1823. | 
—The author details his foreign voyages, 
and the incidents of his campaigns, in a 
pleasing manner, and introdces many pas- 
sages descriptive of other climes and peo-- 
ple, at once picturesque and charac- 
teristic. / 
Thoughts onthe Greek Revolution, by C. 
B.ISHERmDAN, Esq. reached a second 
edition before they came under onr notice. 
Mr, S. appeals eloquently to the people 
of England in the Greek cause, and de- 
precates the inconsiderate proposition of 
Mr. Hughes about driving the Greeks out 
of Enrope. " 
He should reflect, (says Mr. S.) that it is nosuch 
£asy task to root up an enormous population, and 
re-plantit in another quarter of the world; and that 
his colussus of clay could scarcely be lifted up by 
Minerva, end eng setdown ia Anadoli. And if 
it cannot be done quietiy, how will he effect it? 
Would he have the horrors of Navarin, Tripolizza, 
and Yanina a thousand-fold multiplied? for the 
warfare of two armed’ populations is fat more 
dreadful than the regulated destruction of stipen- 
diary armies; and the soldier, who is paidto kill 
his fellow-creaturés, at twelve kreutzers, or at thir- 
teen pence, a day, is the least terrible of belligerent 
animals. . 
1 object to a sentence of outlawry against the 
Turks, on account of the destruction of Joannina, 
as muchas | should to one against the Greeks for 
thescenes of Tripolizza and Navarin. I am more 
ankious to soften the minds of my countrymen 
towards the Greeks, than to inflame them against 
the Turks. This wild scheme, of atonce driving 
the Turks from Europe, had been before inculcated 
with equal vehemence by the author of ‘* War in 
Greece,” a work of whuse technical merits lam not 
qualified to speak, but whose spirited and vigorous 
language is no less calculated to mislead, than Mr, 
Hughes’s beautiful.and finislied periods. 
No where (says Mr. S.) has an enslaved press 
treated the Grecian cause with; more injustice and 
contempt than at Vienna. Austria, wearied perhaps 
bythe monotony of paralyzing states once industri- 
ous and powerful, palled with unresisied destruc- 
tion, receatly indulged the whim of creating prospe- 
rity, and chose the city of Trieste in Istria for the 
scene of so un-Austrian an experiment; where, if 
this be an unavoidable evil to which she reluctantly 
submits in the more congenial pursuit of ruining 
Venice, she has at least the consolation of knowing 
that her policy is debased by the least possible alloy 
of good, since the decay of Venice proceeds far more 
rapidly than the growth of Trieste. Now, in this 
favoured spot, the Greeks, these barbarous and re- 
viled 4sreeks, are-by far the most conspicuous mer- 
chants, and more than divide the merit of 
creating Trieste, though they cannot dispute with 
Austria that of destroying Venice. 
1am far from making a pandemonium of the 
Divan; £.do not even believe the lurks in general 
to be actively cruel, but their strict fatalism renders 
them singularly careless of human life; and, if they 
rate low the existence of a Mussulman, they rate 
still lower that of a Rayah. lt would be endless 
to explain the mutual relations of the ‘Turks and 
Greeks, but some idea may be formed from the fact 
that a Turk was never capitally punished for the 
murder ofa Greek ; and thatthe Turks, who always 
armed, did notsufler this impunity tobe a brutum 
fulmen, but frequently shot Greeks .on very slight 
provocation, ¢ ; 
if lcompare Turkey in Asia, the early possession 
of the Turks, to England; conquered ‘Turkey in 
Lurope. to cunquered Ireland ; and Egypt, to Scot- 
land; Greece will about answer Wales, subdued, 
like her, Owing to the civil warsof the native princes, 
and equally movatainous, but more detached 
and inaccessible, ‘There is nv more truth inthe idea 
fat the Greekwinsist upon exiling the Turks from 
¥urope, than that the Welch ever determined to 
drive we English out.of Ireland. The Greeks are 
struggling to Toro te invaders, who are quartered 
rather than ¢sta ed over their country, back 
into Rumelia, as the Welsh five centuries since 
endeavoured to repel their English tyrants on 
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Literary and Critieal Proémium. 
