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From his conversation, there is reason to believe, that the court of Spain had fixed on Bologna for his residence; though the Italian say that his first design was to settle at Naples, the place of his birth, but that he was driven from thence by the numerous and importunate claims of his relations: however that may be, he has a sister and two of her children with him, one of whom is an infant, of which he is doatingly fond, though it is cross, sickly, homely, and unamiable; yet this is a convincing proof, among others; to me that he was designed by nature for family attentions and domestic comforts: In conversation he lamented his not being able, for political reasons, to settle in England; for, next to Spain, that he said was the place in the world, where he should have wished to spend the remain- der of his days.
He speaks much of the respect and gra- titude he owes to the English. When I dined with him it was on an elegant ser-
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