keeps the place of his abode a fecret, that they may not torment him in giving him broad hints of the propriety of making his will, as he is refolved to cheat them all, and leave his fortune to fome charity, when he is convinced that donations are faithfully applied, according to the donors intentions. Dick was never on horfeback in his life, as he is too cautious to truft his neck to a mettlefome beaft; and has been heard to declare, that he would not ride in a high phaeton for an hundred thousand pounds. He fhould be very fond of travelling, if it were poffible to get upon the continent without croffing the fea. Upon a windy day he never flirs out for fear of a brick falling upon his head, and for the fame reafon keeps as far from the fire place as poffible. He trembles at feeing a painter upon his board at a two pair of stairs window, and fhudders at a labourer's going up a ladder with a hod of mortar. He never changes a guinea or half gainea by candle light, for fear of taking bad filver, and never flirs out after dark for fear of being robbed. He lies upon the ground floor, that in cafe of fire he may easily make his efcape. Notwithstanding all thefe cautions, he has been robbed at noon day,narrowly escaped being drowned by falling into a well, and not long fince broke bis leg in getting out of his window at the falfe alarm of fire. Dick Cautious is in one perpetual round of fear, apprehenfion,and dread, for his health, his money, and his future happiness. Though he declares there is nothing in this life worth liying for, no one is more defirous of perpetuating it. He takes every medicine that is prescribed him for every diforder incident to the human frame, though he acknowledges he is not afflicted with any; but he thinks it prudent to have recourse to preventatives, as it is far easier to divert an evil than to remove it. He holds the ancient authors in great esteem,though he never read them. pocrify, duplicity, corruption, venali- I am, Sir, your's, &c. For the BOSTON MAGAZINE. The deplorable fituation of Emma, A Young of about his addreffes to me; he is what the world calls ruined in his education, or in plain English, he is such an effeminate man, that I am at a lefs what to do, as I am advancing faft to twenty eight! I am loth to let ip fuch a chance of efcaping the odious title of old maid! but I declare I am half afraid to become his wife, leaft he fhould miftake my duty for his, and I should be neceffitated to fill his place. I am fully convinced that there is not the moft trifling matter in cookery, that he is not perfectly acquainted with; he raifes pafte to admiration. I have ever declared my averfion to fuch effeminate, busy creatures, in a province that no ways belongs to them. I am afraid thefe qualifications will make him a difagreeable hufband. If a mafculine character in our fex is difgufting, why is not an effeminate one in a man? My person is not difagreeable, in fhort, I am by many called handfore. What in this cafe fhall I do? neither his internal nor external qualifications are of my choice, and all that induces me to think of him, as I faid before, is the fear of being an old maid. I am pofitive, that ambition he has of difplaying his genius in family matters, will make him despifed, and I vertly believe every good pudding, pye, &c thar fhould be made in the house, he would take the credit of. Your advice in this, will Former times he looks to with rapture, and laments that he should be born to live in fuch greatly relieve a period, when vice, debauchery, hy EMMA. Το I a OU cannot do better to divert ..yourfelf from your troubles, and embarraffment than to vifit Italy Every well-informed man owes an homage to this country, fo.defervedly boasted of; and it will give me inexpreffible fatisfaction to fee you here. You will inftantly fee the great bulwarks given us by nature in the Alps and Apennines, which feparate us from France, and have made them give us the name of Tramontanes they are a majestic range of moun, tains which ferve as a frame to the magnificent picture within them. Torrents, rivulets and rivers,without reckoning the feas, are objects which prefent the moft curious and interefting points of view to foreigners, and especially to painters... Nothing can be more agreeable than the moft fertile foil in the finest climate, every where interfected with fireams of running water, and every where peopled with villages, or ornamented with fuperb cities. Such a country is Italy! If agriculture was held in equal eileem with architecture. if the country was not divided into fuch a number of governments, all of different forms, and