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V (jtREENE COUNTY REPI/ b LICAN B Y W . < S | H Y m m r m x m j i n . i ^ o y e m b e r V O L . I . N O . j P O E T R Y . ' rs. 'n- w h e n upon thp western cloud Hangs day’s faded roses j ^ Wlien the linnet sings, aloud. A n d the Iw llight closes,—i- A? I maijl the mos§-gi:owa spring, ]6y th e tw isted h olly, l^ensivc thoUghta of thee shall bring I jov ^’ s ow n melancholy. ■ i- ■ . 1.01 the eresaeht imnoh dii Mgfr, i-ights the half^ofeed fbjintjainr ' Waodering .yrinds steal sad^bjr Ecom the hazy m o untain f Ifet that moon s.hall wax and wane-^ r Smnroerwiiida pass over, . Ite’cr the heart shall love again Of the slighted lover 1 W h en the russet Autumn brings Bii thing to the forest, Ttviste'd close, the ivy clings - To the oak that’s hoar'est^ So the love of otlihr days --. Cheers the broken hearted,—. Slut if once our loye decays, ’Tis for aye departed. \When ibe hoar frost nips the tesl^ Pale 3 nd«ear It lingers, • l ^ a s t e d in its henuty b rief deciy^s cold fingers: ancha^edrrit ne’er #gaiii IShall its' bloOjn recover; ,^kus i^e truth s h ^ aye remain ' p t the tUjfhljBi lover, Ihove is lik|t the,spngs ^ e hear ^ the moonlight Oceart! ^^eptlr—the. sprjj^ time' off a year, . , pass’dJn lovjc’jtdevo^^ Jlpses of their bloom bereft ^ . jireAth|d:fragrahoesWe*tcr; - ' 'i^hty'h^s no'frdgranceleft, ! Tlmugh its blhota is fleeter! ' ’^ h e n wheti trahduii evehing throws The twilight 'shad Cs kfaovd thee, A n d when ebrly ^ o m idg glows; .Thm lcM 'thd^etkt:W e thfee I ■ Ifir in intervals# y'e^^ ■ We ere igng must sever, ’ Itwas aii action perfectly indifierent, had no relation jeither to seltpreservation or to propagation. ‘‘ Some young camels belon^ng to a much respected frieiid of the editor, and, brother o f a very valuable cohtribatortothis work, were travelling with the army, when th^hadioccasion to cross the Jumna in a flat bottoha b o a t; the novelty o f the thing excited theirfears to such a degree^ that it seemed impossible to drive or induce them to enter the boat spontaneously I upon which one of the mohauts, dr elephant keepers, called to his elephant, and desired him to drive them in : the ammal iminediately put on a furious appearance, trumpted with his proboscis, shook h is ears, rparedy struck the ground to the right and left, and blew the dust in clouds towards them: and so efe fectuaUy^eubmltM fractory^feame^l % '.^ieditidg -.a grkter, that ^they bolted into the boat in the greatest hur- ry,— ^when the elephant re-assumed his com posure, and ’ deUbeVately walked back to his post. The same elephant was appealed to byhis mehaut to remove a branch from a tree which.Jiuhg too low fo raise the.tent pole : the animaI looked _at the pole as if measuring it with hfe-eye, then, at the tree and impending brapch; he then turned his rump toward»'the^<mnk of the tree, stepped a couple o f paces forward, took the branch it was. make apile, w hich might be raisOd to the top, if'the animal l^could b e instruejted aa to the neeessarymeahsof laying them in regu lar succession Under hia feet. Permission hayia‘g“been obtained from the engineer ofii- ccra tpuse the fasciueSj which were at the time put away in several piles o f very con siderable height, the keeper had to feach this elephant the lesson, which by means o f that exhaopdinaxy ascendency these men attain over the elephants, joined with the intellec tual msources of the animal 'itself^ he was soon enabled to do 5 and the elephattit be-, gap T*^ckly to place each feseine as it was lowered to him, successively under him* un til ill a little time he was enabled to stand upon, them : bpr'tlHS time, however, the cun- niilg brute, enloylng the epol pleasure of his situationaffer the heat and partial priva tion of water taVhich he had been lately exposed, (they^e observed in their natu ral state to frequent rivers,, and to swim ve ry often,) was Unwilling to work any longer and all the threats o f his keeper could not, induce him to place another fascine. The man then opposed cunning to cunning, and ;hega« id caress^ ana'pfaise Th?