ES The following is a tranflation of the Met Patent, moft Illuftrious, and Great E prefent to your Imperial Ma ing, with all expedition, several gallies and galliots. There is a warm report there that Bafhaw Bonneval, formerly a General under the Emperor, is banished to a castle in Natolia; but we believe it stands in need of further confirmation. Letters from Vienna inform us, that the Emperor has prohibited balls, mas&c. Wefty, to that Potent Lady, who therades, oc, and other publick diver in grandeur and happiness equals the Moon and the Sun; to that Great Emprefs whose fame has surpaffed many Sovereigns of the world; to that Sovereign who is adorned with a brilliant crown, and whofe reign may God render conftantly happy: We prefent to you that amiable letter, which has been given in charge to us by his Majesty the Schach Nadir, (the title affumed by Kouli Kan on his advancement to the throne of Perfia) the great Lord, the great Cagan, whom God has rendred the Conqueror and Sovereign of the kingdom of Iran, fo famous in the world, whofe reign may God prolong, and who, in confequence of the good friendship fubfifting between the two Empires, has fent us, his fervants, in an embassy to your Imperial Majefty. We don't prefame to trouble your Majesty with a recital of the contents of this letter, but moft humbly beseech you to caufe your faithful Ministers to read it, in order to make a report thereof to your Imperial Majefty, and then to let us know your gracious refolution. To this fpeech an answer was returned from the Czarina, by one of the miriters of her cabinet, expreffing her acknowledgments to the Perfian Moarch for this embaffy, and affuring him that nothing on her part fhould be wanting for augmenting and confirming the good understanding between the two Powers: After which, the Ambaffadors, and eight of their principal attendants, were admitted to kifs her Majefty's hand; and, after making three low bows to her, they withdrew. The conferences upon the operations the enfuing campaign, are begun at VIENNA; and the Imperial Admiral Pallavicina has receiv'd orders for build ions frequent at this feafon, alledging, that instead of spending time and money in fuch diverfions, it were better to pray to God to put a stop to the scourge of the plague, and to grant a happy fuccefs to the next campaign. Count Khevenhuller has follicited, with much earneftnefs, for leave to refign his poft of Vice-Prefident of the council of war, without fuccefs: Though General Diemar has obtained leave to refign his regiment, &c. and is gone into the fervice of the houfe of Caffel, of which his Swedish Majefty is chief. The great Duke of TUSCANY, with his Dutchefs, daughter of his Imperial Majefty, having fet out upon his journey to Florence, the report of the plague raging at Vienna having reached the Republick of Venice, the magiftrates of Health determined upon making his Highness perform the ufual quarentine, without the indulgence of one day. In confequence of which, on their arrival in the territories of the Republick, they were confined to the palace of Buri, with a few attendants; and the rest of their retinue were fhut up clofe in a poft-houfe near the aforefaid palace, with a ftrong guard to prevent any of them from efcaping. The Duke, who is accompanied by his brother, Prince Charles, made warm remonstrances againit conforming to this ceremony, which he faid was fo unneceffary; it being improbable, that if the plague were even within ten miles of Vienna, the court and foreign minifters would remain there; and Prince Charles was particularly difpleafed with his confinement; and notwithstanding the Venetians have furnished his tables very bountifully, and made him feveral handfeme prefents, his Highness is faid to На talk talk of it with much resentment, and has left the palace of Buri in fpite of the Republick, which feems not much pleafed at his fhortening his appointed quarentine without their leave. The confinement of Baron THEODORE at Gaeta, in the territories of his Neapolitan Majefty, had no fooner raifed various conjectures relating to his imprisonment, than he was released, and took the tour of Sicily, which gave fresh fubject of speculation; efpecially, as it has been reported from feveral places, that the Corficans, on receiving advice of his being fet at liberty, and gone to Sicily, in order to embark for Corfica, made loud acclamations of, God bless the King of Spain, and Theodore, bis Vice-Roy! On the 12th of laft month an action happen'd in Corfica, in which the natives are faid to have gain'd a confiderable advantage: Since which the Count de Boiffieux, Commander in chief of the French forces there, has drawn all his troops into Baftia, and prohibited even any officer from stirring out of that city. The Corficans having repoffeffed themselves of the open country, punish all who adhere to the Republick of Genoa in the most defperate manner: Two of the principal Noblemen of the island having taken upon