ATHENS. 
the earth, with all the sovereigns they represent, 
aided by every resource that wealth and talent 
can now bestow, will never again repair. As 
to our friend Lusieri, it is hardly necessary to 
exculpate him ; because he could only obey the 
orders he had received, and this he did with 
manifest reluctance : neither was there a work- 
man employed in the undertaking, among the 
artists sent out of Rome for that purpose, who 
did not express his concern that such havoc 
should be deemed necessary, after moulds and 
Yet we are seriously told, (Memorandum, />.8. Land. 1311,} that this 
mischief has been doue with a view to " rescue these specimens of 
sculpture from impending ruin :" then, why not exert the same influ- 
ence which was employed in removing them, to induce the Turkish 
Government to adopt measures for their effectual preservation ! Ah 
no! a wiser scheme was in agitation : it was at first attempted to have 
them all mended by some modern artist!!! (SeeMemor. p. 39.) From 
this calamity they were rescued by the good taste of Cunova. (Ibid.) 
The sight of them (Mcmor. p. 42.) "so rivetted and agitated the 
feelings of Mrs. Siddons, the pride of theatrical representation, as ac- 
tually to draw tears from her eyes." And who marvels at such 
emotion ? 
' { Cold is the heart, fair Greece! that looks on thee, 
, . Nor feels as lovers o'er the dust they.lov'd; 
Dull is the eye that will not weep to see 
Thy walls defac'd, thy mouldering shrines remov'd 
By British hands, which it had best behov'd 
To guard those relics ne'er to be restor'd. 
Curst be the hour when from their isle they rov'd, 
And once again thy hapless bosom goar'd, 
And snatch'd thy shrinking Gods to Northern climes abhorr'd." 
CMtde Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto II. 15. Land. 1812 
