carried into effect, both with regard to the education ta's possession, taken at that age. But it don't of the child, and the person or persons under whose curl,-perhaps from its being let grow. care Lady B. might be desirous that she should be "I also thank you for the inscription of the date placed. It is not my intention to interfere with her and name, and I will tell you why;-I believe that in any way on the subject during her life; and I they are the only two or three words of your handpresume that it would be some consolation to her to writing in my possession. For your letters I reknow, (if she is in ill health, as I am given to understand,) that in no case would any thing be done, as far as I am concerned, but in strict conformity with Lady B.'s own wishes and intentions-left in what manner she thought proper. Believe me, dear Lady B., your obliged, &c." turned, and except the two words, or rather the one word, Household,' written twice in an old accountbook, I have no other. I burnt your last note, for two reasons:-1stly, it was written in a style not very agreeable; and, 2dly, I wished to take your word without documents, which are the wordly re sources of suspicious people. "I suppose that this note will reach you somewhere about Ada's birthday-the 10th of December, I believe. She will then be six, so that in about twelve more I shall have some chance of meeting her-perhaps sooner, if I am obliged to go to England by business or otherwise. Recollect, however, one thing, either in distance or nearness ;--every day which keeps us asunder should, after so long a period, rather soften our mutual feelings, which must always have one rallying-point as long as our child exists, which I presume we both hope will be long after either of her parents. "I send you the letter which I had forgotten, and the book, which I ought to have remembered. It contains (the book, I mean) some melancholy truths; though I believe that it is too triste a work The time which has elapsed since the separaever to have been popular. The first time I ever tion, has been considerably more than the whole read it, (not the edition I send you,-for I got it brief period of our union, and the not much longer since,) was at the desire of Madame de Staël, who one of our prior acquaintance. We both made a was supposed by the good-natured world to be the bitter mistake; but now it is over, and irrevocably heroine-which she was not, however, and was so. For, at thirty-three on my part, and a few furious at the supposition. This occurred in Swit- years less on yours, though it is no very extended zerland, in the summer of 1816, and the last season in which I ever saw that celebrated person. "I have a request to make to my friend Alfred, (since he has not disdained the title,) viz., that he would condescend to add a cap to the gentleman in the jacket,-it would complete his costume, and smooth his brow, which is somewhat too inveterate a likeness of the original, God help me! period of life, still it is one when the habits and thought are generally so formed as to admit of no modification; and as we could not agree when younger, we should with difficulty do so now. "I say all this, because I own to you that, notwithstanding every thing, I considered our reunion as not impossible for more than a year after the separation;-but then I gave up the hope entirely "I did well to avoid the water-party,-why, is a and for ever. But this very impossibility of reunion mystery, which is not less to be wondered at than seems to me at least a reason why, on all the few all my other mysteries. Tell Milor that I am deep points of discussion which can arise between us, we in his MSS., and will do him justice by a diligent should preserve the courtesies of life, and as much perusal. of its kindness as people who are never to meet may "The letter which I enclose I was prevented from preserve, perhaps more easily than nearer connexsending, by my despair of its doing any good. Iions. For my own part I am violent, but not mawas perfectly sincere when I wrote it, and am so lignant; for only fresh provocations can awaken my still. But it is difficult for me to withstand the resentments. To you, who are colder and more thousand provocations on that subject, which both concentrated, I would jus. hint, that you may somefriends and foes have for seven years been throwing times mistake the depth of a cold anger for dignity, in the way of a man whose feelings were once and a worse feeling for duty. I assure you that I quick, and whose temper was never patient. But bear you now (whatever I may have done) no rereturning were as tedious as go o'er.' I feel this sentment whatever. Remember, that if you hav as much as ever Macbeth did; and it is a dreary injured me in aught, this forgiveness is something, sensation, which at least avenges the real or imagi-and that, if I have injured you, it something more nary wrongs of one of the two unfortunate persons still, if it be true, as the moralists say, that the most offending are the least forgiving. whom it concerns. "But I am going to be gloomy;-so to bed, to bed.' Good night, or rather morning. One of the reasons why I wish to avoid society is, that I can never sleep after it, and the pleasanter it has been, the less I rest. "Ever most truly, &c., &c." "Whether the offence has been solely on my side, or