^ elephant, and what he could not effect by-threats he was enabled to do by the repeated pro mise of pleanty o f rack, Incited by this, the animal again went to Work, raised him self considerably higher, until by n partial removal o f the masonary round the top of the w e lljte was enabled to step' o u t: the wb||ii^Fair occupied about \fourteen hours^ ife^^air involves a series of ifi|ellectual ions. ' . “ . peaiea 10 remove another branch,, still higl^' r 55 “ g and having er, he looked up, stretched hfa. probdS'l^ 3 ^i%^%^bhil% ip the external ponch, the and caught only a twig or two and is conse^^^^ leaves; he was urged a g ^ ^ h e shook probably that one which they eats andgaveapiping sound o f di 3 pieant|j^|:P^^®?m the greatest perfection-—a factoid hut the mohaut insisting, after a n o t h b r ^ p all animal's imturally timid. M attempt, Jte caught the bedrmg pole of a'|Jightest motion, the Jeast appearance o f deply (a kind o f palanqiien) and shook it object that is new to them, they step and with v iolence,'m a tog a poor sick soldier with the utmost attention ;”—^“T immediately start out of i t ; the hint was sufficient— ho-.wouid not he trifled .with. At the siege o f Bhurtpore, in the year 1805, an affair occurred between two ele phants, which displays at Once the charac ter and meatai capability, the passions, cua- ' ning, and resources of these curious ani mals. The British army, withits countless host o f followers and attendants, and thou- .sands of cattle, had- been fe’r a long time , before the city, when, on the .ai>proach o f the hot season, and of the dry hot winds, the;^Upply o f .water in the nei^bourhood’ o f the camp, necessary for the supply o f s 6 many heing^. began to-fail ; the ponds or tanks had dried’ up, and no more V^ater was M j ^ C k t t A N f i O U S . t^<Rtfdiuriiish; The muMtude-of men auS cattle that were unceasingly at the wells, par- ^ tiCuiarly the largest, occasioned' n o ' incon siderable struggle^ for the priority-in prot- cufmg; the Supply for whteh-®'a«h were there to seek,- and the co«»e^uent confusion on ■ oV BEUTpS. ■ ’ ’r m thi iu n t h l m ^ e r of Cuvier’s Animal _____ ________ I veQr being must be limited by the number nd vmiety o f its ideas. These, as we have jeen, ^pend upon the degr^. o f attention, uhere is $,' kind o f successive dependence li tlte infelloctua! faculties, each one being iroportioned to the strength of itp preCus^ |)r. Wig allow that animals possess atten- pn, memory, association and judgment, or he power o f deducting ipferences from hmpafison tjf ideqs. But if the attention i limited, sO' fs the huniber of ideas, so is [ 13 memory; the associations are conse- lentiy unvaried and the Judgments few, and jsmting^oni verjr simple processes o f com ,‘^ison. That tMs conclusion is WaiTant- Itibythil bb&mvptfenof the actions o f ani- : -ils caphot be denied, except in the ease o f ‘i ose histinCtiVd.bp‘^atidn 3 wbich have no- I WgtddQ withihe|ires^^ That; l^tealp otm, Compare two or more objects Resent to tlieir Senses,diseern some o f their jatiotts. and execute an act o f judgment p e u |b n , is edeaV.^^ I From these passages tlbe author’s opin es touebingupen the mind'of animals tnay I ^thered; Vte shall now shewtiow he ilr itrates sOme bf hiS positions bV extremely fusing anecdote's, _ ’ r Am mephant which a few years ago be- Tg®d to Mr. Cross, at Exeters^ Change, Jiined to the practice o f a . curious trick, | jh by repetition might .be said to have Iluired, something of an instructive char ier ; but which,'the first time it occurred, least, attributable to nothing short I reason. It is the usual part of the per- nances of an elephant at a public exhibi- |8, to pick up a piece o f coin, thrown with- Ibis reach lor the purpose, with the finger- l e appendage* at the s^remity o f the trunk: lone occasion,a sixjoence was thrown,which not far from the wall: being.desired l[>lck| it up, he stretched out his proboscis terali times to reach it; he then stood mo- Eless\fer-a few seconds, evidently consid- have no hesitation in saying, evi- 1 % considering how io act/he^ then fetched Ms proboscis in a straight line as I as he c$\drl, a little distance above the In, and bleW with great force against the ; the angte produced by the opposi- P ° j wuhV made the current o f air I under the coinS^ he evidently intended anticipated itwquld, and it was Curious ibserve the six-pertee travelling by these has toward the qnim\l, till it came within [reach, and he picImtKlt up. This com ated calculation o f neural means, at his •osa!