rs, chiefly
occupied in the improvement of the property. During the war he had
made some L16,000 out of prize-money, part of which was spent in
building the present mansion-house, overlooking the beautiful Loch of
Lindores. In the spring of 1826 he visited London to arrange for the
publication of the _Narrative_, which, after some fruitless
negotiations with John Murray, was accepted by Colburn on satisfactory
terms.

On February 13, 1827, Maitland was appointed to the _Wellesley_, 74.
In December 1826, Mr Canning, in response to an appeal from the
Portuguese Regency, had sent English troops to Lisbon to protect the
Government of Portugal against the threatened attack of Spain.
Maitland was ordered to Lisbon, and the _Wellesley_ spent the autumn
and winter of 1827 in the Tagus. After a spring cruise up the
Mediterranean, she returned to England in May 1828. On June 26 she
again sailed for the Mediterranean, carrying the flag of Admiral Sir
Pulteney Malcolm, who was then going out to succeed Sir Edward
Codrington in command of the Mediterranean station. On August 24 she
joined the squadron under Codrington at Navarino.

Maitland remained in Greek waters for the next two years. The tragic
drama of the Greek Revolution, after seven years of horrors, had now
reached its final act. By the Treaty of London, in July 1827, England,
Russia, and France had undertaken to put an end to the conflict in the
East, and to establish the autonomy of Greece. In the following
October the battle of Navarino had been fought, and the Turkish fleet
destroyed. Ibrahim Pasha still held the fortresses of the Morea, which
he was shortly to evacuate under the pressure of a French army corps.
In April 1828 war had broken out between Turkey and Russia.

Desultory fighting was still going on in Crete, which had been utterly
devastated by years of barbarous warfare. In October the _Wellesley_
went to Suda Bay, and most of the winter was spent by Maitland on the
coast of Crete, endeavouring to bring about an armistice, and
superintending the blockade which the Powers had established in order
to prevent military supplies from reaching the Turks in the island.
The blockade was raised early in 1829; and during the following months
Maitland visited nearly every point of interest on the Greek coast and
in the Greek islands, as well as Sicily, the coast of Asia Minor, and
Constantinople. Like most Englishmen who have served in the Levant, he
developed a c