AN ADVENTURE DURING THE 

 GREEK REVOLUTION. 



BY GEORGE FINLAY. 

 [MAGA. Nov. 1842.]- 



nn\YENTY years ago I was studying at a German 

 J- University. The Greek insurrection excited a 

 good deal of attention at the time, and many of the 

 professors, as well as the students, were enthusiastic 

 in the cause of the regeneration of Greece, for so the 

 struggle between the Greeks and Turks was then 

 always called. I conversed much with the Germans 

 who returned from Greece ; they had invariably lost 

 every spark of enthusiasm, and uttered dire lamenta- 

 tions over the ingratitude of the Greek race : this in- 

 gratitude they owned Avas more deeply insulting in a 

 country which afforded such execrable commons and 

 bad lodgings as the classic Hellas. Their conversation 

 ended by producing in me a conviction that their 

 accounts were coloured with a sombre hue, in con- 

 sequence of their absurd expectations of becoming 

 heroes in six months, or rich men in six weeks, 



