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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47958	The present state of Genova with the articles of the treaty of Cession to the French king, and an account of the late actions of the French fleet, before it, and ofthe damages there sustain'd by the bombs and carcasses. To which is added, a letter from the Republick of Genova to the City of Argiers upon that subject.	Leti, Gregorio, 1630-1701.	1687 (1687)	Wing L1339; ESTC R217652	30,484	107

which in time will prove one of the best of the Mediterranean This Port within begins to dry towards the Land by the filth and dirt that the common Sewers bring to it It would not be difficult to fill it up as far as the mouth of the Darsena and joyn that great space to the City which would much enlarge it And on the other hand by carrying further out on each side the two Arms whith the old and new Moles stretch out into the Sea the Harbour of Genoa might by that means be rendered one of the largest most stately and safe Ports in the World For the wide opening which is betwixt the two Moles as they are at present leaves too much Sea exposed to the rage of the South South-east and South-west winds so that Vessels cannot lie opposite to the mouth of the Harbour when any of these Winds blow hard The Darsena I mentioned is a little Harbour within which can hold five and twenty Galleys as in a box It might easily be made twice as big by breaking down a Wall which divides it from another bosom of the Sea called the Darsena of Wine because the Barks that bring it put in there The Sea Arsenal hath great shades and Coverts The Arsenal where twenty Galleys may be built at a time And the Arsenal of Arms which is in the Ducal Palace is always furnished with Arms for forty thousand Foot. The Magazines of Powder are well provided but they entertain no more Soldiers ordinarily than the three thousand Men I spake of Having surveyed the main Land we must now give a description of the Isle of Corsica The Isle of Corsica It lies in a very good Climate betwixt the fortieth and two and fortieth degree of North latitude It is in circuit one hundred and fifty French Leagues That part which looks to Italy and which they call Banda di dentro is less cultivated than the rest All that this Island produces is excellent exquisite Wines and delicate Oil it yields also Silk Wax Honey and all sorts of Fruits in abundance It hath Iron Mines two salt Pits and a good breed of Horses might be kept there but for all that this Country is so fertile Dispeopled by the Genoese the Genoese do what they can to render it almost desart and abandoned for two reasons First because they think that if the People grew numerous and powerful they would revolt against them And secondly that they may not excite Strangers to invade an Island which they endeavour to render contemptible that they make it to be less envied There are not reckoned to be upon it at present above one hundred thousand Souls but it might easily admit and maintain six times as many It is divided into six Bishopricks Hath six Bishopricks reduced in to five by the union of the Bishoprick of Mariana to that of Accia Aleria Aiazzo Nebbio and Sagona are the other four The considerable parts of it are Calvi Aiazzo Boniface St. Florent and Porto-vecchio and the Genoese have made at Bastia the ordinary residence of the Governour a Mole capable to contain four Galleys under cover St. Florent was a work of the French fortified before the Peace of Chasteau Cambresis The Genoese have demolished it but the foundations of Free-stone are still remaining so that it might easily be raised again and if a descent were to be made upon the Island there is no place more commodious not onely by reason of its situation on the West side but also because it is but three Leagues distant from Bastia the Capital Town of the Island opposite to it and seated on the Coast which looks to Italy on the East side The Territory of Aiazzo Aiazzo abounds in Wine Corn and in all sorts of fruit Cape Corfe Cap Corfe produces excellent Wine and the people of this Countrey are the civilest and most peaceable of all the rest of the Island Balagna which is called the Garden of of Corsica yields the excellentest Oil in the World and exquisite fruits of all kinds Bastia Bastia the residence of the Governour hath a good rich and fertile Soil There are thirty thousand Souls reckoned to be in it the Town has a good Trade and is well governed There is good Hunting and better Fishing about it by reason of the many Lakes and Ponds that are near the same On Alerie Alerie that is destroyed and Porto-vecchio depend large Lands which are partly uncultivated though they be fit to bear all sorts of Corn. The great quantity of standing dead Water that is there incommodes the Air and makes that Country almost abandoned There Colonies ought to be planted for draining the Fens and labouring a fat and fertile soil which alone might feed all Liguria that hath so little Corn that it is forced to supply it self from Lombardy Sicily and many times from Africa That draining would be easie and the Genoese have seen a proof of it since they brought thither a hundred Families of Magnote Greeks a people neighbouring upon Morea who have much advanced Husbandry in the place where they have setled but that number is not sufficient for a corner of all these great Countries which labour and industry would render most fruitful if men enough were employed to compass so good a work a thing that would be easie by dividing all these Lands into inheritances of different Tenures and qualities to be granted upon condition of settling a certain number of Families