the same persons who had attended him in vicinity of a loadstone, and it is so adjust- usual hour.'"* and romance alone that she shines, and when she ventured to quit it,-in her work on France (we are wrong, she did not quit it),-she evidently committed a great error. To that work, it is now scarcely necessary to revert. Every one acquainted with France, and particularly those acquainted with Lady M. during her residence there, knows that it is a tissue of mis-statements, gross perversions, and unwarrantable assumptions; it was, however, in spite of the silly affectation of the author, a pleasing work, and was read with interest. The present volumes are ushered to the world without préface or dedication; an advertisement, briefly stating that it has been composed from a journal kept during a residence in italy, in the years 1819-20, and that When the prince reached Brentford, he was met by a gentleman of the King's bed chamber, with two of his majesty's carriages and five of the royal servants, to congratulate him on his arrival, and to offer him the royal the halls and chambers appropriated to the notes on law, statistics, and on lite the meeting and to the council; and it is (To be concluded in our next.) 2 vols. palace of Somerset House for his resi- extract rary disputes, together with the appendix on the state of medicine, have, at the author's request, been contributed by Sir C. Morgan. This is really very kind of her ladyship, to divide her literary honours with her husband, and thus afford him the only chance, we suspect, he could ever have of being in the least degree known in the republic of letters. The work was not published until Thursday, which is much too late in the week to allow us to estimate its literary merit; we may, however, observe that, prima facie, we like it better than her France,' although it shares largely in the faults of that much talked-of production. The work commences with an historic sketch of Italy; this is followed by an account of the passage of the Alps, and descriptions of Piedmont, Lombardy, Genoa, Parma, Bologna, Tuscany, Rome, Naples, cabinet, which is under the care of Doc- the subject. From that moment up and Venice; such is the order of her tor Robert Hook, a man of genius, and of much esteem in experimental matters, was founded by Daniel Colwal, now treasurer of the academy, and is full of the greatest rarities, brought from the most distant parts; such as quadrupeds, birds, fishes, serpents, insects, shells, feathers, seeds, minerals, and many petrifactions, mummies, and gums; and every day, in order to enrich it still more, the academicians contribute every thing of value which comes in their hands, so that in time it will be the most beautiful, the largest, and the most curious, in respect to natural productions, that is any where to be found. Amongst these curiosities, the most remarkable are an ostrich, whose young were always born alive; an herb, which grew in the stomach of a thrush; and the skin of a Moor, tanned, with the beard and hair white; but more worthy of observation than all the rest, is a clock, whose movements are derived from the to the present hour, Lady Morgan and ladyship's lucubrations on Italy. The upon us. 6 now safe, facile, and enjoyable; secure beyond the reach of accident, sublime beThat Lady Morgan is an agreeable yond the reach of thought. Legitimate writer, and possesses considerable taprinces! divine righted sovereigns! lents, those who have read her novels houses of France, Austria, and Savoy! will readily admit; but it is in fiction which of you have done this?" There is not one among you, descendants of a Clovis, a Barbarossa, or an Amadeus, but may, in safe conscience, shake his innocent head, and answer, "Thou canst not say 'twas. I did it!"-Neither does the world accuse you.' the calendar. The engagement was pro visional: no cure no pay. But the battle was won, the French were beaten, and the saint called for his church. Victor, however, begged a long day, and ten years elapsed before the work of grati Her ladyship is right; it was Napo-tude began. Being a prince as renowned leon and not the descendants of Clovis for his wisdom as his piety, he endeavoured to make the best of a bad bargain: or Barbarossa, who made the road over and, instead of a spick and span new the Alps; and this fact, so very new, we church, he obliged his architect, Philip recommend to Mathews, as an addition Juvava, to use a quantity of old columns, to his song on truisms. In the route which had long lain on his hands. The to Turin, the fruitfulness of nature in saint was done by the knowing one, [how vines, groves of mulberries, and fields elegant 11 and the cupola of the Superga, of ripening corn, Was contrasted disfigured by torses and ill-matched pilwith moral suffering