XX 



Hijlorical Chronicle. 



d'Arau. The Prince-Bifliop of I the foundation of a magnificent 

 Bilfe continues to maltreat! palace in the Piazza de Pafqui- 

 thofe J'rench patriots whofe I no for the refidence of his nc- 

 affairs call them within his I phew. 



diftiift : and he permits an a- 1 Several families at Rome have 

 riftocraticaflemblyat SangcrenJlately fallen vidims to eating 



onlyone league from Delemont, 

 the feat of his bifhoprick. 

 Vnder the pretext of troubles, 

 he engaged the Emperor to 

 furnilh troops, who now oc- 

 cupy the important defiles of 

 Porentrii, commanding the 

 Tranche Comte. This difpofi- 

 tion, fo highly favourable to 

 the defigns of the Princes, gives 

 ground of furmife, that the 

 Emperor ftill fecrctly wilhes to 

 give every poffible fuccour to 

 their caufe. 



The new code of the repub- 

 lic of Geneva, after having been 

 printed, and fubmitted to the 

 examination of the citizens dur- 

 ing two months, was carried 

 on the 14th of November for 

 the fanftion of the fovereign, 

 that is to fay, of the council 

 general ; and it was accepted 

 by a plurality of 559 votes &■■ 

 gainft 76 1- 



A courier extraordinary from 

 Rome is arrived at Paris, an- 

 nouncing the dangerous indif- 

 pofition of the Pope. 



The Pope, before his illnefs, 

 ■was ma King fome confiderable 

 additions to the Vatican Pa- 

 lace ; in one angle of which is 

 a fuperb room for the reception 

 of the valuable antiquities which 

 have been dug up within the 

 laft three years, among which 

 is a beautiful chariot, which 

 the ancients ufed in their races, 



poifonous mulhrooms, amon^ 

 whom is the Marquis Guil- 

 teniani, generally lamented. 



The following eftablifhment 

 makes part of the new police 

 at Vienna; A phyfician, furgeon, 

 and midwife, are paid by each 

 diftridt to give affiftance to any 

 perfon who may want them 

 without fee. 



The Queen of Portugal late- 

 ly held an extraordinary coun- 

 cil, to determine whether the 

 cultivation of the vine Ihould 

 not,in fome meafure, give place 

 to that of corn, Th^ refult, 

 however, was to continue the 

 cultivation of the vine as be- 

 fore, wine being the chief ex- 

 port article of the kingdom; 



The reafon for which the 

 Dey of Algiers declared war 

 againft Sweden, was, that the 

 prefcnts made to him on his 

 acceflion, were unworthy of 

 him : and he infifts on the Ve- 

 netians paying 17,000 fequins 

 a-year, inftead of 8500, which 

 they ufed to pay. 



Sugar, the great ftaple of the 

 Weft Indies, is not indigenous 

 to the new world — but firft 

 grew at Hifpaniola in i50(>, 

 having been carried thither from 

 the Canaries. Bachiller Vellofa 

 and Pedro Atienca were the 

 firft that extraded fweets from 

 the canes : They yielded fa 

 well, that in a fhort time the 



and an immenfcvafe of porphyry ifland pofleffed forty water and 

 His Holinefs has likewife laid I horfe mills* 



