connexions. For my own pa. I am violent, but not meant to send up a certain quantity of the wo latter malignant; for only fresh provocations can awaken my-no great deal-but enough for an individus. to show resentments. To you, who are colder and more concen-his good wishes for the Greek success; but am pausing, trated, I would just hint, that you may sometimes mistake because, in case I should go myself, I can take them with the depth of a cold anger for dignity, and a worse feeling me. I do not want to limit my own contribution to this for duty. I assure you that I bear you now (whatever I merely, but more especially, if I can get to Greece mymay have done) no resentment whatever. Remember, self, I should devote whatever resources I can muster of that if you have injured me in aught, this forgiveness is my own, to advancing the great object. I am in corresomething; and that, if I have injured you, it is something spondence with Signor Nicolas Karrellas, (well known to more still, if it be true, as the moralists say, that the most Mr. Hobhouse,) who is now at Pisa; but his latest adoffen ling are the least forgiving. vice merely stated, that the Greeks are at present employed in organizing their internal government, and the details of its administration; this would seem to indicate security, but the war is however far from being terminated. "Whether the offence has been solely on my side, or reciprocal, or on yours chiefly, I have ceased to reflect upon any but two things,-viz. that you are the mother of my child, and that we shall never meet again. I think if you also consider the two corresponding points with reference to myself, it will be better for all three. "Yours ever, "NOEL BYRON." LETTER DLXXXVIII. TO MR. BLAQUIERE. "Albaro, April 5, 1823. "The Turks are an obstinate race, as all former wars have proved them, and will return to the charge for years to come, even if beaten, as it is to be hoped they will be. But in no case can the labours of the Committee be said to be in vain, for in the event even of the Greeks being subdued and dispersed, the funds which could be employed in succouring and gathering together the remnant, so as to alleviate in part their distresses, and enable them to find or make a country, (as so many emigrants of other nations have been compelled to do,) would bless 'both those who gave and those who took,' as the bounty both of justice and of mercy. DEAR SIR, "I shall be delighted to see you and your Greek friend; "With regard to the formation of a brigade, (which Mr and the sooner the better. I have been expecting you Hobhouse hints at in his short letter of this day's receipt, for some time, you will find me at home. I cannot ex- enclosing the one to which I have the honour to reply,) press to you how much I feel interested in the cause; I would presume to suggest-but merely as an opinion, and nothing but the hopes I entertained of witnessing the resulting rather from the melancholy experience of the beration of Italy itself, prevented me long ago from re-brigades embarked in the Columbian service, than from turning to do what little I could, as an individual, in that any experiment yet fairly tried in GREECE-that the atland which it is an honour even to have visited. tention of the Committee had better perhaps be directed "Ever yours, truly, to the employment of officers of experience than 'he enrol"NOEL BYRON." ment of raw British soldiers, which latter are apt to be unruly, and not very serviceable, in irregular warfare, by the side of foreigners. A small body of good officers especially artillery; an engineer, with quantity (such as the Committee might deem requisite) of stores, of the nature which Captain Blaquiere indicated as most wanted would, I should conceive, be a highly useful accession. Officers, also, who had previously served in the Mediterranean, would be preferable, as some knowledge of Italian is nearly indispensable. ་་ SIR, LETTER DLXXXIX. TO MR. BOWRING. "Genoa, May 12, 1823. "I have great pleasure in acknowledging your letter, and the honour which the Committee have done me ;-I "It would also be as well that they should be aware shall endeavour to deserve their confidence by every that they are not going to rough it on a beef-steak and means in my power. My first wish is to go up into the bottle of port-but that Greece-never, of late years, Levant in person, where I might be enabled to advance, very plentifully stocked for a mess-is at present the if not the cause, at least the means of obtaining informa- country of all kinds of privations. This remark may seem tion which the Committee might be desirous of acting superfluous; but I have been led to it, by observing that upon; and my former residence in the country, my fami- many foreign officers, Italian, French, and even Germans, liarity with the Italian language, (which is there univer- (but fewer of the latter,) have returned in disgust, imagin sally spoken, or at least to the same extent as French in ing either that they were going up to make a party of the more polished parts of the continent,) and my not total pleasure, or to enjoy full pay, speedy promotion, and a ignorance of the Romaic, would afford me some advan- very moderate degree of duty. They complain, too, of lages of experience. To this project the only objection having been ill received by the Government or inhabiIs of a domestic nature, and I shall try