them the title of Lieutenants General, and enjoined the inhabitants, on pain of death and confifcation, not to acknowledge the Republick of Genoa in any shape whatever. A letter from ROME affures, that after Theodore had been twelve days a prisoner at Gaeta, and treated with all manner of diftinction, he fet out under the protection of a troop of horfe, which was relieved by another troop that escorted him to Terracina, the first part port in the Ecclefiaftical State on that fide of the country; that when he came there, he found two vessels with 26 oars each, and 40 Corfican officers on board, who, upon fight of their chief, threw themselves into the water to receive him, and carried him in their arms on board one of the veffels, upon which they both immediately weighed anchor in fight of the convoy of horfe, which then returned into the road to Gaeta. From PARIS it is said, that fresh reinforcements are getting ready for Corfica, and that the Marquis de Mallebois is nominated to command the French troops in that ifland, Count de Boiffieux having defired to be recalled. Cardinal Fleury, first minister to his Moft Chriftian Majefty, has fo well recovered of his late dangerous indifpofi tion, that he is now faid to enjoy bet ter health than he has for feveral year paft. It is reported, that the French King has invited Prince Charles of Lo rain to his court, with defign of con cluding a marriage between one of the Princeffes of the Blood and that Prince The attention of Europe, as well a of the fubjects of the two crowns prin cipally interested therein, feems to be in an extraordinary manner drawn to the accommodation between Great Bri tain and Spain; couriers having, for fome time, been in continual motion between the two courts, which has prompted feveral news-writers to give the publick fuch accounts of the proceedings relating to this fubject, as have appeared moft reconcilable to their own judgments; but every thing hitherto publifhed of this kind appears fo conjetural, that, rather than amufe our readers with uncertain reports relating to an affair of such importance, we will defer it till we have authority not to be difputed for what we affert. Some HANOVERIAN foldiers being fent in December laft to take poffeffion of the territory of Steinhorst, which his Britannick Majefty, as Elector of Hanover, purchafed in Auguft laft; the Danish foldiers, who were in poffeffion of it, refufing to furrender it, a difpute enfued, and feveral were killed on both fides, after which the Hanoverians dif poffeffed the Danes, whofe Sovereign immediately ordered fome forces to march that way; as did likewife fome troops of the Electorate of Hanover; but the difference is in a fair way of being accomodated. Letters from Hanover affure us, that his Britannick Majefty's presence is expected in his German dominions the enfuing fummer; when, it is thought, that that every thing will be adjusted between their Britannick and Pruffian Majefties; and it is said a double marriage between the two crowns will be then concluded. Letters from SWEDEN fay, that on new-year's day his Swedish Majefty refumed the government. General Keith paffed lately through BERLIN in his way to Paris, where he is going, being accompanied by his brother, the late Earl Marifchal, of Scotland, to be cured of the wound he received in his foot at the taking of Oc zakow. The troubles in BARBARY ftill continue; though cruel executions are not fo frequent in that country now as formerly. Muley Abdallah, who is fo justly abhorred for his numerous barbarities, having loft all hopes of the throne, is retired to Guiney. He declared when he went off, that he was forry he had cut off, at moft, no more than 2000 heads; adding, that if he had beheaded as many as his Father Muley Ifmael, he fhould have been a peaceable poffeffor of the crown. The two principal competitors for this government, at prefent, are Muley Hamet Ben Lariba, and Muley Hamet Mustardi: The former of which has the advantage of the latter, by being aided by the Blacks, and in poffeffion of the city of Mequinez, in which the Emperors of Morocco ufually refide. But as the late Maley Ifmael left no less than feven hundred fons behind him, every one of whom looks on himself as intitled to the throne, equally with the reft, there is no profpect of an end to the disputes with which that unhappy country has been fo long distressed. Charles-Town, South Carolina. The Imall pox has carried off abundance of the inhabitants, fo that the country people will not venture to come to town, and but few people are seen in the streets. At their first breaking out we were advised to prepare against a fudden attack of them by drinking tarwater, which had the defigned effect. It is not only a preservative but an antidote against them. It has therefore About two quarts of tar, which is a fufficient quantity for fix perfons, put in the evening upon it about five pints of water. 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