adoption of the Romaic, or modern Greek language, which in future is to be used in public assemblies and documents—so as to preclude the necessity of sending the young men to Italy, where they imbibe (it is said) pernicious principles; this seems to me indicative of a design, or least an opinion, that these islands should eventually become a part of the Greek nation-which indeed, if the Greek kingdom prospers, is inevitable. The address was well received, both by the assemblies and the spectators; and the ceremony concluded with a response from the President, and at his suggestion, a loud and startling "viva" from the House; which, on the Commissioner's retiring, broke up; and the Members proceeded to their homes, accompanied by a military guard and band, playing "God save the King."

The whole ceremony was over before the clock had struck one, so that we had the afternoon to inspect the fortifications of

Vido, a little island, situated about a mile from the town, and nearly midway between the two points of land which, with it, form the harbour.

The works will be, when completed, very, and indeed as far as we could judge, unnecessarily, strong; for it seemed to us, that the ultimate possession of Corfu must depend, not on fortifications on shore, but on the dominion of the sea; for having no resources except from the opposite coast, a blockading fleet would soon starve it into surrender; however this may be, the works are in themselves well worth seeing, being chiefly excavated out of the rock which forms the island; and their site affords also the best prospect of the town and citadel of Corfu.

This evening we had the honour of meeting at the Palace a party of Greek Senators at a farewell dinner, given by the Governor, preparatory to their departure to their homes in the other islands. It was

perhaps owing to our ignorance of their language and manners, that we formed, from these specimens, no very high idea of the Ionian aristocracy. They seemed silent and awkward in the circumstances in which we saw them; but they perhaps formed no better opinion of us. Even those amongst us who could address them in a common tongue, found much difficulty in extracting answers. In short, they seemed out of place; and directly after our rising from table, they made their bows and departed. I cannot imagine any real amalgamation between an English government and an Ionian senate.

The next day was Sunday-only the third from our leaving England-and we took the opportunity of attending divine service at the Garrison Chapel in the citadel. We afterwards walked to what is called the One Gun Battery, from which is a view of one of the islands (for there are two competitors) which claim to be what is called

the "Sail of Ulysses"-I suppose in allusion to the galley of the Phæacians, which on her return from having conveyed Ulysses to Ithaca, was overtaken by the vengeance of Neptune, and petrified within sight of the port.

ἣ δὲ μάλα σχεδὸν.—κ. τ. λ. Odys. xiii. 161. "Swift as the swallow sweeps the liquid way The winged pinnace shot along the sea;The God arrests her with a sudden stroke, And roots her down an everlasting rock." The other competitor for this honour is a rock which we afterwards saw on the opposite side of the island:-the question as to which is the genuine evidence of the Neptunian miracle, depends on the port from which King Alcinous despatched his guest; and I cannot but think that, from its proximity to the main land and its superior shelter, that port is likely to to have been the present harbour of Corfu, or at least, on this side of the island :-so that the point whence we now viewed the rock-which might, indeed, be mistaken