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several friends (some of them were choice spirits, 

 Avhose names are now not unknown to fame). I 

 could say much of my visit to Munich not then a 

 city so renowned as it is to-day. King Ludwig had 

 not covered it with gilding and glory nor had Lord 

 Palmerston enriched its liberals with the peculation 

 afforded by loans to Greece. Palmerston himself was 

 still a Tory, and his beloved Armansperg was the 

 half - starved led captain of the Prince - royal, not 

 the envied illustration of "Whig benevolence ; or, as 

 Maurer calls him, Palmerston's nabob. At Venice 

 I met two Greek princes (Caradja and Cantacuzene 

 were their names), quarrelling bitterly concerning 

 their respective pretensions to the sovereignty of the 

 State which was to arise out of the Greek revolu- 

 tion. I left them as they had almost resolved to 

 sign a partition treaty : somebody advised them to 

 settle their quarrel in Greece by aiding the people, 

 but both the princes agreed that Prince Soutzos would 

 then overreach them both, for nobody can succeed, 

 quoth the princes, who conies on the field too early 

 in a revolution. I have since heard that those 

 princes, Caradja, Soutzos, and Cantacuzene, all came 

 too late, and did too little, to become great men in 

 the land. 



At Rome 1 met Alecco. His appearance was changed 

 for the better, and he proposed accompanying me to 

 Greece. We took the road by Naples, Bari, and 

 Otranto, where we embarked for Corfu. The short 



