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those of the preceding Swamors. The Captain. General who is in the Le vant, hakens on the New- Levies with great Vigour, where we are alluw’d that he has already twelve thousand Men, not counting in the Soldiers that are in Garrison. So that when the Gonvoy arrives, there will be an Army of sixteen thousand Men, ready to renter upon AGion. . LV. The Count Guide Pepeli,, a Noble Verrtian, dy’d, not long since at Bologna, by a strange Accident. He was at the House of a Marchioness. rhat entertain'd a Piemonteife Lady, and soge other. Gentlewomen with Chocolate, who were al goyfon’d . Some of ’em having recourg amme diately to Antidotes, recoverd , but the Piemontoire Lady, agd.Conot Pe poli, who drank the Gre Dishes, to Vain made use of Remedies. The Lady herself also dy’d upon the Spot. All Peepie were amaz'd at sach a Tragi cal Accident, and presently abund ance of rath Cenfires dew about, as it is rival upon such occasions. The Servants also were seized, and particu larly those that prepared the Chocolate 5 when it was found that the Cho colate Pot had been perfor’d by Marchioness, that gave this fatal another Ancident . For the Son of the Entertainment, being return’d from a Journey some few days before, and fading himself very much Sun-burnt, would needs watch his Face with a Water which Women make use of to brighten their Complexions, one of the Ingredients of which is rank Poy fon, and in that Chocolate-Pot it was, that unknowingly the Chocolate was boil’d. However the young farther of the Butness I knew not Marquess was fciz'd , but what became wo. The Colleges and the petty Council of the Republick.of Gensus assem bl'd the 17th. of December to the Gve Periogs that were to enter into Ofice at the beginning of the Year, and S. Giovanni Batista Califano, Georgia Centurione, Francesco Maria d’ Oria, Giovan Battista Grafo, and Nighola di Franchi, who have been already in several considerable Employments, were elected for Procurators and Governeurs. «The Senate has resolved to levy the hundredth Penny, during four years: they are continually rasing Re cruits and new Levies , and they omit no care to have good Men and ex perienc’d Officers, to prevent $urprizes. The Genogfes had capsign’d the Mony to Novi, which they were to have paid the Emperor. However they pretended that these Contributions were not to be pay’d as due from the Republick, ‘but only for some Imperial Feifs that were possess'd in that State. But, General éarafa refusng to receive the Money upon those Conditions, and the Genoeses not being willing to grant what he demand ed, the Caffiter of the Chamber is return’d without aving dong anything. Tis said that General Caraffa is departed from Vieng, to prefect at the Councils of War, which are to consult the carrying on the Agtigus of the next Campaign, and to solficite his Imperial Majesty to send into Italy. There is no question but he has given Orders for the land Men €¢n then receiving, of the Contributions, leaving ¢ Decison of the petty Contest between him and the Republick of Geneas till another tinge gait is further believed, that his Treasurer has ready, received , good. part. 9 Money al-
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Monthly Mercury
London, Middlesex, GB
Fri, Feb 01, 1692
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