AN ANCIENT SCOTTISH DRAMATIC EDWARD. I'le fet my feet in yonder boat, I'le fet my feet in yonder boat, And I'le fare owr the fea, O! MOTHER. What will ye do wi touris and ha,¶ What will ye do wi touris and ha, Upon the juft dramatic reading of the fol- Why does your brand fae drap wi bluid, EDWARD. Mither, mither; I'le let them ftand till they doun fa, MOTHER. What will ye leave to bairns and wife,++ What will ye leave to bairns and wife, EDWARD. The warld's room to beg throuch life, The warld's room to beg throuch life, MOTHER. What will ye leave to your mither deir, *Your fteid was old, and you have more. What will you do with towers and hall. I'll let them ftand till they down fall. tt For here I must not be. What will you leave to children and wife. $$ When you go o'er the fea. The world is wide to beg through life. ¶¶ For them Ing'er must fee. T2 EDWARD. A NOSEGAY, A SIMILE FOR REVIEWERS. BY THE LATE REV. LAURENCE STERNE. The following exquifite, and hitherto unpublished piece of humour, was written at a time when the Critical Review maintained a fecondary rank in literature: but notwithAtanding the prefent degraded and decrepid ftate of that journal, this piece deferves to be preferved for its own merits, and for the fake of its illuftrious author. It will be agreed by every man of fenfe, honour, and learning, that the Critical Review of the prefent day is altogether beneath contempt; and its declining fale and credit during many years paft render it probable that it may foon cease to exift. Charity forbids it, therefore, that fo keen a fatire should be confidered as intended to apply to the publication at a time when it may, for aught I know, be writhing perhaps in the agonies of impending diffolution. YE overfeers and reviewers SENEX. Of all the Mufes' finks and fewers, Enthroned among your peers, The garretteers, That border on the sky; Who hear the mufic of the fpheres: And live fo high; I thank you for your criticism, That taftes like rotten fruit preferved in gin. And therefore marvel not that my two bal. lads, Juft as you look into the fire For any likeness you defire. Simile-making Is an undertaking, In which the undertaker Refembles a marriage contract maker- But does the best he can In short, he does according to his fkill: He does not care But that which makes you all fo lean- No reafon clear can be affigned, So far from withing your allowance shorter, That you may never want beef-fleaks And for your merits A dram of British fpirits. And fo I leave you with a fable, To exhilarate your table, And give a relifh to your beer. I beg my compliments to all your ladies, And fo he made an excellent award, As you thall fee. "The lark," fays he, "Has got a wild fantastic pipe, But no more mufic than a snipe; THE LATE GENERAL PAOLI. "Questo grand'uomo mandato per Dio a liberare la Patria."* Ce the attention of the public. Their lives are not only accompanied fecond fon of Hiacente Paoli, who had always been attached to the popular caufe; and confequently was a fworn both by fraud and by arms; and, instead enemy to the Genoete; for they had attempted to fubjugate his native country, of endeavouring to acquire the attachment of the nation, had planted the feeds of an unconquerable hatred, by their rapacioufnefs, their cruelty, and Refpecting fuch of our own country-mercial jealoufy with a fonduefs for fifcal their injuftice. Uniting a narrow com men as have acquired a dazzling reputation, we are always eager to afcertain the origin, and to trace the progrefs, of their greatnefs; while we neceffarily contemplate foreigners with a diminished degree of curiosity. In the prefent inftance, however, we behold a stranger, who interests us to the full as much as if he had been a native; for he has not only relided among us for a feries of years, but has been confidered the adopted child of a country, in conjunction with which he had acted and fought. In thort, he has been long cherished, protected, and patronifed in Great Britain, where he found an afylum during the latter part of an eventful life; and if he has eat the bread of the nation, it has at least been nobly and honourably earned. Signor Pafquale Paoli was born at Rottino, in the island of Corfica, (as would appear from a variety of circumftances,) in the year 1726. He was the tyranny, a capitation, a tithe, and a hearth-tax, three of the most odious impofts that could be devifed, were levied with an uncommon degree of ftrictnefs, and that too on a nation totally devoid of wealth; while