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opinion could correct the errors of individual exaggeration
or personal prejudice. Almost all the Merchants of the
made it their common cause object to vituperate the
Greeks – to exaggerate magnify their defects; to darken their virtues –
to deny their successes, and to blazen forth their ; – which
on the other hand the Greeks established in France & Italy
filled the newspapers with monstrous distortions of what
had really occurred. Every trifling skirmish became a
bloody combat in which tenfold more Greeks were massacred
than had ever been engaged, & in what, is no species of deception or
mendacity was left untried by either party which by
the concealment of truth, or the intrusion of falsehood
could elevate one party the one or depress the other. were
all important to the Committee & they therefore instructed
their Agent.
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