100 ANNUAL. REGISTER, 1794. 



pro'visiotial government will then 

 suggest to you tlie form and mode 

 of the elections. 



1 beseech you to impress your- 

 selves with the great importance of 

 the affairs on which you have to de- 

 termine ; and, on that account, let 

 it be your care to select persons of 

 zeal and acknowledged probity, 

 and, as nmch as may be in your 

 power, reputable heads of famihes, 

 interested in good government and 

 the prosperity of the country. Let 

 moderation and propriety of con- 

 duct prevail in your assemblies, that 

 no person among you may have the 

 mortification to remark any disorder 

 in the most happy moment wliich 

 has occurred in the course of our 

 levolutions, and in passing the most 

 important act of civil society. In 

 the mean time, let every man sug- 

 gest whatever he may conceive 

 most useful to the country, in or- 

 der to communicate his opinion to 

 the nation, legally represented and 

 aEitn.bied. 



Corsica is now justly regarded by 

 foreign powers as a free nation ; 

 her resolutions will, I hope, be suit- 

 able to her Kitur.tion, and dictated 

 by a wisdom and by a luve for the 

 public good. 



With respect to myself, my dearly 

 beloved countrynien, after havin"" 

 devoted every moment of my lilt to 

 your happiness, I shall esteem my- 

 self the happiest of m.ankind, if, 

 through the means I have derived 

 from your cor.liilence,, I can (.btain, 

 for our country, the opportunity of 

 forming a free and lasting govern- 

 ment, and of preserving to Corsica 

 its name, its unity, and its inde- 

 pendence, whil.st the names of the 

 heroes who have ipilt their blood 

 in its support and defence, v.iil be, 

 for tuturc generations, <jbjt'cts of 



noble emulation and grateful re- 

 membrance. 



(Signed) Pasquale de Paoli. 



Co/>y of a Ittterfrom their excellencies- 

 lord Hood and sir Gilbert Elliot, 

 hart, to general Paoli. 



Victory, Bastia-Roads,j1f>r.^\ , 1 794. 



SIR, 



Your excellency having been 

 pleased to represent to us, on behalf 

 of the Corsican nation, that the in- 

 tolerable and periidious tyranny of 

 the French Convention having dri- 

 ven that brave people to take up 

 arms in their own defence, they 

 were determined to shake off alto- 

 gethcrthe unjust dominion of France, 

 and to assert the lights of a free and 

 independent nation ; but being sen- 

 sible that their own efforts might 

 be insufficient to contend withFrance 

 orother powerful nations, who might 

 undertake hostile attempts agaiust 

 them, and confiding implicitly in 

 the magnanimity and princely vir- 

 tues of his Britannic majesty, and 

 in the bravery and generosity of his 

 people, they were desirous of form- 

 ing a perpetual union with the Bri- 

 tish nation, under the mild and 

 equitable government of his majesty 

 and his successors, for the better 

 protection, and for the perpetual se- 

 curity and preservation ot their in- 

 dependence and liberties: and your 

 cxceller.cy having, on these consi- 

 derations, solicited, in the name of 

 the people of Corsica, his majestj's 

 present assistance, and his royal pro- 

 tection in time to come, we took 

 the same into our most serious con- 

 siut ration ; and knowing his majes- 

 ty's ai-acious and afiectior.ate dispo- 

 sition towards the Corsican nation, 

 and his readiness to contribute in 

 evfry way wliich is consistent w;th 



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