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schools established in every city, town, and village of thekingdom. A bishop, who had denounced a master of oneof these schools as not being a regular Catholic, was answered,that his being any kind of Christian was sufficient! Theuniversity of the studii had fallen to ruins during the longperiod of the viceroyalty. It was re-established on itspresent admirable footing, and supplied with professorshipsof the useful arts and sciences, such as of history, geology,architecture, mechanics, natural history, chemistry, botany,besides those of scholastic learning and the fine arts.

Passing over the innumerable and gigantic constructionsof regal magnificence, or of public utility, such as thepalaces of Caserta and Capo di Monti, the aqueducts ofMaddaloni , many high roads, the hospital or general poor-house called the seraglio, the great cemetery or camposanto,&c., &c., I will mention the establishment of the coral fisheryby the Neapolitans, which soon annually occupied and en-riched four thousand sailors, and laid the foundation forthat magnificent continuation of the city of Naples aroundthe base of Mount Vesuvius , known by the names of LaTorre del Greco and La Torre dell’ Annuuciata. All landsreclaimed from waste were exempted from tax, for fromtwenty to forty years, according to the nature of the cultureestablished. And the last I shall mention of Tanucci ’s“ innovations,” though one of the first in importance, wasthe organization of the national archives, and the regula-tions for the registry of mortgages, from which system thecorresponding section of the Code Napoleon is evidentlyderived.

I must close this sketch of the services rendered to man-kind by Bernardo Tanucci, by stating, that FerdinandBourbon, having married Maria Carolina , daughter of theEmperor of Austria, and sister of Maria Antoinette ofFrance , and this ambitious queen having acquired an entire