reciprocal, or on yours chiefly, I have ceased to reflect upon any but two things,-viz., that you are the mother of my child, and that we shall never meet again. I think if you also consider the twe corresponding points with reference to myself, it will be better for all three. "Yours ever, "NOEL BYRON " itself, prevented me long ago from returning to do what little I could, as an individual, in that land which it is an honor even to have visited. Ever yours, truly, "NOEL BYRON." gest-but merely as an opinion, resulting rather from the melancholy experience of the brigades embarked in the Columbian service, than from any experiment yet fairly tried in GREECE-that the attention of the committee had better perhaps be directed to the employment of officers of experi ence than the enrolment of raw British soldiers, which latter are apt to be unruly, and not very serviceable, in irregular warfare, by the side of foreigners. A small body of good officers especially artillery; an engineer, with a quantity (such as the committee might deem requisite) of stores, of the nature which Captain Blaquiere indicated as most wanted, would, I should conceive, be a highly use "I have great pleasure in acknowledging your ful accession. Officers, also, who had previously Jetter, and the honor which the committee have served in the Mediterranean, would be preferabic, done me;-I shall endeavor to deserve their confi- as some knowledge of Italian is nearly indispen dence by every means in my power. My first wish sable. "SIR, LETTER DLXXXIX. TO MR. BOWRING. "Genoa, May 12, 1823. is to go up into the Levant in person, where I "It would also be as well that they should be might be enabled to advance, if not the cause, at aware that they are not going to rough it on a least the means of obtaining information which the beef-steak and bottle of port,-but that Greececommittee might be desirous of acting upon; and never, of late years, very plentifully stocked for a west my former residence in the country, my familiarity is at present the country of all kinds of pretions with the Italian language, (which is there univer- This remark may seem superfluous; but I have sally spoken, or at least to the same extent as been led to it, by observing that many foreign offFrench in the more polished parts of the conti-cers, Italians, French, and even Germans, itat nent.) and my not total ignorance of the Romaic, fewer of the latter,) have returned in disgust, mwould afford me some advantages of experience. agining either that they were going up to make a To this project the only objection is of a domestic party of pleasure, or to enjoy full pay, speedy pronature, and I shall try to get over it-if I fail in motion, and a very moderate degree of duty. Ther this, I must do what I can where I am; but it will complain, too, of having been ill received by the be always a source of regret to me, to think that I government or inhabitants; but numbers of these might perhaps have done more for the cause on the complainants were mere adventurers, attracted by spot. the hope of command and plunder, and disappointed have seen strennously of both. Those Greeks deny the charge of inhospitality, and declare that they shared their pittance to the last crumb with their foreign volunteers. "Our last information of Captain Blaquiere is from Ancona, where he embarked with a fair wind for Corfu, on the 15th ult.; he is now probably at his destination. My last letter from him personally was dated Rome; he had been refused a passport "I need not suggest to the committee the very through the Neapolitan territory, and returned to great advantage which must accrue to Great Br strike up through Romagna for Ancona: little time, tain from the success of the Greeks, and then however, appears to have been lost by the delay. probable commercial relations with England in "The principal material wanted by the Greeks consequence; because I feel persuaded that the first appears to be, first, a park of field artillery-light, object of the committee is their EMANCIPATIOS, and fit for mountain-service; secondly, gunpowder; without any interested views. But the consideration thirdly, hospital or medical stores. The readiest might weigh with the English people in general, mode of transmission is, I hear, by Idra, addressed in their their present passion for every kind of to Mr. Negri, the minister. I meant to send up a speculation,-they need not cross the American certain quantity of the two latter-no great deal-seas, for one much better worth their while, and but enough for an individual to show his good nearer home. The recources, even for an emigrant wishes for the Greek success; but am pausing, be- population in the Greek island alone, are rarely t cause, in case I should go myself, I can take them be paralleled; and the cheapness of every kind, of with me. I do not want to limit my own contribu- not only necessary, but luxury, (that is to say. tion to this merely, but more especially, if I can get luxury of nature,) fruits, wine, oil, &c., in a state to Greece myself, should devote whatever reof peace, are far beyond those of the Cape, and sources I can muster of my own, to advancing the Van Dieman's Land, and the other places of refe great object. I am in correspondence with Signor uge, which the English population are searctang Nicolas Karrellas, (well known to