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instead of a blessing has proved a serious bane.

This convention soon became the rule of conduct to
the Greek Committee, – and as the best & most appropriate valuable gift to
Greece they paid out an expedition at an expense of between
£5000 & £6000 which conveyed every species of machinery, instruments, tools, and
appropriate workmen to enable the Greeks to establish an Arsenal –
to manufacture their own ammunition & weapons of war. Nearly
a dozen mechanics, – each one of a different profession, carefully
selected & thoroughly examined, accompanied the expedition. Any one
of these men might have been of incalculable use to a semi-civilized nation
unacquainted with the arts he was enabled to teach – but a sad
fatality attended an expedition whose preparation & details had
cost so much labor & anxiety. The Laboratories were hardly established
or petty jealousies interfered with the labors of the workmen – They
were more than once fired upon by the undisciplined soldiery –
the Government gave them no protection, – & with the exception of
an amiable & intelligent chemist who died in Greece in a state of
great misery, – the others fled from a country which had disappointed
all their expectations & to which they could not after such experiences it was not likely they should accommodate themselves

A very curious fact – "and one" which serves to explain
matters hitherto unintelligible is dropped dropt out in Count Palma's pamphlet.
It is that the Greek Committee lost their influence with the Greek
Government in consequence of the want of confidence in [the latter
which the measures of the Committee exhibit. The Committee
assuredly never thought of deviating from the course which the

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