they were, at the fame time, deftitute of the means of fupporting their new burthens, by being deprived of trade and manufactures. But this was not all; for the poor Genoefe nobles, who had modeftly appended the royal crown of Corfica to the arms of the republic, were fent over, from time to time, to enrich themfelves with the fpoils of an impoverished people; and, like the Baillis of Switzerland, pay their debts, and redeem their caftles, by means of every fpecies of oppreffion. The bank of St. George had a much better claim to the honour of emblazoning a crown on its paper money, as it actually advanced the whole of the treasure for the extinction of certain claims on the part of the Kings of Naples and Arragon, and received A Corfican proverb, applied to Paoli by in return the inland of Corfica, by way of mortgage. Λ An avenger was at length found, in the perfon of Sampiero, a native Corfican, who had obtained the rank of colonel in the fervice of the King of France; but who was publicly poniarded in the midft of his followers, by a Genoefe. The allelin having been cut in picces by the indignant inultitude, the fenate decreed that the expences of a funeral ceremony thould be defrayed by the public; and at the fame time propofed, that a ftatue thould be erected to his honour in the hall of the ducal palace, by the fide of that of *Andrew Doria! In 1725, the Genocfe having infifted that, instead of tithes in kind, the full value in money fhould be paid by the inlanders, a new revolt broke out, and the ftandard of liberty was once more unfurled by thofe hardy landers. On this, the pretenfions of their oppreffors, inftead of being diminished, were encreafed: they infifted that all the commodities of the country fhould be fold to them alone; they feized on a lake for their own ufe, called ftagno di Diana; 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 confequence of the most frivolous pretexts. On this, Pompiliani and Fabio Filinghieri were elected the leaders of the infurgents; 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 Wirtemberg to Corfica, with a body of 6000 men, to the affifiance of the republic. Notwithstanding the concordat that followed, the Genocfe governed with their ufual injuftice, and the Corficans obeyed with the fame reluctance as before. In a fhort time after, the former having found means to feize on and imprison thofe whom they termed the ring-leaders during the late infurrection, a new war broke forth in confequence of fo grofs a breach of faith. This event gave birth to the projects of Anthony Baron de Neuhoff, one of, the most extraordinary men recorded in hiftory. After having ftudied politics under the celebrated Swedish ninifter It may not be unneceflary to obferve in this place, that the memory of this great man was never difgraced by giving him an araffin for a colleague. Baron Goertz, and ferved during fome time along with that great warrior Charles XII., he entered into the fervice of the Emperor; refided during a fhort period at florence, in the capacity of his Imperial Majefty's minifter; and having received an offer of the crown of Corfica, provided he would place himfelf at the head of the infurgents, he accordingly repaired to Aleria, on board a veffel mounting 24 guns, and carrying an English flag. oon after this (in March, 1736) he was conducied to Corte, the capital of this land; and, in a general affembly of the inhabitants, was immediately elected *hing of Cortica and Capraja, under the name of Theodore I. But as the natives have ever been impatient of fuperiority, they foon became to the full as tired of their new fovereign then, as they were of the English about half a century afterwards; and both were accordingly obliged to abdicate. The retreat of the former, however, muft be allowed to have been more honourable, as his Majelly King Theodore withdrew for the exprefs purpose of obtaining fupplies, after having convoked a confulta, in which he took a folemn and public leave of the nation. He alfo eftablished a regency, and, by an edict published at Sartene, conferred the provisional government on twenty-eight nobles, at the head of whom we find the Marquis IIacinte de Paoli, with the rank of Marthal General, Soon after this, the King of France ordered a body of men, under General de Maillebois, to land in Corfica, for the exprefs purpofe of affifting the Genoefe. But as the natives were in no final degree formidable, this commander offered his mediation: it however was refufed on