Gamba, who seems to have been present during the altercation above alluded to, says that Colonel Stanhope, in accusing Lord Byron of being an enemy to the press, laid himself open to a rejoinder which is not recorded in the report of these proceedings. Byron's reply was to the point: 'And yet, without my money, where would your Greek newspaper be?' And he concluded the sentence, 'Judge me by my actions,' cited by Stanhope, with, '_not by my words_.' Colonel Stanhope could not understand Byron's bantering moods. They seemed to him to be entirely out of place. The more Byron laughed and joked, the more serious Stanhope became, and their discussions seldom ended without a strong reproof, which irritated Byron for the moment. But so far from leaving any unfavourable impression on Byron's mind, it increased his regard for an antagonist of such evident sincerity: 'When parting from him one evening, after a discussion of this nature, Lord Byron went up to him, and exclaimed: "Give me that honest right hand." Two such men were worthy of being friends, and it is to be regretted that an injudicious champion of the one should, by a partial detail of their trifling differences, try to raise him at the expense of the other.' With the money provided by Byron, Colonel Stanhope's pet scheme, the _Greek Chronicle_, printed in Greek type, came into being. Its editor, 'a hot-headed republican' named Jean Jacques Meyer, who had been a Swiss doctor, was particularly unfitted for the post, and soon came to loggerheads with Byron for publishing a violent attack on the Austrian Government. In a letter to Samuel Barff, Byron says: