other military stores which served to maintain the liberties of Greece
during these later years were chiefly procured by help of this same
fund. It enabled you to carry on the war until independence was secured
by the intervention of the Allied Powers."

The debt was not repudiated; but Lord Cochrane's arguments for its
acknowledgment gave an opportunity for exhibition of the long-smothered
jealousy with which he was regarded by the counsellors of Capodistrias,
if not by Capodistrias himself. The exhibition certainly was
contemptible. As Lord Cochrane was about to leave Greece--and, indeed,
eager to do so--the spite could only be shown in the arrangements made
for his departure.

Having transferred the _Mercury_, which brought him out, to the
President, Lord Cochrane had to ask for a vessel to take him from Egina,
where he was then staying, to the Ionian Islands, or, if he could not
there find suitable conveyance, to Toulon or Marseilles. The brig
_Proserpine_ was grudgingly placed at his disposal. "I pray you, my
lord," wrote Mavrocordatos, on the 8th of December, "if you are obliged
to take her to Toulon or Marseilles, not to detain her at Navarino or
Zante, but to enable her to return with as little delay as possible to
her work on the shores of Western Greece." Lord Cochrane accordingly
embarked in this vessel on the 10th. No sooner was he on board, however,
than he found himself treated with studied rudeness by her captain,
Manoli Bouti, "exposed," as he said, "to privations and insults that
would not be allowed in the conveyance of convicts." He had to put in at
Poros on the same evening, and thence address a complaint to the
Government, then lodged in that island. Four days passed before he
received a written answer to his letter, and then it conveyed nothing
but a formal intimation that another captain would be appointed in lieu
of the obnoxious officer.

Many personal communications, however, had passed in the interval, by
which was confirmed the suspicion formed by Lord Cochrane from the
first, that the captain's misconduct had been dictated by his superiors,
and that it had been a preconceived plan to try and send the First
Admiral of Greece--for both title and functions still belonged to
him--from her shores with every possible degradation. He naturally
resented this indignity. He claimed that, while he remained in Greece,
and until his office of First Admiral was abrogated, he should be
treated with the