and human infire of getting kings to remain true to their lars, remains a monument of the difficulty wity:treaties, even when heaven itself is a par absence convent of the Dominicans. She says the story is entirely false, although we have the authority of Eustace and other travellers to the contrary. We quote her ladyship's account: When the French army arrived at Milan, some caval y were quartered in devoted to military services, and the the convent, which had previously been horses were stabled in the refectory, by order of the subaltern Milanese au thorities, who had the direction of this ficer, who had heard something of the measure of police. A young French of picture, was the first to discover the risk to which it was exposed, and hastened to circumstance, who arrived in time to save inform the commander-in-chief of the this precious monument, which might have fallen a sacrifice to the brutal igonance, not of the French, but of the perThe circumstance of the pistol shots is sons who superintended their quarters. universally denied. We took some pains to discover any trace of such violence: but if even a single shot had been fired by some wanton individual, it is now impossible to verify the fact.' It is in these laughing vales that beg-ty in the agreement.' gary assumes its most disgusting form, and that want and penury are not the least In the legitimate abuse which this evils the wretched have to contend with. gentle lady heaps on all legitimates, the As often as we stopped to change horses, King of Sardinia comes in for his share. groups of miserable beings crawled round, His restoration in 1815 is thus des and raised the deafening cry of "Carità, cribed. His majesty of Jerusalem Elemosina," in the name of those negli and Cyprus, after a retreat of fifteen gent saints who had abandoned them to years in his island of Sardinia, returned every species of physical evil. All the from his government of the Anchovies, maladies incidental to the Alpine region accompanied by an odd fish (his grand When the French arrived in Milan, seemed here accumulated. Some were vizer Count Cerutti) his priest, his mano part of the picture remained uninjur blind, others devoured with scrophula, ed but the sky (which, being painted and few had their entire complement of donna, his court, and a little army of in ultramarine, a colour not easily decom limbs and senses. But by far the most tin soldiers, which he had daily exer- posed by moisture, had resisted the inju shocking objects were the Cretins*, here cised in the queen's drawing room.' ries of time), the three figures of the apos strikingly numerous; and their ideot chat- The account of the King's remodelling tles to the left, which had been restored ter and wild laugh were more fearful than his government for sixpence is amusing by Ballotti, and the profanations of Mazza, even maimed limbs and distorted forms.if true. When he saw the altera- The barbarians, therefore, who have deOpposed to these groups usually stood tions that had been made during his stroyed it, are the salt-petre which exudes the mistress of the pot-house, with a head from the wall, the smoke of the lamps, piled with towers of lace and ribbons, in the good cheer of the monks, and-Sig. all the opulence and pride of the Pied-dar to witness his astonishment and indig 'He invoked every saint in the calen-nore Mazza.' montese toilet, the spruce gens d'armes, It is generally known that, in order with whom she coquetted, the whiskered nation; and called upon his "bosom's corporal of the village detachment quaf-know what was to be done, how the frag-chen of the convent to the refectory, a counsellor, his better self," Cerutti, to to open a communication from the kitfing his boccale at the door, and the sleek,ents of the ancient structure were to be door was made through this picture; it sly, well-fed friar again permitted to pre- collected, how put together, and by whom. is through the legs of the principal fisent his scrip and his benedicite at every Cerutti laughed at the royal consterna-gure, and that the figure of our Savisix-pence of Piedmontese inoney, he upper was destroyed, that the Abbot's tion; and told the King, that for about our; thus' says Lady M. the last would build up the ancient government dinner might be served hot.' Among dé bel nuovo. The sixpence advanced, the establishments at Milan, there is one the old minister hobbled off, and in less of singular interest: an Egyptian school than an hour returned with a court calendar, or red book for the year 1790. formed for the subjects of the Pacha. "There Sire," said he," is your govern- This school has already sent back some ment ready made. Replace all the per- clever draughtsmen, chemists, and masons you find here, who are still living, thematicians. Besides the living