other commission for the good of Greece will meet with the same attention on my part. "I am trying, with some hope of eventual success, to reunite the Greeks, especially as the Turks are expected in force, and that shortly. We must meet them as we may, and fight it out as we can. tend to much mischief and misconstruction, unless under some restrictions, nor have I ever had any thing to do with either, as a writer or otherwise, except as a pecuniary contributor to their support on the outset, which I could not refuse to the earnest request of the projectors. Col. Stanhope and myself had considerable differences "I rejoice to hear that your school prospers, and I of opinion on this subject, and (what will appear laughassure you that your good wishes are reciprocal. The able enough) to such a degree that he charged me with weather is so much finer, that I get a good deal of mode-despotic principles, and I him with ultraradicalism. rate exercise in boats and on horseback, and am willing Dr. **, the editor, with his unrestrained freedom of to hope that my health is not worse than when you kindly wrote to me. Dr. Bruno can tell you that I adhere to your regimen, and more, for I do not eat any meat, even fish. "Believe me ever, &c. "P. S. The mechanics (six in number) were all pretty much of the same mind. Brownbill was but one. Perhaps they are less to blame than is imagined, since Colonel Stanhope is said to have told them, that he could not positively say their lives were safe.' I should like to know where our life is safe, either here or any where else? With regard to a place of safety, at least such hermetically-sealed safety as these persons appeared to desiderate, it is not to be found in Greece, at any rate; but Missolonghi was supposed to be the place where they would be useful, and their risk was no greater than that of others." "What can be spared will be sent; but I refer you to Captain Humphries's report, and to Count Gamba's letter for details upon all subjects. "In the hope of seeing you soon, and deferring much that will be to be said till then. "Believe me ever, &c. "P.S. Your two letters (to me) are sent to Mr. Barff, as you desire. Pray remember me particularly to Treawney, whom I shall be very much pleased to see again.' the press, and who has the freedom to exercise an unlimited discretion, not allowing any article but his own and those like them to appear,-and in declaiming against restrictions, cuts, carves, and restricts (as they tell me,) at his own will and pleasure. He is the author of an article against monarchy, of which he may have the advantage and fame-but they (the editors) will get themselves into a scrape, if they do not take care. "Of all petty tyrants, he is one of the pettiest, as are most demagogues, that ever I knew. He is a Swiss by birth, and a Greek by assumption, having married a wife and changed his religion. "I shall be very glad, and am extremely anxious for some favourable result to the recent pacific overtures of the contending parties in the Peloponnese." LETTER DCXXX. TO MR. BARFF. *March "If the Greek deputies (as seems probable) have obtained the loan, the sums I have advanced may perhaps be repaid; but it would make no great difference, as I should still spend that in the cause, and more to boot→→→ though I should hope to better purpose than paying off arrears of fleets that sail away, and Suliotes that won't march, which, they say, what has hitherto been advanced those who had the disposal of affairs, and I could not has been employed in. But that was not my affair, but of decently say to them, 'You shall do so and because &c. &c. &c.' So, "In a few days P. Mavrocordato and myself, with a considerable escort, int nd to proceed to Salona at the request of Ulysses and the Chiefs of Eastern Greece, and take measures offensive and defensive for the ensuing campaign. Mavrocordato is almost recalled by the new think,) and they have written to propose to me, to ge Government to the Morea (to take the lead, I rather cither to the Morea with him, or to take the general direction of affairs in this quarter-with General Londo and any other I may choose, to form a council. A. Londo is my old friend and acquaintance since we were lads in Greece together. It would be difficult to give a positive answer till the Salona meeting is over, but I am willing to serve them in any capacity they please, either commanding or commanded-it is much the same to me, as long as I can be of any presumed use to them. "As Count Mercati is under some apprehensions