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    FROM MB STIVERS TO THE PARROCO SPINELLA . Steidn , ' All four documents , as you call them , are without dates , which makes me suspicious that you wrote the facts from torn newspapers , only putting your own head through the hole .

    M y master begs that you will write directly to him , and tell him truly whether it is a new affair or an old one which you related of the Prince Corsini . Is he dead , or is he not ? If dead , the oil will ooze out from his cellars , and the price will fall . He and the maestro di casa , Mezieres , in the time of

    the French , made a good thing of * it , to the tune of eighty thousand dollars iti one year . I offered to become his Highness e s partner , but he was not contented with my capital : and yet mine is about as much as nis was at his father ' s death ; before the French threw the

    bones of Italy to their dogs whelped here , dogs wagging the tail and licking the dirt off their boots while any grease was under it , but snarling and snapping from below the chair , when the repast was over .

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    ANSWER . It i « too true , milord , that His Excellency tha Prince Corsini Wals , on the vigil of Saint Cleophaa , thrown from his horse

    along the pavement of JLung Arntf in this otir city of Florence * near his residence the Palazzo Corflini . And I wish I could with my team blot out

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    for ever from the records of history the shame incurred by my degenerate countrymen on ,

    this melancholy event . Since however I am bound and constrained to speak the truth , I do it , altho' in heaviness of heart , only lightened and supported by the high commands of Your Excellency . It was

    about twenty-two of the dock when His Excellency was observed to mount his horse in the cortile ; and he had not proceeded further than seventy , or , according to others , seventyfive paces , when it was Goas

    pleasure that the same horse should fall , with His Excellency on his back , from the slipperiness , as some say , of the pavement , or , as one vouches , from the peel of a lemon being there projected . The greater part of our Florentines deny the probability of this voiichment * saying- that His Excellency has

    many servants on the look-out , which servants having no wages , and only protections and patronages , would never let a lemon-peel lie by daylight or lamp-light within seventy or seventy-five paces of His Ex * cellency ' s palace : and that San Neri his brother , the prime minister , would certainly have tried if something : could not be

    squeezed out of one , had a Turk carried it from the Streets of Algiers on the first of the dog-days , and had it lain in the sun until the last . Certain it is * and I shudder to relate it * several well-tdTedsed youths and really Florentines saw the accident , and running up in hfttitft

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1837, page 327, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1837/page/31/