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ters to get billiard-markers and hair-dressers, denominated Counts, 

 for husbands. 



" Extract of a Letter from a Lady of Rank at Naples, Dec. 1. 

 Henry de R. proposes passing the winter here. He is in miserable 

 health. He gambles away his whole time, and wins a great deal of 

 money. There are but few English people of distinction here at present. 

 Lady D. goes about with her daughter, who is very ugly ; they ride 

 together, and sit their horses in the way that men do, which has not a 

 good or an interesting effect. 



"Lady C. having made her formal protest against the English vulgar- 

 ism of being restricted to a husband ; flourishes about on all occasions in 

 the uniform of her cavalry regiment, and is calculated to have more of 

 the dragoon in her, than her deserted spouse, as she certainly exhibits 

 more impudence and gold lace than any female on the Chiaja. 



" Since the Honorable Miss F.'s being carried off to the mountains by 

 Fra. Jeromimo Malditorre, letters have been received from her by her 

 noble family. She describes her situation as the most romantic thing 

 possible. The band consists of fifty persons, the oldest not above five and 

 twenty, and the whole the most gallant cavaliers imaginable. They spend 

 the day in practising with the rifle, playing at tric-trac, robbing on the 

 highway, and telling their beads. They occasionally bring in prisoners, 

 whom they shoot, or compel to part with their toes and fingers until their 

 ransom is paid. They often stab or pistol each other, but it is the eti- 

 quette to take no notice of those matters,, and the community of every 

 thing, loves and lovers included, makes it quite a life of the golden age. 

 The last letter was concluded in haste, as the fair writer was obliged to 

 clean her pistols, preparatory to her going on a secret expedition, with 

 her Carissimo, which had for its object the capture of the Sardinian 

 Ambassador's plate chest." 



It is added, that " the noble family" having suffered this charming 

 correspondence to transpire, the effect was instantly visible in the sud- 

 den departure of several of the fair daughters of noble houses, none of 

 whom had subsequently returned ; but who were ascertained to have 

 gone to the mountains for the purpose of sharing their young friend's 

 felicity. Mr. Hill was still ambassador, but he was unmusical and 

 lived with his wife ; two circumstances of the highest degree of dis- 

 qualification in a British ambassador at Naples. The news of Lord 

 Burghersh's appointment had raised the spirits of all the resident Bri- 

 tish; concerts, operas and eternal fiddlings were eagerly anticipated; but 

 the disappointment was heari-breaking on the arrival of the despatches, 

 annulling the news. However they still had the very sensible consola- 

 tion that they cannot be compelled to listen to any of his Lordship's 

 operas. 



The Morning Herald has shewn the cloven foot, by attacking the 

 parochial guardians of the church in its neighbourhood. 



" It is rumoured that the authorities of the wealthy parish of St. Mary-le- 

 Strand have it in contemplation to take into their early consideration the 

 expediency of causing tlie face of the clock which, it is said, is to be found 

 on the steeple of their church to be washed at their cost ; so that it may 

 not only be visible to the passers-by, but, its dingy digits being once more 

 gilded, the curious in that respect may be able to learn from it the time of 



