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Rome, and had his audience of the pope on the 19th of January; but his holiness, refused to aek- nowledge him by his father's title. He left Rome and retired to Florenee, where he lived on     a small revenue allowed him by his brother. In the year 1772 he married the Princess of     Stolberg, a German lady. This union however, to whatever eause it might have been owing, was not attended with that happiness which is gener- ally expected in the married state, for she separ- ated from him a few years after, and the breach between them was never made up. After this period Charles seems to have sunk into insignifieance and oblivion; and he lived al- most entirely forgotten, till the period of his death, whieh happened at Rome, on the 31st of     January, 1788, being then in the sixty-eighth year of his age. By his will he made his natu- ral daughter, whom he had by a Seots lady of     an aneient family, and whom, in virtue of his pretended royal power as King of Britain, he     ercated Duehess of Albany, sole heiress of all his property, which was very considerable. His remains were interred with great pomp and ceremony in the ehurch of Freseati, a town twelve miles from Rome, of which his brother the Cardinal was Bishop. The funeral service was performed on the 3d of February by his brother.