next evening Andrew Doria returned in triumph, and amid the joyful acclamations of all the populace. Jerome had fled to a strong castle of his own at Montobbio, but in the ensuing month of March he was overpowered, and put to death.*

The palace presented to Andrew Doria still remains; the marble statue erected to his honour was destroyed in the horrors of 1797, and his titles with the inscription in front of the palace, which extended 200 feet. The shorter record is still to be seen.

S. C.

Andrea de Auria,

Patria Liberatori,

Munus Publicum.†

The other boast of Genoa of having given birth to the immortal Columbus, seems very dubious, and the Piedmontese appear to have the greater claim. By the solemn decision of the Supreme Council of the Indies, Columbus is proved to have been born at Cuccaro in Montferrat; and at Venice in 1589, a Colombo of Cuccaro claimed the princely inheritance originally awarded to the immortal navigator.

* Cardinal de Retz's Memoires de la Conjuration du Compte Fiesco.

By a decree of the Senate, the gift of his citizens to Andrew Doria, the deliverer of his country.

DUCAL PALACE CHURCH OF ST. AMBROSE CHURCH, AND BRIDGE, OF SA. MARIA DI CARIGNANO-HOSPITAL OF INCURABLES-PALAZZO SERRA, AND SALOON OF THE SUNPALAZZO DURAZZO-DITTO OF ANDREW DORIA-CATHEDRAL OF ST. LAWRENCE-EMERALD DISH-PICTURES IN THE BRIGNOLE PALACE-ARSENAL-ROMAN PROW-SCULPTURE BY MICHAEL ANGELO-STREETS, HOUSES, &c. OF GENOAGENOESE CHARACTER-INN OF LA CROCE DI MALTA — THEATRES.

HAVING thus given a summary account of the Government of Genoa by Doges, I may here appropriately speak of the Ducal Palace, whose great saloon was its Senate Hall in the time of its Dukes. Its dimensions are 122 feet in length, 52 in breadth, and 70 in height. Round the room are 38 columns, and pilasters, of Brocatello marble, of the Corinthian order. The marble statues that once adorned the niches were destroyed by the Genoese themselves in some insurrection, and they are now supplied with bad plaster copies. The trouble of casting the draperies is avoided by an ingenious contrivance; they being composed of calico; the folds are beautiful, and the delusion is very complete. No use is now made of this hall, except on occasional public fêtes; while the remaining apartments of this former residence of the Doges are now appropriated as public offices.

The church of St. Ambrose is distinguished by the profusion of marbles with which it may be said to be entirely encrusted. To me, the sight of such varieties of colours, and contrasts, was unpleasing, still more so as utterly destroying the solemnity of a church; its high altar is adorned with a picture of the Circumcision of Jesus by Rubens, placed between four lofty columns of the black marble called Basdiglio di Porto Venere, and two colossal statues of St. Peter, and St. Paul.

In a chapel on the left is another by Rubens, of a Saint curing a man possessed of the Devil; and raising infants again to life; but, above all, in the opposite chapel on the right is Guido's well known, and divine, picture of the Assumption of the Virgin.

The next church visited was Santa Maria di Carignano, celebrated for its noble, and simple, architectural grandeur.

In the nave, among other statues, is a chef d'œuvre of Puget :-a dying St. Sebastian, who was shot to death by arrows. The expression, the agony, the swollen muscles, and bursting skin, pronounce it a master-piece. We ascended the topmost tower of this church to view the enchanting panorama. It is said that on the verge of the expanded ocean, the Island of Corsica may be sometimes seen.

Close by is Il Ponte di Carignano, a bridge not

thrown over a stream, but over a street; it has seven arches, the three central ones are stupendously solid, and unite the two hills of Sarzan, and Carig

nano.

It is somewhat terrific to look down from a parapet wall on the lofty houses below, many of which are six stories high.

One more sight, sad, and horrible, concluded this day. We chanced to walk into their Hospital of Incurables: here were the old and the young, stretched upon their miserable beds of straw, too many doomed ne'er again to rise from them! All kinds of nameless diseases! Livid and ghastly faces! squalid miseries, and hopeless wretchedness! All those who could totter presently surrounded us, with clamorous cries for charity; while the more helpless stretched out their pallid hands from their bed! Perhaps it was even more pitiable to behold so many infants and little children, so blighted, and withered, in their birth; so horribly deformed!

Upstairs are the wards for the Mad. Here were about thirty spectacles of man with all his faculties perverted; of man without one glimmering of reason! Furious, diabolical, raving; and lashed to their beds by the wrists with the strongest iron chains!

The horrors, and blasphemies, of this scene I forbear to describe.

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Saloon of the Sun.

19th Inst. To-day three Palaces, besides Churches. To speak impartially, these palaces, now-a-days, seem to me to possess nothing particularly worthy of notice, or admiration, except their imposing exterior grandeur, and size; and one or two matters in each which I willingly record.

The chief object in the Palazzo Serra, in the Strada Nuova, is the Grand Saloon designed, and decorated by a French architect, Wailly. In size it is comparatively small, forty-five feet by twenty-eight wide; though very lofty. The floor is of polished mastic, stained to imitate Oriental Breccia; sixteen fluted columns, of the Corinthian order, surmounted by a rich entablature, sustain an arch whose capacious pannels are adorned with foliage, arabesques, and eight Cariatides; and which terminate in an oval dome painted with the Apotheosis of Ambrose Spinola. This saloon is almost entirely golden, and is further adorned with silken draperies, tapestry, and lapis lazuli: it has cost an enormous sum; it may be fairly said to be fit for the presence of any sovereign; and is appropriately termed the Saloon of the Sun.

Il Palazzo Durazzo belonging to the noble family of that name in the Strada Balbi, extends in front above 300 feet; the grand portal is ornamented with four noble columns of white marble, of one entire piece, and of the Doric order.

Here is of course an immense range of rooms;