e unpatriotic conduct of the Greeks, and that the English
Government, which he had hoped to influence so far as to obtain an
alteration in the Foreign Enlistment Act which would enable him to
secure the services of a well-trained force of British seamen, was
determined to give no help in the matter. He found, too, that the
steam-vessels yet to be furnished in accordance with the old contract
with Mr. Galloway were still unfinished, and that there would be no
little trouble and delay, added to all that had already been endured,
before their completion could be hoped for. Not disheartened, however,
he went almost immediately to Paris, there to see what could be expected
from the Philhellenes of the Continent.

"I have taken steps," he wrote to M. Eynard from Paris on the 2nd of
March, "to cause one of our small steam-vessels to be fitted with proper
engines, the expense of which I shall find means to defray. I hope the
President will favour me with a communication at an early date, at
least, to say whether he has means to pay and victual a few hundreds of
foreign seamen, and thus put my mind at rest. For he must depend on
foreign aid to support him in his government, protect commerce, and
enable a revenue to be derived from the latent resources of Greece. The
Greeks themselves will do nothing towards these objects; though there
will not be wanting individuals who will endeavour, for their personal
views, to persuade them to the contrary of this. My mind is not yet
sufficiently tranquil to give detailed reasons for my opinion that
things will not succeed in Greece without troops and other foreign aid;
but such time will prove to be the case."

"Were the three great powers," he said in another letter to M. Eynard,
dated the 17th of March, "pleased to aid the President with funds to a
small amount, they would accomplish more for their own benefit and that
of Greece, than by great fleets and armies. Four thousand troops, under
the Greek Government, and five hundred seamen, would terminate the
affair; but never will anarchy cease or piracy be put down, nor will
Capodistrias be secure, unless he has, under his own authority, the
means of enforcing obedience to the laws and regulations for the public
good by sea and land. I have told you that the Greek seamen cannot be
used to suppress piracy, and I may truly add that no Greeks of age to
bear arms can become soldiers, though they learn readily enough to
perform the military exe