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upon is a people almost emerging from barbarism
as the Greeks are.

The most difficult operation that you will have
to effect is, the reducing the power of the Military
Chiefs; this will require I should think considerable
caution & must be done very gradually fixing a
rate of pay for each of those, who have most distinguished
themselves, so as to keep them in good humour
& in the mean time raising and disciplining
a sufficient number of young men, upon different
points, who you could render attached & placed at the
disposal of the Government. — Another most essential
point in my humble opinion would be, to get some
of the principal chiefs out of the Morea. Collocotroni
& others it is true, have achieved much, but
hitherto it has been impossible to make one of
them budge: from what each conceived to be his district,
& none of them could be prevailed on last year, to
come to the Congress at Salamis, notwithstanding their
begging me to apprize the Govt. of their approaching arrival,
with the exception of Staico, Nikitas & Ulysses
had the Greeks then been able to collect a force they
might have created a powerful diversion in Thessaly

whilst

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Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	226	Info in main headings field
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Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	richard doane	Watermarks
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