money, as the inscription told, for the translation of the Scriptures into the oriental languages, and for the native schools at Serampore !-Was there ever any thing so ridiculously incongruous? It was really amusing, as far as relates to contrasts,-but if it led to reflection, it ceased to The mistress of the shop, who asked me eight and sixpence for what she offered me yesterday for six and sixpence, was a worthy crowning to the collection for the conversion of the Hindoos!

amuse.

Note to the Article entitled "An Historical Memoir of the Insurrection of the Greeks."

SINCE the early sheets of our present Number were put to press, a translation has appeared of "the Provisional Constitution of Greece." It is executed by one of the members of the Greek Committee, who is understood to be a gentleman whose pen has before been exerted on the same subject. The translation is printed page for page with the original Romaic, and is distinguished by great fidelity, and, at the same time, much freedom and spirit. For the latter there has been particular scope in the proclamations, which are subjoined. The narrative which precedes the Constitution is from an inedited French manuscript.

We have now neither time nor space sufficient to enter into any detailed account of this very interesting publication; but it may be satisfactory to those who have taken interest in the narrative which they have read in this Number, to be made acquainted with the form of government actually existing in Greece. We shall, therefore, transcribe that section of the Constitution in which this provision is made.

Our readers, however, will derive much gratification from the whole document, which exhibits throughout a spirit of equal liberality and moderation:

"CHAPTER II.

SECT. III.-On the Form of Government.

9. The Government is composed of the Senate and of the Executive Power.

10. The concurrence of these two powers is requisite for passing a law; the decisions of the senate not having the force of a law, without the sanction of the executive Power; nor can the proposals of the executive be operative unless adopted by the senate.

11. The senate is composed of representatives chosen in the different parts of Greece.

12. Till the promulgation of a law of election, the number of representatives is undetermined.

13. The government will provisionally decree a law of election, combining the two following conditions:

14. The representatives must be Greeks.

15. They must be thirty years of age.

16. All the deputies of the free parts of Greece are admitted and have seats in the senate, after the examination and verification of their powers.

17. The senate names its president and vice-president for one year, by the plurality of voices.

18. In like manner it names two secretaries and their adjuncts.

19. The functions of the senators end at the expiration of a year.

20. The executive power is composed of five members, taken out of the body of the senate, and named by a

special college, according to a law, which is to regulate the election.

21. The president and vice-president of the executive power are annual officers. The mode of their election is prescribed by the same law.

22. The executive power names eight secretaries; of whom the first is the secretary of state, who directs the department of foreign relations. After him come the secretaries of the interior, of public economy, of justice, of war, of the marine, of divine worship, and of the police.

23. All the subaltern agents of administration are, in like manner, named by the executive power.

24. This power is renewed every year."

THE REVIEW.

"We belong to the unpopular family of Tell-truths, and would not flatter Apollo for bis Lyre."-ROE ROY.

REGINALD DALTON. By the Author of "Valerius," and "Adam Blair." 3 vols., post 8vo. Blackwood, Edinburgh; Cadell, London; 1823.

WE never experienced greater surprise from any literary cause than when we learned, from the advertisements of the present work, that Adam Blair and Valerius were by the same author. It is not that we considered the degree of talent which they displayed to be very different, but the qua lity of talent. It was scarcely to be imagined that such very various powers were united in the same individual. Valerius is distinguished by the most vivid description of scenes, by the most dramatic rendering of events,-by a rapid and masterly sketching of characters, and grouping of persons. Adam Blair is all passsion, and pathos, and terror-it possesses an almost anatomical knowledge of the workings of the human heart,—an unequalled power in painting them. Its events may be compressed into three lines;—it is the description of the causes that led to them, in all their intricacies of feeling and passion-in every bearing, in every shade,-which forms the body of the book. The style,