Addison, Joseph: Remarks on several parts of Italy: &c. in the years 1701, 1702, 1703 (London: Tonson, 1718)

iz Monaco, Genoa, &c.
laboured under, they have never enter-
tained a Thought of violating the Pub-
lick Credit, or of alienating any Part of
thcse Revenues to other Uses, than to
what they have been thus assigned. The
Administration of this Bank is for Life,
and partly in the Hands of the chief Ci-
rity in the State, and a powerful Inssu-
ence over the common People. This
Bank is generally thought the greatest
Load on the Genoese, and the Managers
of it have been represented as a second
kind of Senate, that break the Unifor-
jncasure, the Fundamental Constitution
of the State. It is however very certain,
that the People reap no small Advantages
from it, as it distnbutes the Power a-
mong more particular Members of the
Republick, and gives the Commons a Fi-
gure. So that it is no small Check up-
< n the Aristocracy, and maybeoneRea-
son, why the Genoefe Senate carries it with
greater Moderation towards their Sub-
jects, than the Venetian.
It would have been well for the Re-
publick of Genoa, if (he had followed the
Example of her Sister of Venice, in not
per-