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Nevertheless, the fall of Ali Pacha, 
and loss of the funds which furnished 
his treasury, drove the Albanian hordes 
against the Souline rocks, The Sou- 
liotes, after an almost supernatural re- 
sistance, were forced to capitulate for 
want of assistance, and left their coun-: 
try with all the honours of war. The 
battle of Peta was lost. Acarnania and 
Etolia were invaded; but the bravery 
and constancy of the immortal Boz- 
zaris and of Mavrocordato saved Mis- 
solonghi and the Peloponnese, and 
frustrated all the projects of the enemy. 
The citadel of Athens was restored to 
the Greeks, whilst discord disturbed 
Livadia. Owing to the disagreements 
of Odysseus with the government, a 
body of thirty thousand Turks pene- 
trated into the north of the Morea, sur- 
prised Corinth, and dispersed the au- 
thorities, which rallied on board the 
national flotilla. Hypsilantis, Coloco- 
troni and Nikitas, opposed their cou- 
tage, with a handful of brave fellows, 
to the torrent of invasion; and the Mo- 
rea was saved. The enemy perished 
toa man; Napoli di Romania opened 
its gates, and Corinth followed its 
example. 
~ In the beginning of 1823, a general 
assembly met at Astros, on the confines 
of Laconia and Argos; and the 
Government was renewed, according 
to the previous constitution. Peter 
Mavroni Chalis was nominated presi- 
dent ; Theodore Colocotroni, Sotiri 
Charalampi,Andrew Zaimis, and Andrew 
Metaxas, formed the executive council. 
Misunderstandings were, however, con- 
tinually bursting forth between the 
senate and this body, who wished to 
free themselves from the restraints of 
law. 
In the mean time, the Pacha of Seor- 
dra, at the head of twenty thousand 
men, marched against Western Greece. 
Bozzaris stopped him at Carpenissi, 
drove him back, and died covered with 
Tory. The Pacha penetrated into Etolia 
with fresh reinforcements, and besieged 
Anatolicon; but the heroism of a weak 
garrison forced him to retreat, and en- 
tirely evacuate this part of the Grecian 
territory. 
‘The Morea, now, presented quite 
a different spectacle. Discord burst 
forth among its constituted authorities. 
The senate, separated from the execu- 
tive council, left Tripolizza, and retired 
to Cranidi, a little town situated towards 
the extremity of the western mouth of 
the Gulf of Argos, or Napoli. A legis- 
Moral and Political State of Greece. 
lative’ commission of nine . senators 
was nominated to proceed against the 
dissentient members:’ This'commission, 
in a solemn appeal to the senaté, ac- 
cused the majority: of the executive 
council of trampling under foot’ the 
laws—of wishing ‘to’ ‘govern : despoti- 
cally—of appropriating to themselves 
the public revenues—and giving them- 
selves up to all kinds of disorder.» The 
senate declared the dissentient members 
divested of their offices. This was, to 
them, the signal of revolt. New elec- 
tions took place, and G. Coundouriotti, 
of Hydra, was called'to the presidency. 
The senate was composed of fifty depu- 
ties.—Such were the first events of the 
year 1824. 
The time and the means necessary 
for opening the campaign were con- 
sumed in intestine struggles: and. the 
Greeks, far from endeavouring to annoy 
the enemy, were happy in not being 
actually crushed by their antagonists, 
who had presented themselves in me- 
nacing force. Tripolizza, Corinth and 
Napoli were in the hands of the dissen- 
tient party. The Government, sure of 
the assent of the people, decided upon 
taking a determined part—it established 
itself at Moulins, two leagues. from 
Napoli, to take measures to suppress 
the factious. It was an affecting sight 
to see the authorities, under every cir- 
cumstance, preserving the love and 
veneration of the people. | Their vigo- 
rous conduct, their courageous con- 
stancy, the harmony that subsisted in 
their body, induced the greater part of 
the military chiefs to join with the 
Government: the factions were de- 
feated in the environs of Argos, Tripo- 
lizza, and Calamata, and wherever they 
presented themselves. Every where, 
the people declared in favour of the 
laws; the garrison of Corinth submit- 
ted; and Colocotroni evacuated Tripo- 
lizza. Napoli opened her gates after 
three months’ siege; and’ the Govern- 
ment made its solemn entry, towards 
the end of June. Joining moderation 
to firmness, it healed the wounds of the 
country by a general amnesty. 
Having quieted the interior, and filled 
up the hideous gulf of civil war, they 
turned their attention towards the com- 
mon safety. The enemy had already 
exercised his fury: in the midland 
country,.Candia was invaded, and part 
of its population reduced to slavery. 
The courageous resistance of the isle of 
Cassos could not save it from the en- 
raged attacks of the enemy; in the 
north, 
