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 vessel, with a British passport, they were taken by the republick, and carried to Genoa, where they were thrown into prison.

The republick thought this would certainly prevent count Domenico, the father, from continuing with the patriots. They offered to restore him his possessions, to release his sons, and to make him general of the Corsican troops in their service, if he would return to their side. But he answered with resolution and magnanimity: 'I miei figliuoli me li daranno a lor dispetto; e tutte le altre offerte le ftimo un nulla a paragone del giusto impegno che ho preso e che seguiterò fin che ho vita. My sons they shall be obliged to give me, whether they will or no; and all their other offers I consider as nothing, in comparison of the just enterprise in which I am engaged, and in which I will persevere while I have life.' Such instances of patriotick spirit deserve to be recorded. The annals of Corsica will furnish many of them.

When the Austrian troops entered Genoa, the young counts Rivarola were set at liberty. Count Antonio, the eldest, my very good friend, is a major, in the service of the king of Sardinia, and consul general for that sovereign in Tuscany. Count Nicholas, the other, lives at