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ETRURIAN ANTIQUITIES.

A LETTER FROM ROME.

%-;F[We have been tempted to extract the following from
a late number of the Edinburgh Literary Journal, as
it is the first literary essay of a clever young Scotch-
. man (Mr. Blackie) now resident in Rome, and gives an
interesting and intelligent account of the antiquities of
a part of Italy, lying out of the beaten track, and little
frequented by modern Tourists.]
SIR,—Being just returned from a most interest-
ing excursion through the neighbouring district of
E•rtiria, I do not think I can de better than make
knower the attractive novelties which there excited
my admiration, through the medium of your widely
circulated Journal. I do this the more readily, be-
cause I suspect these most singular and interesthq2
Tgions are as yet but very little known to On
British public; nay, I might even say to the most
distinguished of our archaeological literati. I hear,
indeed, that our great antiquarian luminary,
Millin-
gen, has lately pab!ished some account of the recent
discoveries in Etruria; but, though I cannot, from
personal reading, judge of this work, still I 'am, on
prettysood authority, inclined to believe that the
distingtirjslied author had not had an opportunity to
visit in ',person the interesting vicinity of Corneto,
where excavations have of late been made, and are
still making with such distinguished success. If we
except that part of Etruria, through which the two
great high-roads pass b?twcen Florence and Rome,
this once celebrated country which, before the times
of the Romans, was adorned with many rich and
flourishing cities, is but little known to the general
traveller, and even to those whose Italian wander-
ings have more of a professed archte)logical bent. It
is but too true, that travellers in general, and most
of all English travellers, rarely deviate from the
beaten track ; and this truth receives a new verifi-
cation from the interesting tracts of Tuscany which
are yet altogether, or comparatively, unknown.
But to proceed. Corneto, the first point in the
antiquarirn tour of which I shall now endeavour to
give you a rapid sketch, is situated in the States of
the Church, about sixty miles north from Rome, and
twelve miles be•.ond the harbour of Civita Vecchia.
Though not itself a maritime town, it lies on an emi-
nence only about two or three miles distant from the
site of the ancient city Graviscaea Tyrrhenian
harbour, scarcely otherwise known'. to the modern
ear than through the verses of theMatituaa bard.—
About a mile from Corneto, still further inland, is the
site of the ancient city e,f Tarquinii, so celebrated in the
early history of the Etruscans, as the place where Do-
maratus first improved the rudeness of Etruscan art
by the introduction of Corinthian refinement, and
was destined to give in his progeny a King-to Rome,
who should he the first to introduce a taste for a
massive and dignified architecture among an associa-
tion of rude and barbarous warriors. 'Tis to this
ancient city that those sepulchral monuments belong,
which form the principal object of attraction to the
stranger who visits Corneto. Hither, therefore, I
hied, as soon as I had a little refreshed myself from
the fatigues of an Italian vettura. Nor were my ex-
pectations disappointed in visiting these long-for-
gotten, but now revived monuments of the Etruscan
dead. An immense range of conical tumuli, called
by the inhabitants of Corneto, Monte Rozzi, imme-
diately attracts the attention of the traveller, and
makes even the most careless observer suspect that
the interior of these evidently artificial mounds must
contain some curious ancient remains. Nor is he
deceived. These tumuli contain one or more se-
pulchral chambers, for the most part painted in a
style which proclaims a very ancient period of Etrus-
-can art, and at times accompanied with inscriptions
in that interesting language, wh:ch, alas ! after all
the endeavours of Lanzi and his followers, remains
as inexplicable as ever. The impression is more to
