and theatricals, and speeches in our house-'Iney, Lord * *,-I forget the other two, but they mean, of peers' (I must refer you to Pope-whom were either wits or orators-perhaps poets. you don't read, and won't appreciate for that My residence in the East and in Italy has quotation, which you must allow to be poetical), made me somewhat indulgent of the siesta-but and sitting to Stroeling, the painter (do you remem- then they set regularly about it in warm countries, ber our visit with Leckie, to the German?) to be and perform it in solitude, (or at most in a tête-àdepicted as one of the heroes of Agincourt,' with tête with a proper companion,) and retire quietly his long sword, saddle, bridle, whack fal de,' &c., to their rooms to get out of the sun's way for an &c. hour or two. "I have been unwell-caught a cold and inflam- "Altogether, your friend's journal is a very formation, which menaced a conflagration, after midable production. Alas! our dearly-beloved dining with our ambassador, Monsieur Hill,-not countrymen have only discovered that they are owing to the dinner, but my carriage broke down tired, and not that they are tiresome; and I suson the way home, and I had to walk some miles, pect that the communication of the latter unpleasup hill partly, after hot rooms, in a very bleak ant verity will not be better received than truths windy evening, and over-hotted, or over-colded my- usually are. I have read the whole with great at self. I have not been so robustious as formerly, tention and instruction. I am too good a patriot ever since the last summer, when I fell ill after a to say pleasure-at least I won't say so, whatever I long swim in the Mediterranean, and have never may think. I showed it (I hope no breach of con been quite right up to this present writing. I am fidence,) to a young Italian lady of rank tris inthin, perhaps thinner than you saw me, when I struite also; and who passes, or passed, for being was nearly transparent, in 1812,-and am obliged one of the three most celebrated belles in the disto be moderate of my mouth, which nevertheless, trict of Italy, where her families and connexions won't prevent me (the gods willing) from dining resided in less troublesome times as to politics, with your friends the day after to-morrow. (which is not Genoa, by-the-way,) and she was deThey give me a very good account of you, and lighted with it, and says that she has derived a betof your nearly Emprisoned Angels.' But why did you change your title?-you will regret this some day. The bigots are not to be conciliated; and if they were, are they worth it? Isuspect that I am a more orthodox Christian than you are; and, whenever I see a real Christian, either in practice or in theory, (for I never yet found the man who could "N. B. produce either, when put to the proof,) I am his "P. S. There is a rumor in letters of some disdisciple. But, till then, I cannot truckle to tithe- turbance or complot in the French Pyrenean army mongers, nor can I imagine what has made you cir--generals suspected or dismissed, and ministers of cumcise your Seraphs. LETTER DLXXXI. TO THE EARL OF BLESSINGTON. "MY DEAR LORD, "April 5, 1823, ter notion of English society from it than from all war travelling to see what's the matter. Marry, (as David says,) this hath an angry favor.' "Tell Count** that some of the names are not quite intelligible, aspecially of the clubs; he speaks of Watts-perhaps he is right, but in my time Watters was the Dandy Club, of which (though no dandy) I was a member, at the time too of its greatest glory, when Brummell and Mildmay, Avanley and Pierrepoint, gave the dandy balls; and we (the club, that is,) got up the famous masquerade at Burlington House and Garden for Wel"How is your gout? or rather, how are you? Ilington. He does not speak of the Alfred, which return the Count* *'s Journal, which is a very ex- was the most recherché and most tiresome of any, traordinary production, and of a most melan- as I know by being a member of that too." choly truth in all that regards high life in England. 1 know, or knew, personally most of the personages and societies, which he describes; and after reading his remarks have the sensation fresh upon me as had seen them yesterday. I would, however, plead in behalf of some few exceptions, which I will mention by-and-by. The most singular thing is, how he should have penetrated not the fact, but the mystery of the English ennui at two-and-twenty. I was about the same age when I made the same "It would be worse than idle, knowing, as I do, discovery, in almost precisely the same circles-(for the utter worthlessness of words on such occasions, there is scarcely a person mentioned whom I did in me to attempt to express what I ought to feel, not see nightly or daily, and was acquainted more and do feel for the loss you have sustained;* and I or less intimately with most of them)-but I never must thus dismiss the subject, for I dare not trust could have described it so well. Il faut être Fran- myself further with it for your sake, or for my own. I shall endeavor