to get over it; tants; but numbers of these complaints were mere adven if I fail in this, I must do what I can where I am; but it turers, attracted by a hope of command and plunder, and will be always a source of regret to me, to think that I disappointed of both. Those Greeks I have seen stremight perhaps have done more for the cause on the spot.nuously deny the charge of inhospitality, and declare that "Our last information of Captain Blaquiere is from they shared their pittance to the last crumb with their Ancona, where he embarked with a fair wind for Corfu, foreign volunteers. on the 15th ult.; he is now probably at his destination. My last letter from him personally was dated Rome; he had been refused a passport through the Neapolitan territory, and returned to strike up through Romagna for Ancona: little time, however, appears to have been lost by the delay. "I need not suggest to the Committee the very grea advantage which must accrue to Great Britain from the success of the Greeks, and their probable commercial relations with England in consequence; because I feel persuaded that the first object of the Committee is their EMANCIPATION, without any interested views. But the "The principal material wanted by the Greeks appears consideration might weigh with the English people in to be, first, a park of field artillery-light, and fit for moun- general, in their present passion for every kind of specu tain-service; secondly, gunpowder; thirdly, hospital or lation,-they need not cross the American ses, for one medical stores. The readiest mode of transmission is, I much better worth their while, and nearer home. The hear, by Idra, addressed to Mr. Negri, the minister. resources, even for an emigrant population in the Greek island alone, are rarely to be paralleled; and the cheap-number, opposed to about six or seven thousand; only ness of every kind, of not only necessary, but luxury, (that eight escaped, and of them about three only survived; so is to say, luxury of nature,) fruits, wine, oil, &c. in a state that General Normann 'posted his ragamuffins where of peace, are far beyond those of the Cape, and Van Die- they were well peppered-not three of the hundred and man's Land, and the other places of refuge, which the fifty left alive-and they are for the town's end for life.' English population are searching for over the waters. "I beg that the Committee will command me in any and every way. If I am favoured with any instructions, I shall endeavour to obey them to the letter, whether conformable to my own private opinion or not. I beg leave to add, personally, my respect for the gentleman whom I have the honou of addressing, "These two left Greece by the direction of the Greeks. When Churschid Pacha overrun the Morea, the Greeks seem to have behaved well, in wishing to save their allies, when they thought that the game was up with themselves. This was in September last, (1822:) they wandered from island to island, and got from Milo to Smyrna, where the French consul gave them a passport, and a charitable "And am, sir, your obliged, &c. captain a passage to Ancona, whence they got to Trieste, "P.S. The best refutation of Geli will be the active and were turned back by the Austrians. They complain exertions of the Committee;-I am too warm a contro- only of the minister, (who has always been an indifferent versialist; and I suspect that if Mr. Hobhouse have taken character;) say that the Greeks fight very well in their him in hand, there will be little occasion for me to 'en-own way, but were at first afraid to fire their own cannon cumber him with help.' If I go up into the country, I—but mended with practice. will endeavour to transmit as accurate and impartial an account as circumstances will permit. "I shall write to Mr. Karrellas. I expect intelligence from Captain Blaquiere, who has promised me some early intimation from the seat of the Provisional Government. I gave him a letter of introduction to Lord Sidney Osborne, a: Corfu; but as Lord S. is in the government service, of course his reception could only be a cautious one." "SIR, LETTER DXC. TO MR. BOWRING. "Genoa, May 21, 1823. "Adolphe (the younger) commanded at Navarino for a short time; the other, a more material person, 'the bold Bavarian in a luckless hour,' seems cinetly to lament a fast of three days at Argos, and the loss of twenty-five paras a day of pay in arrear, and some baggage at Tripolitza: but takes his wounds, and marches, and battles in very good part. Both are very simple, full of naïveté, and quite unpretending: they say the foreigners quarrelled among themselves, particularly the French with the Germans, which produced duels. "The Greeks accept muskets, but throw away bayonets, and will not be disciplined. When these lads saw two Piedmontese regiments yesterday, they said, 'Ah, if we had had but these two, we should have cleared the Morea: in that case the Piedmontese must have behaved better than they did against the Austrians. They seem to lay "I received yesterday the letter of the Committee, great stress upon a few regular troops say that the dated the 14th of March. What has occasioned the de- Greeks have arms and powder in plenty, but want lay, I know not. It was forwarded by Mr. Galignani, victuals, hospital stores, and lint and linen, &c. and from Paris, who stated that he had only had it in his money, very much. Altogether, it would