1807.] 
in his fecond fon, Pafgquale; and being 
determined to beftow a good education 
on him, he placed his favourite child un- 
der the Jetuits, then efteemed the bett 
mafters in Europe. Thus confided to 
their tuition, he attained an extraordi- 
nary degree of proficiency in the learned 
languages. Aétive, fober, never Jindul- 
ging idlenefs, or abandoning either his 
mind or body to. the grofter “pleafiures of 
fenfuality, lie, at an ¢ carly period of lite, 
conceived the bold den of placing him- 
felf at the head of his nation, and be- 
coming its deliverer. Meanwhile, he 
was introduced at court, obtained a com- 
miflion in the fervice of Naples, and en- 
deavoured to make himfelf acquainted 
with the art of war, 
At an early period of his life, he dif- 
layed a lofty port, and exhibited what 
ane | unfelf was pleafed to term 
“¢ Una fuperbia indicibile.” 
Ehs mind, at the fame time, became 
deeply imbued with all the ancient pre- 
cepts relative to liberty; and when 
ipoken to refpecting the dangers that 
muit be neceffarily encounte ‘ed in at- 
tempting to enfranchife his country, he 
was accuftomed to reply by means of a 
line from Virgil : 
« Vincit amor Patriz laudumque immenfa 
cupido.” 
Meanwhile, his father, who appears 
to have been a man of *talents, brought 
him up with the moft noble notions, and 
carefuily inculcated the-praétice of all 
the heroic virtues. 
his own mind being filled with important 
objects, his pallions, inftead of being 
watted in ignoble purfuits, were occupied 
folely with importané obj ects. Accuf- 
tomed to contemplate aad to reafon on 
the practices of former times, he took 
part with the Stoics in preference to the 
Epicureans, and was eager to remark, 
“that while the former had produced 
but one great man, the other could boat 
of a multitade.”+ 
* There is a fonnetto ftill in exiftence, 
written by Hiacinte Paoli to celebrate the 
exploits of his colleague, General Giafferi, 
who afterwards retired like himfelf to Na- 
ples, during the fiege of Cordone. It be- 
ging with the two following lines: 
«¢ A coronar l’Eroe di Cirno i invitto, 
Morte defcenda e' fe V’inchini il'fato, &c.” 
f A Tour te Corfica, by James Bofwell, 
Efg. p. 304, 
Tn addition to this, 
Memozrs of the late General Paok. 154 
‘¢ Hi mores, hee dur! immota Catonis 
Secta fuit, fervare modum, finemque tenere, 
Naturamque fequi, patriaque impendere vi- 
tam, 
Wee fivi fed tuti genitum fe credere mundo." 
Lucan. Pharjal. lib. ii, 1. 380. 
At length the time arrived when Paoli 
was to carry his fchemes into execution, 
He accordingly took leave of his father, 
who, after embracing him with aifection, 
exprefled himfelf as follows : 
“My dear fon, I may poflibly never 
fee you again; but, in imagination, I 
fall ever attend on your foot{teps. Your 
defign is great. aud noble, and I doubt 
not but God will bles and affitt you in it. 
‘The little which remains to me of lite,” 
adds the hoary chief, “ I thall confecrate 
to your caufe, by offering up my prayers 
and fupplicatio ns to Heaven for. your 
- pro{perity and proteétion.” 
Having repaired to his native iland, 
he found a fudden change in refpect to 
the difference of manners: for the peo 
ple there were fuil rade, uncouth, aad, 
in fome veipects, lavage. They feemed, 
however, adinirably fitted for war ; and 
exhibited, at the fame time, a fieady 
determination either to recover their lott 
independence, or perifh in the attempt. 
As it was impofiibie, on account of 
his extreme youth, that. he fhould all at 
once afpire to oe honour of being one 
of the chiefs of his nation, Paoli offici- 
ated for a confiderable che as fecretary 
to Cafiori, a phylician, who happened te 
be one of his own kinfimen, and who 
was at this period at the head of the 
malcontents. At leneth, on the affail- 
nation of that leader, be prefented him- 
felf as his fuccellor; but he was Snore 
by Signor Matra,. the fon of a Marquis 
of the fame name, who, like Paoli’s own 
father, had been attached+to the popu: ar 
caufe, and oo in conjunction with 
him, one of the council of regency. 
Being a man of neple fentiments, and 
uniting the patriot and the warrior in his 
ewn perton, he formed a formidable 
rival to Patquale; and the adherents of - 
both parties having armed on the occa« 
fion, the Paolifts were d efeated, and ob- 
liged, with their chief, to take refuse in 
a convent, where th ley -. were clofe! ly 
blockaded. Bat Matra foon after expe- 
rienced the fame tragical end as his two 
predeceffors, Sampieri and Caffori, On 
this, his competitor was immediately 
hberated from his confinement, and pub- 
hcly.canvafled ‘for the chieftainfhip, now 
become once more vacant, 
1 Paoli 