Mr. Hobhouse,) for over the waters. who is now at Pisa; but his latest advice merely "I beg that the Committee will command we in stated, that the Greeks are at present employed in any and every way. If I am favored with any organizing their internal government, and the de- instructions, I shall endeavor to obey them to the tails of its administration; this would seem to indi- letter, whether conformable to my own private I beg leave to add, personally, m cate security, but the war is however far from being opinion or not. terminated. respect for the gentleman whom I have the honor "The Turks are an obstinate race, as all former of addressing. wars have proved them, and will return to the "And am, sir, your obliged, &e. charge for years to come, even if beaten, as it is "P. S. The best refutation of Gell will be thi to be hoped they will be. But in no case can the active exertions of the Committee;-I am too warts labors of the committee be said to be in vain, for in a controversialist; and I suspect that if Mr HS the event even of the Greeks being subdued and house have taken him in hand, there will be little dispersed, the funds which could be employed in occasion for me to encumber him with help. I 1 succoring and gathering together the remnant, so go up into the country, I will endeavor to transmit as to alleviate in part their distresses, and enable as accurate and impartial an account as circ them to find or make a country, (as so many emi- stances will permit. grants of other nations have been compelled to do.) "I shall write to Mr. Karrellas. I expect intel would bless both those who gave and those who ligence from Captain Blaquiere, who has promised took,' as the bounty both of justice and of mercy. me some early intimation from the seat of the With regard to the formation of a brigade, Provisional Government. I gave him a letter et (which Mr. Hobhouse hints at in his short letter introduction to Lord Sidney Osborne, at Carfe, bat of this day's receipt, enclosing the one to which I as Lord S. is in the government service, of course have the honor to reply,) I would presume to sug- his reception could only be a cautious one.” * SIB, LETTER DXC. TO MR. BOWRING. "Genoa, May 21, 1823. themselves, narticularly the French with the Ger mans, which produced duels. "The Greeks accept muskets, but throw away bayonets, and will not be disciplined. When these lads saw two Piedmontese regiments yesterday they said, Ah, if we had had but these two, we should have cleared the Morea:' in that case the "I received yesterday the letter of the Commit- Piedmontese must have behaved better than they tee, dated the 14th of March. What has occasioned did against the Austrians. They seem to lay great the delay, I know not. It was forwarded by Mr. Ga-stress upon a few regular troops-say that the tignani, from Paris, who stated that he had only had Greeks have arms and powder in plenty, but want it in his charge four days, and that it was delivered victuals, hospital stores, and lint and linen, &c., and to him by a Mr. Grattan. I need hardly say that I money very much. Altogether, it would be difficult gladly accede to the proposition of the Committee, to show more practical philosophy than this remnant and hold myself highly honored by being deemed of our puir hill folk' have done; they do not worthy to be a member. I have also to return my seem the least cast down, and their way of presentthanks, particularly to yourself, for the accompanying themselves was as simple and natural as could ing letter, which is extremely flattering. be. They said, a Dane here had told them that an Since I last wrote to you, through the medium Englishman, friendly to the Greek cause, was here, of Mr. Hobhouse, I have received and forwarded a and that, as they were reduced to beg their way letter from Captain Blaquiere to me, from Corfu, home, they thought they might as well begin with which will show how he gets on. Yesterday I fell me. I write in haste to snatch the post.-Believe "Your obliged, &c. in with two young Germans, survivors of General me, and truly, Normann's band. They arrived at Genoa in a most "P. S. I have, since I wrote this, seen them deplorable state-without food-without a sou-again. Count P. Gamba asked them to breakfast. without shoes. The Austrians had sent them out of One of them means to publish his Journal of the their territory on their landing at Trieste: and they campaign. The Bavarian wonders a little that the had been forced to come down to Florence, and had Greeks are not quite the same with them of the travelted from Leghorn here, with four Tuscan time of Themistocles, (they were not then very livres (about three francs) in their pockets. I have tractable, by-the-by), and at the difficulty of disgiven them twenty Genoese scudi, (about a hundred ciplining them; but he is a 'bon homme' and a and thirty-three livres, French money,) and new tacticia, and a little like Dugald Dalgetty, who shoes, which will enable them to get to Switzerland, would insist upon the erection of a sconce on the where they say that they have friends. All that they hill of Drumsnab,' or whatever it was; the other could raise in Genoa, besides, was thirty sous. They seems to wonder at nothing." do not complain of the Greeks, but say that they have suffered more since their landing in Italy. LETTER DXCI. TO MR. CHURCH, AMERICAN