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sincerity? Does he unfold his vanity and as often as Mr. Bowles, and have had as duplicity? and then omit the good qualities pleasant things said, and some as unpleasant, which might, in part, have "covered this as could well be pronounced. In the review multitude of sins?" and then plead that of "The Fall of Jerusalem," it is stated "they did not occur to his recollection?" Is that I have devoted "my powers, to the this the frame of mind and of memory with worst parts of Manicheism," which, being which the illustrious dead are to be ap-interpreted, means that I worship the devil proached? If Mr. Bowles, who must have Now, I have neither written a reply, not had access to all the means of refreshing complained to Gifford. I believe that I his memory, did not recollect these facts, observed in a letter to you, that I thought he is unfit for his task; but if he did re- "that the critic might have praised Milman collect, and omit them, I know not what without finding it necessary to abuse me; he is fit for, but I know what would be but did I not add at the same time, or 8004 fit for him. Is the plea of "not recollect- after (apropos of the note in the book of ing" such prominent facts to be admitted? Travels), that I would not, if it wen Mr. Bowles has been at a public school, even in my power, have a single line carand as I have been publicly educated also, celled on my account in that nor in any I can sympathize with his predilection. other publication? Of course, I reserve When we were in the third form even, had to myself the privilege of response when we pleaded on the Monday morning, that necessary. Mr. Bowles seems in a whis we had not brought up the Saturday's exer-sical state about the article on Spence. You cise because "we had forgotten it," what know very well that I am not in your would have been the reply? And is an ex-confidence, nor in that of the conductor of cuse, which would not be pardoned to a the journal. The moment I saw that article. schoolboy, to pass current in a matter I was morally certain that I knew the a which so nearly concerns the fame of the thor "by his style." You will tell me that first poet of his age, if not of his country? I do not know him: that is all as it should If Mr. Bowles so readily forgets the virtues of others, why complain so grievously that others have a better memory for his own faults? They are but the faults of an author; while the virtues he omitted from his catalogue are essential to the justice due to a man.

be; keep the secret, so shall 1, though one has ever intrusted it to me. He is not the person whom Mr. Bowles denounces Mr. Bowles's extreme sensibility reminds me of a circumstance which occurred o board of a frigate, in which I was i passenger and guest of the captain's for Mr. Bowles appears, indeed, to be sus considerable time. The surgeon on board, ceptible beyond the privilege of authorship. a very gentlemanly young man, and reThere is a plaintive dedication to Mr. markably able in his profession, wore a Gifford, in which he is made responsible wig. Upon this ornament he was extremely for all the articles of the Quarterly. Mr. tenacious. As naval jests are sometimes a Sonthey, it seems, "the most able and elo- little rough, his brother-officers made quent writer in that Review," approves of casional allusions to this delicate appendage Mr. Bowles's publication. Now, it seems to the doctor's person. One day a young to me the more impartial, that, notwith-lieutenant, in the course of a facetions die standing that the great writer of the Quar-cussion, said, "Suppose, now, doctor. 1 terly entertains opinions opposite to the should take off your hat. "Sir," replied able article on Spence, nevertheless that the doctor, "I shall talk no longer wit essay was permitted to appear. Is a Review you; you grow scurrilous." He would to be devoted to the opinions of any one even admit so near an approach as to the man? Must it not vary according to cir- hat which protected it. In like manner, cumstances, and according to the subjects if any body approaches Mr. Bowles's laurels to be criticised? I fear that writers must even in his outside capacity of an editor, take the sweets and bitters of the public "they grow scurrilous." You say that yes journals as they occur, and an author of are about to prepare an edition of Pope so long a standing as Mr. Bowles might you cannot do better for your own creds have become accustomed to such incidents; as a publisher, nor for the redemption d he might be angry, but not astonished. I Pope from Mr. Bowles, and of the pubir have been reviewed in the Quarterly almost taste from rapid degeneracy.

NOTES TO CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE.

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NOTES TO CANTO I. Yes! sigh'd o'er Delphi's long-deserted shrine. [pag. 3. Stanza 1. THE little village of Castri stands partly on e site of Delphi. Along the path of the mounin, from Chrysso, are the remains of sepulres hewn in and from the rock: "One," said e gaide, "of a king who broke his neck huntHis Majesty had certainly chosen the test spot for such an achievement. A little Love Castri is a cave, supposed the Pythian, immense depth; the upper part of it is paved, id now a cowhouse. On the other side of Castri ands a Greek monastery ; some way above hich is the cleft in the rock, with a range of werns difficult of ascent, and apparently leadg to the interior of the mountain; probably to e Corycian Cavern mentioned by Pausanias. rom this part descend the fountain and the Dews of Castalie."

