The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II: Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia Thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &c. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts.

· 1775

Printed for DANIEL BROWNE, at the _Black-Swan_, without _Temple-Bar_. M.DCC.XXXIX. Thus am I at length arrived at the famous City of ROME, that City which has been so long the Mistress of the World, and is still the Metropolis of _Europe_: But don't expect I should give you a perfect Description of it, because that would require a Man better skilled in Architecture than I am. I shall only mention such things as to me appeared to be the most beautiful, or those which I thought the Reverse, and which yet the Ostentation of the _Italians_ cries up for the Wonders of the World. I shall make it my Business, to give you an Account of Things animate, much rather than those which are inanimate; the…

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