and gave me the best idea of a Roman Theatre: but I could not help being astonished at the smallness of the stage, which could not have been above fifteen feet wide, nor more than eight deep. found a few copper

medals, &c.' (P. 109.)

At Argivocastro Mr. T. had an interview with Ali Pasha, and was most graciously received. His Highness spoke with much regard of Mr. Liston, the ambassador, mentioned a very flattering letter he had received from Mr. Canning when Secretary of State, and wished that all Englishmen should consider Albania as their home; and this most aspiring and ferocious tyrant spoke of Bonaparte's ambition and cruelty, which he said it was necessary to curb. (P. 128.) In consequence of the Pasha's invitation, our author visited him at Tepelen, where an apartment in the palace, magnificently furnished, (the same which Lord Byron and Mr. Hobhouse had before occupied) was allotted for his accommodation.

'Dinner, consisting of eighteen dishes, was soon brought in on a large tin tray, about three feet diameter, which was laid on a reversed stool, and placed by us as we sat on the sofa, while a page of the Vizir (as Ali Pasha is entitled) laid on our shoulders fine napkins splendidly embroidered. This page's story was very romantic; and the beauty of his person added to its interest; his father was the chief of the Suliotes, who fought against Ali Pasha for eighteen years with a handful of men (not above 5000), and caused him a loss of 20,000 troops. On being taken he was ostensibly pardoned; but he died suddenly a year ago, it is strongly suspected, by poison; his son, though apparently a great favorite of the Vizir, is daily apprehensive of the same fate.' (P. 134.)

We revert to p. 130, where a note informs us that the history of this Suliote war with Ali Pasha had been published in the Romaic, or modern Greek language, and recorded instances of individual, and particularly of female courage, truly wonderful: we regret that Mr. Turner did not complete the translation of it, which, as we learn, he had commenced. At Zante he was obliged to perform quarantine, and amused himself in the lazaretto by reading books and newspapers lent to him by

'Prince Commiutti, (son-in-law of Mr. Foresti,) who was an adept in reading English, though he could not speak it. An old Zantiote, named Bova Nicolas, (a common appellation for old men among the Greeks,) was sent to me as a servant by Mr. F., and provided for my cookery and bedding with tolerable comfort. On a subsequent examination of my baggage, I found he had plundered it unconscionably. He carried on this system of robbery till he was detected, and flogged round the island by order of General Campbell, who would have been justified by law in nanging him for the offence that entailed his punishment, viz. delivering stolen articles to an accomplice out of the lazaretto, by which he might have introduced the plague into the island. It was, however, for this act of justice that General C. was arraigned in the house of Commons as a lawless tyrant.' (P. 171.)

Similar charges we have lately seen preferred against the

successor of General Campbell, and probably with as little foundation; the difficulty of governing by gentle means such people as the inhabitants of Zante will appear from a few anecdotes related in the work before us, but not more unfavorable to their character than many others that we have heard well authenticated from other quarters. The island contains about 37,000 soulsthe nobles agree only in tyrannising over the lower classes.

Hereditary quarrels,' says Mr. T., are carried among them to a dreadful pitch; and while there I saw a man hung for assisting a father to murder his son. I suppose one might defy the whole world to produce such instances of villany as are acted in the Seven Islands. The most revolting and unnatural crimes are common; and were almost entirely overlooked by the Venetian and Septinsular governments, to whom, indeed, the selling of impunity or of pardon was a common source of emolument. A Zantiote nobleman not long ago, on his deathbed, pistolled his own brother; another administered a slow poison to the only son of a rival, as the most bitter vengeance he could take on the father. The poor boy survived, but is to this day a wretched object from its effect. In short it would be equally impossible and needless to enumerate their crimes. There are only two classes, the very rich and the very poor. The former are constantly intriguing to remove from office or to murder each other; and the latter are such submissive retainers to them, from fear or bribery, as to be always the ready instruments of their vengeance.' (P. 180.)