^ was .an intelleaual effort beyond it a vast number o f human beings would Jr have thoughtof, and iW ld be cousid- IJ as a lucky thought, a c l e W ex^dient, per sinjulav circumstances inapy man.«^ with: his- elephant^-s-rthe one remarkably large and strong,, sand the other cpmparav lively small and weak,—were at the well to gether; the small elephant--had beenprovi-. ded by his master with a bucket, for the oc casion, which he carried at the end of hi^ proboscis; bat the larger animal, being des titute of this necessary vessel^ either spon- taneoii^y or by desire of his keeper seized the bucket, and easily wrested it away from his less j^werful fellow servant: the latter was toctsenslble o f his inferiority, openly to resent the^ insult, though |K p b v iou 3 thatfle felt i t ; but great squabbli^^nd. abuse ensued be^ tween thcjtccpers. At length, the Iveakeii animal, watehmg the opportunity when the Other Was standing witk his side to.thewell, retired backwards a few paces, in a very quiet and unsuspicious manner, and then .pushing forward with all his might, drove bis head against the side of the other, and fairly pushed him into the well. An enqui- ly might naturalfy-be made here, whether these animals Were in the case in question possessed pf any thing like a moral sense ? W^e sbomd«ertaii|j||mve no inclination to refer a moral « c |^ H |rfctly speaking, in any, Case to the ldWeiH|Hpiais, but there seem^ little-doubt that the animals in question had acquired ^ principal'not. far, if at all, remo-: ved from a partial knowledge of right and w r o n ^ being constantly fed by portions or raesse^it may be easily supposed that it at-? tained a knowledge of meum and and suph a knowledge, however, limited, ia its beginning, might, from the constant inter- coitese of these creatures with man, be in some, degree improved, (of which instinct ipenedto roll a little out o f the reach of the Jt may-easily be imagined that great incon- veniCdce was immediately experienced, and the water in the well,* on which the exist ence of SO many seemed in a great measure to depend, would be spoiled, or at least ia- jiired, by the unyieldly brute which, was pre cipitated into, i t ; and as the surface of the water was nearly twenty feet below the common level, there did qot appear to be any means that could be a^pted to, get the injuring h im : there were many feet o f wa ter below tlteHH^ant, who floated , with ease on its s | H | p a n a , experiencing con siderable plellire from his cool fetreat, evinced but little inclination even to exert we came up, the epw guddenly raised her head, and the sfieep opened before -o 7 - ----------- & ---r -------- — we imagined, to go out of her way i she ephant keeper, that a sufficient number o f did not, however, proceed more than A doz- these (Which may be compared'tQ bundles of Wo(Sd)might be lowered into the well to m have made the same observation on indi viduals o f this character among the human species. People born blind, or long blind, are equally in the same predicament. t T his senSe is also m orenearly connected' with -.mental quiclujess than is easily supposed.