of the opinion en- 
tertained by parliament of the 
duke of Wellington’s transcend- 
ant services, and of the gratitude 
and munificence of the British 
nation.”? Parliament, never back- 
ward at such a call, unanimously 
concurred in a vote for add- 
ing the sum of 200,0001. to the 
former liberal grants by which its 
sense of his extraordinary merits 
had been demonstrated. The 
thanks of both Houses were after- 
wards voted to the Duke of Wel- 
lington, and to many officers of dis- 
tinction in his army, and to Mar- 
shal Prince Blucher, the Prus- 
sian army, and the allied troops 
under the Duke’s command. A 
motion being afterwards made in 
the House of Commons by Lord 
Castlereagh for an address to the 
Financial Acts.—Speech of the Prince Regent on the Prorogaiion 
Prince Regent, that he would be 
pleased to give directions for 
erecting a National monument in 
honour of the victory at Water- 
loo, and in commemoration of 
those who gloriously fellin achiev 
ing it, the same was unanimously 
agreed to. 
The arrival of his Royal High- 
ness the Duke of Cumberland, 
with his spouse the Princess of 
Salms, for the purpose of repeat- 
ing the marriage ceremony in this 
country, is recorded in our Chro- 
nicle for the month of June. On 
the 27th of that month a message 
from the Prince Regent was re- 
ceived by both Houses of Parlia- 
ment, informing them ‘that a 
marriage, to which the consent of 
his Royal Highness was duly given, 
had been solemnized between his 
brother the Duke of Cumberland, 
and a daughter of the reigning 
Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, 
niece to her majesty the Queen of 
the united kingdom of Great Bri- 
tain and Ireland, and relict of 
the Prince Salms Braunfels.” The 
message further expressed a con- 
fidence of the readiness of Parlia- 
ment toenable his Royal Highness 
to make such provision for their 
Royal Highnesses onthis occasion 