lanand fill up the vacancies; and then, for guages and natural sciences, the boy's the price of this book, found on a stall are taught to work in making machi near your majesty's palace, you have your government re-established without nery of the finer kinds, in order to introduce at home the European arts, which trouble." The King was enchanted; the active ministry of the previous regime are yet unpractised there. In the Casa were immediately banished; and in a Trivulzio, there are a few good pictures, few days little remained of the former and the library is singularly rich in system, but the abuses which it suited the MSS, and in rare and precious editions, new order of things to retain.' of the fifteenth century. Among the greatest rarities may be noticed a MS. Dante, and a sort of Album of Lepnardo da Vinci, where u page of geometry is followed by a page of carica gate.' The flippant manner in which Lady Morgan speaks of religion and religious ceremonies, however extravagant they may be, is, to say the least of it, in bad taste, and ill accords with the liberality she professes, Speaking of Turin, she says: But all the churches in Turin yield in consequence and celebrity to the Superga, which crowns the steepest and least accessible mountain in the vicinage of the capital. This splendid church rose to fulfil a vow of Victor Amadeus, who promised, that if his patron saint should rescue him from the clutches of the French, who were then (706) advancing to the very gates of Turin. under the Duc de Vandome, he would build him such a church as should fare sifler les serpens de l'envie, in the breast of every saint in • Cretinism is a manifest degradation of the organization, accompanied by imperfect os #cation, as in rickets.' Lady Morgan denies the charge made against the French soldiery of firing at, and otherwise mutilating Leonardo da Vinci's fresco of the Last Supper in the of Milan.' Our fair author gives a melancholy picture of the state to which the Milanese are reduced under Austrian domination. The viceroy has no power, or rather does not presume to exercise it, even in the merest trifle, without consulting the court at Viena: On one occasion, he wrote for leave to permit the Milanese to mask in the carnival, and the answer arrived from the Aulic Council-the first week in Lent!! Another time, he wrote for leave to fill the Arena with water, in order, during a course of severe weather, to form a sheet of ice, and enable the young Milanese to skate. There being nothing suspected of being suspicious in this proposal, it was cheerfully granted, and a brevet expedit. ed in all possible haste, which arrived in Milan-early in the month of July!!! All papers relative to administrative af fairs, however trivial, are sent to Vienna, and, sooner or later, are returned to Italy The porters in the public offices are very poor, and paper is dear at Vienna. They Millions. knelt before it; and the penalty on the bold but zealons hand that touched it with a diamond, was a thousand gold ducats. The French, on entering Italy, the Institute of Paris, this emerald dish seized this relic, and, submitting it to was discovered to be a piece of green glass! While at Bologna, Lady Morgan was taken to hear a celebrated preacher, the Canonico ***, and his sermon, both for its manner and matter, was extremely curious:— a tures, taken perhaps from Borghetta, people replied, "It is the tree of liber-only exposed once a year, where he used to seek them on mar-ty." The duke took off his hat, made it a ket days; and a vocabulary is suc- bow, and said jocosely," Bonjour, mon ceeded by a sketch that pourtrayed all ami, heureusement tu ne fleuris plus.' the divinity of his own genius. 'Auo- · Holy Advertisement, at Como, in 1819 ther still more curious object, is a pri-lic (the municipality,) of Como had preThe artificial fireworks, which the pubmer, or school book, written and beau-pared, to evince its joy on the occasion of tifully illuminated by Leonardo for the desired arrival of their royal and imthe use of the young Maximilian, son perial majesties, in this royal city, of of Sforzadel Moro, the usurping Duke fer, this year, the means of celebrating in a singular manner, the festival of Saint Abbondio, patron of the city and diocese of Como. To this effect will contribute the afore-mentioned fire-works, ceded by the municipal congregation to the pious, who propose, in concert with the autho 'Like all the Italian preachers, he had rities, to set fire (incendiare) to the gran- conventional style and jesticulation; he diosa macchina, which represents a tem- commenced each phrase with a sort of ple, on the evening of the thirty-first of whining cant,-then suddenly dropping August, the festival of our holy protector: his declamatory tone, he adopted a fanif