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But still the Examiner makes a wretchedly bad defence and it is as well 

 that he should understand this against, not merely Cohbett's accusations, 

 but against the admitted facts of the case. Nobody suspects Sir F. Bur- 

 dett, or Mr. Hobhouse, as we take it, of having profited in a pecuniary 

 point of view by the Greek loan ; but it is not clear that they have not 

 misused the trust with which they were invested for to neglect such a 

 trust was to misuse it very abominably notwithstanding. The case of the 

 steam-boats, upon facts which are indisputable stands thus : Sir F. Bur- 

 dett, and a party of his friends and connections, had direct and considera- 

 ble influence an influence amounting morally to absolute control in the 

 disposal of the funds of the Greek government. Of these funds a very 

 large sum was to be laid out in the preparation of steam vessels ; which 

 vessels might have been purchased at once, and ought to have been so 

 purchased, in a case where the loss of a single hour might lose the best 

 hopes of the cause which was to be aided. Instead of purchasing, the 

 decision of the friends of the Greek cause is to build ; a course which 

 must necessarily be attended with delay, but which of course where 

 such a sum as 150,000 was to be laid out opened the door to the dis- 

 pensing a considerable quantity of patronage. It would seem that if the 

 boats must be built, there could be no doubt as to one portion of the 

 arrangement to wit, that the work should be given to the most able and 

 experienced artists in such construction, that England could produce: but 

 this feature of the transaction is decided as unfortunately as the preceding 

 resolution had been. Mr. Galloway of Fleet Street, who knows nothing 

 about building steam boats ; and who has a son engaged in the service 

 of the very power which these steam-boats are to destroy ; but who is an 

 active partisan of Sir Francis Burdett and Mr. Hobhouse, at their West- 

 minster elections, obtains a contract on which he is paid more than 20,000 ! 

 and the result is that the money thus laid out, seems to be entirely wasted ; 

 that the machinery furnished is either inefficient or interminably delayed ; 

 and that, in conclusion, the project of the steam-boats, upon which the 

 deliverance of Greece was to depend, lingers on until public patience will 

 bear the humbug no longer, and then is confessed to be defeated alto- 

 gether ! 



Now all the bolstering in the world will not help a state of facts like 

 this. The parties who volunteered to " save the Greeks," may all havo 

 used their best diligence, and may all be completely justified but it will 

 be hardly possible for them to make any reasonable man believe so. 

 Results will count for something especially those results which the con- 

 duct of parties (although it may not produce them) has an obvious and 

 direct tendency to produce. A stage-coachman mounts his box, drunk. 

 He drives without lights, though the night is dark, and at full gallop, and 

 the coach is overturned. We all know that the coach was overturned 

 " by a stone that lay in the road" we hear it sworn there was no 

 earthly fault on the part of the driver but the jury finds a verdict with 

 swingeing damages against Mr. Waterhouse, notwithstanding. Careful 

 people, when they heard that Mr. Galloway who was not a steam-boat 

 builder was to build these boats, which were wanted so hastily, and on 

 which so much depended, would say : "This is not the right course." When 

 the same people heard that Mr. Galloway, who was to build these boats 

 for the Greeks their whole value, and even utility, depending on their 

 being completed within a given time had a son in the employ of the 

 Greek enemy ^ the Pacha of Egypt they would say " Decidedly this course 



