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

336 THE WAR OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE
numberless primates of the Morea and Hydra, but even
Sissinis, the President, and several members of the
Senate, who thus stultified their own previous action.
He did not, indeed, dare to forbid the forwarding of
addresses to the candidate approved by the Powers;
but he issued orders that these were not to be sent direct,
but to be submitted first to the inspection of the
Government. Moreover, he let it be plainly known
that those who signed would only do so at the risk of
incurring his displeasure; and if they chanced to be
Government officials they were dismissed, on the plea
that, in signing, they had been guilty
of an act of insubordination.
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While, by these means, Capodistrias tried to stem
the tide of enthusiasm for Prince Leopold in Greece,
he was also occupied in attempting to shake the
Prince's own resolution to accept the crown. To
Baron Stockmar, Leopold's representative, who had
come to Greece to make inquiries, he had already
given a vivid picture of the magnitude of the task
the Prince proposed to undertake. In the communications
he now had with Leopold himself, he cunningly
combined earnest entreaties for his speedy arrival,
with alarming accounts of the difficulties he would
experience when he did arrive:
of the utter exhausi
Mendelssohn, ii. 212.