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Abercrombie Trant, ployed by the government, he was instantly Prince Alexander Ipsilanti, Capo d'Istrias was author of Two Years in Ava." 8vo. obeyed. The exhaustion which necessarily fol- urgent in his endeavours to check the progress pp. 435. London, 1830. Colburn and Bent- lowed an exterminating war of seven years' du-of an insurrection, which, being premature, he ley. ration, placed great moral power in the hands of foresaw threatened destruction to those conNOT only the latest, but the most intelligent Capo d'Istrias; and, without the employment cerned in it. He is said to have strongly asand best authenticated work we have seen re- of a single soldier, he, by a simple mandate, sured the Greeks, that they had no assistance lative to the existing situation of Greece. After at once allayed the intense fermentation of the to hope from Russia; and, however he may the classical labours of Colonel Leake, and the country; a chief was appointed from among secretly have been connected with their party, diligent researches of Mr. Dodwell, we had the elders of each village, to collect the rents he overtly disavowed their proceedings; and, little to expect either from descriptions of for the government, and these were fixed at until he was summoned by the nation, did not scenery, antiquarian discoveries, or illustrations ten per cent of the produce of private property, offer to join the patriot cause: but there can of ancient literature;-and therefore we are and thirty per cent for the lands held upon be no doubt that he had, from the commencenot disappointed in finding all the portions of lease from the government. Since then, two ment, looked forward to the supreme comCaptain Trant's volume which are devoted to successive years of peace have enabled them to mand. In the month of January 1828, Capo such topics, of inferior value. But in his collect their harvests, and at least place them-d'Istrias arrived at Napoli di Romania, in a views of society, of the political state of the selves beyond the chance of starvation; and British line-of-battle ship; and Griva, who country, of its parties, of the effects of the late they now look forward to an undisturbed was at that time at war with Colocotroni, struggle, and of the future prospects of Greece, possession of the lands for which they so long opened the gates of the fortress to him, and he has given us much to interest and inform contested, and in many instances have dearly thus placed the key of the Morea in his hands: us; and we have, from its pleasant and gentle-bought." the other refractory chieftains hastened to manlike style, perused his performance alto- This seems to have been an excellent mea-shew, their patriotism, by acknowledging the gether with very great pleasure. sure; but our author thinks it counterbal-president, who, without any exercise of force, In October 1829 he reached the Grecian anced by other pieces of conduct neither so be found himself at the head of the nation. At coast, where he says-" One of the most pro- neficial nor disinterested. As the Spectator this period, the fears of the Greeks, as to their minent objects was Castel Tornese, an old says, however, we always like to know some- political existence, were hushed; the decided Venetian fort, now a ruin, but in former days thing of the personal character of our heroes; part taken by the allied powers, the battle of affording protection to the town of Chiarenza, we shall therefore introduce the president in Navarino, and the results to which it led, had or Clarentza, which, by a strange decree of Capt. T.'s words. paralysed the movements of their most forfortune, has given the title of Clarence to our "Almost the first person whom I chanced to midable opponent, Ibrahim Pasha; and alroyal family. It would appear that at the see when I arrived at Argos, was Count John though it is true that the fatal battle of Athens time when the Latin conquerors of Constanti- Capo d'Istrias, the president of Greece. He had been followed by the surrender of the nople divided the Western Empire amongst was calling upon a gentleman at whose house Acropolis, the last stronghold possessed by the their leading chieftains; Clarentza, with the I stopped; and from his dress I at first mistook Greeks in eastern Hellas, the Turkish army district around it, and which comprised almost him for a Russian officer, and was much had not been able to penetrate through the all of ancient Elis, was formed into a duchy, pleased with his exceedingly gentlemanlike defiles of the Geraunian mountains, or force and fell to the lot of one of the victorious no- manner and winning address. His features the position taken up by Church for the debles, who transmitted the title and dukedom are handsome and dignified, his figure erect fence of the Isthmus of Corinth. From the to his descendants, until the male line failed, and well proportioned, and his prepossessing enemies of Greece the president had, thereand the heiress of Clarence married into the appearance is not unsupported by his conversa- fore, comparatively little to fear; and his Hainault family. By this union, Philippa, tional powers, which are those of a well-in-whole attention ought to have been occupied the consort of Edward the Third, became the formed, well-bred man of the world. Such is in allaying the irritation caused by the factions representative of the Dukes of Clarence; and the appearance of the man who now presides I have before alluded to, and in restoring quiet on this account was Prince Lionel invested over the interests of Greece. to the unhappy peasantry. To further his with the title, which has since remained in our "Count J. Capo d'Istrias is a Corfiot by views, all parties were willing to concur. royal family. It is certainly singular that a birth; and his family, which is of ancient Those men who had hitherto been foremost wretched village in Greece should have be- descent, is possessed of considerable property in in opposing the established government, when stowed its name upon the British monarch." that island. Count John, who is the second the member of a native cabal was at its It was not long before his