ss, teach the Greeks by example. Then piracy may cease
and commerce may flourish. Be your intention in regard to the
steam-vessels still in England what it may, foreign seamen are
indispensable to the interests of Greece and to your own; and the
expense of bringing them here will be little increased if these
steamers, fitted under my inspection, shall become the means of their
conveyance. The hardship of a winter's voyage to the North, in a small
vessel, I shall deem amply repaid if I can accomplish these objects,
expose the injustice and impolicy of certain measures, and bring the
real wants of Greece to the knowledge of a liberal and enlightened
administration."

On the same New Year's Day Lord Cochrane wrote, explaining his
resolution, to Dr. Gosse, who, of all the Philhellenes in Greece, had
rendered him most efficient service in his thankless task, and most
zealously encouraged him, throughout a long series of failures for which
he was in no way answerable, to persevere in struggling for success. "My
dear friend and fellow-sufferer," he said, "in conformity with your wish
and opinion, I have tolerated my mental load of grievances until the new
year; but as it is essential to commence it well in order that measures
may prosper to the end, I have resolved to put my intention in
execution, regardless of the officious tongues of those of microscopic
views who may deem that my time might be well employed in balancing the
rivalships of barbarous seamen or protecting the movable stores of the
immovable _Hellas_. In my present state of official insignificance I
could render no other service. I have stated a few of my reasons in a
letter to Capodistrias, for his private information, when he shall
assume the office of president. I hope these will suffice, and that he
will communicate his desire, which shall be duly attended to."

In accordance with his new resolution, Lord Cochrane transferred the
command of the _Hellas_, and such control of the whole navy as was
possible, to Admiral Miaoulis. He left Poros in the little schooner
_Unicorn_, on the 10th of January, and arrived at Portsmouth on the 11th
of February. "The anxiety and disappointment," he said, writing to M.
Eynard from Portsmouth on the following day, "which I experienced in
regard to the steam-vessels and other means that were to have been
placed at my disposal are trifling, when compared to the distress I have
felt at finding my only remaining hope of renderi