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

328 THE WAR OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE
of Greece, and take to herself all the credit which she
would otherwise have had to share with her allies.
The news of the conclusion of the Peace of
Adrianople was received in Greece with the liveliest
demonstrations of joy. Capodistrias, who believed
that now he would reap the reward of his obedience
to the mandate which the Czar had given to him at
the meeting at Czarscoeselo, publicly announced the
peace, and ordered Te Deums to be sung
in the
churches. When, however, the terms of the treaty
became known, the delight of the Greeks was turned
into disgust, and Capodistrias felt that he had been
betrayed by the Power which he had served so faithfully.
Russia, from which they had expected so much,
had after all only obtained for them the terms of the
protocol of the 22nd of March, which they had already
rejected with indignation and scorn. Capodistrias also
experienced a bitter disillusion. His own claims had
been forgotten. Of the presidency for life, which was
the least reward he might have expected for his faithful
service to the cause of Russia, there was no mention
;
he was, after all, to be ousted in favour of some
German princeling.
The treaty, moreover, gave a serious
blow to his popularity in Greece. He had all along
been regarded as the representative of Russia, the guarantee
and surety of the Czar's goodwill and this had
;