the wide-extended Area can now only be traced upon the slopes of a cabbage garden!

LET us return to the Forum. Opposite to the Palace are the three brick Arches that once formed as many Recesses of the Temple of Peace, the vast concaves of which are fretted into square compartments which have long since lost the sculptured roses-of stucco-of marble-perhaps of silver-or of gold, with which they were once interleaved.

Here this venerable Field-so richly strewed with the Spoils of Antiquity, contracts itself to a single Arch, supported by Corinthian Columns, and fretted with Bas Reliefs, of the most exqui

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site workmanship.-It is that of Tituserected in commemoration of the Destruction of Jerusalem, and the Dispersion of the Jews-those awful Events which had been expressly predicted in the Sacred Records.

I could never contemplate this Arch, but with a degree of veneration, as a visible proof of Scripture History, singularly corroborating with that of the actual situation of the Children of Israel.

Within the Arch is a marble Bas Relief, five or six feet in height, and ten or twelve in length, in which are represented the sacred Vessels of the Holy of Holies, which Moses was commanded to make, in the Wilderness of Zin, according to the pattern which had been shown

him on the Mount: As, the Table of ShewBread-with its rings, and its staves; the Cup of Libations; the Silver Trumpets, with which the Sons of Aaron were to gather together the Congregation-to sound an alarm—or to sanctify a Fast; and, the Golden Candlestick-of seven brancheswith its bowls, its knops, and its flowers -three branches coming out of the one side, and three out of the other.

Upon the Frieze of the Southern Frontispiece, a recumbent Jordan is conveyed in Triumph, by the People of the Prince that should come (so said the Prophet Daniel, in the days of Darius the Mede) to destroy the City, and the Sanctuary.

It is said that the Jews of Rome have always avoided passing under the Arch

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of Titus, as a Monument of their National subjugation, and departed Polity.

However this may be, the Beggars frequent it, without scruple, and deafen the Curious Observer, while he is studying remote allusions, or poring over the adulatory Inscription:

SENATUS POPULUSQUE ROMANUS, DIVO TITO,* &c.

with vociferous exclamations of "Dio vo' accompagn' a la Madonna !" or "Date me quelqu'ose, por le Animé Santé del Purgatorio! †

This venerable Arch is at the entrance of a long passage, enclosed between high

walls

The Senate and People of Rome, to the god Titus.

† God accompany you to the Madonna! Give me something, for the sake of the holy Souls in Purgatory!

walls, which being a noted resort of. Foreigners is generally lined with whole Families of the begging Tribe-Among them I once overheard a Mother teaching her Child the Trade.

At the end of the Passage is a Second Field or Common, in which are situated the Amphitheatre of Vespasian, and the Arch of Constantine the Great. At a little distance are also massy Fragments of the Baths of Titus, in which was found the Wonderful Groupe of the Laocoon; and the Painting of the Roman Marriage, which is supposed to be the finest specimen of that art among the Ancients which has been recovered from the ruins of Ages.