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He however has pay'd their fleet for them, who immediately landed their Admiral and sailed away the Lord knows where. 'The first interview I had with this Prince Mavrocordato I could do nothing, as I plainly saw they were detaining me while they made out a case and that Stanhope's wits were put in requisition.
The slaughter of so many Christians had only enraged instead of terrifying the others; and a Greek prince named Mavrocordato brought an army together, which took several cities, but unhappily was as cruel as the Turks themselves in their treatment of the conquered. However, they now held Argos, met there, and made Mavrocordato their President in 1822.
But where the devil is the fleet gone? the Greek, I mean leaving us to get in without the least intimation to take heed that the Moslems were out again. Make my respects to Mavrocordato, and say that I am here at his disposal. I am uneasy at being here. We are very well. -Yours, etc.
Had an interview with Mavrocordato who received me of course, with civility, on Divan, supposing that I came to do him no good, having with me two or three officers and an arm'd boats crew. When I landed I met with a face that put me in mind of Hyde Park, Balls, Parties, Almacks, &c. This was no one more or less than Col.
The ships fired a salute as he passed. Prince Mavrocordato, and all the authorities, with the troops and the population, met him on his landing, and accompanied him to the house which had been prepared for him, amid the shouts of the multitude and the discharge of cannon.
It may incidentally be mentioned that before the water finally claimed its victim, he had often been in peril of life upon his fatal element during the first voyage to Ireland, while crossing the Channel with Mary in an open boat, again at Meillerie with Byron, and once at least with Williams. A third composition of the year 1821 was inspired by the visit of Prince Mavrocordato to Pisa.
In such a condition, misapprehensions were natural; jocularity might be mistaken for sarcasm, and caprice felt as insolence. Lord Byron resolves to join the Greeks Arrives at Cephalonia Greek Factions Sends Emissaries to the Grecian Chiefs Writes to London about the Loan To Mavrocordato on the Dissensions Embarks at lest for Missolonghi
Here Mary continued to write Valperga, and pursued her Latin, Spanish, and Greek studies; the latter the Prince Mavrocordato assisted her with, as Mary writes to Mrs. Gisborne: "Do not you envy me my luck? that, having begun Greek, an amiable, young, agreeable, and learned Greek prince comes every morning to give me a lesson of an hour and a half."
"Your conduct in endeavouring to crush the press by declaiming against it to Mavrocordato, and your general abuse of liberal principles." "If I had held up my finger," retorted his Lordship, "I could have crushed the press." "With all this power," said Stanhope, "which by the way you never possessed, you went to the prince, and poisoned his ear." Lord Byron then disclaimed against the liberals.
Here they made more acquaintances than heretofore, Professor Pacchiani, called also "Il Diavolo," introducing them to the Prince Mavrocordato, the Princess Aigiropoli, the improvisatore Sgricci, Taafe, and last, not least, to Emilia Viviani.
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