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

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tioiis of Astros, Epidaurus, and Troezene.
This last,
however, was a mere blind to cover his intention of
concentrating the whole functions of government in
his own hands. In place of the Senate he created a
council of twenty-seven members,
called the Panhellenium,
nominated by himself, ostensibly to
advise him in his public policy, really only to
register
his decrees. Besides this he established
a General Secretarial Bureau, a sort of Privy
Council, still more dependent upon himself, and
which gradually absorbed all the business of the Panhellenium.
The crisis of the national affairs,
and the prestige
of foreign support, enabled Capodistrias to carry
through his coup d'ttat without meeting with any
serious opposition. A few voices here and there
were raised in protest, but they were not heard in the
outburst of joy and enthusiasm which greeted the
President from all sides;
and the more important of
the old leaders, who might at the outset have proved
troublesome, he had included in the Government.
Konduriottes, Zaimis, and Petrobey Mavromichales
were made presidents of the three cgmmittees of
the Panhellenium.
Mavrocordatos the President attached
to himself as financial adviser, with no particular
office;
and the powerful influence of Kolokotrones