of a "Excuse haste; it is late, and I have been several hours direct answer to him personally on Greek affairs, I reply on horseback in a country so miry after the rains, that (as you authorized me) to you, who will have the good-every hundred yards brings you to a ditch, of whose ness to communicate to him the enclosed. It is the joint depth, width, colour, and contents, both my horses and answer of Prince Mavrocordato and of myself, to Signor their riders have brought away many tokens." LETTER DCXXIX. TO MR. BARFF. "March 19. Georgio Sisseni's propositions. You may also add, both to him and to Parruca, that I am perfectly sincere in desiring the most amicable termination of their internal dissensions, and that I believe P. Mavrocordato to be so also, otherwise I would not act with him, or any other whether native or foreigner. LETTER DCXXXI. TO MR. BARFF. "March 26. "If Lord Guilford is at Zante, or, if he is not, if Signor "Since your intelligence with regard to the Greek lan, Tricupi is there, you would oblige me by presenting my To this offer of the Government to appoint him Governor-General respects to one or both, and by telling them, that from of Greece (that is, of the enfranchised part of the Continent, with the the very first I foretold to Col. Stanhope and to P. Ma-exception of the Morea and the islands,) his answer was, that "he was first going to Salona, and that afterward he would be at their vrocodato, that a Greek newspaper (or indeed any other) commnauds that he could have no difficulty in accepting any office, in the present state of Greece might and probably would provided he could persuade himself that any good would result from it."-Moors. P. Mavrocordato has shown to n.e an extract from some protection, and that he had left his wife, and daughter correspondence of his, by which it would appear that three and family in the greatest alarm, and on that account commissioners are to be named to see that the amount is putting them under our immediate protection. The placed in proper hands for the service of the country, and case admitted of no delay. As I am not aware tha: that my name is among the number. Of this, however, Mr. Hesketh exceeded his orders, I cannot take any we have as yet only the report. measures to punish him, but I have no objection to exThis commission is apparently named by the Com-amine minutely into his conduct. You ought to recollect mittee or the contracting parties in England. I am of that entering into his Auxiliary Greek corps now under my opmion that such a commission will be necessary, but the orders, at your own sole request and positive desire, you othice will be both delicate and difficult. The weather, incurred the obligation of obeying the laws of the country which has lately been equinoctial, has flooded the country, as well as those of the service. and will probably retard our proceeding to Salona for some days, till the road becomes more practicable. "You were already apprized that P. Mavrocordato and myself had been invited to a conference by Ulysses and the Chiefs of Eastern Greece. I hear (and am indeed consulted on the subject) that in case the remittance of the first advance of the loan should not arrive immediately, the Greek General Government mean to try to raise some thousand dollars in the islands in the interim, to be repaid fron the earliest instalments on their arrival. What prospect of success they may have, or on what condiBons, you can tell better then me: I suppose, if the loan be confirmed, something might be done by them, but subject of course to the usual terms. You can let them and me know your opinion. There is an imperious necessity for some national fund, and that speedily, otherwise what is to be done? The auxiliary corps of about two hundred men paid by me, are, I believe, the sole regularly and properly furnished with the money, due to them weekly, and the officers monthly. It is true that the Greek Government gives their rations, but we have had three mutinies, owing to the badness of the bread, which neither native nor stranger could masticate (nor dogs either,) and there is still great difficulty in obtaining them even provisions of any kind. "There is a dissension among the Germans about the conduct of the agents of their Committee, and an examination among themselves instituted. What the result may be cannot be anticipated, except that it will end in a row, of course, as usual. "The English are all very amicable, as far as I know; we get on too with the Greeks very tolerably, always