Rttrofpe£l of Bomeftu Literature.— Voyages and Travels. 6 ! 1 

 glifhman. " Some ytais ago (he fays) Damp cold paffa^es, tha'trefemhle r^bfer- 



an attempt \*as made to ah ililh the lyl- 

 tem of beggary ; and for this puipole a 

 command w^s ilfued tor taking up all 

 beggars, and carrying them lo the great 

 poor-houfe, wliidi n huge tnough toiiold 

 many tlioufands. But the maintenance 

 oi lb many people when bronoht t(»gether, 

 was a imall circumftance wiiicii iiad been 

 overlooked. Much, no douht, had been 

 caiculited on the charitable and vokmcaiy 

 Contributions of the Neapoli ans, which 

 in the beg;niiig, indeed, wiievery libe- 

 ral. But this fcheme expei'knced chelate 

 of «// fimilar piojcdts toiiiiiitd only on the 

 precarious l'uj>,)'!t <.i individuals 5 for 

 nothing n-vcarus Jo foon as chanty The 

 contibutions fell i,ti : ilie untortunnte 

 wretches were fhvit iip by five hundred* in 

 large halls, withiiit vicluals or occupa- 

 tion : diieafes gained ground among (hem j 

 one ran away aftei anothe.", without ob- 

 ftru6iioii ; the begs^ars were i.o more ap- 

 prehended ; and every tiling teumcd to 

 its former Ifate." Ttie whole of t! e fe- 

 cond, and the geiter pirt of the third 

 Volume, is Hill occupied by Naples. The 

 fecond opens with an account ot Mount 

 Vefuvius, the e■uplio^^of which, during 

 M. K"tzebue's lefidencein its neignbour- 

 hood, on November 22, 1801, is accu- 

 rately defcrihed, ?• r'ici is, in cour!e, 

 another objett of attention. Heie the 

 pavements and other >Aorks of art which 

 have been ilifcovered in the buried cities 

 of Hrculaneum and Pomncii are rep - 

 fited : and M. K-ozcbue aftcrwaids paid 

 a viiit to the cities themfclves. The road 

 from Naules to Pompeii, rot much above 

 ten Englifh miles, is an iminteri upied 

 chain ot fi.niri(«ipg towns, which, m' ek- 

 ing ihe malignity ot the volcano, cover 

 its foot and a lorn the bay. In ihc main- 

 Itreet of Poinpcii, he oblerves, the tiacks 

 of ttie whce s are (fill vihhle. An elevat- 

 ed path runs by the fide of the houles for 

 foot-paflengers ; and, that they might in 

 rainy weathey pals c'-mmodioufly over to 

 theoppolite (ide, large flat (tones, ilueeof 

 which take up the width of the road, were 

 laid at a diHance from each other. On 

 the conffruilif 11 of the houles, and their 

 ftucco paintings, he is particular, as well 

 as on the hypocaufts ; and having quoted 

 from Pliny the account of the <:elfru6fion 

 of Pompeii, enlarges on its probable psiii- 

 culars from circum'iances whicli the in- 

 vtrtigation ot the town lus brought 10 

 light. From Pompeii he proceeds to HcN 

 ciilantum, and the Mulcum at Portici. 

 At Mercuhneum, he oblerves, curiolity is 

 •nly vvcaried with perpetual famcnels. 



raneouslabyri:,ths, and are totally without 

 air, occafionally diveifinrd with immcnfe 

 ni^ffes of lava, aie the piircipil ohic6t« to 

 wh'ic',1 the traveller is in'roduceJ : for the 

 relt he molt take ihe word of the guide. 

 At Portici, the molt remarkable objefls 

 dclcribed are the inanufcHpts fou"d in two 

 chambers of a hoult; at Herculaneum, and 

 the intricate machine invented to unroll 

 them. At prelent, live w; iters have been 

 di!C' veted : Pnd licinus, Epicurus. Pliae- 

 dru>, Demetrius Piialeteiis, and Colotos. 

 But unfortunately all the w.rks have 

 be-n phil(;fopnic.ii. The ma ufcript 

 ot Coiotos, it (cem», the hit liii'covered, 

 contains a refutaiion of Plato's Tiealite on 

 Friendiliip. A hundred and thir'y manu- 

 fciipfs have been eidier unrolled cr are 

 unrollmg. From Naples, in the third 

 volume,' M. Kotzebue returns to Rome, 

 whcie the galleiy of aitdls occupies the 

 liigei'i: ftiare of his at.ention. Hisobf>i-- 

 vations on S'. Peter's are n t dei'itute of 

 fiicafm ; and the nccount < i 'he Vatican, 

 we mult coiitels, is much fliorter th^n we 

 expedfed to have found it. At the open- 

 ing of the fourth volume, M.Kot^ebue 

 leaves moi'crn R.m-, sml renairs !o the 

 ruins of the ancient city. The ba h of 

 C^racalia introduces a curious account of 

 the 1 htrna; of the ancien's ; and the 

 Tiber fiff.iid* an opportunity ot referring 

 to fevcral of tne more rennrk-bie event* 

 of R min hiltory. In the account of the 

 manrers of the nioilern Romans, we have 

 a moie paiticulir delcriptioji ot the the- 

 aties, the number of which in Rome !•> too 

 gr.ot ft-r its prelent population. There 

 are two (t e Aigentina and Ahbeitis) 

 tor giand operas and ballets ; and two 

 (Delia Vafe, and Tor inoni or Apollo) 

 ivY the opera buffa and the dra.iia ; cue 

 (Delia Pace) for faeces and pantomimes i 

 aid that called Polio Corde, white pu ,- 

 pei-rtiows aie given, and Harlequin exhi- 

 bits his tricks j bcliJes tome fmalLr ones. 

 All of them intleetl are open only during 

 theCarnJvil ; and then the Romans ovcr- 

 goige themfclves with theatiicai I'peita- 

 des, as on feltival-days they do wiih 

 fledi ; wiih this iliffcrenre, however, that 

 they enjoy the latter wiili more reliAi th^n 

 the foinier, and that their meat is lar)iet- 

 ter than their p'ays. At the end of his 

 ftrifliiics M. Koizebue introduces what 

 he atfures us is a fiiidiful piiffure of the 

 Roman minn-r> in an extncl fi/jm one of 

 llie comedies of Kol1i. Fioin Rome he 

 pllfes to Lorettci, and aiierwanls to An- 

 cona j viliiing Hologna, Modena, Man- 

 tua, and Veioiu, iu the way to Vienna, 

 4 H 1 whifc 



