was a priest by the name of Cyrus Annichiarico, born in the small town of Grotagli, on the road from Tarento to Lecce. His first achievement was the murder of a whole family in the town of Francavilla. He had been a bandit for twenty years; the country people believed him to be a devil or magician, and laughed and scoffed at the soldiers who were sent to pursue him. When the French general Ottavio, a Corsican by birth, commanded in this province, a man presented himself one day before him, and said, with a fierce air," the bandit whom you have so long hunted is now before you, but if he is molested, you will be assassinated before night-fall." Annichiarico turned and disappeared, and from that time general Ottavio doubtless had faith in the belief of the people. General Church, also, when one day in pursuit of this man, was accosted by a peasant, who drew him aside, and gave some intelligence concerning Annichiarico. The next day the peasant was found dead in his village, and a paper pinned on his breast with these terrible words. "This is the fate of all those who betray Annichiarico."-The last band he commanded was called the decided;" each man possessed a certificate, bearing two death's heads with other bloody emblems, and the words "Justice, liberty, or death," signed by Annichiarico. I saw one in general Church's possession, written with human blood.. At last, in January, 1819, this astonishing man, finding himself beset upon all points, threw himself, about sun-set, with five followers, into an old tower, in the midst of a farm-yard, near the small town of Casuba, hoping that in the dead of the night he should be able to escape through the soldiers, many of whom were his friends, and all believed him to be the devil But in the course of an hour a' close line of light troops was drawn round the tower, out of reach of musquet shot, and after a siege of thirty-six hours, he was forced: to surrender, having fired away all his cartridges, and killed five and wounded eleven of the enemy. He was carried to Francavilla, the scene of his first crime, tried by a court-martial, and there shot. It was on a Sunday when he was sentenced to be executed, and general Church sent to ask the priests, if it was according to their religion to shoot a man on that day. They answered," the better the day, the better the deed."* Annichiarico died like a madman. From eight to ten thousand persons were assembled to see him shot, and to the last moment they treated with perfect scorn and indignation the notion that bullets would pierce such a man.' pp. 273-275.

Precisely the answer given by the notorious Robert Ferguson to those who proposed to kill the king, James II, on Sunday. He also offered to consecrate the blunderbuss which Rumbold was to use to fire into the carriage. See Dryden's works, vol. xvii.page 172,-also Mr. Scott's note (91) to Absalom and Achitophel.'

The twenty-third chapter on the Carbonari and other secret societies in Italy, has engaged the public interest, from the connexion of these associations with the late revolution in Naples. The most curious fact relative to them is that this organization, by which the late legitimate government in that kingdom has been shaken, was originally contrived by its friends in the French times. as an engine of expelling the foreign rulers, and restoring king Ferdinand.

The chapter on the liberty of the press might advantageously have been connected with that on the Index Expurgatorius, at the beginning of the volume. That on the universities contains what little a traveller is able to collect, or a foreigner curious to know of these establishments. Fallen establishments we had nearly called them; but the names of Forcellini, of Carlini, of De Rossi, and others as renowned belonging to this age or the last, must forbid that epithet. It is not the universities in Italy that are fallen, but society, which has fallen around them, and has no more the means of sending a host of pupils to their walls; while the extensive diffusion of learning beyond the Alps enables a person to get as good an education in Scotland, in Upsal, and in Moscow, as he could get in Padua or Pavia.

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Of the remaining chapters of the work, though constituting the least technical, and the best written portion of the volume, we have left ourselves no room to speak,—and must be content with just referring our readers to the twenty-eighth, on the Italian nobility,' the thirtieth, on the English in Italy,' the thirty-first, on the Bonaparte family in Rome,' and the thirty-second, on the influence of the Austrians in Italy,' as replete with valuable facts and curious anecdotes, and information, for the most part not elsewhere, that we know of, to be met with.

Of the general character of this work we have already suf ficiently given our opinion; and the extracts which we have made from it will afford our readers the means of judging of its execution. We apprehend there are few of our travellers, with whose journals and notes abroad these collections of Mr. Lyman might not enter into advantageous comparison; and to speak of any considerable portion of the work as already familiar, is to lay claim to no very small share of statistical, economical, and political acquaintance with Italy.

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