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A Relation of the late great Revolution in Siam,

Kingdom of Siam, and that the King had publisht a Declaration, severely prohibiting any French to stay in the Kingdom; and threatning that if any one of them should be found to stay behind, they should be immediately upon discovery put to Death; and all the Europeans that should harbour or conceal them, should be treated with the same rigor.

Other Letters do further add, That Monsieur des Farges had before his departure from Bancock, deliver'd up into the hands of the present King of Siam, the Unfortunate Widow of Monsieur Constance, upon a fancy that the Jesuits had put into his head; That the being a Christian, and extreamly beloved by the King's Son, will marry him, and contribute her endeavours to make him a Christian; with which plausible Imaginations those good Fathers flatter themselves, and hope once more to be re-established in that Kingdom with no less Advantages of Power, Credit and Fortune than they had before.

And, that when the Treaty was sign'd betwixt the King of Siam and the French General, all the French and English that were made Prisoners at Louvo, were the next day after Conducted to Siam, and set at Liberty.

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