to see you as soon as it may not ap"But he ought also to have been in the country pear intrusive. Pray excuse the levity of my yesduring the hunting season, with a select party of terday's scrawl-I little thought under what cirdistinguished guests,' as the papers term it. He cumstances it would find you. cais, to effect this. LETTER DLXXXII. TO THE EARL OF BLESSINGTON. "April 6, 1823. ought to have seen the gentlemen after dinner, (on "I have received a very handsome and flattering the hunting days,) and the soirée ensuing thereupon note from Count. He must excuse my appaand the women looking as if they had hunted, rent rudeness and real ignorance in replying to it or rather been hunted; and I could have wished in English, through the medium of your kind interthat he had been at a dinner in town, which I recol-pretation. I would not on any account deprive him lect at Lord C's-small, but select, and com- of a production, of which I really think more than posed of the most amusing people. The dessert I have even said, though you are good enough not was hardly on the table, when, out of twelve I to be dissatisfied even with that; but whenever it is counted five asleep; of that five, there were Tier- completed, it would give me the greatest pleasure to have a copy-but how to keep it secret! literary • In another letter to Lord Blessington, he says of this gentleman, “he seems to have all the qualities requisite to have figured in his brother-in-law's ancestor's Memoirs," The death of Lord Blessington's son, which had been .cng expected but of which the account had just then arrived secrets are like others. By changing the names, or "11 o'clock. at least omitting several, and altering the circum- "P. S. I wrote the above at three this morning stances indicative of the writer's real station, the I regret to say that the whole of the skin of about author would render it a most amusing publication. an inch square above my upper lip has come off, so His countrymen have not been treated either in a that I cannot even shave or masticate, and I am literary or personal point of view with such defer- equally unfit to appear at your table, and to partake ence in English recent works, as to lay him of its hospitality. Will you therefore pardon me, under any very great national obligation of for- and not mistake this rueful excuse for a 'make, bearance; and really the remarks are so true and so believe,' as you will soon recognise whenever I have piquante that I cannot bring myself to wish their the pleasure of meeting you again, and I will call suppression; though, as Dangle says, 'He is my the moment I am, in the nursery phrase, 'fit to be friend,' many of these personages were my seen.' Tell Lady B. with my compliments, that I friends,' but much such friends as Dangle and his am rummaging my papers for a MS. worthy of her allies. acceptation. I have just seen the younger Count I return you Dr. Parr's letter-I have met him Gamba, and as I cannot prevail on his infinite mod at Payne Knight's and elsewhere, and he did mejesty to take the field without me, I must take this the honor once to be a patron of mine, although a piece of diffidence on myself also, and beg your in great friend of the other branch of the House of dulgence for both." Atreus, and the Greek teacher (I believe) of my moral, Clytemnestra-I say moral, because it is true, and so useful to the virtuous, that it enables them to do any thing without the aid of an Ægisthus. 66 "I beg my compliments to Lady B., Miss P., and to your Alfred. I think, since his Majesty of the same name, there has not been such a learned surveyor of our Saxon society. "MY DEAR LORD "Ever yours most truly, LETTER DLXXXIV. TO THE COUNT ** April 22, 183. "My dear Count (if you will permit me to address you so familiarly,) you should be content with writing in your own language, like Grammont, and succeeding in London as nobody has succeeded since the days of Charles the Second and the records of Antonio Hamilton, without deviating into our barbarous language,-which you understand and write, however much better than it de serves. "P. S. I salute Miladi, Madamoiselle Mama, and the illustrious Chevalier Count** who, I hope, will continue his history of his own times.' There are My approbation,' as you are pleased to term it, some strange coincidences between a part of his was very sincere, but perhaps not very impartial; remarks and a certain work of mine, now in MS. for though I love my country, I do not love my in England, (I do not mean the hermetically sealed countrymen, at least, such as they now are. And be Memoirs, but a continuation of certain cantos of a sides the seduction of talent and wit in your work, certain poem,) especially in what a man may do in fear that to me there was the attraction of ven London with impunity where he is 'à la mode;' geance. I have seen and felt much of what you which I think it well to state, that he may not sus- have described so well. I have known the persons, pect me of taking advantage of his confidence. and the reunions so described-(many of them that The observations are very general " is to say,)-and the portraits are so like that I cannot but admire the painter no less than his performance. LETTER DLXXXIII. TO THE EARL OF BLESSINGTON. "April 14, 1823. I "I have the honor to be your obliged, &c., &c." 