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

GOVERNMENT OF KOLETTES 385
covered that the Senate, the majority of which were
Capodistrians, though they had conceded his demands
as to the personnel of the Committee, had so ordered
it that it was, for his purposes, practically powerless.
Decrees had to be signed by
all the members; they
were invalid if
any three protested against them; and
no business could be transacted unless five
members
were present. As three of its members were known
to be hostile to him, it is obvious that this arrangement
left him absolutely powerless, and in fact rendered the
Committee itself a farce.
Under these circumstances it is not surprising that
the new Government was scarcely more effective than
the old.
It had in opposition to it all the supporters of
the fallen party, a majority of the Senate, many of
the most powerful of theMoreot chiefs, including Kolokotrones,
Niketas, and Rhangos, and a large number of
the wealthy primates, who feared for their property,
menaced now by the wild bands of mercenaries who
had raised Kolettes to power. Besides all these, the
squadrons under Kanaris and Andruzzos were hostile ;
and, last but not least, the English and Russian Residents,
jealous of the influence acquired over Kolettes
by the French, began to favour the opposite party.
The very instruments of his power were now turning
to Kolettes' destruction. The most immediately
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