1 purpose the vessel deviated from its regular of the country in paying for the religious cerecourse, in order to pass the island of Strom- monies which they deemed essential to their suctoli, and lay off that place a whole night, in cess. the hopes of witnessing the usual phenomena, bat, for the first time within the memory of man, the volcano emitted no fire. The disappointed poet was obliged to proceed, in no good humour with the fabled forge of Vulcan. Greece, though with a fair prospect of ultimate triomph, was at that time in an unsettled state. The third campaign had commenced, with several instances of distinguished success-her arms were every where victorious, but her councils were distracted. Western Greece was in a critical situation, and although the heroic Marco Botzaris had tot fallen in vain, yet the glorious enterprize tu which he perished only checked, and did not prevent, the advance of the Turks towards Anafotica and Missolonghi. This gallant chief, worthy of the best days of Greece, hailed with transport, Lord Byron's arrival in that country and his last act before proceeding to the attack, in which he fell, was to write a warm invitation for his lordship to come to Missolonghi. In his letter, which he addressed to a friend at Missolonghi, Botzaris alludes to almost the first proceeding of Lord Byron in Greece, which was the arming and provisioning of forty Suliotes, whom be sent to join in the defence of Missolonghi. After the battle, Lord Byron transmitted bandages and medicines, of which he had brought a large store from Italy, and pecuniary succour to those who had been wounded. He had already made a very generous offer to the government. He ¦ Krys, in a letter, = 1 offered to advance a thousand dollars a month, for the succour of Missolonghi, and the Suliotes under Botzaris (since kiled but the government have answered me through--of this island, that they wish to confer with me previously, which is, in fact, saying they wish me to spend my money in some other direction. I will take care that it is for the public cause, otherwise I will not advance a para. The opposition say they want to cajole me, and the party in power say the others wish to seduce ine; 80, between the two, I have a difficult part to play: however I will have nothing to do with the factions, unless to reconcile them, if pos able.. Lord Byron established himself for some time at the small village of Metaxata, in Cephalonia, and dispatched two friends, Mr Trelawney and Mr Hamilton Browne, with a letter to the Greek government, in order to collect intelligence as to the real state of things. His lordship's generosity was almost daily exercised in his new nhbourhood. He provided for many Italian families in distress, and even indulged the people In the mean while, Lord Byron's friends proceeded to Tripolitza, and found Colocotroni (the enemy of Mavrocordato, who had been compelled to flee from the presidency), in great power: his palace was filled with armed men, like the castle of some ancient feudal chief, and a good idea of his character may be formed from the language he held. He declared that he had told Mavrocordato that, unless he desisted from his intrigues, he would put him on an ass and whip him out of the Morea, and that he had only been withheld from doing so by the representation of his friends, who had said that it would injure the cause. They next proceeded to Salamis, where the congress was sitting, and Mr Trelawney agreed to accompany Odysseus, a brave mountain chief, into Negropont. At this time the Greeks were preparing for many active enterprises. Marco Botzaris' brother, with his Suliotes and Mavrocordato, were to take charge of Missolonghi, which, at that time (October, 1823), was in a very critical state, being blockaded both by land and sea. « There have been," says Mr Trelawney, thirty battles fought and won by the late Marco Botzaris, and his gallant tribe of Suliotes, who are shut up in Missolonghi. If it fall, Athens will be in danger, and thousands of throats cut. A few thousand dollars would provide ships to relieve it; a portion of this sum is raised — and I would coin my heart to save this key of Greece!» A report like this was sufficient to show the point where succour was most needed, and Lord Byron's determination to relieve Missolonghi was still more decidedly confirmed by a letter which he received from Mavrocordato. Mavrocordato was at this time endeavouring to collect a fleet for the relief of Missolonghi, and Lord Byron generously offered to advance four hundred thousand piastres (about 12,000l.) to pay for fitting it out. In a letter in which he announced this his noble intention, he alluded to the dissensions in Greece, and stated, that if these continued, all hope of a loan in England, or of assistance, or even good wishes from abroad, would be at an end. I must frankly confess," he says in his letter, that unless union and order are confirmed, all hopes of a loan will be in vain, and all the assistance which the Greeks could expect from abroad, an assistance which might be neither trifling nor worthless, will be suspended or destroyed, and, what is worse, the great powers of Europe, of whom no one was an enemy to Greece, but seemed inclined to favour