394 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1816. 



career, now happily ended, forci- 

 bly took away many of the sacred 

 places of public worship in this 

 city, and converted them to mili- 

 tary and other uses : and his Ex- 

 cellency having imdcrstood, from 

 a report made to him three days 

 ago by the high police, whose 

 constant assiduity merits his high- 

 est praise, that some officers of 

 that department, led by their ex- 

 treme zeal, had entered a church 

 of the dominant religion in pur- 

 suit of a person suspected of a 

 high offence, and that no express 

 general rule exists on that sub- 

 ject, his Excellency therefore di- 

 rects as follows : — 



1st. That every place of public 

 worship shall be completely eva- 

 cuated, and given up to the re- 

 spectable head of the respective 

 religion to which it belonged. 



2d. That no soldier, officer of 

 police, or other individual what- 

 soever, shall on any account dare 

 or pretend to pursue any person, 

 of whatever offence suspected, in- 

 to the sanctuary or interior of anv 

 church, but shall confine himself 

 to placing around the church such 

 sentinels as may be necessary to 

 prevent the escape of the suspect- 

 ed person, at the same time 

 giving an account thereof to the 

 governor, who will take the ne- 

 cessary steps for placing this per- 

 son in the hands of justice, by 

 the inteivcntion of the head of 

 that religion to whom the church 

 belongs. 



This present shall be printed in 

 Greek and Italian, and published 

 for universal information. 

 By order of his Excellency, 



Wm. Meyer, Public tec. 

 Palace, Corfu, 



March 19, 1816, 



Speech of the Prince Regent at the 



close of the Session, July 2d, 



181G. 

 " My Lords and Gentlemen, 



" I cannot close this Session of 

 Parliament without again ex- 

 pressing my deep regret at the 

 continuance of his Majesty's la- 

 mented indisposition. 



" The cordial interest which 

 you have manifested in the happy 

 event of the marriage of my 

 daughter, the Princess Charlotte, 

 with the Prince of Saxe-Coburg, 

 and the liberal provision which 

 you have made for their establish- 

 ment, afford an additional proof 

 of your affectionate attachnient to 

 his Majesty's person and family, 

 and demand my warmest acknow- 

 ledgments. 



" I have the pleasure to ac- 

 quaint you, that 1 have given the 

 royal consent to a marriage be- 

 tween his Majesty's daughter, the 

 Princess Mary, and the Duke of 

 Glocester ; and I am persuaded 

 that this event will be highly gra- 

 tifying to all his Majesty's sub- 

 jects. 



" The assurances which T have 

 received of the jjacific and friend- 

 ly disposition of the powers en- 

 gaged in the late war, and of 

 their resolution to execute invio- 

 lably the terms of the treaties 

 which I announced to you at the 

 opening of the session, promise 

 the continuance of that peace so 

 essential to the interests of all 

 the nations of the world. 



" Gentlemen of the House 

 of Commons, 

 " ] tliank you for the supplies 

 which j'ou have gi'anted for the 

 service of the year ; and I am 

 swnsibla of the beneficial effects 



which 



