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THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE. 1 8$ society of those times. King Lewis of Bavaria had already given from his own money 20,000 florins, and he added 20,000 francs to buy the liberty of Missolonghians sent into slavery, and later on again 20,000 florins of his own money and 26,000 francs contributed by the royal family. He interdicted all festivities in his realm, requesting that the money intended therefor should partly go to the poor of the re- spective communities and partly to the Greeks. The Philhellenic Union in Munich sent 65,000 francs, similar contributions came from Dresden and Leipsic, where Tiedge and W. Mliller kindled the fire ; while in Berlin it was the great physician Hufeland and the historian Neander who first made appeals to alleviate the sufferings and to buy the liberty of prisoners sent into slavery. Berlin sent 240,000 francs. In The Hague, in Namur, Bruxelles, Luxemburg, Stock- holm, this example was followed. In France the deep indignation caused by the fact that Frenchmen had taken part in the destruction of Missolonghi, and sold cannon to the Turks, gave a sharp impulse to the sense of national honor. In the French chamber Chateaubriand made a motion to punish Frenchmen who aided the Turks; French subjects were forbidden to