travel brought brother, brought himself to the notice of the head, hesitated not to support a person who, Captain T. into contact with the celebrated Russians at the time when they held posses- it was hoped, would prove a stranger to the 'Capo d'Istrias, who is now playing so promi- sion of the Ionian islands; and having since intrigues of party and to the spirit of faction. nent a part in Greece, that we need offer no entered their service, he became well known to The reputation for talent he had acquired excuse for selecting the leading notices concern- the world as a diplomatist, and received credit when forming one of the Russian cabinet, .ing him. for a considerable share of talent. At the con- fostered the opinion that he was so well "Previous to the year 1828, the whole coun-gress of Vienna, he is reported to have called initiated in the secret of legislation, as to betry was ravaged by bands of armed men, who, forth from Prince Metternich the remark, come a rigid protector of the interests of the although unable to cope with their national Ce jeune homme là nous a fait la barbe à tous; infant nation. His arriving in a British man.. enemies, had power enough to oppress their whilst another eminent statesman, Sir Thomas of-war, at a time when the allies had ancountry people. the roads were infested with Maitland, in expressing his opinion of Caponounced their intention of interfering in favour robbers; the peasant, when following his d'Istrias's abilities, said, that he was a mere of Greece, seemed to imply that he came as the plough, never for a moment laid aside his arms; political puppet.' Which of the two senti- dictator chosen by the allied powers; and all and those persons who were obliged to travel ments was correct, his conduct, since his eleva-classes, anxious to manifest their gratitude for across the country, were hourly exposed to the tion to the presidency of Greece, will best de- the protection of the allies, hastened to promise attacks of banditti. But these evils had been termine. In the year 1819, a visit which hel submission to the president. Greece lay pros TO THE BRITISH NATION, THE NATIONAL POEM IS DEDICATED BY trate at his feet. How he availed himself of been educated for the law, but made no progress performances!!--The Achillead surpasses. In this disposition towards him, will hereafter in his profession, and was idling at Corfu when all its parts it is unique; in dedication, in appear. The first step taken by Capo d'Istrias his brother was nominated to the presidency of preface, and in poetry. We despair of being was to issue a proclamation, dated from on Greece. In him Capo d'Istrias discovered some able to satisfy our readers with any account we board of the Revenge, calling upon the Greeks latent sparks of military talent (acquired, no can give of it; we are certain that we never to acknowledge his authority, and directing doubt, by watching the drill of our regiments on can satisfy its author. William John Thomas them to lay aside their arms. The alacrity the esplanade), and the experience thus learnt is, or are, no doubt three Christian names; but with which this edict was submitted to, is sufficed to point him out as the leader of the are we thereby prepared to discover under highly creditable to the Greek peasantry; and Greek army in Acarnania. Measures were there- their cover a Greek, a Roman, and an English the result of the measure was the internal paci-fore taken to thwart and disgust Sir Richard epic bard-are we, we say, prepared by a fication of the country: those people who had Church, who, as generalissimo of the Greeks, William, a John, and a Thomas, or a Bill, hitherto derived the means of existing from had been successfully employing himself with Jack, and Tommy,-for a Homer, a Virgil, rapine and extortion, were obliged to seek a his nominal army in clearing Western Greece and a Milton in ONE? Ex pede Herculem, more peaceable mode of subsistence; the in-from the Turks; and, by refusing him supplies might do in the classics, or we might dream dustrious classes were enabled to till their of money and provisions, this object was soon from the name of Achillead of that bow of land and reap its fruits; the highways were attained; Church resigned, and Augustin was Ulysses which so few could draw; but we no longer infested by a lawless banditti; and appointed general, and nominated to the vacant never could have imagined that any modern peace and security were restored to the interior post. His conduct in his new situation was chords would come upon us with the whole of families. This great point being gained, it exactly what might have been expected from force of the tendon Achillis, like the heroics of was now hoped that the president, when se- such a puppet; he remained at Lepanto, pro- Mr. Thomas, M.R.C.S. (Muse Royal to the lecting his subordinate ministers, would have viding for future contingencies, by availing Company of Surgeons!) But oh, the powers made the choice without any reference to their himself of whatever opportunities occurred for of true native Genius! "What rhubarb, sen. party feelings, and have merely allowed talent improving his fortune, instead of taking effec-na, or what purgative drug," can stay it in? and integrity to be claims upon his notice; but tual steps to pacify that part of the country, It defies the clangour of the pestle, it surthe result did not justify this impression. which, though now two years in the possession mounts the clammy depths of the mortar; and Having abolished the preceding form of govern- of the Greeks, is in as unsettled a state at pre- it mounts like a volatile salt to its own attic ment, he proceeded to nominate a council, sent as it was during the war. The subordinate regions. It converts Apothecaries' Hall into a the Panhellenium; but though nominally pos-offices, in like manner, were distributed to per- temple of Apollo; and when business is slack, sessing some power, this assembly was virtually sons whose only merits and claims were a blind it lisps in numbers. To it we are indebted for merely used by him as a convenient mask to subserviency to the will of the dictator; the a William John Thomas. the really despotic