And rest ye at our Lady's house of woe." [p. 5. St. 20. The Convent of "Our Lady of Punishment," Tossa Sennora de Pena *), on the summit of the ck. Below, at some distance, is the Cork Conent, where St. Honorius dug his den, over hich is his epitaph. From the hills, the sea dds to the beauty of the view.

tion, reconciled rival superstitions, and baffled an enemy who never retreated before his predecessors.

Yet Mafra shall one moment claim delay. [p. 6. St. 29. The extent of Mafra is prodigious; it contains a palace, convent, and most superb church. The six organs are the most beautiful I ever beheld in point of decoration; we did not hear them, but were told that their tones were correspondent to their splendour. Mafra is termed the Escurial of Portugal.

Well doth the Spanish hind the difference know 'Twixt him and Ĺusian slave, the lowest of the low. [p. 7. St. 33.

As I found the Portuguese, so I have characterized them. That they are since improved, at least in courage, is evident.

When Cava's traitor-sire first call'd the band That dyed thy mountain-streams with Gothic gore? [p. 7. St. 35.

Count Julian's daughter, the Helen of Spain. Pelagius preserved his independence in the fastnesses of the Asturias, and the descendants of his followers, after some centuries, completed their struggle by the conquest of Grenada.

No! as he speeds, he chaunts: "Viva el Rey!" [p. 8. St. 48. "Viva el Rey Fernando!"-Long live King Ferdinand! is the chorus of most of the Spanish patriotic songs: they are chiefly in dispraise of the old king Charles, the Queen, and the Prince of Peace. have heard many of them; some of the airs are beautiful. Godoy, the Principe de la Paz, was born at Badajoz, on the frontiers of Portugal, and was originally in the ranks of the Spanish Guards, till his person attracted the queen's eyes, and raised him to the dukedom of Alcudia. It is to this man that the Spaniards universally impute the ruin of their country.

hroughout this purple land, where law secures not life. [p. 5. St. 21. It is a well known fact, that, in the year 1809, he assassinations in the streets of Lisbon and is vicinity were not confined by the Portuguese o their countrymen; but that Englishmen were aily butchered: and so far from redress being btained, we were requested not to interfere if ve perceived any compatriot defending himself gainst his allies. I was once stopped in the vay to the theatre at eight o'clock in the eveing, when the streets were not more empty han they generally are at that hour, opposite o an open shop, and in a carriage with a friend; ad we not fortunately been armed, I have not he least doubt that we should have adorned a Bears in his cap the badge of crimson hue, sale instead of telling one. The crime of as-Which tells you whom to shun and whom to greet. sassination is not confined to Portugal: in Sicily and Malta we are knocked on the head at a handsome average nightly, and not a Sicilian the centre. or Maltese is ever punished!

Behold the hall where chiefs were late convened!

(p. 8. St. 50. The red cockade with "Fernando Septimo" in

The ball-piled pyramid, the ever-blazing match. [p. 8. St. 51. [p. 6. St. 24. All who have seen a battery will recollect The Convention of Cintra was signed in the the pyramidal form in which shot and shells are palace of the Marchese Marialva. The late ex-piled. The Sierra Morena was fortified in every ploits of Lord Wellington have effaced the fol- defile through which I passed in my way to lies of Cintra. He has, indeed, done wonders: Seville. he has perhaps changed the character of a na

*) Since the publication of this Poem, I have been informed of the misapprehension of the term Nossa Senora de Pena. It was owing to the want of the tilde, or mark over the n, which alters the signification of the word: with it, Pena signifies a rock; without it, Pena has the sense I adopted. I do not think it necessary to alter the passage, as though the common acceptation affixed to it is "our Lady of the Rock," I may well assume the other sense from the severitice practised there.

Foil'd by a woman's hand, before a batter'd wall? (p. 9. St. 56.

Such were the exploits of the Maid of Saragoza. When the author was at Seville she walked daily on the Prado, decorated with medale and orders, by command of the Junta.