CONSUL AT GENOA. "Genoa, May, 1829. "I tried their veracity, firstly, by their passports and papers; secondly, by topography, crossquestioning them about Arta, Argos, Athens, Missolonghi, Corinth, &c.; and, thirdly, in Romaic, of which I found (one of them at least) knew more than I do. One of them (they are both of good families) is a fine, handsome young fellow of threeand-twenty-a Wirtembergher, and has a look of "The accounts are so contradictory, as to what Sandt about him-the other a Bavarian, older, and mode will be best for supplying the Greeks, that I flat-faced, and less ideal, but a great, sturdy, soldier- have deemed it better to take up, (with the exceplike personage. The Wirtembergher was in the tion of a few supplies,) what cash and credit I can action at Arta, where the Philhellenists were cut to muster, rather than lay them out in articles that pieces after killing six hundred Turks, they them- might be deemed superfluous or unnecessary. Here selves being only a hundred and fifty in number, we can learn nothing but from some of the refugees, opposed to six or seven thousand; only eight who appear chiefly interested for themselves. My escaped, and of them about three only survived; so accounts from an agent of the Committee, an Eng that General Normann posted his ragamuffins lish gentleman lately gone up to Greece, are hithert where they were well peppered-not three of the favorable, but he had not yet reached the seat of hundred and fifty left alive-and they are for the the Provisional Government, and I am anxiously town's end for life.' expecting further advice. 6 LETTER DXCII. "These two left Greece by the direction of the An American has a better right than any other, Greeks. When Churschid Pacha overrun the Morea, to suggest to other nations the mode of obtaining the Greeks seem to have behaved well, in wishing that liberty which is the glory of his own." to save their allies, when they thought that the. game was up with themselves. This was in Sep-1 tember last, (1822;) they wandered from island to island, and got from Milo to Smyrna, where the French consul gave them a passport, and a charita-1 ble captain a passage to Ancona, whence they got to Trieste, and were turned back by the Austrians. They complain only of the minister, (who has always been an indifferent character;) say that the Greeks fight well in their own way, but were at first afraid to fire their own cannon-but mended with practice. "SIR, TO M. H. BEYLE, "Genoa, May 29, 1822. Adolphe (the younger) commanded at Navarino "At present, that I know to whom I am indebted for a short time; the other, a more material person, for a flattering mention in the Rome, Naples, and 'the bold Bavarian in a luckless hour,' seems chiefly Florence, in 1817, by Mons. Stendhal,' it is fit that to lament a fast of three days at Argos, and the I should return my thanks (however undesired or loss of twenty-five paras a day of pay in arrear, and undesirable) to Mons. Beyle, with whom I had the Borne baggage at Tripolitza; but takes his wounds, honor of being acquainted at Milan in 1816. You and marches, and battles in very good part. Both only did me too much honor in what you were are very simple, full of naïvete, and quite unpre- pleased to say in that work; but it has hardly ending: they say the foreigners quarrelled among given me less pleasure than the praise itself, to become at length aware (which I have done by I have hurt myself without doing much good t mere accident) that I am indebted for it to one of those for whose benefit it was intended. whose good opinion I was really ambitious. So "Do not defend me-it will never do-you will many changes have taken place since that period in only make yourself enemies. the Milan circle, that I hardly dare recur to it;-| "Mine are neither to be diminished nor softened some dead, some banished, and some in the Austrian but they may be overthrown; and there are events dungeons. Poor Pellico! I trust that, in his iron which may occur less improbable than those which solitude, his Muse, is consoling him in part-one have happened in our time, that may reverse the day to delight us again, when both she and her poet present state of things-nous verrons. are restored to freedom. "Of your works I have only seen Rome, &c.,' "I send you this gossip that you may laugh at the Lives of Haydn and Mozart, and the brochure it, which is all it is good for, if it is even good for on Racine and Shakspeare. The Historie de la so much. I shall be delighted to see you again; Peinture,' I have not yet the good fortune to pos- but it will be melancholy, should it be only for a Ever yours, "N. B." Bess. moment. LETTER DXCIV. TO THE COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON. "Albaro, June 2, 158, "There is one part of your observations in the pamphlet which I shall venture to remark upon; it regards Walter Scott. You say that his character is little worthy of enthusiasm,' at the same time that you mention his productions in the manner they deserve. I have known Walter Scott long and well, and in occasional situations which call forth the real character-and I can assure you, that| his character is worthy of admiration ;-that of all men he is the most open, the most honorable, the "MY DEAR LADY B most amiable. With his politics, I have nothing to "I am superstitious, and have recollected