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1829, elegant rooms draped ar furnished for the king, queen, and
4.83. suite. The queen, on arriving et Athens, was so pleased wit!
her lodging on board, that she sent an artist to take a drawing
of her rooms. The vessel waited a couple of months 8t
Trieste and Venice, for the royal pair. After bringing thew
and their ministers, the Portland carvied back Count Arman®
perg to Malte.” ?
On the 21st of April Cobden arrived at Falmouth, after
an absence of six months, 7” must repeat here what I sail
at the beginning of these extracts, that the portions of hi¢
letters and journals which record the most energetic of bis
interests and his inquiries, ~re precisely those which are 1
longer worth reproducing, because the facts of commerce
and of politics, which formed the most serions object; of his
investigation, have undergone such a chan ge as to be hardly
more to our purpose than the year’s almanack. When we
come to the journals of ten years later, the reader will be
able to judge the spirit and method with which Cobden
travelled, and perhaps tc learn a lesson from him in the
objects’ of travel i-av "(Cobden could hardly have
spent & more profit» ": *" for he had laid up a great
stock of political ; “1, >nd acquired a certain living
familiarity with the ¢'r~>mstances of the eastern basin of the
Mediterranean anl ..« Terkisk Government—then as now
the centre cf our active diplomacy—and with the real
working cf t= =~ © * "lag of national policy which he had
already co 7 © 7* “native common sense and
reflection,