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of business will be adopted, which may prevent intrigues
and overcome jealousies which must injure this country.
Nor wiU, I conceive, the decrees, which have been, from
their non-efficiency, the ridicule of every one, be persisted
in. The great difficulty is to obtain here practical results
rapidly; while some diplomats write "rapports" and
orders; the Greeks talk and promise; both seem equally
averse from doing. Of all the difficulties with which the
Government have to contend, that of not having obtained
a moral influence from the high principle and worthy
intentions of its "personnel," is what strikes an English-
man most. The courts of justice are, it is said, well filled
by Greeks, who are learning to act on the code of Maurer,
and the trial by jury is conducted with regularity and
efficiency, and is becoming popular2. Though the capital
is of course infested by the low and vicious population
of many nations, (which is never wanting in such towns)
in the country peace and security may be said to reign;
the peasantry enjoy their possessions in quietness, and
have been gradually improving their condition; the want
of capital among proprietors has been a great check to
this. Nevertheless, one enters no village where either fresh
land has not been brought into cultivation, or vineyards
planted. When the National Bank, which is to be 3put
in action by an English Company in two months, has
2 The oath is administered in these Courts with much more solem-
nity than in ours. The presiding Judge rises, and himself repeats the
form to the witness who stands directly before him, with his hand on the
Gospels. Every one in the Court stands up meanwhile.
8 This scheme has been hitherto suspended in consequence of the
parties in England not being satisfied with the terms allowed them as
fixed by Count Armansperg, and approved by the Council of State,
(May 1837.)
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of business will be adopted, which may prevent intrigues
and overcome jealousies which must injure this country.
Nor wiU, I conceive, the decrees, which have been, from
their non-efficiency, the ridicule of every one, be persisted
in. The great difficulty is to obtain here practical results
rapidly; while some diplomats write "rapports" and
orders; the Greeks talk and promise; both seem equally
averse from doing. Of all the difficulties with which the
Government have to contend, that of not having obtained
a moral influence from the high principle and worthy
intentions of its "personnel," is what strikes an English-
man most. The courts of justice are, it is said, well filled
by Greeks, who are learning to act on the code of Maurer,
and the trial by jury is conducted with regularity and
efficiency, and is becoming popular2. Though the capital
is of course infested by the low and vicious population
of many nations, (which is never wanting in such towns)
in the country peace and security may be said to reign;
the peasantry enjoy their possessions in quietness, and
have been gradually improving their condition; the want
of capital among proprietors has been a great check to
this. Nevertheless, one enters no village where either fresh
land has not been brought into cultivation, or vineyards
planted. When the National Bank, which is to be 3put
in action by an English Company in two months, has
2 The oath is administered in these Courts with much more solem-
nity than in ours. The presiding Judge rises, and himself repeats the
form to the witness who stands directly before him, with his hand on the
Gospels. Every one in the Court stands up meanwhile.
8 This scheme has been hitherto suspended in consequence of the
parties in England not being satisfied with the terms allowed them as
fixed by Count Armansperg, and approved by the Council of State,
(May 1837.)