a means of increasing it, by lessening the rates of duty, which were then so high as to put a considerable check on commerce. Peter adopted his advice, and the following year the revenue was doubled.

Too soon for Russia, and too soon for Peter the Great, the career of Lefort was brought to a close. His sudden death of high fever took place at Moscow, in his forty-third year, on the 12th of March, 1699. The news of his demise was immediately carried to the Czar, who was then at Voronez inspecting his naval works. He hastened back to Moscow, and there gave orders for the preparation of superb obsequies. All the foreigners in the Russian capital took part in the procession. Peter himself, on foot and in tears, followed as a lieutenant of the Préorbazinski Guards the convoy of their beloved general. The remains were deposited in the Dutch Reformed Church at Moscow, where a monument was erected to his memory, bearing an inscription in the Latin and Dutch languages.

Lefort has been described as " tall and well formed," having "a happy countenance, a conciliating manner, a persuasive tone." Never, perhaps, was a special favourite of a monarch more universally and cordially that of the nation than Lefort. Foreigner and innovator though he was, his talents and goodness exacted esteem and regard even from the bitterest enemies of Peter and his foreign reformers. The magnitude of his services to Russia has been admitted on all hands; some have gone so far as to maintain, that without him Peter would never have earned the title "Great," nor Russia have risen from its barbaric lethargy.

H. C.

MODERN GREECE.

DURING the first quarter of the present century Philhellenic associations were formed in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and America, for the purpose of aiding Greece with the wealth and talent of civilised nations. Thirty years ago representatives of all these nations were enrolled under her banner, and were fighting for her liberty. The self-denial they evinced, the sacrifices to which they submitted, the energy, military skill, enlightened and disinterested sympathy, they displayed, sufficiently proved that they were instigated neither by ambition, religious fanaticism, nor any sordid motive. Lord Byron, who fell a victim to the cause in the marshes of Missolonghi ; the Count Santorre di Santarosa, the minister of state, who having become a soldier, died fighting on the rocks of the Sphacteria; numbers of distinguished men, illustrious exiles from Italy, France, and Spain, veterans from the ranks of Napoleon and Wellington, volunteers from America, men of science, men of arms, men of feeling, all hastened to the scene of action, and did homage to Greece, the fatherland of wisdom and of heroism.

This romantic feeling, however, like all things human, soon passed away. The cold calculations of politics replaced the fervent aspirations of poetry, and all that remains of so much activity is that new kingdom which constitutes Modern Greece. Scarcely had another quarter of a century elapsed since the foundation of the kingdom, ere the sympathy which its people had excited, by their patriotic defence, became also less enthusiastic, and finally almost disappeared. The glory acquired by Greece during her warlike struggle had not been followed by any noble qualities during the peace which succeeded, and the utter incapacity evinced in civil affairs partly obliterated the

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