-^— I never knew, a very stupid person whose sense o f hearing was not naturally dull. ‘‘ (I’he Tyrolese, in one p f their insurrec- iipns,j>i 1809 , took fifteen, hundred Bavar- rian^ Jhorses, they mounted them with as many o f their men-f-butJm a rencontre .With a squadron o f the regiment o f Eube- hoven, when these horses' heard the trum- . pet and recognized the uniform of the re giment, they set off at full gallop and ca» QVet Ifei” baek, and was unable to recov er betsijM IrOmthat perilbiis position. Tbe4of the COw placed'the tip o f her horns close uri-^ der the^iiie 0 f the animal, and gave a alight tesSj SO dbsfterously managed, astoenabfe the .ewli to insfaritiy on her feet; mean- tinje tl^ other sheep had dispersed, and the. i two hmteals walked their way.” be w a s p his person, from eveiy-individual '*'' Auman race ? H e had faith, howev er, in jhe warning o f his fate. I have had but aieefing o f the import thkf was ever in the b^emeuts o f mind; and by working a- gainsft it with the traditionary fallacies pf rea^n, IhaVe become—^let my story tell w’ ' ” C%<te.-^From a work called the ‘ Omens,’ recentlf issued from the p tessof Edinburgh, the ffiip^ing extract is ttecen, in support o f the Aulhbr’s of prewarnings. It is mysti cal, bi® not without fine imaginings. - f .i-iie vMjrugu was,penormea Dy tne author . a sort o f something in quaUty o f chapla|uto His Malesty’s ship llOh fllstinpnisbp.s nno tnind from annth. __l • it., n* i*, * * whidh listinguishes one mind from anoth er, as ihe.differences of figure and feature/ mien ^jldcoraplexion.iudividtiaUfeetbe per sons fi different men ?-^We all hear, a|)d see, a|id taste, and feel, and smile aliie, thQug||i?Some have a keener relish of the enjojUteht o f one sense than those o f an other. , _ ___ ^^Sofi^-are delightedby the ear-wltkm^ tedious sounds^others by the eye with wellHcndered forms, and the musical distri- butlottfcf colours ; o f such, ai'e those artists whoaqd,ress themselves to the imagination. The.ebiepre has his paradice in the palate the Voluptuary in his exquisite touch; and I haNeisometinies thought that the faculty of the pdi t was liveliest in his sm e ll; for no other 1 syels so luxuriously in the reveries and ril iiinatious of the aromatic sumpier, nor fin Is in the perfume o f leaves and flow ers sq^ it delicious reminiscences o f wisdom and bf raty. Despite, then, of all contro versy uid. metaphysics, it may be said, as the ^ 4 ^ are the gates of the mind, that ■genlkspits as warder at that which is best constiqcted to give entrance, or, perhaps, that which the i^cumstances o f fortune have madq,^|hc frequented—--quickness of sens 6 ^..^r a h^bit o f observation. “ but whether that melancholy fbreknowl- edge, ^'ith which I was so often depressed, endowment or Citstoih, it would be thrfffle^s to investigate : for, as an old mu- siciatllonce tpld me, such things are too shraM and subtle ever to be tasted by phi- losopM. “ m was a German by birth and came to teach-” he flute. I was one of his pupils; but ^ ^ n discovering that he was curiously vprse^in a peculiar experience, 1 took les sons 6 jfti him in a study more congenial to my dh|)osition tlian'even music.' H e had been^b ‘ Prom the Ijandon Times. •URNAL OF A VOYAGE UP THE M E D ITERRANEAN, &c. BY TH E REVER^NJO CHARLES SWAN. The voyage waS; performed by the author Cambrian, cruising in the Mediterranean and the adjacent se^s, in J824, and the fol lowing year. It professes to be a simple di ary, and much of the first volume is taken up with matter of small importance. Inter- mhigled, however, with his accounts o f land scapes, weather, dinner and evehing parties, and road-side adventures, We hai'Q sound practical observations on that ill-important ............... ^ where, they made prisoners.” pig% too, we have some details of a sfriian^.Jdnd*:^ ^ The astonishing .fecundityof the ani mals now under consideration, is one of their obvious and remarlcable charac- ters. ■ They livp^ and multiply in every cli mate of tfie world, with the exception o f the Polar regions. The production o f fifteen and eyeri twenty in a litter is not unftequent, and instances have been known even to thiriy-sevra. The celebrated Vaiiban has made a cateu|ation of the probable produc tion of an ordinary SOw, during the space o f tea years/ He has not comprehended the male pigs in his estimate, though they may reasonably be supposed* as numerous as the