The seal Love's dimpling finger hath impress'd
Denotes how soft that chin which bears his touch.
[p. 9. St. 58.
"Sigilla in mento impressa Amoris digitulo
"Vestigio demonstrant mollitudinem."
AUL. GEL.

Oh, thou Parnassus ! [p. 9. St. 60. | country, appear more conspicuous than to de These stanzas were written in Castri (Delphos), record of what Athens was, and the certains

at the foot of Parnassus, now called laxvoa

Liakura.

Fair is proud Seville; let her country boast
Her strength, her wealth, her site of ancient days.
[p. 10. St. 65.
Seville was the HISPALIS of the Romans.
Ask ye, Baotian shades! the reason why?
[p. 10. St. 70.
This was written at Thebes, and consequently
in the best situation for asking and answering
such a question; not as the birth-place of Pin-
dar, but as the capital of Boeotia, where the
first riddle was propounded and solved.

Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom
flings.
[p. 12. St. 82.
"Medio de fonto leporum
"Surgit amari aliquid quod in ipsis floribus angat."

LUCR.

A traitor only fell beneath the feud. [p. 12. St. 85, Alluding to the conduct and death of Solano, the Governor of Cadiz.

"War even to the knife!"

[p. 12. St. 86. "War to the knife." Palafox's answer to the French General at the siege of Saragoza.

And thou, my friend!

[p. 13. St. 91. The Honourable I. W**. of the Guards, who died of a fever at Coimbra. I had known him ten years, the better half of his life, and the happiest part of mine.

In the short space of one month I have lost her who gave me being, and most of those who had made that being tolerable. To me the lines of YOUNG are no fiction:

Insatiate archer! could not one suffice?

Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain,

And thrice ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn.

I should have ventured a verse to the memory of the late Charles Skinner Matthews, Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, were he not too much above all praise of mine. His powers of mind, shown in the attainment of greater honours, against the ablest candidates, than those of any graduate on record at Cambridge, have sufficiently established his fame on the spot where it was acquired, while his softer qualities live in the recollection of friends who loved him too well to envy his superiority.

NOTES TO CANTO II.

Despite of war and wasting fire. [p. 13. St. 1. PART of the Acropolis was destroyed by the explosion of a magazine during the Venetian siege.

of what she now is. This theatre of contentan between mighty factions, of the struggies f orators, the exaltation and deposition of tyran the triumph and punishment of generals, is w become a scene of petty intrigue and perperal disturbance between the bickering agens certain British nobility and gentry. "The v foxes, the owls and serpents in the ruins ✔bề bylon," were surely less degrading than vid inhabitants. The Turks have the plea of quest for their tyranny, and the Greeks by only suffered the fortune of war, inciden the bravest; but how are the mighty m when two painters contest the privilege of dering the Parthenon, and triumph in te cording to the tenor of each succeeding A Sylla could but punish, Philip subdue m Xerxes burn Athens; but it remained in the paltry antiquarian, and his despicable n to render her contemptible as himself an in pursuits.

The Parthenon, before its destruction in art, by fire during the Venetian siege, had bea temple, a church, and a mosque. In each p of view it is an object of regard: it changed a worshippers; but still it was a place of w thrice sacred to devotion: its violation si triple sacrilege. But

"Man, vain man,

Drest in a little brief authority,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high ho
As make the angels weep."

Far on the solitary shore he sleep.

[p. 14.81 It was not always the custom of the Gre to burn their dead; the greater Ajax is at cular was interred entire. Almost all the d became gods after their decease, and be va indeed neglected, who had not annual çının near his tomb, or festivals in honour of mory by his countrymen, as Achilles, Brasi and at last even Antinous, whose death vau heroic as his life was infamous.

Here, son of Saturn! was thy fav'rite them

(p. 14. S

The temple of Jupiter Olympins, of which t teen columns, entirely of marble, yet sor originally there were 150. These columns ever, are by many supposed to have bee to the Pantheon.

