Rhode Island American And Providence Gazette

MISCELLANY.
From the Portsmouth Commercial Advertiser.

AMERICANS IN GREECE.
Mr. Evans has concluded in 17 numbers, his "Views of Greece."
The following extract is from the last number.
"With all the Americans in Greece, I am, more or less personally acquainted. They are Howe, Jarvis, Washington, Miller, and Allen.
Howe is a Bostonian I should think him twenty five years of age or more. He is of small stature, but of middling height, and if I mistake not, possesses talent and resolution.—
He is very usefully employed in Greece, and I presume will meet with much success. I have never known him to pretend to have gone to that country from disinterested motives. I believe his principal objects were to improve his health by living in a warmer climate than that of New England in winter, and to increase his knowledge of Surgery by an extensive practise.
Jarvis, I understood, was born in the United States, but, at any rate, has from early life, resided in Germany. He is of common stature or a little below the usual height and his age, I presume, upwards of thirty. Howe's description of him in one of his letters, is altogether finciful. The personal appearance of Jarvis is rather ordinary, and his mode of dress, &c. extremely so. He is a man of much native shrewdness, and in his habit truly a Greek. He has been in Greece about five years, and, I believe, displayed courage. He is very attentive and useful to Americans who arrive in that country.
Washington is, I learn, twenty two years of age, but has the appearance of thirty. He is a Virginian—a tall and elegant man, and possesses great and brilliant talents. It is not necessary that I should speak of him any further.
Miller, it is said, is from Vermont. He is about 35 or 40 years of age, rather below the common stature, and of ordinary personal appearance. He has native talents, but they have not been extensively improved, or well regulated. He possesses enthusiasm in that refinement and fondness for applause which arises from an erroneous estimate of himself. I am far from supposing that he does not possess courage; and were he still in military life, should expect him to display some degree of it. In Greece, however, he has exhibited nothing of the kind, worth mentioning.
Allen is from New York, and was formerly a midshipman in our navy. His age is, perhaps, twenty seven or twenty-eight, and he is a tolerably good looking man. He sailed on several cruises with Miaulis and other Greek commanders, and they became attached to him. With respect to this young man, I believe the trump of fame has never been sounded in the United States. But let every one have his due. Allen fought manfully—fought valiantly in several engagements with the Turkish fleet off Missolonghi, and was two or three times severely wounded. The first men in Greece, mention him with much applause. [Mr. Allen was lately in France and England.]