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BNL.726.015
25-31 Mar 1726:12 (1157)
Rome, (in Italy) Sept. 29. Last Tuesday the Cardinal de
Polignac, Ambassador of France, caus'd a Te Deum to be sung
in the Church of St. Louis, upon account of the King's
marriage, where the pictures of the King and Queen of France
were expos'd. At night there was a very fine composition of
musick sung, with four voices in the hearing of [ ]
Cardinals, the Pretender and his Lady, the Ambassadors of
Venice and Bologna, and most of the Princesses and other
Roman ladies, while the wine was let run to the populace
before his house, and three days after these was to have
been a very fine firework in the square of Navona, but it
was hindered by continual rains. It was observed that there
was not one Spaniard at the Feast, nor any other dependant
on the Court of Madrid. The Pope in order to give fresh
proofs of his perseverance in the engagements of which the
Holy See has with King Augustus of Poland, has forbid all
printers under the severest penalties, to print a certain
song, in which the Cardinal de Polignac has thought fit to
put down Mary Princess of Poland. . . [8 lines]
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