Such are the nobles of this island, where the poor see nothing in their clergy but voluptuousness and rapacity, and in their legislative bodies nothing but chicanery, deceit and delay. Under the former government it was usual for the nobility to employ privateers, by which they intercepted the commerce, and plundered the property of their own countrymen.

'As General Campbell was one day riding out he saw four men creeping behind a wall on the side of the road, and called them to him; they said they would come round the wall, but made off as quickly as they could, and he soon saw them escaping in a boat to the Morea. Unfortunately he was attended only by a servant, so that far from being able to take them, he may be considered to have had a fortunate escape. Next morning word was brought to him that these men had shot three boys who were gathering olives. Little doubt was entertained that they had been employed by some Zanticte nobleman to destroy the objects of his displeasure, and large rewards were offered for their apprehension, but hitherto without success. The present laws are Venetian; great delay takes place in the execution of justice, trials frequently lasting three or four years. Two years had been occupied in the trial of the man whom I saw executed; and, at the gallows, though long urged to confess, he insisted that he was only an accessary, and that the two principals (the father and brother), who had actually committed the murder, had been acquitted. They fled the island immediately after the trial was finished. It is to be hoped that English laws will soon be introduced here as at Malta; but in the interval (before the national character and the government of the Ionian islands is settled) the governor is in a great difficulty, having no standard to guide himself; as he cannot consis

tently employ English authority to administer the unjust and partial laws of Venice, and no others are yet established. Every mode of conciliation is adopted; and the national and religious prejudices of the islanders are as much consulted as is consistent with good government. It was amusing enough to see the seriousness with which our soldiers joined and carried candles in the church processions.' (P. 181.)

The indifference of the Zantiotes with respect to assassination, may be understood from an anecdote recorded in p. 208. Au old man, who had fled ten years before, in consequence of having committed two horrible murders, returned to secure some property, and quarrelling with his wife, beat her severely. She complained to the Capo di Governo, and General Campbell by this circumstance, discovered who he was, and instantly ordered him to be hanged.

'When the order was communicated to him he exclaimed, 'What! would you hang me now in my old age?' and several nobles of Zante remonstrated against the iniquity of punishing a crime so long after its commission; but as they could not bring the General to acquiesce in such an absurdity, the man was hanged. A Turk, then in Zante, at whose village in the Morea this wretch had been long living, came to beg his reprieve, but was told to his great astonishment, that the Sultan himself could not avert the execution of justice in Zante.’

Mr. Turner notices many abuses by which the nobles in Zante and throughout the Ionian islands, oppressed the lower orders, whom General Campbell effectually protected against themin consequence of which, the nobles have sent complaints to England of the severity practised by the British authorities, whilst the poorer classes invariably express the happiness and security they enjoy under our protection. (P. 211.) The reader will be glad to learn, that through the unwearied exertions of General Campbell, who employed Mr. Turner in the affair, three of the four assassins, who murdered the poor boys above mentioned, were discovered at Corinth, and after a desperate resistance, one was killed, and another wounded, who with the third, and the head of the dead murderer, was sent to Zante; and the execution of these villains is said to have put an end to the practice of assassination in this island; the fourth suffered death at Gastouni for a murder committed there. We cannot here trace our author in his antiquarian researches at Delphi, where he copied some inscriptions, nor at Thebes, of which he gives a view neatly etched, nor at Argos, which he thinks still entitled to the epithet bestowed on it by Homer, on account of the beauty of its women, xaλλyuvaixa; nor at Mycena, where he again bears witness to Sir William Gell's accuracy of delineation. But we shall rest with him a moment at Athens, which he entered

