5U THE CENTURY, 



&c., edited by William Bray, 2 vols. 4to. 1819, occurs 

 the Diary of his continental travels in 1644. On the 

 17th Nov., Evelyn being at Eome went to the &quot;Villa 

 Borghese, a house and ample garden onMons Pincius.&quot; 

 In one of the chambers, he says, &quot; are divers &quot;sorts of 

 instruments of music ; amongst other toys that of a 

 satyr with so artificially expressed a human voice, with 

 the motion of eyes and head, that it might easily 

 affright one who was not prepared for that most ex 

 travagant sight. He showed us also a chair which 

 catches any one who sits down in it so as not to be able 

 to stir out, by certain springs concealed in the arms and 

 back thereof, which at sitting down surprises a man on 

 the sudden, locking him in by the arms and thighs, after 

 a true treacherous Italian guise.&quot; Vol. i. p. 106-107. 



M. de Blainville, in his travels, 1757, relates, in pass 

 ing through Italy, arid describing the Villa Borghese, 

 raised under the Popedom of Paul V. uncle of Cardinal 

 Scipio Borghese, that, &quot; In the fourth room of the apart 

 ment, on the south side, called the room of the Three 

 Graces, there stands a remarkable chair, said to have 

 been formerly used to very evil purposes, by one of the 

 Borghese family. The machine is very artfully con 

 trived, and strangers who are not acquainted with the 

 trick are infallibly caught, as in a trap, when they are 

 prevailed upon to sit in this chair. By this stratagem 

 the housekeeper gets a good many fees, which the 

 enticed people are obliged to pay him for their 

 deliverance out of captivity. In all appearance, these 

 innocent deceits were the only thing intended by this 

 piece of machinery. Vol. iii. page 34. 



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