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

378 THE WAR OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE
once more in London, and had issued a protocol, the
"Whigs being now in power, conceding the frontier
from Arta to Volo; and, at the same time, ordering the
Residents to support the Government, and aid it
repressing the unruliness of the Hydriots.
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This protocol,
arriving after the death of the President, most of
whose demands it conceded, well illustrates the cumbrousness
of the attempt to regulate the affairs of
Greece from a committee-room in London. Events
were moving fast in Hellas, and by the time a second
protocol had been sent to correct the first, it, too, was
out of date.
There were now two Governments face to face, and
the problem was too complicated to allow of its being
solved by recognising one and regarding the other as
simply revolutionary and unauthorised.
Sir Stratford
Canning, who had arrived at Nauplia, on his way to
Constantinople, in the midst of the crisis, tried to overcome
the difficulty by arranging a reconciliation.
Supported by the Russian and French Residents, he
handed a memorandum to Count Agostino suggesting
the proclamation of an amnesty, and the summoning
of a new Assembly, to which the representatives both
at Hydra and Megara
should be admitted. But
Agostino was infatuated, and would yield nothing.
He believed that, with the aid of Kolokotrones, Ni-