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

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them of the rest. The town caught
fire in several
places, and a hundred souls perished in the flames.
The inhabitants tried to escape into the open country ;
but the gates were occupied by soldiery, who drove
them back, or only sold the right to leave the town at a
high tariff.
To this hotbed of anarchy
the Government had
been transferred a month before. The provisional
committee now fled, and was followed speedily by
the Senate, which on the 14th of July had lost three
of its members by the bursting of a bomb in its midst.
Once more the situation was saved by foreign
intervention. During the height of the bombardment
Admiral Codrington had arrived off ]STauplia, and now
interfered on behalf of the townspeople, whom he persuaded
the chiefs to allow to depart.
deserted by all its inhabitants;
and,
The city was soon
of all the Greek
leaders, only Demetrius Hypsilanti remained, obedient
to what he considered his duty,
in his bullet-riddled
house.
On the 19th of July a conference was arranged between
the rival chieftains on board Captain Hamilton's
ship.
It was represented to them strongly by the British
officer how fatal the continuance of their course of
action would be to the Greek cause, since, however
willing the Powers might be to interfere on behalf of