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their convivial meetings, and make con- 
spiracy their proféssion and their pleasure. 
"Phe ayatiptthves ‘Of ge “fiien' will AMY “thelr 
magazities ‘with’ arms; and’ the renown ‘of 
having saved’ theit ‘country from slavery, 
will be thé “only honours and 'titles hich 
they will aspire: "What Shall withisfatid mén 
“to whom freedom’ shall make'victory doubly 
dear; atid the love’ of glory shallYender 
‘death indifferent?" "8 oon ome om 
© But even if the contest should end as 
the wars.of the Reformation ended by the 
triumph of one party in some countries and 
of the other in others, what will the sove- 
reigns-who shall have preserved their arbi- 
trary power have gained? The countries 
where reform triumphs will have the ad- 
vantage which England and Holland in the 
sventeenth century had over Spain and 
Italy... Success in excluding what are called 
revolutionary doctrines will be accompanied 
by the loss of national strength and national 
importance. The nations which are not 
sufficiently enlightened to admit freedom 
into their, goyernment, or too corrupt to 
cheek the abuses which despotism has en- 
gendered, must be contented to sit on a 
lower. form among the powers of Europe. 
Ttawas ‘by succeeding in all their objects, 
by- repressing innovation, by extirpating op- 
position, that the government of Spain ef- 
fected the ruin of their country, and reduced 
that mighty: empire to poverty and insig- 
nificance.» In the same way the ministers 
of the despotic states of Europe, in pre- 
serving absolute power to their masters, 
are preparing the cup of bitterness to. the 
nations they misgovern.”” 
The quotations we have made from 
this introduction to the Memoirs before 
us, will sufficiently evince both the 
ability with which it is written, and the 
spirit of liberality that breathes through 
it. Many axioms and sentences of com- 
prehensive pith and point might also 
be selected. from it worthy of being 
treasured in remembrance. Thus to 
the objection, that. certain countries 
which have been long. oppressed _ by 
tyranny haye become.unfit for. liberty, 
it isanswered that— 
‘© It would indeed be a hopeless case for 
mankind if despotism were thus allowed to 
take advantage of its own wrong, and to 
bring the evidence of its crimes as the title- 
deeds of its right.” 
‘And again:— 
“ ‘When I am asked if such a nation is 
fit to be free, I ask in return, Is any man 
fit to be a despot?” ‘ ; 
Upon the subject of the violences 
and outrages of rebellion and revolu- 
tion, we have the following candid and 
judicious observation. ~~ 
““Undoubtedly upon the heads of those 
who provoke a people to rebellion’ must 
full the crimes of that rebellion; he who 
Greece, in 1823 and 1824. 
gives an example of cruelty and _injustiec 
must not coniplain if it rebowtids 
self.” 72 svorkt (acin susal? syvetio 
~ And the following reflection tipoir'the 
same subject is ‘as justias itis Tiberalys 
“YOY GS Og aR ee Pa 3 Sms £ fo pT 
neon dee dt be, o} te 3 
éxcessts Of a peo ie th 
‘ed down, ‘and4 Rea? they spréad’ in- 
‘definite alarm at thé time, and-are ¥ecd déd 
to future ages. ‘The*ctimes ‘of @espotisn, 
on the other hand} are- the gfeatéF part6t 
them performed in darkness; ‘the Sanié haifa 
which takes the’ life of the patriét; “arrests 
the pen of the historian. The surface“6f 
despotism is smooth ; the world knows not 
how many victims are languishing in “its 
prisons, or how many of its subjects are 
swept away by its unjust decrees.. Thou- 
sands of human beings may have'saerifieed 
their lives to the fears-of a tyrant, and no 
one have known it; let’ a’ revolution take 
place, and a convicted conspirator suffer 
without the forms of law, the whol ld 
resounds with complaint and indignation,” : 
We have. confined ourselyes..to. the 
introductory part of the work, as. most 
important; though that which. follows 
may be most amusive. ret 
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Greece, in 1823 and 1824. _ 
AY HEN, in our Magazine for Dec. 
_ [Vol.58, No.403, p. 456,] we no- 
ticed the letters of Col. Stanhope, and 
paid them the tribute of applause to which 
they were entitled, we promised such 
further extracts for our Supplement,-as 
might tend to illustrate the affairs and 
prospects of Greece. We proceed with 
pleasure to the fulfilment of that engage~" 
ment ; for we agree completely with Co- 
lonel Stanhope, that “ the name’ of 
Greece is calculated to awaken in every. 
bosom, feelings of the. most pl 23 
and_improving (we. should add, 
the most animating) kind :”2.z S¥M>» 
patize no less in.the,exultati yy ee 
** Roused from the apathy of their 
borne suffering, they at once burst asu 
the massy chains with which their tyra 
had loaded them, and, strong in the mz . 
ty of regenerated freedom, Greecée* once’ 
more lifted up her head ;”* that “ her infidel” 
oppressors fied before her néwly-awakened © 
and irtesistible enérgies, ‘and=in the course’” 
of-a single campaign, the surface of Greece ~ 
was almost entirely freed from the locusts. 
who had so long devastated her plains.** 
A passage in the VIIIth, and atiother in 
the IXth letter,may beadmitted*as ilus-" 
trative in some degree of the cautious® 
and calculating policy both of the-Rus-° 
_ sian and British nation (as nations) with:® 
‘ respect to this Christian’ strt 
dom against Turkish. tyranny, and.op- 
pression : happily, however, in the latter, 
a. aM Vonrpote 