'But I am sorry for you; for if you are so well acquainted with life at your age, what will become of you when the illusion is still more dissipated? but never mind-en avant!-live while you can: and that you may have the full enjoyment of the many advantages of youth, talent, and figure, which you possess, is the wish of an-Englishman.-I suppose,-but it is no treason; for my mother was "I am truly sorry that I cannot accompany you Scotch, and my name and my family are both Norin your ride this morning, owing to a violent pain man: and as for myself, I am of no country. As in my face, arising from a wart to which I by medi- for my Works,' which you are pleased to mention, cal advice applied a caustic. Whether I put too let them go to the devil, from whence (if you believe much, I do not know, but the consequence is, not many persons) they came. only I have been put to some pain but the peccant part and its immediate environ are as black as if the printer's devil had marked me for an author.As I do not wish to frighten your horses, or their riders, I shall postpone waiting upon you until six o'clock, when I hope to have subsided into a more Christianlike resemblance to my fellow-creatures. My infliction has partially extended even to my fingers for on trying to get the black from off my upper lip at least, I have only transfused a portion thereof to my right hand, and neither lemon-juice "DEAR LADY * nor eau de cologne, nor any other eau, have been "My request would be for a copy of the miniature able as yet to redeem it also from a more inky ap- of Lady B., which I have seen in possession of the pearance than is either proper or pleasant. But late Lady Noel, as I have no picture, or indeed out damn'd spot'-you may have perceived some- memorial of any kind of Lady B., as all her letters thing of the kind yesterday, for on my return, I were in her own possession before I left England, saw that during my visit it had increased, was in- and we have had no correspondence since at least creasing, and ought to be diminished; and I could on her part. not help laughing at the figure I must have cut before you. At any rate, I shall be with you at six, with the advantage of twilight. "Ever most truly, &c. LETTER DLXXXV. TO THE COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON. "May 3, 1921. "My message, with regard to the infant, is sim ply to this effect-that in the event of any accident occurring to the mother, and my remaining the survivor, it would be my wish to have her plans 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 period of life, still it is one when the habits and in which I ever saw that celebrated person. 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 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 as not impossible for more than a year after the a likeness of the original, God help me! "I did well to avoid the water-party,-why, is a mystery, which is not less to be wondered at than all my other mysteries. Tell Milor that I am deep in his MSS., and will do him justice by a diligent perusal. "I say all this, because I own to you that, notwithstanding every thing, I considered our reunion separation;-but then I gave up the hope entirely and for ever. But this very impossibility of reunion seems to me at least a reason why, on all the few points of discussion which can arise between us, we should preserve the courtesies of life, and as much 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. I ions. 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 just 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 have 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 imaginary wrongs of one of the two unfortunate persons 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." and that, if I have injured you, it is something more still, if it be true, as the moralists say, that the most offending are the least forgiving. "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 two corresponding points with reference to myself, it will be better for all three. "Yours ever, "NOEL BYRON." 962 itself, prevented me long ago from returning to do NOEL BYRON." LETTER DLXXXIX. 