New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-04-15
THE TRIBUNE.
aetters from Genoa. =. No.
Correspondence Of The Tribune.

reminded OF my promise to send you ~
s,oualy letter from the birth place OF Columbus
Instead of not having anything to say al, al
most crazed by the multitude OF thi,sn eDJ's
-,;cb I want to write. and | fear shall ihahe
mt very dull letter; for in correspondent
with large library, the interest exci'eu ~
mind Of the beboder is greater than would ap-
-o,, from tho ,csu,ts We see ten thousand DOCKS
re wish to read all, and we read none.-"e sec
&c ,o,ny objects of interest among strange scenes
end describe none wildly. But | will give you
), of. hand note, since have good opportunity
Il sending my letter by an Assistant Surgeon
rho has been suspended for a year by Court
Martial which has just closed its sessions. l his
e,e,,cnded gentleman takes the French steamer
- ,oorrow for Marsclllcs, where he expects to en-
bark in one of the new packets for New ork'-
Bv.the.bye, this recently established line OF pack
ITO is che of the best things that have been got up
r. the last score Of years. There has for long
t;roe been vast Inconvenience suffered by Amer
..n travellers and commercial men in the Medlter-
,anean, because there was no direct, regular com
munication from the Mediterranean Sea to Anne
E ma Success attend the cnterprlzc
But must hurry on and get at my SUBJECT or
rke the performances Of some dvlncs, my INTRO
aueton will be longer than my DISCOURSE
You have heard long before this that our Med
,erancan Squadron being driven away from Ma
hon by the horrible state of things there dropped
,bc;r anchor in this beautiful harbor for winter.
II has now been here month, and things arc all
coing on prospcrously. The old city OF Genoa
was thrown into great excitement when the spicn-
did Columbus, the Congress, the Fairfield and the
Preble flung out their Pilot-signas, and with all
their white sails set came riding up the gull
since the approaching fleet was larger and more
efficient than the whole Sandman Navy, and came
from that distant continent Of Liberty discovered
by the Genoesc navigator continent 10 whose
shores seem to have fled the Freedom that once
blessed and the Commerce that once enriched TINS
sCity of Palaces Genoa was for centuries the
home of Liberty, and the Spirit OF her dead nc
publc is still alive. There isnot city In Europe
where so warm sympathy is felt Tor America as
herc,-no one where Americans are received with
more attention or more warmly greeted Scarcely
an evening passes when invitations are not crowd
ed upon the Officers of the Squadron by the elite
of the town-from the Governor OF the city, whose
Soirees, twice week, are crowded by them, to
the sentimental Warehouses who writes her rose
scented notes from her sacred boudor, to which
none (of course) are admitted but her most par
tcular friends who happen to constitute the
Squadron, all distinguished foreigners, etc. So
her guests must, of necessity, be very select!
Commodore Morgan took rooms here, or rather,
should say, palace of great magn!fcencc, re-
Gently occupied BY Count Suryillicrs, (n plain
Yankee phrase, Joseph Bonaparte,) where, H.
stead Of cutting that kind of dash all Commo
docs are expected 10 cat by virtue of their Office
and in hon.r of their country, he has been for
four weeks confined to his bed with the govt, (hc
calls ii the Rheumatism, but always like to call
things by their right nalnes,) from which he is
now happily recovered. You may know he is
recently married his bride is daughter of o.
Rich, ESQ. American Consul at Mahon, gen.
teman well known and highly esteemed in the
oh"eu Stalee' So'iiO Say IL Was iil'Nh VI
fortunc,-some say of policy,-somc say of love-
| am inclined to think it was match in which
all these considerations mingled. His lady is un-
dersood to have been well off, but not rich; she
is certainly beautiful, and lovely as the soft skies
Of the Mediterranean; she is young,-not over
twenty FIVE, | supposc,--not much more, Ger
hlnly. And, since the Commodore is over fifty,
hls reasonable to suppose he has married at that
time of life when a young wife is the most agree
able companion in the world,-onc who can
watch by his bed and nurse him when he is kept
N the house four weeks from the govt, and read
French or Spanish Romance TO hun with that
soil, musical Voice, which is no where heard III
such perfection as in the Mediterranean, where
The skies arc soft, it seems impossible for the
heavens ever to be angry. Besides, the Commo-
core is not too old or weather beaten for romance.
am strongly inclined to think he fell regularly
INTO lore, and would have "marrcd his ladye
had two devils been standing at the door, as
old Chauccr has it. Some say the Commodore
managed the affairs of the United States badly at
ianger; but of this am not qualified TO Judge.
at any rate, he is noble old Sailor full of heart,
and brave as julius Cesar. The other day, l
went with him 10 the Governors Palace. The
Commodore, like Jack Downing, "taks nothing
but English, but that remarkably glib" Said
his Excellency, Parles rous Francois -
: No, Sir" Parlatc ltoiiano2" No, Sir"
DO you talk English, Governor No, Mon.
seur :" Then" replied the Commodore, g nj
very sorry; hoped you spoke English" 1t was
really capital Joke. The French, you know, is
considered N all high circles all over Europe as
: sine qua non among gentlemen. But, through
the medium Of what italian have picked up in
three months, the conversation was carried on
quite vigorously. And the Governor, who has
seen the world in all its aspects and experienced
every Kind of fortune. was pleased to pass some
very wcl-descrved compliments upon our country