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1774; Afiairs fc Spain, Barbary, and North America, 6tt“ I raaft not be put offjpvith fuebftories;I decide before my^ftiends here, that I wiil do ybu^ndraaoher of harm; nay, I wifi reward you, if you will tell me the truth. ” To which foe anfwered, “ May it pleafe your Holioefs, 1 have told you nothing but the truth, fo help me God.” The Pope then faid, dropping her hand, « Is that all you can fay for yourfdf ?”— «« That’s all,” faid foe, “ and your Ho-linefs may reft affured it will be as God told me.’’ —“ Well then, good woman, you ftall go to and remain in prifon till then; we foall know whether you are a good ora bad prophetefs.” The Pope then ordered her to be imprifonedtn the caftle of St Angel q, where foe remains to this day. She was not in the leaft dif-mayed at her fentence j and when coming out of the room, foe only faid, « God’s will be done.” The Pope gave orders that proper care foould be taken of her, and to let her want for nothing. She has been viftted by vaft numbers of people of every denomination, and they never have heard her complain of her fi-tuation, foe preferring the fame tranquillity foe ever did, and ftilt perfilts in herformer ftory. — The Pope died the veryday foe foretold. — She has often been alked by ladies and gentlemen at divers times, whether foe could, foretcl when foe would be releafed; and foe faid, “ No;God have hot told me yet.” The people at Rome are in great expectation toknow what the new Pope will do withher.”S P A I Ji.J“ Gibraltary OH. 10. An engagement has juft happened off Oran, between a Spanifo man of war of forty guns, a frigate of thirty, and a fquadron of Algerine corfairs, confifttng of one foip of thirty-two guns, twoxebeques of twenty-four guns, and four from eighteen euns to twelve. The Spanifo fliips wereSpain and Portugal have been accommo dated by the ceffion which the latte^ hath made to Spain, of the ifland of Sc Saveur.”Barbary.** Leghorn, Oil. j. The Englifo con-ful who refides at Genoa, wrote a letter to give notice to all the Englifo captains who were going to leave this port, to be upon their guard againft the Algerines, as thofe barbarians had broke the peace with Great Britain.”“ Cadiz, Oil. 11. From the coaft of Morocco we have advice, that an Eng— lifo foip, efcorted by a frigate, arrived at Tangier the beginning of Auguft, and had brought back Sidi Tahar Fenis* whom the Emperor, fome time fmce, charged with a commiilion for England. His Britannic Majefty hath, on this oc-cafion, fent to the Moorifh prince a pre-fent, which confvfts of nineteen mortars, with their carriages, 2850 bombs, thirty iron cannons with their carriages, likewife four chefts of matches, 3200 bullets, ana twenty-five bales, containing pieces of filvcrplate, mathematical inftruments, fa-bres, fufees, china, woollen cloaths, linens, and divers other effedts. Sidi Tahar Fenis hath brought, befides, two brafs cannons twenty-four pounders, which were recall in England from fome old cannon out of the Emperor’s arfe-nal.”British North America. The following a of the affembly ofGeorgia was aflented by the Governorof that province, at Savannah, June 20. 1774, viz.An ail declaring, That to murder any fret Indian in amity‘with this province, is e-quaky penal -with the murdering of any white petfoa ; and that to re/cue a pri-j'aner committed for fuch offence is felony.
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