their Address; so also did all the Corporations of the City,
who did the like to Monsieur the Kings only brother, and to
Madamoiselle, and to his Eminencie.
On the 29 the Chevalier de Clerville came to the King,
and gave him an Account of his putting the Forces designed
into Marseilles, and the disposing of them there in such a
manner as might best conduce to the assuring of the Kings
Authority against all seditious mutinies in time to come, to
which they of that City have of late been so inclinable: and
for the greater assuring of that Port in obedience, the King
hath given Commandement for the building of a Citadel in
the mouth of the Port; in the mean while, the Duke of Mercoeur
hath taken care to disarm all the Inhabitants, and to demolish
the gate Reale, although it had on it the Kings Statue,
with this Inscription over it, Ludovico XIV, subcujus
imperio summa Libertas. The King hath likewise sent
order thither, requiring all the Inhabitants, within 3 dayes,
upon pain of death, to cast all their Arms into a fire which is
to be made on purpose, in the Tower of St. John, which is
at the entrance of the Port.
It was on the 26 past, that the Duke of Longueville arived
at A[unr]x with the King, and we now understand, that he
left the Prince of Conde a dayes journey from Lyon.
On the 3 instant, the Duke of Lorrain, with his brother
Duke Francis, and his Nephew Prince Charls, departed
by Poste to goe to Blois, advice having been sent hither,
that the Duke of Orleans was dangerously sick, and reduced
to the last extremity.
On the 5 instant, Letters came, that his said Highness
Royal the Duke of Orleans, his Majesties Uncle, having
been surprized on the 26 past by a very great Flux, accompanied
with a Fever, departed this life on the 2 of this Month
about five a clock in the evening; so that he being gone,
there remains only the King and his Brother betwixt the
Prince of Conde and the Crown.