mortifie themselves with in Lent. They allow him 2000 l. a Year, aud a beneficial Place, of first Valet de Chambre to his Holiness. He seems to be a grave heavy Man, and very constant at his Breviary, neither he, or his Father ever took the Title of King on them; he is near Eighty, and has a very bad Aspect. He keeps no Attendants but a few Highland Gentlemen, and has such a saturnine melancholy Severity of Manners, that he converses with none but a Rabble of Scotch and English Jesuits, and now and then an Italian Painter or Fiddler. He is certainly Great Great Grandson, to the Person who is once or twice mention'd in the Histories of the glorious Reigns of George II. and Frederick I. under the Name of the Pretender. He was never married but has five illegitimate Children; two Sons, one of whom is Bishop of Como, the other is a Colonel in the Pope's Service, (but I know not whether Horse or Foot,) and three Daughters, who are Mother Abbesses to three Nunneries of very large Revenues. I saw him at the Opera, for he is a great Lover of Musick, and we conversed together near an Hour in Italian, having no English.
So
