As  we  returned,  Mr.  R y  afked,  if

I  recolleded  the  Saint's  name.  I  faid,  I
did  not.  **  We  muft  inform  ourfelves,**
faid  he;  "  for  when  I  meet  him  above,  I
♦*  fhall  certainly  claim  fome  merit  with  him,
"  from  having  done  penance  at  his  beatific
*'  cation  *."

*  I  have  been  fince  informed,  this  new  Saint  is  called  St;
Buonavantiiraj  he  was  by  birth  a  Neapolitan.
MANNERS    IN   ITALY.  459


LETTER     XLIII.
Rome.
f  I  "^Ravellers  are  too  apt  to  form  hafty,
-H-  and,  for  the  moft  part,  unfavourable
opinions  of  national  charadlers.  Finding
the  cuftoms  and  fentiments  of  the  inhabi-
tantsof  the  foreign  countries  through  which
they  pafs,  very  different  fronni  their  own,
they  are  ready  to  confider  them  as  erro-
neous, and  conclude,  that  thofe  who  adr
and  think  in  a  manner  fo  oppofite  to  them-
felves,  muft  be  either  knaves,  fools,  or  both.
In  fuch  hafty  decifions  they  are  often  con-
firmed by  the  partial  reprefentations  of  a
few  of  their  own  countrymen,  or  of  other
foreigners  who  are  eftablifhed  in  fome
profeffion  in  thofe  countries,  and  who
have  an  interell:  in  giving  bad  impref-
fions  of  the  people  among  whom  they
refide.