And bear these altars o'er the long-reluctant bre [p. 14. St

The ship was wrecked in the Archipelago To rive what Goth, and Turk, and Time spared. (p. 14. & 11 At this moment (January 3, 1809), be what has been already deposited in London Hydriot vessel is in the Piræus to receive ever portable relic. Thus, as I heard a young Gree observe in common with many of his co men-for, lost as they are, they yet feel the occasion-thus may Lord Elgin boast of ba ruined Athens. An Italian painter of the f eminence, named Lusieri, is the agent of devas ation; and like the Greek finder of Verres But worse than steel and flame, and ages slow, Sicily, who followed the same profession, be br Is the dread sceptre and dominion dire proved the able instrument of plunder. Betw Of men who never felt the sacred glow this artist and the French Consul Fauvel, That thoughts of thee and thine on polish'd wishes to rescue the remains for his own go breasts bestow. (p. 13. St. 1. ment, there is now a violent dispute concer We can all feel, or imagine, the regret with a car employed in their conveyance, the we which the ruins of cities, once the capitals of of which-I wish they were both brokes empires, are beheld; the reflections suggested it has been locked up by the Consul, and a by such objects are too trite to require recapi-sieri has laid his complaint before the Wa tulation. But never did the littleness of man, wode. Lord Elgin has been extremely happy and the vanity of his very best virtues, of pa- his choice of Signor Lasieri. During a residen triotiem to exalt, and of valour to defend his of ten years in Athens he never had the cur

to proceed as far as Sanium *), till he acpanied us in our second excursion. However, works, as far as they go, are most beautiful; they are almost all unfinished. While he his patrons confine themselves to tasting lals, appreciating cameos, sketching columns, cheapening gems, their little absurdities are harmless as insect- or fox-hunting, maidenethifying, barouche-driving, or any such pase: but when they carry away three or four loads of the most valuable and massy relics t time and barbarism have left to the most ired and most celebrated of cities; when y destroy, in a vain attempt to tear down, se works which have been the admiration of 8, I know no motive which can excuse, no e which can designate, the perpetrators of › dastardly devastation. It was not the least the crimes laid to the charge of Verres, that had plundered Sicily, in the manner since tated at Athens. The most unblushing imence could hardly go farther than to affix name of its plunderer to the walls of the opolis; while the wanton and useless defaceat of the whole range of the bassorelievos, one compartment of the temple will never mit that name to be pronounced by an observwithout execration.

in this occasion I speak impartially: I am a collector or admirer of collections, consently no rival; but I have some early prepossion in favour of Greece, and do not think honour of England advanced by plunder, ether of India or Attica.

Another noble Lord has done better, because has done less: but some others, more or less le, yet "all honourable men," have done best, ause, after a deal of excavation and execra, bribery to the Waywode, mining and

countermining, they have done nothing at all.
We had such ink-shed, and wine-shed, which
almost ended in bloodshed! Lord E's "prig,”-
see Jonathan Wylde for the definition of "prig
gism,"-quarrelled with another, Gropius *) by
name (a very good name too for his business),
and muttered something about satisfaction, in a
verbal answer to a note of the poor Prussian
this was stated at table to Gropius, who laughed,
but could eat no dinner afterwards. The rivals
were not reconciled when I left Greece. I have
reason to remember their squabble, for they
wanted to make me their arbitrator.

Her sons too weak the sacred shrine to guard,
Yet felt some portion of their mother's pains.

[p. 14. St. 12.

I cannot resist availing myself of the permission of my friend Dr. Clarke, whose name requires no comment with the public, but whose sanction will add tenfold weight to my testimony, to insert the following extract from a very obliging letter of his to me, as a note to the above lines:

"When the last of the Metopes was taken from the Parthenon, and, in moving of it, great part of the superstructure with one of the triglyphs was thrown down by the workmen whom Lord Elgin employed, the Disdar, who beheld the mischief done to the building, took his pipe from his mouth, dropped a tear, and, in a supplicating tone of voice, said to Lasieri: Teos! I was present. `

The Disdar alluded to was the father of the present Disdar.

Where was thine Ægis, Pallas! that appall'd
Stern Alaric and Havoc on their way?

-The netted canopy.

[p. 14. St. 14. According to Zozimus, Minerva and Achilles Now Cape Colonna. In all Attica, if we frightened Alaric from the Acropolis; but others xcept Athens itself and Marathon, there is relate that the Gothic king was nearly as mis10 scene more interesting than Cape Colonna.chievous as the Scottish peer.-See CHANDLER. To the antiquary and artist, sixteen columns re an inexhaustible source of observation and lesign; to the philosopher, the supposed scene of some of Plato's conversations will not be Inwelcome; and the traveller will be struck with the beauty of the prospect over "Isles hat crown the Egean deep:" but for an Englishman, Colonna has yet an additional interest, as the actual spot of Falconer's Shipwreck. Pallas and Plato are forgotten in the recollection of Falconer and Campbell:

[p. 15. St. 18. The netting to prevent blocks or splinters from falling on deck during action.

