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"By his stature and bearing," said I, conning him through a glass which one of the monks passed to me, "this must be the General himself." "Paoli?" queried the Princess. I nodded. "Shall we go down the rock to meet him?" "It is Paoli's place to mount to us," said she proudly. We waited therefore while my uncle led him up to us.
"Paoli," observed Bonaparte, "was a great man; he loved his country; and I will never forgive my father, who was his adjutant, for having concurred in the union of Corsica with France. He ought to have followed Paoli's fortune, and have fallen with him."
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A witness of these facts is a certificate which Joseph Bonaparte a few months later procured from Corsica, and which ran as follows: "I, the undersigned, Louis Conti, procurator-syndic of the district of Ajaccio, department of Corsica, declare and certify: in the month of May of this year, when General Paoli and the administration of the department had sent into the city of Ajaccio armed troops, in concert with other traitors in the city, took possession of the fortress, drove away the administration of the district, incarcerated a large portion of the patriots, disarmed the republican forces, and, when these refused to give up the commissioners of the National Convention, Paoli's troops fired upon the vessel which carried these commissioners: "That these rebels endeavored to seize the Bonaparte family, which had the good fortune to elude their pursuit: "That they destroyed, plundered, and burnt everything which belonged to this family, whose sole crime consisted in their unswerving fidelity to the republicans, and in their refusal to take any part in the scheme of isolation, rebellion, and disloyalty, of which Paoli and the administration of the department had become guilty.
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