1828.] Dr. Granville’s Travels to St. Petersburgh. 895 
detached from the back part of the head—and the remarkable paleness of his 
complexion, give him a very peculiar character. He has a quick and brilliant 
eye, and a mildness in the expression of his countenance which is very pleas-~ 
ing. This nobleman, who, for the interest of Greece, had resigned the best 
pun of his moderate fortune, and was now journeying towards the seat of 
is Government, declined every assistance proffered to him, travelled by the 
diligence, and with a view of being wholly unfettered by foreign influence, had 
formally resigned all his pensions and other pecuniary emoluments. It is to 
be hoped that the Greek nation will prove worthy of such personal sacrifices, by the 
support they will give to the government of their distinguished countryman.” 
The reader will gather, from the last period of this extract, the class 
of social casuistry by which the conclusions of the worthy doctor are 
directed. He evidently looks upon “this nobleman,” and “ the Greek 
nation,” as no more than fit pendans the one for the other ; and that the 
latter, if it does not “ behave itself” in a befitting manner towards the 
former, will fully merit that extermination which for the present it seems 
to have escaped. 
It is singular to observe the intuitive knowledge which the doctor 
seems to possess, touching the moral and intellectual pretensions of every 
great personage towards whom he makes the remotest approach. He 
spends a day or two at Brussels; and the following is one of the revela- 
tions which come to him during that period. Having spoken of the Prince 
of Orange, as a person who “ promises, by his conduct, a succession of 
happy and brilliant years to the Flemish nation,” he adds, “ his amiable 
consort, the Princess Anne Paulowna, Grand-Duchess of Russia, enjoys 
likewise—and certainly no princess ever deserved it more—the greatest 
popularity. I have heard her spoken of in terms of admiration bordering 
on enthusiasm. This is not extraordinary, when it is considered to what 
royal stock this princess belongs, and under whose maternal care she has 
been educated.” 
As our author “ professes intendment” of rendering his book “ as use- 
ful as practical information can make it,” it may be proper to state here, 
once for all, that those travellers who take it fora “ Guide,” will do well 
to provide themselves with some other work of a similar nature, by which 
they may be enabled to check and correct its general and particular 
statements. Not that we would insinuate the probability of their meet- 
ing with any betier “Guide,” than that which is now offered to their 
notice: for we hold all professed “ Guides” to be equally skilled in the 
art of leading astray. But there are cases in which two bad things are 
better than one; and this is one of them. Travellers will not find any 
two “ Guides” that will give them exactly the same details, in regard to 
any one matter or thing whatsoever. The consequence is, that those 
persons who are prudent enough to provide themselves with two or three, 
will be induced to put no trust in either, and will thus escape that mass 
of misinformation which otherwise inevitably awaits them. Dr. Gran- 
‘ ville tells us that he wrote his work as a “ Guide” to St. Petersburgh— 
there being, up to the present time, no such thing extant. _Now thisis 
the only part, of either his design or the fulfilment of it, which we cannot 
forgive him. If there had been half-a-dozen of these deluders, we should 
have been happy to see him added. to the number: for, as “ in a multi- 
tude of counsellors there is wisdom,” so (as we have hinted above) ina 
multitude of misleaders it is not absolutely impossible that you may, 
among them all, fall into the right pages 
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