and thus, in an extraordinary manner, a d liar gossipping manner, the most humourto the usual pomp of the cathedral, where, ous and effective that can be imagined, with due veneration, the service will be alternately twirling his cap, taking it off, solemnized by our lord the bishop. Un- or putting it on; or appealing to the der these fortunate circumstances, all the crucifix, which is always affixed to the faithful may partake of the treasures of sides of the pulpit in Italy.) His subject. the Papal Benediction, of a plenary indul- was charity. Charity," he said, "is the gence, and, at the same time, profit by love of your neighbour; I say," he conthe spectacle of the artificial fire-works.tinued, emphasizing the word, "in the Como, 14th of August, 1819. Printed by homely expression and homely sense of Carlantonia Ostinelli, Episcopal Printer.' the scriptures, meaning, literally, your neighbour, whom you should love through Christ, (the church,) and not in the vague sense of modern philosophy, which talks of humanity and philanthropy, and such jargon, (questo è gergone, Christiani mei :) but this sort of charity, my dear Christians, means murder and spoliation, which is the true object of philosophy. Charity, only to cover your own sins, but the sins my dear Christians, is a mantle made not. and shook a little tin-box, on which a of your neighbour." Here he paused preacher proceeded. "Charity is silent friar went about collecting, and the on a neighbour's frailties. It does not, like philosophy, attach vices to a class; for the charity of modern philosophy is to exclaim against hoiy mother church. With these philosophers, (i monachi sono furfanti, i preti birbanti.) monks are rogues, and priests robbers." Here he fixed his eye on some young men, and at his familiar question of “Cher pensati Christiani me (What think ye, my Chistians?) there was a general titter. Then putting on his cap, after a long pause, he opened another exordium, in the usual nasal whine, which he concluded by saying, "Charity, my Christians, bids you open your mant'e wide, so-and close it upon the sinner, so"-here most gracefully he imitated the act with his own robe;" for the sum of charity is to give and to forgive." Here he again rattledhis box, and his coadjutor again resumed his office, and again collected from the congregation. He preached as they all do in Italy-extempore; and, after a short pause, resumed his sermon, apparently at the entrance of fresh auditorwho seemed to change every twenty mi, write to Vienna." We shall now, for the present, content ourselves with separating a few of the most piquant anecdotes, or passages, that remain in the first volume, reserving the whole of the second for next week: Palace of Oliver Cromwell at Genoa. -We were, one evening, visiting the elegant villa, and enjoying the view from the singular gardens of Signore Carlo di Negro, when a gentleman pointed out to take all the half sheets which remain us a yellow palace, built, he said, by Oliblank, and thus the other halves, being startling, so contrary to all historical prover Cromwell, of Engiand! A fact so loose, are readily lost. Sometimes they bability, is thus cleared up and establisheven take pieces written on one side. ed. Sir Horation Pallavicini was collecWhen this was made the subject of reiter-tor of the Pope's taxes in England, in the ated complaints, the viceroy at last was stimulated to promise that he would that bigot princess, and on the changes in reif Queen Mary. On the death of the religion of the country, Pallavicini forgot to go back to Rome; remained in England; married a noble lady, and built a superb Italian palace on English ground, with the money intended to raise palaces for Papal nephews in Rome. In 1801, the lady Anne Pallavicini, bis widow, married a Mr. Oliver Cromwell, who acThe Duc de Richelieu. During our delightful residence on the Lake of Co-companied her to Genoa, to arrange the mo, we frequently used to walk to a fron-affairs of her late husband. There they tier village of Italian Switzerland, called continued to reside, and he is suppposed Chiasso. Although the barrier, with its to have built that yellow palace, which is still called the Palace of Oliver Cromplacard of "Swiss Territory,"-Territoria well.' Svizzera-is scarcely two miles from the town of Como, the difference between the The church of St. Lorenzo, at Gecharacter and manners and physiognomy noa, is celebrated for a most sacred reof the people, is most striking. One even-lic, the Sagro Catino,' a dish of one ing, we observed a large, but faded tree, planted in the main street; on enquiring, we found it had been placed there to celebrate the birth-day of William Tell. A few days before, the Duc de Richlieu, the present minister of France, then visiting the beauties of