'I replied: "Your conduct in endeavouring to crush the press, by declaiming against it to Mavrocordato, and your general abuse of Liberal principles." Lord Byron said that if he had held up his finger he could have crushed the press. I replied: "With all this power, which, by the way, you never possessed, you went to the Prince and poisoned his ear." 'Lord Byron declaimed against the Liberals whom he knew. '"But what Liberals?" I asked. Did he borrow his notions of free men from the Italians? Lord Byron said: "No; from the Hunts, Cartwrights, etc." "And still," said I, "you presented Cartwright's Reform Bill, and aided Hunt by praising his poetry and giving him the sale of your works." 'Lord Byron exclaimed: "You are worse than Wilson,[18] and should quit the army." I replied that I was a mere soldier, but never would abandon my principles. Our principles,' continues Stanhope, 'are diametrically opposite. If Lord Byron acts up to his professions, he will be the greatest--if not, the meanest--of mankind. He said he hoped his character did not depend on my assertions. "No," said I, "your genius has immortalized you. The worst could not deprive you of fame." 'Lord Byron replied: "Well, you shall see; judge me by my acts." 'When he wished me good-night, I took up the light to conduct him to the passage, but he said: "What! hold up a light to a Turk!"' It would be difficult indeed to find anything in the wide range of literature dealing with that period which would throw a stronger light upon both these men. Imagine the agent appointed by the London Committee wasting his precious time in writing such a letter as this for the information of its chairman. Stanhope meant no harm, we feel sure of that; but such a letter was little calculated to advance either his own reputation or Byron's, and it was above all things necessary for the London Committee to have a good opinion of both. But Stanhope was decidedly impetuous, and lacked all sense of humour. Millingen tells us that it soon became evident that little co-operation could be expected between Byron and Colonel Stanhope. Byron was fully persuaded that, in the degraded state of the Greek nation, a republican form of Government was totally unsuited, as well as incompatible with her situation, in respect to the neighbouring States of Europe. Colonel Stanhope, whose enthusiasm for the cause was extreme, supposed the Greeks to be endowed with the same virtue which their ancestors displayed. We, who live in the twentieth century, are able by the light of subsequent events to decide which of these two men held the sounder view; and we can honestly deplore that a mere matter of opinion should have caused any disagreements between two men who had sacrificed so much in a common cause.