be felt than described, which is produced when one
descends from the bright splendour of the Italian
day, into these gloomy subterranean abodes of human
beings, who are removed from us by the immense
gulf of more than 2,000 years ; and with whom,
however, the pictures that surround us seem to
bring us on a sudden into an almost immediate con-
nection. These representations are no less interest-
ing when considered as developing the early progress
of art, and bringing More our eyes the difficulties
with which the infant arts of design had to conten I,
• t
the
they
than when viewed by the philosophic eye of the ob-
servant arclia)logian, and used as meant to throw
light upon the wonderful economy of the
morehum liang
mind,i which, in ancient as well as modern
times, has developed itself according to the same
eternal and immutable laws. One of the most com-
mon representations in these sepulchral chambers is
that of a triclinium, where the deceased persons are
seen reclining at ease, according to the Roman
participated in while on earth. This
occupies
fashion, and enjoying the seine viands which they
had
so Often
h end wall. The two side, walls are
often.
may seem to agree with the solem-
nity of death, yet tend to represent to us in a very
el.e r,
littlefilled by dancing Bacchic figures, which, how-
lively manner the universal belief of mankind in a
future and to teach us that the ancient world,
farfrom c
onsidering death with the cold hopeless
life,eye of modern materialism, were accustomed to
look to it as the introduction to a more perfect state
of existence, where rest and quiet should be obtained
after the labours and trouble of the present life.
On no other principle can be explained another
sets wellorepresentations very frequent in the Etruscan
a
sepulchral ornaments—l
mean that of dolphins and other marine animals, of
which the most likely interpretation is, that they
f as
i the Roman
represent the souls of the blessed, gamboling through
the waves to happythe islands of the % tlantie. And
here it is strange to remark the coincidence of the
most ancient Etruscan with the earlier Christian
ideas; for nothing is more common in the Christian
monuments than the representation of dolphins and
other fishes—the explanation of which, as referring
to Christians, will easily occur to those who are con-
versant with the works of the early fathers.
But to return from digression.. Though the
paintings have been well preserved, yet have these
sacred abodes been in early times robbed of their
movable treasures; and therefore it is, that these
tombs of Corneto, or rather of Tarquinii, have not
enriched the excavators with those immense treasures
of fictile vases in which the Etruscan graves in other
parts of the country have been so fruitful. The
ground which has in so short a time furnished Lucien
Bonaparte with a museum of above three thousand
vases, is about eighteen miles farther up, in the Etru-
ria') territory, near the site of the ancient town of
Vulci. This place, of which we have so very scanty
notions from antiquity, seems, nevertheless, to have
been one of the largest of the cities which composed
the Etruscan confederation, if we may judge, as well
from the wide extent of its walls, the foundations
of which are yet to be traced, as from the immense
tract of ground which is occupied by its sepokretum,
which has already been so wonderfully fertile in the
most beautiful productions of ancient Grecian art,
and is still continuing to yield enough to satisfy the
continued excavations of three considerable pro-
prietors. You are aware that the property of Ca-
nino,tOLucien Btohnesaepacrltaes,sioccacl occupies the
greater part of this precious territory ; but he does
—ntt exclusively
monopolizeSignoriCandelori and Feoli occupying also
no inconsiderable portion of the Vulcian burying-
ground, and extracting from thence their proportional
share of its treasures of art. Nevertheless, it is but
fair to state, that the excavations have, during the
Present year, ceased to be so fortunate as in the first