making allowance for circumstances; and we have no arrels with the foreigners." "I have the honour, to be, &c. &c. LETTER DXXXIII. TO MR. BARFF. " April 3. "There is a quarrel, not yet settled, between the citizens and some of Cariascachi's people, which has already produced some blows. I keep my people quite neutral; but have ordered them to be on their guard. "Some days ago we had an Italian private soldier drummed out for thieving. The German officers wanted to flog him; but I flatly refused to permit the use of the stick or whip, and delivered him over to the police. Since then a Prussian officer rioted in his lodgings; and I put him under arrest, according to the order. This, it appears, did not please his German confederation: but I stuck by my text; and have given them plainly to understand, that those who do not choose to be amenable to the laws of the country and service, may retire; but that in all that I have to do, I will see them obeyed by foreigner or native. “I wish something was heard of the arrival of part of the loan, for there is a plentiful dearth of every thing at present." LETTER DCXXXIV. TO MR. BARFF. " April 6. "Since I wrote, we have had some tumult here with the citizens and Cariascachi's people, and all are under arms, our boys and all. They nearly fired on me and fifty of my lads, by mistake, as we were taking our usual excursion into the country. To-day matters are settled or subsiding; but about an hour ago, the father-in-law of the landlord of the house where I am lodged (one of the Pri mates the said landlord is) was arrested for high-treason. "They are in conclave still with Mavrocordato; and 'Tis a very fine thing to be father-in-law I have the honour to reply to your letter of this day. In consequence of an urgent, and, to all appearance, a well founded complaint made to me yesterday evening, I gave orders to Mr. Hesketh,* to proceed to your quarters with the soldiers of his guard, and to remove you from your house to the Seraglio, because the owner of your house declared himself and his family to be in immediate danger from your conduct, and added that it was not the first time that you had placed them in similar circumstances. Neither Mr. Hesketh nor myself could imagine as the man in Bluebeard says and sings, I wrote to you that you were in bed, as we had been assured of the upon matters at length, some days ago; the letter, or contrary, and certainly such a situation was not contem-letters, you will receive with this. We are desirous to plated. But Mr. Hesketh had positive orders to conduct hear more of the loan; and it is some time since I have you from your quarters to those of the Artillery Brigade, at had any letters (at least of an interesting description) from the same time being desired to use no violence, nor does England, excepting one of 4th Feb, from Bowning (cf no It appear that any was had recourse to. This measure great importance.) My latest dates are of 9bre, or of the was adopted, because your landlord assured me when I 6th 10bre, four months exactly. I hope you get on wel proposed to put off the enquiry until the next day, tha: ne in the islands: here most of us are, or have been, more ould not return to his house without a guard for his or less indisposed, natives as well as foreigners." • The Adjutant. A corps of fifty Sullotes, his body guard. LETTER DCXXXV. TO MR. BARFF. "April 7. "The Greeks here of the Government have been boring me for more money. As I have the brigade to maintain, and the campaign is apparently now to open, and as I have already spent 30,000 dollars in three months upon them in one way or other, and more especially as their public loan has succeeded, so that they ought not to draw from individuals at that rate, I have given them a refusal, and—as they would not take that,-another refusal "They wish now to try in the islands for a few thou- EXTRACTS FROM A JOURNAL BEGUN NOVEMBER 14, 1813. It this had been begin ten years ago, and faithfully I don't like to think so neither, and, though older, she is kept!!!