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    server , o 4 t is yery evident that , they are an extremely superstitious people * . $ p $ , pnly has every stall for lemonade , and every coffee-house in the town * 3 picture of the Virgin and Child , but the common people swear by the Ma- * donna instead of by God . The reverence , too , which is paid by all ranks to the host , when carried along the streets , is very remarkable . One day ,, as I was passing along the Toledo , I saw a suite of no fewer than nine royal carriages standing still , because they happened to meet the host . As the priest , who was carrying it , came opposite to each carriage , the ladies , who were in it , kneeled down to adore the consecrated wafer ; or if it happened to be

    filled with gentlemen , they kneeled down on cushions in the street ; those ; who were passing by at the time kneeling also , and all joining in a kind of chant or hymn . The lower orders in this city are a most indolent and lawless set , much more disposed to live by their wits than by the honest labour of their hands . Many of them are to be seen lounging about the streets , or sitting on the

    parapet walls , most wretchedly dressed , and without any fixed habitation . These are the lazzaroni . Another class aTe the beggars , who are so filthy and so ragged in their appearance , and so excessively troublesome in their solicitations , that our English mendicants are quite gentlefolks compared with them . In Italy , particularly in the south , these creatures are a perfect nuisance , which it is disgraceful to the police of the country to tolerate . I had really rather be robbed outright every now and then than be exposed to this daily and hourly annoyance .

    The'king , I was told , is" popular with his subjects , but it is clear that he does not like trusting himself to them , for he has two or three companies of soldiers always under arms in front of his palace , and he has four thousand Swiss in hi& pay . Indeed , this , appears to be altogether a military government . I saw soldiers every where : there was not a petty , insignificant place that I entered into , not even the ruins of Paestum , or the landing-place of Scaricatojo , where I did not find some of these gentry stationed ; and it must be allowed , that some reason for this , though by no means a complete

    justification , is to be found in the lawless * character of the Neapolitan canaille * The following story will form a good commentary both on the habits and dispositions of ^ thj ^ fjepple ^ and on the means whicn are taken by the government to keep them jn order , , ;! AS l ^ vya& pne cf ay crossing , the bay to Portici * one of the boat-merj ^^^ e ^ L ^ p ^ ' ^ -J ^ nfii M » T ^ ^ y ' - 't pife * - and . pbserving , I suppose , an expressi on , oi ^ , ^ hV remarked , " Your English sailors , Sir , havej a ]} jcn ^ yes , J k # QW j but we are only allowed to carry th $ mj ; iyhen we go a certain number of leagues from land . If I were to carry one , the police would put me in prison for six months . There is my brother , " continued he , pointing to his companion , " who was kept in prison for six years for the same offence , " Upon this the other told us his story in the Allowing terms : " Another man and I were violently in love with the same girl' —a young girl of fourteen ; and I said to him , 'I shall

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1828, page 840, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2567/page/40/