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ExtraSi cf a letter from Naples, Sept. 29.“ You- will have heard of the death of the Pope, bac do not know, perhaps, that there is every reafon to believe it was haftened by the Jefuits, who poi-fcned him in the Sacrament. He himfelf declared his fufpicious before he died, and the belief of it is fo general, even in thefe Catholic countries, that the Minilters of France and Spain infilled on being prefent at the opening of hia body, his belly having iwelled extraordinarily, and being Itrangtly difco-Ioured, even before he expired. The corpfe putri-fied fo fuddenly, that the furgeons could hardly go through the operation; and, as foon as they touched the head, the teeth fell out, and all the bones of his body crumbled away, and the flelh came away in pieces. They were forced to embalm the body twice, before they could carry it to St. Peter’s; and infiead ofexpofing his face-as is ufual, they covered it with wax, and in the traufport, the head fepara-ted from the body. His Confectioner is dead in a manner little lefs horrid, and with the fame fymp-toms his Hoiinffs had.’'Letters from Rome cbfccve, as fomewhat remarkable, that the late Pope, who wa*of the Order of the Minor Friars, as well as Pope Sixtus the Fifth, reigned exadtly the fame number of years, month-* and days. Sixtus the Fifth wai eleCled the 24th of April, 1585, and died the 27th of Auguft, 1590; the .lace Pope was elected the igth of May, 1769, and died the 2 2d of September, 1774, which makes exactly five yearj, four months, aud three days, to each Pontificate.Letters from Lifbon mention, that a (laiue of the late Pope is going to be ereded there, as an acknowledgment for his Holinefs’s having fuppreilcd the [efuus in that kingdom.
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Southampton Hampshire Chronicle
Southampton, Hampshire, GB
Mon, Oct 31, 1774
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