tions. The little poem from which these lines are extracted is entitled, " An Addrefs to Loch Lomond.” The author is Mr. James Cririe of Edinburgh, from whose pen the public, if I am rightly informed, may soon expect a larger work in the same style, being a tour through a considerable part of Scotland. The reader should be told, that Ben Lomond is a very high hill, whose base encroaches on the lake which is the subject of the poem. The description will be best relished by those who are familiar with mountain scenery.

High on the east thy great Ben Lomond rears
His lofty head, and hides it in the clouds.
These, oft attracted by his tow'ring height,
Stop short their airy flight, and form a veil,
Which dark and thick descends. Condensing still,
Part slowly sails along, and, swelling, shrouds
The neighb'ring hills: the glens how dark between!
The winds are hush'd: the birds expectant pause:
The ox, with wistful gaze, eyes the deep gloom.
Nor voice of man is heard, nor pipe, nor horn;

But silent expectation reigns, and boding fear.

Sudden, athwart the gloom the lightning's glance,
As quick reflected by the placid lake,

With lurid glare darts bright. Anon, sublime,

In awful majesty the thunder rolls;
Onward it rolls, and loud and louder roars

In bursting peals succefsive, heard afar,
Re-echo'd oft by rocks and caverns deep

From all the neighb'ring hills, till circling round,
Still gaining force, again it bursts, a peal

That stuns the ear.

Rocks dash'd on rocks are heard
Rattling around. The stoutest heart, appall'd
With wild dismay, scarce dares to eye the gloom
Deep seam'd with frequent streaks of moving fire,
Darting in rapid gleams from cloud to cloud.

The clouds are seen in wildest tumult mixt;
And now-a mighty flash, with fearful glare,
Wide opens half the sky. The heavy rain,
Pouring in streams, resistlefs rushes down,
Plows the red mould, and bears it to the main.
Nature convuls'd, the everlasting hills
Appear to totter, and the total wreck

Of all terrestrial objects seems at hand.

Not long this uproar lasts. The clouds dispel :
The sun looks joyous forth: the pleasing vale,
Now deck'd with renovated verdure, smiles:
The setting sun, with parting ray uprear'd,
Ben-Lomond, last of all our mountains, gilds.
Day, as averse to leave the pleasing scene,
Slowly retires far north,-nor quite forsakes-
But soon returns more bright and fair, to glad
With morning beams his lofty pathless top;
Whence the advent'rous youth, with eagle eye,
Fir'd with the love of knowledge and of fame,
A prospect wide of vast extent descries,

Of hills and dales, of friths and winding shores-
Beneath, the lake itself in part conceal'd;
The Clyde, with crouded sails and streamers gay;
[The slow dragg'd bark that seems to plough the land
Across that narrow isthmus, often stain'd

With floods of British and of Roman blood.*]
Eastward, the mazy Forth, meand'ring slow,
For largest fleets a deep and safe retreat,
Rich with the treasures of remotest climes;
Edina's lofty towers; the eastern coast,
Far as the Cheviot fells; the western isles
Of Bute and Arran; Ailsa's conic rock;
Old Rothsay's royal towers in ruin laid;
Hibernia's verdant hills and fertile plains;
The rival height of great Plinlimmon too

* The Carron canal, which joins the Clyde and the Forth, runs along nearly the same line that was occupied by the wall that was reared by Severus, vulgarly called Græm's Dyke, to check the inroads of the

In distant Wales: though Skidda, Cambria's boast,
Beyond the Solway frith, unnotic'd stands;

While hills on hills still higher rise behind.

The three lines within crotchets are an interpolation by another hand, who thought the subject in some measure demanded them.

Reflections on the Lazzaroni of Naples, a singular order of men in civil society, from Gorani's Travels.

WE have before spoken of the vices, ignorance, and superstition, in which this people are plunged; but we also remarked, that they have much energy, and that, with another constitution, the Neapolitans would become one of the most estimable nations. The great do not impose upon the lower classes in this country; and the meanest of the king's subjects speaks to the ministers, to the queen, and to the monarch, with the utmost freedom. The government, in short, though full of abuses, does not treat the people with the same contempt as is done in other kingdoms.

The history of Naples shews us, that the inhabitants of that town have at times made dangerous insurrections. Massaniello will be long remembered, who governed for some days as an absolute master, and made himself respected as the representative of a people who felt its own dignity. If the court had not used much addrefs in gaining over the monks and preachers, who have great influence over the Neapolitans, this country would have undergone revolutions

that would have totally changed the mode of govern

ment.

The people of Naples are the only persons in Italy who have opposed themselves with constancy and effectually to the establishment of the inquisition. They have always had the art to rally themselves under chiefs, if not in a whole body, at least with the most vigorous of its inhabitants, called the Lazzaroni. This name comes from Lazarus, who is represented as a beggar covered with rags. If the Lazzaroni are not all in this condition, their drefs is not very brilliant. These men have always a leader, to whom the court and the ministers pay great respect. It is this chief who has charge to make the people respected, and prevent any wrongs from being done to them. What is the most astonishing, is, that there never has been an example of any one of these chiefs suffering himself to be corrupted.

These Lazzaroni have particular laws for themselves; they afsemble together whenever there is a necefsity for it, and the government cannot prevent them from so doing. They are so numerous a body, that it would be ill judged in any one who should attempt to reduce them to a servile obedience. They even afsist the police in quelling partial tumults, which sometimes happen, and not through any fault of the government.

The Lazzaroni are much attached to their condition, and bear no envy toward the upper clafses. They commit no disorder, nor thieve, nor rob. They are never implicated in the crimes which are committed.

honest people, and contented with their poverty, which must not, however, be confounded with wretchednefs. After this remark, the Lazzaroni must not be ranked in the lowest clafs of the people, which is the scum of the nation, full of scoundrels, and a crowd of pickpockets who are more industrious at Naples than at London or Paris.

We have said, that they have a chief. This chief has. afsefsors. He is a real tribune of the people, but without the magisterial robe, and without guards, though he makes himself be attended by as many of his brethren as he may choose. He has the right to offer remonstrances to the king and to the ministers; and there are ceremonies at the court, where this chief has his place. When the queen is brought to bed, the Lazzaroni send their chief, well attended, to be assured that the child is of the wished-for sex. The child is put into the hands of this chief, who kisses it, and shews it to the people, whom he harangues in his jargon with real eloquence. It is to be remarked, that these Lazzaroni in general speak very well, with order, and sometimes with dignity, but always in their own jargon.

The Capo Lazzaro, or chief of the Lazzaroni, afsists at the drawing of the lottery; at some ceremonies of the church; and at all the grand ones of the court, without wearing any marks of distinction on his drefs; but is always respected, because he has under his command from forty to forty-five thousand. men, to whom may be added the watermen, the fishermen of the Chiaia, and all the lower clafses of the people.