min; Germanicus, Vespasian, and Titus. Nature has written these characters too plainly to be mistaken. There are some exceptions. In Julius Cæsar, instead of the open generous expression, which the magnanimity and clemency of his character would lead you to expect; you find a narrow contraction of muscles, that would suit the features of a miser; and in Heliogabalus, the swinish temperament, which is generally very strongly marked, does not appear.

It will require repeated visits, to examine minutely all the treasures of the Capitol. Perhaps there is nothing more curious or interesting than the maps of old Rome, engraved on stone, which served as the ancient pavement of the Temple of Remus. There is one fragment still extant, which is marked in these maps, just as it now standsthe grand entrance to the Portico of Octavia, now called la Peschiera. The front columns, which are Corinthian, and of beautifully white marble, with their entablature and inscription, are entire;-but the filth of a Roman fish-market makes it almost inaccessible. Amongst the statues in the Capitol, I was most struck with, a Cupid with his BowThe Hecuba-Cupid and Psyche-a head of Alexander-a bust of Marcus Aurelius when a boy—

the famous Dying Gladiator-and last, though it should have been placed first and foremost in beauty-the beautiful Antinous—who is always hanging down his head as if he felt ashamed of himself

"Sed frons læta parum et dejecto lumina vultu."

This is a charming statue, and, considered merely as an exhibition of the beauty of the male figure, superior perhaps to the Apollo itself.

The Gladiator is another instance of M. Angelo's great skill in restoring;—he has contributed an arm, a foot, the upper lip, and the tip of the nose. Antiquaries dispute whether this is the representation of a dying warrior, or a dying gladiator;-a question that can only be interesting to antiquaries;-to me it is sufficient that it is a dying Man.

The Palace of the Conservators forms part of the Capitol. Here is the famous bronze wolf, which has afforded so much discussion to antiquaries, to determine what wolf it is. Those must have better eyes than mine who can discover the marks of lightning, which seem to be necessary to identify it with Cicero's wolf; but, I think, one may safely say that there are the traces of gilding. Two brazen Ducks-for the Roman geese, instead

of being expanded into swans, dwindle to the size of widgeons-are also of high antiquity, and appear to be cackling as if the Gauls were again within hearing. A bronze bust of the elder Brutus exhibits in the most strongly written characters, the stern inexorable severity of his disposition. Amongst the modern sculpture, is a bust of Michael Angelo, by himself. If he were judged by the laws of physiognomy, it would go hard with him ;-but some allowance must be made for the accident of his nose, which, they tell you, was flattened by a blow from a rival's mallet. The collection of pictures has not much to boast of. There is a small picture by Salvator of a Sorceress, in his wildest and most romantic style.

Michael Angelo has given us too a picture of himself, which does not convey a more favourable idea of his countenance, than is afforded by the bust.

5th. An invitation from Prince Kaunitz;-the Austrian Ambassador. Our valet de place tells us that we owe this to him; he says that when an ambassador gives a fête, his servants distribute tickets to all the valets de place who are in employment, as the readiest way of getting at the strangers who may happen to be at Rome ;-and the English in Rome are invited to every thing、

7th. Went to Cardinal Fesch's, who has the best and most extensive collection of pictures in Rome. His chaplain acted as Cicerone. The whole house was thrown open. Madame, Napoleon's mother, inhabits one floor. In the cardinal's bed-room is a splendid bust of Napoleon in porcelain, crowned with a golden chaplet of laurel. Here, too, is the cream of the collection. A Magdalen, by Vandyke, is particularly striking. The Magdalen is generally a voluptuous woman, whose "loose hair and lifted eye" express just enough of grief to make her beauties more interesting; but in this of Vandyke, there is the most affecting contrition, and the eyes are red with weeping.

St. Peter in the high-priest's kitchen, by Honthorst, or, as the Italians call him, from an inability to grapple with such a cacophonous name, Gerardo della Notte, is a splendid specimen of the skill of the Dutch school in the management of light and shadow. The flaring light of the torches has all the effect of reality. The whole collection amounts to 1,300 pictures-far too many for a single morning. It is rich in the works of Rubens; and if Rubens' powers of conception, and skill in execution, had been combined with

taste, he would have deserved one of the highest pedestals in the temple of painting;—but he cannot get out of Holland; all his figures, particularly the females, savour strongly of a Dutch kitchen.

Here is a superb assortment of Dutch pieces; -and if painting consisted alone of high finishing and exactness of execution, the Dutch would deserve to be exalted above all their rivals;-but painting is as much an art of the mind, as of the hand, and the poetical qualifications are of quite as much importance as the mechanical. There is just enough of Guido and Carlo Dolci. The pictures of the first have been termed the honey, and those of the last may perhaps be called the treacle of painting.-Too much saccharine is always cloying.

8th. Descended into the Mamertine prisons; which consist at present of two small dungeons. This prison was built by Ancus Martius ;-" Carcer ad terrorem increscentis audacia, mediâ urbe, imminens foro, ædificatur." The subterraneous part was added by Servius Tullius; and thence called Tullianum. It was here, in these condemned cells, that we learn from Sallust the Catiline conspirators were confined and executed.