her in consenting to the establishment of an independent power, will be persuaded that the Greeks are unable to govern themselves, and will, perhaps, themselves undertake to arrange your disorders in such a way as to blast the brightest hopes you indulge, and are indulged by your friends. « And allow me to add, once for all, I desire the well-being of Greece, and nothing else; I will do all I can to secure it; but I cannot consent I never will consent to the English public, or English individuals being deceived as to the real state of Greek affairs. The rest, gentlemen, depends on you; you have fought gloriously; act honourably towards your fellow-citizens and towards the world, and then it will no more be said, as has been repeated for two thousand years with the Roman historian, that Philopomen was the last of the Grecians. Let not calumny itself (and it is difficult to guard against it in so difficult a struggle) compare the Turkish Pacha with the patriot Greek in peace, after you have exterminated him in war.» The dissensions among the Greek chiefs evidently gave great pain to Lord Byron, whose sensibility was keenly affected by the slightest circumstance which he considered likely to retard the deliverance of Greece. « For my part, he observes in another of his letters, I will stick by the cause while a plank remains which can be honourably clung to; if I quit it, it will be by the Greeks' conduct, and not the Holy Allies, or the holier Mussulmans.» In a letter to his banker at Cephalonia, he says: hope things here will go well, some time or other; I will stick by the cause as long as a cause exists.» His playful humour sometimes broke out amidst the deep anxiety he felt for the success of the Greeks. He ridiculed with great pleasantry some of the supplies which had been sent out from England by the Greek committee. In one of his letters, also, after alluding to his having advanced 4,000l., and expecting to be called on for 4,000l., more, he says: «How can I refuse if they (the Greeks) will fight, and especially if I should happen to be in their company? I therefore request and require that you should apprise my trusty and trust-worthy trustee and banker, and crown, and sheet-anchor, Douglas Kinnaird the honourable, that he prepare all monies of mine, including the purchase-money of Rochdale manor, and mine income for the year A. D. 1814, to an-¦ swer and anticipate any orders or drafts of mine, for the good cause, in good and lawful money of Great Britain, etc. etc. etc. May you live a thousand years! which is nine hundred and ninety-nine longer than the Spanish Cortes constitution.. dered, and, embarking his horses and effects, Lord Byron sailed from Argostoli on the 29th of December. At Zante, his lordship took a considerable quantity of specie on board, and proceeded towards Missoloughi. Two accidents occurred in this short passage. Count Gamba, who had accompanied his lordship from Leghorn, had been charged with the vessel in which the horses and part of the money were embarked. When off Chiarenza, a point which lies between Zante and the place of their destination, they were surprised at daylight on finding themselves under the bows of a Turkish frigate. Owing, however, to the activity displayed on board Lord Byron's vessel, and her superior sailing, she escaped, while the second was fired at, brought to, and carried into Patras. Count Gamba and his companions being taken before Yusuff Pacha, fully expected to share the fate of some unfortunate men whom that sanguinary chief had sacrificed the preceding year at Previsa, and their fears would most probably have been realized, had it not been for the presence of mind displayed by the count, who, assuming an air of hauteur and indifference, accused the captain of the frigate of a scandalous breach of neutrality, in firing at and detaining a vessel under English colours, and concluded by informing Yusuff, that he might expect the vengeance of the British government in thus interrupting a nobleman who was merely on his travels, and bound to Calamos. The Turkish chief, on recognizing in the master of the vessel a person who had saved his life in the Black Sea fifteen years before, not only consented to the vessel's release, but treated the whole of the passengers with the utmost attention, and even urged them to take a day's shooting in the neighbourhood. Owing to contrary winds, Lord Byron's vessel was obliged to take shelter at the Scropes, a cluster of rocks within a few miles of Missolonghi. While detained here, he was in considerable danger of being captured by the Turks. Lord Byron was received at Missolonghi with enthusiastic demonstrations of joy. No mark of honour or welcome which the Greeks could devise was omitted. The ships anchored off the fortress fired a salute as he passed. Prince Mayrocordato, and all the authorities, with the troops and the population, met him on his landing, and accompanied him to the house which had been prepared for him, amidst the shouts of the multitude and the discharge of cannon. One of the first objects to which he turned his attention was to mitigate the ferocity with which the war had been carried on. The very day of his lordship's arrival was signalised by his resAll being ready, two