the storm which has since burst with such unrelenting violence, was evidently gathering in the most fatal quarter; and the germs of dissension among those, who had a natural influence in the different provinces, were equally perceptible even to a transient observer. These have since been unhappily developed in the distracted and hesitating councils, which have paralyzed the efforts of all who were impelled by any high or noble principle. No one, that has a heart, can be insensible to the respect which is always due to suffering virtue; and when it makes its appeal in the garb and attitude of tortured patriotism, its claims are of the loftiest and holiest nature. A nation, once the light and glory of the world,-fallen from its high estate among civilized communities, and depressed to the lowest point in the descending scale of barbarism, presents a spectacle perhaps the most piteous and humiliating that can be offered to human contemplation. We view it as a great and overwhelming calamity; a calamity to be deeply and incessantly deplored. But something more than sympathy is surely due to Greece, from such states as derived from her those arts which give a charm to the blessings of light and life. It is easy to awaken generous sentiments in privacy,-to glow with the fervour of heroism while remote from the field of danger. "The pity which terminates in querulous invective, is but hypocrisy's pity*." Let our compassion be the true. The cause of the Greeks, as hitherto conducted by many of their chosen champions, discovers, on one side, much of sordid avarice, credulity, and self-delusion,-opposed, on the other, to grasping rapacity, gross fraud, and affected philanthropy. With such agents, no cause can ever hope to triumph. The moral government of the world proceeds on principles which obey no impulse but that of virtue: its laws, as unerring as those by which the material elements are adjusted, can never be disregarded or displaced, without leading to confusion and peril. It is to other sources, then, than those on which they have hitherto relied, that the patriots of the Peloponnesus must look for their deliverance. The eyes of Europe are naturally directed to ENGLAND, as to THE CENTRE on which the civilized * Ramsden. world reposes. If she persists in remaining a passive spectatress of the struggle, who shall foretell the period of its termination? Were Greece a country recently reclaimed,— like the wilds of America or New Holland,-from an original state of savage destitution ;-if it had received from Constantinople, as these last have from the fostering arm of Great Britain, together with the blessings of revelation, a knowledge of those arts which adorn and embellish existence, the recognised law of civilized nations might justly be appealed to, as forbidding the interference of any other community, in its contest with the parent state. But the case is far otherwise. Greece has derived from the Ottomans only that protection “which the vulture gives the lamb; covering and devouring it!" The trophies of her power, the monuments of her art, the triumphs of her genius and learning,—all these have been either irrecoverably mutilated by her invaders, or totally destroyed. It is not, then, in behalf of the rebel sons of an insurgent colony, that the friends of Greece address themselves to the sympathies of Europe: the cause they would assert is that of a PEOPLE, despoiled by violence of their rightful heritage;-of a COUNTRY, brilliant without parallel in the records of ancient renown;-of a NATION, assuming to be descended from that illustrious band of heroes and of sages, WHO DRANK or THE WATERS OF IMMORTALITY, AND PROCLAIMED THE GLORIES OF FREEDOM! London, December, 1826. CONTENTS. Passage from Mola to Corfu-Present appearance of the City-Sketch of the new Constitution-Views in the interior of the Island-Imaginary scene of Ulysses' Sail to Prevesa-The town described-Ruins of Nico- polis-Ancient Coins-Gulf of Actium-St. Maura- Sappho's Promontory-Seraglio at Salagora-Agent of |