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busily employed night and day, with him continually in his usual friendly and con- 
fidential manner, until I had got the work done for him which these gentry could not 
do. I could see that it was gall and wormwood to them, the hounds! while I, the 
while, was unimaginably silky and buttery, and as soft and soothing in all my doings as 
the boiled pease in the shoes of the knowing Pilgrim to Compostella. I cannot help 
thinking from Sir John’s manner that he expccted me to ask him for something, 
possibly to push my interests with the new Gzé, but I was determined to show him 
that a loyal Englishman could serve him disinterestedly, and I could have done ten 
times more than I did do from sheer love for the gallant old man—God bless him— 
without hope of favor or reward.” 
Sir John Colborne did receive, on his return home, “something more 
substantial and permanent than expressions of thanks.” 
He was almost immediately created Baron, I.crd Seaton, and shortly 
afterwards was further honoured by being appointed Governor of the 
Ionian Islands. During his tenure of this office, he carried through 
many important legislative reforms. In 1860, on his return to England, 
he -ecame a Field Marshal of the Empire. 
