The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-08-04 00:00:00

SKETCHES ON THE ROAD.
• DEIGPIPTION OF COMA,;& T Lt .
[From ra. /widow Mogazinal ,
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" We first visited the Villa d'Este, tiSeregittetice
of her Majesty, our Queen, situated on the oppo-
site shore of the Lake ; we there saw several signs
of her good taste and liberality. She repaired the
road, leading from Como to the Villa. which had
been for a long time almost impassable for carriages,
though leading to a number of Ville, and to aeve-
nil villages. The people whom we saw spoke highly
of her generosity and kindness, and her attention
to the poor and dirt r d; one of the men we had
with us had served her Majesty as boatman, and
spoke of her with apparent gratitude and respect.
The proceedings relative to her Majesty were gene-
rally known ; and we heard a deal of indigestion
expressed against such of her people as had ap-
peared witnesses against her, and were natives of
that part of the country, or kuuwu to our later-
loeutors.
" Our row up the Lake was delightful, but we
should have enjoyed it more had we nut been so
lately on the Lap Maggiore. The Lake of Como,
shut in narrowly by the bases of IGlty mountains,
ha., perhaps, too much the appearance of a river ;
these mountains, however, are in themselves tine
objects, breaking into every variety of bold ro-
mantic shape, plentifully patched with fine woods,
and speckled with picturesque church-steeples,
convents, white villages, and little towns, Monte
111.bino, which rises immediately behind the Villa
d'Este, is a grand object ; it is wooded and spotted
with building., almost up to its lofiy peak, which
is capped by • aencluity of great reputatiot., where
an annual fete is held. We were told that the
Queen haul once ascended to the very summit. A
great number of villas stood close on the Lake;
and gardens and vineyard, advance, almost every
where, to the water's brink. In proceeding up-
wards many delightful torus offer unexpectedly
some agreeable variety of scenery, and a number
of romantic spots present themselves on either
hand.•

" At a village where we stopped we heard a story
that excited our italignation in tro small degree.
Some months since two fishermen brou4ltt out of
the Lake au ancient statue ; they carried it home,
mid some persons who could understand its merit,
assured them it was valuable, and advised them to
send it to Milan. While they waited ■n oppor-
tunity to follow this advice, some priests having
heard the rumour of the affair, repaired, with the
parrochiano at their hcad, to the pour men's habi-
tations, and desired to see the statue ; on its being
•hewn them they assured the owners that it was
some heathen god or Magician, and that to keep it,
or give it to soy Christian, would be a great crime.
The statue was consequently again thrown into the
Luke. This trait may be classed with that of the
Turks pounding the Grecian works of art to make
mortar ; and with the monks of the middle ages
melting down the superb ancient bronzes to make
bells for their convents. We credit it, from the
authority by which we have heard it confirmed, and
beermsw, from no short experience, we are ac-
quainted with the ignorance of the priests in the
saeltided parts of Italy," .

GREULAND FISHERY.
• • •
WHITBY, AVOITST ,a.
Arrived off the port the Vigilant, of London, from Green-
land,
with 14 fish 180 lona, and North Briton, of Hull,
from ditto, a full ship. They bring the following seeount
of the London ships:—Margaret, b fish 80 togas; King
George, 6 fish, 50 tons ; Indust' y, 4 fit.h, 80 tons ; Ewc-
rents, 2 fish; and Iliontinia, 2 fish,
Whitby Ships :—Harmony, 6 fish, 110 tons ; Resolution,
8 fish, 80 10111; Voltoiteer, 6 fish, 50 loos; Ainewell, B fish;
and Phenix, 3 fish, ea, ly in the s. 85111.

Improvement in the Trade of Scotland. —The
general trade of the west of Scotland is going
favourably on. The cotton mills are brisker just
now than they have been for a considerable time.
The manufactures carried on in the country towns
are doing well : the wool manufacturers in Stewar.
ton andKilmartiock are in good spirits, and the
work-people ate at present more comfortable in
their eircurnstaticss titan they have been since 1813.
—(Glasgow Chronicle.)
As an instance of the remarkable drought this
season, in Scotland, Locltlimiond has lately fallen
wren feet perpendicularly from the water-mark ;
and persons pass and repass between two of the
islands on stepping-stones, which have been placed
there lately, and of which there is no former ves-
tige. A great many old people in the neighbour-
hood have gone thither to have the gratification of
walking across, and they all declare that they do
not remember the loch ever having been so low.
The late unfortunate affair iti the Persian Gulf,
which we noticed in a former Paper, it seems was
the result of an irruption of only forty Arabs,
worked up almost to madness by liquor, who *ere
sent in to hamstring (or hough) the artillery-horses
of the detachment. It stems these inebriated sa-
vages cut their way into the camp in the darkness
of the night, and made the havock alluded to be-
fore they were destroyed.
FATAL ACCIDENT --(:)11 Thrirstlay the 19th tilt.
in the midst of the general rejoicings of the day,
st man of the carne of RICHARD Letcu was un-
fortunately killed at Suet'(' Green, near Buralein,
by firing oft a small cannon, which being over-
loaded, burst, and a piece of the metal struck
him cm the forehead, slid fractured his skull in
so dreadful a maniur that be died in a short time.
On Fritlat the junior Pennyeuik Whipman So-
ciety held their anniversary. Among the other
amusements were several races, in one of which,
run by two memliers of the society for a riding
saddle, • remarkable accident took place. The
rider'', when at full speed, were each endeavouring
to take the narrow put of the course at a turn,
when they run their horses heads violently against
each other, and both animals dropt down dead;
one of their skulls being actually beat in by the
shock. The riders were Onion with violence to
some distance; but, though severely, were fortu-
nately not dangerously kr/Warr/0 Star.)