all those conquests were just then
being finally abrogated. The full effects of the battle of Navarino were
now appearing. Ibrahim Pasha, having deported many of his troops to
Alexandria, chiefly because there was not food enough to be found for
them in the Morea, had refused to surrender his authority or to abandon
any of the numerous fortresses of which he was master. The President,
with Sir Richard Church and the worn-out refuse of the so-called army
for his only support, could do nothing to expel him; but he gladly
accepted the proffered aid of France. In compliance with a protocol
signed on the 19th of July, fourteen thousand soldiers, under General
Maison, had landed at Petilidi, on the 30th of August, and within a week
Ibrahim had been forced to sign a convention pledging himself to prompt
evacuation of the peninsula. Half of the residue of his army quitted
Navarino on the 16th of September; the rest was preparing to depart at
the time of Lord Cochrane's arrival, and actually started on the 5th of
October. The ensuing weeks were worthily employed by the French army in
clearing out the pestilential garrisons and making it possible for
wholesome rule to succeed to the seven weary years of strife.

Thus the primary work which Lord Cochrane had been engaged to do, and
which he vainly strove to do under the miserable circumstances of his
position, had been effected by others. The Ottoman fleets had been
dispersed and destroyed, and, as far as they were concerned, Greece was
free at last. There was work yet to be done, troublesome but most
important work, in converting the disorderly and piratical vessels and
crews which constituted the navy of Greece into an efficient agent for
protecting the State and extending its boundaries. This, in spite of all
his previous annoyances, Lord Cochrane was prepared to do, if the Greeks
were willing. But they did not will it. Capodistrias had laid his plans
for governing Greece, and for their performance he had no need of a
foreigner as wise and honest as Lord Cochrane. The plans were not
altogether reprehensible. At starting they were perhaps the best that
could be adopted. The new President--the President whom Lord Cochrane
had nominated as the likeliest man to beat down the factions and
override the jealousies that had hitherto wrought such grievous mischief
to Greece--began by acting up to the anticipations which had induced his
selection. Schooled in Italy and Russia, he practis