almoft all weak, and of little extent, mifery would not be fouad by the fide of magnificence, and industry without activity; but unfor tunately, we are more engaged in the embellishment of cities, than in the culture of the country; and unculti vated lands every where reproach the idleness of the people. If you begin your route at Venice; you will fee a city very fingular from its fituation; it is precifely a great thip refting upon the waters, and which cannot be approached but by boats. The fingularity of its fitua forprife you. The inhabitants in tion is not the only thing that will marque for four or five months in the year; the laws of a defpotic government, which allow the greateft liber R ty in their amufements; the rights of cuftoms of a people who dread even a fovereign without authority; the his thadow, and yet enjoy the greateft. tranquility form inconfiftences, which a very extraordinary manmer muft affect foreigners. There is (carcely a Venetian who is not eloquent collections have been made replete with true attic falt. of the BONS MOTS of their Gondoliers, Ferrara difplays a vaft and beautiful folitude within its walls, almoft as filent as the tomb of Ariofto, who was buried there. Bologna presents another kind of picture; there the fciences are fami liar even to the fair fex, who appear with dignity in the fehools and academies, and have trophies erected to them daily. A thousand different paintings will gratify your mind and eyes, and the converfation of the inhabitants will delight you. You will then pafs through a multimore than a hundred leagues, each tude of mall towns, in the space of of which has its theatre, its cazin (a RENDEZVOUS FOR THE NOBILITY)18 a man of learning, or fome poet, whe fancy, or their leifure. You will vi employ themselves according to their fit Lorretto, made, famous by the great concourfe of pilgrims from other countries, and the treafures with which the church is magnificently enriched. You will then defcry Rome, which may be feen a thousand years, and always with new pleasure. This city, ancients called the feven mistreffes of fituated upon feven hills, which the the world, feems to command the universe, and boldly to fay to mankind, that the is the queen and chief. Yen You will call to mind the ancient Romaus, the remembrance of whom can never be effaced, on cafting an eye on the famous Tiber, which has been fo often mentioned, and which bas been fo frequently fwell'd by their own blood, and the blood of their enemies. You will be in extacy at the fight of St Peter's, which connoiffeurs fay is the wonder of the world, being infinitely fuperior to the St. Sophia at Confantinople, St. Paul's at London, or even the temple of Solomon. It is a pile which extends in proportion as you go over it, where eve ry thing is immenfe, yet appears of an ordinary fize. The paintings are exquifite, the monumental fculptures breathe, and you will believe that you fee the New Jerufalem come down 'from Heaven, which St John (peaks of in the Revelations. You will find, both in the great, and in the detail of the vatican, which was erected on the ruins of falfe oracles, beauties of every kind, that will tire your eyes, while they at the fame time charm you. Here Raphael and Michael Angelo,fometimes in a fublime, fometimes in a pathetic manner, have displayed the mafter piece of their genius, by expreffing in the moft lively manner the whole energy of their fouls; and here the science and genius of all the writers in the world, are depofited in the multitude of works which compofe that rich and immenfe library! 1 Churches, palaces, public fquares, pyramids, obelifks, pillars, galleries, grand fronts of buildings, theatres, fountains, gardens, views, all, all will declare to you that you are at Rome; and every thing will attach you to it, as to the city, which of all others has been univerfally admired. You wif not meet with that French elegance which prefers the beautiful to the fublime; but you will be amply recompented by thofe ftriking views that every inftant must excite your admiration. Laftly, in all the figures of painting or fculpture, both ancient and modern, you will fee a new creation,and believe it animated. The academy of painting, filled with French ftudents, will fhew you fome who are defined to become great mafters in their profeffion, and who, by coming to Atudy here, do honour to Italy. You will admire the grandeur and fimplicity of the head of the church, the fervant of fervants in the order of humility, and the firft of men in the eyes of the faithful. The cardinals who furround him, will reprefent to you the