that do; they differ from mine, which renders it difficult memorials with a point are of less fortunate angury for me to speak of them. But he is perfectly sin- I will, therefore request you to accept, instead of cere in them; and sincerity may be humble, but she the pin, the enclosed chain, which is of so slight a tannot be servile. I pray you, therefore, to correct value that you need not hesitate. As you wished or soften that passage. You may, perhaps, attri- for something worn, I can only say, that it has been bute this officiousness of mine to a false affectation worn oftener and longer than the other. It is of of candor, as happen to be a writer also. At- Venetian manufacture; and the only peculiarity tribute it to what motive you please, but believe the about it is, that it could only be obtained at, or truth. I say that Walter Scott is as nearly a from, Venice. At Genoa they have none of the thorough good man as man can be, because I know it by experience to be the case. "If you do me the honor of an answer, may I request a speedy one? because it is possible (though not yet decided) that circumstances may conduct me once more to Greece. My present address is Genoa, where an answer will reach me in a short time, or be forwarded to me wherever I may be. "I beg you to believe me, with a lively recollection of our brief acquaintance, and the hope of one day renewing it, "Your ever obliged, "And obedient humble servant, same kind. I also enclose a ring, which I would wish Alfred to keep; it is too large to wear; but is formed of lava, and so far adapted to the fire of his years and character. You will perhaps have the goodness to acknowledge the receipt of this note, and send back the pin, (for good luck's sake,) which I shall value much more for having been a night in your custody. "Ever and faithfully your obliged, &c. "P. S. I hope your nerves are well to-day, and will continue to flourish." "We sail on the 12th for Greece.-I have had a letter from Mr. Blaquiere, too long for present government expects me without delay. transcription, but very satisfactory. The Greek 'My voyage to Greece will depend upon the Greek Committee (in England) partly, and partly on the instructions which some persons now in "In conformity to the desires of Mr. B. and other Greece on a private mission may be pleased to send me. I am a member, lately elected, of the said correspondents in Greece, I have to suggest, with all deference to the committee, that a remittance of Committee; and my object in going up would be to even ten thousand pounds only' (Mr. B.'s express do any little good in my power; but as there some sion) would be of the greatest service to the Greek pros and cons on the subject, with regard to how far Government at present. I have also to recommend the intervention of strangers may be advisable, I know no more than I tell you; but we shall prob- be offered a sufficient security by deputies now on strongly the attempt of a loan, for which there will ably hear something soon from England and Greece, their way to England. In the mean time, I hope which may be more decisive. that the committee will be enabled to do something "With regard to the late person (Lord London-effectual. derry) whom you hear that I have attacked, I can only say that a bad minister's memory is as much or credits, above eight, and nearly nine thousand "For my own part, I mean to carry up, in ce an object of investigation as his conduct while alive, for his measures do not die with him like a pounds sterling, which I am enabled to do by funds private individual's notions. He is matter of history; sum I must necessarily reserve a portion for the have in Italy, and credits in England. Of the and, wherever I find a tyrant or a villain, I will subsistence of myself and suite; the rest I am wil mark him. I attacked him no more than I had ling to apply in the manner which seems most likely been wont to do. As to the Liberal,-it was a to be useful to the cause-having, of course, su publication set up for the advantage of a persecuted author and a very worthy man. But it was foolish He had previously pr xented her with a trease-pin aman ng # in me to engage in it; and so it has turned out-for cameo of Napoleon. Puarantee or assurance, that it will not be misap-and division in the reports of the state of the Greeks. plied to any individual speculation. I shall fuifil the object of my mission from the com If I remain in Greece, which will mainly depend mittee, and then return into Italy. For it does not apon the presumed probable utility of my presence seem likely that, as an individual, I can be of use there, and of the opinion of the Greeks themselves to them;-at least no other foreigner has yet apas to its propriety-in short, if I am welcome to peared to be so, nor does it seem likely that any will them, I shall continue, during my residence at least, be at present. to apply such portions of my income, present and "Pray be as cheerful and tranquil as you can; future, as may forward the object that is to say, and be assured that there is nothing here that can what I can spare for that purpose. Privations I can, excite any thing but a wish to be with you again,— or at least could once, bear-abstinence I am accus- though we are very kindly treated by the English tomed to-and, as to fatigue, I was once a tolerable here of all