females in i-each litfer. Moreover, six young ones bnfy, male and female, have bedn allowed to each, though generally they are more nunlerdus. The result is, that the pfbduct o f a single sow in eleven years, wjbiich are equivalent to ten generations, willbe six million^ four hundred find thirty- four thousand,' eight hundred and thirty- eight pigs. Taking if, however, in round numbers, and allowing accident, disease, and the ravages of wolves, four hundred and thirty four thousand, eight hundred and thirty eight, there will remain six millions of pigs, which is about the number exist ing im France. ‘ Were we to extend our calculations,’ sdys Vauban, ‘ to the -twelfth generation, we should find as great a num ber to-result as all Europe would he capa ble of supporting; and were they to be continued to the sixteenth, as great a num ber Would result as would be adequate to the abundant peopling o f the globe.’ . “ In some countries (adds the writer) the principal soursfe of existence, to the poor peasant, is his pig. In Ireland these ani mals are brought up and fattened to a large size, and then brought to market by the owner, and sold at* a tolerable price; with part o f this, a younger, leaner, and. worse conditioned pig is purchased, fattened iri the same way, and sold at a profit. Happy for the peasant, if this only property be not seized by some inexorable landlord, or some tithe a farmer or middle man, a • species of vermin, for the extrication o f which Ireland might- well exchange her boasted exemption from less pernicious reptiles.’?' The following anecdote is cited to prove that ruminating' animals, though generally considered (in spite of their name) stupid, have the means ’ o f communicating not only animal out by'main force, at least without the wants of one individual of species to another, but also of one genius-to another. “ During an afteirnoon walk with a friend on a hill near Cdventry, we observed I s^er- al sheep standing With steadfastlooks'rqynd ----- - - --------------.... ------ ------ -w v-xv.,., the bead o f a cow which was grazing; ffieir what means he might possess in himself o f fixed attitude attracted ourattcaition, and as escape. A vast number of faspinea had — --------- - ’ ■ j been employed by the army in conducting the siege, and at length it occurred to the el- en yards, before she reached a gravid 6 we^ which, hitherto unnoticed by Us, kad fallen 'ed up from his childhood in the band of ajwgiment, and yet, such was the domin ion W ^ hhisgenius had over him, such his fascination to harmonious sounds, that he rem&yed as simple In his morals and |ma-. ginj^Ams as the shepherd-boy when he trieS his oatenpipe, done on the hills, in the which fe in melody,’ I have often hear^ him say, ‘ a gift from Heaven.^ Think you if w ^ given to delight but idle ears ? ' Thaj! wbuli 'be to say Providence makes fiddle- strin ;s. No: there is much prophecy in all the ! OUnds of nature, speaking to our in- stinc ; but the use o f instinct we have test, and 1 lerefore do not understand them. Y e s ; by th) virtue of the oracle in mine ear, I have iiscqvfered many things that are among the jdvs and regularities of nature. Those persois, for example, who particularly de light 11 the delicacies of chromatic melo dies; nodulated oh a flat key, whether they be coMposers, performers or listeners, are Seldom long-lived. For the most part, they die bef( re their forty-second year, though a few, >y reason of more strength, do soine- tiihei r ach to forty-nine. Such truths can not 1 e ] ut into the crucibles o f philosophy. A i(fhenhe could reckon on his fingers innunie able instances of musicians of that delicati order who died in their youth: ad- ding, ‘ . .nd have' I not the witness I most be lieve in nine own self? I can tell by the key to whlcl Ihe rising com rustles in th'^ winds of sprilg, whether, the harvest will be plen- tious 01 fiiggardly; for the world is but a band o f ihstrumehts that were all once fun- d tO' thfe fsame pitch, the celestial key to ^**vrtJlOn3j inviv lo R iaCK 01 