let us now pause for a moment from the ungrateful task of the course of and turn to the more agreeable duty of tracing the progress of the greek people the year found the population of greece to the testimony of professor in a state of such that the and farmers were without to till their lands the scanty harvest of the year was m a great part the produce of manual labor every town in greece was in ruins which bad been under s government had been from and among others mr who did more injury to the of greece than any other foreigner it is true this was not done since the king majority it be easy to produce many other facts as to the of the d� patch � tjie condition and of again the colony of greek established bj dr at the of was burnt to the ground and the whole island of having remained in the hands of the were almost desolate the schools established by were dissolved and the regular army had melted away the king arrived and the support of the three powers restored order immediately every man sought to his house and every to procure a pair of oxen the price of labor rose to the most extravagant pitch and tiie interest of money advanced to four per cent a month the second volume of the work of professor treats of the measures which the was bound to adopt in order to as much as possible the evils under which greece was suffering he the means of improving the condition of the agricultural population of restoring industry of commerce and of the moral and intellectual state of the people the practical experience of the of great and russia in the of peopled and induced the enlightened men in greece to suppose that the subject must be one well understood by the of these courts and it was concluded would communicate their advice to the and the work of professor however proved useless to his countrymen and the advice of the ministers of great britain and russia had they been really competent to give any would have been rendered of no avail by their the opposition after the arrival of the indeed the way in which the of greece were treated by and foreign ministers affords convincing proof that practical knowledge of is as rare among in the nineteenth as it was in the when their verbal ana magnificent drew from the the celebrated reply to his son fi the advances made by the in social improvement previously to the year were almost entirely due to their own individual exertions the assistance they derived from their own government was unwillingly and accorded and any they received from foreigners has been rather more than it deserves while king or to speak perhaps more a civil list the and of of two hundred dollars a year out of a of two of dollars and count to the amount of thirty thousand dollars and other ten thousand dollars each while orders of and crosses and stars of silver gold and diamonds were on englishmen and while the interest of money was at eighteen per cent on the best and the of the european powers were fortunes as � no step was en by the greek government to the general distress or to improve the social condition of the people in consequence of this neglect the population of the soon suffered a considerable immense numbers of from c asia minor and were compelled to quit greece in which they were unable to settle as the government refused to sell for houses in the towns and villages and rents for the national lands that lay still all the oppressive of the system of were retained by the king s government and their severity was rendered more by farming the under the laws of europe of government officials were alone competent to decide on cases affecting the taxes which were withdrawn from the of the regular courts of the farmers of the received unlimited powers to the proceedings of the during the harvest so that every proprietor who attempted to introduce an improved system of was liable to on the ground that he had the laws the consequence was that almost every was ruined or compelled to abandon his attempt no though reading at a distance any village could reap a field of com out his grain or house his crop without a separate permission for each operation from the farmer of the and after all he was compelled to transport the tenth which fell to the share of the farmer a day s journey to such as the farmer might the nine g to the of the soil became merely an of the one tenth claimed by government and were treated by the government as a fund for it against the consequence of this system on the of greece may be seen from the windows of s pat ace at the land round the royal garden is cultivated the and of in a and more manner than in the wildest province of the empire the commerce of greece was treated with as little intelligence as the laws exposed the of the kingdom to be involved in hostility with the greek subjects of the empire absurd the trade of the kingdom which is composed entirely of coast the internal was abandoned to and french and the sailors of and were compelled to pass half their time m idleness or seek employment in turkey the intellectual and religious culture of the nation was almost as much neglected by the government as the agricultural and commercial interests of the people it is true that mr during his administration took some steps to a complete system of national education but the sub did not meet with due attention from his too mr himself adopted some rash measures regard to the greek church 