Como, drove with the Austrian commandant to Chiasso; he was struck by the appearance of this tree, and asked what it meant. Some of the entire and perfect emerald, said to be nutes, and to come in and go out as a thing of course.' He now lessons, a-miss, aim, nothing, some-boarding school, whose brother chalthing, stitches, hints, time, pledges, lenges Tom, and they take aim at each Here we leave her ladyship for the little, likenesses, home, comfort, physic, other, but both, fortunately, miss; a present, and we congratulate her ad- flight, thought, pleasure, all, caudle. second shot was demanded, when Tom mirers, either on her imperfect know-To follow the author through all these was wounded, but recovers. ledge of Italian or her moderation in takings, each of which is the subject runs a career of great misery, and goadusing it; for although she brings her of an excellent design, would be an ed by want, contemplates turning highFrench phrases pretty freely into ac- undertaking, on which we dare not wayman, but is fortunately diverted tion, yet she is tolerably sparing of Ita- venture; we shall, therefore, imitate from the terrible project by taking lian ones. Her ladyship still remem- our hero in one thing, that of taking hints;— bers the severe criticism of the Quarter-leaps,' which we must do from one of ly Review, and loses no opportunity the sketches to another, Tom, after of showing her resentment, though we taking leaps in hunting, is found, confess, in every effort that we have though very reluctantly, taking advice yet seen, her attacks are very impotent. from his father; he, however, does not follow the advice, but (To be concluded in our next.) 'In pleasure's chase And fix'd a fashionable name to get, Tom avails himself largely of the was This met the tailor's.-Each bill had a brother; By conscience driven to rob, Tom hired a horse, Pass'd to the road, and now about to mount, High on a gibbet rivetted attention ;- Tom sets off to Margate, and commences portrait-painter and author. He sends a play to Drury Lane Theatre, and hastens to know whether or not it had been accepted: And there he found it waiting, cut and dry. As capticus scribblers grumble at delay, The kind lessee, intent to gratify, Printed the answer while Tom wrote the A good expedient this, because one call This brings us to taking measures : "In ancient times, law gave for eye an eye, The insult which the great lessee And tooth for tooth. This rule, from law-offers to those who submit dramatic To courts driven, Takings; or, the Life of a Collegian. I mean Tom's bill, ('twas over due some And now appear'd to measure for a coat And inexpressibles-or pantaloons. same." Some parchment slips he shew'd, which made Tom stare, For these seem'd broader than the others were. "I hate," he cried, "this round-about delay; home, I cannot tarry trifling here all day." you. The poem was written to illustrate or introduce the pictures, and not to be illustrated by them, as stated in the title; and, therefore, considerable allowance might be made for a poet adapting his muse to the feelings of another, but, in the present case, no This was a bailiff, who arrests Tom; indulgence of that sort is necessary, but, in going towards the prison, Tom the poem itself being a very clever pro-leads him into a man trap, when, giving him leg bail,' he escapes. Tom The poem is in six cantos, and is the becomes a gambler, figures at Newmarhistory of Tom Takeall, a gay thought-ket, in taking bets, and at the Moulsey less Oxonian, tracing his progress in life, in taking leaps, advice, measures, notice, bets, amusements, courage, duction. Hurst, taking amusement. We after- productions to him, by returning a "I am instructed to return you, sir, to see, Left by the printer for the manager), "By you submitted to great Mr. E. Have thus evinced for his establishment. To think that merit is with you excluded." Tom becomes embarrassed, and is arrested and thrown into the Fleet, where, in a wretched third-floor room immersed,' he abandoned hope and yielded to despair.' Sickness is added to his other miseries, and he is on the verge of a death by starvation, when his father visits him. Tom expresses his contrition, is released, and gets mar Where prudence, forced to stand aloof, Oh! that precarious joy is dear, Whose thread each passing moment breaks, Which every rustling leaf awakes; ried, his moral character, of course, 'Just then the knocker sounded an approach, Some one appeared impatient to get shelter, And while they heard retire a hackney-coach, We thought of taking pleasure—so we hied To Highgate, with our pretty children's shay, Which Mr. Hobbs bought Kitty for a fairing, To give the little dears a little airing. "And there we drawed 'em in such pleasant placés, They seemed at least a hundred