Santis.  While, on Friday, July 12th, the sixth day of the insurrection, he was sitting in his judgment-seat, a female masked, or man in woman’s habit, approached and whispered, ’Masaniello, we have reached the goal, a crown is prepared, and it is for thy brows.’—­’For mine?’ he replied, ’I desire none but the green wreath with which we honour Our Lady’s festival in September.  When I have delivered my country I shall resume my nets.’—­’You find them no more.  Rebellion should not be undertaken, or it should be carried on to the end.’—­’I will resume my nets,’ said Masaniello steadily.  ‘You will not find them,’ said the intrusive monitor.  ‘What, then, shall I find?’—­’Death!’ answered the masked figure, and withdrew into the crowd.  An evidence of the purity of his intentions, though combined with gross ignorance, was afforded by the rigour with which he insisted on the destruction of the treasure and rich movables found in the houses which were destroyed during the first days of the tumult.  Latterly, indeed, he yielded to the suggestions of Genuino and d’Arpaya, that these things should be preserved for the good of the state, and for the purpose of presenting them as a donative to Philip IV. in place of the abolished gabelles.  But whatever was the case with regard to less scrupulous insurgents, he participated in no plunder, until vanity produced madness, or madness vanity.  On the whole we may conclude, that he was a man whose principal characteristic was the boldness with which he pursued an object ardently desired, but who was alike incapable, from want of knowledge and talents, to avail himself of the success which so wonderfully crowned his enterprise.  How far his cruelty was the effect of natural disposition, or a consequence of his malady, is a question that must be left to HIM to whom alone it can be known.”

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LONDON.

Literally translated from a Chinese Poem, by a Chinese who visited England in 1813.

  The towering edifices rise story above story,
  In all the stateliness of splendid mansions: 
  Railings of iron thickly stud the sides of every entrance;
  And streams from the river circulate through the walls;
  The sides of each apartment are variegated with devices;
  Through the windows of glass appear the scarlet hangings. 
  And in the street itself is presented a beautiful scene;
  The congregated buildings have all the aspect of a picture.

  In London, about the period of the ninth moon,
  The inhabitants delight in travelling to a distance;
  They change their abodes and betake themselves to the country,
  Visiting their friends in their rural retreats. 
  The prolonged sound of carriages and steeds is heard through the day;
  Then in autumn the prices of provisions fall,
  And the greater number of dwellings being untenanted,
  Such as require it are repaired and adorned.