THE WAR OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE 1821 TO 1833 BY W.ALISON PHILLIPS 1897

146 THE WAR OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE
ually been arranged between Byron and Odysseus at
Salona, when the poet's death put a stop to the plot.
Odysseus now, fearing
lest he should lose all share
in the loan, gave up suddenly
all his schemes of independent
action, and hurried to Nauplia to pay court
to the Government.
After the death of Byron, the first instalment of
the loan, amounting to 40,000?., which had been
banked by him at Zante, had been, to the dismay and
disgust of the Greeks, detained by the English administration
of the Ionian Islands.
After the destruction
of Psara by the Turks, 1
on the 2nd of July, however,
the money had been handed over to the Greek Government;
and, at the news, not only Odysseus, but Kolokotrones,
Niketas, and every other chieftain, great or
small, who could formulate the shadow of a claim,
hastened to Nauplia to share in the spoil. For the
Government, however, duty and interest for once coincided
;
and they determined to fit out a squadron to
avenge the disaster of Psara;
all the easier for them to make,
a decision which it was
as it would benefit
their main supporters, the Hydriot ship-owners.
Any
Dr. Sophienopoulo entered, handed the General a report on
the state of the hospital, and answered various queries
about it. No hospital existed! Gordon, i. 121, and note.
* See the next chapter.