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

RECEPTION OF THE NEWS IN PARIS 271
schemes of Kussia. By the Tories, and the Tory
the action of the allied admirals was denounced
press,
in no measured terms.
The Times and the Morning
Post 1 referred to it as an outrage on a friendly Power,
as worse than a crime, as a blunder, which had made
the English fleet the instrument for the aggrandisement
of Russia. It was argued at large whether Codrington
should be rewarded, or tried by court martial;
and though he did ultimately receive his G.C.B., the
arguments by which his claims were supported
sounded rather like a defence than a panegyric.
Meanwhile the news had been received in France
with open, and in Russia with ill-concealed, delight.
In France, indeed, the Government of Charles X. had
stood greatly in need of a little military glory to furbish
up its tarnished reputation. "Where it had been
thought necessary to teach in the schools that Napoleon
Bonaparte was a royalist general, who had gained
victories for the monarchy during the temporary absence
of the king from France, a real military success,
won under the auspices of the Bourbon dynasty, could
not but be welcome; and while the vanity of the
French was flattered by the revived dream of military
glory, Russia found it hard to disguise her satisfaction
at a ' regrettable event ' which had destroyed at a
i Prolceseh, ii. 275 &c., gives several articles in full.