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objects of the measure were those which I hâve before stated — · to keep 
up the courage of the Greeks, aud to restrain the Turks from further vio- 
lence, and possibly also to act upon their line of communication now, might 
not tliese objects be suffiently attaiued by means of an allied blockadiug 
force on the coast, the maintenance of Ipsilanti’s irregulär troops in some 
well chosen position covering the approaches of the Isthmus, and if General 
Maison’sArmy were sufifering from the unhealthiness ofNavarino, might lie 
not possibly find a motive in that circumstauce for advancing as far as the 
Isthmus himself. 
I feit that in approachiug this point I was treading ou délicate ground, 
and should hâve thought it mv duty to abstain from the suggestion, even 
at a private interview, had I not also feit that after what had passed 
everything not absolutely inconsistent with the agreement and known intention 
of the allies was due to Count Capodistrias. I observed, however, that ac- 
cording to the letter of the Protocol, it was to be expected that General Mai- 
son’sArmy would reembark for France as soon as the Fortress of the Morea 
had been completely evacuated, though it was evidently immaterial from 
what part of the Peninsula the embarkation of the troops might be effected, 
any which seemed evidently désirable, that during their stay in that Couutry 
they should render every reasonable service to the Greek cause. 
Count Capodistrias replied that it was his duty as President of Greece 
to knock at every door, and that it would be time enough to fall back 
upon the second expédient when he had failed in his endeavours to obtain 
the first. 
M. de Ribeaupierre supported the opinions which I had expressed, but 
appeared to see no reason why the proposed application to General Maison 
should not be made matter of experiment in the first instance. 
I suggested the propriety of waiting at ail events for the return of Ge- 
neral Guilleminot; an idea in which Count Capodistrias so far acquiesced 
as to say, that he should only write in the meantime to sound General Maison 
as to the réception which his intended proposai was likely to meet. 
It can hardly be necessary for me to remind Your Lordship that the 
whole conversation was of a Confidential, or rather private character. I took 
occasion in the course of it, as indeed on the preceding day, to do justice 
to the benefits already conferred upon Greece by the forced retreat of 
Ibrahim Pasha. I ventured also to inquire whether the precautionary 
measures adopted by the Turks were not rather to be ascribed to the ope- 
rations of General Church, and the corps under Zavalla and Stratos detached 
from Ipsilanti’s army to the districts of Lidoniki and Malandrino, than to 
the expectation of General Maison’s advance into Attica and the Negropont. 
