tani for the payment of their troops, are to be placed in the coffers of the government. This will enable them to pay and control the army, and to put the constitution in force. Eastern Greece has resolved to follow the measures adopted' by the Congress at Missolonghi, and Ulysses will support them. Thus our prospect brightens. Eastern and Western Greece are united in the work of improvement, and the people of the Morea are disgusted with the salt-monopoly and the disunion which prevails amongst the chiefs, and in their government. The expedition to Lepanto will certainly take place. Lord Byron, who is soldier-mad, will accompany it with his 500. The Suliots may, perhaps, creep into and take the fortress by surprise; or Parry may frighten them with the artillery and his fires into a surrender, or else it must be starved out. The garrison are tired of the constraint and privations which they are compelled to endure.

I beg of you to address all the societies which can be useful to Greece. The Bible Society can send them the scriptures in modern Greek; the School Societies, masters and books; the Agricultural Society, models and books; the Benevolent Society, money or information, &c. I think you should get some short elementary tracts on freedom, on publicity, on justice, and on agriculture, translated into modern Greek. The intelligence contained in them might then be spread through the medium of the newspapers.

The Dispensary is now established under charge of Dr. Millingen.

Dr. Tindall has just arrived from Athens. He says that every thing will be furnished for an hospital there by the

government, except medicines. He represents the executive and legislative bodies as in a passive state towards each other. Metaxa is still officiating in the executive. The country is in a quiet state; the police active and efficient; and the people remarkably civil to the English. Dr. T. presented a letter of recommen dation to the governor of Ægina and Salamis. He said he had rather he had come without one, as the name of an Englishman was quite sufficient.

The Moreots, Dr. T. says, are crying out for a king, but he must be a foreigner. Bernadotte is mentioned. Why not the Duke of Sussex?

Messrs. Hastings, Trelawny, Finlay, and Hesketh, are all at Athens. Mr. Hastings is highly spoken of by the executive body; you should appoint him your agent at Candia, and in the islands.

Dr. T. says that the chiefs will not allow a press to be established, as it would destroy their influence. They say it is premature. Nous verrons.

Bark and calomel are much required.

HEREWITH, enclosed, I send you the first number of the Greek Chronicle. Our motto is "The greatest good of the greatest number," and upon this principle the paper is to be conducted. The first article

contains the news; the second is the proclamation of the legislative body on the excesses committed by the generals of the executive. The last is Lord Byron's letter on conciliation. The assembly here is dissolved, and the Capitani and Primates are about to proceed to their respective stations. The great measure effected by the Congress is the reduction of the military establishment of each of the chiefs, and the obtaining their sanction for placing all the revenue in the coffers of the government. This will enable the government to put the constitution and the laws in force. Lord Byron has taken 500 Suliots into pay. He burns with military ardour and chivalry, and will proceed with the expedition to Lepanto. The Suliots have refused to quit Missolonghi till they are paid. The government, not having the means to pay them, have called upon the authorities in the city to make the necessary disbursements. All this will be arranged. The constitutional party are gaining ground in the Morea.

OUR courier, who is a German officer, has just returned with the Germans from the Morea. There remain of the whole corps only twenty-six persons, the rest have retired or are dead. Of those that remain few will be available. It is not, therefore, yet decided

whether they shall all be sent back to Germany, or whether the elect shall be retained as a skeleton, on which to form a corps of Greek artillery. The object of such a corps would be to breach and assault fortresses, to direct the rockets, to defend places, to work in the laboratory, &c. Our courier was searched by order of Colocotroni, but he concealed the letters. He was obliged to tear up Mavrocordato's passport, and to get another from the local authorities. The courier informs us that the legislative body is in force, and can count upon 3 or 4,000 men, and, in general, upon the great mass of the people. The courier was in the presence of the young Colocotroni, (the great Chief's nephew,) at Gastouni, when five soldiers entered the room, and demanded their pay and dismissal. He gave them their pay, but desired to know their reasons for leaving him. They would, for some time, assign no reason. At last, a noble Greek soldier stepped forward, and said, I will speak truth: the reason I quit your service is, that I will not serve against my countrymen. Parry has not arrived; he puts me in a fever. I am anxious to be with the legislative body; but till he arrives, I cannot move. The conduct of the Holy Alliance against the South American States makes me tremble for Greece. We have not a moment to lose. Pray send to Dr. Meyer matter for the Gazette, in Italian, German, or French. In all things connected with Greece consult those Anglo-Indians who understand the character of Asiatic nations. It is thus that I find myself quite at home in Greece.

Yours, &c.

L. S.

My dear B.

LETTER XXVI.

TO THE SAME.

Missolonghi, 7th Jan. 1824.

GREECE is big with events; every day we receive some important intelligence, and our time passes away in a perpetual crisis. Since the attack made upon the legislative body at Argos, and the attempt made to rob them of their archives, two proclamations have been issued by the executive. The first of these contained a defence of their conduct, but expressed no regret for what had happened; and the second called on the representatives of the nation to send deputies to confer with them, and to settle their differences. The legislative body, finding, however, that, under the mask of conciliation, the disorders went on increasing, resolved on changing the members of the executive in toto. Colocotroni had, some time back, sent in his resignation; but this he was wont to do when in a sullen mood; Metaxa had been dismissed for absenting himself from his duties, and the other three members were, I trust, tried and judged singly, and according to the language of the constitution. The newly chosen executive consists of Giorgio Conduriotti, the president; of Panioti Botesi, an admiral; of Jean Coletti, a clever but intriguing politician; and of Nicolo Londos, of Patras; the fifth member is not yet named. The islands approve these measures; and all here seem to entertain the same feeling. The general opinion is,

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