ment à tous nos efforts cette direction droite et morale, nous ne manquons à aucun des devoirs, que chacun de nous a contractés envers l'ordre qui existe dans le pays, où se trouvent ses foyers et le tombeau de ses pères; et nous remplissons en même temps loyamment et honorablement tous les devoirs que nous impose notre sainte religion. Elle nous commande l'amour de nos semblables, à plus forte raison celui de nos compatriotes.

Le jour où nous sortirons de cette ligne, lorsque nous embrasserons une doctrine différente, nos sacrifices ajouteront aux malheurs de notre patrie.

Il ne s'agira plus de bien public, c'est à l'ambition et à la vanité de quelques individus, qu'on

able to form this centre. In constantly giving to all our efforts this straight and moral direction, we fail in none of the duties which each of us has contracted towards the order of things existing in the country which contains our domestic hearths, and the tomb of our fathers; and at the same time we fulfil loyally and honourably all the duties imposed upon us by our holy religion. It commands from us the love of our neighbour, still more that of our countrymen.

On the day when we shall depart from this line of conduct, when we shall embrace a different doctrine, our sacrifices will add to the misfortunes of our country.

It will be, then, no longer the question of the public welfare, but the ambition and the vanity of some individuals, to

fera encore servir les intérêts de notre terre natale.

Nous espérons d'être à l'abri de ce grand danger; les suites de nos erreurs pésent encore sur nos têtes.

which the interests of our common country will be made subservient.

We hope to steer clear of this great danger; the consequences of our errors still weigh on our heads.

DANGER TO RUSSIA FROM HER REVOLU

TIONARY POLICY.

It has been generally remarked by the most eminent historians, that, although divine justice frequently reserves the punishment due to the crimes of individuals until their entrance on a future state, international crimes, on the contrary, invariably draw down their own punishment in this world. If such be the case, how terrible must be the retribution which is reserved for those violations of the moral law, in which religion itself is prostituted to the vilest purposes, and men are incited to cast aside the obligations of the social compact, and to break through all the ties of allegiance and honour, in the name of that beneficent Power whose mission was to proclaim "Peace on earth goodwill towards men."

That extraordinary compact, denominated the Holy Alliance, through which the conti

nental Monarchs endeavoured to acquire the superstitious reverence of Europe in favour of their acts, and to secure a passive obedience on the part of their subjects to their joint intervention in the affairs of other nations, was made use of in Russia as an engine of domestic power. The original was framed and hung up in the chapel of the Kremlin, as entitled to the same reverence as the articles of the Christian Faith. The published documents of Russia of that epoch are replete with appeals to religion, and whoever has witnessed the public reception of a Russian Emperor by his subjects must have remarked how nearly the outward manifestations of loyalty have been made to approximate to the form of adoration.

The address of Count Capodistrias to the Greeks possesses a character which, if the circumstances attending it were left unexplained, would entitle it to be considered as the text book of the most scrupulous moralist.

The profound art employed in its composition, and the deep design it was intended to accomplish, are so ingeniously concealed in the pure sentiments which it breathes, that the

reader will find it difficult to imagine that under these attractive forms of language, not only the Greek subjects of the Grand Signor, but those of England and Austria, were taught to meditate on their political condition, and to look forward with patience and long-suffering to the religious supremacy of a power invested with the attributes of Providence for their temporal and eternal welfare.

We have stated, in a previous number, that, at the Congress of Vienna, the proposal to place the Ionian Islands under the protectorate of Austria was warmly combated by Russia, and that sooner than that the Ottoman Empire should have found in the immutable policy of the Austrian Cabinet an additional support from the protectorate of the Ionian Republic being entrusted to that Conservative State, Russia willingly assented to forego her own pretensions, in order that the Ionian Greeks might serve as an instrument in making classical England dismember the Ottoman Empire, through enthusiasm for the descendants of Solon and Lycurgus.

Capodistrias had witnessed in 1817 the po