by the gate of a miserable wall that surrounds it, and rode imme

diately through streets of wretched houses, to the house of Signor Logotheti, whose son is English consul; almost every Greek as we passed saluting me with Καλῶς ὀρίζετε (welcome) Εφένδι (equivalent to Sir in Turkish.) My friend T. and the consul's father gave me a cordial welcome, and came immediately to shake hands with me. Lodgings were soon found for me at the house of a Signor Vitali, where I am very comfortable, and have a fine view of the temple of Theseus, which I saw to my right as I entered the town. I went immediately with T. to visit the three Graces of Athens, the Consolinas, (so called from their father's having been English vice-consul here) Mariana, Catharina, and Theresa. The two eldest are fine girls; but the youngest is very pretty. She is the Zwŋ μoû σâs ayanŵ of Lord Byron. It is considered a sort of duty for English travellers to fall in love with one of the sisters. The eldest speaks a little Italian, and understands something of English. They are excessively poor, and are strong instances of the discordance that is too frequently found between Nature and Fortune. They maintain themselves by working in embroidery. I then walked with T. round the ruins; first to the Temple of Theseus, which is within the walls; then (conceive my delight) I stood on the Pnyx where Demosthenes spoke his orations to the Athenians; to the Areopagus, to Mount Museum, from which I saw Salamis, and the mountain where, it is said, Xerxes sat to view the battle; to the Odeum, and to the columns of Adrian's Pantheon, or of the temple of Jupiter Olympius, (for opinions are divided as to which of these edifices they belonged,) and re-entered the city by Adrian's arch, which now forms a gate of the city. Wherever I moved was some monument of antiquity, even over the doors of the Greeks were basso relievos. These ruins have all been so amply and ably described, that it would be presumptuous in me to enlarge on them. I entered Athens exactly at noon, and I shall ever look on the 15th of May as a holiday. I dined with T., passed the evening with the Consolinas, and at midnight lay down, and being very tired, slept soundly. But it is a shame to speak of one's self at Athens.' (P. 323.)

In another number of this journal we propose to conclude our account of Mr. Turner's interesting work. The first volume, which we have here abruptly closed, contains a neat and excellent map of Greece and the Archipelago, by Walker-a colored frontispiece representing the mode of travelling in TurKey, very accurately designed-a beautiful view of Zante, also colored, and other plates.

An Analysis of the Egyptian Mythology, to which is added, A Critical Examination of the remains of Egyptian Chronology. By J. C. PRICHARD, M. D.

THE general scope and design of this work are analogous to those of the Pantheon Ægyptiorum of the learned Jablonski;

to whom the author acknowledges himself to be under conside rable obligations.

He differs from that writer with respect to the reliance placed by him on Coptic Etymologies, and dissents from the numerous conclusions, which Jablonski has derived chiefly from that source. The author of the present work places his confidence almost exclusively on the testimony of ancient Authors, and has therefore been careful to assemble in the examination of each topic, all the important information that can be derived from antiquity respecting it. Many subjects are also farther elucidated by a comparison of parallel passages in the Hindoo, and other systems of mythology, but all these portions are inserted in notes or supplements to the several chapters, in order to prevent the introduction into the body of the work of materials, the intimate relation of which to the Egyptian mythology, may be thought to rest upon hypothetical or questionable grounds. In his method of explaining the Egyptian Mythi he has adopted in a great measure the principles of that school of critics, of which Heyne may be considered as the head, and to which his writings have contributed to give an extensive prevalence upon the Continent. These writers agree with the ancient stories in regarding the fictions of ancient mythology in general, as founded chiefly on physical theories or speculative attempts to explain the origin of things, and the phenomena of the visible Universe. Dogmas of this description, mixed with moral allegories, were clothed during the infancy of science and philosophy in a mystical garb, and adorned with poetical imagery. The powers of Nature were described under prosopopoeias, and these gave origin to the personages of mythology, whose fabulous adventures have, in many instances, been successfully resolved by Heyne and his followers into representations of some remarkable fact or theory relating to physics or astronomy. The author of the present work supposes the most striking and conspicuous part of the Egyptian mythology to have been of this description, and therefore allied in its nature to the fables of the Greeks and Romans; but he considers all this portion to have been an addition or superstructure raised on the basis of a more recondite system of principles, derived from a corruption of patriarchal or primitive revelation. This general idea of the composition of the Egyptian mythology has furnished the author with the division of his two first books. In the former he treats of the popular religion of the Egyptians; comprehending their theogony, and the fabulous history of their gods. In book the 2d he inquires into their philosophical