passengers, with the unchanged aspect of one whose repose no midnight reflections had broken, whose calm tide of existence no tempest had disturbed.

But I will not follow him in his wanderings anterior to his sojourn in Greece. -Rome, that city so proudly boasting the appellation of "Mistress of the world," long detained him amidst her mighty ruins. And when he quitted the luxurious shores of Italy, he traversed the green vallies and the glaciers of the hardy Switzer. The numerous and scientific cities of Germany long claimed Monthermer's attention; and, when surrounded by their learned men, their warriors, their statesmen, or mingling in the concourse of the gay and the beautiful, gracing the courts of their several princes; he again became the brilliant, the fascinating Monthermer. His noble birth, his talents, his great

personal attractions, were at all times a passport to the highest circles,—but, could they who regarded him as a resplendent star, beaming forth unobscured by one darkening cloud, could they have searched into his inmost soul, could they have followed him to his solitary chamber, they would there have learnt the melancholy truth, they would have found that in him the tide of life ran cold and cheerless, unwarmed by the beam illuming its surface.

When he visited the capital of the Turkish dominions, the British palace was for a time his chief residence. The gentlemanly character, and the hospitality of Mr. attracted to his

house a select circle, amongst whom his own countrymen were sure to meet with a kind and courteous reception. But Monthermer, indefatigable in his search after novelty and information,

soon wearied of the mode of life he led in the British palace, where he seldom met any other society than that of the English, the foreign ministers resident at Péra, or occasionally a traveller, either returning from, or commencing, his journey through the Levant, or perhaps over-land to India; and he frankly avowed to his friend, that a longer sojourn with him would interfere with some of his favourite projects. "I shall soon proceed to Athens," said he, but, before I quit this place, I wish to become more familiar with the habits and domestic characteristics of the Greeks, dwelling in the very focus of Turkish despotism; in order that I may be enabled to trace, with accuracy, the different gradations of moral and political feeling, as I journey through the Morea, towards the extreme limits of this empire, I would catch the like

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ness (to speak as an artist would speak) when the features are animated by their every-day expression, and not alone, when they are arranged into a becoming form for public exhibition. I would ascertain how much of the spirit of ancient times yet remains in these Greeks, and, if I find it there, although dormant, I will prove if it can be aroused into noble action, when the voice of freedom shall be heard in the land. I would be an inmate in the dwelling of one of these Perote Greeks, if such a plan is practicable.

Mr. smiled at the enthusiasm of his countryman; and, although he warned him to be more circumspect in his language, and more temperate in his aspiration after freedom, under the existing order of things, he did not press him to remain in a position it appeared his inclination prompted him to quit. Well

acquainted with several of the Greek merchants residing in Pera, he used his influence in Monthermer's behalf, who, consequently, became an inmate in the family of Nicholas Paleopulo, with whom he remained until the destructive fire destroyed not only the dwelling of his host, but reduced the British minister himself to the necessity of taking refuge in the house of a more fortunate friend, until his own habitation should be repaired.

When Monthermer accompanied Paleopulo to Belgrade, on the night of the fire, he little expected to behold, in the daughter of Canziani, the beautiful Greek who had captivated his wayward fancy as she sat with her family in the Mulberry-grove and to be an inmate in the same house with her, to see and converse with her daily, was a source of delight he had little looked for.