lonian vessels were or- cuing a Turk, who had fallen into the hands of ¦ ose Greek sailors. The individual thus saved, having been clothed by his orders, was kept in 'the house until an opportunity occurred of sending him to Patras. Nor had his lordship been long at Missolonghi, before an opportunity preseated itself for showing his sense of Yusuff Pacha's moderation in releasing Count Gamba. Hearing that 'there were four Turkish prisoners in the | town, he requested that they might be placed in his hands. This being immediately granted, he sent them to Patras, with a letter addressed to the Turkish chief, expressing his hope that the pri|wners thenceforward taken on both sides would be treated with humanity. This act was followed by another equally praise-worthy, which proved how anxious Lord Byron felt to give a new turn to the system of warfare hitherto pursued. A Greek cruizer having captured a Turkish boat, in which there was a number of passengers, chardly women and children, they were also placed in the hands of Lord Byron, at his particular request; upon which a vessel was immediately lured, and the whole of them, to the number of twenty-four, were sent to Previsa, provided with nery requisite for their comfort during the passage The Turkish governor of Previsa thanked his lordship, and assured him, that he would take care equal attention should be in future shown to the Greeks who might become pri Lord Byron landed at Missolonghi animated with military ardour. After paying the fleet, which, indeed, had only come out under the expectation of receiving its arrears from the loan which he promised to make to the provisional government, he set about forming a brigade of Suhotes. Five hundred of these, the bravest and most resolute of the soldiers of Greece, were taken into his pay on the 1st of January, 1824. An *xpedition against Lepanto was proposed, of which the command was given to Lord Byron. This exdition, however, had to experience delay and printment. The Suliotes, conceiving that they had found a patron whose wealth was inexaustible, and whose generosity was boundless, etermined to make the most of the occasion, and prox reded to the most extravagant demands on eir leader for arrears, and under other preraces. These mountaineers, untameable in the field, and unmanageable in a town, were, at this moment, peculiarly disposed to be obstinate, riotous, and mercenary. They had been chiefly instrumental in preserving Missolonghi when besieged the previous autumn by the Turks; had been driven from their abodes; and the whole of their families were, at this time, in the town, destitute of either home or sufficient supplies. of turbulent and reckless character, they kept the place in awe; and Mavrocordato having, unlike the other captains, no soldiers of his own, was glad to find a body of valiant mercenaries, especially if paid for out of the funds of another; and, consequently, was not disposed to treat them with harshness. Within a fortnight after Lord Byron's arrival, a burgher refusing to quarter some Suliotes, who rudely demanded entrance into his house, was killed, and a riot ensued, in which some lives were lost. Lord Byron's impatient spirit could ill brook the delay of a favourite scheme, but he saw, with the utmost chagrin, that the state of his troops was such as to render any attempt to lead them out at that time impracticable. The project of proceeding against Lepanto being thus suspended, at a moment when Lord Byron's enthusiasm was at its height, and when he had fully calculated on striking a blow which could not fail to be of the utmost service to the Greek cause, the unlooked-for disappointment preyed on his spirits, and produced a degree of irritability which, if it was not the sole cause, contributed greatly to a severe fit of epilepsy, with which he was attacked on the 15th of February. His lordship was sitting in the apartment of Colonel Stanhope, talking in a jocular manner with Mr Parry, the engineer, when it was observed, from occasional and rapid changes in his countenance, that he was suffering under some strong emotion. On a sudden he complained of a weakness in one of his legs, and rose, but finding himself unable to walk, he cried out for assistance. He then fell into a state of nervous and convulsive agitation, and was placed on a bed. For some minutes his countenance was much distorted. He however quickly recovered his senses, his speech returned, and he soon appeared perfectly well, although enfeebled and exhausted by the violence of the struggle. During the fit, he behaved with his usual extraordinary firmness, and his efforts in contending with, and attempting to master, the disease, are described as gigantic. In the course of the month, the attack was repeated four times; the violence of the disorder, at length, yielded to the remedies which his physicians advised, such as bleeding, cold bathing, perfect relaxation of mind, etc., and he gradually recovered. An accident, however, hap ers, etc.; but I still hope better things, and will stand by the cause as long as my health and circumstances will permit me to be supposed useful.» Notwithstanding Lord Byron's improvement in health, his friends felt, from the first, that he ought to try a