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

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port of the Philhellenes was still ungrudgingly bestowed.
The European Governments, too, were now
no longer backward in their support;
and the President
was relieved from the financial embarrassments
which had hampered his operations
on his first arrival.
The subsidies from Russia alone amounted, by the beginning
of the year 1831, to over 3,000,000 francs,
besides large consignments of munitions of war.
Charles X. subscribed 250,000
francs a month for
the ' Vendee du Christianisme.' England, after a
great many refusals,
of 500,000 francs. Finally,
Eynardt forwarded 700,000
of a new loan.
at last also sent a contribution
the Genevese banker
francs as the
beginning
"With these resources, for the expenditure
of which he was responsible to no one, with his
personal popularity,
and his unshaken hold on the
organisation of the Government, the position
President seemed unassailable.
Greece/ said Metternich,
' is Capodistrias.'
(
of the
When, on his arrival, Capodistrias had caused the
suspension of the Constitution of Troezene,
he had
promised to summon a meeting of the National
Assembly without undue delay. April had been the
date originally fixed ^
but the President had, on one
pretext and another, managed to postpone
the Congress
for more than a year. Now, however, the