vOn* jwit I that which was the universal key, iCtalon will be disappointed, and the cord expeptai hardonj of nature vexed with some defi ciency, In this heth the mystery o f fortune. Thoie V ho, by their vigor and intelligence, should bj prosperous in health and in -world ly circumstances, and yet are always other wise, are ever sensible of some discord in the diapison o f themselves, which mars the effect of their best endeavors in perform-^ 'aneeJ '' ^ “ One night as I was returning home,I mett|is curious hjpotheslst in the street, and bantered hini on his being abroad at so late an hour\ “ |pe^c not so,^ said he, very seriously, ^ for 1 afii going to d ie; I have had my War- oiogt As I stood on the bridge, listening to the qlaj^ing toftgues which the winds give to tfie leaves of the trees in the neighbour ing^ gardens, making them all'to sing like the cherabitn^ i heard a requiem for one that is doofeed en the morrow to die.’ “ I attempted to speak lightly of his su- persfitioft^ though his accent curdled my veins; but he added ; “ ^^‘^iwhen their h)Unn was sung, I heard the spft lew voice of the willow tree, singuig anol^ ditjty, one with which my mother long, long w I often lulled me to sleep. the musij) o| the requiem, and the pity which was m th^t melody, I knew when J next shall fall a sleep, I am never tp awaken again.’ “ Yith these words he left me, apd in the morjqing hg .,^3 found dead of .apopleX;^.-^ therefore, shall venture lo say, thafi what the iSerihan enthueiast called his gifb bis ipstiujet or his genius, was ifot soitte in- faculty w h ich.made his spirit as dlfforeljt from that oft any other man’s, aq cers ;— one Wanted two paras, and anotbell^ Ihree. They never suflered him to rest:—» He Was besieged more resolutely than ever Were the Turks, Snd in oon^quencehe Was seldom' visible if he Were, it V^as to be shr- roUnded by an armybf malcontents.” He d^cribes the fortress o f PaUnedi a t ' Napoh, » being wholly dismantled, and rendered useless through the ignorance and\' ' negligence of the Greeks. Speaking o f the capture of tbe port o f Navarin, he sayS^ “ There is Ofle effect anticipated; which, if it really take place; Will be Worth ’mpre thahaU the English loans. This is^ihat.ihe Greeks Will now understand theVaiti^' of tactics; and-discarding fheir uSual desuko* ry mode of warfare,follQWthat system which the military discipline o f .Europe has sanc tioned. 'J’hey have-discovered the supe'ri^r ority of the Arabs in this point, and their heads are now full of the improvement.*-** They admit tbe value of what they fbxmer- ly dispised, and are anxious to acquire the knowledge o f an art which at length they find .serviceable. But the worst is, that their sutoeetthe Greek cause, in no work which liuu .sci viceuuie. a m me worst is, that thCii has yto appeared, has there been so useful ai pride hinders them from receiving an obli- combmaUon o f good sense,manly judgment, Nation. They feel themselves the decefid- just , policy, impartial animadversions and a>ts o f heroes, and they look down with actual scrutiny, as this gentleman, from his ^ - - * talente, his functions, and his local oppor tunities, had been enabled to apply to the present state of the Greeks, their existing habits and passions, the resources and de- compmpt upon all the rest of the world,-- They ^ardly believe any other nation ehn tie Ghfistians ; and they speak haughtily and scor^uUy even of the very assistance? c f L *u‘ p - M V \ ------- ■' ----- ''''tiieti necessities oblige them to ao** fects, whether of spirit or of the material eept... TheyX^ght (sometinies!) with th© of power, and the ultimate prospect o f their present struggle for political liberty. From what.he has written upon the per sons and ad'yentures comiected with the Greek cause, we shall select a few extracts, because they happen to be by far the most interesting portions of his journal; begin- nin^ first with the: opinions which, from ex perience, he has himself formed o f that cause, and of the parties by whom it is at present upheld, “ The Greeks, I am quite clear, have ajl ----- ' — \1 ---- xio-.o 041 iiioxxvTaixicii,ksmen, XI, wuas utcy nave neen accus* the qualities necessary for making them to- tomed to ; but they make bad work with ‘ ’J doubted warriors; patience, perseverance, and a high determined valour are their char acteristics : so far as I have seen, there has ' been no reason to charge them with bad faith; but I have as yet seen little; apd their very acuteness, which is universally admit ted, argues, I fear, (when considered with reference to their depressed and persecuted condition) a propensity to exert it in U had Cause a s well as', in a good one. I have beard numberless anecdotes o f their obsti nacy, treachery and petty trickery j but o f these I do not credit half; and o f the rest, I think that there m i^, perhaps, be many circumst^ces concealed or not understood, which might palliate and almost justify the facts, which, prima facia, are deserving of fj^diarslte^t dennupinntte\- Tf .i«. acce rate infernSation o f what is going -forward, the Greeks themselves exaggeratelheir suc- cesses,^and the T w k s f a l s ^ them iit roio. But, unquestteiiai%;^Atiej>aluncc o f fortune, is, on the side o f the forn^erpand I verily, believe that their own misconduct aloUe can prevent the ultimate attainment o f their lib erties.” _.,i, The practice of cdm i^ii' piracy, that most direful sympton of fribral confusion and civil insubordination, is exemplified by some instances, from 'which it would ap pear to be little less tft-estiination than the profits of trade and. sober industry. But that Which carries the effect of this mon strous crime to the highest pitefi,^ is the ex istence of exterminating feuds among the clans into which the population, especially of the islands, is divided. They look upon it as a solemn religious duty to revenge the death of their connex ions J thus, in attempting the punishment o f one man, there is a long line of rancorous hostility commenced, whose end it is impos sible to foresee. They have. not the shad ow of a police : insomuch that the murder er of the father o f the President o f Greece, Condouriotti, walks the streets of Hydra at this very day without the smallest molesta tion ! And if he had been taken offi either by fair means or by foul, those connected with him, however distantly, would have felt bound to avenge him ; nay, though they had detested \his character- and been glad at his decease.” # * * * *. * “ I wish to remark here, that however barbarous and blood-thirsty the Greeks may be in periods of temporary insanity— (like that of the Turkish massacre)—yet they are very far from being, so generally. They use their prisoners with great kindness, as I have ascertained from several unquestion able witnesses; the Turkish women have in many instances become so attached as to refuse to leave them ; and an Arab prison er, a boy, brought on board the Cambrian to-day, under fear of the popular insurrec tion, burst into tears of regret on being questioned relative to his late master in Hy dra. In Napoli, I know for a fact, that the Turkish prisoners. have pndeavoured to a- waken the charity o f those who passed, by telling them that they were Turks; which proves that they have experienced its happy effect, otherwise more available terms would have been used.” H e conversed with a Mr. Cervase, who had the rank o f a Lieutenant-General, with a pay o f three, piasters per diem, something beiieath eighteen pence ! he had been four years serving, and had n ot received a single piaster o f his pay. “ Hitf distresses have been great,; but he believed that those of the Government were borrowed of biin.A few dollars for his imme diate household expenses j be spoke o f the situation of the latter as p»e pf intense anx iety and bitterness. H e had to reconcile most determined, valour, but they have no notion of order. They follow tlieir captain (and he is their capfeip who pays tlfetn, bnf no longer than he paysThem) Iffie a pack o f dogs; and prefer bush fighting to all Other. ' If a stone presents itself, they sicuik behind it and fire from thence at their eneinies; toad and fire again, but never stir from the rd- treatunta dompelled to dom^’ * # # - # ^ * “ With the muskk they are excellent mar it is what ffiej have been accus* their artillery ; still they do better than th© Turks. At present they arp not able to bring into the field one organised troop.