the part of the Marquis de Paoli, but accepted by his countrymen. On this, he immediately left his native iland, in company with his two fons, and repaired to the continent. Having obtained the countenance of one of the neighbouring princes, into whofe fervice (we believe) he entered, Hiacinte fettled at Naples. While there, he foon perceived the feeds of extraordinary talents Theodore 1. coined money, established laws, inftituted the Order of Deliverance, and created a number of nobles, among whom was the father of Paoli, who obtained the dignity of a Marquis, and the post of Grand 1 realurer. in his fecond fon, Pafquale; and being determined to beftow a good education on him, he placed his favourite child under the Jefuits, then efteemed the belt natters in Europe. Thus confided to their tuition, he attained an extraordinary degree of proficiency in the learned languages. Active, fober, never indulging idlenefs, or abandoning either his mind or body to the groffer pleafures of fenfuality, he, at an early period of life, conceived the bold idea of placing himfelf at the head of his nation, and becoming its deliverer. Meanwhile, he was introduced at court, obtained a commiffion in the fervice of Naples, and endeavoured to make himfelf acquainted with the art of war. At an early period of his life, he difplayed a lofty port, and exhibited what he hinfelf was pleased to terin "Una fuperbia indicibile." His mind, at the fame time, became deeply imbued with all the ancient precepts relative to liberty; and when fpoken to refpecting the dangers that must be neceffarily encountered in at tempting to enfranchife his country, he was accuftomed to reply by incans of a Line from Virgil: "Vincit amor Patriæ laudumque immenfa cupido." Meanwhile, his father, who appears to have been a man of talents, brought hun up with the moit noble notions, and carefully inculcated the practice of all the heroic virtues. In addition to this, his own mind being filled with important objects, his paffions, inftead of being wafted in ignoble purfuits, were occupied folely with important objects. Accuftomed to contemplate and 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 boaft of a multitude."+ There is a fonetto still in exiftence, written by Hiacinte Paoli to celebrate the exploits of his colleague, General Giafferi,who afterwards retired like himself to Naples, during the fiege of Cordone. It begine with the two following lines: "A coronar l'Eroe di Cirno invitto, 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 affection expreffed himself as follows: My dear fon, I may poffibly never fee you again; but, in imagination, I fall ever attend on your footileps. Your defign is great and noble, and I doubt not but God will blefs and affift you in it. The little which remains to me of life," adds the hoary chief, "I fhall confecrate to your caufe, by offering up my prayers and fupplications to Heaven for your profperity and protection." Having repaired to his native ifland, he found a fudden change in respect to the difference of manners: for the people there were fill rude, uncouth, and, in fome relpects, favage. They feemed, however, admirably fitted for war; and exhibited, at the fame time, a steady determination either to recover their loft independence, or perifh in the attempt. As it was impoffible, on account of his extreme youth, that he fhould all at once afpire to the honour of being one of the chiefs of his nation, Paoli officiated for a confiderable time as fecretary to Caffori, a phyfician, who happened to be one of his own kinfmen, and who was at this period at the head of the nation of that leader, he prefented himmalcontents. At Igth, on the affaffifelf as his fucceffor; but he was oppofed by Signor Matra, the fon of a Marquis of the fame name, who, like Paoli's own father, had been attached to the popular caufe, and formed, in conjunction with him, one of the council of regency. Being a man of noble fentiments, and uniting the patriot and the warrior in his own perfon, he formed a formidable rival to Pafquale; and the adherents of both parties having armed on the occafion, the Paolifts were defeated, and obliged, with their chief, to take refuge in blockaded. But Matra foon after expea convent, where they were clofely rienced the fame tragical end as his two predeceffors, Sampieri and Caffori. On this, his competitor was immediately liberated from his confinement, and publicly canvaffed for the chieftainship, now become once more vacant. 1 Paoli |