therein sowing of Corn planting Vines and Olive Trees and especially quantities of Mulberry Trees for Silks By that means of a despicable Island it might be made one of the richest Provinces in the World. Woods of Aitona Aitona is famous for the vast Forrests and innumerable Trees that grow upon the Mountains thereof and which are of a bigness and quality not onely for building of Houses but also for building and masting all sorts of Vessels These Mountains make a chain of some Leagues in length And the Forrest would never be consumed provided it were orderly cut the Timber even cut in the new Moon alters not and is of a particular grain The Genoese who have found the importance of this have employed an hundred thousand Crowns to plain a way upon the ridg of the Mountains which from the Forrest reaches to the Sea-shore where they have built great Magazines for preparing the Timber keeping it dry and preserving it There is very good fishing for Tunnys there and abundance of Coral which if well looked after might turn to a considerable account There are two salt Pits also in the Island but the Republick slights them through a Politick condescension to the Spaniards Salt is a sacred Commodity The Salt. which People cannot be without and whereof some Princes make their ordinary Revenues that Element of life as necessary as Corn that Manna which seasons all our food to defend us from corruption that source of

all the delights of the Taste is one of the pillars that in many States upholds the publick Treasure It costs but little at first but people pay dear for it And generally Kings and Republicks have imposed severe punishments upon those who by a greedy rashness attempt in that particular to avoid and frustrate the Laws Genoa draws a considerable duty from Salt because that City furnishes not onely all the State but likewise Milan and all Lombardy with it It is a great branch of the Revenue and the House or Bank of St. George to whom the Gabel is engaged The Gabell belongs to the Bank of St. George has the administration thereof which is performed with much order and Economy But the Genoese might without exacting double the profit of it because they load their Salt at Yvyca where the Spaniards sell it them dear and from whence they import it at great charges whereas by re-establishing the two salt Pits of the Island of Corsica which they slight Salt Pits in Corsica that they may not displease the Spaniards they might have it of their own and at home nay if instead of going to load at Yvyca they would come and take their Salt at the Hiere Isles much nearer them it would cost them far less both in the purchase and transportation This hath been several times proposed by some Genoese to the Great Council but the Spanish Cabal hath always by a mystery of State hindered the resolution though acknowledged to be advantageous Since I have fallen upon the matter of Salt it will not be impertinent to speak of that which the French King would have conveighed from the Hiere Isles to Montferrat for supplying of Cazal and the Forces which he maintains there who are not used to the Salt of the Country which is inferiour to that of France The demand of a Magazine of Salt at Savona This King demanded of the Genoese the setling of a Magazine of Salt at Savona They excused themselves to his Majesty because all things are carrried in the Council of Genoa by the influence of the Spaniards They have gone farther for being persuaded that the commodiousness of the Port of Savona put the King upon making that demand The Port of Savona filled up they have quite spoil'd it And as Andrew Doria began heretofore to render it less useful by sinking two great Vessels full of Earth in the mouth of it so they have set Masons at work to wall up the Entry and wholly to fill it up And in the manner they spoil it it will be almost impossible to restore it again But there is a shorter way to have a place upon the Sea Coast for unloading of Salt making a Magazine and transporting it to Montferrat There needs no more but to back the just pretensions of the Counts of Fieschi for the restitution of his Estates The Marquisat of Laon Laon. which borders upon the limits of the Marquisat of Montferrat is one of the chief Lands usurped from them it is a little Town by the Sea-side with a stately Castle possessed by the House of Doria since Andrew Doria took it from those Counts It is walled round and seated upon an easie descent that reaches the shore It contains about three thousand Souls and may be easily fortified It hath no Harbour but the Road is good and by the help of a little Mole there might be easily made a Haven sufficient for the unloading of Salt which might be carried as soon from Laon to Cazal as if the Magazine were at Savona And for having it the King needs onely to require that Justice and Restitution may be made to the Count of Fieschi and that the restitution begin by that Marquisat of Laon which may be bought from him Upon that Coast two Leagues from Laon is Albegna a strong place and well situated where by the help of a little Isle that is opposite to it and a Mole which on the East-side might joyn the Island to the main Land one of the best Ports of Europe might be made which would make Montferrat reach as far as the Sea supply it with the Salt of the Hieres without any need of Savona and facilitate the transportation of Forces by Sea without being obliged to march them through Savoy which in the revolution of time may prove not so faithful to France as it is at present All that is to be done then is onely to make the Republick restore to the Counts of Fieschi the Estates that lawfully belong to them and which could not be