-^— Fire constitutes their main strength, and will do until they listen to the represeakte tions of Europeans relative to military tac tics.” Among the conversations which the au thor enjoyed with distinguished persons, we notice one with the Marquis o f Hastings, which is remarkable for re-establishing the reality of the unicorn. His lordship had no doubt of the existence- of sucll a creature. An Indian hhd drawn the pf one with.‘chArccaJ,.4s he had seen. His lordship sea t, the draw ing to a nafivd prince in allianUe, t 6 Icfiow i f ,w c h a thing ^xistedr The prinesr=m 3 »»y . a J r the affirmative, that the animal h^fl befent £SIcen,T)ut Was by r^anff he promised to send the .first speeiment which cbidd be taken to the Govm^apur, Thfe pther^tracts which we s h ill make, vpesv late, toe first' to theCrraok Adihirai Miatilis, as he appeared jont hoard the GaSabriaii^ toe second to a Journey, in which :toeaut^t was of the party,'made in the track b f th© army o f Ibrahim Tacha, at toe time th^ h o was engaged in the destruction of Mistra ; and thene^tlation for an exchange o f pris-^ oners, which was the cause o f malangthiai journey. “ Sunday, \J^ebruary 27.-*JTho celebrUr ted Greek Admiral Miaulis, accompanied, by bis secretary, came alongside toe Cam brian, abent two o ’clock, for the purpose o f . conversing with Captain Hamilton. H e is a grey headed man, of about: sixty years; • o f large, but rather course features^ H is lace, however, is far from bad; and His frame is bulky, and knit with the appear ance of uncommon strength. A blue Ca pote, lined with, scarlet, covered a dress o f brown cloth, fashioned after toe national taste'. \\'He wore the common light skull-cap of his country, and gray HiustachioS deco rated the upper lip. ' HiS appearance in' a boat resembling a fisherman’s, attended on ly by two or three sailors, together With the' homely exterior which he presented, gave one no very lofty conception of the Admi ral of a Greek fleet! But there might be policy in this ; he might wish as few audi tors of what passed between him and the Captain, as possible; and might think with Petruchio, that, “ ’Tis mind that makes the Body rich; “ ‘ And as the pun brealip tfeo’ thi? darkest • clouds, “ ‘ So honour peereth in the meanest habit.”. in the Journey before-mentioned, having come in sight o f tljo army, while it wS« hotly engaged near ffie banks o f the Euro- tas, the journalproifeeds, tons: >- “ liVe were conducted by ffie Arfb guard who attempted, most unsuccessfully, as i t appe^ed to me, a regular march, to the cot tage in which Ibrahim. Pacha, pipe in hand, was Couched. H e i» a stout, broad, bro#n faced, vulgar looking m a n ^ 4 or 40, years of age, marked s t r o h g l ^ i ^ the smallpox. His counten|uicefposse^i^htle to engage but when h^; .spSaks, which he does with considerable energy and fluency, it becomes animated and ratoer striluiig. He frequenfe lyaccompaMes his words with a long drawl ing cry, which to European ears sounds ridiculously enough. His manner carries with it that of decision which is perhaps the coinmon appendage o f despotism; deprived ^ of this, he would resemble an uneducated, hard-favoured seaman of our own country -**and I think I have somewhere seen his counterpart^but it ihay= be merely fancy.- not leas. Evfn prince MavtoCOrdato had He was plainly clothed for a Turk; and Ms camp eslablishment altogether h '^ none o f that parade and luxury Whi<to WC fteCtfs- toijaed to attach to eastern'Warfhraj \ Mr/Smart made known the o b 'eot^liki the pdntjnuai dissentfens o f hi& soldiery, and mission, mid delivered th e lci^ a to listen to the eternal triflings o f bis offi^ he had been provided, A : /