change of air. Missolonghi is a flat, marshy, and pestilential place, and, except for purposes of utility, never would have been selected for his residence. A gentleman of Zante wrote to him early in March, to induce him to return to that island for a time. To his letter the following answer was received : << I am extremely obliged by your offer of your country-house, as for all other kindness, in case my health should require my removal; but I cannot quit Greece while there is a chance of my being of (even supposed) utility. There is a stake worth millions such as 1 am, and while I can stand at all, I must stand by the cause. While I say this, I am aware of the difficulties, and dissensions, and defects of the Greeks themselves: but allowance must be made for them by all reasonable people." pened a few days after his first illness, which was ill calculated to aid the efforts of his medical advisers. A Suliote accompanied by another man, and the late Marco Botzaris' little boy, walked into the Seraglio, a place which, before Lord Byron's arrival, had been used as a sort of fortress and barrack for the Suliotes, and out of which they were ejected with great difficulty for the reception of the committee-stores, and for the occupation of the engineers, who required it for a laboratory. The sentinel on guard ordered the Suliote to retire, which being a species of motion to which Suliotes are not accustomed, the man carelessly advanced; upon which the serjeant of the guard (a German) demanded his business, and receiving no satisfactory answer, pushed him back. These wild warriors, who will dream for years of a blow if revenge is out of their power, are not slow to resent even a push. The Suliote struck again, the serjeant and he closed and struggled, when the Suliote drew a pistol from his belt; the serjeant wrenched it out of his hand, and blew the powder out of the pan. At this moment Captain Sass, a Swede, seeing the It may be well imagined, after so severe a fit fray, came up, and ordered the man to be taken of illness, and that in a great measure brought on to the guard-room. The Suliote was then dis- by the conduct of the troops he had taken into posed to depart, and would have done so if the his pay, and treated with the utmost generosity, serjeant would have permitted him. Unfortu- that Lord Byron was in no humour to pursue his nately, Captain Sass did not confine himself to scheme against Lepanto, even supposing that his merely giving the order for his arrest; for when state of health had been such as to bear the fathe Suliote struggled to get away, Captain Sass tigue of a campaign in Greece. The Suliotes, drew his sword and struck him with the flat part however, showed some signs of repentance, and of it; whereupon the enraged Greek flew upon offered to place themselves at his lordship's dishim, with a pistol in one hand and the sabre in posal. But still they had an objection to the nathe other, and at the same moment nearly cut ture of the service: they would not fight against off the Captain's right arm, and shot him through stone walls!» It is not surprising that the exthe head. Captain Sass, who was remarkable for pedition to Lepanto was no longer thought of. his mild and courageous character, expired in a few minutes. The Suliote also was a man of distinguished bravery. This was a serious affair, and great apprehensions were entertained that it would not end here. The Suliotes refused to surrender the man to justice, alleging that he had been struck, which, in Suliote law, justifies all the consequences which may follow. In a letter written a few days after Lord Byron's first attack, to a friend in Zante, he speaks of himself as rapidly recovering. I am a good deal better," he observes, though of course weakly. The leeches took too much blood from my temples the day after, and there was some difficulty in stopping it; but I have been up daily, and out in boats or on horseback. To-day I have taken a warm bath, and live as temperately as well can be, without any liquid but water, and without any animal food. After adverting to some other subjects, the letter thus concludes: Matters are here a little embroiled with the Suliotes, foreign In conformity with our plan, we here add a selection of anecdotes, etc. connected with Lord Byron's residence at Missolonghi. They are principally taken from Capt. Parry's Last Days of Lord Byron;» a work which seems to us, from its plain and unvarnished style, to bear the stamp and impress of truth. In speaking of the Greek Committee one day, his lordship said- I conceive that I have been already grossly ill-treated by the committee. In Italy, Mr Blaquiere, their agent, informed me that every requisite supply would be forwarded with all dispatch. I was disposed to come to Greece, but I hastened my departure in consequence of earnest solicitations. No time was to be lost, I was told, and Mr Blaquiere, instead of waiting on me at his return from Greece, left a paltry note, which gave me no information whatever. If I ever meet with him, I shall not fail to mention my surprise at his conduct; but it has been all of a piece. I wish the acting committee d This, observes Captain Parry, in his plain and manly manner, was Lord Byron's hope, and this was