!tempts; bt-lt it was not to be e:tpected that the
oil could long continue to be so vets fruitful as
at first was. The labours, however, are still going
and I had the satisfaction to see several interest-
Hg objects which had lately been dug up. A►r.ong
these, the most curious were several pieces ofsculpt ure,
ivhose general style and accessory ornaments place
in a very remarkable point of view the connexion of
the ancient Etruscan with Egyptian art. The same
~onclusion is drawn from the architectural mouldings
vith which many of these subterranean chambers
ire adorned, and which vei y often exhibit a con-
t'used insieme of the Egyptian style, and the mos.
►ncient Doric architecture of the Greeks. But of
he architecture I must speak again, when I come to
mention the superb amphitheatre of sepulchral mo.
numents sculptured in the natural reek, which exist
J 1 the district between Corneto and Vitet-bo.

But to be more particular. The grope scpolcreli
of Vulci are distinguished from those of Tarquinii,
by being dug in the ground, and then covered up,
without the addition of any art'ficial tumulus, if wr
except the single immense tumulus, called the
the Cocuntella, where the Prince of Canino has made
such interesting discoveries. These sepulchra'
chambers are about the size of a small closet, cut
out in the natural rock, or rather earth ; for the soli
volcanic tufa which here abounds deserves more the,
name of an earth than of a rock. They are, for the
most part, simple and devoid of ornament ; at the
t'arther end, and on the two sides, are cut out in the
same mass simple banks, which serve for the resting-
place of the dead body ; for here, as Well as in Nola,
was it the genera! custom to bury, and not to burn
the dead. Nor do the Vulcian vases, in whatever
abundance they have been found, ever contain
ashes. The vases are found beside the banks on
which the dead body was laid, though in many
tombs there are decided indications that they were,
along with other ornaments, suspended from nails on
the walk of the sepulchral chamber.
It would be tedious and uninteresting to particu-
larize upon the plans of the sepulchres, and the ar-
chitectural mouldings with which they are often or-
namented; such an extended description belongs
more to a separate treatise, than to the limits of a
common letter. We can, howev, r, assure the Bri-
tish archaeological public, that it will not be long ere
their curiosity on the,c points be gratified, the inde-
fatigable German architect Herr Knapp being at
present engaged in preparing an accurate account of
the Etruscan sepulchral architecture, to be submit-
ted
to the European public in the Annals of the
Archaeological Institution.
While on this subject, however, I cannot forbear
to mention, in suitable terms of censure, the conduct
of the preseet 'exc wators, in regard to the interests
of arefeeological science. The interesting exca-
vations,which we have just been describing, have
unfortunately fallen into the hands of men, who are
actuated much more by the Italian spirit of personal
gain, than by any the least zeal for the interests of
science ; insomuch, that we do not speak too harshly ,
when we assert, that their great and only object is to
spoil the dead of the precious treasures which were
buried along with them, with a view to their own
personal gain, without the least regard to the ad-
vantages which science may reap from their disco-
veries. The subteeranean recesses of the immense
Vulcian sepolcretum are scarce brought to light, and
emptied of the vases and bran zes which they may
cont4,n, when they are immediately covered up
again, before the arclueologian or the architect have
had time to visit them, and draw from their general
disposition and particular decorations inferences of
the highest importance, not only in themselves, but
as tending to the elucidation of the singular objects
of which they have been for ages the repository,
Science is as much degraded us religion, when it be.
comes an object of selfish merchandiza ; but it is a
lamentable truth, that Signor Campanari and his
associates do not show the least desire to render
their discoveeies of any use to archwological science,
but rather use every means in their power to prevent
every person but themselves from deriving any ad-
vantage from their monopolized treasures of art.
But let us leave this disagreeable subject ; for what
can we expect from the base-minded Romans, who
have so lately shown how entirely destitute they are
of every spruk of noble sentiment, by remaining
quietly and voluntarily in the chains of the most cor-
rupted Government of Europe?
Before I leave Vulci, 1 may just give you a slight
intimation of the great literary controversy which
the vases here brought to light have lately pro-
duced, and which has caused a division between the
foreign literari resident in Rome, and the Cory-
phireus of the Roman Grecians, the well-known Ab-
bate Amati. Lucien Buottaparte, not content with
having in his own private possession the largest and
most valuable collection of vases in Europe, took it
also into his head to refuse to other countries the
possession of such vases, and even went so far as to
deny that certain rases, which Herr Wolff, a Prus-
s'an sculptor, brought from Greece, could possibly
have been found in that country, asserting that if it
really was the case that said vases were found in
Egina by Mr. Wolff, nevertheless they were not to
be esteemed Grecian vases, properly so called, but
were merely exportations from Etruria, the only
country which was able to produce these singular
works of act. Once determined to claim ex-
clusively for Etruria those works of art, which
the universal consent of the learned had united
to denominate Grecian, the Prince of Canino did
not hesitate to sacrifice to this patriotic feel-
ing, for his own Etrurian property, the united tes-
timony of ancient writers, that the arts were brought
from Greece into Etruria by Demaratus of Corinth.
As soon as historical testimony was disregarded, it
was no difficult matter to create out of nothing a
splendid Etrurian dynasty, flourishing in all the
highest culture of art, before even the first rude at-
, tempts at design were made in the Grecian islands
—whose inhabitants, hitherto considered as the
parents of all that is elegant in the European arts
of design, were indebted for their knowledge in
these arts, and especially in the art of painting vases,
to those numerous artists, who, proceeding from
Etruria, as the centre of civilisation, spread a re-
fined taste for the arts through the republics of
Greece, from which, as we know, they at last pro.
ceeded back to their native Italy. His excellence
had certainly the merit of producing a singular
opinion, and might, perhaps, have had the satisfac-
tion of remaining alone in his singularity, had not
the above-mentioned Abbate Amati, no con-
temptible Hellenist, conceived it his duty as a true
Italian patriot, to join with the Prince in defending
as Etruscan the origin of vases, which the strongest
internal, as well as external, evidence proclaims to
be Grecian. The external historical evidence I have
already alluded to—the internal evidence is no less
strong and convincing to every one who is not pre-
determined to believe the contrary. The Vulcian
vases resemble, in every respect, those found in
Greece and Magna Grecia,—in their style of art,—
in the subjects represented, which are found in the
Grecian, and not in the Etruscan mythology,—in
the inscriptions, which in all vases yet found are
Greek, and never Etruscan. And yet all this
weight of evidence will not prevent men, fonder
of singularity than of truth, from recalling the old
and almost forgotten idea of the Etruscan origin of
these vases—an attempt from which they might
have been deterred, by the difficulties in which
Passeri and others found themselves involved, who,
in the past century, attempted to explain the vases
on this false supposition.
13,ut. enough. We shall allow the airy spocuta-