457 
The great misconception in Englind concerning 
the Greek revolution is this: we imagine the question 
to be, whether the Greeks shall throw off the 
Turkish yoke, or shall endure it patiently as before: 
the real alternative is, whether Greece shall enjoy 
a permanent and guaranteed, though tributary and 
merely municipal,independence, a medium between 
the recent situation of Hydra and the previous one 
of Ragusa, or whether one of the two natioris shall 
be exterminated. 
We have no right to expect that the Emperor 
Alexander should be interested in the Greek in- 
Surrection, except as it affects Russia; for it is 
preposterous to ask any government to do what is 
contrary to its interest, and the emancipation of 
Greece will not only do no good to Russia, but it 
willdo her harm, She will lose her importance in 
the Levant, as the protector of the Greeks, and the 
power of terrifying the Divan by threatening to 
excite its Rayahs. If the Emperor Alexander as- 
sists the Greeks, he will do it, like Trapbois “ for a 
consideration:” and an island in the Levant, which 
he would probably suggest as his consulting fee on 
the occasion, is a mode of paymenthighly objection- 
able to this country. 
The waste of public money in Turkey is as endless 
as thetitles of the Sultan; peace profligancy ap- 
pears commensurate with the plains and mountains 
of the East, and our military colleges and martello 
towers, Our ordnance and barrack departments, 
shew like Highgate or Hampstead by the sid= of 
Caucasus. 
After the Greeks are freed, and the principalities 
ceded, one of two things must in the course of the 
presentcentury occur. The mouldering corruption 
of Turkey will proceed, till political sores, that tester 
instead of healing, have produced final mortification, 
and the European empire of Othinamexpires hkea 
candle which has been suffered to burn down into 
the socket; and the object. of all Our wishes will 
thus be attained without either misery or effort. 
Those who fancy that a Greek is an amphibious 
monster, half European and half Asiatic,’ will be 
surprised at toate 4 that there are in London, at 
this moment, the following respectable Greek mer- 
chants; Eustratius Rallis, Mavrozordatus, Alexander 
Contostavlos, Phrankiadis, and Negropontis; and 
either in London or Cambridgé they may. satisfy 
themselves, that Messrs. Schinas, Maniakis, and 
Pappinicotas, are men arrayed like ourselves, in 
coats, breeches, and waistcoats, and whose manners 
and information would not disgrace the first Euro. 
pean society. 
There are between three and four hundred Greek 
students in Germany, and between five and six 
hundred in Italy. Astill greaternumber is expected 
to resort to a university, about to be founded in 
Ithaca by the Ionian Government, which had al- 
ready appointed, aschancellor, the Earl of Guilford, 
whose unostentatious and almost subterraneous ef- 
forts to enrich the Greek character with “ knowledge 
which is power” have for many years made him the 
link of benevolence between Greece and England. 
The following are some of the Greek Literati of 
the day :— 4 i 
Eugenjus Vulgaris, Nicephorus Thectokis, Con« 
stantinus Karaioannis, Balanus of Joannina, Atha-' 
nasius of Paros, Josep!) the Mcesodacian, Neophytus 
the Kapsokalivitis, Georgeius Sakellariu, Daniel 
Philippidis, Athanasius Psallidis, Demetrius Darva- 
zis, Athanasius Christupulus, Constantinus Kokkin= 
akis, Constantinus Kumas, Lamprus Photiadis, 
Anastasius Georgiadis, Adamantinus Korays, Neo- 
phytus Ducas, Anthimus Gazi, Kaora, aud Koletti, 
Secretary to the Congress. ; . 
—We have on this interesting subject 
taken the above passages from Mr, Sheri- 
dan’s pamphlet, The apathy in England 
of which he complains arises from the 
distance of Greece, from the want of 
correct information, or eyen any intorma- 
tion, from the proximity of Spain andSpan- 
ish interesis, and from the subseribing part 
of the people being worn out by sub- 
scriptions. : 
A valuable addition has recently been 
made to the comparatively inaccessible 
sources of authentic information relative 
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