be difficult to charge four days, and that it was delivered to him by a show more practical philosophy than this remnant of our Mr. Grattan. I need hardly say that I gladly accede topuir hill folk' have done; they do not seem the least cast the proposition of the Committee, and hold myself highly honoured by being deemed worthy to be a member. I have also to return my thanks, particularly to yourself, for the accompanying letter, which is extremely flattering. "Since I last wrote to you, through the medium of Mr. Hobhouse, I have received and forwarded a letter from Captain Blaquiere to me, from Corfu, which will show now he gets on. Yesterday I fell in with two young "P.S. I have, since I wrote this, seen them again. Germans, survivors of General Normann's band. They Count P. Gamba asked them to breakfast. One of them arrived at Genoa in the most deplorable state-without means to publish his Journal of the campaign. The food-without a sou-without shoes. The Austrians Bavarian wonders a little that the Greeks are not quite had sent them out of their territory on their landing at the same with them of the time of Themistocles, (they Trieste: and they had been forced to come down to Flo-were not then very tractable, by-the-by,) and at the diffirence, and had travelled from Leghorn here, with four culty of disciplining them; but he is a 'bon homme' and a Tuscan livres (about three francs) in their pockets. Itacticia, and a little like Dugald Dalgetty, who would have given them twenty Genoese scudi, (about a hundred insist upon the erection of 'a sconce on the hill of Drumand thirty-three livres, French money,) and new shoes, snab,' or whatever it was ;-the other seems to wonder at which will enable them to get to Switzerland, where they nothing." say that they have friends. All that they could raise in Genoa, besides, was thirty sous. They do not complain of the Greeks, but say that they have suffered more since their landing in Italy. down, and their way of presenting themselves was as LETTER DXCI. TO MR. CHURCH, "Genoa, May, 1823. The accounts are so contradictory, as to what inode "I tried their veracity, Istly, by their passports and papers; 2dly, by topography, cross-questioning them about Arta, Argos, Athens, Missolonghi, Corinth, &c.; and, 3dly, in Romaic, of which I found (one of them at least) knew more than I do. One of them (they are both of will be best for supplying the Greeks, that I have deemed good families) is a fine, handsome young fellow of three-it better to take up, (with the exception of a few supplies,) and-twenty-a Wirtembergher, and has a look of Sandt what cash and credit I can muster, rather than lay ther about him-the other a Bavarian, older, and flat-faced, and out in articles that might be deemed superfluous or unneless ideal, but a great, sturdy, soldier-like personage. The Wirtembergher was in the action at Arta, where the Philhellenists were cut to pieces after killing six hundred Turks, they themselves being only a hundred and fifty in cessary. Here we can learn nothing but from some of the refugees, who appear chiefly interested for themselves. My accounts from an agent of the Committee, an English gentleman lately gone up to Greece, are hitherto favour able, but he had not yet reached the seat of the Provi- tions which some persons now in Greece on a private sional Government, and I am anxiously expecting further advice. "An American has a better right than any other, to suggest to other nations the mode of obtaining that liberty which is the glory of his own." ❝SIR, LETTER DXCII. TO M. H. BEYLE, "Genoa, May 29, 1823. a mission may be pleased to send me. I am a member, lately elected, of the said Committee; and my object in going up would be to do any little good in my power; but as there some pros and cons on the subject, with regard to how far the intervention of strangers may be advisable, I know no more than I tell you; but we shall probably hear something soon from England and Greece, which may be more decisive. "With regard to the late person (Lord Londonderry) whom you hear that I have attacked, I can only say that a bad minister's memory is as much an object of investigation as his conduct while alive,-for his measures do not die with him like a private individual's notions. He is matter of history; and, wherever I find a tyrant or a At present, that I know to whom I am indebted for villain, I will mark him. I attacked him no more than I very flattering mention in the 'Rome Naples, and Flo- had been wont to do. As to the Liberal,—it was a pubrence, in 1817, by Mons. Stendhal,' it is fit that I should lication set up for the advantage of a persecuted author return my thanks (however undersired or undesirable) to and a very worthy man But it was foolish in me to Mons. Beyle, with whom I had the honour of being ac- engage in it; and so it has turned out-for I have hurt quainted at Milan in 1816. You only did me too much myself without doing much good to those for whose benehonour in what you were pleased to say in that work; fit it was intended. but it has hardly given me iess pleasure than the praise "Do not defend me-it will never do-you will only itself, to become at length aware (which I have done by make yourself enemies. mere accident) that I am indebted for it to one of whose "Mine are neither to be diminished nor softened, hut good opinion I was really ambitious. So many changes