(ion 3 or theoretical antiqualiairs !be,
own inanity ; we hope the time is at length arrived
,vhen atchceologians are convinced that solid tes-
timony, and a collection of incontestible facts, fo:in
the only foundation on which the building Of their
•cience can be raised; and that though this fac,-
(ounded building may not be so splendid and so
complete in all its parts, as those perfect edifices,
which rise of a sudden into complete existence be-
t Ore the rnagc wand of hypothetical speculation,
sill they have this one decided advantage, that they
Are not liable to vanish away from their rrinshroom.-
like existence' before every new wind of doctrine to
which the restlessness of human nature is cot, inullh:
giving bir.h.
I had intended to conduct you from Vulci to
Viterbo, in the vicinity of which hatter city many
nteresting Etruscan antiquities are to be found, and
thence to Bomazo (the ancient Pomartiurn), where,
m the declivity a the hills which, eastward fror.)
Viterbo, fall genty down to the right bank of the
Ciber, a forest of aged oaks shades the venerable
,bodes of the ancient Etruscan dead—abodes
which, after rem4icitig for above two thousand
years undisturbed by the light of day, and uttap-
proached by the foot of the living, are now at length
exposed and made to yield their treasures of ancient'
art—useless to the dead—for the gratification and
vituiration of the living,. But the limits of a letter
prevent me from entering on this theme; so that
you will be obliged to wait till the annal; of the
Arc' zeologial Institution may afford you some more
particular inforMatinn on these latest and exceed-
ingly interesting evactestions, though I am afrdid
but few copies of that splendid %yolk reach the
Ultima Thule of the Caledonian shores. We we—
t say with regret—rather behind our contitiental
neighbours in out interest for the science of archrr-
ology ; and indeed before our universities become
seminaries for men, and net for begs, there is little
hope that classical erudition wll be generally enough
extended to give the preparatory studies nece,s]wy
for relishing the monuments of ancient art. 1 hope
my countrymen will not be offended that I thus
freely express my opinion on the dei:ets of our
Scottish universities; though I must lament that the
standard of literary attainment is not higher in these
seminaries; and I ern so much of a true Scotchtnatt
AR to look with confidence for great mind imporiant
improvements, knowing, as I do, that the national
character of the Scotch is such as fits them to vie
with, and even surpass, the most intelLctual nations
of Europe, as in other branches of science, so par-
ticularly in philological and archmJlogieal researches,
which, in the opinion of your correspondent, have,
in his native country, by no means kept pace with
the gigantic advances of the present age.
I have the honour to be Sir, your's &e.
Rome, I‘'s • 12, ISSI. A SCOTSMAN IN HOME.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRE NCM PAPERS'.
(From the Moniteur of Friday.)

" PARIS, JUNE 16.—Tumultuous assemblages have beer:
again formed toAay at the sante point, and, notwithstand-
ing the repeated warnings of the Magistrates, the con-
course of persons drawn by curiosity has given to these
assemblages an appearance of hoportance which keeps up
the public solicitude, and deprives the au•horities of the
means of se;zing the real agitators, who are lest in the
crowd- It is, however, time, for the sake of every bait„
that means should be found finally to put a stop to these
agitations, the recurrence of which is wholly owing to the
difficulty which is thus occasioned of liying 1:old of tinr
guilty authors of them. Once more, then, let the citizens
leave to the authority the freedom of action which is ne-
cessary to put an end to those ridiculous and odious dis-
orders ; let them withdraw and leave the factious to them-
selves and to the law. Do they not perceive that the
prolongation of this effervescence causes inconvenience and
prejudice to the Nationil Guards, by keeping them front
their own affairs, the neglect of which affects all the inte-
rests of the capital, and also to the triih speop'e in the
quarters where these troubles exist, who are obliged to
close their shops to preserve them front pill lie, of which
there has been an example.
The warnings will be again repeated by a paternal
authority, which is resolved to leave no excuse even to
imprudence, in case it should be under the painful neces-
sity, after having fulfilled this duty, of p-rforming the
more severe duties which are imposed on it, by the genera 1
indignation, the safety of Paris, and respect for the laws,
and of executing justice on those _men who should still
disregard the legal summons addressed to them.

