66i AisrMUAL REGISTEli, 



1794. 



barded Bastia 1745, and the mal- 

 contents seized the town, it was 

 soon recovered from them. May 

 15-, 17t)8, the Genoese gave up 

 Corsica to the king of France, as a 

 compensation for the expences that 

 crown had been and was to be at 

 for the reduction of the island. 

 April 9, I76g, comte de Vaux ar- 

 rived at Corsica, and made a pro- 

 gress. May 13, Paoli and his 

 friends embarked at Port Vecchio, 

 on board a vessel carrying English 

 colours. .July 18, France ceded it 

 to the king of Sardinia; and the 

 «luke de Chablais, the king's bro- 

 ther, prepared to take possession of 

 it. 



The clergy are; very numerous, 

 and there are sixty-eight convents 

 of Cordeliers, Capuchins, and Ser- 

 vites. The revenues of the island 

 ■were applied by the Genoese, in 

 time of peace, to maintain gover- 

 nors, officers, and soldiers : the sur- 

 plus has never exceeded 40,000 

 Genoese livres. 



The chain of mountains divides 

 the island into two unequal parts, 

 and these are again subdivided into 

 districts or provinces of different 

 tribunals and tiefs, and these again 

 into pieves, parishes, and paezes. 



Mr. Boswell makes the length of 

 the island 150 miles, the breadth, 

 trom 40 to .53 miles, and the cir- 

 cumterence 322 miles. Jt is charm- 

 ingly situated in the Mediierranfean, 

 •whence continual breezes fan and 

 cool it in summer, and the sur- 

 rounding body of water keeps it 

 warm in winter ; so that it is one 

 of the most temperate countries in 

 that quarter of Lurope. 1 he air is 

 fresh and healthful, except in one 

 or two places. It is remarkably 

 well fin-nished with good harbours. 

 The great division of it is into (he 



Coiintry on this and on that side tiC 

 the mountains, reckoning fromBas- 

 tia, into nine provinces, and into 

 n)any pieves, containing each a cer- 

 tain number of parishes. Every 

 paese, or village, elects annually a 

 podesta, and two other magistrates, 

 called pndri del commune ^ and once 

 a year all the inhaljitaius of e;ich 

 village assemble and clioose a pro- 

 curatore, to I'epresent them in the 

 general consnita, or parliament of 

 the nrftion, made up of several who 

 have been formerly members of the 

 supreme council, or have lost neaf 

 relations in the service of theircouh- 

 try. The magistrates of each pro- 

 vince send also a procurature; and 

 two of those of the provinces, to- 

 gether with the profw?a/o?t' of their 

 magistrates, are choseir to elect the 

 president to preside in rhe general 

 coiisultu, and an orator to read the 

 papers subjected to deliberation. — 

 The general's office much resem- 

 bles tiiat of the stadtholder. The 

 government exhibits a complete 

 and well-ordered democracy- 



Ohseruatiorts on Middlesex agricul- 

 ture, by jihraham IVillmison, 

 M. D. From the Aiuials of 

 Agriculture. 



White JFd'h House, Eiifidd-Chac6, 

 Dec. 14, 1793. 



TO A, YOUNG, ESQ. 



Dear sir, 



PERMIT metocongTatulafeyoU' 

 on your appointment to the 

 oince of secretary to the Board of 

 Agriculture. May the same spirit 

 of patriotic industry, which has long 

 distinguished your agricnltr.ral la- 

 bours, pervade and invigorate the 

 proceedings of the board. From 



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