This imprudent attack on Greece lays the despatch open to reply; for though Lord Palmerston is proved to be wrong when he says that no island, except those expressly enumerated in the protocol of 3d February 1830, can belong to Greece, he is right in maintaining that the legislative act of the Ionian republic in 1804 cannot advance a claim to any island not enumerated in it. Now only one island of Cervi is mentioned in that act, and that island will be found laid down on the west side of Cerigo, with the Greek name of Elaphonisi, which is identical with the Italian name Cervi, in the map of Greece published by Arrowsmith, which we believe was the one used at the conference on the 3d February 1830. It corresponds in size, form, and value, with the island of Dragonera, situated on the east side of Cerigo, which is enumerated immediately before it in the legislative act of 1804. The island of Cervi on the coast of Greece does not, therefore, belong to the Ionian republic. THE MODERN ARGONAUTS. I. You have heard the ancient story, How the gallant sons of Greece, Long ago, with Jason ventured For the fated Golden Fleece; How they traversed distant regions, How they trod on hostile shores; How they vexed the hoary Ocean With the smiting of their oars;— Listen, then, and you shall hear another wondrous tale, Of a second Argo steering before a prosperous gale! II. From the southward came a rumour, Over sea and over land; From the blue Ionian islands, And the old Hellenic strand; That the sons of Agamemnon, To their faith no longer true, Had confiscated the carpets Of a black and bearded Jew! Helen’s rape, compared to this, was but an idle toy, Deeper guilt was that of Athens than the crime of haughty Troy. III. And the rumour, winged by Ate, To the lofty chamber ran, Where great Palmerston was sitting In the midst of his Divan: Like Saturnius triumphant, In his high Olympian hall, Unregarded by the mighty, But detested by the small; Overturning constitutions—setting nations by the ears, With divers sapient plenipos, like Minto and his peers. IV.