1827.] Notes for the Month. 401 



stances, increase the expediency of our farther advancing, there is no saying 

 as long as we have a penny left in the country where such a principle 

 might stop. To speak seriously, with every wish for the success of Greece, 

 and even for the interests of those whose views are to be advanced by 

 her success, we cannot recommend to our countrymen to advance that 

 object by the loan of another sixpence. Were they inclined to give 

 any thing, it may be another matter : because then we know what we are 

 about. Though even then a difficulty might arise in the manner of 

 bestowing the bounty ; for the wants, throughout Greece, seem to be so 

 general, that there is considerable danger that the first Greek who got hold 

 of the money, would as chanty begins at home conceive he could not 

 better fulfil the donors' intention than by letting it end there, and applying 

 that which had fallen in his way to the relief of himself. At all events, 

 however, we take it to be a matter beyond doubt, that a further Greek loan 

 would be a project too desperate even for the jobbers of the Stock Market. 

 The intrinsic value of the securities already existing, is not with any 

 reference to the chance of payment by Greece five pounds in the hundred ; 

 we should say scarcely as many shillings. Besides, the people of England 

 have not so soon forgotten the transactions connected with the last loan: 

 at least we hope they have not. If they have, let them look to the papers 

 and periodicals of six months back, and refresh their memories. " Greece" 

 is coming again rather too soon. 

 A View to Essentials 



" No Venus of stone, but of good flesh and bone." Old Song. 



The Place of St. Mark at Venice, which is the great focus of gaiety and 

 luxury (the Palais Royal) of the city, was, prior to the overthrow of the 

 French regime under Bonaparte, a good deal inhabited, as well as prome- 

 naded, &c., by females of a doubtful reputation. On the restoration of 

 the Bourbon dynasty, the Austrian government becoming ascendant, found 

 this state of things objectionable ; and in a general reform of the police of 

 Venice, purified the Place of St. Mark, by turning out all the ladies. The 

 inhabitants, however as it is dangerous attacking men upon their foibles 

 were highly indignant at this interference ; and the purification was not 

 pardoned, although, under the same authority, the famous Horses of 

 Lysippus, the pride of the city, were restored. The horses came in, and the 

 ladies were sent out (by way of soothing the feelings of the lower orders), 

 on the same day : but this device did not at all satisfy any class of the 

 Venetians ; who walked about, murmuring Bella cosa ! Guarde i suoi 

 cavalli, e ci lascia le nostre vacche ! French Globe. 



Perverseness of Foreigners. 4< What a rum language they talk in this 

 place!" said an English sailor the other day to his companion, who arrived 

 a few days later than the speaker himself had done at Rochefort " Why, 

 they call a cabbage, a shoe (choux) !" " They are a d d set!" was the 

 reply, " why can't they call it a cabbage!'" 



The Globe (English) of yesterday evening, in its leading article, attacks 

 the system of " holding parties to bail " for slight or ordinary offences at 

 Police Offices ; and complains that the effect of this practice as great 

 numbers of persons cannot find bail is frequently to inflict an imprison- 

 ment of six weeks upon a man before trial, whose sentence by the Court 

 will not exceed a trifling fine, or an imprisonment of a few days, after it, 

 or who may possibly be acquitted. The writer goes on by suggesting the 

 superior advantage of allowing persons under such accusations to go at 



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