they may be overthrown; and there are events which have taken place since that period in the Milan circle, may occur less improbable than those which have hap that I hardly dare recur to it ;—some dead, some banish-pened in our time, that may reverse the present state of ed, and some in the Austrian dungeons. Poor Pellico! things-nous verrons. * * * I trust that, in his iron solitude, his Muse is consoling "I send you this gossip that you may laugh at it him in part-one day to delight us again, when both she which is all it is good for, if it is even good for so much. and her poet are restored to freedom. I shall be delighted to see you again; but it will be melan choly, should it be only for a moment. "Ever yours, "Of your works I have only seen 'Rome, &c.' the Lives of Haydn and Mozart, and the brochure on Racine and Shakspeare. The 'Histoire de la Peinture,' I have not yet the good fortune to possess. LETTER DXCIV. "N. B." TO THE COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON. "Albaro, June 2, 1823. "There is one part of your observations in the pamphlet which I shall venture to remark upon; it regards Waiter Scott. You say that 'his charactor is little worthy of enthusiasm,' at the same time that you mention his productions in the manner they deserve. I have known Walter Scott long and well, and in occasional situations which call forth the real character-and I can assure you, that his character is worthy of admiration;-that of all "MY DEAR LADY B ** men he is the most open, the most honourable, the most "I am superstitious, and have recollected that memorials amiable. With his politics, I have nothing to do; they with a point are of less fortunate augury: I will, therediffer from mine, which renders it difficult for me to speak fore, request you to accept, instead of the pin,* the enclosed of them. But he is perfectly sincere in them; and sin-chain, which is of so slight a value that you need not cerity may be humble, but she cannot be servile. I pray hesitate. As you wished for something worn, I can only you, therefore, to correct or soften that passage. You say, that it has been worn oftener and longer than the may, perhaps, attribute this officiousness of mine to a other. It is of Venetian manufacture; and the only false affectation of candour, as I happen to be a writer peculiarity about it is, that it could only be obtained at, or also. Attribute it to what motive you please, but believe from, Venice. At Genoa they have none of the same the truth. I say that Walter Scott is as nearly a thorough kind. I also enclose a ring, which I would wish Alfred good man as man can be, because I know it by experience to keep; it is too large to wear; but is formed of lava to be the case. "If you do me the honour of an answer, may I request a speedy one? because it is possible (though not yet decided) that circumstances may conduct me once more to Greece. My present address is Genoa, where an answer will reach me in a short time, or be forwarded to me wherever I may be. and so far adapted to the fire of his years and character. You will perhaps have the goodness to acknowledge the receipt of this note, and send back the pin, (for good luck's sake,) which I shall value much more for having been a night in your custody. "Ever and faithfully your obliged, &c. "P.S. I hope your nerves are well to-day, and will con "I beg you to believe me, with a lively recollection tinue to flourish." "Your ever obliged, LETTER DXCV. LETTER DXCIII. TO LADY ** TO MR. BOWRING. "July 7, 1823. "We sail on the 12th for Greece.-I have had a letter from Mr. Blaquiere, too long for present transcription May 17, 1823. "My voyage to Greece will depend upon the Greek He had previously presented her with a breastpin containing a Committee (in England) partly, and partly on the instruc-small cameo of Napoleon. but very satisfactory. The Greek governmen! expects Weimar, to offer the sincere homage of one of the many me without delay. millions of your admirers. I have the honour to be, ever and most, "Your obliged, "NOEL BYRON." "In conformity to the desires of Mr. B. and other correspondents in Greece, I have to suggest, with all deference to the Committee, that a remittance of even 'ten thousand pounds only' (Mr. B.'s expression) would be of the greatest service to the Greek Government at present. I have also to recommend strongly the attempt of a loan, for which there will be offered a sufficient security by deputies now on their way to England. In the mean time, I hope that the Committee will be enabled to do something effectual. "For my own part, I mean to carry up, in cash or credits, above eight, and nearly nine thousand pounds sterling, which I am enabled to do by funds I have in Italy, and credits in England. Of this sum I must necessarily reserve a portion for the subsistence of myself and suite; the rest I am willing to apply in the manner which seems most likely to be useful to the cause-having, of course, some guarantee or assurance, that it will not be misapplied to any individual speculation. "We are still in Cephalonia, waiting for news of a more accurate description; for all is contradiction and division in the reports of the state of the Greeks. I shall fulfil the object of my mission from the Committee. and then return into Italy. For it does not seem likely no other foreigner has yet appeared to be so, nor does it that, as an individual, I