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Parry, Major of Lord Byron's Brigade, Commanding Officer of Artillery, and Engineer in the Service of the Greeks. 8vo. 12s. IN Italy and modern Greece, a man who anathematizes his neighbour, raises a heap of stones in the highway, and curses him; every passenger is bound to add a stone and a curse to the common heap. Romans, Crusaders, Genoese, Venetians, and Turks, have each flung a stone and a curse on Greece. She has long since ceased to be the instructress of the world; and, previous to the present century, a few solitary travellers and classical scholars were the only persons who took an interest in her fate. In politics, warfare, and commerce, she was a dead letter. The 4th of April, 1821, was the date of her present resuscitation. On that day, Patras was taken by the insurgents. On the 21st of the same month, Easter Sunday, the patriarch of Greece was hanged at his own doorway in Constantinople, dragged down by Jews, with every species of indignity, to the sea, and thrown |