onsiderable respect for the Turk, and a quite unbounded
contempt for the Greek. After the armistice negotiations in Crete he
writes: "I found the conduct of the Turkish chiefs throughout manly,
straightforward, and sincere, while that of their opponents was very
much the reverse;" and in another place he writes of the Greeks that
"a more perfidious, ferocious, and cruel race does not exist."
Needless to say he did not think much of "our pretty Greek Committee."

In the summer of 1830 the _Wellesley_ returned to England. Maitland
attained his flag on July 22, 1830. At the reconstruction of the Order
of the Bath in 1815 he had been made a C.B.; on November 17, 1830, he
was advanced to be a K.C.B. In 1835 he received the Greek Order of the
Redeemer.

During his South American and Mediterranean cruises Maitland kept a
very full and interesting private journal. It reveals him to us as a
man of immense mental activity and power of observation, hard humorous
common-sense, and an almost Pepysian interest in all the doings of
mankind. Politics, archaeology, cricket, theatricals, scandal, the
terms of a treaty, the _menu_ of a good dinner, the armament of a
foreign frigate, the toilette of a pretty woman,--everything interests
him, and is observed, remembered, and noted in his diary. A few
extracts have been given; within the limits of this sketch they cannot
be multiplied. His account of the slave-market at Constantinople may
serve as a specimen of his power of picturesque description.

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_October 12, 1829._--... We then crossed the harbour, and went to the
slave-market. It is held in a small square, with some houses in the
middle, and on two sides of the square are small rooms, where the
slaves for sale are kept until their turn comes to be put up.
Adjoining the doors of these rooms or cells are raised platforms of
wood on which a number of black women and girls were sitting; and I
saw a few white ones inside. Outside these platforms are others, where
the purchasers or those intending to purchase slaves were placed; and
between the two platforms there is a passage three or four feet wide.
At another corner of the market there were some black men and boys,
chained by the legs to prevent their escaping, and among them we saw a
very good-looking respectably dressed young man, also in chains. We
were told he was a Georgian, but could not discover his history,
though it is probable that hi