THE following observations on Italy, and on Italian manners, occurred in the course of the same Tour in which those contained in a book lately published, entitled, A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany, were made. All who have read that Book will perceive, at first sight, that the present Work is a continuation of the former: but to those who have not, it was thought necessary to account for the abrupt manner in which the following Letters begin.
CLARGES STREET, December 14, 1780.