-heigho! there are too many things I wish never not so clever. "Dallas called before I was up, so we did not meet. to have remembered, as it is. Well,-I have had my share of what are called the pleasures of this life, and Lewis, too-who seems out of humour with every thing have seen more of the European and Asiatic world than What can be the matter? he is not married--has he lost I have made a good use of. They say 'virtue is its own his own mistress, or any other person's wife? Hodgson, He is going to be married, and he is the kind reward,'-it certainly should be paid well for its trouble. too, came. At five-and-twenty, when the better part of life is over, of man who will be the happier. He has taient, cheeryoung, and all one should be something;-and what am I? nothing but fulness, every thing that can make him a pleasing comfive-and-twenty-and the odd months. What have I panion; and his intended is handsome and seen? the same man all over the world,-ay, and woman that. But I never see any one much improved by matritoo. Give me a Mussulman who never asks questions, mony. All my coupled contemporaries are bald and and a she of the same race who saves one the trouble of discontented. W. and S. have both lost their hair and putting them. But for this same plague-yellow-fever-good-humour; and the last of the two had a good deal to and Newstead delay, I should have been by this time a lose. But it don't much signify what falls off a man's second time close to the Euxine. If I can overcome the temples in that state. last, I do n't so much mind your pestilence; and, at any rate, the spring shall see me there,-provided I neither marry myself nor unmarry any one else in the interval. I wish one was-I don't know what I wish. It is odd I never set myself seriously to wishing without attaining it -and repenting. I begin to believe with the good old Magi, that one should only pray for the nation, and not for the individual;-but, on my principle, this would not be very patriotic. "No more reflections.-Let me see-last night I finished'Zuleika,'* my second Turkish Tale. I believe the composition of it kept me alive-for it was written to drive my thoughts from the recollection of 'Dear, sacred name, rest ever unreveal'd.' Mem. "Mem. I must get a toy to-morrow for Eliza, and send the device for the seals of myself and ***** too, to call on the Staël and Lady Holland to-morrow and on **, who has advised me (without seeing it, bythe-by) not to publish 'Zuleika; I believe he is right, but experience might have taught him that not to print is physically impossible. No one has seen it but Hodgson and Mr. Gifford. I never in my life read a composition, save to Hodgson, as he pays me in kind. It is a horrible thing to do too frequently;-better print, and they who like may read, and, if they do n't like, you have the satis faction of knowing that they have, at least, purchased the right of saying so. "I have declined presenting the Debtor's Petition, being sick of parliamentary mummeries. I have spoken thrice; At least, even here, my hand would tremble to write it. but I doubt my ever becoming an orator. My first was I have never yet set to it con amore; This afternoon I have burned the scenes of my com-liked; the second and third-I do n't know whether they menced comedy. I have some idea of expectorating a succeeded or not. romance, or rather a tale, in prose ;-but what romance one must have some excuse to oneself for laziness, o could equal the events— " quæque ipse..... Et quorum pars magna fui.' vidi, inability, or both, and this is mine. Company, villanou? company, hath been the spoil of me;'-and then, I have 'drunk medicines,' not to make me love others, but certainly enough to hate myself. "Two nights ago, I saw the tigers sup at Exeter To-day Henry Byron called on me with my little cousin Eliza. She will grow up a beauty and a plague: Change. Except Veli Pacha's lion in the Morea,-who but, in the mean time, it is the prettiest child! dark eyes followed the Arab keeper like a dog,—the fondness of the and eyelashes, black and long as the wing of a raven. I hyæna for her keeper amused me most. think she is prettier even than my niece, Georgiana,-yet sazione! There was a 'hippopotamus,' like Lord Liver • The Bride of Abydos. Such a conver pool in the face; and the Ursine Sloth' hath the very voice and manner of my valet-but the tiger talked too much. The elephant took and gave me my money again theless, till his friends were tired, and his wife recu -took off my hat-opened a door-trunked a whip-and behaved so well, that I wish he was my butler. The handsomest animal on earth is one of the panthers; but the poor antelopes were dead. I should hate to see one here-the sight of the camel made me pine again for Asia Minor. Oh quando te aspiciam?' "Nov. 16. "Went last night with Lewis to see the first of Antony and Cleopatra. It was admirably got up and well acted -a salad of Shakspeare and Dryden. Cleopatra strikes me as the epitome of her sex-fond, lively, sad, tender, teasing, humble, haughty, beautiful, the devil!