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

COMPLETE ANARCHY 391
with daily increasing fury;
and day by day the power
of Kolokotrones grew. All the Morea was on his
side; and Grivas was hard pressed in Tripolitza. In
the south, the Mainotes had gone on a plundering expedition
on their own account, and Niketas was endeavouring
to reduce them to order. In the north, Kallergis
was fighting the Rumeliots. In Corinth Karatassos
had established himself; and Djavellas still held
Patras and the surrounding country. The flames of
war had crossed the Gulf of Corinth, and the Armatoli
of Gardikiotis Grivas had attacked and captured Missolonghi;
while, in East Hellas, both parties had
united, and were marching on the Isthmus for an invasion
of the Peloponnese. Nauplia, alone in all Greece,
was in the enjoyment of the blessings of peace, under
the protection of the French garrison.
In the midst of all this tumult, on the 15th of
August, Sir Stratford Canning arrived from Constantinople,
bringing the confirmation by the Porte of the
treaty agreed upon by the Powers in London. The
Ottoman Government had accepted the extension of
the frontier, and had agreed to evacuate the ceded
districts before the end of December, on condition oJ
the compensation due being paid before that time.
Certain minor questions raised by the evacuation, and
dealing with the future relations of the two nations,