Note 13 — LETTER XXXII.
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It was publish’d in the News-papers of 1732, that this Gentleman was sentenc’d to be beheaded, but that his Holiness had commuted that Sentence to ten Years Imprisonment. It was afterwards said in the public News, that the Pope had shorten’d it, first, to seven Years, and then to three Years Imprisonment. At length the Pope was for removing him to Perousa, or elsewhere; but the Prelate wou’d not go, and said, If he cou’d not have his intire Liberty, he wou’d live and die in the Castle of St. Angelo.