-coquettish to the last, as well with the 'asp' as with Antony. After doing all she can to persuade him that-but why do they abuse him for cutting off that poltroon Cicero's head? Did not Tully tell Brutus it was a pity to have spared Antony? and did he not speak the Philippics? and are not words things?" and such words' very pestilent 'things' too? If he had had a hundred heads, they deserved (from Antony) a rostrum (his was stuck there) apiece-though, after all, he might as well have pardoned him, for the credit of the thing. But to resume -Cleopatra, after securing him, says, 'yet go'-'it is your interest,' &c.; how like the sex! and the questions about Octavia-it is woman all over. up mended that pious prologue, 'Curse-and die' the only time, I suppose, when but little relief is to be found in swearing. I have had a most kind letter from Lord Ho land on 'The Bride of Ab, dos' which he likes, and s does Lady H. This is very good-natured in both, from whom I do n't deserve any quarter. Yet I did think, a. the time, that my cause of enmity proceeded from Hol land-house, and am glad I was wrong, and wish I had not been in such a hurry with that confounded satire, of which I would suppress even the memory ;-but people, now they can't get it, make a fuss, I verily believe, out of conradiction. "George Ellis and Murray have been talking something about Scott and me, George pro Scoto,-and very right too. If they want to depose him, I only wish they would not set me up as a competitor. Even if I had my choice, I would rather be the earl of Warwick than all the kings he ever made! Jeffrey and Gifford I take to be the monarch-makers in poetry and prose. The British Critic, in their Rokeby Review, have presupposed a comparison, which I am sure my friends never thought of, and W. Scott's subjects are injudicious in descending to. I like the man--and admire his works to what Mr. Braham calls entusymusy. All such stuff can only vex him, and do me no good. Many hate his politics,-(I hate all politics;) and, here, a man's politics are like the Greek soul-an tidwλov, besides God knows what other soul; but their estimate of the two generally go together. "Harry has not brought ma petite cousine. I want us to go to the play together; she has been but once. Another short note from Jersey, inviting Rogers and me on the 23d. I must see my agent to night. I wonder when that Newstead business will be finished. It cost me more than words to part with it-and to have parted with it! What matters it what I do? or what becomes of me?-but let me remember Job's saying, and console myself with being 'a living man.' "To-day received Lord Jersey's invitation to Middleton-to travel sixty miles to meet Madame de Staël! I once travelled three thousand to get among silent people; and this same lady writes octavos and talks folios. I have read her books-like most of them, and delight in the last so I won't hear it, as well as read. ✶✶✶✶✶✶✶ "Read Burns to-day. What would he have been, if a patrician? We should have had more polish-less force --just as much verse, but no immortality-a divorce and a duel or two, the which had he survived, as his potations must have been less spirituous, he might have lived as long "I wish I could settle to reading again; my life is as Sheridan, and outlived as much as poor Brinsley. monotonous, and yet desultory. I take up books, and What a wreck is that man! and all from bad pilotage; fling them down again. I began a comedy, and burned it for no one had ever better gales, though now and then a because the scene ran into reality; a novel, for the same little too squally. Poor dear Sherry! I shall never forget reason. In rhyme, I can keep more away from facts the day he, and Rogers, and Moore, and I passed toge-but the thought always runs through, through ther; when he talked, and we listened, without one yawn, from six till one in the morning. "Got my seals ✶ ✶✶✶ ✶ Have again forgot a plaything for ma petite cousine Eliza; but I must send yes, yes, through. I have had a letter from Lady Melbourne, the best friend I ever had in my life, and the cleverest of women. "Not a word from **. Have they set out from * *? for it to-morrow. I hope Harry will bring her to me. I or has my last precious epistle fallen into the Lion's jaws? sent Lord Holland the proofs of the last 'Giaour,' and If so-and this silence looks suspicious-I must clap on the Bride of Abydos.' He won't like the latter, and 1my musty morion' and 'hold out my iron.' I am out of do n't