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sing succour at hand, took courage, and defended themselves
the goletta came up, and put thussano's gun-boat between
em. The other, seeing there was no chance, fled, and Baeaano
is taken prisoner, after losing ten men, and baying fwe wounded.
me count:tender of the goletta put him into irons, and brought
m into Prevema, where be banged all his crew. Bassano` was
ten before Giocatore Pacha, who received him very courteously,
dered his chains to be taken off, and complimented him. on his
urage. The Pacha had known him in the:time of Ali Nile,
d knew that be was a man of talent and a good soldier, fle,told
ma that hit life 'Willi in no thitiger, and that he would assign him
;ood house as a prison,-until he could receive orders from Arta.
maim was conduettalto.a house, cohere he was guarded by only
ro soldiers.
At the expiration of a fortuighti orders came. from Reechid
'chit to conduct him to Arta. fieschid it*eived hirn'ivith great
sped ; be knew that 'lessen° could furnish him with plans for:
attack upon! Missolonghi. Bassano's. inclinations were con-
int on the side of freedom, bat he thought that, probably, if he
Dk service under the:Tarks, he might still be able to be of come
• to the Greeks, by giving false intelligence. The Pachas imme •
ately consulted hiM, and in a short time he became their princi-
confident, mid inspected their artillery, which was to he rue
Dyed in the, siege of lifissiolonglii,

THE MONTHLY REVIEW

nce it passed' into the bands of Mr. Charles Knight,
Witt' 'gradually increasing in ability, and we
pe, 'also ckculation. The. bill of tare for this
mtb, in particularly is highly acceptable, with the
caption that too much space has, perhaps been devoted
the Recollections of that Silly old driveller, ,
le Review of Notes and Reflections made during A ramble
Germany—a most admirable publication, whether, we
ik to the spirit, fidelity, or poetical eloquence of its descrip7,
us—is just such a review as the book deserves to possess.
Din the notice of Irby's and Mangle's Travels,,' we
re the following extract, as it goes a great way to de-
!elate the general opinion that the ruins of Palmyra are
:omparably the finest in the world. This Eastern city)
waver, will be remembered tO,lateat posterity, if not by
ruins, at least by the eloquence of Gibbon ; who has
shrilled Zambia, Odenathusoind their palaces, in that
nple which he has built up to everlasting fame, his
Roman History."
" There was not a single shaft, pediment, architrave, portal,
rze, or any architectural remnant worthy of adniii ation. None
the columns exceeded in diameter four feet, or in heighty tbrty
t ; diolensions but ill ealculated to give an idea of the sublime,
least, according to Longinus. Those of the boasted avenue had
le more than thirty feet of altitude; the epistylium is in no Ul-
na orrunnented with any,,earved•work, enepting.now and then
ill-executed enrolee., The platea:otWisod and llawkino are
tainly well executed, but they have done but too.much justice
the originals ;—and although the designs
,are. generally correct
the work of Wood and Dawkins, we found that the execution
the sculpture is far inferior t r what might have.heett expected
In the engravings. The three arches at the end of the avenue
rest the Temple of the Sun, so beautiful in the designs, are ex-
dye!), insignificant ; the decorated frieze thereof, although
alsome in the plates, is very badly wrought; and in this
ice, even the devices are not striking ; they are not to he coin-
ed to the common portals of Thebes, although the Egyptians
.e unacquainted with the arch. Every thing is here built of
'try perishable stone ; if it deserves the name of marble, it is
y inferior even to that of Baalbee."--.-pp. 269, 269.