Here in the dead of night by Lonna's steep, The seaman's cry was heard along the deep. This temple of Minerva may be seen at sea from a great distance. In two journeys, which I made, and one voyage to Cape Colonna, the view from either side, by land, was less striking than the approach from the isles. In our second land-excursion we had a narrow escape from a party of Mainnotes, concealed in the caverns beneath. We were told afterwards, by one of their prisoners subsequently ransomed, that they were deterred from attacking us by the appearance of my two Albanians: conjecturing very sagaciously, but falsely, that we had a complete guard of these Arnauts at hand, they remained stationary, and thus saved our party, which was too small to have opposed any effectual resistance. Colonna is no less a resort of painters than of pirates; there The hireling artist plants his paltry desk, And makes degraded Nature picturesque. But there Nature, with the aid of Art, has doue that for herself. I was fortunate enough to engage a very superior German artist; and hope to renew my acquaintance with this and many other Levantine scenes by the arrival of his performances.

But not in silence pass Calypso's isles.
[p. 16. St. 29.
Goza is said to have been the island of Calypso.

Land of Albania! let me bend mine eyes
On thee, thou rugged nurse of savage men!
[p. 17. St. 38.

Albania comprises part of Macedonia, Illyria, Chaonia, and Epirus. Iskander is the Turkish word for Alexander; and the celebrated Scanderbeg (Lord Alexander) is alluded to in the

*) This Sr. Gropius was employed by a noble Lord for the sole purpose of sketching, in which he excels; but I am sorry to say, that he has, through the abused sanction of that most respectable name, been treading at humble distance in the steps of Sr. Lusieri. A shipful of his trophies was detained, and I believe confiscated, at Constantinople in 1810. I am most happy to be now enabled to state, that "this was not in his bond;" that he was employed solely as a painter, and that his noble patron disavows all connexion with him, except as an artist. If the error in the first and second edition of this poem has given the noble Lord a moment's pain, I am very sorry for it; Sr. Gropius has assumed for years the name of his agent; and though I cannot much condemn myself for sharing in the mistake of so many, I am happy in being one of the first to be undeceived. Indeed, I have as much pleasure in contradicting this as I felt regret in stating it.

third and fourth lines of the thirty-eighth | tributed my recovery. I had left my last n stanza. I do not know whether I am correct in maining English servant at Athens; my dra making Scanderbeg the countryman of Alexander, man was as ill as myself, and my poor Aruata who was born at Pella in Macedon, but Mr. nursed me with an attention which would ha Gibbon terms him so, and adds Pyrrhus to the done honour to civilization. list, in speaking of his exploits.

Of Albania Gibbon remarks, that a country "within sight of Italy is less known than the interior of America. Circumstances, of little consequence to mention, led Mr. Hobhouse and myself into that country before we visited any other part of the Ottoman dominions; and with the exception of Major Leake, then officially resident at Yanina, no other Englishmen have ever advanced beyond the capital into the interior, as that gentleman very lately assured me. Ali Pacha was at that time (October, 1809) carry ing on war against Ibrahim Pacha, whom he had driven to Berat, a strong fortress which he was then besieging: on our arrival at Yanina we were invited to Tepaleni, his Highness's birth-place, and favourite Serai, only one day's distance from Berat; at this juncture the Vizier had made it his head-quarters.

After some stay in the capital, we accordingly followed; but though furnished with every accommodation and escorted by one of the Vizier's secretaries, we were nine days (on account of the rains) in accomplishing a journey which, on our return, barely occupied four.

On our route we passed two cities, Argyrocastro and Libochabo, apparently little inferior to Yanina in size; and no pencil or pen can ever do justice to the scenery in the vicinity of Zitza and Delvinachi, the frontier-village of Epirus and Albania proper.

On Albania and its inhabitants I am unwilling to descant, because this will be done so much better by my fellow-traveller, in a work which may probably precede this in publication, that I as little wish to follow as I would to anticipate him. But some few observations are necessary to the text.

