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An avenger was at length found, in 
the perfon of Sampicro, a native Cor- 
fican, who had obtained the rank of 
colonel in the fervice of the King of 
France; but who was publicly poniarded 
in the mid of his follawers, by a Ge- 
noefe. The affaffin having been cut in 
pieces by the indignant uuultitude, the 
fenate decreed that ‘the expences of..a 
funeral ceremony fhould be defrayed by - 
the public; and at the fame time pro- 
pofed, that a ftatue dhould be eredted to 
his henour in the hall of the ducal pa~ 
Jace, by the fide of that of * *Audrew 
Doria! i 
“In 1725, the Genoefe having safihed 
that, inftead of dithes im kind, the full 
valaes m money fhould be paid by the 
ilanders, a new revolt broke out, and the 
ftandard of liberty was once more unfurled 
by thofe hardy ilanders. Ou this, the 
pretention s of their oppréfiors, mftead 
of being diminifhed, were encreafed: 
they in fifted that all ‘lis commodities of 
the country fhould be fold to them alone; 
they feized on a lake for their own ufe, 
called fiagno di Dinna; the waters of 
which were converted into falt by the 
rays of the fun, while the families of 
Ciaccaldi and Raffaelli were deprived of 
their eftates, in conlequence of the moft 
friv oloxs pretexts. 
“Qn this, Pompilian: and Fabio Filin- 
ghieri were elecied the leaders of the in- 
furgents; and, although the latter was 
put to death by the poniard, a new war 
was only prevented by the intervention 
of the Emperor in 1732, who had fent 
Prince Louis of W ‘irtemberg to Corfica, 
with a ‘body of 6000 men, to the affifi- 
ance of the republic. 
Notwithftanding the concordat that 
followed, the Genoefe governed with 
‘their al mjuftice, and the Corficans 
‘obeyed with thefame tolubtante as before. 
In aflort time after, the furmer having 
found means to he en and imprifon 
thofe whoin they terme the ring-leaders 
‘durmg the late infarrecticn, a new “a 
broke forth in cenfequence of fo grof 
a breach of faith. 
This event gave birth to the projecis 
of Anthony Baron de Neuhoff, one of 
the moft extraordi: vary raen tecardea In 
hitory. After having ftudied politics 
whder the eclebrated Swedifh minifier 
** Itmay not be-unnecéflary to obferve in 
this- place, that the memory of this great 
man was never diigraced by giving him .an 
aflafin for a colleague 
Memoirs of the late General Paelt. 
“impatient 
-but accepted by his countrymen. 
[March 1, 
Baron Goertz, and ferved during fome 
time along with that great warrior Charles 
XIHi., he entered into the fervice of the 
Emperor ; reided durmg a thort period 
at Florence, in the capacity of lis Im- 
perial Majefiy’s minifter; and having 
received an offer of the crown of Cor- 
fica, previded he would place himfelf at 
the head of the infurgents, he accord- 
incly repaired to Aleria, on board a 
veffel mounting 24 guns, and carrying an 
Englifh flag. Soon after this (i March, 
1786) he was conducted to Corte, the 
capital of this illand; and, ina general 
aflembly of the. inbabitants, was Imme- 
diately elected *King of Corfica and Ca- 
praja, under the name of Theodore I.- 
But as the natives have ever been 
of fuperiority, they foon 
became to the full as tired of their 
new fovereign then, as they- were of 
the Englifh about half a century af- 
terwards; and> both were accordingly 
obliged tu abdicate. The retreat of the 
former, however, mult be allowed ta 
have been more honourable, as his Ma- 
Jetty King, Theodore withdrew for the 
expre{s purpofe of obtaining fupplies, 
after having convoked a -confulia, in 
which he took a folemn and. public leave 
of the nation. He alfo eftablithed a re- 
gency, and, by an ediét publifhed at 
Sartene, conferred the provifional go- 
vernment on twenty-eight nobles, at the 
head of whom we find the Marquis fi- 
aciute de Paoli, with the rank of Mar- 
fhal General. 
Soon after this, the King of France 
ordered a body of men, under:General 
de Maillebois, to land m Cerfica, for the 
exprefs purpole of affitting the Genoefe. 
Bat as the natives were in no finall de- 
gree formidable, this commander offered 
his mediation : it hewever was refuled 
on the part of the Marquis de Paoh, 
On 
this, he immediately left his native 
and, in company with his two fons, 
and repaired to the continent. Having 
obtamed the conatenance of one of the 
neigibouring princes, into whole fervice 
(we believe) he entered, Hiacinte fettled 
at Naples. While this. he foon  per- 
ceived the feeds of extraordinary talents & 
* Theodore 1. coined money, eftublifhed 
laws, inftituted the Order of Deliverance, 
and creatéd a number of nobles, among wham 
was the father of Paoli, who cbtained the 
dignity. of a Marquis, gnd the poft ef Grand 
‘Treafurer. 
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