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PG-P.754.101
22 Aug 1754:21 (1339)
An Extract of a Letter from the Hague, dated May 20.
The behaviour of the Genoese towards the Corsicans, as set
forth in the manifesto lately published by the latter, does
not exceed the bounds of probability, if we compare it to
the proceedings of the same republick against the little
imperial town of San Remo. People have not yet forgot the
stratagem of a rebellion which the Chevalier Pinelli made
use of last year to make himself master of that town, and to
strip the inhabitants of their arms, their papers. . . He
did not leave them even the harmless ornament of the steeple
of the great church. That gothic edifice, built in the
taste of the steeples of the cathedrals of Vienna,
Strasburgh, and Antwerp, and the handsomest on the whole
coast, after being stript of its bells, was demolished at
the expence of the inhabitants, were taxed at seven sequins
a house for that purpose.
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