the Piedmontese; Pietro Micca; Piedmontese Officers;
Improvement in the Administration; Constitution pro-
claimed; Regiment of Savoy; Movements at Turin ;
Victor Emmanuel's Abdication; His Departure; Giunta
of Government; King Charles Felix's Decree; Royalist
Army at Novara; Division of Parties! Indecision of
Affairs; Movements of the Troops; Engagement at
Novara; Restoration of the King's Authority; Effects
of the Revolution; Subsequent State of Affairs. 44-79
CHAP. III.-PIEDMONT AND GENOA.-Road to Genoa;
Villanova and Asti; Alfieri; Alessandria Della Paglia;
Austrian Troops; Marengo; Italian Peasantry; Mon-
dovi; Horrors of the late Wars; Southern Dress
Novi; La Bocchetta; Ramparts of Genoa; Valley of
La Polcevera; View of Genoa; Strada Balbi; Streets
and Squares; Church of Carignano; View from the
Dome; Fortifications of Genoa; Commerce of the
Genoese; Decline of Genoa; Fall of the Republic;
Feelings of the Genoese; The English besiege Genoa ;
Union of Genoa to Piedmont; Advantages resulting
from it; Genoese Flag respected; Reflections on
Slavery; Genoese Sailors; Piedmontese Administra-
tion; Late French Administration; National Preju-
dices and Antipathy; present state of Commerce; The-
atre; State of Learning; Churches and Religious Cere-
monies; Canto Gregoriano; Devotional Feelings of the
Italians; Climate of Genoa; Cheapness and Quality of
Provisions; Genoese Kitchen; Houses and Terraces;
Genoese Women; Marriages: Patiti, or Cavaliere Ser-
venti: Habits and Manners; Spirit of Calculation ;
Laws; Morals; Old Genoese Nobility; Old Italian
Republics; Convents; Monastic Property; Sale of
Monastic Property; Treatment of Monks and Nuns;
Useful Employments of Monks; Nunneries; Country
Excursions; Sardinian Navy; Island of Sardinia.

CHAP. IV.-COAST OF THE MEDITERRANEAN.-View of

Genoa from the Sea, Appearance of the Coast; Even-

ing Service on Board; Tale of La Bordighiera; Gulf

of La Spezia; Massa, Carrara, and Lucca; Coast of

Leghorn; Description of the Coast; Piombino and

Island of Elba; Maremme; Buffaloes; Causes of Un-

healthiness; Monte Argentaro; Exile of the Roman

Clergy; Reflection on the Church of Rome; Storm off

the Roman Coast; Mouth of the Tiber; Rome; Modern

Romans; Civil Government of Rome; French Invasion

in 1809; State of Moral Feelings; Porto d' Anzio ;

Latium; Monte Circello; Gaeta; Bay of Naples;

People of Campania; Their Moral Features. 143-173

CHAP. V. SICILIAN MONARCHY.-Vicissitudes of Naples;

1806.-Second French Invasion; Joseph Napoleon,

and Murat; Murat's Character; His Policy; His War

against Austria; His Fall; Ferdinand's Second Resto-

ration; His Administration; Finances; State of the

Country before 1820; Judicature; Revolution of 1820;

Society of the Carbonari; Spanish Constitution; Nea-

politan Parliament; Expedition against Palermo; Ef-

fect of the Sicilian War; Advance of the Austrians ;

Engagement at Rieta; The Austrians enter Naples;

Closing of the Parliament; Provinces of the Kingdom;

Abruzzo and Puglia; People of Puglia; Bands of

Robbers: Calabria; People of Calabria; Sicily; Sici-

lians; Reflections on Naples
104-276

CHAP. VI.-ISLANDS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA,
AND COAST OF PROVENCE.-Parting View of Naples ;
Island of Ponza; Spiaggia Romana; Mediterranean
Vessels; Islands off the Coast; Corsica; Corsicans ;
Western Coast of Genoa; Bonaparte; View of the Land
of Genoa; Adieu to Italy; County of Nice; Coast of
Provence; Gulf of Marseilles; City of Marseilles ;

Quarantine Regulations; Harbour of Marseilles; Ap-

pearance of Marseilles; People of Marseilles; Political

Disturbances; Police Regulations; Notre Dame de la

Garde;

View of the Country; Ex Voto offerings; Ca-

tholic Rites.

207-239

CHAP. VII.-TREATISE ON MODERN ITALIAN LITERA-

ITALY,

&c.

CHAPTER I.

SARDINIAN STATES.

AFTER spending several months in Switzerland, it is with heartfelt satisfaction that I find myself once more on the south side of the Alps, in the beautiful plains of Piedmont, and this too in a most delightful time of the year. Having visited Lyons, the second city of France, I left it by the Turin diligence. We travelled the whole night; passed through Bourgoin and la Tour du Pin, two small French towns; and arrived at Pont Beauvoisin, on the frontiers of Savoy, next morning by ten o'clock. There we were detained four hours by the Piedmontese custom-house officers, who examined every part of the baggage. They are civil to passengers; when they have no suspicion of their concealing any contraband articles, they

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do not empty their trunks, but merely overlook the contents, taking care not to injure them. I have found the custom-house officers of the King of Sardinia the best behaved of any I have met in the whole of my travels. They are well clothed and well paid, and do not seem susceptible of bribery; I have met with the same disinterested spirit in the Piedmontese police officers, and in the carabineers, who do their duty very well, and keep the roads perfectly safe; and I am happy to be able to pay them this compliment; they reflect credit upon their government and upon their country.

Pont Beauvoisin is a small town divided in two by the river Guier, which forms the boundary between France and Savoy. On the bridge which unites the two districts of the town, there are on each side sentries of their respective nations. The French part is the best built. As I was standing in the middle of the square near the post-house, I could read the inscription of eight or ten inns, coffeehouses, and billiard-rooms dignified by high-sounding names. I suppose that the military, the customhouse and police officers, and the other people employed by government, form the principal part of the inhabitants of the place, and that they spend their frequent leisure hours in public places to kill time. The situation of Pont Beauvoisin is