comprised the _Hellas_, the _Karteria_, the
_Sauveur_, and nineteen or twenty other vessels. The Spetziots and the
Hydriots, at the last moment, refused to aid him; but he was attended by
Miaoulis, Kanaris, and Saktoures, the three best of the native admirals.
After a brief visit to Candia, where he encouraged the garrison of
Grabusa to hold out against the enemy, he again passed round the Morea,
in which direction he desired to attain two important objects. The first
was to injure as much as possible the Turkish and Egyptian vessels
collected near Navarino. The second was to co-operate with the wretched
force that, under General Church, had for three months past been making
a show of resistance to the enemy at Corinth, and with its help to try
and stir up the natives of Albania and Western Greece.

These objects, partly prevented in other ways, were nearly averted by a
barbarous plot for Lord Cochrane's assassination. While halting off the
southern coast of the Morea, on or near the 10th of September, a short,
thick-built Greek, with an ugly countenance and determined eye, came on
board the _Hellas_ and asked for employment as a sailor. He was examined
and rejected, on the ground of previous misconduct. Instead of going on
shore again, however, he contrived to hide himself among the crew, and
was not detected by Lord Cochrane for several hours, and when the
frigate was in full sail. In the interval Lord Cochrane had received
authentic information that this man had been commissioned by Ibrahim
Pasha to attempt his life. There would have been justification for his
immediate arrest, and, after a court martial, for his summary execution.
But Lord Cochrane pursued a more generous policy. Walking up to his
secretary, Mr. George Cochrane, he said: "Observe that man who is at the
gangway on the larboard side. I have just had information that he has
been sent by Ibrahim Pasha to assassinate me. Go quietly below, put on
your sword, and watch him while he is on board." Mr. Cochrane obeyed his
instructions. "In less than five minutes," he says, "I was again on deck
with my sword. I took a few turns on the quarter-deck with his lordship,
and then placed myself in a convenient position, about a dozen yards
from the man. I did not lose sight of him for a couple of hours, keeping
my eye steadily upon him. He soon observed that I was watching him, and
I could perceive that he did not feel very comfortable in his mind. He
did not attemp