twenty-four old men, who furround the throne of the Lamb, modeft in their manners, and inftructive by their morals. But this magnificent profpe& will terminate with a view of groupes of mendicants, whom Rome improperly fupports, by beftowing mifapplied in ufeful labours: Thus it is that the charity, inflead of employing them thorn is feen with the rofe, and vice too frequently by the fide of virtue. But if you wish to fee Rome in all her fplendour, endeavour to be there by the feaft of St. Peter. The illumination of the church begins with a gentle light, which you will eafily mistake for the reflection of the fetting fun; it then fends forth fome pieces of beautiful architecture, and afterwards finifhes with waving flames, which makes a moving picture that lafts till day break. this is attended with double fireworks, the fplendour of which is fo bright,that you would think the flars had been plucked from Heaven, and burft upon the earth. All I do not mention to you the frange metamorphofis which has placed the order of St. Francis, even in the capitol, and has produced a new Rome from the ruins of the old; to fhew the world that chriftianity is truly the work of God, and that he has fubdued the moft famous conquerors to eftablish it in the very centre of their poffeffions. If the modern Romans do not appear warlike; it is becaufe the nature of their government does not infpire them with valour, but they have the feed of every virtue, and make as good foldiers as any, when they carry arms under a foreign power. It is certain_that_they have a great share of genius, a fingu lar aptitude in acquiring the sciences; andyou would imagine they were born Harlequins, Harlequins, fo expreffive are they in their geftures, even from their infancy You will next travel by the famous Appian Way, which by its age is become wretchedly inconvenient, and you will arrive at Naples, the Parthenope of the ancients, where the afhes of Virgil are depofited, and where you will fee a laurel growing, which could not poffibly be better placed. Mount Velavius on the one fide,and the Elyfian Fields, on the other, will prefent a moft matchlefs view to you; and after being fatisfied with this delightful profpeft, you will find your felf furrounded by a multitude of Neapolitans, lively and ingenious, but too much addicted to pleasure and idlenefs, to become what they otherw fe might be. Naples would be a delightful place, if it was not for the crowds of people of the loweft rank, who have the appearance of unhappy wretches, or robbers,though often without being either the one or the other. Caffino, where the fpirit of St. Benedict has fubfifted uninterruptedly above a dozen ages, in fpite of the immenfe riches of that superb monaftery. Florence, from whence the fine arts have iffued, and where their moft magnificent mafter pieces are depofited, will prefent other objects to your view. There you will admire a city, which, according to the remark of a Portuguese, SHOULD ONLY BY SHEWN ON SUNDAYS It is fo handfome and beautifully decorated. You will every where trace the fplendour and elegance of the family of Medici, infcribed in the annals of Tafte as the reftorers of the fine artą. Leghorn is a well inhabited feaport, of great advantage to Tufcany. Pifa always has men of learning, on every fubje&t, in its schools. Sienna, remarkable for the purity of its air and language, will intereft you in a very fingular manner. Parma, placed in the midst of fertile paftures, will fhew you a theatre which can con tain fourteen thousand people, and where every one can hear what is faid, though spoken in a whisper. Placentia will appear to you worthy of the name it bears, as its delightful fituation must captivate every traveller. which it has given to its fovereigns. The churches are magnificently de-. corated, but their architecture is in a wretched faste, and by no means comparable to the Roman. You will have a fingular pleasure in traverfing the environs of this town, which is moft delightful from its deli- You will not forget Modena, as it cious fruits, charming views, and is the country of the famous Muratofine fituations. You will penetrateri, and a city celebrated for the name into the famous fubterranean city of Herculaneum, which was (wallowed up in a former age by an eruption of Mount Vefuvius. If the mountain happens to be raging, you will fee torrents of fire iffue from its bowels, and majestically overfpread the country. You will fee a collection of whatever has been recovered out of Herculaneum, at Portici ; and the envirens of Puzzuolo, fung by the Prince of poets, will infpire you with a