They had a variety of adventures; for the Moslem, Dervish, being a remarkably hand man, was always squabbling with the hestand of Athens; insomuch that four of the pr Turks paid me a visit of remonstrance & Convent, on the subject of his having taken a woman from the bath-whom he had la bought, however-a thing quite contrary ve quette.

Basili also was extremely gallant among an for the church, mixed with the highest co own persuasion, and had the greatest ve of churchmen, whom he cuffed upon occa a most heterodox manner. Yet he never p member the risk he ran in entering St. Siqua. a church without crossing himself; and i in Stambol, because it had once been ajan of his worship. On remonstrating with hin swered, "our church is holy, our priest his inconsistent proceedings, he invariably thieves:" and then he crossed himself as and boxed the

refused to assist in any required operaties. ears of the first papa vis was always found to be necessary wet a of his village. Indeed a more abandoned priest had any influence with the Cogia ar of miscreants cannot exist than the lower orem of the Greek clergy.

When preparations were made for my re my Albanians were summoned to receive the

pay. Basili took his with an awkward shor
regret at my intended departure, and mar
away to his quarters with his bag of pas
not to be found; at last he entered, just a
I sent for Dervish, but for some time he vu
Signor Logotheti, father to the ci-devant
glo-consul of Athens, and some other of
took the money, but on a sudden dashed
Greek acquaintances, paid me a visit. Der
the ground; and clasping his hands, wh
raised to his forehead, rushed out of the
hour of my embarkation he continued
weeping bitterly.
mentations, and all our efforts to console ka
only produced this answer,
"Má peivel.
leaves me." Signor Logotheti, who never
before for any thing less than the loss
para, melted; the padre of the consent
attendants, my visitors-and I verily be
that even "Sterne's foolish fat scullion."
have left her "fish-kettle," to sympathize
the unaffected and unexpected sorrow of the

barbarian.

From that moment to the

For my own part, when I remembered the. a short time before my departure from Enga a noble and most intimate associate had es sed himself from taking leave of me because had to attend a relation to a milliner's no less surprised than humiliated by the pr sent occurrence and the past recollection.

The Arnauts, or Albanese, struck me forcibly by their resemblance to the Highlanders of Scotland, in dress, figure, and manner of living. Their very mountains seemed Caledonian with a kinder climate. The kilt, though white; the spare, active form; their dialect, Celtic in its sound, and their hardy habits, all carried me back to Morven. No nation are so detested and dreaded by their neighbours as the Albanese: the Greeks hardly regard them as Christians, or the Turks as Moslems; and in fact they are a mixture of both, and sometimes neither. Their habits are predatory: all are armed; and the red-shawled Arnauts, the Montenegrins, Chimariots, and Gegdes are treacherous; the others differ somewhat in garb, and essentially in character. As far as my own experience goes, 1 can speak favourably. I was attended by two, an Infidel and a Mussulman, to Constantinople and every other part of Turkey which came within my observation; and more faithful in peril, or indefatigable in service, are rarely to be found. The Infidel was named Basilius, the Moslem, Dervish Tahiri; the former a man That Dervish would leave me with some f of middle age, and the latter about my own. gret was to be expected: when master and Basili was strictly charged by Ali Pacha in have been scrambling over the mountains person to attend us; and Dervish was one of dozen provinces together, they are n fifty who accompanied us through the forests to separate; but his present feelings, contrasts of Acarnania to the banks of Achelous, and with his native ferocity, improved my op onward to Messalunghi in Etolia. There I took of the human heart. I believe this almost e him into my own service, and never had occa- dal fidelity is frequent amongst them. One in sion to repent it till the moment of my departure. on our journey over Parnassus, an Engliskost When in 1810, after the departure of my in my service gave him a push in some du friend Mr. H. for England, I was seized with a about the baggage, which he unluckily mist severe fever in the Morea, these men saved my for a blow; he spoke not, but saw down lea life by frightening away my physician, whose his head upon his hands. Foreseeing the coast throat they threatened to cut if I was not cured quences, we endeavoured to explain away within a given time. To this consolatory assu- affront, which produced the following a rance of posthumous retribution, and a resolute "I have been a robber, I am a soldier. refusal of Dr. Romanelli's prescriptions, I at-captain ever struck me; 'you are my master,

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