can be of use to them;-at least seem likely that any will be at present. "Pray be as cheerful and tranquil as you can; and be assured that there is nothing here that can excite any thing but a wish to be with you again, though we are very kindly treated by the English here of all descriptions. Of the Greeks, I ca n't say much good hitherto, and I do not like to speak ill of them, though they do of "October 29. "If I remain in Greece, which will mainly depend upon the presumed probable utility of my presence there, and of the opinion of the Greeks themselves as to its propriety-in short, if I am welcome to them, I shall continue, during my residence at least, to apply such portions of my income, present and future, as may forward the object -that is to say, what I can spare for that purpose. Privations I can, or at least could once, bear-abstinence I am accustomed to-and, as to fatigue, I was once a tolerable traveller. What I may be now, I cannot tell-but I will try. "You may be sure that the moment I can join you "I await the commands of the Committee.-Address again will be as welcome to me as at any period of our o Genoa-the letters will be forwarded to me, wherever recollection. There is nothing very attractive here to I may be, by my bankers, Messrs. Webb and Barry. It would have given me pleasure to have had some more defined instructions before I went, but these, of course, rest at the option of the Committee. "I have the honour to be "Your obedient, &c. "P. S. Great anxiety is expressed for a printing press and types, &c. I have not the time to provide them, but recommend this to the notice of the Committee. I presume the types must, partly at least, be Greek: they wish to publish papers, and perhaps a Journal, probably in Romaic with Italian translations." one another." divide my attention; but I must attend to the Greek cause, both from honour and inclination. Messrs. B. and T. are both in the Morea, where they have been very well received, and both of them write in good spirits and hopes. I am anxious to hear how the Spanish cause will be arranged, as I think it may have an influence on the Greek contest. I wish that both were fairly and favourably settled, that I might return to Italy, and talk over with you our, or rather Pietro's, adventures, some of which are rather amusing, as also some of the incidents of our voyages and travels. But I reserve them, in the hope that we may laugh over them together at no very distant period." "I cannot thank you as you ought to be thanked for the ❝9bre 29, 1823. ines which my young friend, Mr. Sterling, sent me of "This letter will be presented to you by Mr. Hamilton yours; and it would but ill become me to pretend to Browne, who precedes or accompanies the Greek depuexchange verses with him who, for fifty years, has been ties. He is both capable and desirous of rendering any the undisputed sovereign of European literature. You service to the cause, and information to the Committee. must therefore accept my most sincere acknowledgments He has already been of considerable advantage to both, in prose-and in hasty prose too; for I am at present on of my own knowledge. Lord Archibald Hamilton, to my voyage to Greece once more, and surrounded by hurry whom he is related, will add a weightier recommendation and bustle, which hardly allow a moment even to grati- than mine. tude and admiration to express themselves. "I sailed from Genoa some days ago, was driven back by a gale of wind, and have since sailed again and arrived here, 'Leghorn,' this morning, to receive on board some Greek passengers for their struggling country. "Here also I found your lines and Mr. Sterling's letter, and I could not have had a more favourable omen, a more agreeable surprise, than a word of Goëthe written by his own hand. "I am returning to Greece, to see if I can be of any little use there: if ever I come back, I will pay a visit to "Corinth is taken, and a Turkish squadron said to be beaten in the Archipelago. The public progress of the Greeks is considerable, but their internal dissensions stil continue. On arriving at the seat of Government, I shall endeavour to mitigate or extinguish them--though neither is an easy task. I have remained here till now, partly in expectation of the squadron in relief of Missolonghi, partly of Mr. Parry's detachment, and partly to receive from Malta or Zante the sum of four thousand pounds sterling, which I have advanced for the payment of the expected squadron. The bills are negotiating, and will te cashed in a short time, as they would have been imme-of Greece, and nothing else; I will do al. I can to secure 't; diately in any other mart; but the miserable Ionian but I cannot consent, I never will consent, that the Ergmerchants have little money, and no great credit, and are lish public, or English individuals, should be deceived as besides, politically shy on this occasion; for, although I to the real state of Greek affairs. The rest, gentlemen had letters of Messrs. Webb, (one of the strongest depends on you. You have fought gloriously;-a houses of the Mediterranean,) and also of Messrs. Ran-honourably towards your feilow-citizens and the wor som, there is no business to be done on fair terms except and it will then no more be said, as has been repeated for through English merchants. These, however, have two thousand years with the Roman historians that Phiproved