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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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In Turin, a deserter from the Savoy Regiment visited his wife in disguise after years away, but she betrayed him to his officers for a reward. The king ordered her publicly whipped for three days and banished for life.
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A SINGULAR Affair happened here a few Days ago, the Circumstances of which are as follow: A Soldier of the Regiment of Savoy, who had deserted about four Years ago, since travelled up and down the Country, and carried on the Business of a Pedlar, in which he succeeded so well, that he sent his Wife, whom he left behind him, Money enough from Time to Time to maintain her very decently.
He frequently wrote to her, and She to him, and in her Letters always expressed the greatest Desire to see him; upon which he disguised himself so as not to be discovered, and came to visit his Wife, who received him, at least in Appearance, with all imaginable Demonstrations of Joy; but he had not been with her three Days before she went to his Officers, and offered to apprehend a Deserter belonging to their Company if they would give her three Sequins, which they promised her, and she accordingly discovered him.
The Officers, after they had apprehended him, finding it was his Wife who had behaved so treacherously to him, reported the Affair to the King, who, in Detestation of her Ingratitude, has ordered her to be publickly whipped three Days successively, and afterwards to be banished the Country for Life.
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Turin
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A Few Days Ago
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wife publickly whipped three days successively and banished the country for life
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A deserter soldier of the Regiment of Savoy, who had been traveling as a Pedlar and sending money to his wife, visited her in disguise. She betrayed him to his Officers for three Sequins, leading to his apprehension. The Officers reported to the King, who ordered her punishment for ingratitude.