it he faid, "Je n'ai jamais entré en maison qui "mieux fentit fa grande vertu, honnêteté & feig"neurie que celle-là."-" That he had never

feen a house which gave more evident marks of "the great virtue, of the politenefs, and of the "nobility of its poffeffors, than the Chateau de la "Rochefoucault."

The annexed PRINT of this CHATEAU, thus forcibly defcribed, is taken from an antient Etching of ISRAEL SYLVESTRE.

ANDREA DORIA.

THIS great naval Commander was one of the trueft Patriots which his Republick (Genoa) could ever boast. Though in the fervice of Francis the First of France, when he found that Monarch had fome defigns upon the profperity and the freedom of Genoa, by repairing the fortifications and adding a citadel to the city of Savona, he thus addreffed him by letter:

"GREAT PRINCE,

"He who makes ufe of the power Heaven "has put into his hands to reverse the common "order of human affairs, employs it to a very "bad purpose. The city of Genoa has always "been the capital of Liguria; and pofterity "will not behold without astonishment, that your "Majesty

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Majefty has deprived it of that advantage without any reason. The Genoefe perceive "how your projects are likely to affect their "interefts. They intreat you to give them up, " and not to suffer the general good to be facri"ficed to the interefts of a few of your Courtiers. "I take the liberty to join my entreaties to those "of my countrymen, and to request this of you, << as the reward of the fervices I have been able to render to France. If circumstances lay

your Majefty under the neceffity of wanting "money, I will, in addition to the appointments "which are due to me from your Majefty, prefent "you with fourscore thousand gold crowns."

Francis returned no answer to this letter; and Doria, perceiving that the fortifications of Savona were ftill going on, told Trivulci, "" Your "Sovereign, Sir, fuffers himself to be governed "by imprudent and ill-intentioned Minifters. "The Republick of Genoa will fubmit to any"thing fooner than fee Savona torn from their "dominions, to which it has been appended from "time immemorial. With refpect to myself, I "fhall facrifice the friendship of a King of France "to the interefts of my country. Pray tell this. "to your Sovereign as foon as you can, and "affure him, that it is not a defire of gain which "makes me act in this manner; it is an honest "indignation

"indignation at obferving that the prayers I "made to him in favour of my injured country, "which he is taking pains to opprefs, do not meet "with that attention to which they are entitled."

Francis paid as little regard to this speech of Doria as to his former reprefentations by letter, and ordered him to be feized in the port of Genoa, and brought prifoner to France. Doria however, informed of the King of France's intention, efcaped with his veffels, and returned foon afterwards to Genoa, which he found oppreffed with two great calamities, diffentions and the plague, He immediately ordered the great town bell to be rung, as in times of alarm, and affembling the people, thus addrefied them:

"MY DEAR FELLOW-CITIZENS,

"My warmeft wishes would be gratified, did "I but fee you in harmony together. You would "then have no reafon to fear a foreign yoke; the "love of your country would afford no room for "ambition; none of you would afpire at the "fupreme power; we fhould no longer behold "in Genoa that difunion of its citizens, which "makes the weakness of a State and the ftrength "of its enemies. We fhould no longer fee one part of the citizens defpife the other, and provoke its just indignation. The Nobility pre

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"tend that all the honours of the Republick are "to be confined to them only, to the exclufion "of all the other citizens. But on what is this "pretenfion founded? Are they only the force of "the State? Has Nature given exclufively to "them judgment, prudence, and courage? What! are honours and dignities degraded when they << are given to merit? No, my fellow-citizens, "they belong to merit only. To follow other " maxims is to extinguifh all emulation: it is "to take from merit its hopes of reward: it is to "annihilate the love of glory itfelf. Let us then,

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my dear Citizens, leave open to every one the "path which leads to honours: the defire to obtain << them will excite an emulation in every order of

our State; and we fhall fee the Genoefe fill the "universe with the glory of their name, as they were used to do in times of their an"cestors."

Doria foon put an end to the divifions of his fellow-citizens, and drove away the foreign enemy which menaced their deftruction. For thefe fervices, the people, by conclamation, declared him perpetual Doge of the Republick. This diftinction he however refufed, telling them, it was more honourable for him to be thought worthy of fuch a diftinction by his fellow-citizens, than actually to poffefs it; that he requested to be permitted to

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