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

366 THE WAR OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE
tains, he reluctantly allowed himself to be persuaded.
His submission was to take place at an interview
with Capodistrias, which was fixed for five o'clock on
the afternoon of October 8, 1831.
Unfortunately, the
President had that very morning received a copy of
the London l Courier/ containing
a violent tirade
against his person and a scathing criticism of his policy.
Weary and overwrought with the labours and anxieties
of his office, his mind seemed, at this last insult, to
lose its balance; and, jaded and angry, when Petrobey
arrived under guard at the time appointed, he refused
to see him.
When this message was delivered to him, the old
chieftain was petrified with rage and mortification.
Was it for this that he, the Bey of the Maina, had
consented to demean himself by asking pardon of a
Corfiot upstart? Was he, a Mavromichales, forty-nine
of whose kinsmen had fallen in warfare with the Turk,
to plead in vain for pardon in the ante-chamber of a
man who had never struck a blow for Greece? Speechless
with anger, the proud old man was led back
through the streets to his prison. On the way he
passed in front of the house occupied by his son George
and his brother Constantine. Here a sudden thought
struck him. He paused, and called out,
Tib eras