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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.
