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PC.769.059
22-29 May 1769:1512 (124)
London. . . [March] 23. We hear that letters from Berlin
bring the following particulars of the discovery of the
amour so much talked of. A great personage, at that place,
being over fond of an Italian musician, made him a present
of a very valuable family diamond ring; which, in a few days
after, he offered to sale to a jeweller in that city, who
knew the ring, and asked him, How he came by it? The
Italian answered, where I had it, I can have more. -- Upon
which the jeweller stopped the ring, and made it known to a
great potentate, who ordered him at his peril not to divulge
this affair to any body, till he heard from him. In the
mean time orders were given for them to be privately
watched; and the Italian being found in bed with her, he was
taken out of the bed-chamber into the next room, where his
head was severed from his body.
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