. The last days of Lord Byron:. Colonel Stanhope goes to AthensâHis re-quisitionsâProceedings in MarchâAn alarm of plagueâDisciplineof the BrigadeâMust pay the Greeks for doing their own workâDivisions among the Greek chieftainsâLord Byron inviteJ to quitMissolonghiâColocotroni wishes to get him into the MoreaâOp-posing views of MavrocordatoâHis hopes of effecting a union of thechiefsâProspect of a Congress at SalonaâLord Byron obligedagain to interfere about a newspaperâReceives the freedom of Mis-solonghiâNumerous applications to him for MoneyâFurther defenceof MissolonghiâDesertions from Co
. The last days of Lord Byron:. Colonel Stanhope goes to AthensâHis re-quisitionsâProceedings in MarchâAn alarm of plagueâDisciplineof the BrigadeâMust pay the Greeks for doing their own workâDivisions among the Greek chieftainsâLord Byron inviteJ to quitMissolonghiâColocotroni wishes to get him into the MoreaâOp-posing views of MavrocordatoâHis hopes of effecting a union of thechiefsâProspect of a Congress at SalonaâLord Byron obligedagain to interfere about a newspaperâReceives the freedom of Mis-solonghiâNumerous applications to him for MoneyâFurther defenceof MissolonghiâDesertions from Colocotronis forcesâNews of theGreek loanâPlan for the campaignâDifficulties of Lord Byronssituation in Greece. From the time when Lieutenant Sass was killedup to Lord Byrons own death, all his lordshipsthoughts and time were actively occupied withthe affairs of Greece. For this reason I shallconfine this part of my narrative to his lordshipsproceedings in his military and civil capacity, as. MUTINY. AN EARTHQUAKE. 69 connected with Greece. With these proceedings,too, I was intimately connected, Lord Byron nothaving taken any step without informing me ofit, and very often honouring me by asking myadvice as to his plans, and always requiring myassistance to carry them into execution. On February , there was a sort of mutinyamongst the Suliotes, who refused to march, onaccount of their arrears not having been paid Byron was, as usual, instantly applied to byPrince Mavrocordato, and advanced 4,800 dollarsto enable him to pay up the arrears. On thisthe Suliotes promised to march in two days toArta, and scour the country. At the same timeLord Byron notified to them that they must nothenceforward consider him as personally respon-sible for their pay. The mechanics, though they had not yet de-parted, had entirely given up working, and thetown was in a complete state of tumult; all ourlabours were, therefore, for the moment, suspend-ed. Lord Byron had freq
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