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

MISERY OF THE COUNTRY 395
claimed in the constitutions of Troezene, Astros, and
Epidaurus had been forgotten, drowned in the din of
war and lost amid the clamour of party cries. Of
but broken wrecks and fragments remained.
the elaborate administrative edifice erected by Capodistrias,
The courts of law were closed, the Senate scattered.
Nauplia, the Secretaries of State carried on the shadow
of a Government, in order to make it possible to speak
of Greece; for of a united Hellas there was otherwise
no sign. North of the Isthmus the country was comparatively
free from local tyrants and the communes
;
governed themselves, in the absence of any superior
authority, with good success. South of the Isthmus,
Kolokotrones gradually freed the Morea from every
oppression but his own, and governed, after a patriarchal
fashion, with the aid of his captains, and of such
of the Capodistrian officials as were left.
In
Only in the
extreme south, the Mainotes, true to their character to
the last, were still in arms, and carrying on war against
Kolokotrones on the one side, and the admirals of the
allied fleets on the other.
Active preparations were now being made in Nauplia
for the reception of the new King. He was to be
accompanied by some Bavarian troops,
to guard his
person, and form the nucleus of a disciplined army.
To make room for these in the capital, three companies