The following pages were ready for the press in the month of September last, but circumstances, over which the Author had no controul, have prevented the publication until the present time. The reader will find it necessary to bear this fact in mind, in the perusal of some parts of the work. If it has lost any interest by the delay, an opportunity has, on the other hand, been thus acquired, of adding a statement of the principal events which have occurred in Greece to the close of the fourth campaign of the Insurrection.

In regard to the Map, it may be right to mention, that the scale and general outline have been borrowed from the “Ancient Greece” of M. Barbié du Bocage, which, in the year 1811, accompanied a new edition of the “Jeune Anacharsis” of Barthelemy; but many corrections have been made in the details of that delineation, and the names have been inserted solely with a view to illustrate the present publication.