think that I shall long. It was written in four practice, but I won't begin again at Manton's now. Be nights to distract my dreams from * *. Were it not sides, I would not return his shot. I was once a famous thus, it had never been composed; and had I not done wafer-splitter; but then the bullies of society made it something at that time, I must have gone mad, by eating necessary. Ever since I began to feel that I had a bad my own heart-bitter diet! Hodgson likes it better than cause to support, I have left off the exercise. the Giaour, but nobody else will,-and he never liked the "What strange tidings from that Anakim of anarchyFragment. I am sure, had it not been for Murray, that Buonaparte! Ever since I defended my bust of him at would never have been published, though the circum- Harrow against the rascally time-servers, when the war stances which are the groundwork make it broke out in 1803, he has been a 'Héros de Roman' of heigh-ho! mine, on the continent; I do n't want him here. But I "To-night I saw both the sisters of **; my God! do u't like those same flights, leaving of armies, &c. &c. the youngest so like! I thought I should have sprung I am sure when I fought for his bust at school, I did not ucross the house, and am so glad no one was with me in think he would run away from himself. But I should Lady Holland's box. I hate those likenesses-the mock-not wonder if he banged them yet. To be beat by men bird, but not the nightingale-so like as to remind, so dif- would be something; but by three stupid, legitimate-oldferent as to be painful. One quarrels equally with the dynasty boobies of regular-bred sovereigns-O-hone-apoints of resemblance and of distinction. * "Nov. 17. * rie!-O-hone-a-rie! It must be, as Cobbet says, his marriage with the thick-lipped and thick-headed Autrichienne brood. He had better have kept to her who was *No letter from **; but I must not complain. The kept by Barras. I never knew any good come of your respectable Job says, 'Why should a living man com- young wife, and legal espousals, to any but your 'sober plain?' I really do n't know, except it be that a dead man blooded boy,' who 'eats fish' and drinketh 'no sack. can't; and he, the said patriarch, did complain, never-Had he not the whole opera? all Paris? a" France ? But a mistress is just as perplexing-that is, one-two or what?-the gods know-it was intended to be called more are manageable by division. lent man. Poetry. "I have dined regularly to-day, for the first time since "I have begun, or had begun a song, and flung it into the fire. It was in remembrance of Mary Duff, my first Sunday last-this being Sabbath, too. All the rest, wa of flames, before most people begin to burn. I wonder and dry biscuits-six per diem. I wish to God I had not what the devil is the matter with me! I can do nothing, dined now! It kills me with heaviness, stupor, and horriand-fortunately there is nothing to do. It has lately ble dreams;-and yet it was but a pint of bucellas and been in my power to make two persons (and their con- fish.-Meat I never touch,-nor much vegetable diet. I nexions) comfortable, pro tempore, and one happy ex tem-wish I were in the country, to take exercise,-instead of pore,-I rejoice in the last particularly, as it is an excel-being obliged to cool by abstinence, in lieu of it. I should I wish there had been more inconvenience not so much mind a little accession of flesh,-my bones and less gratification to my self-love in it, for then there can well bear it. But the worst is, the devil always came We are all selfish-and I believe, with it,-till I starve him out,-and I will not be the slave had been more merit. ye gods of Epicurus! I believe in Rochefoucault about of any appetite. If I do err, it shall be my heart, at least. men, and in Lucretius, (not Busby's translation) about that heralds the way. Oh my head-how it aches!