miles from town, When suddenly, full bang in all our faces, Torrents of rain in deluges came down. Saved me but little e'en beneath a tree; Tied a tin kettle to his faithful tail; He dropped, and I have lost through this vile trick My bamboo cane, my Sunday walking-stick. Before we goes abroad another day, We will conclude our extracts with a song, which will show that the author's poetical talents are not confined to the satirical or the ludicrous: How thrills the youth with wild delight, When Celia, in the silent grove, Permits him, favour'd by the night, To breathe his ardent vows of love : Give me a maid whose generous breast, May lull each anxious care to rest! very judicious observations on the lu- Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, (Continued from p. 357.) most accomplished artists of any age. The colours of these decorations are green, dark and light blue, interspersed with Arabic sentences in letters of gold; and a broad band of such legends, formed in white, upon this beautifully varied ground, and interwoven with flowers in green and gold, winds round the entire extent of the building. This fine ruin is within the new fortifications of the city, as are also the remains of the arch or citadel. In former times, it is said to have contained the royal palace, with its attendant mosque. Very legible traces of these different structures are yet to be found within its lofty though riven walls. The height of those walls may be about eighty feet, commanding an extensive view on every side, over the lately erected works, and making a conspicuous object to a great distance from the town. The materials of the whole structure are of brick, and put together with the nicest care. Indeed, that so much of it exists, after the general overthrow by two earthquakes, proves the excellence of its workmanship. Part of it is now used as an arsenal; and also to a very dismal purpose. A few years ago, a woman was precipitated from the top of the highest point of its wall, into the ditch beneath, as a punishment for the murder of her husband; a crime till then almost unheard of in the annals of Persian domestic life.' Our Abbas Mirza is doing all in his AT Ecrivan, Sir Robert Porter waited power to restore Tabreez to its former on the Persian sardar or governor, who military importance; a palace is buildreceived him courteously, and furnishing for his own residence, but he does ed him with a mehemander, or provider, not aim so much at adorning the city as to accompany him to Tabreez. The at strengthening it. While at Tabreez, women in this part of the country have Sir Robert had an opportunity of obnot the smallest degree of prettiness; serving the manners of a great state those who had passed the immediate dinner, to which he was invited by Mirblush of youth, were become mere hags: za Bezoork, the Kyme Makaum, or this premature destruction of youth in prime minister of the prince. the higher ranks, is attributed to the traveller and his countrymen assemexcessive use of the bath, and habi- bled at the house of the Kyme Matual want of exercise; and in the lower kaum, a little before sun-set, and took classes, to a similar misuse of hot wa- their stations on the nummuds appointter and vapour, with the addition of ed for their accommodation, in the true noisome clothing and close unwhole-eastern style of sitting on the heels some lodgings. Tabreez, the principal residence of the heir apparent of the Prussian crown, Abbas Mirza, has been recently fortified, and surrounded with a thick wall, protected by towers and bastions, with the addition of a very deep dry ditch : "Out of two hundred and fifty mosques mentioned by Chardin, the ruins of only three are visible. The most considerable is that of Ali Shah, erected nearly six hundred years ago, by Ali Koja; and which still presents lofty arches, and the mouldering vaulted work of splendid domes. The whole of the building, within and without, has been cased with lackered tiles of porcelain, adjusted into intricate and elaborate figures, with an ingenuity and taste that would honour the or cross-legged, which ever way their plastic limbs could easiest conform to the attitudes of the more plastic Asiatics : 'A few minutes elapsed,' says Sir Robert, before our host made his appearance. On his entrance we all rose; and, on being re-seated, he bowed to each person according to his rank, uttering at the same time a compliment befitting the esteemed importance of the guest. The routine of the entertainment was then as presented; follows:- "kaliouns were then coffee, served in very small cups, and without cream or sugar. Kaliouns succeeded; then tea, in large cups; and this, over conversation, filled an interval of ten minutes, when the minister gave a signal for dinner to be brought. Several ser |