to interfere in public
affairs. 2ndly. Troops to the amount of four thousand, at least, are
required to enforce obedience to salutary laws and regulations. 3rdly.
Five hundred seamen from the northern nations of Europe or North America
are indispensable for the suppression of piracy and to prevent the
plunder of the islands. 4thly. Young Greek seamen should be employed by
the civilized nations in their vessels of war and commerce. 5thly. The
settlement of persons from all quarters of Europe, in numbers affording
mutual protection, should be encouraged. Of course education at home,
but more especially abroad, will improve the rising generation. For all
those people now at the age of maturity in Greece there is no hope of
amelioration. In regard to myself, I am ready, according to my
engagement, to render any service in my power to Greece, and I shall
feel great satisfaction if I am enabled to do so; but it is no part of
my contract to place myself under the control of lawless savages. What
might we not have done had the steam-vessels and five hundred good
seamen been employed in Greece, when, with these barbarians, we have
doubled the number of Greek national vessels of war, and destroyed twice
as many of the enemy's squadron? I hope the President Capodistrias will
not put his foot on shore in Greece, unless accompanied by a military
force. If he does, he will afford corroborative proof of the
impossibility of establishing a new order of things by the
instrumentality of men who feel interested in the continuance of ancient
habits and abuses."[12]

[12] See Appendix.

CHAPTER XXII.

LORD COCHRANE'S OCCUPATIONS ON BEHALF OF GREECE IN LONDON AND
PARIS.--HIS SECOND LETTER TO CAPODISTRIAS.--HIS DEFENCE OF HIMSELF WITH
REFERENCE TO HIS VISIT TO WESTERN EUROPE.--HIS RETURN TO
GREECE.--CAPODISTRIAS'S PRESIDENCY AND THE PROGRESS OF GREECE.--LORD
COCHRANE'S RECEPTION BY THE GOVERNMENT.--THE SETTLEMENT OF HIS
ACCOUNTS.--HIS LETTER OF RESIGNATION.--THE FINAL INDIGNITIES TO WHICH HE
WAS SUBJECTED.--THE CORRESPONDENCE THEREUPON BETWEEN ADMIRAL HEYDEN AND
DR. GOSSE.--LORD COCHRANE'S DEPARTURE FROM GREECE.--HIS OPINIONS
REGARDING HER.--THE CHARACTER AND ISSUES OF HIS SERVICES TO THE GREEKS.

[1828-1829.]

Lord Cochrane's absence from Greece was longer and less advantageous
than he anticipated. Arriving in London on the 19th of February, 1828,
he found that the English Philhellenes were tired out by the bad faith
and th