-the yourselves. Your bard has made you very nonchalant horrors of digestion! I wonder how Buonaparte's dinner and blest; but as he has excused us from damnation, I agrees with him? do n't envy you your blessedness much-a little, to be ** said to me at **, 'Have I remember last year, we not passed our last month like the gods of Lucretius? And so we had. She is an adept in the text of the original (which I like too;) and when that booby Bus. sent his translating prospectus, she subscribed. But, the devil prompting him to add a specimen, she transmitted him a subsequent answer, saying, that, 'after perusing it, her conscience would not permit her to allow her name to remain on the list of subscribblers.' sure. * * * * "Mem. I must write to-morrow to 'Master Shallow who owes me a thousand pounds,' and seems, in his letter afraid that I should ask him for it ;-as if I would'—I don't want it (just now, at least,) to begin with; and though I have often wanted that sum, I never asked for the repayment of 101. in my life-from a friend. His bond is not due this year; and I told him when it was, I should not enforce it. How often must he make me say the same thing? "I am wrong-I did once ask ✶ ✶✶to repay me. But it was under circumstances that excused me to him, and Last night, at Lord Holland'sI took no interest, nor required secu. Mackintosh, the Ossulstones, Puységur, &c. there-I would to any one. was trying to recollect a quotation (as I think) of Stael's, rity. He paid me soon,-at least, his padre. My head! from some Teutonic sophist about architecture. Archi-I believe it was given me to ache with. Good even. tecture,' says this Macoronica Tedescho, 'reminds me of frozen music. It is somewhere-but where ?-the demon of perplexity must know and won't tell. I asked Moore, -r said it must and he said it was not in her; but Pbe hers, it was so like. * * * * * * "Nov. 22, 1813. "Orange Boven! So the bees have expelled the bea: that broke open their hive. Well,-if we are to have new De Witts and De Ruyters, God speed the little re*public! I should like to see the Hague and the village H. laughed, as of Brock, where they have such primitive habits. Yet, I he does at all 'De l'Allemagne,'-in which, however, I don't know,-their canals would cut a poor figure by the think he goes a little too far. B., I hear, contemns it too. memory of the Bosphorus; and the Zuyder Zee look But there are fine passages;—and, after all, what is a awkwardly after 'Ak Degnity. No matter,-the bluff work-any-or every work-but a desert with fountains, and, perhaps, a grove or two, every day's journey? To be sure, in Madame, what we often mistake, and 'pant for,' as the 'cooling stream,' turns out to be the mirage (criticé, verbiage;) but we do, at last, get to something like the temple of Jove Ammon, and then the waste we have passed is only remembered to gladden the contrast. * * * She is very "Called on C✶ ✶, to explain ✶✶✶ beautiful, to my taste, at least; for on coming home from abroad, I recollect being unable to look at any woman but her-they were so fair, and unmeaning, and blonde. The darkness and regularity of her features reminded me of my Jannat al Aden.' But this impression wore off"; and now I can look at a fair woman without longing for a Houri. She was very good-tempered, and every thing was explained. burghers, puffing freedom out of their short tobacco-pipes "Rogers will be in town soon!-the 23d is fixed for our Middleton visit. Shall I go? umph!-In this island, where one can't ride out without overtaking the sea, it don't much matter where one goes. * * To-day, great news-'the Dutch have taken Hol"I remember the effect of the first Edinburgh Review land,-which, I suppose, will be succeeded by the actual explosion of the Thames. Five provinces have declared for young Stadt, and there will be inundation, conflagra- on me. I heard of it six weeks before,-read it the day tion, constirpation, consternation, and every sort of nation of its denunciation,-dined and drank three bottles of and nations, fighting away up to their knees, in the dam-claret, (with S. B. Davies, I think,)—neither ate nor sept nable quags of this will-o'-the-wisp abode of Boors. It the less, but, nevertheless, was not easy till I had vented is said, Bernadotte is among them, too; and, as Orange my wrath and my rhyme, in the same pages, against every will be there soon, they will have (Crown) Prince Stork thing and every body. Like George, in the Vicar of and King Log in their Loggery at the same time. Two to one on the new dynasty! "Mr. Murray has offered me one thousand guineas for the 'Giaour' and the 'Bride of Abydos.' I won't-it is 100 much, though I am strongly tempted, merely for the say of it. No bad price for a fortnight's (a week each) Lady Coroline Lamb. Wakefield, 'the fate of my paradoxes' would allow me to perceive no me: it in another. I remembered only the maxim of my boxing-master, which, in my youth, was found useful in all general riots, Whoever is not for you is against you-mili away right and left,' and so I dia:anent me. I did wonder, to be sure, at my own successlike Ishmael, my hand was against all men, and all men's And marvels so much wit is all his own.' |