Sp StARKE^S TEAVEM* 
others, of some importance, the owners were unwilling to s.elh 
The fact is, it is not money which such men want. They will 
often exchange their manuscripts for good priuted editions of 
the Greek classics, particularly of the orators. Prince Alex¬ 
ander Bano Hantzerli had a magnificent collection of Greek 
which they are plunged, are the Greek nobles of the Phanar. But, instead of using 
their influence with the government, to enable them to encourage and patronize 
schools in parts of the levant, they are only pacing in the trammels of political in¬ 
trigue, and, actuated by the ‘ lust of lucre,’ or of power, are doing what they can to 
obtain the offices of interpreter to the Porte, or of patriarch ; or to succeed as princes 
of Walachia and Moldavia. Excepting a dictionary of modern Greek, which was 
published under the patronage of one of the Mavrocordato family; and a (ppoyncrTnpiov, 
or" school, the expenses of which were defrayed by one of the Moroozi family; all 
that has been done, to increase a knowledge of their language among the Greeks, has 
been effected by the liberal and patriotic exertions of Greek merchants, living at Ven¬ 
ice, Trieste, or Vienna. An undertaking which would have been attended with great 
advantage, had it not been frustrated by political interference, was a translation of 
the travels of Anacharsis into modern Greek, accompanied with proper maps. This 
was only begun ; the Greek who was employed in it was put to death by the Porte : 
another Greek, of Yanina, called Sakellaris, has, I believe, translated the whole.-— 
Works of this kind would be productive of greater utility to the mass of the reading 
and industrious Greeks, than such performances as a translation of Virgil’s Jilneid into 
Greek hexameters, which I saw at Constantinople, published by the Greek bishop, 
Eulgari, who resided in Prussia. 
“ The Greeks of the Phanar are themselves very conversant with the authors of 
ancient Greece, andlwell understand most of the modern languages of Europe. There 
is an affectation of using words and phrases of old Greek, instead of the modern, even 
among the servants and inferior people at the Phanar The learned Coray is exciting, 
his countrymen, by his writings and example, to a study of their ancient language ; 
and the Greek merchants, who are led to visit the different cilies of the continent; 
return to their country with information and useful knowledge, which is gradually dif¬ 
fused among the Greeks connected with them. 
“ The following advertisement, of an exhibition of waxwork at Pera, may give the? 
reader a notion of the common Greek used at that place. 
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(TRANSLATION.) 
N OTIC E. 
iJ Mr. Cam-pioni has the honour to inform the nobility and gentry *• that, he is'arrived 
here, with a large,collection of forty and more Figures ; the greater part of the kings of 
Europe , and. many other illustrious personages. Among them, is a Venus. All these are of 
the size of nature, and dressed, each according to the quality of the person. 
■ •‘ These figures are exhibited every day, from the morning to eleven at night, in the 
staurodromoy in the house of Mrs, Thomasinay above a confectioners shop. ThcyioUliSf 