" The National Guards anti the troops of the line, ani-
mated by a generous emulation, equally feel the necessity
of restoring order, the defence of which is entrusted to
them. They are even less indignant at the abuse which
wretches have dared to address to them, than at the inso-
lent hopts, founded on impossible divisions, and to which
they have answered to-day, in emulation of each other,
the troops of the line, by spontaneous cries of Vive
is Garde Nationale," Vive le Roi !' at the very mo-
ment when they were saluted with insulting cries of
The Troops of the Line for ever !' Down with the
National Guard !' and the Guard 11 crying, ' Vive lit
Roi ! Vive la Ligne r
'• This noble fraternity WIS rendered more evident,
more overwhelming to the factious, by the happy idea of
the Commander-in-Chief to mingle together small de-
tachments of the National Guard and of the Line, pre-
senting to the population the sight of soldier-citizens and
of citizen-soldiers, united to defend the laws iu the name
of the King, who every day feels himself honoured by the
titles of soldier and of citizen.

" The inhabitants testified their satisfaction at this wise
measure by their eagerness to light up their houses and
shops, to supply the absence of some lamps.
" Now,:at eleven o'clock, all is over. Order is rei3ored
guilt will doubtless he discouraged—the authorities never."
A journal announces that Messrs. de Bourmont and
Marmont have not ceased, since the events of July, to re-
ceive their pay as Marshals of France, and that they still
receive it. The assertion is false. It appears from the
accounts of the War-office, that 'Messrs. do Bourmont and
Marmont have not, under the title of pay or any other,
any sum whatever.
(From the Message,. des Chambres of Saturday.)

PARIS, JUNEI7.---We are authorized to contradict in

the most formal manner, the assertion contained in Le
Globe of to-day, on the credit of a letter from New York.
that King Louis Philip had sent a tuns of 1,000,000 ,of
piastres to the house of Stephen Gerard, of Philadelphia.
Besides all the reasons which render the fact improbable,
there is one more peremptory than all the others—namely,
that it is a forgery.
(From the Journal des Debats.
.

PARIS, JUNE 17.—The Metz affair has raised two per-
fectly new questions-Ist, May the Municipalities express
any wish foreign to the legal attribut;N of the Municipal
Council ? And 2d, Can the Officers of the National
Guard without failing in their duty, make known the
wishes on any subject whatever of the citizens who are
under them ? If the past were to serve as an example, it
would be difficult to contest the legitimacy of wishes
publicly manifested on great political questions, either by
Municipal Councils or Officers of the National Guard.
Since the Revolution, what Municipality, or what corps
of National Guards had not manifested its opinion on the
overthrow of the throne of Cuarles X., and the erection
of a new throne? Did all the National Guards commit a
crime when they sent deputations to give in 66r adhesion
to the Revolution of July and the adoption of a new

dynasty? Did they not deliberate when they adopted the
Addresses which they sent, and which the Moniteur pub-
lished with great care? If the Municipal Councils must
not express either the wishes or the wants of the inhabi-
tants of their Communes—if the officers of the National
Guard must not be the organs of the citizens who serve
under them—if they ale not allowed to make known their

own wishes, why are they allowed to speak.
There were numerous groups yesterday collected shiut
Porte St. Denis, though they did not display a character
:4 hostility. A large force was stationed in the vicinity.
Towards nine o'clock several charges of cavalry were made
in the street Neuve St. Denis, and in the neighbouring
streets, and several persons were arrested. At half-past
eleven .)'clock the people had all dispersed, and there was
a free circulation in all directions. We hope we shall see
no renewal of these scenes, in which it is difficult to de-
tect any public character.

(From the Quolidienize.)
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