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of the innocent father. Even the hardeft hearts were 

 melted into pity and compaffion. 



The judge, afFedted by the relation, granted leave 

 to the family to inter the bodies of the father and mo- 

 ther in a place without the walls. The two children 

 were buried in the church of St. Catharine. The tra- 

 dition of this melancholy event has been preferred at 

 Pifa to the prefent day, and it is ftiil related there with 

 vifible^oncern. 



OF THE REPUBLIC OF G E N" O A. 



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I T is well known that trie government of this free 

 ftate- is perfectly ariftocratical. The doge is only th« 

 firft member, and his office continues but two years* 

 Their little territory extends along the coali of the 

 Mare Liguflicum." The want of the produces for the 

 fupply of their fkft neceffities, obliges them to have 

 recourfe to the purchafe of them for ready money or 

 the produce of their induftry. It is v experimentally 

 feen in this people, that commerce in a country com- 

 modiouily lituated for it, increafes in proportion as it 

 is unfruitful by nature, and that neceffity is the bell: 

 inftruclrefs of mankind. 



Genoa and Venice have made thernfelves as famous 

 by their rivalfhip and bloody wars, as Athens and 

 Sparta. They contended three hundred years for the 

 Sovereignty of the fea; and, though at prefent they 



have 