both able and willing,-and upright, as usual. lopomen was the last of the Grecians. Let not calumny "Colonel Stanhope has arrived, and will proceed imme- itself (and it is difficult, I own, to guard against it in so diately; he shall have my co-operation in all his endea- arduous a struggle) compare the patriot Greek, when vours; but from every thing that I can learn, the forma-resting from his labours, to the Turkish pacha, whom his ion of a brigade at present will be extremely difficult, to victories have exterminated. say the least of it. With regard to the reception of foreigners, at least of foreign officers,-I refer you to a passage in Prince Mavrocordato's recent letter, a copy of which is enclosed in my packet sent to the Deputies. It is my intention to proceed by sea to Napoli di Romania as soon as I have arranged this business for the Greeks themselves-I mean the advance of two hundred thousand piastres for their fleet. "I pray you to accept these my sentiments as a sincere proof of my attachment to your real interests, and to believe that I am, and always shall be, "Yours &c." PRINCE, LETTER DXCIX. TO PRINCE MAVROCORDATO. "Cephalonia, 2, Dec. 1823. Stanhope, son of Major General the Earl of Harrington, "The present will be put into your hands by Colonel &c. &c. He has arrived from London in fifty days, after having visited all the Committees of Germany. He is "My time here has not been entirely lost,—as you will perceive by some former documents that any advantage from my then proceeding to the Morea was doubtful. We have at last moved the Deputies, and I have made a strong remonstrance on their divisions to Mavrocordato, which, I understand, was forwarded by the legislative to the Prince. With a loan they may do much, which is all that I, for particular reasons, can say on the subject. "I regret to hear from Colonel Stanhope that the Com-charged by our Committee to act in concert with me for the liberation of Greece. I conceive that his name and mittee have exhausted their funds. Is it supposed that a his mission will be a sufficient recommendation, without brigade can be formed without them? or that three thou- the necessity of any other from a foreigner, although one sand pounds would be sufficient? It is true that money will go farther in Greece than in most countries; but the who, in common with all Europe, respects and admires regular force must be rendered a national concern, and paid the courage, the talents, and above all, the probity of Prince Mavrocordato. from a national fund; and neither individuals nor committees, at least with the usual means of such as now exist, will find the experiment practicable. "I beg once more to recommend my friend, Mr. Hamilton Browne, to whom I have also personal obliga tions for his exertions in the common cause, and have the honour to be "Yours very truly.” LETTER DXCVIII. TO THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT OF GREECE. "Cephalonia, November 30, 1823. Greece still continue, and at a moment when she might three measures: either to reconquer her liberty, to become "N. B. "The affair of the loan, the expectation so long and vainly indulged of the arrival of the Greek fleet, and the "P. S. Your Highness will already have known that I danger to which Missolonghi is still exposed, have have sought to fulfil the wishes of the Greek Governdetained me here, and will still detain me till some of them ment, as much as it lay in my power to do so: but I should are removed. But when the money shall be advanced wish that the fleet so long and so vainly expected were for the fleet, I will start for the Morea, not knowing, how-arrived, or, at least, that it were on the way; and espe→ ever, of what use my presence can be in the present state cially that your Highness should approach these parts of things. We have heard some rumours of new dis-either on board the fleet, with a public mission, or in some sensions, nay, of the existence of a civil war. With all other manner. my heart, I pray that these reports may be false or exaggerated; for I can imagine no calamity more serious than this; and I must frankly confess, that unless union and order are established, all hopes of a loan will be vain; and all the assistance which the Greeks could expect from abroad-an assistance neither trifling nor worthless -will be suspended or destroyed; and, what is worse, the great powers of Europe, of whom no one was an enemy to Greece, but seemed to favour her establishment of an independent power, will be persuaded that the Greeks are unable to govern themselves, and will, perhaps, themselves undertake to settle your disorders in such a way as to blast the brightest hopes of yourselves and of your friends. "Allow me to add, once for all,-I desire the well-being LETTER DC. TO MR. BOWRING. *10bre 7, 1823. "I confirm the above;* it is certainly my opinion that Mr. Millingen is entitled to the same salary with Mr. Tindall, and his service is likely to be harder. Hu here alludes to a letter, forwarded with his own, from Mr. MilPatras, and requested of the Committee an increase of pay. This gen lingen, who was about to join, in his medical capacity, the Sulioten, neni tleman having mentioned in his letter "trai the retrea of the Turks frora fleet," Lord Byron, in a note on this passage, says," By the special pre before Missolonghi had rendered unnecessary the appearance of the tireek |