sur eux, ' upon themselves

1. 9. Chios. In April, 1822, Kara-Ali came with his fleet to reduce to submission the isle of Chios, which had recently declared in favour of Greece. That pleasant and happy land was steeped in blood, 23,000 of its inhabitants were slain, and 4 7,000 sold as slaves.

1. 11. Psara tremblante eût Jlechi sous son maître. Psara would have yielded if it had known of the fate of Chios.

1. 31. Du Christ lui-même allons souiller le temple. One of the first acts of the Mussulmans after taking a Christian town was invariably to plunder and destroy the churches.

1. 37. Stamboul. The Turkish name for Constantinople ; really a corruption of the words eis- rfjv 7to\iv which the Turks took for the name of the town itself.

1. 43. La flotte hellène a surpris le rivage. The fleets of Kara-Ali and of Ibrahim had joined forces at Halicarnassus in September, but they were unable to accomplish anything against the Greek admiral Miaoulis, who retook Psara before the end of the year.

1. 45. Soyez unis, ô Grecs ! Since its early successes against the Turks in 1822, Greece had been torn asunder by a suicidal strife between the representatives of Morea, those of the Islands, and those of Rumelia. Unity was only restored after the incarceration of Kolokotronis at Hydra in 1825.

L'In-octavo et l'In-trente-deux. (Page 87.)

This song was written as a Preface to the 8vo edition of 1828. Béranger's Chansons had hitherto been published by Baudouin in small blue-covered 321110 volumes measuring about 4^ in. by 2f in. In 1828 the Chansons appeared in three editions: 321T10, i8mo, and Svo.