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 the News of my Arrival pread through the Kingdom, it brought prodigious Numbers of rich, idle, and curious People to ee me; o that the Villages were almot emptied, and great Neglect of Tillage and Houhold Afairs mut have enued, if his Imperial Majety had not provided, by everal Proclamations and Orders of State, againt this Inconveniency. He directed, that thoe who had already beheld me hould return home, and not preume to come within fifty yards of my Houe, without licence from Court; whereby the Secretaries of State got confiderable Fees.

the mean time, the Emperor held frequent Councils to debate what coure hould be taken with me; and I was afterwards aured by a particular Friend, a Peron of great Quality, who was looked upon to be as much in the Secret as any, that the Court was under many Difficulties concerning me. They ap-