ed both tortuous
diplomacy and straightforward tyranny in attempting to turn divided
Greece into a united nation, in which a hundred rival claimants for
power should be made humble instruments of the authority of their one
master. Thereby the State was enabled to assert its existence, and it
was made possible for good government to be introduced. When, however,
the time came for inaugurating that good government, Capodistrias sought
to continue the method of rule which, if allowable at first, was no
longer right or likely to succeed. Young Greece was to be kept in
subjection for his own aggrandisement and for the aggrandisement of his
few favourites and advisers. These favourites and advisers were the
leaders of the old Phanariot party, Prince Mavrocordatos and his
brother-in-law Mr. Trikoupes; men whose policy Lord Cochrane had opposed
on his first arrival in Greece, and who accordingly became even more
inimical to himself than he was to their purposes and plans.

Therefore it was that, when Lord Cochrane returned to Greece in the
autumn of 1828, he was coldly received and his offers of further
service, though not openly rejected, were not accepted. Throughout ten
weeks he was treated with contemptuous indifference, or formal
compliments, the hollowness of which was transparent. On his arrival,
the President found it difficult to grant him an interview. When that
interview was granted, the only subject allowed to be discussed was the
accuracy of the accounts that had been drawn up by Dr. Gosse as
Commissary-General of the Fleet, during the nine months of the previous
year in which Lord Cochrane had been in active service. Nearly two
months were spent in tedious and vexatious examination of these
accounts, and correspondence thereupon, ending, however, in the partial
satisfaction which Lord Cochrane derived from the knowledge that, after
the most searching investigation, they were admitted to be correct in
every particular.

More than once, during this waiting time, Lord Cochrane threatened to
leave Greece immediately, without waiting for the settlement of the
accounts. He was only induced to remain, and submit to the insults
offered to him, by the consideration that his hasty departure might
cause an indefinite postponement of this settlement, and so prove
injurious to his subordinates if not to himself. This being done,
however, he lost no time in resigning his office as First Admiral of
Greece; and that measure was