Parga and the Ionian Islands; Comprehending a Refutation of the MIS-Statements of the Quarterly Review and of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Thomas Maitland, on the Subject, with a Report of the Trial Between That Officer and the Author (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: British government so decided, that Generals Airey and Campbell, who succeeded General Oswald in the command of the Ionian Islands, not only continued me in the command, and encouraged the prosecution of the plan then established; but when I left Cephalonia, General Campbell issued positive orders that the same system should be strictly adhered to f. When I first came to Cephalonia, scarcely a month passed without some assassinations taking place; yet during the three last years I remained in that island, two murders only were committed J. It is with pride I add, that in the attaining to so important a result, not a single capital punishment took place during the whole time I remained at the head of that government. Hard labour in public See Appendix, No. III. t See Appendix, No. IV. J In supportof this assertion may be produced the testimony of the Quarterly Review, in a late article on Modern Greece. Speaking to the general condition of the Ionian Islands at the present time, the writer says: " Deeply tainted with the lax manners ami vices of the Venetians, who traded in crime, and sold impunity to the highest bidder, the state of morality and religion among them was deplorable, murders were frequent, and the whole frame of society, from the highest to the lowest, was depraved and corrupt. The late change in the government has already somewhat improved their condition; the factions are suppressed if not extinguished; the laws are faithfully ami rigidly executed, ami assassinations have become rare."?Quarterly Recien; No.XLVI.p. 336. was a sufficiently powerful example to a people not familiarized with capital punishments. Sir Thomas Maitland, as it has been seen, succeeded General Campbell in the command of the Ionian Islands; his views of administration s...