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SCG-C.747.016
27 Apr-4 May 1747:21 (681)
Extract of a private letter from Genoa, dated the 6th inst.
There seems to be at present, very little reason to doubt
that the government have all along had an understanding with
the people, or rather have employed some to direct them,
without owning their had any intelligence with the legal
government of the Republick. . . [15 lines, guns fired] The
people in the city, as might be imagined, took the alarm,
the bells rung in every steeple, the peasants in the country
ran to arms, and in the space of two hours a body was formed
of 20, 000 men. . .
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