that there is not a part of Greece which has been rendered illustrious as the field of any memorable battle, but a tomb of this description now remains, as a monument of the place where it was fought. This may be proved with reference to Marathon, Thermopyla, Plataa, Leuctra, Charonéa, Pydna, and Pharsalia. The Macedonians and Greeks, after their battles with the Romans, or with each other, have always done this: but the same custom does not appear to have existed among the Romans in Italy, where there are no other tumuli than the barrows of the Celts, which are common to all Europe and Asia."

Pydna was rendered notorious by ancient massacres, as well as memorable by the finer, nobler kind of thing denominated a battle; and the unsated spirit of the first born 'Cain,' has received here later libations of blood.

It was at Kitros' (the village now on the site of the ancient town) and along the road to Salonica, that the French prisoners, when compelled by the Turks to march from the Mored to Constantinople, suffered every cruelty that the malice of their enemies could inflict. Many of them, after seeing their drooping companions put to death by their conductors, because they were unable, through sickness and fatigue, to continue the route, were constrained to carry the heads of their comrades in sacks, that an accurate return of the whole number might be made upon their arrival in the capital.'

At Salonica (Thessalonica) the plague was found ravaging with that licence of power which the terrible destroyer enjoys throughout the Turkish empire; where, if it were absolutely worshipped as a deity, it might be alleged for the consistency of the people that their god would be worthy of their Prophet. Dr. C.'s passion for antiquities led him to the extreme of allowable daring, in examining the ruins in the most infected part of the city. When about to leave Thessalonica, he indulged one more long and ardent gaze on the splendours of Olympus; and in the way of valedictory retrospect of Greece, he makes a rapid and eloquent enumeration of its most magnificent and enchanting scenes, in the geographical' order of a vast imaginary picture; and concludes,

Thus, though not in all the freshness of its living colours, yet in all its grandeur, doth Greece actually present itself to the mind's eye; and may the impression never be removed! In the eve of bidding it farewell for ever, as the hope of visiting this delightful country constituted the earliest and the warmest wish of his youth, the author found it to be some alleviation of the regret excited by a consciousness of never returning, that he could thus summon to his recollection the scenes over which he had passed.' Vol. IV. P. 374.

We had flattered ourselves we should have the management to accomplish, within the space fairly allowed by the 2 B

VOL. VI. N. S.

limits of our work, a duly proportioned brief survey of the whole of our Traveller's track, quite to the end of the Fourth Volume. We have failed; and must here prematurely come to a conclusion. In passing over Egypt and Greece, imagination itself is baffled in any attempt at a rapid flight; it is fascinated and brought down to the ground, as birds are said to be by the bright eyes of some serpents; and then it is surrounded, enthralled, and be-mazed, by an infinity of spectres, returned, as from Tartarus and Elysium, to haunt every region, track, and ruin. It is no easy matter to make an expeditious progress through such an empire of captivating associations, antique solemnities, mysteries, muses, and splendours of Nature, with any guide; but the difficulty is considerably increased in the company of our Author. We suffer a perpetual incubus; the potencies of the Chaldean are so strong upon him, that at will, or even involuntarily, he fixes us to stones, or in caves, or in tombs, or on mountain summits, at the mercy of endless companies and flights of ideal shapes.

We shall say, in a very few lines, that the journey was pursued to Constantinople, through very great dangers from the savage robbers and rebels of Thrace; that at Constantinople, an active inquisition was made after antiquities, and every thing else worth seeing and reporting; and that the very entertaining account of the Ottoman Capital, is followed by the long journal of the truly grand tour through Bulgaria, Walachia, Transylvania, and Hungary, to Vienna, concluded by a slight notice, in a page or two, of the comparatively home excursion into France in the way to the English shore.

An extended and interesting portion of the volume is employed in describing the gold mines of Hungary; and every stage of the journey is enlivened with entertaining incidents, picturesque descriptions, or sensible or learned observations, We think the last volume the most interesting of the four. The plates, of this volume especially, are excellent; the greater number of them are by Letitia Byrne, and evince great and progressive attainments in the art.

If any distinct estimate were to be made of Dr. Clarke's style, it must be acknowledged to be considerably careless and incorrect in construction; and there is an excess, amounting to affectation, in the use of some antique modes of phrase.

WE regret the necessity we are under of noticing, before we close the present Number, the conduct of the Rev. John Scott, in reference to our review of his Essay on Baptism. Neither the ministerial character he sustains, nor the justly venerated name he inherits, ought to shield him from the reprobation which is due to an act of deliberate baseness. As a pretext for not noticing the Article in the ECLECTIC, which related to his Tract on Baptism, this gentleman has recourse to another Article in the same Number, by a different writer, and on a subject wholly unconnected, in order to attempt to give a political complexion to our conduct in the discussion of a theological question, With this view, he selects an extract in which the Reviewer points out the national expenditure as the simple cause of the present exhaustion, affirming that, the miracle is, that the productive powers of the country have so long kept pace with 'the destructive powers of Government.' The words productive and destructive are here evidently antithetical; but it suits Mr. Scott's purpose, to endeavour to conceal this by printing the latter only of these words in capitals, as also the word Government, whenever it is used by the Reviewer, in order to affix to them, if possible, a meaning which in the Article they do not bear. The only use of printing them in capitals,, is obviously to produce an effect, that, without this expedient, they would not have. The passage however, thus disconnected and misrepresented, contains nothing that is false in assertion or injurious in tendency; but Mr. Scott follows it up with declaring his resolution to have no communication with persons who seemed equally well prepared to preach rebellion against "the Go"vernment," and virulent animosity against the Established • Church.

We have received a Letter from the Author of the Article in question, in which he justly remarks, that To object to the phrase "destructive powers of government," is at once, and ' without subterfuge, to preach the old and detestable doctrine ' of passive obedience and non-resistance; that so long as governments are imperfect, so long will they have the power of committing abuses; that surely the power of committing 'abuses is a destructive power; and if we must not speak of such a power under its true name, and express our desire that it should be taken away, we are in the foul embraces, assuredly, ' of passive obedience and non-resistance.'

* See page 229 of the Present Number.

The very principles of the British Constitution infer the right which every man possesses, to point out wherein the practice of Government departs from the proper path, and to call upon his countrymen to join with him in petitioning for ' amendment. Persons, therefore, who, like this John Scott, try to calumniate the exercise of this right, do nothing more than betray the constitution, and what depends upon them 'to deprive it of those principles of liberty in which all its 'excellence consists.'

The writer authorises us moreover to affirm, that he is not a Dissenter. He belongs to the Established Church of Scotland.

Mr. Scott's letter is, in other respects, highly discreditable to his understanding and to his temper. But the charge which he has the temerity to insinuate against us of sedition, is either so weak or so wicked, that we can only regret it should have proceeded from a man who has the least pretensions to truth and honesty. Its ready insertion in the Christian Observer, will serve to illustrate the principles and the spirit with which that work is in future to be conducted.

CORRESPONDENCE.

We are much obliged to an intelligent Correspondent for his remarks relative to the Article on Clarke's Travels in a former Number. His letter has been forwarded to the Reviewer. "The Nonconformist Directory," was reviewed in the Number for March 1814. The Village Pastor,' will obtain further information of our Publisher.

ART. XII. SELECT LITERARY INFORMATION.

Gentlemen and Publishers who have works in the press, will oblige the Conductors of the ECLECTIC REVIEW, by sending Information (post paid) of the subject, extent, and probable price of such works which they may depend upon being communicated to the Public, if consistent with its plan.