1809.) 
The conspiracies discovered in Cala- 
bria, and even in the city of Naples it- 
self, are sufficient to demonstrate of what 
exertious the people would have been ca- 
pable, had they been blest with a wise 
and equitable government. Time has 
fully unveiled the transactions of the for- 
mer government, and yeta strong party 
sull remains attached tothe old dynasty, 
Ferdinand and Caroline have, indeed, 
reason to remember Naples with senti- 
ments of affection and feelings of regret : 
a people, like the Neapolitans, and a 
fidelity equal to theirs, they never will. 
find again. 
All the excesses which formerly 
prevailed at Naples, were but the natu- 
ral consequences of a bad government, 
“and a defective police ; for had a dif- 
ferent system been adopted, the people 
would have been managed with hutle or 
no difficalty : and indeed it is impossible, 
that any people could have manifested so 
sincere an attachment to their govern- 
ment, without possessing an anuadant 
portion of bonhommie. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
account of the svatze of the NapoLEon 
Museum, in the Louver, at Paris, 
in July, 1809. 
HE Louvre was originally a royal 
castle, surrounded with wood, and 
derivedits name, according to some, from 
the Saxon word, louvear, which signifies 
a castle; and according to others, from 
the Latin fupara. Philip Augustus made 
ita kind of citadel, with broad ditches 
and towers. ‘The keep was situated in 
the middle of the court. Three counts 
of Flanders, John de Montfort, aid 
Charles of Navarre, were here confined, 
Francis I. ordered it to be demolished ; 
and in 1528, erected the facade with the 
clock, atter the designs of Pierre Liscot. 
“The sculptures are by Jean Govjon. 
Here the Emperor Charles V. was 
lodged. The Louvre was finished by 
Heury I. and the first monarch who re- 
sided in it, was Charles IX. In this 
edifice, the massacre of St. Bartholomew 
was planned and decreed. Louis XIII. 
constructed the angle on the left, pa- 
rallel to that of prenry If. as well as the 
great pavilion over the principal en- 
trance, after the designs of Jacques 
Lemercier; the Caryatides are by. Sar- 
yazin. 
Measures have recently been adopted 
for COMPLETING THIS STRUCTURE, which 
had been so Jong abandoned. The pre- 
gent government intends tu restore it to 
State of the Napoleon Museum, at Paris. 
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the object for which it was Sets by 
devoting it to the arts and sciences. The 
museum of paintings will remain in the 
great gallery; tnat of statues Is to be en- 
larged, and lengthened to the rez-de- 
chaussée, facing the river, The impe- 
rial brary, the cabinet of medals and 
engravings, will occupy the upper stories. 
The wardrobe will be in the apartments 
of the great gallery; in short, this edifice 
will be the sanctuary, as it were, of the 
muses, and the most splendid monument 
of its kind, that can possibly be presented 
to the admiration of Kurope. 
THE NAPOLEON MUSEUM, 
As far-back as the year 1778, the 
French goveriment projected the for- 
mation of a Museum, and made various 
arrangements for that purpose ; but at 
was not till the time of the Directory, 
that this measure was carried into effect. 
The victories cf the French then enabled 
them to bring together the richest col- 
lection that now exists. It was throwa 
open to the public in 1798. It is impos- 
sible to see the whole of it, even at 
several visits; but after having admired 
the principal objects, and satishied his 
curiosity, the stranger, furnished with his 
passport, is at liberty to repair thither 
every day, (Friday excepted,) from ten 
o’clock till four. 
The Museum is eee of 1. the 
Gallery of Antiques: 2. that of Paint. 
ings: 3. that of eae 4, the Cae 
binet of Engravings. 
GALLERY OF ANTIQUES. 
This part of the Louvre, formerly served 
for the apartments of Mary de Medicis: 1% 
was embellished by Louis XIV. The paint- 
ings are by Romanelli, and the stuccos, 
by Girardon. It received its present 
arrangement, after the designs of Huber, 
the architect, who. was succeeded by 
M. Raymond. ‘Thisgallery was opened, 
for the first time, in 1801. As the enu- 
meration of all the statues which i¢ con- 
tains, would. lead me into too great 
lengths, I shall mercly notice some of 
the principal objects, to which the 
stranger’s curiosity is first directed. At 
the Museum, may be procured a detailed 
cataloguc of its contents. 
Vestibule-—Over the door is a basso- 
rellevo, representing Minerva, by Moite. 
The dome, painted by Barthelemy, exe 
hibits man, formed by Prometheus, and 
animated by Minerva. Four medallions 
represent the four schools of sculpture: 
the Egyptian and Greek, by Lange; the 
Italian and French, by Lorta. The Ge« 
niug of the Alts, and the Union of the 
Three 
