PHOTO ZAVELLAS AND HIS SISTER KAIDO. KAIDO. PHOTO! We meet in sorrow. ZAVELLAS. In sorrow, my beloved sister, have we often parted; for often have we lamented the death of those who followed us, and who believed, on the word we gave them, that the God of battles would protect the just: but never until now did either hear from the other the language of despondency. Tell me, Kaido, what is there that hangs about thy heart so heavily, and will not fall from it between us two? KAIDO. When I remember how much you have suffered, O my brother! first from a perfidious enemy, and latterly from an ungrateful country. ZAVELLAS. Cease, my sister! One of these things alone should be remembered. KAIDO. Let me return then home. I see, what indeed I saw as clearly ere I came, your righteous indignation. Had only the arcons entreated me to undertake the mission, I should have doubted more and hesitated longer. ZAVELLAS. Who then sent thee on a way so besett with dangers ? KAIDO. Mosko, the tender wife, the timid mother; she whose generous fears would never let her leave your side in battle, nor now unclasp the son so late recovered. She tells you again thro me, to return to Ali Bey; to pass the prison of the many who have fought around you; and to ask admittence at the door wherin your youngest child was kept three whole years away from you. For what? ZAVELLAS. KAIDO. Well may you inquire it. The house of our fathers is sunk in ashes. On my road hither I stept over the remnants of the beams, and among the rude stone images, their supporters, blackened but incorruptible. No man hath ventured to appropriate or remove them: there they lie, as they lay the sad morning when your hand sett fire to the roof. O Suli! O my country! never should my tears have fallen upon this calamity: a worse now threatens thee: the powerful, the magnanimous, abandon and betray thee*. *As these events are what occurred in 1802, Kaido cannot mean Englishmen. Among the innumerable acts of partiality shewn by our Administration to the enemies of Greece, she never reckoned the distinction with which the Capitan Bashaw was received by the Governor of the Ionian Islands. It was however with grief and indignation that she saw the Zenobia guide the Ottoman fleet into the harbour of Galasendi, and the commander place a mortar against men fighting for the most sacred rights of religion and of humanity; fighting to escape from a slavery not endured in any other portion of Europe, nor sanctioned nor permitted by the most atrocious of her despots. On every ingenuous and well educated mind Antiquity lays a spell, of which they never afterward are dispossest: yet where judgement has grown up in its due proportion, there can exist no doubt that the Greeks, in the last five years, have surpast the glories of their ancestors at any equal period, altho the numbers that could come forward and display them were formerly much greater. With all the advantages of education and example, Greece never saw at once nor in succession so many disinterested patriots and devoted chieftains. I confidently ask, has the whole world in two thousand years beheld so many who effected so much with means so slender? so many who offered up their lives so gloriously? Foremost of them are Miaoulis and Canaris; Samuel the ZAVELLAS. A worse indeed! KAIDO. Nay, a worse yet . . . Preacher, the beneficent and the terrible; Ciriaco, another man truly holy; Photo Zavellas, Niketas, the Bozzari, Georgaki, and Odysseus. Two small islets, neither of them larger than a gentleman's estate in England, defied the vengeance of the Turkish government and the malignity of the British; devoting the lives and fortunes of their inhabitants, not in the same manner as poetasters and Pitt-clubs do, in eating and drinking to success on the right-hand and to damnation on the left, but in raising troops, in fitting out armaments, in erecting fortresses, in filling them with munition, in fighting under and upon them, in setting fire to them, and expiring with the enemy amid their ruins. Varvaki gave in a single day, for the support of the continental Greeks, who are no more his countrymen than the Americans are ours, a larger sum, by above twenty times, than the English king, and his cabinet ministers, and his privy counsellors, contributed, to relieve the thousands of manufacturers, starving by the indiscretion and prodigality of these their rulers. The greatest harm ever done to Greece was by England, when she prevailed on the king of Persia to suspend his hostilities against the Turks, and finally to accept conditions of peace, in the midst of victories. Had the British ministry abstained from this interference, the freedom of Greece had been secured in the second year of the contest. The least we can do now, is, to save the remainder of her women and children from slavery and slaughter; since, without our active and extensive and unremitted co-operation against her, these would not for the most part have been fatherless and |