Disappointed in my most ardent desires, I had re turned from Greece, mourning as an enthusiastic youth is apt to mourn when his fondest hopes are first nipped by cold reality. It was at this period that Mr. Niebuhr, who had known neither my fa mily nor anything of myself, received me as the kindest friend. He said to me, in language which has sunk deep into my heart, DO not be dis couraged: come to me, and recover yourself in my house. On another occasion, when he found that I had given up a plan Of Visiting the Vatican in company with several friends, in order to finish something which he had wished me to do, he said.