The use they made of their persons was in conformity to their usual execrable conduct.

When Gaffori advanced to batter the walls, they held up the child directly over that part of the wall at which the guns were pointed.

The Corsicans stopped: but Gaffori stood at their head, and ordered them to continue the fire.
Providentially the child escaped, and lived to relate, with becoming feeling, a fact so honourable to his father.

That father conducted the affairs of the island till 1753, when he was assassinated by some wretches, set on, it is believed, by Genoa, but certainly pensioned by that abominable government after the deed.

He left the country in such a state that it was enabled to continue the war two years after his death without a leader: the Corsicans then found one worthy of their cause in Pasquale de Paoli.
Paoli's father was one of the patriots who effected their escape from Corsica when the French reduced it to obedience.