APPENDIX. 
No. I. 
ON THE ANTIQUITY AND ORIGIN OF THE 
PANTOMIMES 
OP 
HARLEQUIN, PUNCH, BRIGHELLA, GRACIOSO, 
SCARPIN, &c. 
IN A LETTER TO THE AUTHOR, 
BY THE M/JRQUIS DI SPINETO, 
Soon after the appearance of the First Edition of 
this Part of the author's Travels, the opinion 
which he had maintained (see p. 105 of this 
Volume) of the Grecian origin of the English Panto- 
mime, and of the vestiges which our Pantomimes 
exhibit of the dramas of the Antients, became 
liable to discussion, and met with some opposition. 
But the Scholars of Ttali/, whence our Pantomimes 
were immediately derived, have never entertained 
any doubt respecting their antiquity or origin. 
In proof of this, an Italian Nobleman, the Marquis 
