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

14 Monaco, Genoa, &c.
fetch all their Corn from Naples, Sicily,
and other Foreign Countries} except
what comes to them from Lombardy,
which probably goes another way,
whilst it furnimes Two great Armies
with Provisions. Their Fleet, that for-
merly gained so many Vi&ories over the
Saracens, Pi fans, Venetians, Turks and Spa-
niards, that made them Mailers of Crete,
Sardinia, Majorca, Minorca, Negrepont,
Lesbos, Malta, that settled them in Scio,
Smyrna, jdchaia, Fheodosia, and several
Towns on the Eastern Confines of £«-
rope, is now reduced to Six Gallies. W hen
they had made an Addition of but Four
new ones, the King of France sent his
Orders to suppress them, telling the Re-
publick at the same time, that he knew
very well how many they had Occasion
for. This little Fleet serves only to fetch
them Wine and Corn, and to give their
Ladies an Airing in the Summer-season.
The Republick of Genoa has a Crown
and Scepter for its Doge, by reason of
their Conquell of Corjica, where there
was formerly a Saracen King, This in-
deed gives their Ambassadors a more ho-
nourable Reception at some Courts, but,
at the same time, may teach their Peo-
ple to have a mean Notion of their own
Form