170 Andrew Stuart on the ancient 
building of the City; but he does not give his reasons,and the 
generally very accurate, he seems here to have been mistaken; 
Mr. Niebuhr a German Professor and son of the celebrated 
traveller of that name, was latterly sent to Italy by the King 
of Prussia to explore the antiquities of the ancient inhabitants 
of that Country, and his work has within the last few months 
appeared here in an English dress) He seems however to 
have added nothing to the knowledge which we previously 
had of the Etruscans. 
The next great event in the History of this people was the 
irruption of the Gauls or Celts who passed the Col de Suze 
under Bellovesus, were met hy the Etruscans on the banks 
of the Tesino where tne latter were defeated, and the con- 
querors settled in the Milanese territory and in Insubria— 
driving the Etruscans to the north of the Po and taking pos- 
session of all their Cities except Mantua. 
The Etruscans were first obliged to retreat into Umbria 
end thence into the territory of Picernum where they estab- 
lished the two towns of Atria and Cupra—the remainder of 
the nation traversed the Appenine Mountains threw themselves 
into Campania and formed a state of 12 Cities whereof the 
town afterwards called Capua was the head. The Samnites 
by a stratagem of which Livy speaks (Tit. Liv. IV. 37.) 
obtained possession of this City by surprize 420 years before 
our Era and 332 years after the foundation of Rome and were 
driven from the whole of Campania after being in possession 
of it nearly 400 years. 
But of ‘Tuscany they afterwards had only Mantua Atria 
and Cupra. The Etruscans of Tuscany beyond the Po, 
and those of Campania seem to have been then separate and 
independent bodies. 
From the foundation of Rome downwards, the history of 
the Etruscans is to be read in the historians of RomeThe 
whole of this nation was ultimately extirpated by Sylla, 
they having jojned the party of Marius, 
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