. London labour and the London poor; a cyclopædia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work . ed the celebrated ItalianUgo Foscolo, when residing here, to call it oneof the three miseries of life. But we knownothing of it as a toimentor, compared withthe inhabitants of southern Em-ope, I met,says Arthm- Young, in his interesting Travelsthrough France,between Pradelles and Thui-jtz, mulbenies and flies at the same time. Bythe term JJies, I mean those myriads of themwhich fonn the most disagreeable circum-stances of the southern c
. London labour and the London poor; a cyclopædia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work . ed the celebrated ItalianUgo Foscolo, when residing here, to call it oneof the three miseries of life. But we knownothing of it as a toimentor, compared withthe inhabitants of southern Em-ope, I met,says Arthm- Young, in his interesting Travelsthrough France,between Pradelles and Thui-jtz, mulbenies and flies at the same time. Bythe term JJies, I mean those myriads of themwhich fonn the most disagreeable circum-stances of the southern climates. They arethe first torments in Spain, Italy, and the olivedistrict of France; it is not that they bite,sting, or hurt, but they btizz, teaze, and wony;your mouth, eyes, ears, and nose are full ofthem: they swarm on every eatable—fruit,sugar, everjthing is attacked by them in suchmyriads, that if they are not incessantly drivenaway by a person who has nothing else to do,to eat a meal is impossible. They ai-e, hmv-evei, caught on prepared paper, and otliercontrivances, with so much ease and in suchquantities, that were it not for negligence they. JACK BLACK, HER MAJESTYS riATOATCHER. [From a ] Paze 11. LONDON LABOUR AND THE LONDON POOR. could not abound in such incretlible f I fanned in these countries, I should manurefour or five acres every year with dead Hies. Ihave been much surprised that the learnedMr. Harmer should think it odd to find, by•writers who treated of southern climates, thatdriving away Hies was of importance. Had hebeen with me in Spain and in Languedoc in Julyand August, he would have been very far fromUiinking there was anytliing odd in it.—{YoKifffs Travels in France, i. 298.) It is a remarkable, and, as yet, unexplainedfact, that if nets of thread or string, withmeshes a full inch squai-e, be stretched overthe open windows of a room in summer orautumn, when tiies are the greatest nuisance,not a single one will venture
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