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was as follows:-In the arrondissement of Ajaccio, 55,008; Bas

cantons, 355 communes; contains 30

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on the island, i.e., the Corsicans included, are 231,653:-Naturalized French, 353; Germans, 41;

4; of these 435 were blind in both eyes, 568 in one

ailors, 4517; victual-dealers, 2981; drivers of vehicles, 1623; dealers in articles of luxury-watchmakers, goldsmiths, engravers, &c., 55; monied people living on their incomes, 13,160; government officials, 1229; communal

ssigned to it in the above list-I mean the herdsmen. The number of bandits

of the general administration of Corsica, I shall

accio. He has four sub-prefects under him in the other four arrondissements. The prefect is assisted by the Council of the prefecture, consisting of three members, besides the pref

he nation. It is competent to regulate the distribution of the direct taxes over the arrondissements. The General Council can only meet by a decree of t

e are cantons in the arrondissement. The citizens who, according to French law, are entitled t

unes; the people have retained so much of their democratic rights, that the

Bastia, which consists of one chief president, two présidents de chambre, seventeen councillors,

It sits usually once every four months. There is a Tribunal of First Instance in the principal town of each arrondissement. There is als

diocese of Ajaccio, the bishop of which-the only one

division resides. The gendarmerie, so important for Corsica, forms the seventeenth legion, and is also stationed in

ted lands of the island amount to a trifle more than three-tenths of the surface. The exact area of the island is 874,741 hectars.[C] The progress of agriculture is infinitely retarded by family feuds, bandit

women almost everywhere wear the coarse brown Corsican cloth (panno Corso), called also pelvue; the herdsmen prepare cheese, and a sort of cheesecake, called brocci

f francs; it also exports pulse, chestnuts, fish, fresh and salted, wood, dyeing plants, hides, corals, marble, a considerable amount of manufactured tobacco, especially cigars, for which t

ted from Provence free of duty, and thus checks the native cultivation of the vine. For Corsica is, in point of fact, precluded from exporting wine to France; France herself being a productive wine country. Even meal and vegetables are sent to the troops from Provence. The export of tobacco to the Continent is

ssa, and Bonifazio are th

ed population protects it at least from the scourge of pauperism, which, in the opulent and cultivated countries

he island that has twice given France her Emperor, and twice dictated her laws, has gained nothing by it but the satisfaction of her revenge. The Corsican will never forget the disgraceful way in which France appropriated his country; and a high-spirited people never learns to love its conquerors. When I heard the Corsicans, even of the present day, bitterly inveighing agains

untries to their foreign masters. I have read, in many authors, the assertion that the Corsican nation is at the core of its heart French. I hold this assertion to be a mistake, or an intentional falsehood. I have never seen the least ground for it. The difference between Corsican and Frenchman in nationality, in the most fundamental elements of character and feeling, puts a deep gulf between the two. The Corsican is decidedly an Italian; his language is acknowledged t

of the famous bridge, and cried, with a passionate gesture-"This is the spot where the Genoese murdered our freedom-I mean the French." The reader will understand this, when he remembers that the name of Genoese means the same as deadly foe; for hatred of Genoa, the Corsicans themselves say, is with them undying. Another time I asked a Corsican, a man of

be Italian-for we are in reality Italians, if Italy were only united and strong; as she is at pre

ntercourse with Frenchmen. French has not at all penetrated into the mountainous districts of the interior, where the ancient, venerated customs of the elder Corsicans-their primitive innocence, single-heartedness, justice, generosity, and love of liberty-remain unimpaired. Sad were it for the noble Corsican people if they should one day exchange the virtues of their rude but great forefathers for the refined corruption of enervated Parisian society. The moral rottenness of society in France has robbed the French nation of its strength. It has stolen like an infection into society in other countries, deepened their demoralization, and mad

vampire may, in manly vigour, in generosity, and in patriotism, be a very hero compared with such bloodless, sneaking villains, as are to be