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Barlassina is a pretty large town, 
founded near the spot where St. Pierre, 
the first Lombard inquisitor, was, killed. 
At Cesano, is, the superb villa of the 
Counts Borromeo, but the air is un- 
wholesome. Two miles further on, is 
the village of Bovisio, where Count 
Crivelli has built the splendid mansion 
of Monbello; in the garden are a nuin- 
ber of rare exotics. M. Agnesi, brother of 
the mathematician, has also at Vallera, in 
the neighbourhood, a very fine garden of 
exotics. 
The second road is the shortest and 
most commodious. ‘The first village is 
Cantario, which from the tenth century 
has been notified by little manufactories 
ofiron. Next to this village, we come 
to Galliano, where the church, once a 
pagan temple, has been appropriated to 
the catholic worship from the fourth 
century; the baptistery is as old as the 
church. The receptacle for the holy- 
water has been hollowed out in the 
granite, and is four feet in diameter. 
In the whole of this neighbourhcod 
many Roman inscriptions have been 
found, part of which have been collected 
by the Trotti family in their country- 
house of Verano. 
The church of Agliate was also raised 
out of the ruins of an ancient temple. 
When the castle of the Counts of Agliate 
was demolished, a number of medals 
were found, which shew how enlightened 
those lords were for the times in which 
they lived, and what cruel dissensions 
arose between them and the inquisition 
in defence of their vassals. 
The banks of the Lambro, a little 
river which runs to the §.W., are all 
along decorated with neat country- 
houses. In that of Raverio, an enor- 
mous mass of native iron was found, 
which has been removed to the Museum 
of St. Alexander, at Milan; Chladni 
maintains it to be an zrolite, or of me- 
teoric descent. 
The village of Desio, three miles 
further on, has been of celebrity for a 
battle fought there, in 1277, between 
the Visconti and the Torriani, when the 
latter were defeated and obliged to cede 
to the former the possession of Lom- 
bardy. At Desio is the Villa Cusani, 
the most eligible in Lombardy in respect 
of its water, and replenished with noble 
green-houses, containing rare and beau- 
tiful exotic trees. Black truffles are in 
abundance in the groves; and, in the 
apartments of the palace, the brothers, 
Gerli, executed their first labours in en- 
caustic painting. In the park is a mill 
Russia and Britain compared. 
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of a very singular construction, and no 
less sumptuous in its style of building. 
From Desio we proceed to Cusano, 
where, in the mansion Omodei, are 
several excellent paintings, and, among 
others, the Belisarius of Espagnolet. 
From thence it is not an hour’s walk to 
the capital. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
PARALLEL BETWEEN RUSSIA AND BRITAIN, 
BY M. DE PRADT, 
MIDST various works brought for- 
ward to public notice by M. de 
Pradt, ancient Archbishop of Malines, is 
a Memoir printed last year at Paris, 
the object of which is, to draw a parallel 
between the powers of Great Britain 
and Russia, in their relation to the rest 
of Europe. This able and active pub- 
licist considers these two states as most 
able to produce advantage and benefit, 
or ruin and destruction, to the rest of 
civilized mankind. Their preponder- 
ance he treats as a critical circumstance 
in the annals of the present period, sus- 
pending all the wisdom and_ political 
knowledge required to counteract them, 
and leading on to a future crisis, likely 
to become of extreme magnitude. Suc- 
cess having already attended many of 
the predictions wherein this writer was 
judging of public measures, the calcula- 
tions and decisions of his foresight have 
been seriously attended to in every part 
of the Continent. 
As to the countries of America, 
north and south, M. de Pradt contends, 
that the people will ultimately be res- 
cued from the distresses and ruin 
brought upon them by Europeans—that 
they will conquer and maintain their 
rights, by separating from Spain and 
Portugal, in spite of all opposition. Tur- 
got appears to have had a similar con- 
ception, often urging, that though calamity 
seemed to impend over many other 
countries, those of America would be- 
come free, formidable, and secure. 
But will the impartial part of the 
community declare, will posterity recog- 
nize, the power of Great Britain and 
Russia, as so greatly added to, that 
they only can, effectually, secure their 
independence ? M, de Pradt pronounces 
for the affirmative, and many apparently 
sound minds do not hesitate to affirm 
the same. 
He considers the immense extent of 
these two empires as of noyel growth ; 
the one without a rival on the sea, the 
other on the European Continent. One 
he sees prospering by the great objects 
which 
