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

282 THE WAR OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE
posed to bestow upon him he refused; but he listened
with all the greater attention to the instructions which
the Autocrat of the Russias gave him for the guidance
of his future conduct.
If he had the imperial blessing
on his enterprise, it was that he was regarded by the
Czar, with justice, as Kussian in his sympathies, and,
above all, as one whose character and training would
be the best guarantee against ' revolutionary ' tendencies.
The next few months he had spent partly in
Switzerland, where for some time he had made his
home, partly in visiting the various European courts
with a view to interesting them in the affairs of Greece,
and, if possible, persuading them to supply the necessary
sinews of war. He had met with but little sympathy
and less material support; and when the tidings
of Navarino led him to expect important developments
in the East, he determined at last to start for his
new sphere of labour. The British Government placed
the frigate War spite at his disposal to convey him to
Greece, and a French and a Russian frigate were
added by way of honourable escort. On the 19th of
January, then, after being driven by stress of weather
for two or three days into the harbour of Nauplia,
he arrived at ^Egina, where the Hellenic Government
now had its seat. As he landed, the three frigates