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BNL.714.003
1-8 Mar 1714:21 (516)
[Barcelona, July 29, 1713.] The deputation's answer to the
letter of the Duke of Popoli. The singularity of the letter
which this city receiv'd this day from the enemy by a
trumpeter, has deserved so much attention, as well in
respect to the style, as to the circumstances thereof, that
the trumpeter could not be sent back immediately, some time
being required to consider in what manner they should
answer. That the gates of Barcelona have been shut up to
defend the place against the enemy, who design to make
themselves masters of it: That this city and the whole
principality persist in their resolution to continue the
war, out of an unviolable fidelity which they have always
had for their sovereign, whose power it is to make peace or
declare war: That the menaces and injurious ways, attended
with an unheard of style, do not discourage the said people,
but confirm them in the oath of fidelity which they have
renewed: That as the capital city is not used to violate
the rules of good manners, they send back the trumpeter as
safely as he came: That the Duke of Popoli might take what
resolution he pleases on the answer delivered to his
trumpeter; and lastly, that this city is resolved vigorously
to oppose all the enterprizes of the enemy, as they have
done in time past.
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