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1 86 CHRISTIAN GREECE AND LIVING GREEK. hire out their ships for the transportation of Greeks into Egyptian slavery; Alexis de No- ailles moved that 300,000 francs be given to the French consuls to buy the liberty of Christian slaves, and Constant rose to ask the Minister of War whether among the French officers, who together with the Egyptian hordes had covered their hands with the blood of the Missolonghians, there were any who were still on the rolls of the French army, and whether they still held commissions and still received pay. All international jealousies disappeared in those days. Eynard expressed his deep indig- nation when, at the catastrophe of Missolonghi, English politics prevented the besieged Greeks, dying of starvation, from being supplied with food from the Ionian Islands. If he had been governor, instead of Maitland (one of the most detestable, cruel monsters among the enemies of the Greeks), he would have acted differently, even if he were to have died on the scaffold. In England there were published venomous accusations against the Greeks and their govern- ment, in order to defend the English policy, representing that all aid of the people was wasted on unworthy subjects. It is true, some unavoidable mistakes were made by the Greeks