210 Intelligence and Miscellanies. 
idence permit, I shall return to c servations and 
inquiries which my state of health has scarcely allowed me 
to commence until the present summer shall deem my- 
e season is thus far very mild, and it is singular that at 
the height of one thousand seven hundred feet above the 
level of the sea, we have had scarcely any severe cold, while 
in most of the adjacent countries the winter is long since set 
in, and even in Turkey, the Russians have almost realized 
the sufferings of the French at Moscow. I find that the most 
liberal men here rather rejoice that the proud steps of the 
northern colossus are somewhat arrested, and that Russian 
despotism is kept at bay by the Mahomedan, to the greater 
security of the rest of the world. The great objects which hu- 
manity had to desire, the independence of Greece, and the 
repose necessary to build up its ruins, and the better protec- 
tion of Wallachia and Moldavia seem to be secured; and if 
the success of the Russians had been complete, who can an- 
swer for the ambition of Nicolas, or the passions of his semi- 
were destitute both of doors and windows. ‘There 
nough wealth remaining to replant the desolated vineyards 
se 
and olive yards. The price of two or three crops will pur- 
chase the land. Candiais at present the scene of the same 
