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Sienna, Leghorne, Tisa. 305'
mon-wealths. The Town of Leghorne
has accidentally done what the greatest
Fetch os Politicks would have found
difficult to have brought about, for it
has almost unpeopled Pisa, if we com-
pare it with what it was formerly, and
every Day lessens the Number of the
Inhabitants of Florence. This does not
only weaken those Places, but at the
same time turns many of the busiest Spi-
rits from their old Notions of Honour
and Liberty, to the Thoughts of Traf-
fick and Merchandise: And as Men en-
gaged in a Road of Thriving are no
Friends to Changes and Revolutions,
they are at present worn into a Habit of
Subjedtion, and push all their Pursuits
another way. It is no Wonder there-
fore that the Great Duke has such Ap-
prehensions of the Pope’s making Civi-
ta Vecchio a Free Port, which may in
time prove so very prejudicial to Leg-
home. It would be thought an impro-
bable Story, fliould I set down the se-
veral Methods that are commonly re-
ported to have been made use of, during
the last Pontificate, to put a stop to this
Design. The Great Duke’s Mony was
so well bellow’d in the Conclave, that
several of the Cardinals dissuaded the
Pope from the Undertaking, and at last
turn’d
mon-wealths. The Town of Leghorne
has accidentally done what the greatest
Fetch os Politicks would have found
difficult to have brought about, for it
has almost unpeopled Pisa, if we com-
pare it with what it was formerly, and
every Day lessens the Number of the
Inhabitants of Florence. This does not
only weaken those Places, but at the
same time turns many of the busiest Spi-
rits from their old Notions of Honour
and Liberty, to the Thoughts of Traf-
fick and Merchandise: And as Men en-
gaged in a Road of Thriving are no
Friends to Changes and Revolutions,
they are at present worn into a Habit of
Subjedtion, and push all their Pursuits
another way. It is no Wonder there-
fore that the Great Duke has such Ap-
prehensions of the Pope’s making Civi-
ta Vecchio a Free Port, which may in
time prove so very prejudicial to Leg-
home. It would be thought an impro-
bable Story, fliould I set down the se-
veral Methods that are commonly re-
ported to have been made use of, during
the last Pontificate, to put a stop to this
Design. The Great Duke’s Mony was
so well bellow’d in the Conclave, that
several of the Cardinals dissuaded the
Pope from the Undertaking, and at last
turn’d