THE MANIAC OF FONDI.

A TROOP of comedians were travelling from Rome just as the mal aria had begun to render that imperial city uninhabitable. They were hastening to Naples to join the company of the Theatre San Carlos for the ensuing season. Light-hearted, as players always are, and as much more so as the laughing skies and bland air of Italy could make them, they journeyed like people who had nothing to do in the world but to laugh, and to gather enjoyments from every thing that presented itself to them. Some of the females were in a travelling coach, old and clumsy in itself, and infinitely more cumbrous from its being loaded with musical instruments, packages, theatrical dresses, and properties, as they are called here. Two lean horses, driven by a vetturino, who was in no hurry, dragged the crazy vehicle. Some of the men were mounted on such horses VOL. II. July, 1827.

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