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"SIR, ful accession. Officers, also, who had previously "I have great pleasure in acknowledging your letter, and the honor which the committee have served in the Mediterranean, would be preferable, done me;-I shall endeavor to deserve their confi- as some knowledge of Italian is nearly indispendence by every means in my power. My first wish sable. is to go up into the Levant in person, where I TO MR. BOWRING. "Genoa, May 12, 1823. bare "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 mes my former residence in the country, my familiarity is at present the country of all kinds of prications. with the Italian language, (which is there univer- This remark may seem superfluous; but sally spoken, or at least to the same extent as been led to it, by observing that many foreign ofFrench in the more polished parts of the conti-cers, Italians, French, and even Germans, t nent,) and my not total ignorance of the Romaie, fewer of the latter,) have returned in disgust, in would 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. They 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 the hope of command and plunder, and disappointed spot. of both. Those Greeks I have seen strenuously deny the charge of inhospitality, and declare th they shared their pittance to the last crumb with their foreign volunteers. with me. "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 "I need not suggest to the committee the very was dated Rome; he had been refused a passport 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 the probable commercial relations with England in however, appears to have been lost by the delay. "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 EMANCIPATION, 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 emigrut wishes for the Greek success; but am pausing, be- population in the Greek island alone, are rare to cause, in case I should go myself, I can take them be paralleled; and the cheapness of every kind, ✅♫♬ 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, I should devote whatever re- of 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 refgreat object. I am in correspondence with Signor uge, which the English population are searching Nicolas Karrellas, (well known to Mr. Hobhouse,) for over the waters. "I beg that the Committee will command me in who is now at Pisa; but his latest advice merely 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 I beg leave to add, personally, my tails of its administration; this would seem to indi- letter, whether conformable to my own private cate security, but the war is however far from being opinion or not. respect for the gentleman whom I have the houdt terminated. "And am, sir, your obliged, &c. "The Turks are an obstinate race, as all former of addressing. wars have proved them, and will return to the "P. S. The best refutation of Gell will be the charge for years to come, even if beaten, as it is to be hoped they will be. But in no case can the active exertions of the Committee;-I am too wan labors of the committee be said to be in vain, for in a controversialist; and I suspect that if Mr. H 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. If I 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 circum them to find or make a country, (as so many emi- stances will permit. "I shall write to Mr. Karrellas. I expect inter grants of other nations have been compelled to do,) would bless both those who gave and those who ligence from Captain Blaquiere, who has promised me some early intimation from the seat of the took,' as the bounty both of justice and of mercy. "With regard to the formation of a brigade, Provisional Government. I gave him a letter of (which Mr. Hobhouse hints at in his short letter introduction to Lord Sidney Osborne, at Corfa; but 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. 963 themselves, particularly the French with the Germans, 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 Lee, 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 lignani, 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 accompany-ing 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 in with two young Germans, survivors of General me, and truly, "Your obliged, &c. 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 travelled 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, 1823. "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 Engthat General Normann posted his ragamuffins lish gentleman lately gone up to Greece, are hitherto where they were well pepperea-not three of the hundred and fifty left alive-and they are for the town's end for life.' favorable, but he had not yet reached the seat of the Provisional Government, and I am anxiously expecting further advice. "An American has a better right than any other, to suggest to other nations the mode of obtaining that liberty which is the glory of his own." LETTER DXCII. TO M. H. BEYLE, "These two left Greece by the direction of the Greeks. When Churschid Pacha overrun the Morea, the Greeks seem to have behaved well, in wishing to save their allies, when they thought that the game was up with themselves. This was in September last, (1822;) they wandered from island to island, and got from Milo to Smyrna, where the French consul gave them a passport, and a charitable 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. "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 Bome 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 naïveté, and quite unpre- pleased to say in that work; but it has hardly tending they say the foreigners quarrelled among given me less pleasure than the praise itself, tr "SIR, "Genoa, May 29, 1823. |