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vice of plate, made in England at the time he was there. He shewed me a number of pictures of himself, painted during that time, from one of which by Amiconi, there is a print. He has an English sweep-chimney boy playing with a cat, and an apple-woman with a barrow, by the same hand: he has likewise a cu- rious English clock, with little figures playing in concert on the guitar, the violin, and violoncello, whose arms and fingers are always moved by the same pendulum.
His large room, in which is a billiard- table, is furnished with the pictures of great personages, chiefly sovereign princes, who have been his patrons, among whom are two emperors, one empress, three kings of Spain, two princes of Asturias, a king of Sardinia, a prince of Savoy, a king of Naples, a princess of Asturias, two queens of Spain, and Pope Benedict the XIVth. In other apartments there are several charming pictures, by Ximenes and
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