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SICILY AND MALTA. 301
So that the dignity of the Sicilian titles
may be said to be in the inverse ratio of
their antiquities.
The luxury of the people here, like that
of the Neapolitans, consists chiessy in their
equipages and horses; but by a wise law of
the King of Sardinia, which I am surprised
should still remain in force, the viceroy
alone is allowed to drive in the city with fix
horses; the prastor, the archbishop, and
president of the parliament with four] all
the rest of the nobility are restri&ed to two.
But this is only within the gates of Paler-
mo ; and when they go to the country,
there is none of them that drive with lefs
than four : besides, every family of distinc-
tion has at least two or three carriages in
daily use ; for no man of fashion is so un-
polite as to refuse his wife a chariot of her
own, of which she has the entire com-
mand ; (without this the Marino could never
sublid) and the upper scrvants of the firsl
families
So that the dignity of the Sicilian titles
may be said to be in the inverse ratio of
their antiquities.
The luxury of the people here, like that
of the Neapolitans, consists chiessy in their
equipages and horses; but by a wise law of
the King of Sardinia, which I am surprised
should still remain in force, the viceroy
alone is allowed to drive in the city with fix
horses; the prastor, the archbishop, and
president of the parliament with four] all
the rest of the nobility are restri&ed to two.
But this is only within the gates of Paler-
mo ; and when they go to the country,
there is none of them that drive with lefs
than four : besides, every family of distinc-
tion has at least two or three carriages in
daily use ; for no man of fashion is so un-
polite as to refuse his wife a chariot of her
own, of which she has the entire com-
mand ; (without this the Marino could never
sublid) and the upper scrvants of the firsl
families