to be his last project in favour of Greece. Into it no motive of personal ambition entered, more than that just and proper one, the basis of all virtue, and the distinguished characteristic of an honourable mind — the hope of gaining the approbation of good men. As an author, he had already attained the pinnacle of popularity and of fame; but this did not satisfy his noble ambition. He hastened to Greece, with a devotion to liberty, and a zeal in favour of the oppressed, as pure as ever shone in the bosom of a knight in the purest days of chivalry, to gain the reputation of an unsullied warrior, and of a disinterested statesman. He was her unpaid, but the blessings of all Greece, and the high honours his own countrymen bestow on his memory, bearing him in their hearts, prove that he was not her unrewarded champion.» had had some of the trouble which has fallen onmanently fixed, and she will enter into all her me since my arrival here; they would have been rights, as a member of the great commonwealth more prompt in their proceedings, and would of Christian Europe.» have known better what the country stood in need of. They would not have delayed the supplies a day, nor have sent out German officers, poor fellows, to starve at Missolonghi, but for my assistance. I am a plain man, and cannot comprehend the use of printing-presses to a people who do not read. Here the committee have sent sapplies of maps, I suppose, that I may teach the young mountaineers geography. Here are bugleborns, without bugle-men, and it is a chance if we can find any body in Greece to blow them. Books are sent to a people who want guns: they ask for a sword, and the committee give them the lever of a printing-press. Heavens! one wald think the committee meant to inculcate patience and submission, and to condemn resistace. Some materials for constructing fortificaties they have sent, but they have chosen their people so ill, that the work is deserted, and not ne para have they sent to procure other labarers. Their secretary, Mr Bowring, was disposed, I believe, to claim the privilege of an acquiance with me. He wrote me a long letter about the classic land of freedom, the birth-place of the arts, the cradle of genius, the habitation of the gods, the heaven of poets, and a great many such fine things. I was obliged to answer hun, and I scrawled some nonsense in reply to bis nonsense; but I fancy I shall get no more sach epistles. When I came to the conclusion of the poetry part of my letter, I wrote, ‘so much tor blarney, now for business.' I have not since heard in the same strain from Mr Bowring." . My future intentions, continued he, « as to Greece, may be explained in a few words: I will remain here till she is secure against the Turks, or till she has fallen under their power. All my income shall be spent in her service; but, unless driven by some great necessity, I will not touch a farthing of the sum intended for my sister's children Whatever I can accomplish with my income, and my personal exertions, shall be cheerfully done. When Greece is secure against external enemies, I will leave the Greeks to settle their government as they like. One service more, and an eminent service it will be, I think I may perform for them. You, Parry, shall have a schooner built for me, or I will buy a vessel; the Greeks shall invest me with the character of their ambassador or agent; I will go to the United States, and procure that free and enlightmed government to set the example of recognising the federation of Greece as an independent This done, England must follow the example, and then the fate of Greece will be per date. Lord Byron's address was the most affable and courteous perhaps ever seen; his manners, when in a good humour, and desirous of being well with his guest, were winning, fascinating in the extreme, and though bland, still spirited, and with an air of frankness and generosity-qualities in which he was certainly not deficient. He was open to a fault—a characteristic probably the result of his fearlessness and independence of the world; but so open was he, that his friends were obliged to be upon their guard with him. He was the worst person in the world to confide a secret to; and if any charge against any body was mentioned to him, it was probably the first communication he made to the person in question. He hated scandal and tittle-tattle-loved the manly straightforward course: he would harbour no doubts, and never live with another with suspicions in his bosom-out came the accusation, and he called upon the individual to clear, or be ashamed of, himself. He detested a lie-nothing enraged him so much he was by temperament and education excessively irritable, and a lie completely unchained him-his indignation knew no bounds. He had considerable tact in detecting untruth; he would smell it out almost instinctively; he avoided the timid driveller, and generally chose his companions among the lovers and practisers of sincerity and candour. A man tells a falsehood, and conceals the truth, because he is afraid that the declaration of the thing as it is will hurt him. Lord Byron was above all fear of this sort: he flinched from telling no one what he thought to his face; from his infancy he had been afraid of |