LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.
General Paoli-Observance of Sunday-Rousseau and Monboddo-Love of Singularity-London Life - Artemisias - Second Marriages - Scotch Gardening- Vails - Prior - Garrick's Poetry-History-Whitfield-The Corsicans-Good Breeding-Fate and Free-will-Goldsmith's Tailor-The Dunciad-Dryden-Congreve-Sheridan-Mrs. Montagu's Essay-Lord Kames-Burke-Ballad of Hardyknute-Fear of Death-Sympathy with Distress-FooteBuchanan-Baretti's Trial-Mandeville.
AFTER his return to town, we met frequently, and I continued the practice of making notes of his conversation, though not with so much assiduity as I wish I had done. At this time, indeed, I had a sufficient excuse for not being able to appropriate so much time to my journal; for General Paoli,' after Corsica had been overpowered by the monarchy of France, was now no longer at the head of his brave countrymen; but having with difficulty escaped from his native island, had sought an asylum in Great Britain; and it was my duty, as well as my pleasure, to attend much upon him.
• In 1755, Pascal Paoli was appointed first magistrate and general of Corsica. He had been educated at Naples, and was a captain in the service of King Don Carlos. He was tall, young, handsome, learned, and eloquent. In 1769, a French army, commanded by Marshal de Vaux, landed in Corsica. The inhabitants fought resolutely; but, driven to the south of the island, Paoli embarked, June 16, in an English ship at Porto-Vecchio, landed at Leghorn, crossed the continent, and repaired to London, where he was every where received with tokens of the greatest admiration, both by the people and their princes.-NAPOLEON BOXA PARTE, Mémoires, tom. iv. p. 86.