true paffion for poetry. You muft walk with the Eneid in your hand, and compare the cave of the Cuman Sibyl and Acheron with what Virgil has said on these subjects. You will return by Caferta, which from its decorations, marbles, extent, and aqueducts, worthy of ancient Rome, is the finest place in Europe; and you will make a visit to Mount You will find at Milan the fecond church in Italy, for fize and beauty; more than a thousand marble ftatues decorate it's outfide, and it would be a mafter piece, if it had a proportionable front. The fociety of its inhabitants is quite agreeable, ever since it was befieged by the French. They live here as they do in Paris, and every thing, even to the hospitals and church yards, presents an air of splen dour. The Ambrofian Library muft engage the curious, and the Ambrofian ritual no lefs engage the churchman, who wishes to know the ufages of the church, as well as thofe of antiquity. The Beromean ifles will next attract your curiofity, from the account you muft have heard of them. Placed in the middle of a delightful lake, they prefent prefent to your view whatever is magnificent or gay in gardens. Genoa will prove to you that it is truly (uperb in its churches and palaces. There you will fee a port famous for its commerce, and the refort of ftrangers. You will fee a Doge changed almoft as often as the fupe iours of communities, and with scarce any greater authority. I cannot And lastly, Turin, the refidence of a court where the virtues have long inhabited, will charm you with the re: gularity of its buildings, the beauty of its fquares, the ftraightness of the ftreets, and the fpirit of the people; and there you will agreeably faith your journey. Thave been juft making the tour of Italy, mof rapidly, and at little ex pence, as you fee, to invite you to it in reality; tis fufficient to SKETCH paintings toch a mafter as you. I make no mention of our morals to you; they are not more corrupt than among other people, let malice fay what it will they only vary their fhades according to the difference of the governments. The Roman does not refemble the Genoefe, nor the Venetian the Neapolitan; but you may fay of Italy as of the whole world, that, with fome little diftinc tions, it is here as it is there, A LIT TLE GOOD AND A LITTLE BAD. I do not attempt to prejudice you in favour of the agreeableness of the Italians, nor of their love of the arts and sciences; you will very, foon per ceive it when you come among them; you of all meh, with whom one is delighted to converfe, and to whom it will always be a pleasure to say that. cae is his most humble and most obe dient fervant.. I have taken the opportunity of a le,fure moment, to give you fome idea. of my coua.ry, it is only a coarfe daubing. which in another hand would have been a beautiful miniatare; the fubject deserves it, but my pencil is not fufficiently delicate for the execution. Rome, November 12th, 1756. conform myself to the advices of my friends; if theirs had any joint concernment with mine, I would willingly fubmit my intereft to theirs but when I alone am interested, and they only advise me to come over as foon as the act of indemnity is passed, because they think it beft for me, I cannot wholly lay afide my own judg ment and choice. I confess, we are naturally inclined to delight in our own country, and I have a particular love to mine; I hope I have given fome jeftimony of it; I think that be ing exil'd from it is a great evil, and would redeem myself from it with a great deal of my blood: But when that country of mine which used to be efteem'd a paradife, is now like to be made a flage of injury, the liberty which we hoped to eftablish oppreff ed, all manner of loofenefs, luxury, and lewdness fet up in its heighth; inftead of piety, virtue, fobriety, and modefty, which we hoped God, by our hands, would have introduced; the best of our nation made a prey to the word, the parliament, court, and army corrupted, the people enflaved, all things vendible, and no man fafe, but by fuch infamous means as flattery and bribery; what joy can I have in my own country in this condition Is it a pleasure to fee all that I love in the world, fold and deftroyed.? Shall I renouace all my old principles, learn. the vile court-arts, and make my peace by bribing fome of them? Shall their corruption and vice be my safe.. ty? Ah! no!better is a life.among rangers, than in my own country. upon fuch conditions. Whilft I live I will eieavour to preferve my liber-ty; or, at leaft, not confent to the deftroying of it; I hope I fhall die in the fame principle in which I have lived, and |