rence and admiration of the enraptured devotee.* The writer of this article has beheld her uniting the delicacy of the one sex, with the masculine knowledge of the other, in conversation, and has glanced over some lines of poetry which appeared worthy of commemoration. It may not be unnecessary to add, that in consequence of the timely and energetic assistance afforded to the Maltese, the late emperor Paul, among whose faults we cannot reckon that of ingratitude, proposed a noble remuneration for the two distinguished females who exerted themselves on that occasion; for while to one he restored that diadem which her husband had lost, he decorated the breast of the other with the cross of the ancient order of St. John of Jerusalem. GENERAL PAOLI: THE subject of these memoirs, although he cannot be designated as a native of Great Britain, yet possesses many claims to the notice of this country, and if not an Englishman by birth, may be considered, in some measure, as an Englishman by adoption. While fighting gallantly, first against the Genoese, and then against the French, this nation was desirous to second his patriotic ardour; and it reflects no small share of dishonour on the ministers of a former period, that Louis XV. was permitted with impunity to invade the territories of a See a work entitled " Lady Hamilton's Attitudes," drawn at Naples by F. Rehberg, and engraved by Piroli. frce free and independent state. But a generous indignation on the part of the people, in some measure, made amends for the conduct of their rulers, and a hospitable asylum was at length afforded here to the gallant chief, after he had been forced to retire from a long and unequal conflict. Pascal Paoli, the second son of Giacinto Paoli, was born in Corsica, in the year 1726, and although he removed while yet a boy, remained there long enough to contract an attachment to his native country, and to feel a generous sympathy for its wrongs. His family had always belonged to the popular party, and his father espoused the interests of king Theodore, on the best and purest motives. About the year 1738-9, finding himself unable any longer to support the common cause, he retired to Naples, where he obtained the rank of colonel, and also procured a commission for Pascal, who was educated under the jesuits. This order had at that period attained an unrivalled degree of celebrity; its members superintended the consciences of half the catholic sovereigns and grandees of Europe, while the youth of all descriptions were entrusted to their care. It was the peculiar boast of the society that it discovered the bent and genius of its scholars; and fame reports that young Paoli was a pupil, concerning whom high hopes had been formed by the reverend fathers. After a residence of twelve or thirteen years on the continent, during which period he laid the foundation of his future plans in favour of his country, the Corsicans began to fix their eyes on him as a proper person person to be their chief. He accordingly received the strongest invitations to repair to, and assume the command of his native land, and he was at length prevailed upon to embark in the glorious enterprize of liberating his country from a foreign yoke, stimulated on one hand by patriotism, and undismayed on the other by the dangers he was about to encounter, not only from the envy of the other chiefs, but also from the daggers of the Genoese assassins, who had murdered more than one of his predecessors. In order to comprehend the merit and the danger of such an undertaking, it may be here necessary to give some account of Corsica, more especially as the family of Paoli is immediately connected with the latter part of its history. This has experienced the same fortune as all the neighbouring islands in the Mediterranean, and has consequently appertained by turns to the Carthaginians and Romans in one age, and the Saracens in another. At length, after a variety of revolutions, Audemar, who governed Genoa, in the name of the emperor, scized on Corsica for himself, and the inhabitants, who had become mussulmen, in compliance with their former masters, now became christians, out of compliment to their new ones. such they were accordingly recognized by the church of Rome, in the twelfth century, and actually considered as a papal fief; for we find the Pope conferring the investiture on Pisa, on condition of receiving an acknowledgment of fifty livres a year. As The Genoese, however, refused to respect either the claims of the holy see, or the pretensions of its enemies, enemies, and a war having taken place between the two rival republics, in 1125, Pisa was forced to succumb, Corsica became the prize of the victors, and the Doge from that moment assumed a regal crown, in token of its submission: this emblem of royalty was fastidiously emblazoned on his carriage and his galley, and made but a poor amends for the misfortunes which attended such an equivocal sovereignty. The dominion of their new masters was peculiarly odious to the Corsicans, for they constantly abused their power, and treated the inhabitants as a conquered nation. The latter were accordingly loaded with imposts of every kind; these consisted of a capitation, a tithe, and a hearth-tax; and it added not a little to their misery, that they were precluded from engaging in trade, or erecting manufactures, in consequence of the unceasing jealousy of the government. In addition to fiscal grievances on one hand, and legal disabilities on the other, another, and, if possible, a more vexatious source of complaints arose, in the unceasing oppressions of the poor nobles of Genoa, who were sent to enrich themselves with the spoils of an unhappy people, in the character of governors, commissary-generals, &c. Such a series of injustice of course produced avengers; perpetual commotions took place; occasional insurrections, always termed rebellions by the victors, ensued; and while Corsica served only to enrich individuals, it became a burden to the republic of Genoa. At length the senate, finding itself unable to subdue a people fighting for every thing usually consi dered dered as dear to mankind, invoked the assistance of the emperor of Germany, and received a body of his troops into their pay. This event, which at first appeared so hostile to the happiness of the islanders, tended not a little to relieve them from their misery, for by the mediation of that monarch an armistice took place, and a negociation was entered into ;* in consequence of which the more odious imposts were to be abolished, and the natives were declared eligible to fill certain offices hitherto conferred on foreigners alone. But this truce was not of long duration, for the Genoese, after arresting and imprisoning the deputies who had signed the late convention, violated all its articles, and not content with such a flagrant breach of faith, put three of the chiefs to death. Such was the situation of affairs when one of the most extraordinary characters recorded in history, or even in romance, interfered, and connected his fortune with that of this island. The person alluded to was Theodore, Baron of Newhoff, descended from a noble family of the county of La Marc. His father having left Germany, in consequence of a marriage dictated by love rather than pride, repaired to France, where his son Theodore, so celebrated afterwards on account of his elevation and his misfortunes, was appointed page to the duke-regent of Orleans. Young Newhoff, as if attached from his cradle to whatever appeared wonderful, entered into the service of Charles XII. under whom he at once studied and 1803-1801. * In 1732. practised |