am going to _Pisa_ in a few weeks, and have sent and am sending
off my chattels. It regretted me[49] that, my books and every thing
being packed, I could not send you a few things I meant for you;
but they were all sealed and baggaged, so as to have made it a
month's work to get at them again. I gave him an envelope, with the
Italian scrap in it[50], alluded to in my Gilchrist defence.
Hobhouse will make it out for you, and it will make you laugh, and
him too, the _spelling_ particularly. The '_Mericani_,' of whom
they call me the 'Capo' (or Chief), mean 'Americans,' which is the
name given in _Romagna_ to a part of the Carbonari; that is to say,
to the _popular_ part, the _troops_ of the Carbonari. They are
originally a society of hunters in the forest, who took the name of
Americans, but at present comprise some thousands, &c.; but I
shan't let you further into the secret, which may be participated
with the postmasters. Why they thought me their Chief, I know not:
their Chiefs are like 'Legion, being many. However, it is a post of
more honour than profit, for, now that they are persecuted, it is
fit that I should aid them; and so I have done, as far as my means
would permit. They will rise again some day, for these fools of
the government are blundering: they actually seem to know
_nothing_; for they have arrested and banished many of their _own_
party, and let others escape who are not their friends.

"What think'st thou of Greece?

"Address to me here as usual, till you hear further from me.

"By Mawman I have sent a Journal to Moore; but it won't do for the
public,--at least a great deal of it won't;--_parts_ may.

"I read over the Juans, which are excellent. Your squad are quite
wrong; and so you will find by and by. I regret that I do not go on
with it, for I had all the plan for several cantos, and different
countries and climes. You say nothing of the _note_ I enclosed to
you[51], which will explain why I agreed to discontinue it (at
Madame G----'s request); but you are so grand, and sublime, and
occupied, that one would think, instead of publishing for 'the
Board of _Longitude_,' that you were trying to discover it.

"Let me hear that Gifford is _better_. He can't be spared either by
you or me."

[Footnote 49: It will be observed,