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whilst the Suliots & those of the West, were endeavouring
to stop the progress of Mustapha Pacha & failed
in doing so, precisely because they received no assistance
of any kind from the Morea. The Morea with the exception
of Patras, which I trust will speedily surrender
(Modona & Corone being of secondary importance)
is in the undisturbed possession of the Greeks
I cannot then see the necessity of keeping so many
soldiers there, a feasible method of inducing them to
march out of the Peloponesus, would be for the Government
to grand additional pay to those who
serve upon the frontiers & in face of the enemy: from
what I observed in Greece these armed men, especially
those of Collocotroni, only proved a source of alarm
& vexation to the peasantry, committing much rapine &
disorder, in the names of their respective chiefs, this
wd. also prove a good method of reducing the power of
their masters, as soldiers of course will serve those by
whom they are best paid & the resources of these Chiefs
being very much exaggerated, they cd. not long sustain
the competition. The population of Navarin &
Calamata wd. prove quite sufficient to keep in check

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	227	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e5
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1824
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	4288
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