Capodistrias for his unworthy
conduct. Capodistrias thereupon used the influence of Dr. Grosse in
bringing about at any rate a formal reconciliation between himself and
Lord Cochrane, the result of which was that the latter received the
official discharge that he desired, and even an offer to find him in
another ship a better passage than he could have expected on board the
_Proserpine_. Lord Cochrane, however, preferred to accept Admiral
Heyden's more generous invitation. "It is gratifying," he said in a
letter to Dr. Grosse on the 18th of December,[13] "that even the
authority to which wicked men refer in proof of the rectitude of evil
deeds fails to sanction infamous conduct. Alas! if Capodistrias
suffers--and he seems not inclined to oppose--I say, if he suffers the
base intrigues of the Phanar to be introduced as the means of ruling a
nation, Greece must fall back, if not into a darker state, yet into a
worse condition, inasmuch as suspended anarchy is preferable to civil
war."

[13] Dr. Gosse had remained in Greece during Lord Cochrane's absence,
and he continued to reside in Greece for a few months after his friend's
final departure. He won for himself much gratitude, not only by his
zealous work in war time, but by the skill and patience with which he
sought to reduce the plague which raged in Greece in 1827 and 1828. Two
proofs of the popularity which he fairly won are as follows. The first,
dated the 17th of June, 1828, was signed by twenty-three leading
inhabitants of Poros.

"Nous citoyens de Poros, reconnaissant dans la personne de M. le Docteur
Louis Andre Gosse, un homme anime du philhellenisme le plus sincere et
doue de vertus eminentes, considerant son zele ardent et infatigable
pourtant en ce qui concerne le bien de la patrie et pour la cause sacree
de la Grece et en particulier temoins des soins philanthropiques qu'il a
prodigues aux indigens, persuades d'autre part que ses qualites rares
contribueront a l'amelioration de la morale du peuple Grec, et animes du
desir d'attacher a notre Ile cette homme vertueux; d'une voix unanime et
d'un accord commun concedons le droit de bourgeoisie au susdit M. L. A.
Gosse, pour qu'il jonisse dorenavant du titre et des droits de citoyen
Poriote indigene. En foi de quoi nous lui avons delivre la presente."

The other document was issued by President Capodistrias on the 23rd of
February, 1829.

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