his conduct, counsel, or friendly
intimation, could avert the evil. Thus things are fast tending towards a
discreditable close of the President's administration."

"Thank God," wrote Lord Cochrane three months later, on the 17th of May,
to Dr. Gosse, who, in the interval, had also left Greece, "we are both
clear of a country in which there is no hope of amelioration for half a
century to come; unless, indeed, immigration shall take place to a great
extent, under some king, or competent ruler, appointed and supported by
the Governments of the mediating powers. The mental fever I contracted
in Greece has not yet subsided, nor will it probably for some months to
come."

Lord Cochrane might well be suffering from a mental fever. Nearly four
years of his life had been spent in efforts to serve Greece, and with
very poor result. To himself the issue had been wholly unfortunate; even
the pecuniary recompense to which he was entitled having been so reduced
as not to meet the expenses to which he had been put, partly through his
generous surrender of the 20,000l. which he was to receive on completion
of the work, partly through the depreciation of the Greek stock in
which, out of sympathy for the cause, he had invested the 37,000l. paid
to him on his engagement.

And to Greece the issues had been far less beneficial than he had hoped.
The tedious and wanton delays to which he had been subjected at
starting, whereby that starting was prevented for a year and a half, had
hindered his arrival in Greece till it was too late for him to do much
of the work that he had planned. The want of money, and, still more, the
want of patriotism, courage, and even common honesty on the part of
nearly all the leaders with whom he was to co-operate, and the officers
and crews whom he was to command, had caused his ten months' active
service in Greece to comprise little more than a series of bold
projects, and projects which, if he had been aided by brave men, would
have been as easy as they were bold, in which he received none of the
support that was necessary, and which accordingly all his energy and
genius could not make successful. When, after his visit to England and
France, he returned to Greece, eager and able to render invaluable
assistance in the organization of the navy, he was treated only with
neglect and insolence, from which at last he was enabled to escape
through the generous sympathy of a Russian admiral.

Much, however, he ha