confiscated for the reasons that are solidly alledged in their second Petition Genoa is an Arch-bishoprick Genoa an Arch-bishoprick hath eleven Suffragans which hath eleven Suffragan Bishops six in the Continent Brugneto and Sarzana to the East Savona Noli Albegna and Vintimiglia to the West and five in the Island of Corsica as we have mentioned before No Man is promoted to Episcopal Dignity unless he be a Genoese or of the State of Genoa and the Arch-bishop must be of a noble Family who is nominated by the Pope The Cathedral Church called St. Laurence hath given to the Church Popes Cardinals and Bishops The Chapter of St. Laurence The Chapter heretofore decided all Controversies that happened betwixt the Arch-bishop and the Senate and it was in so great reputation that Rome esteemed its decisions no less than France does those of the Sorbone but since the Senate hath arrogated to it self the honours of Royalty and forced the Arch-bishop to take his place on the side of the Epistle transporting thither his Episcopal Chair to make room for the Doge on the side of the Gospel the Chapter hath clashed with the Senate who to depress the Canons have raised and maintained against them certain Chaplains founded in that Church by the Counts of Fieschi who cross them in all things Besides that the Senate hath erected a new Tribunal consisting of six Monks and three Senators which they call the Ecclesiastick Juncto Rome hath complained of it as belonging to her alone to establish Ecclesiastical Courts in Italy But the Senate believed they might satisfie the Pope by changing the name of that Tribunal and calling it the Juncto of Jurisdiction The Juncto of Jurisdiction The Republick is guided by it in the Affairs of Conscience The Monks that constitute it are of the Order of Mendicants and enjoy great priviledges being exempted from the Quire and conventual Offices well-lodged with a Lay-Brother to attend them and a double allowance go out and in without their Superiours leave and have besides a Pension for their private occasions The way how they give their Opinions is a mere Mummery their Judgment is not set down in writing but when they have given it by word of mouth the three Senators are to make report thereof to the Chancellour and they turn the Report as they please and very often quite contrary to the

passes in the Mountains that divide their States and two or three thousand Dragoons posted in the avenues of these Passes would be enough to hinder all relief Men may land not onely without Musquet shot but it is easie for them also in landing to lodge under Covert either on the side of Bizagne or on the side of S. Peter des Arenes Batteries may be raised betwixt the Fanal and the new Mole without the reach of any assault which would batter down the City on all sides besides there is nothing more easie than to cut the Aqueducts which make the Milns to go and furnish the City with fresh water so that the People without Bread and Water starved with hunger and thirst would quickly cry for Peace the whole City is also full of common Sewers and subterranean Vaults which discharge themselves into the Sea and nothing hinders but Mines and other Engines may be made to play which would overthrow the Walls that cross those Sewers and make in them as many breaches as might be thought fit from whence it may be concluded that that City is supported more by its name haughtiness and outward appearance than by any solid strength That Republick then though exceeding rich is notwithstanding in it self very weak for two reasons First Because the profound Peace it hath for a long time enjoyed has inured the People to softness and luxury and secondly because though the private Persons be extreme wealthy yet the Revenues of the State are but very moderate and it is no easie matter in Common-wealths to impose new Taxes for defraying the charges of War which always displeases the People who are naturally inclined to rest But to remedy this weakness which the Genoese themselves are sensible enough of they are so straitly linked in Interest with the Spaniards that they will always be supported with all the Forces of that Kingdom That strict Alliance is founded not onely on what I have already said of the great Estates which the Genoese possess in the Territories of the Catholick King but also because the Milanese borders upon the States of Genoa and that Final Final which belongs to the Spaniards is a place apart and situated betwixt Albegnao and Savona in the middle of the States of this Republick which inviron it on all hands so that Milan can have no communication with that important Maritime place but by passing through the Lands of Genoa which are bordered on the West by the Mountains of Piemont The limits of the State of Genoa on the North by Montferrat and the Milanese on the East by the States of the Dukes of Florence and Parma and on the South by the Sea of Liguria Some time before the Pyrenean Peace the Spaniards fearing that the French might seize Final proposed to sell it to the Genoese the price was agreed upon Genoa bargains for Final but the Marquess de los Balbaces a Grandee of Spain of the House of Spinola as a faithful Subject preferring the Interest of the King he served before that of his own Country opposed it He was Counsellour of State for the Affairs of Italy and with much vigour and stedfastness he represented that if Final were abandoned and the Genoese should afterwards break with Spain it would be impossible to send relief in to the Milanese but that if the Genoese should abandon Spain relief might always be sent by Final and Montferrat without being obliged to them His reasons were good because at that