authority that he reserved Ionian islands poured forth the refuse of their Let not our enthusiastic admiration, how. in his own hands. The contributions of France population upon devoted Greece, and every ever, keep the panting public from a know. and Russia replenished his treasury, and gave lucrative office or situation of trust was con- ledge of this splendid work. This is its dedi. him a force more irresistible in Greece than the fided to the islanders: they viewed Greece as cationemployment of a powerful army; and, armed vultures would a carcass on which they hoped with these weapons, he no sooner saw himself to gorge themselves, even unto satiety; and so in possession of the supreme power, than he well have they employed their time, that there began to prosecute his insidious designs, tend-is little now left but the skeleton. To those ing to the aggrandisement of himself and his persons whose accession he deemed advantageous family; to effect which, he hastened to form to his party, the president dispensed the French a party, upon whose subserviency he could with and Russian subsidies with a liberal hand, on certainty depend. To maintain himself in his the plea of indemnity for losses sustained during Happy nation to possess such an author; post, as chief of the Greeks, was no doubt the the war; and the celebrated Colocotroni, who happy age to witness such a poem; and happy object of his ambition; and whilst he tried to possesses great influence amongst the peasantry WE to have it to review. Yet we must pause cajole England and France by an appearance of the Morea, by this means was firmly bound on the preface. It expounds the grand idea. of liberality and candour, he really rested his to the president's party; the ignorant Moreots The undertaking is a continuation of the hopes upon Russia, who, having at all times were led to believe that Ibrahim had been ex- tale of Troy divine" for the Iliad terminates looked upon Greece as a country she coveted, pelled from the country by Capo d'Istrias, and unsatisfactorily, as all the exalted characters of would no doubt prefer to see her governed by that they owed their present security entirely that sublime poem are "upon the field of a man Russian in heart and education, and in to him; and as he abstained from taxation, battle, ready to renew the contest, like lions of whose hands she would be nothing more or less they were easily induced to acquiesce in any the forest:" (certes, the first time we ere? than a Russian province, than to find her in- measure proposed by the president's satellites. heard of these animals in this fashion upon the fluenced by the liberal policy of France and Thus the country was ruled with a tyranny not field of battle). Our friend Thomas takes England. Having fixed upon his plan of ope- the less severely felt, though masked under the up the strain, and he says, with most becoming rations, the president's first care was to disgust garb of liberty; the bright dreams of the well-modesty : or otherwise get rid of all those men whose wishers to Greece were dispelled by the conduct "The Achillead having carried down the integrity of principle and patriotism were bars of him to whom they had looked as a preserver; narrative of the Trojan war to the death of the to his personal views, and to replace them by factions, which they supposed were quelled, hero of the Iliad, the Æneid of Virgil will members of his family and Ionians, upon whom like the heads of the hydra, sprung up more then supply the sequel of the narrative. The he could place implicit reliance. Prince Mavro- formidable than ever; the demoralisation of Achillead may be thus compared to a poetical cordato, Tricoupi, and many other persons of Greece advanced with rapid strides, and as a viaduct connecting two everlasting hills togemerit, were forced to retire from office; and final blow to the happiness of the country, ther. That this communication may possibly the president's two brothers, Counts Viario and a system of espionage was established, unequal- be swept away in the great stream of time, the Augustin, were summoned from Corfu, where led perhaps in the most despotic country in the author of the Achillead will readily admit; they had hitherto passed their days in obscurity, world. The child was set as a spy upon the but the memory of such a conjunction, in afterand called upon to assist in presiding over the actions of the parent, the brother upon the ages, may stimulate the fire of genius to dar: destinies of Greece. Viario, the eldest, was brother; the privacy of families was invaded, its refulgent rays from the same foundations.” forthwith placed at the head of the war and letters were opened, and on one occasion the Glorious-magnificent-charming-interestmarine departments, and no sooner did he as-government mail was actually robbed by the ing-nice,-as Major Overall would exclain. sume the office, than his incapacity and igno- orders of the president, who was anxious to in Hook's very clever novel of Maxwell; bat rance became manifest. From that day the examine its contents." we must not indulge in superlatives, for we president's popularity began to decline; and so We are sorry that our limits compel us to are not Overalls. To our history; though it well has Viario followed up the system he com-stop here; but the story is long enough for next be disgraceful to the king we love, the court menced, that he is now utterly detested, and Saturday. we venerate, the ministry (we care not which) not only receives credit for his own misdeeds, we worship, the officials and men in power we but is also supposed to instigate his brother, The Achillead, in Twelve Books. Vol. I. adore. Mark the difference between the ReCount John, to perform those acts which have 8vo. pp. 196. By William John Thomas, man Augustus and an English monarch, be called down upon him the hatred of men who M.R.C.S. London, 1830. Sherwood, Gil-tween the fate of Maro and of Thomas. once were his firmest friends and supporters. bert, and Piper. "Virgil" (he tells us, with perfect historical Count Augustin is a very young man; he had WE hail great attempts! We all hail great truth) "flourished under the reign of Augus |