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aluced me to carry away some powder, 
which I enclosed in a piece of paper, 
squeezed it hard, and having set fire to 
it, it caused a detonation, a frightful 
rolling in the vaults. You see aloug 
the walls the chains preserved in the 
rock itself, with which they bound the 
prisoners. 
This vast quarry, or garden, is 
really very curious; it is called Lato- 
mia, and is covered with lemon, orange, 
pomegranate, and olive trees, which 
prove how much the climate is favour- 
able to vegetation; often deprived of 
the sun, they would soon perish in any 
other country. Were I to choose a 
hermitage it wouldcertainly beLatomia. 
I perceive that my ramble in the 
environs of Syracuse has become very 
long; but you have not, like me, a 
burning rock under your feet, and the 
sun almost perpendicular over your 
head ; you will see there still a piscina 
dug in the rock, and a Roman amphi- 
theatre constructed on the occasion of a 
voyage of Nero in Sicily ; it is nearly 
in ruins. 
This letter will reaeh you via Naples, 
i confide it to the captain of a small 
vessel, wlio sets out for that city. 
Adieu. 
— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
I TAKE the liberty of sending you 
some affecting extracts from a pam- 
phlet, entitled “ Information on the 
Slave Trade,” hoping thereby to call 
the attention of your benevolent read- 
ers to this nefarious traffic in our fellow 
creatures, and I think it will appear 
THE EAR OF DIONYSIUS, AT SYRACUSE. 
that it is carried on at the present time 
toa very great extent. notwithstanding 
the treaties of France, Portugal, &c. &c. 
and it likewise appears that the Portu- 
oe government indicates great in- 
difference respecting the abolition of the 
trade, as the following facts will shew. 
On the 2d of October, 1817, a letter 
states, that during the two preceding 
months, twenty-seven vessels had sailed 
from Rio de Janeiro for slaves, capable 
of carrying nine thousand four hundred 
and fifty, a number nearly equal to 
half the supply of any former year, and 
there were at that time several other 
vessels preparing. 
From the Ist of January, 1817, to 
the Ist of January, 1818, about six 
thousand and seventy slaves were im- 
ported into the captaincy of Bahia, 
from Africa, in sixteen ships. 
In the same space of time, the num- 
ber imported into Rio de Janeiro, was 
eighteen thousand and thirty-three, in 
forty-two ships, and two thousand and 
forty-two died on the passage, making a 
total of twenty-seven thousand four 
hundred and eighty-three slaves im- 
ported into Rio de Janeiro, not includ- 
ing those who perished on the voyage, 
and making an importation into the two 
above-mentioned Portuguese provinces 
of thirty-three thousand five hundred 
and fifty-three. 
On the 9th of March, 1818, the slave 
trade had increased beyond all former 
example; twenty-five vessels having 
arrived since the beginning of the year, 
many carrying more, and none less, 
than four hundred slaves, making an 
importation of ten thousand (in fou 
months 
