That court employed itself in a miserable round of folly and festivity, while the prisons of Naples were filled with groans, and the scaffolds streamed with blood.

St.Januarius was solemnly removed from his rank as patron saint of the kingdom, having been convicted of Jacobinism; and St.Antonio as solemnly installed in his place.

The king, instead of re-establishing order at Naples by his presence, speedily returned to Palermo, to indulge in his favourite amusements.

Nelson, and the ambassador's family, accompanied the court; and Troubridge remained, groaning over the villany and frivolity of those with whom he was compelled to deal.

A party of officers applied to him for a passage to Palermo, to see the procession of St.Rosalia: he recommended them to exercise their troops, and not behave like children.
It was grief enough for him that the court should be busied in these follies, and Nelson involved in them.