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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,
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