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them with moral opprobrium. And what can be said of those who

would perpetrate the a system which according to themselves brought
with it so much of profligacy & misery. "The whole need not a physician

but those who are sick."

Of the enormous sums raised in this country in
the shape of Loans for the assistance of the Greeks it may be
instructive to give some amount; – not that because We are not of opinion that
a greater portion of fraud & mismanagement attaches to the
disposal of the Greek Loans, than to many others, which have
been less the object of public attention, & farther removed from
public scrutiny; but as we believe a posturing of & know that a feeling of
sympathy for the Greeks & a desire to assist their cause did in many instances mingle itself the
with the grosser & more common motive of pecuniary interest, so we
think that a valuable lesson may be learned for the future out
of the disclosures of the past which have taken place. We shall give in gross
numbers the particulars of these Loans as far as we are have are able
to collect them, – & we think the conviction will be found in
every man's bosom that the real ill appropriation of the first
(if ill applied) must attached to the arrangements made for
its expenditure in Greece, – to which so large a portion of it was
directly remitted. The mismanagement of the second belongs to
England, – & we apprehend the details of its expenditure will
give no satisfaction to those who have had the any body

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