time Montferrat was not in the hands of the French but if at present Genoa abandoned Spain Milan would be without relief because to go from Final to Milan Montferrat being shut there is a necessity of passing through the State of Genoa The advice of Los Balbaces was followed And is disappointed the Treaty of Final was broken off and the Genoese thereupon conceived so great indignation against Balbaces their Country-man that they deprived him of all his priviledges which were to go with his Servants armed to have the Cushion at Church and to be visited by the Nobility without the permission of the Doge which obliged him wholly to renounce Genoa and to settle in Spain Final then is one of the chief links that unites Genoa with the Catholick King. Nevertheless what Efforts soever Spain makes in favour of that Republick yet it can give them but very moderate assistances by Land because it can onely help them with the Forces of the Milanese which it dares not ungarison But by Sea it can defend them with all the Galleys of the Squadrons of Naples Sicily Sardinia and Spain So that provided a powerful Prince who intended to attack Genoa had a Fleet strong enough to give a check to the Naval forces of Spain it would be easie for him by Piemont and Montferrat to assault that Republick by Land and in a short time to triumph over its pride with a smaller number of men than one may imagine and so much the rather that Commerce being the Soul of that Republick a Fleet cruising before their Harbours would no sooner interrupt their Trade but that the People and Artificers would be reduced to extremity besides that Genoa the Country furnishing but very little Corn is obliged to supply it self from Sicily and Africa by Sea and that finding themselves besieged by Land and blocked up by Sea with little relief from the Forces of the Milanese and out of condition of being revictualled from any where else it would quickly be reduced to the last pinch having but very few standing Soldiers and the Militia of the Country altogether undisciplined But if the Nobility as well as People of Genoa could be once cleared of the false notions they have conceived of a Government contrary to that under which they live if once they could be persuaded that the Republican yoke gives instead of one lawful Master an hundred insatiable Tyrants that it is a Hydra of many Heads which seldom agree in their resolutions that a King governs alone in imitation of the Deity whereas popular Assemblies are for the most part but a confused Babylon that by an inclination of Nature which tends always to perfection all Republicks soon or late terminate in a Monarchy as heretofore Rome and Florence in later days furnish the Genoese with almost a domestick instance if they would also call to mind that they freely gave themselvs over to Charles VI. and his Successours upon conditions religiously observed on the part of our Kings who by consequent are their true and lawful Sovereigns If to all these Reasons they added serious reflections upon the incomparable Virtues of the greatest King that ever France had and that touched with a remorse for a revolt that made them shake off his Dominion they would sincerely return under his Royal Protection to what pitch of grandeur might not that rich Republick advance what Traffick might not the Genoese aspire to under the triumphant banner of France and what Corsaires durst appear in the Mediterranean when our Squadrons joined to twenty Galleys that Genoa might entertain should cruise from Europe to Africa against these infesters of the Seas I say that Genoa which commonly sends out but six Galleys might easily maintain not onely twenty but also six men of War at least to convey their Merchant Ships if that Republick were again under the protection of the Kings of France for seeing then they could have no cause to fear a War from their Neighbours all their Revenues might be wholly employed in Navigation that they might become Masters of all the Trade of the Mediterranean and successfully carry it on as far as the East and West Indies And as the Nobles of Genoa are extraordinarily rich and have no less Wit and Courage than Wealth what employments might not they render themselves capable of under a King who with wonderful exactness knows how to discern the merit of his Subjects and who would furnish them with continual occasions of cultivating a genius that is dastardized by pleasures and of employing a Courage which by an unactive Peace languishes in idleness The principal Dignities of the State the highest Commands in the Army the considerable Offices of the Kingdom would be as much the recompences of their merit as of their sincere submissions and it would be a pleasant thing to see them share in the good fortune and glory of a State whose Interests would go hand in hand with their own Genoa and Marseilles united under the Standard of the Flower-de-luce would give the Law from Cadiz to the Dardanelles keep all Barbary in awful respect and make the Sultan tremble even in the Seraglio of Constantinople The Treasures of the Ligurians would daily increase by the free Trade that they might have in their own hands and that great Commerce drawing into the Coffers of the King's Subjects all the Money of Europe would render his own the more inexhaustible for the enlargement of that high Power to which his Virtues buoyed up by extraordinary fortune have raised him May Heavens grant that that invincible Monarch may reunite to his Crown that precious Flower which a revolt heretofore struck out of it and that Louis the Great and the Genoese may contend who shall have the better on 't he by Clemency and they by profound Submissions