242 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1810. 



verted into barracks for the use of 

 the troops. A great bbw wasstruck 

 against the churchmen in the 

 month of September. By a de- 

 cree of his majesty the emperor 

 and king, marriages contracted 

 without the sanction of the civil 



magistrate, were to be deeifled 

 null and invalid ; and ecclesias- 

 tics who presumed to pronounce 

 the nuptial benediction, without 

 such authority, to be punished — 

 after repeated offences, even with 

 death. 