descriptions. Of the Greeks, I can't traveller. What I may be now, I cannot tell-but I say muca good hitherto, and I do not like to speak will try. ill of them, though they do of one another." "October 29. "I await the commands of the committee.Address to Genoa-the letters will be forwarded to me, wherever I may be, by my bankers, Messrs. "You may be sure that the moment I can join Webb and and Barry. It would have given me you again will be as welcome to me as at any period pleasure to have had some more defined instructions of our recollection. There is nothing very attrac before I went, but these, of course, rest at the tive here to divide my attention; but I must attend option of the committee. to the Greek cause, both from honor and inclina"I have the honor to be tion. Messrs. B. and T. are both in the Morea, "Your obedient, &c. where they have been very well received, and both "P. S. Great anxiety is expressed for a printing of them write in good spirits and hopes. I am anxpress and types, &c. I have not the time to provide ious to hear how the Spanish cause will be arranged, them, but recommend this to the notice of the as I think it may have an influence on the Greek committee. I presume the types must, partly at contest. I wish that both were fairly and favorably least, be Greek they wish to publish papers, and settled, that I might return to Italy, and talk over perhaps a journal, probably in Romaic with Italian with you our, or rather Pietro's, adventures, some of translations." which are rather amusing, as also some of the in cidents of our voyages and travels. But I reserve them, in the hope that we may laugh over them together at no very distant period." LETTER DXCVI. TO GOETHE. "Leghorn, July 24, 1823, LETTER DXCVII ILLUSTRIOUS SIR, TO MR. BOWRING. "49bre 29, 1823 "I cannot thank you as you ought to be thanked for the lines which my young friend, Mr. Sterling, sent me of yours; and it would but ill become me to pretend to exchange verses with him who, for Hamilton Browne, who precedes or accompanies "This letter will be presented to you by Mr. fifty years, has been the undisputed sovereign of the Greek deputies. He is both capable and desi European literature You must therefore accept rous of rendering any service to the cause, and inmy most sincere acknowledgements in prose-and in formation to the committee. hasty prose too; for I am at present on my voyage of considerable advantage to both, of my own He has already been to Greece once more, and surrounded by hurry and knowledge. Lord Archibald Hamilton, to whom he bustle, which hardly allow a moment even to grati-is related, will add a weightier recommendation than tude and admiration to express themselves. "I sailed from Genoa some days ago, and was driven back by a gale of wind, and have since sailed again and arrived here, Leghorn,' this morning, to receive on board some Greek passengers for their struggling country. "Here also I found your lines and Mr. Sterling's letter, and I could not have had a more favorable omen, a more agreeable surprise, than a word of Goethe written by his own hand. "I am returning to Greece, to see if I can be of any little use there: if ever I come back, I will pay a visit to Weimar, to offer the sincere homage of one of the many millions of your admirers. have the bonor to be, ever and most, "Your obliged, "NOEL BYRON." I mine. to be beaten in the Archipelago. The public pro"Corinth is taken, and a Turkish squadron said gress of the Greeks is considerable, but their internal dissentions still continue. On arriving at the seat of Government, I shall endeavor to mitigate or extinguish them-though neither is an easy task. I have remained here till now, partly in expectation of the squadron in relief of Missolonghi, partly of Malta or Zante the sum of four thousand pounds Mr. Parry's detachment, and partly to receive from sterling, which I have advanced for the payment of and will be cashed in a short time, as they would the expected squadron. The bills are negotiating, have been immediately in any other mart; but the miserable Ionian merchants have little money, and no great credit, and are besides, politically shy on this occasion; for, although I had letters of Messrs. Webb, (one of the strongest houses of the Mediterranean,) and also of Messrs. Ransom, there is no business to be done on fair terms except through English merchants. These, however, have proved "Pietro has told you all the gossip of the island, both able and willing,-and upright, as usual. -our earthquakes, our politics, and present abode "Colonel Stanhope has arrived, and will proceed n a pretty village. As his opinions and mine on immediately; he shall have my cooperation in all the Greeks are nearly similar, I need say little on his endeavors; but from every thing that I can that subject. I was a fool to come here; but, being learn, the formation of a brigade at present will aere, I must see what is to be done." be extremely difficult, to say the least of it. With regard to the reception of foreigners,-at least of foreign officers,-I refer you to a passage in Prince "We are still in Cephalonia, waiting for news of Mavrocordato's recent letter, a copy of which is en more accurate description; for al is contradiction/closed in my packet sent to the deputies. It is my NOTES TO THE COUNTESS GUICCIOLI. "October 7. "October |