OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, ESQ.; BARRISTER AT LAW. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY HUNT AND CLARKE, 4, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. JOURNAL, &c. A PERSON is apt to imagine, that when he enters Rome for the first time, he is to have his head full of Romulus and Remus, of Julius Cæsar and the Gracchi; this perhaps would be the case, if mankind would let one another alone; but as they have never done so, and I fear never will, it is not easy to think much of the Gracchi, of their mother Cornelia, or of any thing else. At the gate began the inquiries about passports; we were next taken to the custom-house, where we were detained a long time, and every thing was pulled about with much rudeness and incivility; my books were taken away, and I was told to come for them the next morning. I found all the hotels full, but I succeeded at last in obtaining apartments in the Piazza di Spagua. It was now dark, and I might as well have been in London, except that I should be more comfortable there; however, at last, I am in Rome. |