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effect. Naples in that cafe might become a far more 

 powerful kingdom than it is. Its maritime lituation 

 prefents the faired occafion for giving employment to 

 fo many thoufand hands by manufadtures, commerce, 

 and navigation. Among fuch a multitude of idle va- 

 gabonds there muft necellarily be many loofe and dif- 

 orderly perfons, by whom the nation is brought into 

 difcredit, though in fact it is no worfe than the reft of 

 Italy." I have taken the above extract from the third 

 volume of Hiftorical and Critical Accounts of Italy, by 

 Folkman. 



Indeed I could not but obferve at Naples a very 

 great number of ill-cloathed people; but I faw none 

 that were unemployed. I accordingly enquired of fe~ 

 veral of my friends, after the forty thoufand idlers, 

 whom I wanted to be acquainted with ; and, as they 

 could give me no information on the fubject, I went 

 in purfuit of them myfelf ; as a Uriel: examination into 

 the matter was fo necefTary for forming a notion of the 

 itate of the government. 



For gaining fome knowledge then of the confufed 

 mafs of people that are feen in the ftreets and public 

 places, I began by judging and claffifying the various 

 figures according to their drefs, their afpect, their be- 

 haviour, and their occupation. I found this operation 

 much eafier here than any where elfe; as the peo- 

 ple are more left to themfelves, and their outward ap- 

 pearance fhews their flation. 



I entered on my obfervations early every morning ; 

 and all the men I faw here and there ftanding ftill, or 

 repofing themfelves, I found to be people whofe cal- 

 lings nccefTarily implied fuch momentary lituations: 



